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« on: September 15, 2015, 11:16:48 am »
I had a fort of thirty dwarves. At the time I stole from the dwarfish merchants but that's another matter. A forgotten beast appeared the the caverns. The forgotten beast anan tekmokavuz has come! An enormous feathered cobra! It has three long curving horns and a bloated body. It's taupe gray feathers are patchy. We are its poisonous bite! Because of the linear way I built my staircase I couldn't figure out how to block it. Needless to say, my rag tag militia was slaughtered wielding silver war hammers and axes with no armor. Then my last dwarf of three dwarves and four children. One dwarf is in a mood. The expedition leader, the founder, gets there first with an iron pick I assigned him. The first thing that happened was the forgotten beast missed him. Then the expedition leader promptly fractured its skull with the pick. Then he tears apart the spine.
The forgotten beast gores his upper body and liver and his right arm was severed, but not his weapon arm. He pulls out the pick and hits the horns a few times. Then he tears apart the upper spine. Then the tail. But then the forgotten beast bites his head off.
Thinking I would have to send in my last sane dwarf, and leave the other one to go insane, I drafted him, only to find no sign of the beast. I checked the deceased tab. There, among 41 bodies, was the forgotten beast. He freaking did it. He killed a forgotten beast when no one else made a dent. My fortress is on a volcano. I will either make him the most opulent tomb at the top or toss his body into the volcano and give him a one way ticket to armok.
But regardless. Bless mosus rootedarrow.