Tuesday, July 6, 2010

XX Felsite, 1052. Chronicle of Eshtân Mengtad, manager of Moistenedrack

Some elven traders arrived from Afe Iwa. We traded them with the glorious goods produced by our two legendary stonecrafters. Momuz and Vucar can easily churn ou... Ahem, lovingly craft items of great value and unparalleled artistry from mere stone. They work diligently and quickly enough to rob bli... Trade the goods for the wares of any passing caravan. Literally they can turn the ground beneath our feet into untold riches.

However I am less than pleased with what happened after we had purchased valuable food rations from the elves. A flock of buzzards, those useless vulture birds, swooped down and begun pillaging our newly acquired food supplies. I commanded our eight brave soldiers to protect the trade depot but half of them stood around uselessly, never striking their foe.

Back in the old halls of the dwarven king this kind of mutiny would have been considered treason. Reason enough to turn short dwarves into even shorter dwarves. A head shorter.

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