This happened to a friend of mine. The names were different, and the butt of the joke was that a crab actually somehow managed to kill several people, and was nothing more than just a normal everyday crab. The battle went as simply as one might expect a sword wielding adventurer against a crab would go. He stabbed the crab and killed it. Of course the joke here is that all the crabs look the same (especially in Dwarf Fortress) and aren't really distinguishable from each other without looking at them closely (to see if one has the name Dourcoals). But the fact that a normal crab managed to kill four guys is in itself, still a joke within this comic. It's just more of an "inbetween the lines" type of joke.
Dwarf Fortress can be kind of weird. Oh, and the newest version of Dwarf Fortress is fun. I'm personally waiting to get a better laptop before committing to it, but with what I've played of the latest version, it's been fun. I like how you can just lay claim to any town, regardless of how incompetent you are. You can literally create an adventurer, say you own the hamlet you start in, and then retire as the most pathetic lord in existence. Name another game where you can do that!
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Dwarf Fortress can be kind of weird. Oh, and the newest version of Dwarf Fortress is fun. I'm personally waiting to get a better laptop before committing to it, but with what I've played of the latest version, it's been fun. I like how you can just lay claim to any town, regardless of how incompetent you are. You can literally create an adventurer, say you own the hamlet you start in, and then retire as the most pathetic lord in existence. Name another game where you can do that!