25th Slate, 211Got word Hatch was attacked down in the caverns. She held her own though and dealt with the offending giant toad.
Good thing she had a weapon on her or we'd have five dead now! She didn't kill it, but at least she left it in a
state that'll make it question if attacking us is worth a meal.28th Slate, 211Ozarch's been sent to eliminate that stupid toad. It's killed a stray pup so it's only a matter of time before it gives more than shallow cuts to a dwarf.1st Felsite, 211She's awake. The Colonel's fucking awake. And evidently grumpy as all hell because she woke up in a pile of empty buckets. Upon leaving her apartment, she ran into, of all dwarves, Nevyn, who was bringing her her daily water and meal.
I couldn't help but giggle when I heard she flipped the stew in his face, told him she could feed herself, and
yanked the water bucket out of his hands and dumped it on his head on the grounds she was "Sick of seeing buckets."
If this is a permanent state, then god damn are we lucky dwarves!
4th Felsite, 211There was a little celebration for the Colonel getting back on her feet, and she's said she'll be letting Dauros remain champion. Kreia put out a call for volunteers to join her mace squad, and Sus, Baffler, and Hornbill stepped up to the call to arms. They don't have much right now, but they have enough and their own barracks to work with.
I'm sure that girl will make a fine sergeant.
8th Felsite, 211Fucking trade officials seem to think they run this place. Russet put out a mandate for a suit of leather armor for literally no reason other than she collects the trade taxes.12th Felsite, 211
One of the blackwhites was apologizing to the duke in the mess hall earlier today. I asked why and apparently some forgotten project of theirs is loose near the magma vent. Dauros went down to deal with it. The elves also showed up and the Parasol workers went back into the deeper parts of the fort like they did with the diplomat. I guess we can humor the stupid hypocrites.
16th Felsite, 211
Well that was unpleasant. That fellow Thumper just lost his shit and tried to beat Corai to death; The Duke was passing by the room so he charged in and took care of it. 
17th Felsite, 211The spawn are here for another round, not sure how well the scrubs will do. Thronback knew what she signed up for, as did Ozarch, but the rest of the non-veterans...
This would be more bearable if those fuck-all metal things they bolted to our towers were working. They say if they were "online" they'd turn those spawn into lumpy mush splattered on the countryside, sort of like a well trained pikedwarf would.
Regardless of what happens to the rooks, may Armok have mercy on those things' corrupted souls. Because our soldiers sure as hell won't, fancy toys or not.
18th Felsite, 211The battle was a real clusterfuck. Some of the troops couldn't even grab their needed gear and just grabbed whatever weapons were handy. For example, I'm told Tuber was barely holding her own using an old bismuth bronze sabre of some kind. Dauros said she managed to even take a spawn's head off with it. To give you a hint of how desperate they were to beat back these abominations, she didn't actually have her breastplate on and she was missing a boot when she rushed out shortly after Dauros bailed Skitara out of one hell of a mess.
Plus since we were mid-renovation, a bunch of the bastards were making a beeline for the gaping hole in the hill, where they ran into the Duke leading 2nd Squad personally.
Unfortunately, that didn't save Loud Whispers, who in blind fear ran away and into the absolute mess going on near the main entrance; BFEL and Mori ran after her to try and get her to come back to the safety of the barracks, and... Well...
Oh gods... This whole disaster was my fault....
I thought we could handle this! Why! WHY!?-The remaining writing has become an unintelligible mess spattered with a mix of dried booze, snot, and tears.-
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6th Hematite, 211It was horrible... So much damage done, so many lives lost...
We started the battle with 127 dwarves. We ended with 110. My poor decisions got lot of good dwarves and their attendant animals killed.
And with Splint and most of his cronies dead that leaves Mayor Tam as the highest ranking social official. I've spent the better part of this little gap crying and trying to stay locked in my room. It's... it's understandable that they're all mad at me. I got a ton of beloved friends, protectors, and pets torn to shreds, some of them just young dwarves, like Cog and Thornback, who were far too young to die.
I'm fairly certain I'll be left in charge. Col. Fischer need to figure out what to do with the battered remains of her army; Fischer had been asleep at the height of the battle, as had several dwarves since we weren't exactly on high alert, and when she found the mess... Well she wasn't happy to put it gently. and Simon Tam pissed everyone off by his immediate desire to move into Splint's quarters. Honestly alot of us told him it was too soon, and to at least let us finish burying him and get a tombstone made.Paintbrush named his other axe sometime after the battle, probably some kind of deranged memorial to the dead.
1st Squad is virtually back to square one, 2nd squad is only a squad in name with only Dicer and Sergeant Paintbrush left, and members of various other units were killed as well. As the duke is dead, I've disbanded The Noble Hammers. two out of four bodyguards and the noble dead sort of makes them jobless in that regard anyway.
We'll recover in time though. We always do.
Fucking. Disaster.
While this was disheartening
Seeing 2nd Squad reduced to two dwarves (literally two. Everyone else is deader than dead and in Gemblade's case in
several pieces.) was downright depressing. but it sure as hell was fun to watch and I was laughing pretty hard for
a good bit of the fight. The list of deaths were of course the ones I managed to get. I'm sure there's a few I missed.
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