Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
Well, time to hunt down the bandits and kill them all! While searching for the vermin she found a iron statue and a native platinum pedestal with a die. Surrounded by potato plants.
She examine the iron statue.
She grabbed some potato plants to see if they were something that could be useful. They were, sadly, not something she could eat. Though she did find some spinach.
Then she continued her hunt.
And she found a building. She heard no noises from inside. But if the bandits had killed the monks who use to live here….maybe there was nobody left inside to make noises….
Of course…if the bandits were still sleeping? Or out raiding? She went in.
The building turned out to be empty. Two rooms that were emtpy. Maybe a looted warehouse?
There was no sign of any monks or bandits. Though she did notice a troupe of gray langurs in the distance to the north once she exited it.
She started to circle outwards. Maybe they had a camp?
She found some tracks of weasels but no bandits.
She found a statue and a alter.
Interesting but not very useful.
After that she sighted some one-hump camels. But where were the bandits? Was she in the right spot?
She stopped to check her map. It suggested there was another building. Which she soon found.
The building had been a meeting hall or dining hall. Maybe for the monks?
She checked the map and headed east to find another building. One with beds.
This one also had Kobolds!
Well, seems she had found the vermin. But when she looked them over she noticed they were unarmed.
So they were likely just thieves. Was she meant to kill them?
She tried to talk to them but…well, Kobolds had no language.
Callisto frowned. The Kobolds were thieves yes, but these were unarmed and pretty harmless. Killing them seemed…unjust some how.
She tried to ask about the local leader. Maybe she could get them to move to parts unknown so as to stop annoying the local governments. But it was useless. And she had a job to do.
So she attacked. She killed one and wounded the others who fled out of the building. She examined the dead one and, somehow, found out it was named Shrulin.
When she left the building the wounded Kobolds had returned and almost ran into her. Funny enough they ran past her and into the building.
Soon another Kobold was down on the ground. Dead.
The other wounded Kobolds ran away so Callisto went to examine the second corpse. Seemed this one was named Dabagafayrsnin. What a weird name.
Callisto waited in the, what she decided must have been the barracks for the monks, for one of the Kobolds to return. One of them did and she ambushed it as it came into the southern doorway.
She killed it easily.
Its name seemed to be Pagachimus.
She decided to wait again and see if the last Kobold decided to come back to the building.
It would sneak in, she would hit it with her mace, and it would flee. But each time it was hit a bone would be smashed or a major organ would be smashed.
Finally, the last Kobold named Lrukustraybin, was killed.
Callisto sighed. Her quest was over.
She examined Lekla.
The pet was not looking well. Her trunk had been damaged by the dingos and these Kobolds had also wounded her legs and feet.
Callisto, herself, had long since healed and only had scars to show she had ever been in combat. The Kobolds hadn’t touched her.
She decided to sleep in the building till dawn the next morning and then return to the hamlet to announced her victory.
But she found it hard to sleep in the building with all the dead Kobolds.
So first she butchered them and took their skulls.
Then she moved south. As far away as she could from the site.
At the nearest hamlet call Tinferries, she piled the skulls together in a clearing outside the hamlet, used them to fuel her campfire, and went to sleep.
By morning, as she ate a breakfast, the flames had turned the skulls to ashes.
Their bodies were butchered and their skulls destroyed. It was unlikely they would come back as undead or ghosts. Callisto hoped.
Also Lekla had healed. At least the wounds she had received from the Kobolds.
Now to tell the hamlet of what she had done.
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