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Nothing.

At all.

Seriously.

[GruffyBears]

Walter's journal,

He's gone. I killed the dragon. My mind is finally free from that beast. I can only hope he stays gone.

As for the question of our mortality, I'm not sure how I'd like Walter to go. I guess I'd prefer for it to be an indirect thing, like holding a pass on his own or leaping into the mouth of a giant crab. His death would never be directly stated, but it'd be obvious that he's gone. That said, I'd prefer for my character to not die. 

[Blargityblarg]

Hay guise.

For my Assorted Silliness Mod, I wanted to mod in a creature baed off of Oldbeard. Is that okay with y'all?

[Limul Thak]

Limul Thak's Journal

So, I still can't get that crystal. Even one touch is beyond me... it must be really important to them to protect it this tightly. Even Workerdrone of all people couldn't be flattered and meaded into giving any information! I will keep trying, though.

So, my elven heritage is something I can't get over yet. After consulting with Navi and my own memory, I assume that this heritage has gifted me with more intelligence than usual for dwarves, though a roughly dwarven upbringing seriously dulled this boon. It also made it easier for me to manipulate the magic in Navi, which he is still unaware of (thankfully), because elves actually use magic. Dwarves are unable to unless they seriously meditate, and me being part-elven allows me a bit of freedom in that regard. I still feel disgusting when I think about it, though...

My past has been cropping up in my dreams. All of the mining and digging... all of the sieges and ambushes I survived with my axe... those many times that my axe was stockpiled (though every fort that happened in "mysteriously" broke apart... an enchantment, perhaps?)... something is bringing the memories back in a negative light. It started once I saw that crystal. That thing must know I'm up to something, and it's fighting back with my most sensitive regions... my memories! I can't believe it took this long to figure out.

"That is the most likely suspect, I must admit."
"I know, that's why I wrote it down."
"Why do you write so much, anyways?"
"Because everybody reads everybody's journals when we aren't around! This is like a quick look into our thoughts, which is important for us as a team."
"But-!"
"I add the secretive bits after I notice they've been rummaged in."
"Ooh... I like that kind of thinking."
"That sounds flirtatious."
"Not at all. My lack of a body also provides me with a lack of a libido."
"... right."

Maybe I'll write down some of my memories later.

~LT

Yes, those memories will be written down later. Yay for backstories!

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

I'm okay with that, blargity.

[Limul Thak]

WARNING: HFS SPOILERS

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Limul Thak's Journal

I am... unsettled. I recently revisited a painful memory that I had forgotten. It was the first of Granite, in a cool spring. I was assigned as the head miner of a band of seven spry dwarves. Seeing as it was a mountaintop we had to dig into, I was the most important. I remember the head fisherdwarf giving me a lookover... sigh.

We arrived at the mountaintop and we all started our duties. This was to be a new mountainhome to take in the excess of the old one. There had been sightings of... strange activities out here, which I new immediately as signs of demons. This could only mean one thing: adamantine! It would be a glory for the Flickering Swords yet (this was a relatively old civilization that went extinct soon after)!

I struck the earth, and sure enough, I struck adamantine as well! I had over a hundred strands' worth of adamantine ore within a week! We got a hundred immigrants that spring, who helped me dig out the new mountainhome. By summer, the city was complete and the king arrived. Actually, it was a decoy king; the real king had come a mere week after I found the ore, dressed as a peasant so as to overlook this amazing discovery.

I should have listened to my own knowledge at the time... but the king was a legend of words! I dug too deep... and found the pits. An infinite drop of regular stone that glowed red. From within. As if demons resided within. The king didn't care about this; he told me to keep digging! So... I did! I... dug stairs into the pits. Needless to say, we found imprisoned dwarves and elves that warned in an ancient tongue that we should not have come here...

The first demon was only a toad demon. I killed it myself without losing any dwarves. Next, however... a tentacle demon. It slithered out of the pits onto the glowing stairs. We tried to retreat, but the red stone is in tune with the demons, much like Navi and I are in tune. The stone ate my fellow miners as the demon dragged many into the pits as well, to imprison and cover in filth and some... strange... white stuff. Best not to think about that icky goop.

I ran and got the king, but he had already been taken with the red stone's hypnotic power: that was why he told me to direct the mining into the pit! Well... I last saw him jump into the pit itself, not the stairs. I had to slay his consort, who had turned into a hideous succubus, and escape.

