Shout out to my Susano party from last night. You lot were amazing.
We loaded in and apparently we were all new to the fight.
"Well let's just see what he does and take it from there"
Of course it was a wipe but we got into the sword phase.
People were surprisingly positive about it after all the salt I usually see. We exchanged observations we made about the fight, formulated a strategy (turns out we were about 90% right) and went at it again.
We cleared on that second pull after a brief moment of collective panic when the screen went white upon clearing the sword phase.
Instead of immediately fleeing the duty people hung around, shared some last observations about mechanics, mentioned things they particularly liked about the encounter and gave eachother a pat on the back.
That party was the most fun I've had in DF in ages.