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As soon as our boots hit the ground, I order the construction of a barebones metalworking industry. We might have not been provides with picks and axes, but we'll forge them ourselves.

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McTele burns the (apple wood logs) that we brought into charcoal , and Boltsfields uses that single piece of charcoal to set up or metalworking empire.

Koopaplayer then takes our tetrahedrite and turns it into a pair of copper picks , a copper battle axe , and a silver mace for herself, since she's been asking for something to smash with the entire ride over.

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And it's about time, too.

The peasant punches the buck rabbit corpse in the lower body with her left hand, bruising the muscle and bruising the stomach!

The buck rabbit corpse bites the peasant in the left upper arm, bruising the fat through the x(giant one-humped camel leather cloak)x!

The peasant punches the buck rabbit corpse in the head with her left hand and the injured part collapses!

The peasant stands up.

'Soulhoarder' Cogbâsen, Peasant: I was attacked by the dead. The horror consumes me!

The scuffle drew my attention, and it appears that the dead stalk these hills, possibly a forward scout of the dreaded necromancer . I take a look around to see if there's any further undead to worry about.

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That's...not good. Not good at all. I grab one of the freshly forged picks, and tell Soulhoarder to snap out of her existential horror and start digging. We start digging a ramp downwards, while Boltsfields began cutting down trees and setting up the Mason's and Carpenter's Workshops.

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We manage to breach the caverns before the end of Granite, and Soulhoarder reports malachite in the walls, with native gold a few layers down. We have copper for our military, which is better than nothing, I guess.

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A week later we recieve some report that the elves of Meadowpatterns are looking to establish economic relations with us. They were invaded by the undead in 82, and nobody heard of anything from them since, and there's rumors of dismal zombies who still live there.

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The second cavern layer is flooded and impedes our downwards progress, but I talk it out with Soulhoarder and we come up with a plan. We've planned some engineered cave-ins to dry off part of the caverns to allow us to continue our downards descenet.

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We figured out that during cave-ins, the dust doesn't travel diagonally, only orthogonally, so we designed our shafts to make use of this knowledge. I am pleased to report no casualties occurred during the execution of our plans.

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While walling off the aquifer Koopaplayer found a smattering of black sand. We can use this to start up our green glass industry when we hit magma. But on the way up from the second cavern layer, something got in my way.

'Eniteris' Arustobok, expedition leader cancels Construct rock Blocks: Interrupted by a cave crocodile. The cave crocodile bites the expedition leader in the head, tearing the fat through the x(pig tail hood)x!

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The expedition leader punches the cave crocodile in the left rear leg his left hand, bruising the muscle!

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The expedition leader punches the cave crocodile in the right front leg his left hand, bruising the muscle!

The expedition leader scratches the cave crocodile in the third right front toe, tearing apart the muscle and bruising the bone!

A tendon has been torn!

The force pulls the right front foot!

I manage to get away, injuring the cave crocodile, and as I stumble up into the sun, I mumble something to Koopaplayer and point in the general direction of the crocodlie. That seems to be enough.

The militia commander bashes the cave crocodile in the head with her silver mace, bruising the muscle!

The force pulls the neck, tearing apart the fat!

The cave crocodile regains consciousness.

The cave crcocdile passes out from exhaustion.

The militia commander bashes the cave crocodile in the head with her silver mace and the injured part is crushed!

An artery has been opened by the attack! 'Koopaplayer0927' Zonakir, militia commander

Kill Cave Crocodile

Novice Macedwarf

It seems all that bashing is paying off. Fortunately, it seems like the undead ogres have left. Unfortunately, it seems like they've been replaced by a flock of emu corpses, coming from the north. Unlike the ogres, the emus seem to be wandering a bit too close to the wagon for comfort

'Koopaplayer0927' Zonakir, mlt cmmndr Forge steel short sword

Koopaplayer was also responsible for forging steel weapons for the rest of the party from the marble we found as we dug into the ground.

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Nushrat Tamunñik, Human Swordsman Guest / No Activity

Some human swordsman is also here some reason or another. More muscle is great, but as long as we stay behind our walls we shouldn't have anything to worry about.

