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[DgnBiscuit]

Not mine, but:

Ustxu Iceraped the Frigid Crystal of Slaughter was a glacier titan. It was the only one of its kind. A gigantic feathered carp composed of crystal glass. It has five mouths full of treacherous teeth, enormous clear wings, and ferocious blue eyes. Beware its icy breath! Ustxu was associated with oceans, glaciers, boats, and murder.

It's just SO PERFECT

OMFG! It's the embodiment of all Dwarven Evil! A flying titan-carp capable of attacking five dwarves at once and freezing them to death!

-DB

[Hamster Man]

Not mine, but:

Ustxu Iceraped the Frigid Crystal of Slaughter was a glacier titan. It was the only one of its kind. A gigantic feathered carp composed of crystal glass. It has five mouths full of treacherous teeth, enormous clear wings, and ferocious blue eyes. Beware its icy breath! Ustxu was associated with oceans, glaciers, boats, and murder.

It's just SO PERFECT

OMFG! It's the embodiment of all Dwarven Evil! A flying titan-carp capable of attacking five dwarves at once and freezing them to death!

-DB

Actually I think it'd hurt itself. "Treacherous teeth", afterall.

[theqmann]

Had to post this one:

A great six-legged quadruped composed of snow.  It undulates rhythmically.

Six-legs on a quadruped? It's a paradoxical snowman!

[murhapuro]

Not mine, but:

Ustxu Iceraped the Frigid Crystal of Slaughter was a glacier titan. It was the only one of its kind. A gigantic feathered carp composed of crystal glass. It has five mouths full of treacherous teeth, enormous clear wings, and ferocious blue eyes. Beware its icy breath! Ustxu was associated with oceans, glaciers, boats, and murder.

It's just SO PERFECT

OMFG! It's the embodiment of all Dwarven Evil! A flying titan-carp capable of attacking five dwarves at once and freezing them to death!

-DB

IÄ! IÄ! USTXU FTAGN!

[Shrike]

Not mine, but:

Ustxu Iceraped the Frigid Crystal of Slaughter was a glacier titan. It was the only one of its kind. A gigantic feathered carp composed of crystal glass. It has five mouths full of treacherous teeth, enormous clear wings, and ferocious blue eyes. Beware its icy breath! Ustxu was associated with oceans, glaciers, boats, and murder.

It's just SO PERFECT

OMFG! It's the embodiment of all Dwarven Evil! A flying titan-carp capable of attacking five dwarves at once and freezing them to death!

-DB

Actually, I think it also very amusing that it is associated with boats and murder. If only it was an elephant.

[Quantum Toast]

Not mine, but:

Ustxu Iceraped the Frigid Crystal of Slaughter was a glacier titan. It was the only one of its kind. A gigantic feathered carp composed of crystal glass. It has five mouths full of treacherous teeth, enormous clear wings, and ferocious blue eyes. Beware its icy breath! Ustxu was associated with oceans, glaciers, boats, and murder.

It's just SO PERFECT

OMFG! It's the embodiment of all Dwarven Evil! A flying titan-carp capable of attacking five dwarves at once and freezing them to death!

-DB

Actually, I think it also very amusing that it is associated with boats and murder. If only it was an elephant.

Glad I'm not the only one who spotted that.

It's almost too perfect.

[FuzzyDoom]

Not mine, but:

Ustxu Iceraped the Frigid Crystal of Slaughter was a glacier titan. It was the only one of its kind. A gigantic feathered carp composed of crystal glass. It has five mouths full of treacherous teeth, enormous clear wings, and ferocious blue eyes. Beware its icy breath! Ustxu was associated with oceans, glaciers, boats, and murder(ed).

It's just SO PERFECT

My god...What has Toady DONE!?

I definitely did not catch it first BTW.

[Vastin]

Picks are the best way to kill  FBs. While twenty armed and trained dwarves were hacking away at a snail forgotten beast, a passing miner swung at its head and struck brain, killing it instantly.

I haven't tested this yet, but my impression is that with all the combat changes, you are hard pressed to kill massive beasts with weapons that do not penetrate very deeply. Even if your sword, axe or mace has no problem injuring the beast, you mostly end up just cutting/bruising the outer layers of skin, armor and fat. You can de-limb them and reduce their combat effectiveness  in this manner, but it seems very hard to finish them off.

I think spears and mining picks are generally more likely to be effective in terms of actual kills, as they are the only weapons that can reach far enough into the things to hit internal organs. Perhaps high-mass crossbow bolts such as bronze or iron?

Anyway, for these reasons I now have my squad members with different weapon types to make sure I have something on hand that'll do the job.

[Ullallulloo]

I've only seen one forgotten beast so far. It was a three-eyed mite with a waxy shell. It smashed my underground farm, killed my farmer, 3 dogs, a cat, a donkey, and a baby. My militia commander starting bumping it with his shield to no avail, until a wrestler came and tore up easily with his bare hands...then I had too much fun with two goblin ambushes and reloaded before the FB only losing a weak macedwarf.

EDIT: oh, and the best part is that's it's name was Malu Insectsmall.

[rex mortis]

Axes are very good against smaller targets. Often the first attack is instantly fatal, or at the very least incapacitates the opponent while he bleeds.

I need to test spears more.

[mal7690]

I got a enormous scaly shrimp wandering around my third layer cavern somewhere.

[Vastin]

Found a very, very odd FB yesterday. It was a blob made of snow, and the only other body part it had was a stubby tail...

The thing moved faster than any creature has a right to, no matter what it is made out of - it would move about 10 steps for every one my dwarves took, and it slammed one of my miners to death almost instantly. 

But this particular terror was put down by a single wooden crossbow bolt. It just exploded into snowflakes and left a puddle of water on the floor.   

[Gnauga]

Not mine, but:

Ustxu Iceraped the Frigid Crystal of Slaughter was a glacier titan. It was the only one of its kind. A gigantic feathered carp composed of crystal glass. It has five mouths full of treacherous teeth, enormous clear wings, and ferocious blue eyes. Beware its icy breath! Ustxu was associated with oceans, glaciers, boats, and murder.

It's just SO PERFECT

OMFG! It's the embodiment of all Dwarven Evil! A flying titan-carp capable of attacking five dwarves at once and freezing them to death!

-DB

Actually, I think it also very amusing that it is associated with boats and murder. If only it was an elephant.

Glad I'm not the only one who spotted that.

It's almost too perfect.

It is too perfect. I don't think raped is a word in the Dwarven vocabulary. That, and well, it's just too perfect.

I haven't played a fortress for long enough to get a forgotten beast. I'm trying my hardest to remedy that, though!

Actually I recall someone saying they had a fortress named Prisonrape.

[JAFANZ]

Keep in mind that there appear to be entire sections of the various languages that aren't enabled by default, but which can be if you edit the entity_defaults.txt file, & judging by the tags those are the bits most likely to be considered offensive by someone.

Edit: added the word "Edit" in 2 locations. ;p

[Dishwater]

today i just had a giant scorpian with 2 stingers and wings and it shot fireballs and was made of crystal glass and to top that off i had no weapons :-/