18th Timber, 207. Intermitant Entry.As of the 18th of Timber, we have four dwarves, maybe five, have developed infections at some point. OverlordTNT, both of Sus' relatives, Gemblade, and possibly Gorefast. I say possibly as Gorefast was suffering from a fever and was ordered by Fischer to either "Stop your bitching or get the hell out of this barracks." He stopped bitching. I must admit, between her head taking and general nastiness to anyone, she scares me. But I've known her since before the war (She left the army to be a mercenary afterwards, hence how I even found her) And I can still see that timid little dwarfette she used to be in there. Hell she's still afraid of the dark outside. It's partially why I insisted on torches every ten feet. The last thing we need is Fischer killing us all because she thought we were bogeymen or something.
Anyway, I have low hopes for those with infections survivng. If I could find a soaper's station I'd gladly try to get soap production going. Perhaps I should get som lye made ahead of time...
19th Timber, 207
The drumbeats were sounded again. This time for goblins. As expected, so I sent word to have Fischer pick two dwarves to bring with her to deal with the enemy. I should have expected as such since it's caravan season and a scout got bludgeoned by the caravaneers the other day.
I'm told she didn't even hesitate and told Jack Magnus, one of two axelords in her squad, to follow her and she dragged Draignean out by the collar of his mail shirt. She said she had to drag him out because he was shining his shield and talking to it again.
[three unlucky dorfs were outside, though Fischer is right there too. hammergobs led by a swordsgob.]Reports say Mr Frog was insistent on providing fire support for the soldiers, with Fischer demanding the goblin face her like a man. The goblin gladly obliged, but didn't even get to fight. I have since had the beats sent out for them to engage all enemy combatants and to let as few escape as possible. I am going to head up to the tower so I can watch the spectacle.
[Mr Frog killed the goblin squad leader. excluding the two blocks, he freaking one-shotted him.]
Fischer got the first one besides the leader. Jack and Draignean confirmed that the poor bitch didn't even get to swing her hammer.
[Seriously. She moves three times fast than any of the other soldiers. WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE ON. She did all that before either of the other two army dorfs even caught up with her!] Fischer claimed the kill as a bleedout, though Mr Frog and Draignean decided they needed to get involved in the already good-as-dead goblin's demise. Draignean was attacked from behind by the next goblin, and Fischer tackled the poor fool and took a bite out of his upper body.
Jack went after the next, who tried to pry Fischer off her comrade only to have Jack chop her foot off. He then dragged her away by the belt and tried to smash he skull with the pmmel of his axe, but it was sadly poorly aimed and looked to have glanced off the crest of the helmet. The goblin managed to smack Jack upside the head and he stumbled into FIscher and Draignean, leaving two severly injured goblins trying to drag themselves away from the battle while two others tried to hold out fighting dwarves off.
It didn't work out so well. However...
More goblins attacked, led by yet another swordgoblin sergeant came a squad of goblin.... Pikemen. Hoooo boy those poor sods didn't even know what they were walking into.
Jack's first victim succumb to blood loss as the first pikegoblin and the sword-sergeant closed the gap, only for the sergeant to be liberate of it's left leg. I must say, it's quite enjoyable to watch these fights.... perhaps I should find a good place to build an arena so we can have so good entertainment? Anyway, one of the goblins had second thoughts and tried to retreat, leaving a trail of blood gushing from it's arm, courtesy of Draignean. Actually it seems the rest of the goblins have all gotten the same idea, save the ones still being mauled by Fischer, Jack and Draignean. Speaking of which, the one Jack was killing finally died of blood loss.
Since we can't be having any uppity goblins scaring away Fischer's livelihood, I shouted down for them to run the survivors down. Jack chased down the nearest pikegoblin he could see and promptly chopped him to ribbons, but then-
Hammergoblins led by an axegoblin, undeterred by the sight of thier comrades' flight, decided to try and jump the lone Jack Magnus! I gave word to the drummer to send out for the rest of first squad, simply because I didn't think, as mighty as Jack is, he can fight that many goblins alone. However, as first squad began pouring into the battle line, Jack began trimming the goblin hedges, severing four limbs faster than I could see. I could tell by his swift movements he had been blessed by the war god in his hour of need. He bisected one goblin, bashed the teeth out of the next, thumped one in the chest, and severed three left limbs all in one smooth motion, While Fischer and Draignean rand down a goblin fleeing to the north, and Krypta set about killing one of the last of the earlier hammergoblins.
All while this happened, a dwarf I don't even know went to work foisting out an endless supply of crap on the home caravan. Hell some of the better made and decorated mugs bought a ton of bin-wood, metal ores, and steel making flux. Just the sheer volume of stuff we'll be dumping on them alone will probably make them take as long to leave as the humans are taking. They bought all the food and drink save the piles of plump helmets, which we have mountains of, though not anywhere near rivaling the heaps of mugs and useless loot.
Honestly Jack did well, smashing aside his aggressors who may have been shocked to see more dwarves come charging out of the gate to meet them. After all was said and done, Krypta killed the axegoblin sergeant, and jack killed the remaining survivors of his squad. while some of the pike goblins escaped (two to be exact,) I'd say this battle was a win. The caravans will help spread our warriors' glory far and wide and the goblins shall hopefully come knocking with more substantial forces.
[God damn that was messy. Goblin giblets everywhere and more shit we'll need to foist on another caravan, unless the next overseer just wants to go through and manually assign all the uless foreign-made loot to be incinerated. As you can see, I prefer to look at any engagments that happen happening in one day's fighting, as when people say a battle lasted days I think it sound stupid. Realistically nothing living could fight for days nonstop except titans and biological FBs.
Also, if anyone hasn't noticed I'm trying to best Mitch in number of updates, hence these shortish ones. 
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