Blamelesscloister, Spring 92, 32nd year of the fort
An eventful year. Both elven and human caravan failed to show up, because the goblin charity drive was busy unloading their second-hand clothes into our traps. The big event was the spring siege, which brought us Renane Nemamefife or something like that, the gila monster master of the goblin clans. It had some special effect, but it wasn't blood or extract, so i trusted the minecart grinder to deal with it. And deal with it the minecart grinder did.
The summer siege was all annoying with zero entertainment. Because it was unexpected, trolls got into the works and smashed up the grinder, and repairing it took so long that the siege just left, except for the poor idiots who had their masters caught in cages, who needed some encouragement from our capable military. Unfortunately, those saps left all their teeth and clothes as a gift, as well.
I eventually threw in the towel and disabled invaders for now, so i can collect and export all the garbage. I had intended to try my hand at a freezer trap (quite practical on a glacier with adjacent aquifer-bearing taiga), but that wasn't going to happen when each season added five months' worth of non-stop hauling. The captured goblins were chained up, as per usual (the second 40-gobbo cell block is almost full now), all other captured invaders were dumped into the caverns. One of the local forgotten beasts decided to camp the drop site and turned all the trolls into ‼trolls‼. While amusing, this wasn't the intended effect. No citizens died this year and i've totally lost count of dead invaders. Each siege had more invaders than we have adults (42).