Unfortunately this hasn't turned into anything epic yet. I hung around for awhile doing patrols around the town and killing off anything I could find. Eventually though I got tired of waiting and running around after Giant Magpie with my axe. The fort was quite isolated, so I'm a ways away now, but happened to find the vault of the Demon, after a few initial forays into it, I've managed to damage the sensory nerve of my axe hand. I'm hoping it will heal, but it doesn't seem like it will. So I have decisions to make. Maybe I'll go without a shield and see how long I last. My damaged arm is only "ability to grasp somewhat impaired. You would think I could still tie a shield on to it. Maybe I'll head back to my starting fort and see where it's at now. I'm still only and adept Axedwarf. Probably was a bit over-zealous wandering into the vault. I made a good showing of myself though and killed on spirit thing and lots of dead attendants.
Edit:Well, I'm back at the fort now and nothing seems to have changed. The only people around are merchants and kids and they keep telling me that Kesting is coming to attack. After more days of patrols, nothing interesting seems to be happening. Just recently a little moving star on the travel map has come and shows up on the Southern side of the fort, but after crisscrossing those tiles, I can't find anything there. Could this somehow be the army that has come, but it's all bugged and not showing?