Arts AND another update! Goody goody gumdrops!
21st moonstone, 210There was a minor digging accident. Nothing bad though, for once. Rodge got some minor bruises and Solpyre got slammed into a wall, but otherwise both are fine.1st Opal, 210Something isn't right... I mean, less right than usual. They're watching.... Waiting.... I know they are.8th Opal, 210The merchants are finally on the road out and should be off fortress grounds within the next day or so. Good. That means they're no longer our responsibility to protect.10th Opal, 210Captured some bizarre lanky thing called a Reacher. Off to the zoo with it!
-The following appears to be a stabled in computer printout-Lifeform detected:
Genetic Modification Expeiriment 157g "Usan Aspast Zebu"Species: Acyrthosiphon pisum mutatio (modified pea aphid)
Modification: Sightless
Modification: Horned
Modification: Spinneret
Detected: Febuary 10th, 211 PS/10th Opal, 210 PS
Location:
Underworld Dumpsite Sector 145Threat Evaluation:
NoneReasoning:
Unable to access local population, equipment, or personel.Recommended Action:
None.19th Opal, 210Someone got into my journal and pegged in some nonsense. And a strange occurance of a gremlin in some ratty looking old gray tabard being bludgeoned to death by a farm hand was reported.
According to Mitch, who saw it, the farm hand punched it in the chest, threw it down the stairs and proceeded to snap its left arm before brutally pummling its skull in.28th Opal, 210Decided to get some fresh air and heard a trap spring. Found out a Coati has become a tiny bit dead as a result.3rd Obsidian, 210Instead of the attack we thought was coming we seem to be getting more and more visitors. I've ordered the access point sealed and anyone outside it is on their own, which thankfully I think means nobody.19th obsidian, 210Skitara found a kobold.
Skitara punched a kobold.
Skitara violently perforated the kobold's skull.
....That seemed alot better before I wrote it.20th Obsidian, 210The noises the watch gibbon was making alerted us to some idiots coming. Apparently the spawn have sent scouts. 1st Squad will deal with them.[INTERMISSION:
AN AMBUSH! CURSE THEM!]
Skitara, Dauros, and thier raw Recruit Thornback saw the advancing group of spawn, some lagging behind and jumping up in angered attempts to get at the guard monkey that had blown thier cover.
The lead spawn, a n abnormally big son of a bitch, came shrieking at the hardened army dwarf as she swung her pike sideways, the shaft bashing the monster sideways and sending it staggering backwards. It recovered almost imediatly and lunged forward, and in the flash of movment both it and Skitara made, it's claw missed and her pike had ruined its left ankle, sending it awkwardly sideways. She then stomped down, shattering the lower teeth of its maw and began stabbing wildly at it, blocking two successive and clumsy strikes with her sheild before tearing muscle and oragns asunder. She looked up momentarily, and strangly the rest were gone, or more likely had blundered into the traps after thier leader was knocked of its feet, though one was still making a beeline for her much fast than she though possible, and as it dove for her, claw outstretched, it was stopped dead in its tracks.
And was knocked off its feet with... A crossbow!?
Thornback was standing just ahead of Skitara with Dauros, shaking his hand and cursing about it hurting. In the momentary lapse, the downed spawn swung a claw out and smashed it into Thornback's foot, causing her to yelp in pain and swing her crossbow downward, smashing it into the spawn's claww and leaving a noticable contusion on its equivalent of a palm.
The second spawn got to its feet and charged, bowling over Thornback whiel SKitara was resuming her relentless stabbery, and Dauros, shocked by that attack, charged and shield-slammed into it and threw it off the young recruit. Skitara jumped to help, wrenching her pike free and jaming it into the leg of the second, pinning it in place as Dauros delivered a bone snapping kick to first its arm and then head, sending teeth flying in all directions. Before long, the beast was dead, a hunk of arm bitten out and more teeth smashed oose along with its heart having been forcibly removed.
"You alright rook?" Skitara said, offering her a hand.
"Foot's sore..." Thornback mumbled as she was helped to feet.
"Looks more like some pretty nasty scratch. May wanna get a new shoe too while youre down." Dauros said, taking a look at what appaered to be a very small pool of blood under Thornback's foot.
The girl's face became very grim "Does this mean I have to go to the hospital?"
"Don't worry about it." The champion said reassuringly. "Mitch made that place much less of a deathtrap. Should be out in a week, two tops if the orderlies drag thier heels."
[INTERMISSION:
AMBUSH DEFEATED, END]
21st Obsidian, 210Thornback had a minor injury in the skirmish yesterday. Evidently she wasn't properly armed. I checked over the stocks and all the pikes are either in traps or being used, so I ordered another to be forged for her.
I'm somewhat shocked nothing has happened. Has the yearly seige decided to not come this year?22nd Obsidian, 210Evidently they traded a full assault for probing attacks.
-The following appears hastily written-
MoRe OF theM
[Yeah, year's starting to wrap up nicely. WIll finish either tonight or tomorrow.]