It's time to honor promises made to those who risked their lives to come here, so we've finally dug out the spacious bedrooms requested of Xanthius and begun constructing the glass production workshops needed to get the soap industry underway. Despite my misgivings that such an industry will never be practical, Ups and Dermonster have forged ahead with the "Tell Rellik to start making a soap industry" plan.
Journal of Enyo, 4th Month Day 10.Enemy of the Dwarf people: Nomenshal the Skeletal Mammoth.
No amount of training could prepare me for the fear that charged into my life, it was another training day and I felt confident with my wrestling abilities. But still without weapon, I felt naked against the onslaught of the beast that came in unnoticed.
Juarous and Ups were the first to see the Skeletal Mammoth as it silently roared, it's bones clanking together as it rushed past them both. Juarous ran for the gate and Ups ran back into the rear where Xanthius and I were training. The mammoth ignored Juarous, choosing to impale Ups chest with its tusk. He was dead within an instant.
Monstrous and devoid of empathy or instinct. It's only purpose remaining in this glacial hell is to kill, a piggy squeal was cut short by a log sized bone foot as it turned it's eyes upon us as we trained. The bone armor that Dermonster strapped to my hands and legs and the heater shields carved from whole logs by Rellik easily saved my partners life. It charged fast and low at Xanthious who turned a tusk aside with his shield as we ran for it.
Turning back, I saw that the thing from hell was faster and closing in. Waving my arms I distracted it from Xanthious, [I was very enraged in game that my character wasn't running.] My breath came ragged through my beard and my legs ran after Xanthius. Desperate to catch up I saw we we're running outside the fortress to where Juarous was. Juarous yelled at the top of his lungs "Raise the drawbridge!" and Dermonster did just that as well as seal the inner wooden doors - leaving me trapped inside with the Mammoth. My only companion being the lonely musk ox.
This is the last thing I ever saw alive.
As my death screams filled the air, there was a sense of tension in the air. Hexed, sensing the urgency of leaving companions outside to possible other mammoths, dug a stairway outside the walls to let in Xanthius and Juarous. But from the door that Dermonster and Rellik were keeping shut. . .
Dermonster was stunned by the sudden towercap shrapnel that assaulted him. He stumbled forward towards the door; blindly he reached out trying to see, and bumping into the now bloodied beast. He turned and ran. It was immediately decided in this time of battle that Xanthius was to be the new Expedition Leader and should take charge. But no orders could be given. Dermonster ran down the hall to the East, straight towards the Ice bridge where there is no escape with Relliks pet Bull right in front. Half way down Hexed started trying to dig a channel to prevent himself from being killed and at the end on the Ice bridge Juarous ran into a room and began to throw ice at the narrow entry point.
Hexed Immediately saw the futility of his plan and started running, Hexed and Dermonster silently decided to try to make it into Juarous' room before he closed it shut.
But for all 3 it was too late, not a single scratch was put on the mammoth.
Last was Goden the Bull who shivered alone and afraid at the end of an icy bridge. With a raging Mammoth charge to end him.
As the mammoth wandered back to the West down the hall, Rellik and Xanthius were building a wall of their own. With only a single gap the mammoth charged through it. Xanthius dove into a pit and hid. While Rellik managed to outrun the beast and now waits in a corner for it to pass on. Or else Xanthius will never be able to climb out from where he dove to.
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