Brillianthanded holds, at least for now. After toppling the greatest goblin army ever amassed, the city's defenders looked to repairing the damage and picking up the pieces. The area outside the smashed apart front gate was littered with bodies and slick with blood and mud, as well as a few soldiers caught in goblin nets. The cremation furnaces roared as their operators took to their grisly work, incinerating the countless goblin corpses that had accumulated. The carpenters churned out caskets for those who had fallen in the defense of their home, and they were interred in the growing crypts in the mines below. The hospital was full of the wounded, soldiers who may never fight again after irreparable damage to their appendages, children who had caught wicked goblin arrows, and countless other break and wounds. A secondary infirmary was set up in one of the dormitories, and anyone with the slightest amount of medical experience was drafted to help tend to the injured.
A mother, stricken by melancholy over her dead child sat sobbing in the streets, as a parade of people carrying corpses and the gravely wounded moved steadily past. Rain poured down, the congealing blood running in rivulets from the front gate and snaking down into the soil. The high priestess of Vicu, goddess of sacrifice, gave sermons and comfort to those on break from the steady work shifts. Grim-faced soldiers lined the parapets, clutching their rifles in the rain and looking out for any goblin stragglers. Those not hauling provided food and drink for the laborers. Everyone moved with a sort of steady automation, mild shellshock in their eyes. It would be many months of hard work before Brillianthanded returned to anything resembling normalcy.
As an aside, is there any easier way to remove my own people from cages than building the cages and attaching them to a lever? It takes a really fucking long time and 2 mechanisms per cage. If not there really needs to be an easier way, or else those stupid cage throwers are way too annoying to deal with.
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