Spring brings another wave of crusaders washing our hinterlands in blood and flames.
While Baron von Freden trains the axedwarves, MadMonkey24 is the only available superdwarf that can take care of the elves.
He cuts down the scrawny elves with his artifact demon sword with no problems. The iron within the sword Strengthtrusses the Jaw of Reverence hungered for blood. The finely crafted iron image of the demon Er Dreadglances glowed brightly whenever an elven soul was struck down and sent to Armok.
The elves continued to fire their potshots though. With so little life left in her body, the Empress did not want to halt the construction of the new tower. Therefore, no one was ever ordered inside. The peasants risked their lives at the entranceway.
MadMonkey24 eventually made his way back to the eastern gate and managed to save a few dwarves. The battle was fierce, and his right upper arm was burned inside his steel armor.
More elves to the south chased and corralled more dwarves and began setting the swamplands ablaze around them.
It is here on this ground that Chare gets charred. The flames engulf her entire body, and she runs screaming into the fortress, with a trail of black smoke behind her.
The dwarves try to put her out, but she bleeds to death from her wounds.
Back in the burning swamp, Tallpanzer, the Khamerite Lye-maker is heavily wounded before MadMonkey can finish off the bastard elves.
He tries to crawl away from the approaching flames....
But continues to fall unconscious every few steps. When he disappears under a thick cloud of smoke, he is feared lost. He proves more resilient than that however...
He manages to hobble his way back across the bridge just as the flames consumed the entire southern marshlands (and burned down the bridge again).
When Tallpanzer finally collapses inside the fortress and the dwarves have a chance to take a look at him, they realize that his lower spine has been injured, and he will never walk again.
Oh fate, how cruelly you spit at mortals.