The Orcs of this new adventure were ill suited to their task, sent to establish a foothold in the northern forests, and to build a foundry suitable for the arming of the warbands. Not an Artiasan among them, the unruly collection of Urukhai, Snaga and Ologhai did not seem the right sort for such a burden, but they would prove a tenacious, devoted and skillful lot. They arrived in the closing days of winter, and began deforesting the sparse plains in order to begin production of charcoal in earnest. They built, first, a simple hut on the surface out of wood, that would later expand into a watchtower, to cover the delving mineshaft below.
Far, far under the earth, a cavern was found, composed of schist, bauxite, and a massive amount of magnetite, promising easy production of metals. The ragtag band dug straight into the cavern, sealed their section off from the monsters of the deep, and watched cautiously at the shore of the dark underground lake. They would almost hollow out a pillar of the cavern, filling it with workshops, foundries, and even a large scale factory. The excavation of magnetite was swift, and with it came an abundance of equipment, as the entire expedition was armed with at least an atlatl and an iron breastplate, while the primary fighters gained scimitars. This long production process would be interrupted by two of the denizens of the cavern, before the people were armed and defended.
Out of the darkness came first two massive bats, which were clubbed to death with bare hands, only injuring one unfortunate snaga cook, and then came a huge, monstrous crocodile. This beast was crushed, over and over, by the resident Olog, Latuul, and beaten to death by the savagely violent residents, mostly unarmed and unarmoured. Soon after that, the weapons were finished, and a huge wave of migrants arrived, packing the little pillar-foundry to the brim with industry, fed by massive, mass slaughtered squigs, and producing huge amounts of iron, meat and leather, to feed the growing war machine of the Hell of Toads, and perhaps further expansion north.
The fort went rather well, just a simple delve down to the cavern and a few months mining, making furniture and building a functional army to fight off the endless cave creatures. It was good fun.
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Topic: ☼Masterwork Mod☼ - Romomon, The Ageless Realms (Multi-race succession world) (Read 33074 times)