Events of the 16th of Timber 320Derm quickly evaluated the kobold siege. “Thor and Bennet, you two go try out your new hammers on the South squad. Lars will go with you. The rest of you with me, we’ll take out the north squad.” And with that, the elite squad split and moved out quickly.
Thor charged in at the kobolds, relishing putting his platinum axe to the test. With a yell he charged, Bennet and Lars right beside him. With a loud cruch, his axe shattered the first Kobold’s arm and then with another heavy swing Thor caved in its skull. Beside him, Bennet and Lars were doing equal damage with hammer and axe respectively. The heavy platinum warhammer proved its worth, shattering heads and bodies without resistance.
By the time all was said and done, Thor had 4 kills as did each of the other dwarves.
Sturist cursed at his heavy steel armor for the 100th time. The lighter adamantine armor was a huge benefit as evidenced by how quickly Derm moved across the field. Derm took down a few of the fleeing Kobolds without issue. Sturist hacked a mountain goat apart in frustration. Soon the next batch of adamantine armor would be ready. Then Sturist would be truly ready to fight and outshine the Soulchopper.
Events of the 23rd of Timber 320Derm the Soulchopper was waiting at the gates when it approached. A huge one-eyed lizard twisted into humanoid form. It was dressed in expansive bone ornamentation of goblin and human bone. There was no doubt in Derm’s mind that this was a demon. What it was doing up here was anybody’s guess.
“Don’t come a step closer demon,” said Derm. “You and your ilk will never be welcome in Towersoared. Now depart this place before I give you a taste of my axe.”
The demon stopped and let out a hoarse laugh and began speaking a coarse voice. “I know you dwarf . . . Soulchopper. You who has slain hundreds of my worshippers. Chief guardian of the underworld gates. I am Nokast Zakospdesmo Stuxulustru Oson, Law-giver of the kingdom of Ozud Zogast.” The demon then let out another gasping laugh, a burst of smoke escaping from between its lips.
Nokast continued speaking, “I come as a diplomat to negotiate the surrender of Towersoared to my followers. My brethren will be released from their prison. Your people may depart and live a while before we engulf the world in the fire.”
Derm looked at the demon incredulously. “I am Derm the Soulchopper. I have killed 12 forgotten beasts of legend in single combat and untold numbers of your goblin “followers”. Why on earth do you thing I would allow you into this fortress in the first place? The only way in to this fortress is through my broken corpse. And I don’t think you’re the ugly weakling demon who is going to accomplish that.”
The demon chuckled once again. “So be it Soulchopper. I will see you dead for your insult. Your broken corpse will be presented to the peoples of Towersoared so I may break their spirit before I destroy their bodies. My only sorrow is you will not live to see . . .”
“Blah blah blah, destroy the world, destroy our home. For once could it be something new?” said Derm. “Bring it on ugly.”
With a roar of fury, Nokast bared its claws and charged at Derm. A burst of fire emerged from its mouth, but Derm deftly dodged to one side and took a swing at the demon. The first strike of his battle axe struck true into the lower body of the creature and glanced off. Nokast then charged at Derm, claws out. Derm dodged to one side and the demon collided with Derm. Derm went tumbling and dodged the next attack. He was sent flying another time and then swung again with his axe. It struck true into the demons lower leg this time. Again it glanced off the scales. Derm dodged and weaved again and again, even managing to block a burst of fire with his shield.
Derm braced himself and unleashed a flurry of attacks. Some were leaving obvious bruises but others were still glancing off. As he attacked, he was dodging backwards further and futher. Suddenly the demon charged again, colliding with Derm and sending him tumbling into the dry moat. Derm quickly pulled himself to his feet just in time to meet the demons next attack.
But then the demon renewed its attack, sending Derm flying here and there. For a long time the best hit he got in was a gash in the demon’s left hand. The fight just seemed to go on and on as Derm ducked and weaved and attacked brutally. But his axe kept glancing off the demon and the demon didn’t let up the assault. But the demon was also frustrated that it couldn’t breach Derm’s infallible defenses. But finally, the demon zigged when it should have zagged and Derm took its right hand for the mistake. But the fight continued. Then a short time later, Derm blocked and shot and countered with a solid hit to the Demon’s head.
On and on the fight went, the demon spraying blood with every attack, gibbering madly. Derm was again knocked into the moat, the demon leaped in after him with claws extended. Derm rolled out of the way and bashed the demon in the head. The bone crow deflected the shot. The demon charged again and again but finally it was beginning to tire from the blood loss. Derm struck the demon four more times as it began to slump to the ground. The last shot took off the demon’s other hand.
Burbbling and coughing up blood through its laughter, Nokast choked out its last words. “I am only the first, your fortress will fall into fire and ruin at the hands of my brethren Soulchopper.” And then with a rattling sound, the demon collapsed, dead.
Derm sighed. Always with the threats when they were already dead. Well, he was hungry; it was time to see what the cooks came up with now.
OOC: Longest battle for Derm ever. Over 60 pages of combat log. Lots and lots of glancing blows against this thing. Apparently demons + armor = dangerous. Also, good job against the second Kobold siege. I wonder what I changed to cause a diplomat to show up from the goblins. Obviously I turned him hostile. It also answered an interesting question. Apparently dwarves can block fire breath attacks with their shields. Very cool!
@Triaxx2: We’ll have to see, the exact design is still in the works.
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