It appears the second seat of the Granitebulwark militia's 1st squad is cursed, as all the dwarves who've held the posting have died.
So far we've had a death by goblin, one pushed in by FB skull, and now head smashed in by a trog hammerman.
Speaking of trogs, they beat down (quite literally as they were all hammermen and macemen) three forgotten beasts, one of which claimed to be someone's deity.Apparently all the killing blows were dealt by a particularly vicious trog hammerlord that earned the title of Gusshchel. Dunno what the name translates to as Col. Asmel cut him apart before I got the chance.
Again, speaking of which, Asmel and Tarem held off the bulk of a sudden onrush of the bastards when we breached the second caverns looking for lost relics and treasures (the presence of various ruin veins implying there were such things to be had upon the breach) where they discovered the remains of one meaty forgotten beast and Gusshchel's band. In the initial attack, a relatively inexperienced bladesdorf by the name of Bashom Inchtortures (who earned the title of The Vermilion Humility in the Dark Strangler attack) was killed, a hammertrog smashing her head with a counterstrike and gaining the title of Lilardegel. This one I'll have to wait for the memorial to look up.
A farmhand was also injured, as he had come down to recover a Nith's corpse I had marked for dumping. Why was because many of the Nith seemed to have a fondness for Tarem and as such followed him down to the battle, resulting in the deaths of two of them. He had his crossbow handy and shot his attacker, chipping a leg bone but the trog managed to break his arm and only blind luck had it pass out before it killed him, as he passed out almost immediately. Thankfully the miners had just finished digging a stairwell below the battle and one rescued the poor sod before the next wave of attacks hit, some of them making it past Asmel and Tarem. Another mercy was the presence of the other bladesdorf squad who rushed into position and managed to hold the bastards off, killing the lot that slipped by in a bloody display of what even inexperienced (mostly) and desperate dwarves can do. One was only a novice and even managed to best a hammerlord.
Due to the obvious preference of attack from here, I've posted a dragon raptor to stand vigil. Troglodytes are small, fragile creatures in comparison and while they were able to surround the forgotten beast and best it by sheer numbers (many dying in the process,) they'll be forced into a bottleneck against the raptor.
Hopefully the four deaths won't deter immigration, as along with the giant mole killings and Bashnom's death in battle, the melancholy gemworker Atir died of thirst in the main dining area. Turns out I didn't have a jeweler's workshop set up and he went nutty in his room. As he served as manager for the fort's so far short life, he has since been replaced by a young dwarf by the name of Obok.
Also my noble has some kind of extreme cabinet fixation, as most of my granite has now gone from building defenses to making the damned things.
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