22nd Malachite
While work around Slingblock was trundling along nicely an engineer was struck by inspiration.
17th of Galena
The human caravan arrived and, what a surprise,
Now where is that lever to close the gate…
The goblins have come in force, most of them riding on war animals, though to my relief there don’t seem to be any ranged attackers.
The first wave coming from the south loses some of its mounts and leader, an axe lord, to the well placed cage traps before coming unto fire from the just finished new marksdwarf bunker. You can still see the scaffolding for the roof to the right!
Rith Inkedstockades, an axe lord himself, rushes ahead to face a large squad of enemies, literally singlehanded.
Logem Strokefences, a swordmaster, rushes in as well to give Rith a run for his money: He’s already managed to get his right arm broken!
And gets himself killed!
And why yes, he did get his arm torn off.
Rith is still trucking by the way, making three more notches in his axe.
Meanwhile Mebzuth Inkedstaff, the captain of the Hammers and easily the most accomplished soldier of Slingblock at 12 notable kills, known as the Enjoyable Calamities of Modesty throughout the fort, is hanging back to let the rookies gather some experience.
Another one of the Swords, Stukos Logemush, does his fallen comrade proud by being just as useless and just as quick to have his right arm mangled. Though in his defense, he is fighting an enemy mace lord.
Ast Tradedlulled, the Axe’s captain, not to be outdone by Rith, repels a giant bat using her baby as a shield and, aided by Rith, wrestles the mace lord away from the vomiting swordsdwarf and decapitates him with little effort.
At this time, the two goblins on voracious cave crawlers who got past the initial wave of soldiers and the weapon traps claim their first casualty among the group of stragglers fighting them: Rimtar Glazestoke, the(now former) captain of the Spears, which was already the smallest squad and now only has one member. Oh wait no, its empty.
Also engaging the two crawlers is also one rookie swordsdwarf, who isn’t embarrassing himself to my surprise, having lopped of several of the riders’ feet.
Thankfully Mebzuth has backtracked to aid against the crawlers so it should be over soon.
Rith one shots a troll and this starts the push to exterminate the rest of the invaders, who are starting to flee.
A heroic Yak holding the troll menace at bay to buy time for the dwarves.
The siege(the entirety of which our beloved ex-mayor and military commander August II slept through)is broken.
We have four casualties, the two speardwarves and two swordsdwarves, though Stukos actually survived. It was another soldier I didn’t notice wandering off. The MVP was clearly Rith Inkedstockades who killed four goblins, a troll, two elk birds and a giant olm(with one arm I remind you) and earned the title “The Friendly Nights”. Other people also earned titles: Oddom Maroontowers the Depressed Horn of Trading, her husband Athel Slingcrushed the Radiant Typhoon of Clasps, Rith’s partner in arms and captain Ast Tradedlulled the Realm of Tars and another axedwarf, Reg Ringedgorges the Ink of Sanctuary.
The yak lives!
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