Warning: long, text-, picture and enemyheavy....
10th Limestone
The season is still young, but the midyear meeting has brought up a lot of ideas how to change our city life. Mosey has demanded an embassy to be built, he want's to complain to the evil races about their lack of honor. This is surely a good idea! Couldn't think of something smarter. They will surely be impressed by his complaints. As much as we are by his cries about delayed punishment. Whatever... He is our leader, at least officially, and so an embassy will be built for him.
But he wasn't the only crazy one. Akrul, one of our most achieved swordsdwarves (well, we got only two) decided, we should call him DestroyX from now on.
What kind of name is this? Listen children, that is what happens to you, if you spend too much time sparring. And he also led a new petition, supported by several other soldiers, demanding more advanced weaponry. MORE ADVANCED? Are my incredibly powerful tools of war not enough for them? But they asked for poisons. How could some plant juice be more effective then the finest steel crafts ever known to dwarves? But they demanded it again and again, until I couldn't resist any more. I feel hurt. Necessary measures have been ordered, but it will probably take some time. Hopefully they all die before... Or well, I guess we still need them... But maybe another few bashes to the head will fix their weird ideas.
And to keep our general population busy, we decided to rebuild the overpass over the entrance to increase the efficiency of our haulers (right now the overpass is between the apartment buildings, not really helping) and add a sky barracks above it. This will shorten the ways for our militia, enabling them to respond quicker to any incoming threats and also free up some sleeping space in the common apartments.
26th Limestone
Mosey has now started sending letters of protest to all those fighting us about their lack of commitment. Seriously, this will doom us all...
3rd Sandstone
He surely succeeded in provoking them.
Completely out of the usual schedule goblins showed up today. They looked angry.
Slightly surprised by their quick reaction we ordered all the civilians inside, while the militia hurried to their positions.
6th Sandstone
As soon as our axe throwers arrived at their bastions, they ended the whole thing again. With almost every axe head chopping of some limb, the goblins were quickly routed.
12th Sandstone
Goblins, again! Well... It looks like they still didn't learn about arriving in force, but are now constantly trickling in.
13th Sandstone
Forget what I said. They brought some friends.
And with everyone scared of fighting our militia in melee, it looks like the bow is the recent weapon of choice.
About our situation, there was a good thing and a bad thing.
Good: The militia was already on the way out, the marksdwarves were already in the bastions.
Bad: Quite a few civilians were also out there.
14th Sandstone
While our militia was supposed to keep the entrance, they decided by themselves to charge into the Goblins coming from the left, while completely ignoring the Elves coming from the right side. Also our axethrowers had their problems for the first time. Several axe heads glanced off the elvish mithril armor. The civilians were making a run for the city, but with the militia now completely out of position, not even the city was entirely safe. I heard kamikazi shouting „ The Elves, the Elves, kill the Elves first!“ But would anybody follow her command, or were they already only guided by bloodlust and the Goblins in front of them?
(more Goblins to the left, more Elves to the right)
15th Sandstone
No one listened. But the Elves also didn't notice the gap in the defenses and instead stopped and were trying to shoot whatever they could aim for. A single ironclad cragtooth boar stopped their assault long enough for the soldiers to sluaghter all the Goblins and charge back towards the Elves. Even though the boar got killed in the end, the Elves had missed their chance. Instead they now faced about 20 legendary soldiers, in melee, while only armed with bows themselves. While their armor was mostly able to resist our copper ammonition, our finest steel weaponry wielded with that much skill was more then enough to beat them. Their situation was hopeless now and not a single one survived to see the next day.
3rd Timber
Mosey just angered another race.
And they reacted promptly. A siege! (forgot screenshot)
And it looks like they wouldn't lack commitment this time. We spotted 14 giant blightbats as scouts, 59 Orcs, including several Elite Orcs and 60 drowspiders used as mounts. We are still scared of those spiders. They may shred all our soldiers. And if you wonder, why there is one more mount then rider... Because that wasn't everything. The army was led by Mutog, a cyclops, the leader and deity of the Orcs, himself.
Even though the marksdwarves were in position this time, the situation was bad. Unlike last time, half of the army arrived just in front of our entrance. This gave us almost no reaction time.
We still ordered the hellfire turrets to be brought in position. But most likely the civilians would be scared of the sight of the orcs, before they could bring them to their destination.
