The town of Crow's Bridge had a pumpkin patch in it, and one of the voice clips for the wandering villagers would be to ask about what will happen to them. In most cases, they met with a gruesome fate as a result of Dwarven explosives. Myth levels were full of small touches like battlefield debris that would fly and bounce after explosions, and the sequel even included "ambient life"-- battlefield debris with a mind of its own... in other words, chickens.