Felsite-Early HematiteI finally got through to these little monsters enough to force them to do my bidding. That cursed HellBunker of theirs... I drove the madness into them, and they shattered its walls, eagerly doing the work I had planned for them.
Unfortunately, they reinterpreted my commands to "Shatter the walls, greet Hell with open arms and friendship, fear not the flame," instead apparently deciding to "Wait until it's safe, then scurry out and build..." Whatever they're working on.
Oh, dark gods, it's a device for depositing those fowl beings into Hell without danger.
Fey mood... much less interesting than a fell mood.
One of their most foolish warriors, Krosan the "Anarchist," wandered into a sealed-off portion of the Hell Bunker, lured by dropped equipment, and encountered the named monkey brute apparently walled off in there.
It stunned him with monkey brute poison dust, blasted several dozen times, then proceeded to attempt to batter him to death with a llama wool cloak. What in the
actual hell.Meanwhile, a Haunt of Fire, attracted by the commotion of dwarves furiously trying to complete the DUCKOTRON, wandered into the Hell Bunker in search of blood. It torched the contents of one of the Hell Bunker bedrooms, then...
That looks like it hurts. The last straw is the Haunt's dying blast; a legendary woodcutter shows up and hacks it to death. He survives the blast, though.
What in the
shit. Krosan and some nameless recruit who showed up a few
days later fought the monkey brute down. Apparently it exhausted itself so completely that the recruit was able to lodge an axe in the monkey brute, causing him to bleed out. Note the grey pools; the entire room is frigging covered in that specific monkey brute's goo.
Krosan didn't make it out of that unscathed though.
I possessed another dwarf and commanded him to "open the fortification, let your conquering hero home, it'll be fine!" He immediately walked over and chipped away the fortification separating the monkey brute's former enclosure/HellBunker entrance from the Hell Farm, to allow the heroes to enter the fort.
At which point a
trio of Haunts of Fire aggroed and chased them in.
One died early; his death blast, and his fellows, managed to torch the first-responders (including Krosan, who hadn't even made it out of the bunker yet).
This cat lasted about a day, delaying the haunts while the military showed up. Damn him.
By the way, the final confrontation with the surviving Fire Bros took place in the Hellbunker's booze stockpile, so the responding dwarves had to deal with haunt of fire blasts in addition to the occasional shower of boiling booze. I suspect that flaming wine was the cause of Super-Cat's death.
Another section of hell bunker, where the primary incursion and most of the deaths took place. Note that whatever was here, it was made of silver and it's melted puddles now. Right on, Fire Bros, right on.
OOC: I tried building the duck bunker, and fucked up royally, allowing three separate demon incursions into the Hell Bunker. They were contained; I'm working on achieving final containment of the situation at the moment, but we're down to 74 dwarves.
I genuinely didn't mean to break containment so completely, but oh well, it was funny as shit.
Don't think any named dwarves besides Krosan the Blistered got roasted, but our military is, as is becoming a trend, decimated again.EDIT: I take that back. Baelor, Krosan, Mobo, and The Mad Fool all got wasted.
EDIT: I take that back. Near as I can tell Mad Fool's nickname got wiped, but he's still alive; I fixed it. Pretty sure Baelor and Mobo are toast though.
Duck bunker is complete, though,
assuming that flying demons can't destroy bridges from underneath. If they can, it's still secure; once it's loaded with ammo (aka ducks and nest boxes) it'll be walled off and secure from the Hellbunker.
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Topic: Deathgate - And We Must Scream (Finished Succession Game) (Read 837312 times)