Managed to trap a draconian diplomat in the barons household... He's currently in the statue garden, admiring the obsidian and golden busts of the baron. Currently deciding whether I want to kill him to declare war on the Draconians... They're a strong species, access to steel, natural fighters, on average bigger than a human, some of their species can breathe fire, some are huge, some can use poison that causes extreme pain... More fun than killing giant snails, however.
In more mundane news, we have a whole troop of mercenaries now, five humans, a draconian, a dwarf from my fortress, and three dwarven mercenaries. Not sure why, but letting these guys have at the iron armour before my own home grown squad gets any. Will also be constructing a saferoom that'll have two drawbridges involved, that'll let us go into the caverns using an airlock system. Gotta get my two squads training on something other than sparring sessions and slugs.
EDIT: Let him and his guards go actually, decided against it. A grizzly bear man wandered in, petitioned to stay as a soldier... gladly accepted him in. He's currently with the champions squad, firing out some armour for him. Giving him the platinum warhammer artifact we've got, hopefully he'll squish a lot of people. Got him training in the barracks pretty fast though, his mood was dropping rapidly talking to people he finds annoying in the tavern.