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[VerdantSF]

In my last fort, I started out with a three-dwarf army.  All three became close friends, with two getting married.  And then tragedy struck.  A panda mauled the husband, while the wife dodged into a lake and drowned.  The surviving militia commander was totally depressed.  I disbanded the squad and made him my beekeeper hoping he'd snap out of his funk.  Well, he finally threw a tantrum, right as he was returning with a new colony of bees.  The bee job canceled and the bees went CRAZY.  All of sudden there were tiny honeybee dots everywhere, blinking in and out all over my screen.  I guess he dropped the hive and all 16,000 bees were unleashed onto the map at once.  The tantruming dwarf stood at the center of it all, not moving at all.  At first I thought the game was going to crash, but after a few minutes, everything went back to normal, with one exception.  The dwarf, who never shot a crossbow in his life, suddenly had Level 6 Archery!  Not exactly a skill I imagined from standing in the center of an angry swarm .   

[k96spy]

Makes sense to me.

[Lagslayer]

Does the dwarf have a bee-bee gun?

[thegoatgod_pan]

This needs testing, do building destroyers destroy honey hives?

[VerdantSF]

Does the dwarf have a bee-bee gun?

Heh, good one!

[SuicideJunkie]

Did the dwarf get a whole bunch of good thoughts from "throwing something lately"?
Throwing half the bees at the other half of the bees would be a great way to level up.

[loser]

Did the dwarf get a whole bunch of good thoughts from "throwing something lately"?
Throwing half the bees at the other half of the bees would be a great way to level up.

But it would not be Archery.

[nogoodnames]

Throwing levels up archery as well.

Hmm... Maybe throwing a container counts as throwing all its contents as well, leveling up throwing and archery skill many times faster. This deserves some !!SCIENCE!!

Edit: Adventure mode testing shows no difference in skill gain between throwing a crossbow and throwing a quiver full of bolts so it probably isn't exactly that.

[Sphalerite]

He was probably attacked by thousands of bees, and leveled up his military skills as a result of dodging them.  Similar to how danger rooms allow a dwarf to gain legendary weapon skills by dodging wooden training spears.

Obviously, we need to recreate this effect and incorporate it into the next generation of danger rooms.  Danger rooms .... with BEES!

[The Scout]

Did the dwarf get a whole bunch of good thoughts from "throwing something lately"?
Throwing half the bees at the other half of the bees would be a great way to level up.

But it would not be Archery.

Archery is.... bows. What?

[TheeBaconman]

That dwarf avoided becoming The Pain, and whooped dem bees' stingers!

[IT 000]

Did the dwarf get a whole bunch of good thoughts from "throwing something lately"?
Throwing half the bees at the other half of the bees would be a great way to level up.

But it would not be Archery.

Archery is.... bows. What?

Archery is the equivalent of the Fighter skill for ranged combat. Effecting overall combat effectiveness of all ranged weapons.

[Poindexterity]

if we can start making bee driven danger rooms, i may just build my first one.

[loser]

Did the dwarf get a whole bunch of good thoughts from "throwing something lately"?
Throwing half the bees at the other half of the bees would be a great way to level up.

But it would not be Archery.

Archery is.... bows. What?

Archery is the equivalent of the Fighter skill for ranged combat. Effecting overall combat effectiveness of all ranged weapons.

Ah.  That would make sense, then.

[strongrudder]

This has to be my favorite DF quirk story in a while.