Complete Military Overhaul
reshuffled into 3 squads:
All Bronze Armor + Cloth Hoods/cloaks (going on outside of the armor)
Silver/Adamantine Weapons (Swords/Spear Adamantine, Mace Silver)
Bronze Shields
12th Galena
A Human Caravan Arrives, along with a representative from the Behal Cadap Guild (whatever that is)
we buy a bunch of random stuff:
Notable:
Cloth:6 bins
Leather: 3 bins
MASSIVE amounts of cheese, booze, surface plants, ect
All for 2 spiked silver balls...
NOTE: I've never before seen a single bin with over 100,000 worth inside it. We better damn make sure that it stays under lock and key.
9th Limestone:
The Merchants leave with no real issue, but at the sound of them leaving, a child who was currently under a strange mood snaps and goes insane. The worst kind of insanity, Berserk!
However, the military comes in and a single speardwarf charges ahead, screaming with rage at the destruction that the child could now cause, devoid of all reason as the child now is. The battle was short and brutal. The child looks at this dwarf, feral eyes locking on and beginning to charge at the dwarf, seemingly ignoring the adamantine spear that the dwarf was carrying. As a result, the spear goes straight through an arm, meeting no resistance (severing an artery), followed by a quick jab into the other arm (severing both nerves and arteries in the process). This process is repeated to... every single body part that the child has, arms, legs, fingers, ect. As if to grant the child mercy (or to kill-steal), a sworddwarf chops off the leg of the child just as the child bleeds out.
This child looks at the military, the light fading from his eyes, the vestiges of reason returning to him. His attackers look upon him as one would look upon a feral beast. When months before, this child was frolicking within the fort with other children, this child snapped and was reduced to a feral beast. At this point, with innumerable holes in the body and missing a leg, a light seems to go out of the child's eyes, limbs falling limp, and blood slowly pooling around the corpse.
As the military realizes the threat was dealt with, all of the squads move back to the barracks to resume their training, all of them looking rather glum or stone-faced. Except the Swordsdwarf Tulon Rakustaban, who came in and sliced off that dwarf's leg. He has a big smile on his face as he had "Taken Joy in Slaughter Lately"
This is life in the fortress, some people can never be saved.
Strangely, Bumble Frostbeard is still standing by the slain corpse weeks after the attack. He is free to go back to his dormitory or even wander about the fort, but he stands by the child. He does not have a smile on his face, nor a frown. He stands there, looking at the fort
20th Limestone:
Another yeti was killed, this time by a strike to the head from a human caravan guard. The strike was the one and only of the fight. One can only imagine that the yeti charged at the caravan, eyes glowing red in the blizzard that was occurring. Only recently leaving the relative shelter of the trading depot, fear must have possessed the minds of the human caravan guards.
Shouldering the mighty halberds that the humans possessed, freezing metal barely tempered by the think gloves that were worn, the halberd was aimed at the yeti. One quick thrust as the yeti charged, an eerie scream emanating from it's mouth before the impact. The impact was quick, and what disturbed the guard was not the attack itself, but the silence that followed the one and only thrust. From a howling scream to complete silence was quite a change. Blood pored from the wound that the human occurred, and as he realized that he had struck the beast in the head, instantly killing it. The human guard would never again take the trip back to amberjewel, not because he would not survive the trip (hundreds of miles to the nearest civilization, silence the only companion to the caravan), but because he would be haunted by the sound and the silence that followed for the rest of his life.
Next update should be good (more organization, possibly more combat updates).
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Topic: [Self-Explanatory Title] Amberjewel, The Glacial Succession Fortress [/Title] (Read 88912 times)