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[Tastysaurus Rex]

Anyone can boast about their rough-and-tumble brawl with a Cyclops, but it seems to me that most of my interesting fights are with common animals or low-tier baddies who put up an exceptionally good fight. Most pressing in my head was a skeletal troglodyte I found at this one cave (40d, so not some cavern system.) The fight eventually took us outside, where he lost an arm and a leg but managed to break my feet as well, turning it into a crawling battle. Compared to the Minotaur I was after this dude was hardcore.

Undead are obviously tough though. But then there was the bear that continued fighting even after it lost a leg and was throwing up everywhere. I thought this guy was genuinely gonna kill me. He actually succeeded at rendering me unconscious before (luckily) bleeding to death.

What about you guys?

[Roundabout Lout]

One time while fighting beak dogs in 40d, one of them wrestled my sword away from me, and one shotted me with it.

And in 38c, I watched as a town fell to continuously spawning macaques and horses. High priest? Assassinated by a macaque forcing him to dodge off the roof of the temple. The mayor and assorted drunks + peasants were all kicked to death by numerous horses. Only my adventurer could bring balance back to the 4 remaining townies.

[Itnetlolor]

I had an adventurer sprain the legs of a named alligator and then choke it with a rock. Not long after that, my adventurer continued his beatdown quest heading into the cave of a cyclops he was assigned to kill, only to run into two giant rats. Using the alligator, he beat one giant rat to death, and then used said giant rat on another giant rat and killed it as well (choked it with his buddy's tail).

Then onward to the quest... right across the hall. Threw both rats at the cyclops, missed, and then tried fighting it with the almighty alligator. Got punched across the hall and exploded against the wall. [/adventurer]

Another battle involved mauling a few elves... only to be taken down by an elf child.

[Kogan Loloklam]

My epic battle was after I slew a goblin's demon leader in 2010. My axe/hammerdwarf had killed the demon and got frozen demon extract on him. I continued my quest to depopulate the dark fortress and ran into a Craftsdwarf. The craftsdwarf gave me a list of people he murdered (Crafting appeared to be a dangerous profession in this dark fortress.) and then attacked me. The guy must have been a legendary dodger or something, because nothing I did landed a blow on him. Eventually he collided with the wall and fell down. The battle ended with a single decapitation on an enemy laying on the ground from behind.

[Raviaric]

and then used said giant rat on another giant rat and killed it as well

Rat-flail?

[Josephus]

and then used said giant rat on another giant rat and killed it as well

Rat-flail?

Ba-dum-tish.

[Funk]

when normal humans still fight even after you put hurl spears in to both head and the heart you know that the health system in great.

[Kobold Troubadour]

I remember fighting a giant mole once on my way to the caverns, I was just having fun with it throwing junk and hitting it w/ a lute...then it got lucky.

It actually got to bit my upperbody and started to shake me around, I desperately threw my dagger and sword at it and thankfully made it pass out from pain and over-exertion. After finishing it off, I just sat there for a while to stop the bleeding then dragged myself out while in pain to heal up. Got a permanently 'yellow' damaged upper body for that little carelessness.

[Retributi0n]

I just started playing Dwarf Fortress a few days ago, and tried out adventurer mode last night. I was in awe at the brutality of my first epic battle...against a defenseless fox. First it was smaked broadside with my sword in the head, had a back leg chopped off, front paw followed shortly, then I stabbed it through the throat. At this point, some how the fox started to put up a fight, hitting me once, and then again as I twisted the sword in its throat. Then I pulled the sword free, chopped off its ear, and it bled to death.

I felt bad for the poor critter..but after that massacre I can't wait to see how battles against real enemies turn out.

[Josephus]

Get some decent armor, otherwise your arms will get chopped off and the ghost of that fox will laugh at you all the way to hell.

[Skorpion]

Traipsed across a mountain range, slaying goats and giant eagles and the odd yeti. No fast travel, either.

Then fast-travelled across a desert.
Attacked by three! giant desert scorpions.
Poisoned and collapsed.
Was shaken around by my EYE until I bled to death.

[Josephus]

Traipsed across a mountain range, slaying goats and giant eagles and the odd yeti. No fast travel, either.

Then fast-travelled across a desert.
Attacked by three! giant desert scorpions.
Poisoned and collapsed.
Was shaken around by my EYE until I bled to death.

Rather ironic, given your name.

When facing giant scorpions, I prefer to run in the other direction.

[Kobold Troubadour]

Traipsed across a mountain range, slaying goats and giant eagles and the odd yeti. No fast travel, either.

Then fast-travelled across a desert.
Attacked by three! giant desert scorpions.
Poisoned and collapsed.
Was shaken around by my EYE until I bled to death.

That's not mundane at all...pretty !FUN! death though (Wait...did they grab your eye or your eyelid?, awesome either way).

[Deon]

You would lose your eyes anyway, scorpion poison makes you blind.

[Skorpion]

Traipsed across a mountain range, slaying goats and giant eagles and the odd yeti. No fast travel, either.

Then fast-travelled across a desert.
Attacked by three! giant desert scorpions.
Poisoned and collapsed.
Was shaken around by my EYE until I bled to death.

That's not mundane at all...pretty !FUN! death though (Wait...did they grab your eye or your eyelid?, awesome either way).

By the eye itself. 'The giant desert scorpion shakes you around by the eye!'

And I would have run... Had there not been three more surrounding me.