27th Limestone
About a day ago, Scruga, a former leader of the fort, came running in, panicked, holding her baby. She told terrifying stories of a werewolf attack. She said that she had fought these enemies before; Edem, the axedwarf, had driven them off. This time, though, she was caught entirely unaware, without weapons or trained fighters. They had already killed Ingish and Kel, and she last saw Dastot attempting a suicidal charge.
We have six trained wardogs. I told Edem to keep them with him at all times. Everyone else is inside, and will stay that way until I’m sure that it’s safe out there. Edem, the dogs, Urist and myself are going to wait for the werewolves that are chasing Edem; they will show up at any moment.
29th Limestone
Sighh...
Although a large number of wolves ran towards the bridge, they ended up getting distracted by someone’s pet donkey, which was running aimlessly around outside the fort. Our markdwarves wasted a lot of bolts trying to pick him off, but did not manage to hit him.
There are a large number or werewolves hanging around where they first appeared, probably chewing on our fallen dwarves. First, our little force is going to dispatch the small groups of werewolves. We simply aren’t strong enough to fight the larger force – around six or so – that lurks further to the west. All I can think of is getting a large number of bone crossbows and bolts, sending massed groups of archers and dogs in, and hoping for the best. We certainly have enough bones.
3rd Sandstone
We have lost a champion today. Our campaign against the werewolves had been going well – we had lost a couple of our dogs, but no dwarves – but Edem’s heart was pierced by werewolf fangs in a difficult battle. At the time of his death, he had killed six werewolves and one kobold.
5th Sandstone
We have lost one of our marksdwarves, as well. Ustuth was killed by a werewolf before I could save her; I could only avenge her. She had killed one werewolf.
Myself, Urist, Rimtar, and one dog with a broken leg are all that remain of our military. I’m going back to the fort. All we can do is arm everyone with crossbows, train more dogs, and hope for the best.
10th Sandstone
Well, this certainly blows. The orphaned, broken legged war dog just encountered another team of werewolves. There’s now 21 of them running around out there. They don’t seem to be paying any attention to us, which is good, because for some godforsaken reason nobody seems to be willing to pull that lever to raise the drawbridge.
Crap. Now all my military dwarves are trying to “pick up equipment” – presumably, some dead sucker way out in the werewolf-infested wolves has s slightly nicer left gauntlet than they do, so they must make amends. No, stop, back to the fortress, don’t go getting killed over this.
14th Sandstone
Rimtar ran off into the danger zone, saying something about a perfectly good leather high boot. We haven’t seen him since.
21st Sandstone
The merchans managed to escape, although their bodyguards didn’t. If we ever survive this ambush, there are a couple of suits of good steel armour for the takin’.
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This is really annoying. So much of our fortress is still technically outside that keeping dwarves indoors prevents the fortress from functioning. Plus – once again – nobody will pull the ****ing lever, and once again, I can’t figure out why. If the werewolves’s attention turns to our fortress, we’re done for – again. Our military keeps making suicidal rushes for pieces of equipment out in werewolf territory and I have to try to forbid everything before they get killed.
By the way, looking at Edem’s kills, hadn’t actually killed any werewolves until this year. How did you get rid of them before?
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Topic: Blood Castle - A succession fort (Read 8202 times)