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[Phil_Z]

could I get a mechanic/siege engineer/siege operator named gizmo?

[Heron TSG]

So, that leaves Speardwarf as the most senior non-Wok Warrior. I think we're going to need a LOT of Lukes for this Obi-Wan.

[thunderclan]

OK...That was quick...Hardly even worth calling a break 

Small new update soon...No more fighting yet as more important things must be done before we can continue the battles.

[thunderclan]

12th Hematite

The Dwarves of Flamebanner were silent as the body of Hawkfrost was carried in by Arzez and Derek. As the remains of the Thunderclan Deputy was laid out Fireheart stood to speak.

"Our enemies grow ever stronger and our Warriors are all that stand against the varied creatures who would see us destroyed. Hawkfrost gave her life to protect the Clan from the cruelty of Bonun Confineblister and she will be remembered for her skill and loyalty."

"With Hawkfrost gone the time has come all too soon to name a new Deputy." Fireheart paused for a moment before continuing.

"I say these words before the body of Hawkfrost, that her spirit may hear and approve my choice. Speardwarf will be the new Deputy of Thunderclan!"

Cheers broke out as Speardwarf stepped up to take his place beside Fireheart...
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Barbarossa, if you want to add an entry of your own then do it in the next few hours. Congratulations 

[Heron TSG]

"I'm not much for speeches, but here's what we need. We need young blood to help drive off the bloodless! We need sharp swords to become the bane of bone! We need the Fires of Fury to produce an arsenal of a caliber never before seen upon this great World! I ask you, good citizens, to take up the sword! If you can not, at least aid those who would!

Do not regress into the shadows if blood makes you queasy. I can assure you it won't be much of an issue."

Hopefully we can get 10-20 more fighters to drive off this threat. I'm thinking we need full-on WW2 factory production, and the army to use it.

[thunderclan]

As the new Deputy finished his speech several Dwarves were pushing their way through the crowd toward Barbarossa who, as usual had a tablet ready to take down the names of the new volenteers.

It was several minutes before Barbarossa handed the tablet over to Fireheart.

"It seems that we have some new Apprentices to name. Might as well do it now since we're all here." Fireheart directed the Dwarves up onto the stage.

"I, Fireheart, Leader of Thunderclan, call upon our ancestors to look down upon these Apprentices. Do you promise to uphold the Code and to protect and defend this Clan, even at the cost of your lives?"

"I do." Each Dwarf replied.

"Then I give you your Warrior names. Sigun, from this moment you will be known as Lorsith Acedoors."

"Ushat, you will be known as Osod Ugog Lancejewels."

"Tun, you will be known as Gumar Ast Kinglabors."

"Urdim, you will be known as Kodor Longfenced."

"Sakzul, you will be known as Mingkil Claspgilded."

"Obok, you will be known as Soshosh Shipinked."

"Cilob, you will be known as Stesok Bowtheaters."

"Meng, you will be known as Otil Kurel Shootcats."

"Thob, you will be known as Sable Findersaxes."

As the last Dwarf was named the crowd broke into cheers for their friends and loved ones.
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9 new Apprentices. Gizmo is in as well

[Phil_Z]

heh nice.  can I get a shot of his/her thoughts and preferences?



"as all-around tinkerer, I promise to fill our grand halls with massive overly complicated deathtraps"
-Gizmo

[thunderclan]

Here you go 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Phil_Z]

Good thing I like ballista parts, I'm gunna be seeing a lot of them!  BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD and all that.

seems I'm also quite happy.  Not that that's hard, when your favorite food is mule.  maybe I'll start keeping a diary...

[sir diesalot]

Woohoo perfect opportunity for my new dwarf and his "specialness".

[Phil_Z]

DIARY OF GIZMO, NUTTY DWARF TINKERER ARTIFICER

(for best effect, read it reeaaaalllly fast)

1st day:

OH CARP!  Fireheart saw me fiddling with the catapults, or thinks he did, really I was taking a nap so I didn't have to carry more random shit around this freaking place, I hate carrying, It's such an elf job, but anyway he saw me, and so I pretended to work 'cause I didn't want to be the sacrificial dwarf that digs out the last tile before flooding the tunnel with magma, but then he thought I was interested in machines so now I'm a mechanic...I need some wine...

2nd day: huh, this isn't so bad, I mean I don't know what the hell I'm doing but the other dwarves are showing me what to do, and I never thought a series of gears and axles could be so fascinating, I was watching and they turn and turn and turn and turn...

    Oh, some random dwarves got..."recruited" today.  If I didn't have this job I might have been one of them, so I guess that's another good thing, especially since our champions have been dieing off quite fast lately, those undead are hard to kill, probably because they are already dead.  I heard Speardwarf talking to some of the new recruits, telling them it's better to smash the undead... wonder why they don't use more catapults and traps...maybe there's something wrong with the catapults we have-I'll check it out later.  right now I'm going to see if we have any wine, and go look at those gears again.

(the next few pages are covered with doodles of gears, lists of machine components, schematics for a machine that knits socks, and a stick figure of a dwarf carrying a giant crossbow, all interspersed with mysterious red stains that smell of strawberries.)

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EDITED: THERE IS NO HAMMERER.

[Heron TSG]

I just realized that Speardwarf has spent his recent months stabbing skeletons apart.

But yeah, we need slashers and smashers for bone chopping and breaking.

[thunderclan]

There is indeed a problem with the catapults we have...Thy're USELESS. They were built before the aboveground buildings so now we have a catapult that will fire maybe 2 feet before it hits a wall and the other would fire right into Mansionbrimmed Manor.

I'm working on plans for several Ballista to be added to the outer walls...possibly a few catapults as well.

Also Phil, one small detail you may want to remember for future diary reference: The Hammerer is useless here...no actual power to do anything since we have no guard captain and no plans to appoint one since the Deputy takes care of those duties...without the unwanted killing of innocent workers.

[Phil_Z]

hmmm, good point...also, do we even HAVE strawberries?  I assumed we did...maybe an edit is called for


as an aside, I'm trying to convey Gizmo's...jumpyness by writing REALLLY long sentences with commas instead of periods.  Is it working, or is it just annoying as hell? 

[thunderclan]

No strawberries but we do have some barrels of strawberry wine somewhere in the storeroom...

I'd say the jumpiness works. Up to you whether to keep doing it though.