The miners behind the barricades watched in disbelief as the three recent arrivals leaped a perfectly good barricade, and raced to see who could get to the monsters first. Several shook their heads in disgust, seeing idiots who should know better than to run to their deaths. You simply couldn't kill the lurkers, even these little ones, without hitting them dozens of times. It took special teams who worked together, and hopefully had a couple of amulets with them. The older dwarves had a much better idea of what was going on. They recognized those large, ornate spanners that were clipped to the newcomers’ belts. These were Engineers. And two of the Engineers running at the lurkers had some very pretty armor. The one in front didn't, and wasn't even a dwarf. But he was obviously a powerful mage of some sort. And he was fast! It wasn't even a contest to see who got to the monsters quickest. The mage was at least twice as fast. Money changed hands and bets were made. Milo had an agenda. He wanted to test some things today. Milo believed in robustly testing components, including himself and his friends. Today he wanted to see what his new abilities could do, and also what his fellow engineers were capable of. Stone Lurkers were slow but powerful and could take a good hit. Perfect test subjects, even if these did seem to be on the weedy side.

Immature Stone Lurker

This newly formed stone elemental has heavy armor of 100 points. Damage will slowly wear this down. Mining tools and those that pierce armor will be most effective. The presence of several of these monsters indicates a nest of the creatures, or the gods have mercy on you, a Brood Mother.