Zutthan Authortrumpets Ranger's Field Journal
Tosid wrote this Iden's Notes
It was Avuz who brought it up first I think. Since Mistem left to get some water a few weeks ago nobody has been back to look at our finger cuts. Mine really stings. We're all pretty tired of sitting here though so Imush leads the plan to sneak out of the hospital to get some booze.
It was strangely quite. Seems we are alone here. The only dwarf we saw was a corpse that died peacefully with a pick in his hand. This old journal was beside him. The wine is fine but the company got worse when mid-drink the dead miner's corpse shables around the corner. I hooked it's left foot off with my pick then benecked it when it hit the ground. We got work to do.
The stockpiles are lacking a few things in here and are way too rich in reanimating corpse pieces. The dead miner's corpse comes alive once more briefly before Avuz dumps it on a pile of it's severed bits on the surface.
I don't know what he saw up there but we have a problem. Avuz is fey. He stopped on the surface at the edge of the ramp and won't come back in. Just stares off and he's not even looking the right way as a husked goblin crossbowman with no bolts limps towards him trailing a line of blood.
Imush stops stockpiling a rope and uses one of the anvils in here to start making a forge since Avuz was an armoursmith before we came here. Avuz finally sees the goblin husk and bolts north west away from the fort. The goblin husk is very fast and catching up with him as he rounds the pond when I see he really is fey.
Avuz heads south to the west of the shore where he waits with a human lasher and bowman hanging around watching the waves. The forge is just completed when the lamb and donkey rush past in terror. A human poet husk is in the fort. Imush was mining so rushes it with his pick. He does a lot of damage to it but with little effect while taking a beating all over. I'll need some protection.
Together we finished the thing quickly and also the miners neck needed to be smashed again. Imush is bloodied and seems to have some internal injuries but is otherwise whole. We realizing that we havn't eaten since before entering the hospital when Avuz charges in to the forge to demand only one thing.
I was looking for wagon wrecks from the entrance in hope of finding iron bars when I saw Imush headed west to the pond to clean himself off. The goblin crossbowman husk that Avuz dodged is still over there. I yelled at him to come back but he saw too late. The goblin husk was no slower then before and runs him down. Imush rained blows on the thing tearing cunk after chunk out of it but that did nothing to slow the husk's emotionless onslaught and he was beaten down and dead.
We're sealed in now for sure. Fuck the surface. I've got two cranberries, a couple of half-full barrels of wine and a roommate who may go berserk in a couple months. Great.
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