I've installed my duke's cage in his office. No more bloodsucking for him! Hopefully he can conduct meetings from the cage-- it is a gold masterwork, so he shouldn't feel too embarased. Took quite a bit of work to get him in it, which I hope he appreciates.
I've also placed two cages into the ocean, curious about what will happen during the next freeze. Maybe my duke would enjoy the ocean more than his throne room?
Crossing my fingers, but it looks like I've finally managed to build a contamination trench. Damned hard to do, when you want to. Yes, a contamination trench, not a decontamination trench. Maybe this will let me perform my sleeping livestock research in earnest now, instead of having to wait for the unholy ash to spawn where I've put my test subjects.
Trying to extend my ocean wall during the winter, will probably lose a few dwarves to the thaw. Haven't captured any sea life yet, and that's disappointing, but maybe if I can expand my cage cross, sealife will travel through my cage traps with more frequency.
Oh, and the artifact floodgate that I put outside my entrance caught fire, thanks to a visiting marsh titan. So now I've got non-stop smoke billowing at the entrance. Only lost one dwarf to the fire, a mason who was ordered to deconstruct it. Doesn't look like anybody's eager to stockpile the thing, so maybe I'll get away without any more casualties. Building a water source above it, which is a shame, because there's just got to be something interesting I can do with a permafire, but I certainly don't want it right there, with everybody waltzing through the smoke.
Hmm. I think that about covers it. Oh, everybody's tantruming, I guess.