I've got bog standard, non-spy artifact hunters looking for my toy boat, Prairiequick. Whoever heard about it must want it desperately if they've given up on subterfuge. Well they can't have it. MY dude made it, he offered it to my government, so legally only the acting mayor (recently elected) has any right to it.
Speaking of, we've finally held an election, and Oak, the once-perpetually stressed sheriff, is now mayor (probably from training up his skills as an interrogator. He's also now in charge of his very own unit, which needs to have equipment made and issued. I'm thinking a bunch of mace and hammermen. Those are kind of underrepresented in my military's variety of killing implements (only one hammerdwarf and two macedwarves in a currently 27 member militia.)
I've lost Thikut the papermaker turned potter to madness, the stresses of his own poor social skills, being imprisoned three times, starting fights, seeing two goblins drink themselves to death, and inability to get something out of a box having left him stark raving mad in prison.
I also need to assign a dungeon master I guess? If only to have one even if he doesn't do anything.
Gibbon, the other perpetually stressed dwarf, is also now destressed for the most part. Thank the gods for military service. And speaking of military service, I sent a raid out to nearby kobold cave! Not only did they sneak in and remain undetected, but my men successfully retrieved two artifact weapons rumored to be there. The Glad Tundra, an artifact iron warhammer, and Hustlerooter, The Shaken Shields - a willow longsword used to kill a minotaur in the year 82 (the owner of which died in 83.) Assuming the kobolds came into possession not long after, they could have had this weapon in their cave for more than 160 years.
Oak is likely to receive the hammer as a badge of office, while sword - being militarily useless - will make a fine historical addition to the museum.
Goblins conquered an elven forest retreat near my fort...and economically linked themselves to me. I'm only a year in, and haven't gotten sieged yet, so I'm guessing that no contact is close enough to peace that they can do that. Not sure whether it counts for barony, though.
My embark had candy out in the open in cavern 3, and within a year I had a ☼1M+ artifact spear, so I'm not counting on peace lasting long.
Forget a baron, you're liable to get the monarch showing up early.