4th Timber
Unlike the Elves the Orcs weren't missing their chance. They immediatetly charged into the entrance. Neither our javelins, nor our few guardians of armoks could stop them. The turrets would not be in time. Now there was just one thing. Glorious combat! Even though the spiders posed an insane risk, there was no choice. Kamikazi ordered the attack. We just had to hope for the spiders to die quickly, before they could disable all our soldiers with their webs.
When I saw Tenderroast with her 3 babies charging in first, I feared for the worst.
But when the fighters started clashing, we made a surprising observation. Even the Orcs struggled with all those webs flying around. And the drowspiders themselves were unable to bite through our steel plate armor. The first 3 Orcs were quickly cut down, while the bulk of the Orcs were still trying to take down those guardians. Even though they were unable to properly defend themselves, they again proved to be worth their weight in gold. They were standing there, taking a beating and keeping back all the Orcs. Until now we had only lost Tenderroast's basilisk, but neither of our warriors was hurt.
But also we had only killed 3 out of 60. The soldiers were now running for the guardians to face the main force of the Orcs in the midst of all those webs. But there was no turning back now.
But then happened, what no one thought was possible. One of our medical staff mambers managed to successfully bring a hellfire turret in position. But as soon as we received this good news, we also received a bad one. Nomal, our second sword dwarf, had charged right into those Orcs wiating on the outside... Right in front of the hellfire turret.
While all the other soldiers were still fighting under cover of the entrance path, killing the remaining Orcs there, he was out there alone, outnumbered at least 40:1 and soon to be bathed in fire.
The orcish elite sniper tried to disable the turret, before it could fire, when it started roaring. Once. In the same moment the fire left it's front, it broke down under the orcish bolts.
While at first, this looked unfortunate, it turned out good. The firebreath had targeted the group right next to Nomal, but didn't hit him. And so while he was rampaging through the Orcs, 7 of the spiders were burning, and the grass quickly caught fire too.
At the entrance path the warriors had finally overpowered their foes there, and were now following Nomal. They didn't care about the busfire roaring, they wanted to see all the Orcs dead. And the Orcs were falling quickly now.
5th Timber
With only 6 enemies left at the entrance, and the second half of the Orcs still hanging around the west of our city, not moving anywhere, we just wanted to rejoice....
(imagine black screen telling you about a siege here)
MOSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the humans promptly answered this with another siege. They were arriving right next to the second Orc army, led by that Cyclops. We were hoping for them to fight each other, but that didn't happen.
6th Timber
As soon as our soldiers had finished their work, they hurried back into the city. The fire was burning and wouldn't stop any time soon. One of our wrestlers had caught fire now and was suffering severe injuries. Two soldiers had minor head wounds, probably from being webbed, but protected by their helmets. But expect for that we had just killed more then 60 foes with minor losses. Probably one wrestler, one turret, a basilisk and a few random animals. But there was no time for happiness. A second Orc army of the same size and a Human army were waiting out there. And we spotted a third, albeit smaller, Orc army in the south.
Our axethrowers went for the bastion in the east, and their leader, Ber, used again the artifact weapon i had made for him, and slaughtered a spider with a single axe head. With one of their armies lost, and now under fire, it looked like Mutog had enough. He started to run. And with him his whole army. With the Orcs gone, Ber and his men started pelting down on the Humans. Lacking ranged weaponry, they were helpless against those attacks from above. They looked confused, and couldn't decide on an action, now standing there in the rain of axes.
7th Timber
Erush (the wrestler) succumbed to his wounds. He was the first dwarf lost in this battle. I just hope we will be able to recover his body for a worthy burial.
But Mosey didn't have enough.
Automatons. This time they came from the east, but they would have a hard time coming any closer, with the bushfire slowly spreading towards their position.
11th Timber
With the fire coming closer, the Automatons didn't know what to do. And so they were standing there. On the other side of the side, the Humans were still camping below our axethrowers, but well protected by their steel armor most attacks glanced away. Nontheless most of the Humans had severe wounds by now, and would not pose a serious threat, if they would ever come close. With Mosey doing more stuff around the embassy we decided to install the second hellfireturret. Better be secure.
15th Timber
Even though they hadn't suffered a single loss, the Humans were retreating. All they left behind were trails of blood and severed limbs.
But now more Automatons showed up, some not seperated from the entrance by the wall of fire.
Dishmab, a novice wrestler (aka 0 in all skills!), who was drafted just as Erush had died, to serve as replacement, now felt, it was his time to revenge his predecessor. And so he went out there, alone, only armed with a steel tower shield. (I assume, he wanted to pick up the gear...)
