that pumpkin is
aesthetic.
save here:
https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=17221journal below . i was in a dark mood (appropriate I suppose)
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Pirates attacked! Yarr! We fuckin' hid. Most of us. The four that were left outside.. *sighs heavily* lets just say, they wont be joining us this year for the costume party, except maybe as some hyper-realistic decorations.
a mysterious fire started in the caverns. arson? it smelled like burnt troll hair for weeks.
some deep stalkers, those invisible lizard creatures, ambushed us as we collected webs. the fight was brutal and a few dwarves died.
the fire approached and consumed the bodies before they could be buried.
A spider attacked one of the masons. Freaky shit but the mason went and smashed that spider up like a good dwarf
Led created a copper right gauntlet - another piece for the mega-suit that is slowly being formed from various artifact moods over the years.
Most of these pieces are held on pedestals in the various metalworker guilds, pictured here.
The masons refuse to work. The baron blamed
union agitators.
The first plants to colonize the post-wildfire ash of the cavern layer were a strange kind of species indeed - the 'chattering skull' variety of moss. Surely those are not actually tiny animated skulls laughing beneath my feet?!
A big vulture arrived, but I think it was secretly a dragon in an ill-fitting bird costume, as it began to breathe fire. and generally act like a dragon more than a vulture.
The dwarves felt secure as in my previous year as overseer, a great cavern wall had been built. there was only a single place where a theoretical intrusion might occur, that is underneath the small artificial pond created during the digging of the canals.
It was this very shallow pond that the vulture Hgurrok now swam through. The other side was a direct shot to the soft underbelly of the fortress.
AHHHHThe hammerguards arrived, but they remained ill-equipped and at half strength.
The fighting was even, eventually resulting in a few of the dwarves being lit aflame. and then wrestling the large fluffy vulture just outside the second guard entrance. At one point, Feb the doctor blocked the doorway with their flaming body
Eventually Hgurrok grew bored with dwarven flambe and moved inside. AND WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN TWO DOORS AHAHA i dont even care its exploit. I dont even care
Cleanup began. Oh so many bits and pieces around the cavern pastures! This bone is dwarf, this bone is zombie, this bone is stalker, this bone is vulture..
Spring arrived, and with it, Lein Hollowcavern - a giant viper beast! The snake thing spent a few days threatening the dwarves from that shallow pond (still unsealed, mind you) before the dwarves lured it into the cavern lake water spillway, and again locked the beast between two sets of double doors.
Now Lein the Viper slithers in frustration, trapped there in the marble corridor.
A lumbering zombie ripped the head off of one of the hammerguards in the marble catacombs. brutal..
Finally, a good omen indeed. A steel artifact was created, a buckler, adorned with bigfoot leather and gemstones and an image of a flock of fungal crows.
Oh yeah. Pirates are still around. We should be good hosts and build them a tiki bar or something
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may the spooking continue. play a little, play a lot! please join us in Lovecrafted :]
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