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[Aeon Blue]

Some kind of dinosaur with deadly dust found a hole in my defenses, and before I knew it, it was causing havoc in the middle of my unarmed, completely defenseless fortress.  Out of a token gesture more than any kind of real hope, I assembled 30 naked civilians and sent them after it and sat back to watch the carnage.
I’m not sure what happened after that. There were great plumes of smoke (the dust?) coming from it, and, not surprisingly, the only thing doing any damage at all was a dog that managed to scratch the beast on the tail. Then, out of nowhere, the Brewer goes Beowulf on it and punches the thing’s leg off. Clear off! The beast collapses and lands in its own frozen extract. Then it was dead.  The 30 dwarves were blistered down to their internal organs and died slowly and agonizingly, but the fortress was saved.
The thing is, I can’t figure out how it died. I didn’t see any deathblow in the combat log. It collapsed, then it died. So I’m wondering, is it possible it came into contact with its own blood, dust, or extract, or whatever, and died?

[MonkeyHead]

Dust blasting beasts can blow themselves apart... this is both highly hilarious and bad news for things near it.

[Jelle]

Yep I think any omnidirectional blast from forgotten beasts can harm themselves. I consider a form of justice, since the beasts are basicly pulsating beacon of deadly shockwaves coupled with often extremely harmful syndromes.
It isn't so much about killing a beast as it is destroying a machine of mass destruction inside some monstrous hulking freak. I'd prefer just to fight the monster rather then the death machine.

[Lagslayer]

What was the beast made of? I mean, a completely unskilled dwarf just punching it's leg off...

[Aeon Blue]

I don't think it was anything out of the ordinary. She did have high strength.

[Quietust]

Was it made of salt, water/snow, ash, vomit, mud, or grime? If so, that's why it was so easy to kill.
Also, all forgotten beasts are immune to their own syndromes. However, "deadly dust" uses the same physics as cave-ins, so it's possible that the beast's attack flung it into the air and slammed it into the floor (or wall) with such force that it died on impact.

[MaskedMiner]

I once had few FB die from "suffocation" after falling unconscious without getting attacked by dwarfs o-o In other words, I had few times FB die from syndrome from another FB, I didn't even know that is possible ._.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

They're immune to their own syndromes, but the dust causes a cave-in effect that can lead to sometimes mortal wounds.

[ImBocaire]

Yeah, in one of my previous forts I had a giant humanoid made of jelly opal. It had a deadly dust attack which caused instant full-body necrosis. I actually saw dwarves emitting miasma as they flew towards a wall and blew apart.

Anyway, after it slaughtered my militia, it started on the shoe-retrieval brigade, and managed to blow itself apart immediately. Only casualties were my whole militia and a woodcutter who stepped in a pile of extract and rotted alive.

[Madurjafro]

Yeah, in one of my previous forts I had a giant humanoid made of jelly opal. It had a deadly dust attack which caused instant full-body necrosis. I actually saw dwarves emitting miasma as they flew towards a wall and blew apart.

Anyway, after it slaughtered my militia, it started on the shoe-retrieval brigade, and managed to blow itself apart immediately. Only casualties were my whole militia and a woodcutter who stepped in a pile of extract and rotted alive.

I think I laughed more than I should have.
I have not had an FB yet, going to be in for lots of fun when I do.