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Author Topic: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!  (Read 2760 times)

Jimmy T. Malice

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The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« on: January 23, 2012, 05:21:14 pm »
It's composed of water, has two tails and undulates rhythmically. Beware its deadly dust! Should I be worried, or is it laughably easy to overcome?
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has appeared!
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2012, 05:22:59 pm »
Have a baby punch it, or something. It should fall apart pretty easily.
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2012, 05:24:22 pm »
It seems to be more preoccupied with splashing about in the cave lake than actually ravaging my fortress. Maybe I overreacted a little when I sent every civilian to the emergency burrow...
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2012, 05:35:13 pm »
well, it depends.
sure elemental beasts are easy to defeat.
problem is the syndrome they carry.
could be nothing...
or it could melt your dorfs out of existence, be contagious, and transmit through socks
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2012, 05:50:38 pm »
Have a crossbow dwarf take it out. things made from water are laughably easy to kill. You're only worry might be the dust, hence using a crossbow dwarf.
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2012, 06:02:12 pm »
send one dwarf out there for testing, it could make a supersoldier (no eyes, skin, nerves, fat :P)
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2012, 06:26:22 pm »
Once a FB finds an underground lake to splash around in, they basically won't do anything for seasons and seasons, until it randomly meanders onto land again.  Then it'll beeline for your fort entrance.  Station some archers near where it's lounging in the surf and kill it from afar.  As long as someone hits it, a water FB should fall apart quite quickly.  It's the stone ones you have to worry about.
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2012, 06:28:51 pm »
Quote from: keyreper on January 23, 2012, 06:02:12 pm
send one dwarf out there for testing, it could make a supersoldier (no eyes, skin, nerves, fat :P)
Ah but skin is good, not too useful, but still good nonetheless :P
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2012, 08:46:16 pm »
Quote from: keyreper on January 23, 2012, 06:02:12 pm
send one dwarf out there for testing, it could make a supersoldier (no eyes, skin, nerves, fat :P)
I can understand fat, but how does losing skin, eyes and nerves make a dwarf a super soldier?
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2012, 08:52:17 pm »
Quote from: werechicken on January 23, 2012, 08:46:16 pm
Quote from: keyreper on January 23, 2012, 06:02:12 pm
send one dwarf out there for testing, it could make a supersoldier (no eyes, skin, nerves, fat :P)
I can understand fat, but how does losing skin, eyes and nerves make a dwarf a super soldier?

I assume they wont feel pain when that stuff is gone.
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2012, 09:47:55 am »
Or see anything to fear, with the lack of eyes.

Loud Whispers seems obsessed with that concept...
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2012, 12:13:13 pm »
Fighting the Beast didn't go so well. It unexpectedly climbed out of the pool and smashed open the door to the caves, then killed 16 of the dwarves (including several military ones) with its dust that simultaneously boiled and froze them. Then my Macedwarf bashed its lower body clean off and promptly bled to death. This must be the most !!Fun!! thing that's happened to me in DF.
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2012, 12:41:23 pm »
told you so. elemental beasts are "weak" it's the dust they come in. makes them like friggin glass cannons.
even a baby could kill one, but he needs to hit it and not...well, freeze-boil
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“There, I did something. I clapped. I like clapping,” he said. -The Investigator And The Case Of The Missing Brain.

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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2012, 12:46:57 pm »
Now half of my dwarves are throwing tantrums for no reason. I was also mystified by dwarves being interrupted by floating guts since I thought they were in the lake my well is connected to, but it turns out Floating Guts are actually cave monsters...
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Atan has come!
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2012, 12:59:51 pm »
And so the fabled tantrum spiral begins. Your sixteen casualties must have had quite a few friends.
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