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Keep in mind your megabeast should still be defeatable.

Don't want your dragon of Doom randomly tearing up every world it shows up in, without any hope at all.

Steel Colossi are about the strongest you should go.

Bringing coal or extra logs can be a good idea though.  Lets you kickstart a metal industry or tide you over until you find magma.

I leave a stupid amount of embark points unspent.

If I didn't bring either 100 tons of coal, or 100 tons of birch logs each time I make a fortress, I would too.

also how many here has ACTUALLY even read any of lovecrafts works instead of just knowing he did fancy monsters and most likely inspired tentacle porn?

That's clever, but I think tentacle hentai predates Lovecraft. (Lovecraftian Period being 1917)
(might want to fact check me there, and everything I say, for that matter.)
I have seen and read some Lovecraft, but the idea of most of it regards madness and eldritch knowledge.

The Cthulu mythos is the most popular and well-mentioned, but I think what we should be looking at here is making forgotten beasts not tentaclier, but more powerful on a non-dwarf slaughtering level,  like inducing insanity, collecting cults or consuming souls.


That's also what the suggestion looks at, rather than "Add Cthulhu."

But I like the idea of making forgotten beasts stranger, rather than just Giant marmots that can spit out flesh eating bacteria.

ok, that's pretty horrifying too...

Forgotten beasts. Enough said.

There are giant, mouthless penguins that repeatedly chant the names of the dwarves fighting it.

It has no mouth and yet it can CHANT.

Not only is it creepy that it somehow knows the name of EVERYTHING.  But it's calm enough to chant it while FIGHTING.

If you want Cuthulu? There are much worse things out there.

MUCH WORSE.

I've only pierced an aquifer with the ice method.

I've tried the other methods, to little to no avail.

I'm going to do your mega booze-persimmon-leaf-cherry roast. Too.