NOW I KNOW WHY IT AMUSED ME FINDING A WEREMOOSE!
I wonder if the creature transforms into a smaller moose, or transforms into a larger moose relative to its size =- every full moon becoming a gigantic cosmic moose.
In other news I utterly detest mounted soldiers, they are far more resilient than they have any right to be. The Marksdwarves have had a field day harrying the enemy, using the gatehouses, the moose pit and the walls to strike at the riders even from the presumed safety of their camps.
So far all of these Dwarves have been running around the walls trading steel for silver with the humans, bolts and arrows flying around all over the place. Being deployed all at once in the same section before being redeployed all at once again has meant that the Marksdwarves have been able to relay punishing salvos and continuous fire on even the most determined humans and then move off to grab more bolts and inflict more damage on their assault.
There have been some close calls when the humans inevitably shot back.
Few human archers are of any quality compared to the highly-trained veterans of Silentthunders, and even the young ones are well-drilled marksdwarves.
Unfortunately a few human archers are capable enough. We've lost the Fort's greatest marksdwarf, though it is an admitted fact Urist Uvash was not quite as good a crossbowdwarf as back when he still had working eyes. Now only five of the starting seven remain, the seven friends dwindling with each passing conflict. A column of axemen and archers are unwittingly walking into the last pillar-bomb trap in the southgate and more and more corpses are filling the Moose Pit to the brim. Soon they will be allowed to eat.
Whilst looking for weapons to use against the humans, I also stumbled upon something I had left locked away in the stockpiles - forgotten, even by me. It was only after the death of Professor Cog Iden that I looked into his records. I like to imagine before Cog Iden died he highlighted the part where there was a gigantic 90,000 Urist heavy black bronze walking god of war that spewed deadly venomous clouds wherever it went was just waiting for a fight. There must still be 1400 to 1500 living hostiles running amok in Dwarven lands, unleashing this metal titan on them honours it a thousand times more than anything I could ever do with it otherwise. Ibruk the black bronze Titan versus Eslo's legion. Weighing in at 5 metric tons and walking around with the force of several great white sharks I expect good things to come of this.
Of interest is that Eslo appears to have also disappeared from the civilizations tab. Are the human lords deposing her?
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Severed hands, arms and heads that have landed on my battlements have come back to life and are now attacking my Fortress from within. Most of them I can leave alone whilst the fight with humankind continues, but it won't hurt to send a dozen elite soldiers to keep important hallways clean.
*EDIT
Captain Sakzul Ragslaughter has been sent to the hospital before he passes out from pain due to the arrow sticking out of his leg.
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*Bim Allyshields has been shot and killed.
*EDIT
*The Baron has taken three bronze arrows and is out of the fight, possibly going to die.
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