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You tie his arms, then with another rope you tie his neck and tie the other end arround your waist. You take his weapons with you and make the trail back to recover the spear you threw, then return to the place of the fire pit to seek your helmet. You then blindfold your prisoner and take the secret passage to the cave village to seek the chief. You find him on the warriors hall, discussing furiously with the shaman, its probably about a sacrifice or something of religious matter and you don't care. You require an hearing, and say its of maximum importance, and the chief dismisses the shaman. He gives you the word.

"may our tribes prosper and our friendship last"
Tergren equips the gauntlets
"now we must depart for Bloodcaverns. Boartusk's territory is in the way, do you want to take a detour and avoid a potential unnecessary battle? or do we cross their territory?"

i reached 50 dwarves without striking the earth, setting up farms, beds, or anything, just a hunter, two butchers, a brewer and a herbalist, also, zombie trolls=boredom

if you underestimate apparently innocuous fish you clearly never played this game called dwarf fortress, carp will literally eat you alive in there

Go Valkyrie! for the Aryan race

You are taken through malachite tribe caverns with your hands tied to the peace standard. You are guided by Ur'ste Tergren, the old shaman and chieftain of malachite tribe, and also a mighty warrior that you battled decades ago, before your name echoed through all dwarven caves, and whose defeat granted you much of the fame you now enjoy.
You see many statues of the goddess Malachite, associated with nature and motherhood, but also associated with copper, and known by many as the mother of bronze, and is usually portrayed as a fat pregnant woman figurine in oxidized copper.
finally you reach the humble hall of Tergren, whose sacredness is recognized by every free dwarf. The miasma emitted by the rotten blood of boars, wolves, deer and dwarves sacrificed to Malachite fills the room, Tergren takes a pleased deep breath, and unties you.
"Greetings, Unbrey Oth'agleow, excuse the show you had to put up with earlier, many simpler folk don't respect might as much as the lives of the innocent, and i often must resort to hypocrite words to avoid hurting their sensibilities... you wouldn't understand, as you stomp those that dare face you, but i follow a woman goddess, and i often must resort to women ways. I know what brings you here, you are here to request help against a common enemy, and we will assist you, but first you must make once concession"

You head to tribe malachite's village. Long ago, after a battle over a parcel of land, you took their royal symbol: the Copper Gauntlets, as your prize. Honorable dwarves respect battle prowess, and if malachite is an honorable tribe, they will hold no grudge against you. Besides, you wield their royal symbol, perhaps that gives you some kind of legal right over the tribe. In the last case scenario, you can return their gauntlets as a token of good will.
The trip will take half a day.

Wretched savages! if you knew you would have stayed back with the slaves, you embarked on this trip in search of plunder yet most of the villages you passed had already been stripped of valuables by the previous raiding parties, and your captain even had some slaves executed on the excuse of them being too feeble, just to have a pretext to march south, to regions that had been relatively safe, but the long trip left the troops tired and you weren't prepared to face the intact forces of the southern villages. Still, you managed to slit some throats and capture some slaves.

In dwarven tradition, when a dwarf is defeated and captured in battle, his hair is shaven and he is bound by honor to serve his capturer until his hair grows to the length it was when he was captured. the proudest warriors never trim their hair and beard and let it grow top fantastical proportions, as a way of bragging that they do not fear being captured, and risk spending their lives in servitude if they ever are defeated. Of course, the less than honorable Bonepeak inhabitants, take advantage of this custom, and pervert it cruelly, shaving their slaves hair and beard every week, so they can never regain their honor.

The easiest way to keep these slaves from running is by shaving their hair and beard, and this time it's your turn to do the unpleasant job, these dwarves know of the less than honorable conduct of your people, and would rather die than let you shave their hair, and of course, would rather kill you than die, so they put up a fight and give you a hell of a time. You heard that there is a prince amongst the slaves, perhaps you could compensate the lack of spoils of war with a royal ransom, but it'd be a risky plan.
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you gather the few worthy men that survived the battle, 30 veterans, and carrying the peace standart you set off on a diplomatic mission, you can head into the village of tribe Malachite, to the tribe of Redcavern or to Boartusk's tribe village, your tribe is at war with Boartusk, but your scouts tell you that the raiding party that attacked you are headed their way and they could use any help
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you disarm the intruder promptly, taking a sword from his hand and a dagger from his belt, but you don't need to ask him any questions. He is a young dwarf, little more than a boy, his beard is braided and decorated with beads in the manner of Bonepeak traders that sometimes pass your village, and his clothes are made of pig tail thread dyed blue. your people doesn't cultivate pigtail and usually dress only in leather and furs, only nobility wears imported pigtail and rope reed, he is obviously a spy or even a scout for a Bonepeaker raiding party

you turn arround and quickly survey the vegetation. You don't see anything, but you hear hustling sound and detect it's direction, you hear someone running.
You guess you blew the surprise, but these lands can be treacherous to those unaquantaid with them, this is not your case and theres a good chance you might catch whoever is fleeing if you pursue him