Underground "Fun" part 1

The serpent men are becoming a problem. There was a push to build a bridge out into the lake near the main underground encampment to give access to the rich minerals our dwarven miners can see in the far reaches of the cavern. But the serpent men keep standing on their beach or occasionally swimming near by & try blowing poisoned darts at the dwarves. Many strategies were employed, trying to put up walls or walkways, but it was to no avail. The serpent-man continued to plague any construction project that lead into the center of the underground lake.

So a decision was made to carve a path around the parameter of the Good Volcano to eventually move soldiers into position & ambush the serpent-man clan. The route to their beach camp from the north was a set of winding tunnels with lots of twists, where ranged weapons would not work. So, as the last of the mining was finished & the dwarves broke through to the cavern on the far side of the lava tube, a sloping passage was discovered & a troll came out of it. The miner fled & the militia was summoned. But just as the first militia dwarf arrived & began fighting, a manual labordwarf, Shorast Idenuker arrived trying to collect stone. Why she travelled as FAR way from the stone stockpile as was physically possible is unclear. Most likely she was just showing off her strong neckbeard tenancies & wanting to do things the hard way, but in the ensuing struggle between dwarf & troll, she got in the way and was pushed off the ledge & into the underground lake. Her fate appeared to be sealed. The militia-dwarf, once reinforced by more dwarves quickly dispatched the troll.

Dead Troll:

Somehow despite falling into water, going unconious & almost drowning, she managed to get past the first serpant-man stationed underwater & make it up into the beach containing the serpants. Barely having time to shake off the water from her obviously quick large neckbeard, she ran RIGHT THROUGH the camp. Dodging poison darts on the way. And not only that, in the process of trying to shot her with their giant cave spider venom soaked darts two blowdarters managed to hit EACHOTHER instead causing immediate dizzyniss.

Running wet dwarf:

The militia stood dumbfounded at the sight. Leaving a wake of wet foot prints & no doubt some sort of drag mark from the extra pair of dwarf balls she somehow got, the dwarf broke free to the other side of the camp. The militia rushed through the now open passage & made their way around the back of the volcano to reach this crazy wet dwarf and her "friends". Leaving a squad of crossbow dwarves to stand guard by the entrance & potentially take pot shots from the half finished construction area.

Still fleeing dwarf:

So amazed by this feat of true dwarf-ness, another hauler, Erush Shorasstangath, who arrived on the scene late (still foolishly hauling stone as far as possible) gave birth to a baby girl right then & their. Now, it can not be confirmed, but it's believed that most likely she not only got pregnant from this female embodiment of all dwarf-ness, but also brought the baby to term before delivering it. Or else maybe it was just coincidental.

Baby girl:

While this bizarre event was unfolding, Shorast so some lovely spider silk. She had lost her stone in the fight & by Avuz's name, she was not coming back to the fortress empty handed. So she stopped briefly to pick some up before resuming her trip. A quite angry spear wielding serpent-man ran after her as she came stumbling straight into the middle a pack of Draltha. The large bovine fungus eaters looked up in utter shock at this crazed wet dwarf that came running through their midsts.

Underground Cows meet mad dwarf:

The spear "man" behind her fled as the large cave cows ran around in confusion, clearly realizing he was no match for such a crazy dwarf running wild through a herd of now very worked up animals.

By this time, the militia was in position. Two serpant-men were still staggered & dizzy from their own poison. And almost all their darts were gone. Inspired by the crazy Shorast, the dwarves let out a holler & charged the serpent-man camp from the small tunnels behind the beach. The serpant-men were caught unaware.

The first serpent lost it's tail before quickly getting a tooth knocked out & going down to a chest wound dealt by a masterwork obsidian blade. Another serpent-man staggered from a gut wound before enraging.

The one enraged serpent-man attempted to attack but it was no use, he was savagely beaten down as two others of his kind fell before they could even react. Then another fell, this time to the deadly unarmed attacks of Sodel Dastotamid. Sodel entered a martial trance as she fell the one beast & turned her attention to two others still cowardly tried to blow darts at her. Sodel made quick work one, crushing it's skull. It's friend fell to the same obsidian blades that ended the enraging spear"man" just moments before. As the militia looked around at the carnage they wrought, it was clear that one serpent-man fled into the water to hide with the other coward beneath the gently lapping surface.

Carnage:

The squads fell back for a moment, hiding in the tunnels when one of the serpant-man returned to shore. Then they charged back out & slew him. The remaining serpent tried to shoot out from the lake, but was shot repeatedly by the members of The Gloved Chances, the crossbow dwarf squad left to cover from the half finished construction site.

Finally the serpent camp by the newly named Lake Shorast Idenuker was destroyed.

Time to partake in the spoils, the first cave lobster goes to Shorast of course!