Summer is a bad time of year for Slaughtersboulders. Always has been. The goblins decided to lay another siege, since their first was unable to prevent me from doing anything I pleased, including building roads. This second siege has a squad of mounted crossbows, a squad of axegobbos, and a squad of mounted macegobbos led by none other than their civ leader.
Dostik Rakustkubuk, a huge warthog twisted into humanoid form with lidless eyes. Its buff hair is long and shaggy. Beware its poisonous vapors!
...dear lord, its Pumba. Pumba from HELL.
Trolls from the north got caught in the bridge traps. After I decimated the axegobbos under a withering hail of bolts, the first siege decided to pack it in and retreat. I lured the crossbowgoblins into swarming into my entryway, where I planned to deploy hidden squads to destroy them in melee. The wave of dwarves pushed them back to the bridge itself, which I had already ordered raised. Three dwarves were standing on the bridge when it raised. Instead of flinging them clear like I thought it would, it instead crushed them. And destroyed their masterwork armor, weapons, and clothing.
A brief survey shows the lowest happiness now belongs to my legendary clothier (who withdrew from society shortly before the second siege and is still gathering items.) She has nothing but happy thoughts, including legendary eating, dining, and drinking as well as face time with a loved one, all of which is now countered by the tragedy of art defacement. Apparently, she is also romantically involved with the miner, Olon Womangorge. He's such a rascal.
Apart from the three lost in the bridge incident, a stray bolt took a child in the kidney and a novice speardwarf was shot in the spine. They are both resting in the hospital now- the speardwarf has had severe nerve damage and will need a crutch, and the child has rope reed fiber dressings on his kidney. Upon closer inspection, the childs mother was killed in the bridge incident- he must have been standing in the courtyard and saw it happen. His father was killed in the line of duty years ago. Poor tyke- he's only three years old. And he apparently worships three gods, likes adamantine, toy hammers, rabbits and foxes, and... is susceptible to disease.
After giving my soldiers a few weeks R&R to recover (as many of them were hungry and thirsty from long patrol duty), I opened the gates, ready to take on the leader and his sole squad. Except the leader was perfectly content to hang outside in a muddy pool. Fed up with waiting, I moved my military outside, inching them closer. My marksdwarves got within range and killed two goblins almost immediately. A halfhearted charge was stymied when a fusillade of bolts shot their mounts out from under them, and the survivors fled. Although the demon made it off the map, the goblin civ says "no important leaders." I'm pretty sure its a bug, but I'd like to think the shame of this defeat forced the demon out of power.
The siege didn't lift after the demon retreated, and as it turns out the trolls were still stuck in limbo in my line of cage traps to the north. I sent my army north to deal with them- most of the trolls were killed by marksdwarves, and the few who closed the distance on the bridge were met by my soldiers countercharge. Unfortunately, the captain of the second squad dodged into the river and drowned.
I have now crushed the leaders of two civilizations, my clothier made an artifact glove with a picture of the deity of trade and victory on it along with an image of Slaughtersboulders, and the orphan looks to make a full recovery. My fortress population is at 82, and with luck I'll get promoted to a duchy when the dwarven caravan arrives. Life is good.
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