21st Obsidan, 207. Intermittant entry. The enemy is dead or fled, save one spawn fruitlessly trying to crawl into the fortress and is now dragging itself along with its guts trailing out. I sent Fischer to deal with it. I honestly almost felt bad for it. It could only really glare and think angry thoughts since it was clear most of it's limbs weren't functional, and Fischer removed the ones that did. She also tore it's fractured heart out and kept it as a trophy.
Rose also introducded me to some... Thing. She calls it Halen, some kind of shadow creature. She doesn't remember where he came from or so she says, but when she showed the rest of my guard detail the shadowy little thing Crusher freaked out and put a dent in my floor when he tried to squish him, rather fruitlessly. My guess is it's some kind of forgotten beast the attached itself to her in her youth. At any rate, and as creepy as it is, so long as it stays attached to her I don't give a damn what it is. Crusher doesn't seem too fond of it though.
22nd Obsidian, 207.
Some other poor bastards want to pick a fight with us. Goblins this time. Why they think this is a good idea I'll never know, since they had to have passed fleeing spawn on the way here. The enemy seems led by a trio of pike masters and a spearmaster. perhaps we're making an impression? I can only hope we can crush them before my term ends. I've only a week left. To the tower!
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[Wasn't quite all of them but damn close]Not nearly as numerous as the spawn assault force was, but still. I had to dig through our force rosters to see who'd be best to tackle this. 1st and 2nd were in pretty rough shape after the last attack a few days ago, and I don't need them overworking themselves. Fischer protested, say she was fine to fight, and because of the whole... bear incident, I really don't want to argue with her. Besides, as we face the living goblin, a case of pointy stick induced head trauma won't be survivable.
Awl and Skewer struck first. Fischer was going to lead but I ordered her to rest after that mess the other day. The poor troll didn't know what hit it as Skewer punched a hole in it's head with his pike. Jack claimed the next, the beast trying to flee and running right into him, only to have its skull split down the middle with an axe sticking out.
Two trolls managed to isolate Dicer, our latest Adamantine Cross recipiant, by throwing him from the group; he tried righting himself twice only to be knocked down, but thankfully his squadmates came to his aid. Skewer claimed the third kill of the battle, destroying the troll's ankle with his pike and delivering a vicious curbstomp to its head to silence the yowling beast. Niccolo claimed the next, pinning the troll who'd thrown Dicer to the ground by it's hand and moving fast enough to bring one of the spikes on the pike tip down on it's skull. Awl and Skitara brought down another, with Skitara diving on the troll and sending a pike up through it's head from what I could see. Folowing that Niccolo jump on the next, and smashed his pike through the foul monster's head. He then chased down another troll, took out it's legs with a sweeping bash and a stab, and ended the miserable wretch with a good firm pike-thrust to the head. Jack killed the last troll, gutting it like a fich, then grabbing it by it's guts and removing the ugly cretin's head from its shoulders.
[I couldn't get a good screen cap of the remains of the battle with the trolls.]
[Fischer's First vs goblin mace squad. WHO WILL WIN.]Terrahex, in accordance to my orders, sounded for the first to gather thier wits and prepare to face the first group of properly armed attackers. Trolls, while large, aren't very smart nor do they fight with weapons. Goblins, this squad lead by a pikemaster on the other hand...
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Jack and the others held thier position for a time, catching thier breath before Jack bullrushed into the goblin horde-
- and utterly flatened thier sergeant. When he first collided he took a hand and a foot from the goblin, buy I fear he may have signed his own death warrent, as he can't fight that many goblins alone. One struck at him, but jack batted the attack away and severed the sergeant's leg. He'll own that kill as that goblin will never survive that. The macegoblins seemed to scatter as thier sergeant ceased to scream in pain. However Dauros would have none of that and brought down another goblin, its screams echoing into the fortress a good ways. Skitara and Dicer claimed a mace goblin too. Jack was beyond my field of view but I saw him run down one more particularly unlucky goblin as well.
