Tales from Dwarf Fortress by DarkCloak

There's one sure way to kill a forgotten beast in Dwarf Fortress... DROP A MOUNTAIN ON IT!

cullyferg2010 Featured By Owner Aug 31, 2018

Hey, watch it when you're talking about murderous raccoons! That was my Uncle Bert who got ahold of some raisins that had been fermenting in a can of old apple juice!

TheCorioDragon Featured By Owner Jan 12, 2018 Hobbyist General Artist

Once I had a forgotten beast made of fire; I just flooded the entire fuking fort and that killed it.

Good times.

megawackymax Featured By Owner Oct 28, 2016

"Today, the Mountain falls."

Frankwest16 Featured By Owner Jun 29, 2016

Beast be like "WHO'S THE KING UNDER THE MOUNTAIN NOW, BITCH?"

xelianthought Featured By Owner Aug 16, 2015

Well drawn.

BrunoKopte Featured By Owner Jun 6, 2015 Student Writer

A game where the freakking BALROG is met by the most awful cries of "Monday already?!"

PeteSeeger Featured By Owner Apr 6, 2015 Student Writer

That's why I install lava pumps in all my mines. And they on fail 50% of the time! That's pretty good for Dwarf Fortress.

izak1399 Featured By Owner Mar 23, 2015 Professional Interface Designer

Ha ha, awesome.

Private-Funny-Man Featured By Owner Dec 19, 2014

How this works, I must know.

moonsaber56 Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2014 Student Artist

gravity insta kil

Private-Funny-Man Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2014

Right. I want to do a variation of this to a bunch of elves, and drop them into the circus.

moonsaber56 Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2014 Student Artist

cool good luck

Private-Funny-Man Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2014

I would if I knew how to.

I don't even know how to build a fortress but somehow I managed to get my dwarves to dig a channel I think on my first world ever.

moonsaber56 Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2014 Student Artist

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Private-Funny-Man Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2014

Thanks for the link.

My new fortress in a world that I recently created is going to be completely militarized. And I think my crowning achievement will either be turning criminals into expendable shock troops with dwarves that have gone insane being some of the best fighters in the fortress; or building a tunnel straight under to the closest elf compound and digging another tunnel to the circus with a door that can only be opened by a lever. When the elves have crossed the line, I'll unleash the clowns.

moonsaber56 Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2014 Student Artist

Good my freind..vut first your gona have to suvive good luxk and have fun

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TerrylovesBoobs Featured By Owner Jul 26, 2014 Hobbyist Writer

Would it not be better too dig lots of hundred z-level staircases and unleash them ALL?

BoneSeed Featured By Owner Jul 23, 2014

this is the most art-ually sophisticated DF illustration I've ever seen! that forgotten beast is truly glorious.

Philipp-Steinhaus Featured By Owner Jul 23, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

YES!!! Pure glory awaits!!! (though I personally prefer to flood everything with magma

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lgonggr Featured By Owner Jul 22, 2014

Awesome :_)

ILikeCommas Featured By Owner Jul 2, 2014 Hobbyist Writer

;-;7

Glorious.

dakka-dakka-BLAM Featured By Owner Jun 12, 2014 Student General Artist

Neat. I still prefer tactical magmafilled mine-cart strikes before more drastic measures. Still, I'm old-fashioned type who would use magma for everything, as long as it is lethal application.

BrutalityInc Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2014

Mountain-collapsing doomsday lever - for when it ABSOLUTELY HAS TO DIE.

scared192 Featured By Owner Mar 22, 2014

Strangely epic

WodanYmirthe2nd Featured By Owner Feb 22, 2014 Student Writer

My first forgotten beast was killed by a baby wielding a crossbow, which is freaking impossible in my opinion but after seeing so many randomness in Dwarf Fortress and its penchant to throw up Lord of the Rings-esque histories, I guess that anything goes.

HandofCreation0 Featured By Owner Jul 10, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

First one I met was made out of snow. I sent my armored commander down to kill it, I didn't realize she was toting baby. Snow monster killed her. Her baby punched its head clean off.

deltahalo241 Featured By Owner Apr 12, 2014

that baby should become mayor!