Many days later, I returned and saw the pit stairs still there, not undone by the filthy magics of demonkind. Unfortunately for me, the prisoners were still there as well. Among them was the fisherdwarf, who had given into the tentacle demon's lust and tried to come after me to perform depraved acts! It was gut-wrenching. I fled immediately.

How did I forget such a thing? Maybe I hid it within my mind... maybe I merely lost sight of that incident in the face of so many others...

"Maybe the lich crystal is doing this to you on purpose, extricating real memories and placing false, more traumatizing memories in their stead?"

... I can't believe I fell for that. This crystal just lost any sympathy I would have given it. This means war.

~LT

So that wasn't a real memory... or was it? That's going to be a keystone in the story I'm developing. By the way, I want that crystal even more now...

[GruffyBears]

Walter's journal,

In my idleness, I have taken to wandering the castle.
One of my more interesting finds was a library, or more specifically, a certain book in that library. I discovered inside a larger book ("The undead, who they are and how to kill them").
It was the journal of a Beardonardo la Wimpy. After much study of the book the writing seems to indecipherable, which is quite frustrating. The diagrams, on the other hand, are incredible! A design incredibly similiar to my own flame gauntlet included. Needless to say, I need to show this to Oldbeard, I'm sure he understands dwarf writings better than I. Considering his age, he might even know him....

Basically, this journal will serve as the medium through which I express my insane ideas to Walter. 

[CJ1145]

Kogan's Journal

We've been doing nothing for days now. I can't stand it. Any extended period of idle time near that hotshot Workerdrone infuriates me. I asked Oldbeard about that book of his, but he seems to have forgotten, or is lying about its progress. I've tried to learn more about this Bjorn character, but it seems there is nothing to learn beyond what he's told us. Disappointing, really. I've kept myself preoccupied with the journal, but I'm afraid I can't tell anyone what's inside, as they'd either never believe me or kill me.

Well, we drove off another army of that damned goblin king, Gozru. Fought him myself today. I have to give my son credit, the guy's not much for strength, but you're lucky to hit the guy at all, and if you do it's unlikely to even faze him.

Kol's gonna be married in the week. I am proud of the boy. I told him to stop fighting in the sieges for a while, as he's got more to live for now that he's starting a family. Unfortunately, he refused; he's a fortress champion now, and claims it's his calling in life. Oh, well; you can't blame an old dwarf for trying.

And another thing, a band of mercenaries dropped by in time to kill a few routing goblins. Their leader that went around in supposedly golden armor (I say it's brass; gold plating, let alone actual armor wouldn't last a fortnight in real combat) tried to take on Gozru himself. Got whupped, but lopped off a finger as the king was running, and now he's parading around like he's just killed a Titan. I asked the boy his name, said it was WorkerDrone.

I knew that name; it was the name of a whore's son back in the Mountainhomes. I should know, I'm his father. Of course, when I told him that, the boy just looked at me like I was crazy, so I let it go. He'll probably be better off not knowing anyway.

Kogan smiled as he wrote this down in a little book he started, "Kogan's collection of blackmails".

[Heron TSG]

I have now commissioned Oldbeard to build us a submarine for purposes only known to myself.

[WorkerDrone]

The blackmail wouldn't work anyway. For one thing, its still far to obscure. For another, Kogan wouldn't be able TO TELL such a vicious thing.

He wouldn't have his head seconds after challenging WorkerDrone with such a proposition. We are after all talking about a 'hotshot' who doesn't have the patience to deal with such matters.

Lucky for Olon, he's motherfucking WorkerDrone, and he kills shit.

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

So, that Korgan guy came round yesterday, asked about my writings. To tell you the truth they went overboard when we was captured, luckily my regular journals survived, so it's not all bad. Now some other guy came round the other day as well, to ask me about making a metal ship. I've considered the idea before, and perhaps I can make it work. I've heard some stuff about the wonders of coal and I think that I may be able to harness it to propel things, but I'll need something to test it on first.......

[Jackrabbit]

Sorry for the slump. Updates resume shortly. No now, but shortly.

[WorkerDrone]

Shortly: A day later.

D:

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

It's a well-known fact that jackrabbits run on valve time.

[Jackrabbit]

Unfortunate, but true.

[Keita]

It's a well-known fact that jackrabbits run on valve time.

speaking of Valve.

WHERES HALF-LIFE 3?!?!?11?!?!!