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keep 2h weapon minsizes at 60k, so dwarves and goblins can use them

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Make goblins 62500cm, so that they can use the default 2h weapons but not dwarves

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Keep minsize vanilla, so that goblins and dwarves cannot use the 2h weapons

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[pisskop]

28Sandstone102 - 01Granite103

F002-01-01

Pkop, as the expedition leader of The Dented Irons, gave the order to the miners.
  -Dig a 5x5 plug, around the wagon!  We need our stuff [points to the ground] down there, now!
    -You!  Craft an axe!  That tree is in our way!  The rest of ya, go bring the animals over there!  If something's gotta bleed, it'll be best if its not us!

  The dwarves set to work.  It was industrious, and good thing.  A pack of buffalo corpses wandered ever closer, increasing their pace when the plug dropped.

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Inside the Earth, the dwarves had to slowly carve out their home.  It was all rock, and without soil to warm up on it was slow going.

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Without surface access, the pack animals soon complained of their hunger, and when the whining started Pkop ordered them put to the butchers shop.
  They did not appreciate the gesture, although our preemptive traps proved their worth.  Shortly afterward, a red haze poured over the mountain with unnatural speed.

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  The buffalo did not seem to mind it, but then again I don't think they can think, feel or breathe . . .

  The minerals the have found her are rich indeed.  This place must have been cursed and forsaken for ages!  The Dented Irons had found copper, iron, and lignite in a layer of chalk!  There was no aquifer to upset our plans.  Still, the party did not plan as well as they could have if they could freely get topside to take measurements.

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Towards the end of winter, a pack of carrion birds were spotted moving through the area.  So far as anybody knows none of them survived.  Thankfully their bodies found peace in death.

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In the beginning of Granite, Farmer Obok was sent to build the bridge.  11 stacks of blocks were sent topside with 3 mechanisms, and the groups wished godspeed to him . . .

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Is it me or are reanimation times longer?

[pisskop]

01Granite103 - 06Galena103

F002-01-02

  The bridge was designed and the blocks set; but then duck.

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The party mourned the loss of Obuk, but his death would not be in vane.  Mafol, hammerdwarf, went topside to finish his work.  She was more successful.

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  She built the lever, built the bridge, and then linked the two together . . . and then went on break instead of pulling the lever.  Pkop cursed at such laziness.

The mountains threatened to take a second dwarf, but lady fortune was on Mafol's side.  Both the meandering ducks and the abominable red ash failed to find Mafol on her break, and she was able to get inside again.  The dwarves had their defense.

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A month later, the elves showed up!  Pkop could barely hold back his laughter!  they were all told not to expect traders!  Chuckling to himself, he designed a Trade Depot outside, and bid the elves come to it.  They preferred to malinger about the edge of the site.  Fine by him.

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In the early summer, Pkop's 2 children were born.  Some might call him a bad dwarf for it, but the dwarfettes weren't complaining.

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They needed the dwarfpower.  Six dwarves cannot hope to produce for an army.
  Thankfully, 9 dwarves arrived soon after to help fill the voids in labor.

After almost a year in the half-dead mountains the fort was beginning to take shape.  A farm was set up in what little soil was present, wells dug out, and the storage rooms began to resemble just that instead of cobbled together apartments.  A military floor was planned, the plugging of the waterfall being sought out, and the reclamation of the topside a future goal.

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May The Blotted Archs finally see a proper militia form!  . . . someday

[pisskop]

06Galena103 - 01Moonstone103

F002-02-01

The ducks flew off into the distance, giving Pkop time to organize the walling of the brook.

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Work was slow and those with small children kept losing them to the torrent, but careful micromanagement of the project led it to success.

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By the 22nd of Galena the project was completed.  This would allow the water north of the brook to drain, possibly making time go by faster.  Time was strangely slow in this place.

In Limestone, Vucar Swamseal arrived to address our concerns.  We offered her our mediocre quality weaponry, expressed our concern at not having a functioning military, and arranged the export of zombie parts as experimental subjects.  Vucar seemed relatively pleased at our progress and trade commensed for food and seeds.  Oddly, no booze was available for trade, which will force us to use water in the hellhole . . .

