Tower Divine had a busy autumn.
Got the obsidian caster back on-line, and while running it was not paying attention elsewhere. One of my founding dwarves (a miner) hit the wrong wall down deep and got magma-ed. I did not realize it until he bled out from the burns (and was probably not rescue-able anyways.) Another memorial slab goes in the catacomb.
And then all at once a dwarf withdraws from society, a dwarf caravan arrives, and a vile force of darkness arrives right after the caravan. The last was a four infantry squad, two troll squad attack - with one of the troll squads close to the caravan. So I sent a squad of regulars out to escort the caravan into the tunnel. I wasn't interested in a grand melee with the goblins due to their squad of lashers led by an elite archer. Things went well until I was withdrawing the spear squad back down the tunnel. One of the spear lords decided instead to go topside and confront the squad of trolls by himself.
That part of the adventure went well for him. He wounded three and had essentially routed them when the lasher squad came up. He kept stabbing the troll he was working on, counter-striking, and dodging quite well. And then a silver whip strike crushed his skull through a masterpiece adamantine helm. Nice one-shot kill for some nameless goblin. The trolls, lashers, and a spear squad then traipsed down into the tunnel and were eaten by the weapon traps. The other part of the assault was two more infantry squads of goblins with a set of trolls going towards the East Tunnel. One goblin squad chickened out and ran before they got there. The second came down the tunnel, lost a scout to a weapon trap and opted to head out another branch of the tunnel. So I squashed the squad leader with a drawbridge. While his squad milled around on both sides of the raised bridge the trolls broke down a few doors and killed a watch-cat.
Which was about when eleven dwarves in adamantine and steel turned up. They chopped up the trolls, charged and obliterated the goblins in the tunnel, and then waited a few moments for the drawbridge to lower before going berserk on the remaining goblins on the far side. As this point I need to go check who the new kill leader in the fortress is since two or three more dwarves have extended names from notable kills. And the axe dwarves went wild in that attack - I was finding goblins missing parts or all of all four limbs.
In the middle of all this the mayor/broker traded a heap load of old goblin clothes to the caravan, and promised that more would be available soon. And the dwarf who got the mood created a natural gold armor stand. An ideal item for the duke who loves gold. But it's going to go into one of the barracks for now since keeping the militia happy while training is always important. Now time to go work them harder since I need to replace a Level 12 spear lord.
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