Welp, looks like the goblins won't send any more yummy cave dragons. The last siege was spearheaded by Rine Nemathefife, the Gila Monster Brute/Master, who promptly got run over by a minecart. The ☼nickel silver minecart☼ got another ~25 kills and is just below 200 now, but didn't score the demon. One of the cave dragons made it all the way to the fifth of the six minecarts. Good show! It didn't help, though. Ten tons of minecart vs. three tons of cave dragon are a _very_ one-sided fight. Some joker in the siege thought it was a good idea to demolish the hatch cover over the trench where the tripwire-operated lead minecarts are launched. Didn't achieve anything but capture five hammergobbos in such a stupid position that there was no reasonable way to get them to run away, so it was up to the marksdwarf pair, a deconstruction job and the sword- and axemasters to deal with the problem. I still have a handful of goblin and about twenty war beast captives. So annoying. I can't put animals into prison, now can i?
Interestingly, at 11 275 kg, Rine N. was slightly heavier than the minecart that slew her/him (10 113, ☼lead☼ with five boulders of native gold).
In other news, my architect training scheme is coming along nicely: Lòr Zanegesis is still listed as Stonecrafter (stupid boring childhood mood), but she's up to High Master Building designer, at fifteen years of age.