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[phoenixuk]

The forgotten beast Arel Momuzrubal has come! An enormous scaly slug. It has thin wings of stretched skin and it appears to be emaciated. It's peach scales are jagged and overlapping. Beware it's poisonous vapours!

Oh crap, close all bulkheads, activate all military, all civilians retreat to the burrows!

the beast creeps towards my cavern entrance, waltzing through my silk collecting zone. Fortunately the call went out in time and my civilians are safe. Unfortunately the door to the cavern tunnel has yet to be placed. The military are rushing to the scene, 7 marksdwarves and 10 steel plate wearing melee dwarves of various armaments.

The dread beast rounds the cavern walls and my brave warriors brace themselves for the coming maelstrom.

The Marksdwarf Tholtic Kosothuthar steps forth, and utters the greatest battle cry in the history of Chamberthrone... "Chill guys, i got this..."

Aiming his trusty (Steel Crossbow) he loads a carefully selected projectile made from one of the recently discovered subterranean fungi. Taking careful aim, he fires.

The flying {=Black-cap bolt=} strikes The Forgotten Beast in the body, bruising the muscle and bruising the brain!

Arel Momuzrubal the scaled slug of peach, goes down to a single bolt to the body.

Tholtic slings his crossbow, lights a cigar, and stomps up the long stairs back to the fort proper for a pint of dwarven ale and some kitten biscuits.

The rest of the military forces of Chamberthrone shuffle their feet uncomfortably, cough once or twice, then mill around the corpse looking a bit dejected.

ITT: Post your stories of epic terror moments that were resolved before you even had to do anything.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

A FB appears, only to be taken down by cave swallow people. 208 units of meat!

[They Got Leader]

...for a pint of dwarven ale and some !!kitten tallow!! biscuits...

Fixed that for ya.

[harborpirate]

Playing 40d, a dragon showed up and headed right for my back entrance. After it looked like it would just breeze all the way in without a scratch, it got caught in a cage trap. It wasn't long before it was tamed and killing five goblins at a time in the arena.

[Eugenitor]

Same thing as OP, only with a dragon.

I do this with FBs a *lot* due to my fortification setup.

I've killed all the wild animals on this island, but back when I had them my weapon traps would chop them to bits before I had to worry about it.

[Emily]

I had a forgotten beast once show up in the caverns before I'd breached them.  I kept getting a "The Forgotten Beast is no longer enrage" announcement, and when I finally breached the cavern, it was badly crippled by a tribe of antpeople, one of which was still alive and repeatedly stabbing it with a blunt spear.

My military arrived soon after and finished them off.

Also I've frequently gotten "A Snatcher! Protect the Children!" annoucements which center the screen on a corpse or cage in one of my trap corridors.

[Jake]

A novice miner with an iron pick killed a dragon with a single blow to the head.

[krenshala]

Also I've frequently gotten "A Snatcher! Protect the Children!" annoucements which center the screen on a corpse or cage in one of my trap corridors.

I'd love it if those messages, where the snatcher is killed, would read something like "A Snatcher! Protect the ... nevermind." 

[Ubiq]

I'd love it if those messages, where the snatcher is killed, would read something like "A Snatcher! Protect the ... nevermind." 

An Ambush! Cur... wait, wait, traps got them. Go about your business.

[Aramco]

I'd love it if those messages, where the snatcher is killed, would read something like "A Snatcher! Protect the ... nevermind." 

An Ambush! Cur... wait, wait, traps got them. Go about your business.

A vile force of... dead... goblins... _{has arrived...}

[Namfuak]

The first time I breached HFS, I wasn't expecting it at all and just had a bunch of miners (all legendary) down there digging into this new blue stuff.  I sat with the game paused for like five minutes, assigning burrows and figuring the miners were all dead, so I didn't bother assigning them.  I put up walls, hatches, etc to be built, and such.  I unpaused the game, and watched as the clowns descended upon my defenseless miners... who then proceeded to hack their way through the clown car.  Not completely, obviously, but by the time they were done about 5 clowns were left who were then killed by my military (who lost like 10 people, go figure).  Sealed it off after that.

[Shrugging Khan]

A Dragon! once appeared before my practically defenceless fort. I only had about two or three militiadwarves. I was seriously not expecting to get out of it in one piece.

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Then strolls along an axedwarfess, blocks all the fire and claws and teeth the dragon throws at her, and proceeds to chop off its head within a matter of frames.

[RenoFox]

This story takes place in the ancient time of unkillable demons and elemental monsters...

Udib was a pikedwarf, a fresh addition to the military of Raptorchamber. As dwarves dont usually use pikes, he never quite found a weapon he would be comfortable with.

One day, an exploratory miner accidentally breaked into a cavern inhabited by a gigantic woodpecker composed of water. The military was terrified; how do you kill something that has no internal organs? Still, they were the only thing capable of stopping the beast, so they headed down to the breached tunnel to battle it.

The first one to arrive was Udib, still confused about the available weapons. As the giant woodpecker cornered him, he swung his shield at the beasts head. The beast of water, previously considered immortal, splashed against the cavern walls like a puddle struck with an oar.

On retrospect, anything with a head can be killed by removing it, but at the time, Udib attacking the beast with his shield seemed like attacking a werewolf with a rolled up newspaper, or an elephant with a barbecue fork.

[Diacritic]

This seems to happen a lot with boneless but embodied beasts. There's only one body "section", and nothing to stop a bolt that hits it from stopping, so any competent shot hits the brain and is thus a kill.

[Puglin]

You kidding? It's not just boneless ones, it's damn near all of them. I have ONE crossbowman (Rakust) responsible for three forgotten beast kills on his own. The stupid bastard always runs out first.

And I Only equip my archers with wooden bolts.

Rakust's maximum number of bolts for a kill is Three.
They were a turquoise moose, an azure stegosaurus and a massive ass bristleworm stuck in a hole. With a shell. One shot tears the shell and ruptures an artery in the heart.

Tholtig also killed a winged fire blob FB (I called him Flappy the Immolator) with two bolts, but that doesn't prove my point.

TROGLODYTES are better against crossbows that forgotten beasts.