Another Giant Coati incursion. The score stands tied at 2-2. I shall also recount (briefly, b/c sleepy) a bit of epicness at Isengard this evening. The aforementioned surviving Miner who also doubled as a backup Mason & Stonecrafter started screaming his fool head off. After claiming a pair each of cut gems & rough gems, he then grabbed a chunk of tetrahedrite. Fortunately, this mood was very clear for the remainder; he wanted (screamed about) bones & silk cloth.
My reindeer herd has been fattening up quite nicely, so I picked one to travel to that big North Pole in the sky. Silk cloth... is a problem. I changed digging priority to 1, and dug straight down in the hopes of finding a cavern. I managed to hit Cavern 2 or 3 (unsure, but definitely not the first). A clothesmaker heads out to grab some webs, and is accosted by a Giant Toad. After trading blows, and at one point, actually head-butting the thing, the Toad gets a firm hold of the Dwarf's left foot and cracks a few toes.
The combination of pain & exhaustion is enough for him to pass out. The toad decides he's shown this pesky upstart, and wanders off to do toad things. Dwarf wakes up, hobbles back to the loom, and churns out a single patch of silk before passing out again. The Miner wastes no time, and soon produces a tetrahedrite weapon rack, worth 77k and change. My net wealth up to that point was around 123k.... I have no military, been focusing on building and setting up gear production for the eventual military.
Operation Isengard is suspended until further notice, replaced by Operation 'rush as much basic training as Dwarvenly possible so that I don't die horribly in the near future, b/c some lunatic nearly doubled my Fortress wealth after just 2&1/2 years'.