((So, on this computer, dwarf fortress takes about five minutes to start up. Loading the game takes another five, and saving it takes about ten. It runs ok between those times, though!))
Taking Back the Fort:
Nothing moved in the sandy halls of Oceanbridge, save for a few flies, buzzing lazily from corpse to corpse (to corpse to corpse... well, there were a lot of corpses). There were no goblins, no trolls, no giants, no six armed, highly flammable ape men. It was, for the small group of dwarfs who had just dug their way up through the floor, very unsettling.
"This is very unsettling," Aban said, as she cautiously looked around a corner. "We should be getting slaughtered by... well, about three different armies right now. Where the hell did they all go?"
No one answered. The Soldier poked one of the the bodies (a goblin, or at least, half of a goblin's head) with her spear. It stubbornly refused to leap up and attack her. Neo, Balnash and Firehawk worked their way slowly through the old main hall, where most of the bodies were. They too were not torn to shreds by hordes of monsters who didn't jump from secret hiding places in the walls.
Balnash was the first to notice the sounds. "Do you hear that? Sounds like someone's knockin' on that wall. And... yeah, listen, they're shouting! Someone's still trapped up here!"
"That's... unbelievable." Aban said. "Where did you hear-" Then she heard the voices herself. "Oh! That's the food storeroom! No wonder they survived. Can you hear what they're saying? And Ishar, please, knock a hole in that wall now!"
Balnash put his ear to the sand wall, and listened. A moment later, he stood back, and said, "I can't quite make it out, but I think about nine out of ten of what they're sayin' is cursing."
Aban's eyes went wide. "Gods. Gar's still alive."
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From the Journals of Aban BrothertreatiesWe've suffered through some terrifying battles here in Oceanbridge, but somehow facing no battle at all when we were expecting a brutal one is pretty frightening too. Where did all those goblins go?
Well, Gar's still alive! We drug him and some other dwarf out of the old food store room, both of them looking pretty damn fat and healthy.
That's remarkable enough, and he told us all about his whole adventure, which was also remarkable, and about the ogre who apparently killed most of the people in the main hall. That's not remarkable, just worrying. That thing is still alive, somewhere.
But we've got the first floor back, and I've got my husband back (for whatever that's worth). Maybe we're on our way back up. We just need to retake the bridge now. How hard can that be?
(HA!)
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Next: Digging Deep
((next will be new dwarfs, dwarfs who haven't been mentioned in a while. I'll probably need to edit this post later too. Tired writing.))
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