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Ducks!  The ducks of the area found the caravan, chewing up a guards hand and making a mess to be cleaned up.  Worse, as we were hauling the parts away some reanimated and attacked!  An emergency burrow was created and volunteers bravely stomped on the pieces until they stopped moving.  A head proved particularly gruesome and ripped open the skull of the mechanic, who is now resting in the hospital.  Its own end was at the feet of Pkop.  The force of the blow was enough to send it into the cage traps.

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  Pkop volunteered to weave the fabric and tend to the patient.  Not like he is using his goddamn military skills without a military, right?   Thankfully, despite the skull and some false ribs being broken, no permanent casualties were sustained.

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New ducks migrated into the area, apparently intent on becoming a staple of the region.  Migrants from the now-draconian fort of Backside were forced to struggle through them.  Amoung them is a legendary pump operator!

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  New rooms are dug out in anticipation of even more migration in the future

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  Animals purchased in the trade session were beginning to grow hungry.  Their butchering proved annoying and long.  Both biomes reanimate under proper conditions, albeit they seem sporadic.  Pkop noticed that being handled by the living seemed to be essential for the reanimation to occur.

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  Those ducks didn't reanimate, and the skins only seemed to when somebody went to tan them.  Still, without a military trap spam and mass burrows were required, much to the detriment of production.

28 Sandstone.  Mountain goats are attempting to path into our fort.  The bridge is closed for safety.  The shift causes a mood, and a diorite quern is the result.  Good for showing off, not so good for anything else.

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Our next objectives are to create a decontamination pool and breach the caverns.  And get a military.

[pisskop]

01Moonstone103 - 01Granite104

F002-02-02

Hair from the slaughtered animals reanimated, causing another emergency.  Every able dwarf is again called into a burrow for the purpose of inciting self-defense.

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Obsidian saw us digging the staircase that should pierce the caverns.  Pkop desperately hoped that the caverns would provide the fort with the peace it needed from the terrible plague of undead.
  Instead, zombies found their way into the stairway.  We had floodgates and floor grates set up, so we were able to contain the undead troglodyte until a cage could be set up for it.

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  It must have utilized a natural tunnel to crawl and worm its way into the stairwell.  hunh.  The cavern was full of dead trolls and cave crocodile and their undead murders.  Whatever madness permeated the land had also spread beneath it a significant ways.
  Pkop took notes when he could, but did not want to risk the fort for the sake of science.  It would appear most, but not all of the murdered animals stayed dead.  In fact, it appeared that the most bloodied deaths resulted in more reanimations.  A good case for using hammers and maces to defend themselves.

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Most of the zombies displayed no wish to move from their locations, content to wait for the next living creature to wander by.  Maybe the Forgotten Monster Pulpbile would kindly visit us and clear them away?

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With the caverns discovered and the fort becoming more realized, Pkop took the time to record a new map of the area for the new year, 104 A.A.
  The information contained within reflected the drained brook, the half-dead mountains, and the teems of undeath, but failed to capture the agonizing rate at which time crawled by.  A smaller fort or less moving and pathing undeath may be advisable in the future.

[pisskop]

01Granite104 - 05Graniote104

F002-03-01

  A few days after updating his map, Pkop suddenly felt time itself stop.  Some abyssal plane had been torn open, and hell itself was coming

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  Pkop was topside working on wooden bins, but down below they had misjudged where the cavern floor lay, accidentally digging into it.  The monsters flooded the staircase.  The military floor fell first, hardly even operable because the fort could hold no military.

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When the top level was breached and the animals began to fall, Pkop called for a retreat.  They were abandoning.

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8 Dwarves responded to the call 2 of them children.

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To escape, Adil tossed Pkop's baby onto the ground, where it was a sacrifice to the escaping zombies from the depths.  4 dwarves made it to the extraction point alive, where the fort was formally abandoned.  From its ashes, a hero zombie emerged, a slayer of dwarves.

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On 05Granite104, RighteousShaft fell, with few survivors to tell the story.

