- Spring Report -
Nothing exciting happens for the rest of this season.
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- Summer Report -
Two happiness generators (mist machines) constructed.
Entire army has been refitted with steel armor.
Migrants have come, bumping the fort population up to 194.
A human siege has arrived.
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12 Galena, siege of the humans.
A child runs into the fort from the great outdoors and stops in front of a microline door. He knocks on it three times, and the door opens. Inside is a stout dwarf, who waddles back to her desk. "What do you want?"
The child responds, "The humans have lain siege to our fortress."
"Excellent", the dwarf mutters to himself. "Go tell general Kosoth to send out the newbies to fight this army. If he doesn't want to, tell him it's for filtering out the wussies and training those who are true warriors."
The kid does as he is told.
Several minutes later, a small group of dwarfs armed in shining steel armor rush out of the fort's northern entrance and climb up the western mountain to its peak.
This small group of dwarfs collides with the larger human army, and they fiercely fight each other.
In a matter of minutes, the dwarfs are chasing down a few humans mounted on camels through a bloody mountaintop with human corpses strewn all over it.
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Daron slew two of the invaders. He is now a competent axedwarf.
Debecit, an axelord, killed 9 of the invaders.
An indeterminate ammount were shot and killed by the marksdwarfs.
In total, only about three humans managed to escape.
Akky, the fort's only wrestler, was shot into the forest by a hammerman. He spent the next week resting in the hospital while the surgeons and doctors busied about him tending to the injuries in his arms. In the end, he made a perfect recovery.
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Towards the end of summer, the adamantine mining operations were finally taken off hold. However, tragedy quickly struck.
Avastian Erushendok was a foolish miner who somehow managed to collapse part of the pillar of adamantine. He was killed in his foolishness.
Aritho Kelgesh was badly injured in the collapse, all her bones were smashed apart. Autumn comes with her still resting in the hospital.
Well, this has been a Fun year so far. Hope it keeps up.
The adamantine strand extraction is going slowly, but it's going somewhere. The first task is to fit the military with adamantine weapons. Armor is optional, so I'll leave it for later.
The iron grates for the roasting chamber are under construction...Sort of. I somehow manage to keep my forts at 0 idlers, so it's going to take a while.
The minotaur will probably have his lair placed somewhere in the dungeon.
Edit: Another update.
From the private diary of Zon Relonmonom,
18th Sandstone,
Another blasted dwarf has withdrawn from society. Mark my words, if she makes some sort of artifact craft, she's going to be the tester of the roast chamber.
Note for future reference: The dwarf in question is named Oji Rinalbomrek.
19th Sandstone,
She made an artifact bowgun.
Note to self: She still is a candidate for testing the roasting chamber.
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A vile force of darkness washed over Ironroast on the 13th Timber.
Daron the axedwarf was feeling confident, so he rushed out alone to face the enemy without anybody requesting him to do so, thinking he was doing a favor. It was a favor! He managed to thin out the army by two or three before introducing his brain to a goblin lasher's iron whip.
Now, the goblin army split into two; a group of crossbowmen approaching from the north, and a group of lashers approaching from the south.
General Kosoth stationed the Unswerving Mansions, a crossdwarf squad, on the northern fortifactions, to rain bolts down on the northern army.
He waited for the southern army to approach the arrive closer to the souther gate before sending out the footdwarfs.
Finally, the time came.
Debecit, the axelord, being a fast little dwarf charged headfirst into the frey long before the other squads even left the barracks. He singlehandedly slaughtered almost all of the lasher force.
However, he met his end being whipped to death once he became too tired to parry the lashers.
Minutes after his death, the first squad, the hides of wire, arrived. A recently new squad of pikedwarfs with little experience. One of them, Fursheh, was immediatly slain.
Ohkum followed him, and then Fon. Nof mannaged to kill two lashers, and then was overrun by two that followed. In the end, she had bruises all over and was gushing blood from numerous cuts. Not to mention she lost her right ear and her upper left back tooth.
Rescue was in sight, though. The mechanical wings soon arrived in full force. One of the squads of ten soldiers. They set about hacking and shooting the remaining goblins.
Nof was rushed to the hospital.
Meanwhile, as the souther battlefield was being cleaned, the northern battlefield lit up with bolts as the opposing crossbow wielding soldiers fired upon each other.
Half the invading force was shot and killed by the raining arrows. Kosoth then sent out the footdwarfs when he saw that the enemy had expended their bolt supply.
The footdwarfs made short work of the goblins and all but two were slain. One got away, and the other was caught in a cage trap.
However, that was not the end of the battle, for the goblin general had a secret - as soon as the goblin crossbowmen were defeated, a wave of trolls came down the mountain and fell upon the dwarfs that happened to be grabbing goblinite. Luckily, the squads had not yet pulled back, so the civilians fled while the military made short work of the trolls.
Thus ended the second goblin siege on Ironroast.
All in all, there were 5 casualties to the dwarfs of Ironroast, dropping the population from 200 to 195.
Morale of the story: Taking on a superior army singlehandedly is foolishness, not courage.
I was a bit surprised when Doran and Debicit tried to face the enemy alone. It might be a dwarfy thing to do, but it fills up the hall of the dead with needless dead.
The roasting chamber is dug out. The chamber itself is mostly finished, just a few grates remain to be constructed. After that, all it needs is magma.
A week or so remains in autumn. The adamantine digging is going good - already cleared out what I've called the "safe" zones of two pillars. There's enough adamantine to cloth my army two times over.
Random blarg of the season: An enourmous salamander forgotten beast has appeared and it whiped out two tribes of olm men. The dwarfs can't reach it, though, since it's now residing in a pond that I can't access.
Additionaly, here's Debecit's resting place:
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