8th Granite, 255, early spring
Damn it all... Machinestandard isn't going nearly as planned right now. A group of goblin ambushers laid siege. They slaughtered our meager military like cattle, and several other dwarves before they sustained sufficient injuries to persuade them to leave. Our simple traps in front killed two of them and captured one, and our cheetah and some other brave dwarves hit them pretty hard for what it's worth. Our giant kestral, fondly named Urvadtishak, killed one of his own I'm pretty sure. I definnitely saw it strangling the bowmans throat until it passed out. Good job Urvadtishak.
During the siege, apparently the safest person was the vampire, who is still tied to his rope. Since the previous mayor was killed (as well as the captain of the guard and several other relatively important dwarves), they re-elected him. This should be interesting, as I have no intention of letting him off his rope to drain more people of blood.
I did hastily assign a random dwarf as a captain of the guard, which was just in time as two dwarves went insane. He took down one of them, while the other was hastily locked in their room. Then a third one went berserk, ran around until they were close to Momuz the vampire on rope. Momuz dispatched this dwarf very efficiently with his bare hands.
Then the captain of the guard went berserk, not suprising as he was only 13, so I assigned another one quickly.
And as this is all going on, I'm noticing that there are a LOT of things being thrown around the fort. Not just random bits of clothing, but food. Apparently my pissed-off dwarves are using food as a weapon, to the point that they're causing bruises.
Just another day in a dwarvish fort I guess...
Edit: Machinestandard is dead. The goblins killed maybe 1/5 of the fort. The rest just committed suicide. I think I'll need to work on happiness more next time.