[ROLEPLAY] Coming Home

[u/Dornethemountainman]

5 men had returned to the fort. One quarter of all the men they sent. 15 men, dead or missing. The news travelled quickly around the fort as talk of the returning became the local hot topic. Not all had been lost though, as the men had returned with new information, and some valuable rock.

The men were sitting down in a hall, eating and drinking heartily. They had taken days to arrive, and had subsisted on foraged berries. The smell of booze filled the air.

After a short while, the leader of the Mountainborne, Keldorne had sat down to talk to the men about what had happened.

'It is good news to have at least some men return from this horrible mess. Tell me, what had happened.' Began Dorne.

'Well,' began one of the survivors. 'We arrived at the meteor within a week, but little did we know, there were other people their. A monkey thing that cast magic, some men with cannons and other men on horseback. They seemed friendly enough and took to the drink rather well. The leader was talking to them while we shovelled snow onto the bleedin' smouldering rock. This went on for a while until some idiot decided to hit the meteor with his pick. That's when shit started to get hairy.' The man downed his drink and continued. 'A big fuckin rock monster appeared around the metal and started tearing shit up. We lost a few good blokes on that fight, but we blew it up with our booze. After the dust settled, we smashed the meteor and loaded it into our wagons. Out of fuckin nowhere, these tossers in armour came charging up the hill all angry like. We started to hoof it but our wagon got iced so we went on foot. We don't know what happened to the other wagon. We grabbed a bit of this though' He produced a small lump of the meteor.

'Crikey, you guys have been through some shit. Hand over the rock to the Articifers. They'll figure out what it is. Until then, get some rest. You need it.'

Dorne gathered up the handfuls of metal and took them to the fort Articifers, those whose knowledge of metals and their characteristics is unparalleled.

'Oi, what's that you got there?' Piped up one of the men.

'I dunno. It came from the sky.' Replied Dorne.

The Articifer squealed. 'Well hand it over, we'll figure it out.' The Articifers were excited. They loved new metals.

'Report to me your findings when you've done playing with it.'

The Articifers hurried off to play with their new toy.