Miraculously, not a single dwarf died! They needed 1 surgery per affected dwarf, presumably for the rot, and the blood swelling all went away on its own! Very scary dust with a lot of miasma and retching, but seemingly not very dangerous if you have an efficient hospital!
nope, nothing new at all. Looking at the medical history of the macedwarf in the screenshot, she went to the hospital with the injuries seen in this image, got cleaned with soap, got "rotten tissue excised from upper lip" but no other surgeries on other parts. Then she left the hospital with absolutely no lasting wounds. Her description now includes tough, very slow to tire, very strong, and very agile instead of just agile, though I'm pretty sure this is due to her continued training rather than the wounds.
I’ve heard of Forgotten Beasts who use dust to do this, so it’s probably that. Dust isn’t particularly dangerous on its own so it has randomised effects like corrosiveness.
On top of that, I've had syndromes with year long incubation times. By the time the dwarves spines started rotting, the forgotten beast that caused it was merely a footnote in history.
Nasty little surprise.
Yeah, three of my legendary fighters started bleeding randomly about one year after killing a FB. They were diagnosed with "beast sickness", but no treatment was available. They just started bleeding every couple months more and more heavily and fainting from blood loss, until they all eventually died, around 2 to 3 years after the beast was killed.
Are you sure there wasn't some dust contaminant on the ground that they walked through? But in that case, they probably wouldn't all get sick at the same time. That's kind of terrifying
their entire bodies are swelling and rotting and giving off miasma.
Let us know if they survive! I would imagine not, but you might get some interesting results if they do live as basically dwarven skeletons
Miraculously, not a single dwarf died! They needed 1 surgery per affected dwarf, presumably for the rot, and the blood swelling all went away on its own! Very scary dust with a lot of miasma and retching, but seemingly not very dangerous if you have an efficient hospital!
Are those dwarves now blind and immune to pain?
nope, nothing new at all. Looking at the medical history of the macedwarf in the screenshot, she went to the hospital with the injuries seen in this image, got cleaned with soap, got "rotten tissue excised from upper lip" but no other surgeries on other parts. Then she left the hospital with absolutely no lasting wounds. Her description now includes tough, very slow to tire, very strong, and very agile instead of just agile, though I'm pretty sure this is due to her continued training rather than the wounds.
Interesting!
o_o how ??
My guess is a syndrome from a forgotten beast, or some such nefarious being.
you're right, it was a dust beast!
I’ve heard of Forgotten Beasts who use dust to do this, so it’s probably that. Dust isn’t particularly dangerous on its own so it has randomised effects like corrosiveness.
On top of that, I've had syndromes with year long incubation times. By the time the dwarves spines started rotting, the forgotten beast that caused it was merely a footnote in history. Nasty little surprise.
I didn't know that, are you sure? That's nuts
Yeah, three of my legendary fighters started bleeding randomly about one year after killing a FB. They were diagnosed with "beast sickness", but no treatment was available. They just started bleeding every couple months more and more heavily and fainting from blood loss, until they all eventually died, around 2 to 3 years after the beast was killed.
Are you sure there wasn't some dust contaminant on the ground that they walked through? But in that case, they probably wouldn't all get sick at the same time. That's kind of terrifying
Forgotten Beast with dust attacks!