Chapter 8
The Unrest age, month 4 day 2
Location: Split Valleys.
The following day of Angus's accident, surprisingly enough he was all healed up.
Today he decided to do a dangerous task
Free more goblins.
Deciding on this, he Conferred in with Guts, who decided to go with him to show the places that the Goblins lived in the orcish pits.
Preparing for the trip both Angus and Guts were armed with a spear, axe and 1 dozen exploding and 2 dozen invisibility runes each.
The plan was to sneak into the Goblin dens and sneak them out using the invisibility runes.
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A Trick that Angus found when making his invisibility stones was that if they were linked to each other, those that held the linked stones could see each other while invisible.
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As Angus and Guts left, they put the others in charge of getting food for the new members that will be joining.
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the Goblin den was separated from Orcs, since they were treated as slaves. But there was a small guard of orcs who patrolled the entrance to these dens.
Not wanting to have the Orcs start searching for escaped Goblins, the Plan was to Sneak out 4 dozen at a time, and when their strength was enough to defend themselves, free the rest.
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The First thought that Angus had when stepping into the Goblin den, was "Pig stie" Since you could smell Shit, sweat and blood every where you stepped.
Guts Led the Way to the deep parts of the Den where the goblin Elders and shamans lived.
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In the large den of the Elders, Guts revealed himself while Angus kept hidden.
Guts: Greetings o wise elders.
Elder Muln: Hello young… Guts? Where have you been, we thought you were killed by the orcs.
Guts: No, I was most fortunate that was not the case.
Guts: I and the others have been missing, because we have gained a new lord who is a goblin.
Elder Grub: A goblin Lord? Why would you go join them? The Orcs will find you and kill yah.
Guts: Elders for generations we have suffered under the Orcs, I dream of being free and Lord Angus has given me hope that this dream can be real. We have been building a new home for almost 2 months. I have come here to take a small group back with us.
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At this time Angus revealed himself
Angus: Greetings, I am Angus, we have room to take 48 goblins.
Elder Muln: Very well I also dreamed of being free, we will gather 47 of our best craftsman and workers. I will also go, so you do not lose the knowledge of the past.
Angus: Very well, I will wait for you to be ready.
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After an hour
Under the unnoticing eyes of the Orcs a trail of goblins was sneaking out with the use of invisibility stones.
They stayed invisible until they reach the Fort.
Once there
The 48 new goblins started weeping and shouting in joy.
Elder Muln: Thank you Angus for helping us escape, put everyone to work and tell me your plans to keep us safe and free.
Angus: Today there will be no work just food and rest. For the next week you new people will not be working just exercising until you drop.
Elder Muln: What is Exercising?
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Guts Groaned in misery: Elder, Exercising will make you wish you were being beaten by the Orcs again, unfortunately Angus does not have the mercy to let you die.
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Angus simply laughed, while the new goblins paled in fear.
As the Goblins were Feasting Angus gave a basic plan to the Elder.
Angus: Anyway, Elder the plan that I have so far is to keep expanding the fort here, to improve our weapons and our training, slowly we will steal other goblins from the Orcs so as not to raise suspicion. Once we are strong, we will start doing small and sporadic raids on the Orcs to slowly whittle them down.
Elder Muln: How will you be strong enough to kill an orc, we goblins are generally weak creatures.
Guts: Before when I was with the Orcs, I could hardly carry a goat without help from 4 others. Now I can lift the goat by myself and run with it.
Elder Muln was awed at that fact.
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For the next week all new goblins were put to training.
While the old group also received the same training, they started going through basic fighting tactics.
From Angus's knowledge of Earth History, he mainly focused on the ones used by the Romans.
The original romans were also short compared to their Gaelic counterparts.
So, this was the best choice in facing Orcs.
During this time, Angus also took 2 goblins to be blacksmiths. He taught them how to make the roman Scutum and Pila.
The reason that Angus only gave this kind of training to the old goblin crew was that he felt with how physically exhausted the others were they would not remember the lessons taught.
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After the week of intense training, the Goblins got used to it and could now take on other jobs to be done around the fort.
With 60 Goblins in total, one could complete quite a bit.
The Foundry was expanded
The Iron that was refined could now be considered close to Pig Iron.
The Mines were increased
The Farms were finally sprouting
And a quarry site was chosen on a mountain face to be used in upgrading the Walls of the forts.
But before they could upgrade things to stone Angus wanted to make a proper plan to make the most of space, resources, and Military purposes.
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Taking an animal hide, he started drawing on it with charcoal.
His thoughts for maximum efficiency landed on the Roman Forts.
He made it so the front gate was facing east towards the river, so when visitors came in the future it was just a straight shot up the road.
The open space by the Front gate would have the Training yard and kitchens.
The Plan was to build the fort big enough for 1000 people. Yes, this seemed crazy, but Angus did not want his city to fall to the Problem of not having a proper layout/ room when expanding like the Modern cities of Earth.
And one could not forget hygiene
The Latrines were placed to the South west corner and the North East Corner of the fort.
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By the Mid Month nothing was built but all preparations were being made.
Land was cleared, trees chopped. Rope and Nails Made.
One problem that was faced were the Fields that have already started growing.
Since they were surrounding the original fort, they could not be moved.
But to angus this was a good problem since during sieges they could still have access to grain, so in the Center of the fort he left a large whole for the Fields, even doubled the Area for the future.
The Quarry was a slow process, it was an extremely hard process of making uniform stone bricks, they kept breaking apart at unwanted times.
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End of the Month, the trenches were dug, and stone was crushed into gravel. Pits were made for waste disposal. At this time the Original Fort was also Demolished leaving only the Fields.
Setting up Temporary Tents the Goblins got ready to go to work, until something surprising showed up.
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This surprise was M-G Donal along side 30 Dwarves.
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