AlbumJournal of Cog Uzolotsus, dwarven mayor of Musclelashed
15th Granite 130, 5 years after the founding of Musclelashed
To those that may be reading this, know that the end is almost certainly nigh. I do not have much time left, and I am writing this on the wall as a testament to the horror that destroyed Musclelashed.
It had started out an ordinary month, I comforted some grieving dwarves, and finished the accounting and the orders. All of that changed drastically this morning when I received a frantic notification that a fourth cavern layer had been discovered by the miner dwarves while harvesting adamantine. 30 seconds later another dwarf ran in claiming that the fourth layer was not a cavern but hell itself, and that demons were pouring forth!
I did my best to take stock of the information, ordering all three military squads to station themselves at the first cavern layer. We had been accepting every would be hero and monster slayer to come to our halls, so about 30 to 40 humans and dwarves were running around in the second and third layers killing things. I figured that they would slow the demons down while we prepared.
They rapidly tore apart the miners and made it to the third layer of the caverns. All the while dwarves are panicking, gathering supplies and attempting to hide, except the military, which has begun rallying on the first cavern layer. Logem Datanegast, legendary axedwarf, pride of Musclelashed, was struck down in the stairwell after a fierce fight with an akylosaurid brute.
He slew many demons, and is now immortalized forever on this slab. Most of the Barricaded Bows has been destroyed, and many of the would be heroes have also been slain. Already the death list is massive. Despite all the carnage, the frightful strength of the demons, much of our dwarven forged steel armor holds strong. Ustuth Berked, a hammerlord as well as second in command of the Hammertime squad is fighting five demons at once. Every hit that isn't blocked by his shield are absorbed by his armor, save for a single cut to the right lower leg. Sadly, it is hard to fight while burning and eventually Ustuth too fell.
7 demons bashed at the mica door holding them back from the first cavern layer, and are met by the remaining force of Musclelashed's military. This is the last step before the demons are at our civilians' throats in the dormitory area.
They failed. Over half of the demons have been slain, but the final blockade was pushed back via aerial support of fire breathing demons, and untested discipline. Only 6 of our military members are still alive, or at least not confirmed dead. It is over.
The demons swept easily through the rest of the fortress, slaying anyone they found. I fear that they may soon find where I hide and slay me, too. Wait. Someone is outside.
~the text is abrutly cut off. A vaguely dwarven shape seems to have been burned into the wall that you are reading. The engraving in the rest of the fortress's level are illegible, seemingly having been defaced or erased.OOC:
I am really disappointed. Judging by the battle logs, my elite axedwarves didn't even fight. They just ran away and hid while burning to death. They would dodge or block attacks, but never attacked back. I don't know if it was the ankylosaurid extract or what, but I am kinda sad. Oh well, now I can get to doing community fortresses and the like.
If someone else wants to try to fight the demons, feel free to load the save and tell me how it goes.
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