6th Slate, 140Dunno when it happened but I was taking a walk between training sessions and saw the someone finally built an ore processor! Great! Now we just need some ore for it to process. Oh, and a store room for all this coal.
Seriously, if it isn't sandstone we're tripping over it's coal and amethyst, those silly pinkish gems laying all over. The sheer amount though I must admit makes me want to find a really good jeweler to encrust our armor and weapons with the stuff.9th Slate, 140Arcvasti's been asking the metalworkers to make him a tanker cart and for someone to make him a bucket. Apparently that crackpot is positive by next year we can have magma-powered furnaces and such without ever having to truly find magma! I asked him how the hell he proposed that being possible and he said he'll find a way, which is why he needs the cart and bucket.
But he's also looking into toxins and such for some twisted reason.23rd Slate, 140That kid Ngothil or whatever the fuck his name is came of age today. Evidently he's always wanted to join the Legion Guards, and be a big bad stone wall with a pointy thing. Good for him, maybe I'll put'im in charge of a speardwarf squad one day.25th Slate, 140Evidently another schizo tried to have at us; gave in to the voices in their head an whatnot. Ongos took the poor sod down though. 11th Felsite, 140Elves are here, so that means it's trading season! This is a good thing but I also have a very bad feeling about what's going to happen... On the upside though, raptors!14th Felsite, 140Arcvasti actually did it. He figured out how to apply toxins and venom to weapons. Some of the rangers seem to be absolutely ecstatic over this development, as do the engineers. Oh, and did I mention we're under attack?
I may be a dwarf of action but even I know when we can't win. I called whoever was able to get in, in, and told the elves to fuck off if they wanna live unless they think they can outshoot every single goblin in that bunch. Anyone too dumb to live can die out there with them.
Poor Urist got shot in the junk while he was out there but he somehow managed to blunder his way back before the gate shut and stop the bleeding. Who woulda thought a blind guy could be so resilient? Or have such a good sense of direction for that matter. Momuz is praying to Rulush to get some cloth to use to patch him up if he asks.[OOC NOTE: By some fucked up miracle I think the only ones who got left out were some pets. I dunno how the two fisherdwarves did it being shot at and all but they actually listened to the civilian alert and fucked off inside. Truly they are the pinnacle of dwarven intelligence.[/NOTE]
16th Felsite, 140The elves never had a chance. They tried their best and injured some of those fuck-all huge dogs, but they're all dead. Killed the the last. Some of the war smurfs were also outside, along with a few spawn; they tried their best but in the end they got torn to shreds too.
Also the plump helmet men have been spotting more intruders: Two packs of dogs led by lashers, along with a group of raptors. Most of that though we can at least take on up close if we need to.26th Felsite, 140Someone started screaming for silk today. Didn't see who, but apparently his name is Reg. Also plans to make a bunch of traps in a small hall with us set to ambush the enemy along with a bunch of bows and arrows for a makeshift ranged militia; We'd use crossbows, but the hunters have dibs on that ammo.
The plan is a mix of wooden stakes, glass discs, and stonefall traps. Hopefully by the time the enemy gets through them all they'll be too demoralized or injured to fight anymore.2nd Hematite, 140First election took place and Kigok Ozurdum is our new mayor. Which pissed off the outpost liaison and elf treasurer to no end. They're demanding we let them out, but with the goblins out there we'd rather not risk starting a war. We're already in hot water with the caravan dying.7th Hematite, 140That asshole keeps saying he wants bricks when there's plenty laying around. Someone's gonna try making some out of fire clay and see if that works. Otherwise he's as good as dead. Speaking of dead this waiting is killing me! I've never wanted a fight so badly in my life, but I think I'm more bored than anything.14th Malchite, 140What in the holy hell!?
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Ugh... I was too late.
The liaison gave the kid a good hard kick to the back, shattered his hip, and punched him in the head. Took him down in pretty short order.
The elf went batty soon after, but unlike our dwarven friend, he didn't last too long or hurt anyone, what with a boar dive-goring her in the head.4th Galena, 140Reg lost his shit and now he's running around like a gibbering wreck.16th Galena, 140Awwwwwwwwwww crap. Wait. What if...YESSSS!!!! The greenskins must've got bored and wandered off!14th Limestone, 140Dailm's become the first one to name a piece of gear. It explains a lot actually... But then we're all bound to do so soon enough.20th Limestone, 140Huh, didn't think Fergus would get quite that attached to my cheapo reservist sword. Speaking of reservists, the elves' swords are going to be pressed into service for another unit of swordsdwarves. Also, Mayor Kigok's ordered all “under-ripe” smurfs be caged until they reach mature size to yield more smurf meat and smurf wine. Finally someone with a head on straight willing to make some real use of the little bastards.7th Sandstone, 140Heard Reg finally kicked the bucket today, died a sober death. Shame, but it's his own fault for not using one of the damned sandstone blocks we had laying around.9th Sandstone, 140Here we go again...11th Sandstone, 140And now Fergus named his shield! Two for two buddy.13th Sandstone, 140Wow, that's... That's actually one hell of a cup! Man, I envy whoever gets to use that!17th Sandstone, 140
Cliffhanger update!
So we lost a few dwarves, trade this spring was a complete disaster, a kid grew up, and as a result of aforementioned trade mishap, we'll soon have enough mithril helmets for all of the melee troops. The humans also came and traded thankfully, and we got a tiny bit of steel. Wanted to buy a musket but since a lot of our bones have gone into making ammo for some bowdwarves, we didn't have anywhere near enough to get a load of shot and a gun. As has been, Tirion is the only one still waiting. Woulda been dorf'd, but Reg just had to go and be picky about his blocks to use for a stupid shirt or whatever he was gonna make. The plump helmet men also fought valiantly in the face of terrible odds and while they failed dismally they still put up a fight.
The clash with Aga will come next update; I did some poking into legends once more and while we will need to eventually roof over the fortress for later plans, there are still many wyverns roaming the world so killing Aga won't hurt the chances of us having an army of acid spraying dragons. In fact, we may get to save a species from extinction! Because it seems that the drow and pandashi love to hunt these fucking things since most of them have been struck down by drow or pandashi with other races claiming a rather small minority of wyvern kills. Hell, it seems wyverns are the sole reason we're still in The Age of Heroes. Still, Aga's gonna have to die unfortunately, since he'll just fly over the wall if I seal up.
Anyway, here's an update folks! Enjoy!