[pisskop]

Intermission 04

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-My fortress is *kirararak 'RighteousShaft'
-It is in
  -*, a haunted swamp
  -*, a haunted mountain range


-We land in the middle of the map
-A great horned owl corpse is to the east.  My personal zombie nemisis
-We dig out a 5x5 area, making a 3x3 plug around the wagon.  We collaspe it
  -Nobody died, and (most) of the stuff seems intact.  I couldnt find the copper
    hammers with a casual search, but the iron anvil and most of the food and booze
    and lignite was spotted.
-We dig out a long corridor and a few doors are put up.  The collaspe seemed to
  cause the water buffalo corpses to wander over in our direction.  Burrows helped
-I note that since I embarked after the caravan in august, will i recieve any
  non-dwarven ones in the spring/summer?  Not that Id expect any with a
  notrade tag on the neighor screen
-Drake corpses and rattlesnake corpses have been spotted
-I butcher the hungry animals.  The hair rises.  20 Moonstone
-3opal we confirm weather.  Abominable Ash.  Effects unknown.  The ash went east,
  not northwest where I am
-28 opal, the minor Erush became attached to the copper pick he had.  Limonite is
  discovered
-Farmer got caught by a duck.  Did not survive.
-I sent Mafol topside to make the bridge access.  He set it up, hooked it up, then
  took a fucking break.  A cloud of ash came by, missed him, and the ducks didnt
  find him.  Amazing.
-18 Granite.  Elves came.  We have no depot, and dont really want one.  Go away elf
-Elves came?  The site embark said no trad would happen?
-1Hematite, Nothing happening, farm is up.  I wonder if migrants have not come
  due to my akward timing of embark?
-23Hematite the first cloud covers our entrance
-26Hematite, finally migrants 7 of them
-Weve had the same 4 ducks on site for months.  They should get names
-6Galena, I quit, save-


-I load
-22Galena, the waterfall must die. Preparations are made.  If those fucking ducks
  would leave
-28Galena, a third baby was born
-13 limestone, outpost caravan arrived
-16 limestone, the brook is walled.  Fuck waterfalls
-Vucar is the laision
-5 sandstone. Duck attacks carvan.  Duck dies.  More ducks on screen
-The caravan did not bring booze :[
-Our first shipment of weapons was exported.  Iron hammer, copper axes, and bone
  crossbows
-A second duck has wounded a speardwarf caravan guard
-28sandstone.  Migrants.  They run into ducks, but rather readily kill them with
  their fists
-The migrants are from Backside.  A legendary pump operater was amoung them
  -I save-

  -I load 24DEC14
-Alpaca skin attacks, we kill it.  Now I have mangled alpaca skin corpse >.<
-19moonstone.  Artifact quern made.  meh
-We begin to slaughter the spare animals.  When will the horse hair reanimate?
-27 moonstone, because I have zero military, I call a burrow to the refuse room to
  kill some fucking sheep skin
-03Obsidian, troglodyte teleports into our new drainage staircase  We locked it
  away and will let it out to get caged.  No casualties
-We broke the caverns at 07Obsidian103.  Crundles climbed up to our staircase and
  we have an issue.  How do secure?
-Spring 104 arrived, frames are about 14
  -I quit-

-02 granite my planned floor pierced the caverns, allowing access to my fort.
  Most died.  The survivors, 2 masons, pkop, and a baby.  Adil Egarurist threw a
  baby down onto the ground to escape the zombies.  Gods save it.
-05 Granite, 104AA, the fortress falls.

[Pencil_Art]

That was something. Wasn't expecting it to end so quickly though.

[pisskop]

That was something. Wasn't expecting it to end so quickly though.

Yea.  It was one of those things.  And without a military I had no chance of surviving.

[pisskop]

19Granite104

A003-01-00

Atis woke up, stretched, and walked upstairs to the main floor of the tavern.  Four years, and still she had to wait for her claim.  Life had, since her retirement, full of whiskey and good company, but nothing really changed in her life.  She hardly even got to kill anything since she settled down!

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  The tavern, as usual, was alive with the buzz of gossip.  Many traveled here for their morning meal, and only the wealthiest kept more than an emergency supply of rum in their houses.

  Walking up to the Innkeep, Atis asked for her usual - Minced plump helmet over goose eggs and minced whiskey.  The Innkeep brought her plate out, and handed her a small slab as she sat down.
  -What's this?
  ~For you.  It came last night, carried by a runner.  Said he came all the way from DanceAxe; on behalf of the Great King himself!
  - . . . Aye, thank ya then.

