Had a seige last night. It was mild as these things go, 8 or 9 goblins, one riding a giant toad. They ran afoul of my weapon and cage traps, and the rest ran away. This left me with 4 captive goblins and the giant toad, and 8 dead dwarves of my 70-dwarf fort.
Put one of the goblins into an arena room with a cage holding a war dog, war giant jaguar, war grizzly and war elephant. The battle went on once the lever was pulled for a good couple of months, and the goblin was coming out triumphant. I swear he was regenerating as fast as they could hurt him. So I started channelling down from the surface over that arena room to turn it into a pit. The miners were fast and efficient...until we got to the level over the goblin lasher. Had about a third of the room left when they started freaking out about the goblin below who couldn't even touch them. They went back to work but must have been distracted by the gobbo, because next thing I know there's a cave-in. One miner was badly broken up, still on the level above the lasher. The other had tumbled into the arena room, unscathed. I start working at removing the wall behind the door so as to get my legendary miner out of there and it turns out my worry was unnecessary. Never seen anyone use a pick to gut someone before. Soon enough the goblin is dead, and the miner is fine. The other miner wound up dying from infection after a visit from my surgeon.
A visit from a rather humanlike giantess followed, and she too wound up in a cage trap. I think my mixed herd of warbeasts sort of herded her into one. I renovated the arena turned pit, adding menacing spikes and testing it out on assorted kittens to judge impact. Meanwhile the mayor kept annoying me in his fetish for sterling silver, which we had none. Upon completing the pit, I aded a little overhang, put in bed, tables and chairs, and assigned it to the mayor. Somehow the door wound up locked and the door walled in after he went inside to store some of his stuff. Wonder how that happened?
What followed was sheeer !fun!. Goblins raining in from the sky, two of them impaled or badly injured and promptly dying. A few elephants added in. The mayor didn't survive, so now I have one goblin left in the pit, filled with bits of goblinite, kitten partts and the dead mayor's corpse. The giantess never made it to the pit, making a bid for freedom when I was trying to get her over there. Luckily the elephants mobbed her and killed her in the kennel room. Lesson learned, next time the monster is going to be installed in its cage, waiting the next mayor to tick me off.
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