The 1st withdrew after that, the enemy regrouping to bring the remainder of thier force to bear. 1st squad cleaned up, got a change of clothes and are awaiting Colonel Fischer before they rejoin the fray.
23rd Obsidian, 207.We saw Fischer heading for the front gate, well rested and ready for battle. She called her men as several of us headed for the tower to watch the coming bloodbath. Skitara was particularly overzealous, probably wanting to prove herself to Fischer properly, since she only felled the hive king long after Fischer had rendered it a cripple. As the rest of the squad closed the distance Skitara had injured three goblins, though a fourth tried to stab her in the back, only for Fischer to come in yelling "NOBODY STABS MY BOYS IN THE BACK!!!" The statment being somewhat ironic, as Skitara is a woman.
Fischer rammed full force into the goblin, smashing Splashslowed into the goblin hard enough to knock him unconsious, but sadly not killing him until a proper thrust to the head was delivered. Niccolo joined the fray shortly after, shish-kebabing a goblin's head head as Draignean came bounding in, dive-tackling the enemy sergeant. The spearmaster kicked Draignean off, and as he stood to try and kill him, he found himself with a sudden addition to his skull: Awl's pike. The swordgoblins, with several of thier number dead and thier sergeant no longer alive to maintain discipline, comepletly broke. A goblin was heard shouting "Leave the wounded behind!" he was sileneced when Fischer stabbed him in the throat and Skitara stabbed him in the head. From my count, only four of them escaped.
24th Obsidain, 207.We're back on the tower again journal. We can see the last goblin strike team heading for the main gate. Excluding Dicer and Jack, thi- What the.... AHAHAHAHAHA THEY'RE RUNNING!!! And then Rodge threw a party to celebrate the victory. Hah, this Obsidian was truly glorious for us journal... Stova seems pleased as well. Now I just need to ride out the last few days of my time as overseer here, and as per tradition I can pass Overseership along. My namesake would be proud of our soldiers.
1st granite, 208.
Spring has come without further incident. I'm positive there were two more magma splatter related deaths, but here's our current state of affairs:
Personal note, give a copy of this page to the next overseer.
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So, things I got done
Beat back two sieges in obsidian
Built a surface farm
Builts an overland statue garden
Laid the foundation for a silver-porcelin hand clawing out of the bloodplain
Cleaned up then recluttered the surface with piles of dead spawn and thier teeth.
Showed the effectiveness of a candy helmet.
Built a literal statment of FUCK YOU on our front lawn
Drove away Paintbrush. I don't apologize but this isn't an achievment.
Prepared firing zone for the assault on hell. There's a lever to operate a bridge to seal the demons (and miner unless you wanna fastdwarf him out) at the mercy of our marksdorfs. You'll know it when you see it.
Built a jail.. The bottom lever and the lever in the office operates a set of bars to isolate the guard barracks, the top one operates the outer one to stop prison breaks.
Made us a county.
Began training personal dorf and bodyguards for battle the normal way.
I've archived the game and will be uploading it on DFFD later today. Now I'm going to use my own copy to see if my plan for Operation: EVICTION will work. I will be fastdwarfing the miner out just for the miner's sake.
Things that need doin'.
Cull the animals. We have a ton. The dogs and any other fighting animals can stay. Thin out the rest.
Breed more giant emu for battle.
Make a proper magma garbage can.
Rework the forgeworks to keep magma related deaths from happening.
Clean up the trail of blood Asea left when he went to the hospital.
Start a war with the elves
Make more bins to store the unending volume of shit in.
Make more bins to store the ludicrous amount of fuel we have in.
Make more bins to store the mountains of metal bars we have in.
Make a second storage space for the piles of shit.
Make more ammo for Operation: EVICTION.
Train moar pikedorfs.
There's more to do, but that's just what I think needs the most attention, both for clutter and safty.
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