Hi!
The children seem to have a strong tendency to age a bit late.
However, the big news is that I really made the
mistake decision to convert my fortress into a barony (of course, now I have a mandate for bat leather items; I concentrated on finding a dwarf not fond of any of the nasty metals, and neglected that aspect (T_T) ). Oh, well this will be arranged somehow.
But the worst part has come this summer:
A lizard devilish diplomat from Pesor Naspa has arrived.
Yep, the law-giver of my human friends is a demon thingie (^_^;;
Or to be precise:
Vilela Anayaone, law-giver
(Vilela the Dead Bones)
A towering lizard twisted into humanoid form with lidless eyes. It chants ceaselessly. Its green scales are jagged and overlapping. Beware its fire!
He is average in size.
Remembering what people said about building-destroying diplomats, I am somewhat worried. However, right now, he has decided to jump into the brook and stay there. If only he remains there until early winter, at least that problem should be solved in due time :) :) :)
Too bad that the monstrous diplomats are bugged. I would have loved to make trade-agreements with him as he sounds like a fun guy.
Deathworks
EDIT: The last five minutes have been a bumpy ride of hope, despair and hope. With the advent of the human traders, the diplomat decided to start rampaging through my fortress. Of course, he smashed the trade depot and there was no kind of building destroyer trap there yet.
After destroying the furniture in my hospital, dining room and dormitory, he began messing around with my well's reservoir - And it was not long ere I saw the dreaded "flood gate destroyed".
Quickly, I cancelled all digging in the lower floor and stopped all workshops there as I feared that he had breached the flood gate leading to the brook - but instead, when my panic subsided, I noticed that he had just destroyed the flood gate for the emergency draining - so the water wasn't enough to flood the entire level.
But this still left it only a matter of time before he got the "right" flood gate, or so I thought and despaired.
The day was saved from an unexpected side, however. You see, when I create a well, I always surround the inside of the walls with floor grates, connecting the different levels with constructed stairs (only up and down stairs, never up/down stairs, so no two stair sets are at the same corner). And the diplomat started destroying those floor grates - often even destroying the floor grate he was standing on.
Even with some red wounds, he couldn't stop his favorite game, and after starting another decent, he finally lies dead at the bottom of my reservoir. I have saved the game as I have to think about all that.