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[namad]

want to buy dwarf hammers when available!

[Tarrax]

I will also be interested in buying dwarf hammers. I'd pay N, W, D, F gems or gold.

[vfb]

The Colossal Moose has ordered that the unauthorised temple Marignon built on our border be destroyed!

Such ramant temple-building to false gods, so close to our sacred spider home, will not be allowed. Especially when they are ensconed within nasty fortifications, surrounded by a great horde of PD, threatening the integrity of our spider borders.

-- Machaka

[Zeldor]

Shinuyama is willing to forge and sell dwarven hammers in near future, so PM me with offers. S/D/N gems preferred.

[Quitti]

Ulm will also forge hammers, once we can get our first researchers recruited! Living in drain 3 can be hard on thinking, not too many apt mages volunteering for work..

In other words, We'll be giving discount for hammers, once I get some research going. Payment expected in E/S, or as agreed in private conversations with our trade ministers secretary, Ivan von Alemanya.

- Boris, the Trade minister, Head of Industry in Ulm.

[Baalz]

The empire is set upon by what appears to be a dastardly alliance. The emperor has decreed that any with a sense of fair play who step forward to aid us will be rewarded lavishly. The forge lord of Ermor will not forget the allies who came to us in our hour of need.

Ulm and Shinuyama attack in a coordinated strike seeking to overwhelm the empire. They will bleed heinously as they attempt to storm our castles, but they are likely to be successful in keeping the empire from launching a counterattack if the imbalance of forces remains. Any who attack along either of these foul conspiritors' other flanks will find them fully committed to attacking an entrenched and intractable foe who bleeds them mercilessly and will give no quarter. Are there any with a sense of fair play who will step forward? Are there any of a more mercantile bend who would court the favor of the forge lord? The situation in Ermor is far from dire if an ally steps forward now, the forge lord's favor could be valuable indeed. The cry goes out, who will answer?

[Baalz]

The goblonoid tribes massed in the wilderness. Barbarian rituals around roaring bonfires they asked for the blessings of their huge fat godling. They screamed for blood and slavered over the lands of the empire. As the legion assembled to crush them like all barbarians before, a knife in the back. The fools in Ulm had allied themselves with the beasts in an attempt to topple the great empire. A daunting host assembled across the border – huge goblins with their mighty bows to the north and thundering corps of black knights leading archers to the south. The time for talking was past, Ermors enemies feared it too much to leave a fair fight. The time for killing was here and it was time to demonstrate why the Ermorian empire was feared from horizon to horizon. Fair fights are for the weak, the legion marched and woe to its foes if they fail to find a killing blow.

[Trumanator]

It was a dark time for Marignon. The voodoo ritualists and spider worshipers of Machaka had struck without warning, and with devastating result. This might be the final battle. Crossbowmen shouldered their weapons and the Knights of the Chalice prayed with all their hearts.

The day of battle. As they looked upon the opposing army, with its swarms of archers and masses of grotesque and monstrous spiders, all hope seemed lost. The Grand Inquisitors prepared the knights however, and the crossbows loosed their bolts. They inflicted grievous damage, but the arrows of machaka fell among themselves as well, cutting them down like wheat before the scythe.

As the spiders reached the lines of knights however, it was as if they met a brick wall. Their riders stabbed with lances, and their mounts tried the same with their fangs. The Knights were tireless however, and plied lance and sword to deadly effect, striking down spider, rider, or hoplite for the Lord. The crossbows fled, but the knights remained. Some fell, but many remained, and finally their foes tired, and fled.

The Grand Inquisitor Tomaso surveyed the ravaged field, and breathed a heavy sigh as he contemplated the next battle.

[Baalz]

The goblonoid tribes massed in the wilderness. Barbarian rituals around roaring bonfires they asked for the blessings of their huge fat godling. They screamed for blood and slavered over the lands of the empire. As the legion assembled to crush them like all barbarians before, a knife in the back. The fools in Ulm had allied themselves with the beasts in an attempt to topple the great empire. A daunting host assembled across the border – huge goblins with their mighty bows to the north and thundering corps of black knights leading archers to the south. The time for talking was past, Ermors enemies feared it too much to leave a fair fight. The time for killing was here and it was time to demonstrate why the Ermorian empire was feared from horizon to horizon. Fair fights are for the weak, the legion marched and woe to its foes if they fail to find a killing blow.

[vfb]

Struck without warning!? What are your priests doing in your cathedrals? Singing hymns and chasing the nuns? What did you think we meant by our proclamation that "the unauthorised temple Marignon built on our border will be destroyed"?

We do admit that we vastly underestimated the strength our your knights. But our spiders revel in the glory of battle, and our riders have no fear of death, for they know thier spirit lives on in their eight-legged companion. Our departure from the battlefield was, er ... um ... a fearless charge into the face of the enemy, except we went the wrong way by mistake.

Death before Surrender!

-- Machaka