Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work we go...

From the journal of Tor the stone mason

Well, it looks like we found our stone quarry and our mine, but we may need some powerful assistance to make it safe enough to get the ore out.

A party of us dwarves goes on down the eastern coastline to find raw materials to build up our town. We’re too intimidating for any of the smaller beasties to give us a hard time, so travel goes smooth for about 2 days. The sea cliffs looks to be a promising source of the plainer sort of stone, fine for walls, lesser houses, and so on, but not for a church or a guild hall. Pressing on, we come to a big sort of white tube sticking out of the cliffs, guarded by black kobolds. They run when they see us, so we follow them inside.

The tube isn’t made out of any sort of stone we’d worked with. If I had to call it something, I’d say it’s just like, well, bones, like a huge bone of the land itself, all dried up and hollowed out. So in we go. Sure enough, the inside is dripping with gore, and the kobolds have buckets set out to collect it. Jakt licks the walls in his foreigner way, and says it tastes like iron. Like blood.

The kobolds know we’re coming, so they hide and get the jump on us. Fortunatelythey’re just little things you can kill with one blow, if you can land one, but a few of them have magic, and exploding devices, and also wings, but just constructed ones, not like the flying sorts of kobolds I’ve heard about in other places. The magic ones can be fierce though. They were tough to beat. And the caverns are big. But in between the joints of these giant bones is rich, rich iron ore.

Well once we’ve knocked out the kobolds we’re all set to go find out what’s at the end, but something deep in the tunnels sets up a huge screaming and earthquaking and roaring, and we know we’re not enough to face something that can shake the earth like that and fill our minds with horrible pictures through the eyes of crazy kobolds and knock us out just by picking up the feathers it leaves lying around so we beat it.

Stone I think we can get. But the iron maybe needs to wait a bit.