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[Vulkan]

There is an unnamed cave swallow man civ in my area, so sure enough when I reach the first cavern, there's a bunch of spearmen and blowgunners just sitting around. No big deal.

Then a Forgotten Beast comes along. A giant nematode.

He proceeds to attack the caveswallowmen, as my dwarves enjoy the show from a nearby ledge while waiting for the miner to dig a tunnel to the Fun side.

Well, the Forgotten Beast gets killed by one of the Cave Swallow Men, who then becomes friendly to me. My dwarves charge in and slaughter the rest, and then hang out with Troublecacti a bit before heading back to the fort.



Since then he's just been, well, you know, sitting down there and stuff.

[Vester]

Huh. This seems to happen a lot with cave swallowmen.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Cave Swallowmen must be some kind of epic.

[Vulkan]

How they managed to kill a forgotten beast with wooden spears and blowguns I'll never know.

There as only 6 of them to begin with, and the beast only killed two.

[BurnedToast]

I believe forgotten beasts (at least some) suffer from the same bug that pretty much all creatures do... i.e. natural attacks can't even pierce silk cloth most of the time. Add in that unless he had some sort of random natural armor like a shell or something, the cave swallowmen were probably landing hard hitting blows every time. It's really no wonder they beat him (especially if he had a useless breath attack).

[Lightning4]

It really depends on what they're made of too. It's... not particularly hard to sever the lower body of a large, twisted humanoid when he's made of mud.

[LordSlowpoke]

A month ago, you'd already get a few pages of complaints because those elves are still alive.

Just for the sake of it, why didn't you kill them yet.

[Max White]

Cave Swallowmen must be some kind of epic.

Why yes they are.

[Vulkan]

Well, the Forgotten Beast was a nematode, so its body consisted of, well, a "body" and two wings.

The Cave Swallow Men's attacks were mostly doing nothing, just tearing some skin here and there, or a wing. I think the main problem was that the Cave Swallow Men kept dodging the attacks, and that the blowgun darts had some kind of paralyzing poisonous substance.

Here's its description for you.



The "Its body is gone" part is because my Dwarves made leather out of it, of course.