Finishing her meal slowly, Atis almost grimaced at the idea of what could be within.  She could appreciate more work; but he had dismissed her.  Perhaps he was going to punish her for some perceived slight?  Bah.
  Taking the slab up into her hands, she runs her fingers over its surface.  The wax seal was still intact, ensuring that no eyes had seen its contents.  Removing the wax and glancing at the pictograms, Atis read the slab.

  "This slab is intended for authorized persons . . . If this seal is broken or otherwise flawed you are to . . . This slab was inscribed on 12Granite104 by one Udib McChiselWorked, on the orders of His Rightful Majesty Kubuk Windclimates . . .  You are to go to the new fort of Righteousshaft, Located in *The Depressed Spines and oversee the export of 'reinvigorated livestock', to include any mangled, mutilated, or otherwise partial animals . . . and all caged animals will be bought at full price . . . This office puts its faith in you . . .
  Office of Research and Kingdom Directives

Below that, a map was inscribed, clearly showing Atis where to go.

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  Why was ORKD giving her this order?  This smacked of unethical research.
Settling her tab, Atis gathered her iron armor, her great axe and backup weapon, and her various traveling containers.  She set out just after High Sun.

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[pisskop]

19Granite104 - 20Granite104

A003-01-01

Crossing over the river and into The Mire of Rages, Atis is almost immediately attacked by a fetid duck.  The wings were easily detached, and on the ground it posed no problem.  It did, however, attract  a pair of water buffalo.

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Putting away her steel great axe, Atis removed her old iron axe and steel shield from her pack.
  -I am Atis Coppersink, slayer of Battle Conflictsword, who sought my praise only to be rejected in death!
  -Vanquisher of  Bora Grieveddour, who was worshiped by those who didn't know better!
  -Killer of Lantern Rainybreaches, whose cries for mercy went unheeded by my wrath!
  -Ender of a wolf, whose name I struggle to recall!
  -Prepare to die!

  The buffalo were not impressed.  Eventually Atis had to mind her own safety and make an escape.

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  Sometimes they will try to follow her into the water, with predicably slow results; but this time she had to use her dodge still to escape.

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  As she neared RighteousShaft, Atis noticed several suspicious looking tracks.  Some were critters, some dwarven . . .

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[pisskop]

20Granite104

A003-01-02

Atis walked cautious up to a dwarf with an axe.  When she asked his name she immediately knew it wasn't a worker.

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  -Greetings.  I am Atis Coppersink.  Are you from RighteousShaft?
  ~I am Stosbub.  Come closer so I might tell you my story. [walks towards Atis casually]
  -Ahh.  Are you from Righteousshaft?  The King sent me to assist.
  ~Sure.  Come here. [beckons Atis, continues walking at an even pace]

  The dwarf was an impostor!  A liar and an abductee, he never reflected dwarven ideals to begin with.  His name suggested he was a second generation adbuctee, and had never known the Earth as a dwarf should.  Best to defend herself . . .

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. . . and silence his lies forever.

Leaving the bandit dwarf next to his own tongue unconscious in a pool of blood, Atis moves towards the fort once more.

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  To get ambushed by Stosbub again.

[pisskop]

20Granite104

A003-01-03

The zombie was slain and the bandit was killed for his persistence.  Atis took the dwarf corpse with her to show the fort.  Maybe they knew what he was doing out here . . .
  Atis found corpses everywhere.  Something bad happened here.

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After a little wandering, Atis found the entrance.  A hen head was rolling around by it, and Atis decided to unload Stosbub's corpse on it.

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Inside the fort was abandoned.  There were occasional dwarf corpses, but the majority of the bodies were various domesticated animals and cavern creatures.  The first sign of occupancy in the fort itself was a Troglodyte hero

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  An examination of its corpse and blood revealed it to be Zealotriddles the Imprisoned Rumors, killer of 6.

Atis cleared the fort, finding nothing worth one dwarf taking and no survivors.  Solemnly, Atis searches the cavern quickly, finding another zombie troglodyte.  Atis made note that they weren't naturally migrating undead, as they still had meat on them.  These were killed by something else, and then got reanimated by something before decomposition.

