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Litheme
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Nothing really much happened since the Spring. Elves came, we gave them the usual Murderwheel greeting, and they departed.

It is fall now, however, and we had our first official Siege on our hands. Not much to say about it, really. Nobody died, not even goblins. They just showed up, yelled "we are sieging you", sat around for a bit out of crossbow range and left. It worries me, a bit.

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'Alright, back to work!' Joyfully proclaimed Karnii.

'I do not think it is a good idea.' I said trying to stop him.

'Oh do not be such a scaredy-elf. Goblins left and won't be back till next year. 'tis how it always works.'

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Caravan from Capitol arrived, carrying a letter to Flame, from some noble by the look of it. We bought some booze and wished them a good journey. As soon as they left our borders we heard a very familiar battle cry. A Vile force of Darkness has arrived, again.

'Everyone inside! NOW!' I cried out. Our defenses were still not fully finished but at least the gates are defensible.

'Where is Karnii?!' Griffin shrieked when we had closed the gates.

'He can take care of himself. Open the Floodgates!'

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Foolish goblins instead of staying clear behind the pool of molten rock were sitting in our entrance. Marksman "squad", only three strong, led by someone who identified themselves as Vgray were shooting at them through fortifications, without much enthusiasm. Oh, their morale was ok but I think they were bored after shooting at barely moving goblins who were cuddled together in fear of cold and lava. I have decided they have learned their lesson and ordered to close the floodgates. Sure enough they retreated, leaving many dead, including some trolls.

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Karnii's body was found on top of the volcano, surrounded by broken arrows and one severed goblin foot. He was laid to rest among original inhabitants of this out post.

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It is never a good sign to hear your military dwarves yell at one another with blood-thirst in their voices. It is customary for warriors to swear and insult another but there was something different about how sparring session between Flame and Griffin was going.

'Stop you idiot! You can still calm down and everything will be fine!' Shouted Flame.

'No it will not! He is dead!' Answered Griffin, savagely trying to hit Flame with her warhammer.

'I said calm down, you crazy sow!' Flame was trying his hardest to either avoid or block all the hits, but making no attempts to retaliate.

'DIE DIE DIE DIE! YOU ALL WILL DIE FOR IT!' Griffin was clearly insane. I saw as Flame driven to the corner had parried one of her strikes and riposted by smashing side of her head in. He was devastated by what he had to do to his squad mate. It will be better if he gets some sleep before I tell him he was promoted.


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We had found a corpse near forges. I am suspecting it was Griffins fault but I have no proofs. We need to establish Fortress Guard very soon.
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Exodius the First
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Dear Flame,

There is a word in Mountain Homes that there is going to be a lot of traders from various civilizations going your way. Please do train your negotiating techniques so we both can be proud about the way you can entertain their representatives.

E.

Litheme
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We are still cleaning the fortress. Ghosts are not helpful either. Everytime we put one to rest another just apperas. We had run out of corpes and I asked one of the ghosts where his body is. He shrug his transparent shoulders and continued roaming corridors, moaning. Inconsiderate elf-loving macaque.

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Human caravan did not arrive. On the brighter note we have completed two branches of our 4-way Magma-Spewing device. We seriously need a better name for it.

Masons tell me that layout of terrain will be a detriment to the work of the device. We should change landscape a bit. I have decided to psotpone that, we lack the workforce to do something like that.



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Exodius the First
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I was given freedom of the castle. I am not allowed to train however. I wanted to send a letter to Flame but it seems that humans refuse to go to Murderwheel, claiming it is haunted. Silly humans, ghosts can do nothing to them, it's the insane goblins I would worry about in their place.

Litheme
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It is our second Spring in this place and corridors do not seem any less cluttered. Our masons tell me that magma-flooding device will be ready for testing come mid-Winter, as to avoid any civilian casualties.

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An old face has arrived today, or so I have been told. I have no idea who was in the outpost pre-reclaim.

His name is Flame, Gar told me he used to be the cook and the brewer when dwarves have first arrived. Gar got this info from HissingWallnuts.

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I have presumed Flame will want to return to kitchens but I was mistaken. He approached me while I was hauling even more junk to the stockpiles.

'I want to be a soldier.' He said without any sort of greeting.

'Hello to you too, why would you want to be a warrior?'

'I have my reasons.'

'Fine I will speak with Gar and Griffin and see what can be done.' I exclaimed returning to my work.

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'I think axe is not for me.' Said Flame afterr a brief sparring session with Gar. 'Can I try with Hammer?'

'Of course.' Answered Griffin throwing him a silver warhammer. I left them alone to let them spar in peace.

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I woke up when I heard chanting "FLAME! FLAME!" I was certain there was a fire spreading but it turned out to be incorrect. It was Flame. Chasing an elven trader. Flailing his warhammer and shouting obscenities. It was rather amusing.

'What is going on?' I asked Griffin.

'Apparently that elven idiot tried to sell him some jewelery claiming it will look good on Flame's wife. Result you can see before you. I have already apprehended the other trader when he tried to shoot an arrow in Flame's back.' We watched silently as Flame was running up and down hill after terrified elf. 'Do you want me to stop him?'

'No, let him have his fun. Goodnight.'

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Exodius the First
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I have received most curious letter from Flame. He said everything seems to be fine back home, apart from naked goblins. That was not the confusing part though. In Post Scriptum he added:

"I wish you were here to see how well I have learned to negotiate with elves.

Rather strange fellow, isn't he? Why would he want to negotiate with those buggers?