One of the miner/soldier, who was also a mason, entered the mason workshop without saying a word just after the death of DZA. A few days later, as Ishar retrieved the body of DZA while wearing Abrasanir, the mason showed the dwarves her creation. Ilmistem, a coffin made out from jet with an image of General Zes on it. In the tomb, along with the coffin that contained DZA's corpse, there were three statues. The first was a statue of dwarves, and was about the foundation of Urged Stones. The second was a statue of DZA himself, and the third was a statue of the god As. All of them made in red bauxite.
Three days later, the nephilim caravan left... And they were attacked by the lizardmen. To everyone's surprise, the nephilim guards killed all the lizardmen, and only a merchant was killed... They had saved Urged Stones. A silver statue of a nephilim soon stand in the meeting hall.
But things went bad... Very bad... Urged Stones had atraccted the attention of forces beyond their comprehension...
It was middle summer... The militia was prepared all days for the danger of another siege. But they weren't prepared for what was coming to Urged Stones...
Ishar was at the entrance, waiting until the next patrol came... And he saw it... Goblins... A goblin siege... His pet, Zalis, a war sabre-toothed tiger, couldn't understand what was happening, but he knew it was trouble... Ishar ordered the bridge to be closed... But he realized too late that wouldn't be enough... The new dinning room! They had been building walls for a new dinning room outside... And the wall hadn't been completed... Too late he realized it. His squad, that had been named Children of DZA, went to the corridor that connected the fortress to the new dinning room. Soon, two other squads went there too. The paladin squad and a recruit squad. The goblins rushed in. Ishar Shouted.
"Stand until they get here. We'll send them back to the underworld that created them!"
The goblins charged. The captain of the goblins and her mount, a cave crocodile, were soon killed by Zalis, although Zalis was injured. The sounds of battle could be heard in the meeting hall, were the dwarves were prepared to charge themselves if it was necessary. The goblins were less, but some of the brave dwarven warriors were injured. But in the end they killed the goblins.
The soldiers started to celebrate.
"We did..." The recruit couldn't finish his speech. Three darts had hit him, killing him. When Ishar looked to the corridor, he simply couldn't believe it... About forty lizardmen and even five bog trolls were there...
The whole fortress was called to arms. The lizardmen's darts claimed the lifes of lots of dwarves that day, as well as the bog trolls... But Ishar squad finally was able to made it... They were the last ones... Even the high priestess had died... And then, it came the horror... Three beings... They looked like black insects... The shortest was seven feet tall. They had some strange black weapons, and their wings... Were like the ones of insects. Ishar had lost a hand. Abrasanir had saved him thirty times this day. But there was still work to do. He knew what they were. He had been told about them... They were what people had called The Danger... They were the voidwalkers. Nobody knew what they wanted, but he wouldn't be the one letting them get it.
"Dwarves! Charge!"
Ishar was the first. He struck one down with his spear... And then he collapsed in pain. After dying, the being shouted, with a voice that couldn't be the one of a mortal being. His companions were also stunned...
When they woke up, they saw it... A child corpse was sticked into a wall. It was Joost. On the wall there was a message, written in the old dwarven language with the child's blood.
"You cannot win. You cannot survive. You cannot resist. You cannot even try.
PS: Do you like beef?"
Then, a roar was heard. Zejaso Pozijante, the minotaur... Those bastard had freed him! It was dark, even for a dwarf. Ishar tried to get his spear. The last thing he saw was a giant punch.
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And so ends the story of Urged Stones, a story of death, madness and duty. Shall their sould rest forever.
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Two sieges! Two sieges, one and then other! And then the voidwalkers thieves. They went thorugh the bridge before I closed it and nobody noticed! I was building a system to release the minotaur, but i couldn't get the security measures done, and somehow the minotaur got free. Shit. I don't think I'll reclaim... Maybe try another location with other dwarven civilization. And I think I will be more careful when building outside... If you want to know, Ishar killed three goblins, a bog troll, four lizardmen and a voidwalker. And Zalis (I assigned war animals to everyone in the militia after what happened to DZA) died under the mace of a bog troll that got himself a tittle. The Rough Punch of the Buzzard or something like that.
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Topic: Urged Stones, a legends of forlorn realms community fortress (Read 3521 times)