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The human swordsman slashes the emu corpse in the head with his (iron short sword) and the severed part sails off in an arc!

The human jumps into the fray, bring all the attention to our our quiet corner of the hills. I sigh, and tell the dwarves to join in the fray.

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The miner strikes the emu corpse in the right lower leg with her +copper pick+, tearing apart the muscle and bruising the bone!

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The recruit hacks the emu corpse in the head with his steel battle axe and the severed part sails off in an arc!

The blood gnats swarm over the fallen corpses. Thankfully, none of the dwarves are injured, and we can carry on with-

'Koopaplayer0927' Zonakir, militia commander cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Interrupted by emu head.

It appears the dead don't stay dead in Fernmansions. We put the heads down easily, even if they don't stay down for too long. It's a new month, and we have a couple of visitors.

Uja Uquurem, Human Axeman is visiting.

Unfortunately, they don't stay for long.

The muskox corpse kicks the human axeman in the upper body with her right rear hoof and the injured part collapses!

An artery has been opened by the attack!

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Another forest retreat sends missives for formal economic ties. I remain suspicious. Could the dismal zombies be writing them? Can they write? Can they think?





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Butchery and a Tanner's workshop to deal with the corpses that we find ourselves with. We build aand aworkshop to deal with the corpses that we find ourselves with. In other news, the final keystone has been dropped. We can finally get to pumping out the water and descending further into the depths. That also means that the creatures in the depths can reach us.

The reacher latches on firmly!

The reacher shakes the human swordsman around by the right lower leg, tearing apart the right lower leg's muscle and bruising the bone and tearing apart the right hip's muscle and bruising the bone!

An artery in the right lower leg has been opened by the attack, many nerves have been severed, a ligament has been bruised and a tendon has been bruised!

A ligament in the right hip has been torn and a tendon has been torn!

The human swordsman falls over.

The human swordsman stabs the reacher in the upper body with his (iron short sword), tearing the muscle and tearing apart the heart!

A majory artery in the heart has been opened in the attack!

Nushrat Tamunñik, Human Swordsman: How fragile we are... This does not scare me.

Nushrat Tamunñik, Human Swordsman: I've been injured badly. I can keep it together.

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Nushrat stumbles out onto the surface, having slain the reacher but a bit worse for wear. But the corpses here don't stay down unless you kill them right. I order the dwarves to take down the corpse.

The peasant slashes the reacher mutilated corpse in the upper body with his -steel short sword- and the injured part is cloven asunder!

A tendon in the middle spine has been torn!

Zuglar Rigòthzas, Peasant: I cannot just stand by. This might require an answer.

We pierce through the flooded caverns, and continue down until we hit warm rock. At last, we can establish our fortress next to Armok's ‼ ‼ lifeblood ‼ ‼ . But the surface doesn't look too great.

Date: 24th Felsite, 101

It has started raining

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Harpy Corpse Undead

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Somlis Sukugabat, Human Swordsman Guest / No Activity



The harpy corpse snatches at the peasant in the right foot with her first toe, right foot, tearing the fat through the X(pig tail shoe)X!

The peasant stabs the harpy corpse in the head with his -steel short sword- and the injured part is cloven asunder!

A tendon in the skull has been torn!

Zulgar Rigòthzas, Peasant "Zulgar Craftcrystals"



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Zulgar Rigòthzas is lost in rage. He is annoyed when caught in the rain. He is horrified after being attacked by the dead. He doesn't feel anything after experiencing trauma. He feels vengeful when joining an existing conflict.

Battered but still fine, Zulgar managed to fight off the undead harpies . Although it seems like Rigòth Boltsfields, our mason , managed to climb a tree during the scuffle.









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I order the tree to be cut down immediately. Boltsfields could definitely use some doctoring.

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One Kill

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Four Lovers

'McTele' Sazirrakust, Peasant Lover

Rigòth Alåthfikuk, Mason Lover

Rovod Oslanemal, Peasant Lover

'Soulhoarder' Cogbaâsen, Miner Lover