The
Fortress of Ghostsilver was facing not one but three Forgotten Beasts coming up from the Caverns all at once, so my group (
The Halls of Craziness) sent our valiant Hammerdwarf squad out the airlock to fight them off, aided by a mob of War Dogs and our crack squad of Marksdwarves firing from behind the fortifications... after a pitched battle,
they were victorious!However, since the
last Forgotten Beast we dealt with sprayed an Extract all over everyone that caused fever shortly followed by suffocating-death and which rapidly caused the complete collapse of my entire fortress, this time we made a tactical decision to leave the poor Hammerdwarf squad quarantined outside the airlock for a while to see if they had any symptoms before we let them back in...
The War Dogs got it first -- they all started rotting all over and spreading miasma everywhere, and after a while they "succumbed to infection" and died. I checked the Hammerdwarves and found that they had started to rot all over as well and were spreading miasma themselves... we briefly considered opening the airlock to let our doctors examine them, but remembered all to well the fate of the last fortress.
Instead we set the Hammerdwarves to "cleaning" labor to make themselves useful before they too succumbed to the infection, as well as having them collect all of the rotten War Dogs and body parts into a pile... they did a pretty good job of it, but eventually they collapsed in a pile of miasma.
So here's where we're at.... the room itself is pretty clean from what I can see, as the Hammerdwarf squad actually managed to clean up most of the free-standing pools of blood and Extract on the ground... but the Forgotten Beast bodies themselves, the dead war dogs, and the dead dwarves still have Extract on them.
My question is this: how should I handle trying to reclaim the area without allowing the Extract to infect and destroy all of Ghostsilver? I do have a Magma Chute for destroying things, but it's wayyyyy far upstairs and they'd have to carry the parts all the way through the fortress to get there. I also have a Dwarven Bathtub of 3/7 water that the dwarves have to pass through on their way into/out of the cavern airlock, but that might actually help spread the extract as far as I know because it will get in the tub and stay there happily infecting every dwarf that walks through it from then on.
Any suggestions? I'm happy that I've managed to contain this outbreak so much better than the last one, but I'm scared to open that door without a really good plan to
keep it contained.
--nomad_delta