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Forbaths effort will do good, as not only will his realm will now be paved with a multitude of roads, they will extend into areas that are sparsely populated, letting people from some overpopulated areas move around. And in addition to that, the roads will be paved in the central areas and widened where needed.
Gerna will assemble a large caravan that will set off across the river, however, on the night of the second day into the march eastwards, while setting their camp in the wilderness, a yell of warning will cause Gerna to throw herself to the floor. A few blade strokes later, two of her close advisors will lay dead next in her tent with a dwarf she never saw before raising his blade to finish her off. Luckily for her, a servant carrying a tray of drinks will tackle the unknown dwarf to the floor, giving Gerna enough time to flee until the stranger finished the servant off. That, however, was not the end of Gerna's troubles, as she roused the camp in the search of the stranger, only for a lookout to yell warnings about a column coming from the north. The dwarves, ever a organized race, quickly formed a two man deep line, ready to meet the strangers in case they turned out to be hostile.
The foreign column turned out to be comprised from dwarf sized clay monsters, roughly hewn in the shape of the dwarf, oftentimes with insectoid features added on top.
To say the skirmish was bloody would be a understatement as neither the crossbow bolts, nor the spears turned out to be of much use and the clay monsters closed the gap quickly, engaging in vicious combat with the dwarves and only being felled by axeblows, but only until the dwarves routed, leaving their wagons behind and fleeing back to Redstone, where the miners quickly armed themselves with axes and cleavers and constructed barricades on the bridge.
Snorri implements a system of passports, mandatory vouching and even considers mandatory tattoos, before dropping the last idea, then orders walled settlements and permanent gate watches. While some call this extensive level of control into question, almost all support it. In addition, Snorri calls a small group of rangers to him, wanting the best as he sets to investigating the settlements for more odd and unknown dwarves. By the end, he finds a dozen more in his scouring.
In the meanwhile, a very large brawl happens when a large number of drunken dwarves set to looking for more "fake" dwarves amongst the populace, only to stumble upon a even more drunk gang of dwarves. Four are left dead.
Floodcave has grown past the initial size and out of its original fortifications, yet the dwarves in it are certain that they don't need to, nor do they really care to follow the latest round of regulations.
And a wave of sickness has seriously struck the dwarven lakeside militia. Their numbers are decimated and almost all of them are bedridden.

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