Events of early obsidianHaving finished his meeting with Cilob, the outpost liaison climbed the crude dirt ramp into the sunlight. Blinking, half-blind in the glare, he stumbled over a boulder that hadn't been there before. The boulder screamed and tried to run away.
CoraiUnki turned at the sound. He clapped his hands and cheered at the adorable sight.
The kobold took off, trying to run away after having been spotted. Unfortunately, it chose to flee past the trade depot, where the traders were still packing their wagons. The caravan guards cut the poor kobold down in moments.
13th of ObsidianThe trade caravan had finally finished packing. The animals were hooked up to the wagons, and began pulling them out on the long trip back to the mountainhomes.
As the caravan passed the work site where Phenix's crew had started building walls, a second kobold, hiding among the stones, lost his nerve and fled. This one was luckier, having enough of a head start to completely evade the guards.
Back nearer the shore, at the metalsmith's workshop, the military commander was admiring the steel warhammer she had just finished making. Nearly as nice as the one she used back in the wars against the elves. She swung it experimentally, testing the weight and balance. Now if only she had something to hit with it.
At that moment, a third kobold made the fatal mistake of trying to sneak past her into the fortress entrance. The resulting fight didn't last long.
At the end of the fight, the kobold's mangled body was left wedged into the side of the smelter. She tugged at it a few times in an unsuccessful attempt to dislodge it, then changed her mind and decided the smelter looked better with a dead kobold stuck in it.
20th of ObsidianFishybang was carrying a load of granite out to the work site where Phenix's curtain wall was under construction. Over at the smelter, the military commander was happily making another batch of steel, in her smelter with the dead kobold still stuck in it. Fishybang barely noticed. So many new things, new thoughts and feelings lately. She felt like she needed to do something.
A spark of inspiration flared through her head. She dropped the granite and headed back into the fortress.
Quickly she arrived at the newly constructed craftsdwarf workshop in the crafting hall.
Grabbing a mere two stones, she set to work.
Meanwhile, back at the surface, the commander's smelting was interrupted by the suddenly muffled scream of a child. A goblin thief sprinted away from the entrance to the fortress, carrying a struggling bag. The commander smiled and picked up her hammer, still splattered with kobold blood.
This fight was not over quickly.
The captive child was freed almost immediately, after a blow to the goblin's spine fractured it and left the thief half-paralyzed. The commander could have killed the goblin easily, but why hurry? She'd never fought a goblin before. She took her time, shattering each part of its body in turn. Teeth scattered across the landscape like bloody shrapnel.
Finally, after the creature had been reduced to a barely-moving mangled mass, every bone broken, she finished it off with a blow to the head.
While strolling back to her smelter, she stumbled across a second thief. Her curiosity already satisfied, she finished this one off with only a few blows.
Meanwhile, unaware of the carnage taking place above, Fishybang finished her work.
This makes Fishybang our first dwarf to have a mood. She's now a legendary engraver.
Someone really needs to claim that commander before she gets a title. She's becoming quite badass.
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