Babathel has been fairly mundane since the great goblin siege. With the 10 story ice ziggurat almost complete, the dwarves were prepared for any assaults. The goblins, however, decided to throw everything into this one. 80+ invaders with 3 mounted battalions, one being led by their master: a giant buffalo twisted into human form. They struck just as the elven caravan appeared. The foolish elves decided to flee from the gates and the safety of the fortress and were promptly butchered. Their precious wood log cargo would belong to the fort either way.
The battlements held, the siege was routed, and the master was riddled with arrows and hacked to pieces. It is now lying in the refuse pile, decomposing while I contemplate what to make of its bones. The only injuries came from flying mounted archers that got in through an unfinished part of the ziggurat. The injuries were not threatening and were promptly patched up at the hospital.
Only one ambush party has been brave enough to strike at the fortress in the several years following the siege.
Recently, a hairy leech forgotten beast (beware its fiery breath!) appeared in the second cavern. Concerned with leaving multiple beasts in the cavern, I decided to kill this one. A squad of axedwarves and marksdwarves exited the lowered drawbridge and awaited the approaching monstrosity. It, however, had other plans. Completely detouring the stationed troops, it proceeded into the nearby lake. Confused by this move, I soon realized that 1. it can swim, and 2. this particular lake was currently refilling my water cistern with an open floodgate. Through this unforeseen entrance, the beast calmly marched into my main stairwell and proceeded to terrorize the populace. For the first time I was happy to have a ridiculous number of dogs and wardogs roaming the fort as they occupied the beast until the troops regrouped and killed the creature.
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Topic: What's going on in your fort? (Read 6210682 times)