SwiftrunnerXXY Featured By Owner Feb 19, 2014

I haven't encountered a Forgotten Beast yet, but I still remember my first encounter with a Titan.

Sucker flew over the walls of my enclosed outside encampment and decided to pick on one of my dogs.

I had a few dozen of them at that point.

It was a long, slow battle, but the Titan didn't stand a chance.

Zulatobari Featured By Owner Dec 7, 2014 Student General Artist

My first titan was a armored scorpion, I dident know what to do; so I locked everyone inside; 2 dwarves got stuck outside and were killed, a third was crushed by a drawbridge, than a Elven Caravan arrived and the titan chased a few elves around...

I was reading combat logs and realized that the creature got hurt by the fists of my dwarves, not badly; but it wasent very strong. I sent my 15 strong Iron Armored Guard to kill it; not a single dwarf was killed or injured.

That'll teach me to waste time hiding when Titans are such easy prey to Dwarven Metal!

Nixonitus Featured By Owner Nov 7, 2013

I remember my first forgotten beast.
Killed just about half of everything in my fortress, so we sealed it away in the basement.
My hospital happened to be there, and so was my crippled former militia commander.
He threw his crutches at the beast, and proceeded to beat the shit out of it bare handed.
Needless to say, he kept his position as militia commander.

lifeisgood3488 Featured By Owner Dec 23, 2013

the strength of dwarfs is impressive

Dreamer-In-Shadows Featured By Owner Nov 24, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

That Militia Commander Dorf ... IS THE BOSS!

moonsaber56 Featured By Owner Jan 6, 2014 Student Artist

I also remember my first one....
At first it took out my whole militia, but then it reached the hospital where a near death patient proceeded to beat the shit out of it till he bleed to death....it was glorious....truly glorious, sad he did not live.

Dreamer-In-Shadows Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Oh the madness that is Dwarf Fortress x3

moonsaber56 Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2014 Student Artist

OH YEAH.....nothing can replicate dwarf fortress.....mabye xcom...BUT THATS IS AS CLOSE AS IT IS GOING TO GET!

Dreamer-In-Shadows Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

DAMN STRAIGHT! NOTHING BEATS A TEXT ADVENTURE! ;3

moonsaber56 Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2014 Student Artist

yes

raejekii Featured By Owner Oct 14, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Lol, I did that once.

konradtalik Featured By Owner Sep 2, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

Excellent

WealthyAardvark Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2013

I only just noticed that the colors of their clothes indicate the profession of the dwarves. Very nice!

Alfrov Featured By Owner Jul 27, 2013

Happened to me, too. :c
That's why I'm traumatized of underground caves, and now I just build overground camps, even if that's not how the game is supposed to be played. XD

Glorious comic, though ! \o/

VyrmArmy Featured By Owner Jul 23, 2013

Hey, those carp are real. Fear them.

mate888 Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2013

And the giant sponge, the king of the beasts, that only can be killed with the Dwarven Atom Smasher.

KingOfExplodia Featured By Owner Aug 11, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

I made killing all the sponges on the map a pet project...built gigantic stone javelins over them and dropped them all at the same time. It was glorious.

SchmittLenin Featured By Owner Aug 2, 2013

How a giant sponge's soft structural tissue can break a dwarven skull is a mystery for the ages... I learned that the hard way.

kantheist Featured By Owner Jul 23, 2013

I don't CARE if there's no way of taming them. I'll FIND a way to somehow use these vile beasts to my benefit! I'll kill half my fortress if I have to, but by Armok I WILL somehow succeed!

Skorpychan Featured By Owner Jun 19, 2013

Okay, I see an error here. No self-respecting dwarven fortress would have left a deer wandering around. It's sure to have wandered into a weapon trap by now...

merkaboom Featured By Owner Mar 6, 2014

5 seconds after the comic ends, exactly that happens.

Dreamer-In-Shadows Featured By Owner May 4, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

How would the LotR fellowship react that that beast instead of Balrog?

OrdonCrane Featured By Owner Apr 6, 2013

Must have been quite a fort for it to drop two mountains. I think I've heard too many DF horror stories, my first reaction to the last panels was, "What an unusually pretty landscape."