The events of the 26th of Galena, 304Urist was making her way back to the main fortress from the new bedrooms when she heard a rustling sound in the cloth storage. Trading with the humans hadn’t started yet and there weren’t any active work orders that she was aware of. She caught Derm the Soulchopper as he was walking into the barracks.
“I think there’s somebody lurking in the cloth storage! You’d better come along in case it’s a thief.” The two dwarves made their way inside and found Adil Keskalbiban the weaver digging through boxes throwing cloth all over the room. Suddenly she noticed them, let out a quiet gasp and dashed back into the back corner of the clothiers out of sight. A stack of papers were brushed off the table and sent blowing around the room.
Urist bent over and picked several up. They were crude drawings of all manner of things. Leather, cloth, gems and most worrisome, a drawing of shells. Ursit looked over his shoulder at Derm the Soulchopper, “Do we even have any shells?”
Derm the Soulchopper looked back at the workshop where Adil had started drawing again. “I don’t know, but I think we’d better let Cog know and find out.”
The events of the 28th of Galena, 304Trading was going quite smoothly, the humans were being generous as always. Ber wiped his brow and smiled. A snapping click of a trap being sprung near the entrance drew his attention. He glanced towards the front door and then ran down into the main fortress yelling “Goblin ambush, we’ve got goblins at the gate!
But with a continuing round of snaps and crashes, the remaining goblins were quickly captured in cages or crushed by the stonefall traps. Ber glanced back at the entranced and then at Derm the Soulchopper who was looking quite irritated at being called to yet another false alarm. “I guess we’d better move things back further so you have time to respond before Pawn’s traps take care of everything in the area.
Then Ber looked out front again and saw more goblins approaching. He looked at Derm the Soulchopper, “Well there you go then.”
Derm the Soulchopper charged across the bridge at one of the goblin spearman, missed and tripped over the edge of the drawbridge into the moat below. The goblin jumped in behind him but he recovered in time to deflect the goblins attempt to put the spear through his chest. The two traded blows for several minutes before Derm the Soulchopper finally got a solid shot straight into the goblins chest, right through its leather armor.
The goblin gasped in pain, the wound beginning to bleed profusely. Derm the Soulchopper drew back his axe and took a second shot into the exact same place. The goblin collapsed to the ground, taking the axe with it since it was now firmly lodged in the goblins chest. He looked around, the goblins were dead and only one of his soldiers was uninjured. The battle was quite exhilarating. “Excellent first battle everyone!” He looked at Fikod who was nursing a nasty cut on her arm. “You’d better go see the doctor about that one. You’re sure lucky one arrived in the last migration.”
The walls you see in this image is an extension of the main entrance so I get more warning about ambushes. I'd rather get the military up to the front than let the traps take care of everything. I'll be building a proper outer wall for the entire area in the future.
OOC: @breadbocks: That should be doable, I’ve certainly got enough marble to build that. Steel will be a bit more of a problem, but I’m sure there’s more wood in the caves down deeper. Plus I ordered lots of wood from the dwarves last year. I’ve realized that Nightwing isn’t actually a unique creature so I might be able to tame it, unless of course it’s possible to chain untamed creatures. Going to have to look into that.
@nbonaparte: The blacksmith is named Minkot Voderith, he’s been working steadily away at making quite a bit of furniture out of metal, particularly barrels and bins since we have so little wood. As for the missing images, I post my images to imageshack, it looks like one of their servers might be down. Thanks for letting me know, I'll keep an eye on things and reload the images if necessary.