Autumn + Winter 260
Our ultimate enemy (for now) has been defeated, but the Lionfish sails ever onwards, cutting through the waves like a hot knife through purring maggot cheese.
Our fisherdwarves have managed to haul up various horrifying shelled creatures from the deep, and some of our dwarves seem to have taken to carving these shells for decoration and to pass the time on our voyages.
Another dwarf decided to join in on our raids, no doubt inspired by our glory at Paintleopards, who knows maybe that taste of battle gave him a thirst for more.
not at all unskilled he has been training (like all of the crew) in his free time since we embarked, I'm sure he'll be a good addition to our raiding parties.
Our new priest, Bombyx Mori had made some offhand comment that our temple might not be sufficient (although this perplexes me! The finest dwarven appraisers had valued this temple at over 10,000☼!
When asked what kind of sacrifices are necessary to prevent the ill fates that San might have in store for our fair ship the priest refused to answer, apparently busy with something..
Our targets for the second half of the year are a few small villages in the area around paintleopards. An easy time to give our raiders a break seems warranted.
It seems that these villages had heard of our coming, and a small militia met our dwarves on land:
Don't they know, these are the dwarves that took down thob coalmind?
Dikbutdagrate proved himself in his first combat; however it is odd he calls himself a spearmaster but seems to prefer an axe in combat? It seems we lack any suitably enticing spears
Don't they know these are the dwarves that killed countless dark slayers at Paintleopards?
This minor inconvenience dealt with we proceeded to the settlements themselves:
It's concerning that these human settlements seemingly make use of necromantic creatures such as Reg's warriors, although living under the shadow of the nearby tower who knows what pacts were made with the necromancers for their survival. We will be highly suspicious of any of these settlements near towers.
The pillaging of these human villages is becoming almost routine, and our sea-dwarves seem well accustomed to the routine of killing and looting, our loot and dwarves were quickly packed up back on the ship and we set off once more.
Around early winter I noticed something.. odd
There had been no reports of trantruming dwarves, and certainly the crew wouldn't intentionally deconstruct such a vital defensive device! and yet, the starboard aft ballista is just
missingshortly after the fore port ballista also disappeared. An investigation as to events on the ship soon revealed what was happening:
it seems the Lionfish is haunted! What we did to offend this poor departed dwarf we may never know, as he certainly wasn't a member of the crew. The age old dwarven ritual of slab carving will provide just the solution for this mystery. Fortunately we had in fact packed some stone and such for just such a purpose!
Doubtless this poor dwarf having fallen victim tot he great ocean of despicable water was jealous of our great journeys through the same medium. Well, a place on the ship is now his! We installed his slab near the well and since then no more unfortunate vandalism has occured.
Thus concludes a most eventful year (if not the second half)
As you can see the eagles are multiplying quickly and soon enough we can spare some from the breeding stock for war training.
Our stocks of wood are rather low, and I had hoped we could put ashore to replenish them somewhere, but we did not have time in the end. Hopefully some time in the spring.
And now that the year is over we face once again the question of which way to steer? We could travel north towards more open sea, eventually arriving at the human town of Batheflame, among other villages on the way. This way there is more chance of encountering what the Lionfish was truly built to hunt: Another ship, hopefully a defenseless merchant packed with trade goods for us to plunder!
Alternatively there is the large town of faircradles near to the east, which promises to be a rich target, and the biggest we would have hit yet, in terms of living inhabitants anyway, being far larger than guiserings. This would afford us the chance to put ashore and cut some more timber as well, which we badly need for charcoal among other things.
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