HUNTER calvary spotted, everyone in the fort!


Oh, and someone had another spawn. But I digress, HUNTERS!






Despite being ordered to stay near the bridge, AJ_Impy charges the line yelling "No! Wait! I'm Firesnake!Firsnake!". semper wifi the Knight of Mars and Tias the disgruntled join he charge, echoing her war-cry.


The noble Knight of Mars is manhandled mercilessly by the ferocious feline familiar.


Warmbody chases a Hunter calvary man only to find a nest of tigers...


..which are now surrounding her.


semper wifi dies the way servant of Mars would like to: Violently and painted red with blood.


Mr. Chicken take up semper's place.. and it looks like she's going to have similar results.




A HUNTER tries to slip her way to the bridge, but Apocadall has a hammer with her name on it.


Come On! Note: in picture is a badly wounded AJ




The units have been told again to pull back to the bridge, but Apocadall is having to much of a good time to listen.



Meanwhile, PureRok is taking on a tiger targeting Apocadall's tail.


Tias has somehow gotten back to the fortress entrance area. He's missing even more of his right arm, but seems to be a little bit happier, probable do to the fact that death will come soon to end his suffering.



Okay, you know what, fuck it! There's HUNTERS out there! Hundreds of them! And they brought their pets too!



HUNTERS Kill Dwarf and Animal alike, be warned!


PureRok is now starting to feel the injures stack up.


Tais's pain has come to an end.



As the HUNTERS came to the bridge, Pozzo is there to meet them.


But Pozzo's counterattack overextend itself and now shes trapped, wounded, behind enemy lines.


A HUNTER has gotten into the Great Hall. But Markus says "There's no way an elf will mess with my Feng shui" and is going to work on her.







(Note Pictured: PureRok's and Arglebargle III's deaths)

A massive influx of death reports has just come in!


More Hunters Have penetrated our front line!


HUNTERS IN THE HOSPITAL! PROTECT NIMBY AT ALL COSTS. DWARFS SHALL BE DRAFTED TO REPLACE FALLEN CAPTAINS!


NICE TIMING!


This just in, Mr.Vile somehow lost his right hand. He keeps on holding back the HUNTERS singlehandedly.






THEY CARE NOT FOR INNOCENTS! WE"RE DOOMED! DOO...

*SMACK*

... Thanks Dr. Zonbasen, I kind of needed that.


ANOTHER AM... Wait! Those are humans. Don't shot them... yet.


Only three HUNTER remain of the assault force. Siege Mode has been lifted; you may now get your dead bodies.


Several Dwarfs will receive the Red Badge of Ares today. Apocadall and Atomikus for fight many HUNTERS and coming out Unscathed, GettingFat for fighting her way back from behind enemy lines while carrying her newspwaned, and Mr. Vile, who right now is beating the shit out of one of the remaining HUNTERS. Pozzo and PureRok will get posthumus badges.


Charlie72 said that this was a "last ditch effort" on the part of the hunters. "They known that when we get Project D running, that won't stand a chance. So that send everything they got at us before we can finish it. I think the fact we can take on the full force of the HUNTER military and not only survive, but come out on top, says a lot about us as a fortress and as a people.

When asked about the death of brute_force, he said,"Who?
"Your adopted daughter."
"No, her name's Penguingo and she's fine."
"... Never mind."

markus_cz wrote :-

The Great Hall was a mess. Blood, bodies and limbs all around. Scattered clothes, broken spears, overturned tables, forgotten toys. Dead dwarves, both male and female. Dead elves. Dead animals. There was a hauler dragging his body across a pool of blood, then finally collapsing face down in it, not breathing. There was a child's leg severed at the knee, its owner nowhere to be seen. There were moans, there were cries, there were shrieks, there were tears. He realised his healthy hand was holding a warhammer, a patch of long, goldenrod hair glued to its head by some slurry. He let is fall down. It made no noise – something cushioned the fall.

Not many familiar faces around. A lot of dwarves, sure, but he didn't recognise most of them. Just some. Star Guarded and K0npeito coming up from the mines, their jaws down in disbelief. Mister Vile, a half of an arm missing, drooling and looking for something in the body piles. Little Bobbin, cuddling a bucket like it were some adamantine armour. Bad Munki, crouching beneath a table, his head safely hidden in his arms. Others he didn't know were moving the bodies around. He heard someone reciting the names of the fallen...

A cold pain clutched his heart. He suddenly felt dizzy. His sight started blurring. Breathing was getting more and more difficult. His legs were giving way under him but he forced them to obey.

Eventually he found Leperfish in his masonry, blindly staring at a wall, holding a mallet but no chisel.

“They killed her,” he told his friend. He found his voice shattered in thousands pieces.

After a while, Leperfish said: “I'm sorry.”

“Is this how it feels like?” asked Markus.

AJ_Impy wrote :-

Journal of militia captain AJ_Impy Idashushrir, Agent Firesnake

This is a secret journal encoded in a high elven cypher on shale microfiche. All craftsdwarfship is of mediocre quality.

This is it: The big one. From my position deep inside Gemclod's military, I have been able to see the full extent of the weakness in the Famous Palisades. I have done my best to get this information to the Enlightened ones, although I cannot say how much I was able to pass on. Still, my ruse has run its course: The fools suspect nothing, but it can only be a matter of time before I make a misstep. I know our battle plans, such as they are: When next the Horn of Galleries lay siege to this place, I will disrupt the defences by running forth from my designated place in the line, ripping a hole for them to attack through, all the while making it clear exactly who I am so they can work out what I'm doing. It can't fail!

*****

I swear by Deg's bottomless keg of cut-price sewer brew, I saw a message in elfsign in view of one of the walls! I really hope I got it right, because if I did, it said 'If we can get past the gates, you will receive the reward of all those who turn on their kin for our sake'. I'm going to be rewarded!

I have a really good feeling about this.

Minty wrote :-

And you guys mocked Commatoes’s brilliant bucket stratagem. This might have been the first known use of camouflage by a dwarf.



Two of the invaders stand at the top of a ramp, trying to make sense of the architectural chaos before them. The ramp disappears below a giant cauldron, while gears and timbers poke out of the ground at seemingly random places. The elves are a stark contrast to each other; one tall and clad in unblemished steel, the other hunched over to catch his breath, his armor covered in dents and grime.



“Ecani-ethare! Sali beya imira!” arrogantly barks the more elegant one.
An axe hacks the latch out of the door. It swings open with a cascade of wooden buckets.
The more haggard elf braces against the jab and pulls his weapon from the splintered structure. “Refa cames, Velami-ethare!”



The gleaming elf tries to wipe away a dollop of dwarf-blood tarnishing his datome-atho, but merely smears it. He snears. “Nithara nemathe darame cilole. Thela-eci, eta edinu urepe-nina ori befale mere.”

Attracted by screams, they turn and rush down the ramp, intent on claiming more dwarven lives.



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Also, why is it elves have words for rape, incest, and anus, but not succeed?