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  Necromancers?  perhaps.  The area should be explored first.  Atis went back to the surface to examine the area.

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I am now caught up again

[pisskop]

20Granite104

A003-02-01

  Going back topside, Atis examined the surrounding countryside in greater detail.  She was careful to sneak around and keep an eye out for the scattered corpses that indicated the proper boundaries of Righteousshaft.  She also avoided a pack of zombie keas and a couple of undead mountain goats that way.
  She did, however, stumble onto a military dwarf, Aban GiltClapped, who also claimed to have been sent to investigate the area.

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  -I am Atis Coppersink the Tin Adulation of Mouths.  Are you my foe?
 +Atis!  I have heard of you before!  I am Aban GiltClapped, hammerdwarf in the service of the King!  He asked me to check on the area for him.  Are you here on official business as well?
  -Aye.  Im a migrant, so to speak.  What happened?
  +The countryside?  Nobody knows, always been that way; what with zombies.  Or do you mean all the bodies?
  - ~What?  No.  have you been to the fort itself yet?
  +Why no, Im on my way now.
  -[shakes her head] The fort has fallen.  I found troglodytes within.  I don't advise you to go alone.
  +My.  I must report this to the king!
  -Wait!  Where is he?
  +Last I was informed, he was going to march our armies to MoralAutumns.  The merlocks shall pay for their crimes.
  -Can I accompany you?
  +I would be honored to escort a lady and heroine to our great king.
  -First, please assist me in searching the area.

Search as they might, Atis and Aban could not find any other life, save an enlarged elven water buffalo.  This indicated the elves were nearby, but the pair had no luck in finding them.
  Spending the night, Atis and Aban awake to an assault:  zombie goats!

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  Atis lopes off its legs and then split it in half with mighty swings, but the corpse kept attacking.  A leg even kept moving after the separation from its host.

  -disguisting!

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Righteoushaft search results.

[pisskop]

20Granite104 - 23Granite104

A003-02-02

On their way out of the swamp, they were distracted by fighting zombies.

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  -Best not to disturb their conflict. Atis tried to convey without sound.  They moved on quickly.

  Travel was relatively quick, as they were both hardened.  There were relatively few hiccups before they got to the nearest settlement.
Aban did have an incident of paranoia, however, slaughtering a pair of vultures who had been trailing the group out of the  swamp.

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  The nearest settlement was the newly founded merlock hillocks of LuckyPriest. Founded less than 5 years ago, Luckypiest was where the merlocks sent the more useless members they didn't eat.  The entire town was mostly made up of peasants, hard at work farming the pig tails and rope reeds required for the war effort.

Atis had a brief talk with Aban.  They both agreed to leave civilians out of the fight.  Besides, they need to get directions to MoralAutumns.
  Walking into the tavern, Atis and Aban are greeted by a sea of blue:

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They were directed to a mercenary in the corner, the general populace citing own serfdom as the source of the ignorance.  With stifled pity, Atis and Aban talk to the hired hand.
  Thanking the mercenary, Atis and Aban move on swiftly.

  Passing through the human lands to use their road, Atis and Aban spend the night in the care of the local noble.  Progressing onward, Atis comes to a ravine with a river at the bottom.

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Atis decided to climb down.  While climbing down, Atis slipped.

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No harm, though, just a smashed check.  Besides, now they were within 3 days of their target.

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[pisskop]

23Granite104 - 25Granite 104

A003-03-01

Arrival At MoralAutumns led Atis to confusion.  There was no army, and there were no members of The Bolted Arch present.  Any questions about the whereabouts of the King Kubuk led to confused rantings.

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  -No, DanceAxe was not in The Desert of Dreaming!  MoralAutumns is!

Atis walked off to DanceAxe, because they seemed to think the King was there, at least.  She passed the site of her hyena attack 4 years ago, with a new hyena there, and not much else.
  In DanceAxe, Atis met the king.

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  She learned that The King had been paid not to raid MoralAutumns.  4 Times in the past year.  Gah

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Well, she had a report to deliver, in any case.  Now to find ORKD . . .