"Safe" Places

Dwarven Fortress. Very nice work. They always do fine work. So asymmetrical and well designed for defense. Heck I think the villagers themselves could defend against a young dragon in this place for a time. They really do need some food reserves though. Perhaps we should have them help transfer all the reserves the red cloaks had amassed here so they can hold out a while? If they rationed them out they could last a while. I'm sure the dwarves must have had a source of water down here?
 
OK, So those would be awkward. More so than a barrel even. I don't see an easy way around that. If I could just lift it for a moment... Sigh....Oh well. OK, well I have alchemy fire in m.....shoot...It bears the name of alchemy. Dangit. Maybe if I tell them I bought it? I mean I did have to buy some of the material for it after all... Speaking of witch what should we do with that Cambium? Medicinal? Dry it and turn it into flower? I'm not much of a baker. Maybe for a dumpling stew...
 
OK well we got this first gate open. And they are stuck again. OK, off to the other side. Goodness I really wanted to get that loose and see if I could lift it. I need one of those fabled belts of giant strength then I could get so much more back and forth. I didn't anticipate this issue. Oh well. Off to Flicker. Goodness she is jumpy. And quick with her magic. Is that a good idea? They are going slow and maybe frustrated with the gates and pressing on to the next distraction? Yep there we go. NOPE....shoot. already turned back. Really jumpy....Oh well. Just hurry and get the door open...YEP that hurts. Oh and these guys are cold with necrotic magic. Shoot I knew there would be something down here. Armor armor I need armor. Wait no that would be an issue with some of the more classical arcana gestures I .... Combat... Focus. I should focus. Oh...I should just be throwing these not using a sling... I should focus and help with these dwarves. They don't seem like a huge threat though. I mean figurNO hang on finish up still two left.
 
Those are some huge billows. Goodness you could hit some pretty high temperatures with those. I bet I could finally hea....well shoot. What else could I do with those? Maybe if we pile coals with tar and pitch and funneled the it through a longer cylinder we could get what...20'? Maybe if we could aim that... shoot its the same problem with portability. Oh hello Stirge. WOW ok he does have a fair amount of casting potential. Need flicker to teach him about light refraction. Goggles seem to server him well though. I wonder if I took his motivaNah it's a good thing. It really is so pervasive. I mean everyone here is a caster I think. Even Damaia is tapping into the primordial energy around here. I'm not sure if she will focus it ever much but she certainly is a good catalyst.
 
Oh ew. Maybe there is somethNevermind. Oh wow this room is fantastic. This is going to take a while to searUUUhhhhh that didn't sound friendly. Time for fighting. What a waste. There are like a dozen chests back there. Oh there we go Keth. Oh and she triggered right off that didn't she. Wow. This group is great look at this. Nice tight formation. Ver effective. Just as long as we don't catch a dragon breath or fireball or something we should be good.