That being his only weapon, he now clubbed the Automaton in front of him with blind hate with the Erushs good old shield. His opponent was stunnned by the ferocious attack of the rookie.
A javelin from above ended the duel in the dwarfs favor. But Dishmab didn't have enough. Seeing an Automaton going down the mining shaft to where Erush had passed away, he charged behind him. This time, there would be no supporting javelins from above...
But there was nothing stopping Dishmab. He took down the Automaton with only his shield, and claimed his first kill, before he had even started training.
With the surface cleaned of Automatons by the Marksdwarves, Dishmab was now able to collect Erushs old equipment and went back to the city. And then he joined training as if nothing happened. A true hero!
18th Timber
A Frost Giant had sneaked into the city, but was put down by a guardian of Armok.
No one knows where the guardian found that breastplate it used as weapon now... But there was surely enough stuff lying around.
20th Timber
Another Frost Giant decided to sneak in, but this time he was caught by kamikazi and Tenderroast. And kamikazi decided to show a new technique. I would call it the boomerang strike.
He struck the giant, and it was propelled back more then 30 meters, but by some sort of magic, got immediatetly pulled back more then 30 meters to a spot only a few meters away from where it stood originally, leaving a long trail of blue cold blood.
OOC: I have NO clue what just happened. In the time i could press pause 3 times, the Frost giant flew across the screen and back... So it was less then 2 seconds for sure... The combat log doesn't even show any bruises from skidding along the floor or something like that... But the blood trail is showing the path... So weird... OOCEND
Tenderroast obviously now tried the same, propelling the freezer another 30 meter towards all the other militiamembers training at the barracks.
And they just repeated the game, but this time sending the poor thing more then 40 meters in a curve, through the doors of the dining hall right in the middle of it. WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
One thing i know for sure, was that a panic happened. Because now there was a badly hurt but still alive Frost giant in the middle of our dining hall. But the problem was solved right away... By a guardian of Armok, sending the thief flying again, through the door, around a corner into the the apartment building, up 5 floors through the stairway....
Then finally some dwarf of the militia put the thief to rest, while it was still unconscious from all the flights...
OOC: So if i ignore the one second it took the Guardian to forcefully strike the thief again, this Frost Giant passed around 200 tiles, including 2 doors and 5 stairs in less then 4 seconds, after being hit 4 times. Considering the size and weight of a Frost Giant, combined with the the fact this happened on all the strikes against him, this is just... weird... and also strange is the fact, that while the 3 last blows send him flying in very weird curves... only the first one created this boomerang effect....
The blue blood trail shows the path quite well... And no, that Frost giant didn't walk a single tile of that way... I assume the wounds it got from the collision are when it slammed into the roof of the apartment building....
Here is the whole combat log:
OOCEND
24th Timber
When our fighters hunted down the last remaining Automatons, they also found 3 more Freezer thieves, but they were quickly outnumbered and proved no challenge.
1st Moonstone
Winter! Moseys provocations surely had their intended consequences. This season we faced more enemies then ever. We had killed more then 120 foes, with at least another 100 managing to flee the field. I was told, that Mutog, the cyclops wasn't considered a general for the Orcs anymore, probably due to his cowardliness in battle. Surprisingly we managed to defeat this onslaught with almost no casualties. We only lost one wrestler and a hellfire turret (and some animals^^). It looks like we are unbeatable. But we shouldn't celebrate to soon. We haven't yet faced the wrath of the Warlocks and the Frost giants. I'm not sure, if Mosey had declared War on them, but he wanted to. (Actually the order is gone, so i assume, he did it and i just didn't notice the message...)
For now we have to clean up the area for a bit.... But probably we will have more enemies soon. That won't have been the last attacks. Oh, and there are still those plans about poisons(toxicologist is built, just need some time to coat the weapons), the barracks and so on... But we have to catch some breath first.
OOC: killcount: kamikazi 33+18, tenderroast: 3+4(seriously... she had her hammer stuck in an Orcs head, twisted it around... and still didn't get the kill... never play dota, you are really bad at last hitting), DestroyX: 29+13
I have no idea how I survived this without any losses... Not even some random civilians... No webbed headhits... lucky punches... more burning dwarves... nothing... Hell, even the naked unskilled wrestler won two duels with automatons...
Also wondering about how the Cyclops got removed as general of the Orcs... It was the general (only important figure in c-screen) but as they retreated, it now shows " no important figures"... But it survived and escaped...
Oh... and explain me the flying Frost giant... please!
All kills of this season:
Started the season with less then 800 dead... Now at 926.
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