An unusually interesting year in Minebrave.
The queen has given birth to a daughter, her fourth child with the king, at long last his dream of raising a family is fulfilled.
The first of two trained gremlins has become a citizen and is now training with some of our best elves.
Experiments with captured goblins who survived the incineration of their comrades has shown that tantruming goblin invaders can topple statues and become vampires. This knowledge is being weaponized. All that is required now is the secret of life and death to complete our collection of curse powers.
Another weremammoth attaked due to our lack of early warning system, the military engaged in battle on the beach where they performed quite well for being entirely unarmed and taken by surprise while training.
Thirty soldiers, punched and kicked and bit the great beast, dodging blows that could crush them to paste. They held the creature until it reverted into an elf which was quickly dispatched. Three dead dwarves and two dead elves with one dwarf being bitten on the lip and somehow surviving the massive injuries to his skull. He was dispatched to claim the nearby depleted kobold cave which he successfully took after accepting the surrender of the only survivors, three kobold children.
One of our human militia members was breaking under the stress and was also one hundred and twelve years old so he was dispatched to claim another kobold cave or die. He returned reporting they refused to surrender, I thought that unacceptable so I sent him to pillage. He returned and reported he met and slaughtered some of the resistance..elves.. At some point without my noticing the second closest kobold cave was captured by the elven civilization. We now war with the elves.
This accelerates my timetable but is not unwelcome, it was inevitable now that steel production is finally in full swing. An attempt to attack the elven cave resulted in four seasoned dwarves being torn apart by a yak bull. Our most elite soldiers were dispatched and crushed the beast.
For near a decade now Minebrave has relied on it's magma crab based primary defensive cannon to resist large forces, the cannon currently contains 78 wild magma crabs. This has been declared too effective and boring so a large labyrinth is being constructed on the surface. When completed it will enable us to allow traders through or force invaders through several different styles of traps or a military killbox.
It's going to be quite the variety pack, your standard hallways of weapon and spike traps of course, a dwarven shotgun, a cave in chamber, a room for perhaps driving goblins into becoming cursed or just releasing some of my pet abominations. Sadly we are having to improvise a drowning chamber in place of the planned goblinite refining crucible due to a long forgotten aquifer until magma can be brought up to clear the way. The killbox will be inside an enclosed tower, using bridges and an artifact unicorn bone floodgate a funnel can be created that can become a single tile chokepoint or a trade friendly entrance. Also enclosed in the tower will be a smaller tower above the last gate before the beach. From this tower archers will be able to rain steel and silver death down upon invaders in the funnel and past the chokepoint beyond which waits dozens of superbly trained melee fighters. Lastly the magma crab defensive cannon stands ever ready.
Currently building is stalled due to an elven seige. Only two builders were caught beyond the gates, one was slain the other, better trained, danced around their pitiful weapons and and made it into the defensive perimeter thanks to a goblin siege arriving behind the elves distracting them. The elves turned to fight and were entirely slaughtered, even the dreaded yak cow they brought. Now the goblins are wandering past a handful of weapon traps and I'm trying to decide between the crabs one more time or a full force miliary charge. I'm a little disappointed, I really wanted to turn one of the weremammoths loose on the elves but I can't even release it against the goblins because that bridge isn't set up yet and I don't feel like making another one at the moment.
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