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King's chambers... Artifact candy bed, everything else made out of platinum. I had to make him very, very happy, because he kept mandating stuff I couldn't possibly manufacture. Not coincidentally, that was also the first fort where I deliberately made candy warhammers. I still somehow managed to lose a dwarf or two to hammerings.

Probably historical--she's a legendary bonecarver and probably made an artifact at some point. Is she from a previous fort?

Bone crossbows, also. While they don't do much damage when they go and bash enemies with them, a masterwork bone crossbow can be truly deadly at range.

I don't know if it counts as an injury, but when half the military gets the clown syndrome causing necrosis on every single body part and lives just long enough to reach the hospital and spread the syndrome further... that's pretty darn gruesome. Everybody's waiting for the soldiers to come home victorious, and instead they're dragged in half-rotted, bloated, exuding misama all over the place--and still alive.

But we paid the clowns back. Atom-smashed the bodies, raised the bridges, trained new soldiers. Took half the fort population, but the dwarves came out on top. All those atom-smashed dwarves got masterwork slabs, too.

Let it go. There's at least one example of an awesome elf; why not a second? After all, any elf named "Necrobearded" has to be at least a little less wimpy than the usual tree-hugger. Who knows--in a few million years, this elf's descendents may evolve into something that can actually pose a challenge to the dwarves!

Magma is too honorable a death for them. Put them in a pit with captured wild cave crocodiles.

It's just that when you get an average FB with a syndrome that's non-dramatic, you don't feel the need to post about it on the forums. I mean, "Yawn... giant skinless cockroach with a syndrome that causes dizziness".... what's there to post about? you send your militia at it and it's gone.

It *is* a pick, though. Those are always useful; it's not a complete loss.

Bone weapons are light and don't hold much of an edge. They're good for a challenge, like when you're running a fort without metal. The one exception is a bone crossbow. A masterwork bone crossbow will pincushion a goblin just as well as a masterwork steel one will. They don't work very well when your dwarves run out of ammo and start bashing the enemy with them, but that can be a bonus if you give them to your fortress guard.