The Booby Trap Skirmishes

The Dwarves and the Defdril's lived in the Mountains north of Newtown. Little did they know that soon a new power would be joining them.

The Drats were mostly cut off from the rest of the world and lived in isolation. They knew little of the surface world, other than the fact that it did exist and every so often a solitary Drat would find some cave passage leading to it. They were quite clever and had come up with ingenious waves of transporting themselves through the caves and researching the uses for a variety of Minerals and Materials. They were, however, quite afraid that large monsters would burrow their way into the settlements and so the Drats booby trapped the rocks on their borders.

Unfortunately, a Dwarven expedition seeking to find new ores triggered on of these Booby Traps. The Drats First-Contact thus began with battle. The Dwarves, feeling that they had been suddenly and deliberately attacked, launched expeditions into the Drat Caves. They were able to slay a few but for every Drat killed, it seemed another booby-trapped was triggered, killing large Dwarven Patrols. Eventually, after a few days, Diplomatic Channels were opened and the conflict ended. Both sides apologized for their respective misunderstandings and though relations with the Dwarves remain cold, they are not hostile.

The Drats then, ended their isolation and became part of the world of Eventum. It was perhaps not the introduction they were expecting however.