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We were fiercely competitive in the field of inside its stomach providing it power and

technology and weapons. It was unheard energy. We were proud of our work but little

of that these two races would ever work did we know this mechanized soldier would

together let alone become friends. As we got become sentient. On the night we were

deeper into the conversation I told him about going to unveil this collaboration to our

my past. elders, there was this loud bang. It came

from where we stored our prized creation and

A few years ago the demand for weapons the surrounding area was covered in flames

was high, sufficient for both the Dwarves and wreckage. In the flames, we could see

and Goblins to make a living. The more we our creation. “I am Bomb King! Explosions

were pumping out the weapons, the fewer first. Questions later” it proclaimed. We

people there were to use them. How did the were banished to the outskirts of our towns

war end? Just how you’d expect. Families lost forever, shunned and deemed outcasts. We

fathers, sons, and brothers, weapons were in were tribeless and now for the first time

abundance but there were few left to handle in decades, I have to go see my old friend

them. As tribes fell, so the requests fell too, again. The meeting I feel is fated. A lot of

eventually leading up to one request that was disturbances were happening in various

fought over by both the Dwarves and Goblins. regions across the land. Does this coincide

We had no choice to fight for our livelihood, with Grover arriving here? Bomb King is

as our economy is dependent on the still running rampant now, he’s supplying

manufacturing of weapons. It’s here on the everyone with weapons, armor, and

battlefield that I met Ruckus and we fought technology. Ruckus, old friend, are you ready?

it out to a stalemate. Turrets vs. mechanized Can we stop our creation once and for all?

machines, it was a tough battle, but the

elders called for a cease-fire in the end. Both

parties could not afford losing more men as

they were needed to make the weapons. I

befriended Ruckus despite it being frowned

upon by both of our elders, as tensions still

were running high. We had admiration for

each other’s designs and techniques and

we collaborated on combining the two.

Tired of seeing people die on the battlefield,

we decided to create a mechanized soldier.

We tinkered for years on end, till finally, we

thought we created the perfect soldier. It

utilized bombs as weapons, had a furnace

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