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[Llahlahkje]

I have had occasionally pathetic forgotten beasts, the ones who seem to die from the glance of an untrained dog... but tonight I got the worst forgotten beast I've ever had, and it made me wonder... what sorts of random nastiness have others had generated?

Just in case someone wants to be surprised at some of the horrors that may wait randomly for them...

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Totas, a huge humanoid composed of mud. Oh, and it flies.

This particular bit of nasty has "deadly dust" ... and I've had that before, sometimes it doesn't seem to do much, sometimes it seems to work like boiling... but this is the first ever I've had that has dust that asphyxiates and paralyzes. Anyone caught in it is instantly paralyzed, and then sits there for what seems to be 10-20 ticks winded before they suffocate to death.

EDIT: Seems to also cause a fever, I wish the darned thing wouldn't ice everyone so fast. I'd like to have a diagnoser get an idea of what it is.

The only mercy seems to be that he is composed of mud...

[Haruspex_Pariah]

All the forgotten beasts in my previous fort were pushovers, thanks to me setting invaders off until I was ready.

However forgotten beasts have the ability to kill from beyond the grave; I lost count of how many dwarves died from stepping in poison extract. The name of the beast was Kest Etakon, a gigantic skinless skink with antennae. Beware it's deadly dust. For years after it died Kest's extract killed dwarves and made others sick, causing no less than two tantrum spirals which caused the last member of my original seven to die of madness. This combined with FPS deterioration caused me to abandon fort.

[Erkki]

Just wait for a deadly-dust spreading inorganic rock/metallic blob. They fly, they are practically undestroyable and they kill your fortress within a minute if they get in. Even if they died.

[shlorf]

Why would they be undestroyable? Blobs can be cut in half as far as i can tell. Also inorganic with dust highly increases the beasts chance to kill itself upon knocking itself around with its dust.
Anyway dust generally is really the worst, if it's of a sufficiently deadly kind (like instant unconsciousness followed by total paralyzing and suffocation). Doesn't help that it goes over z-levels as well so shooting at non flying dust beasts from 5 levels above can still be lethal for your marksdwarfs.

[cog disso]

I had a giant, fire-breathing camel that squirmed and fidgeted, and for some reason it was just a damn bear to deal with.

I seem to get a lot of bird-shaped beasts lately, so the flying thing doesn't help.

[Syraine]

Refer to my signature.

[thegoatgod_pan]

I had an amber scarab with deadly dust that fortunately only caused sleep a few ticks after exposure for, shall we say, long enough. Luckily I tested it by tossing goblins at it, so I had a pretty good sense of how long the militia should have before sleep kicks in, and was all ready to bring three squads one after the other. Instead the scarab lost its head to a fast drawing dwarf (literally the 1st strike in the combat log--and except for one leg the scarab was all red--broken everything--it had been eating goblins for two years before I let it see a dwarf).