((Still working on things. Big test times at the school, etc.))
Making the Plan:
“The bastard is breaking my magma pump! Kill it! Kill it dead! With fire, magma, water, and a half brick to the face, if necessary!”
“We’re working on that, Peregar, old boy. The difficulty seems to be in finding a way to kill it that won’t result in any more death on our part.” Wilberforce shook his head. “Poor Kogut. I can’t imagine he would have wanted to be killed by an enormous tapir. No, crushed by a cave in, that’s the way he wanted to go.”
“A cave in! That might kill the monster!”
“Or,” Ishar said. “We kill it the same way it killed the militia. Tapir monsters can shrug off steel weapons, it seems, but I have yet to see anything that can survive a ten to twenty urist drop.”
“Huh. An interesting idea, but how do we get it to fall? I doubt that the beast will willingly leap to it’s own doom.”
Ishar rolled her eyes. “Here, let me show you. It’s really quite simple.”
She demonstrated the idea on a piece of paper. It was actually quite simple, and it was agreed that they would try it.
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Meanwhile:While Peregar starting constructing the mechanisms nescessary for the plan, and Alkhemia and others gathered weapons, Carila seemed content to sit at the bottom of the pump stack, on top of a pile of bodies. Life in Oceanbridge continued on as before, and that meant precisely what it seemed to mean.
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Professor Featherlog had befriended most of the dwarfs in the marksdwarf squad, and was somewhat put out by the fact that most of them were now dead.
Captain Killpatient was happy to provide her with a nice spot to sit and think about it for a few months.
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A few dwarfs took suddenly began acting somewhat differently, and referring to themselves by different names. Wilberforce called it “irritating”, and “dangerous nonsense that will be the doom of us all”, but otherwise not much fuss was raised.
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A group of goblins tried to attack, and were quickly crushed by the drawbridge for their troubles.
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And strange sounds were heard from the depths. There was something sinister in the underground lake; something that no dwarf had ever before seen.
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Next: Traps and Berserkers and Goblins Galore.
((Thanks to everyone who is reading! Hopefully the next update will bring plenty of Fun.))
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