Holy SHIT. An elven caravan got ambushed by a pack of goblins just as they were arriving to the vicinity of my depot. One of the goblins, a pikeman, then proceeded to attack one of the elvish traders, hurling him to the wall with this pike and killing him instantly. They managed to kill one other trader and a few pack animals before my ever valiant captain of the guard arrived on the spot and shot one of them dead. One of their posse dead, they decided to leg it, which was a bit anticlimatic...
However, as the goblins ran, I decided to examine the aftermath of the battle. Apparently the elf had struck the wall so hard that he had been rendered to a mess. Not a big deal, happens all the time, but I then proceeded to check on the progress of the towers I have been building to guard the entrance of my fort. On the top of the tower, i found
the elf's leg. It had flown 5 z-levels upwards after the poor bastard hit the wall and landed on the tower's roof.
Shame that I didn't manage to get a glimpse at the pikegoblin's name. Or even better, captured him so I could have one day pitted him against one of my champions.
Doesn't matter though, as I got my fair share of epic soon afterwards. A short while after the flying leg incident, a lone fisherdwarf was attacked by another band of goblin ambushers.
Yet another group of ambushers joined them almost immediately, and they started killing everyone unlucky enough to get caught outside. I issued "all dwarves stay inside" from the orders menu and stationed all available squads to the hallway near the entrance. The goblins had a menacing amount of archers with them, so i stayed inside and hoped that the traps would kill at least some of them. Not so: before the ambushers reached the entrance, I started getting a shitload of snatcher messages, about 4-5 overall, as some baby snatchers walked into my cage traps, clogging them all. Some evil goblin plot, surely! Moreover, the goblins shot some dumbass mechanic who was rigging the front gates to a lever and his corpse blocked the door from closing, resulting in a massive volley of bolts and arrows flying both ways. The dwarves lost two and the goblins four, until a foolish goblin walked too close to the mountainhome caravan that was visiting my fort and the whole lot got chased away from the map by angry caravan guards.
Now i have a bunch of captured goblins, and right on time too, since i'm building an arena (or actually it's finished save for some levers controlling wall grates). I'm hoping to catch a sasquatch or something so i have my own rabid beast to feed the goblins to. I also built some water tunnels connecting some large murky pools (my map doesn't have a river or anything) to an underground reservoir, but it's pretty useless as the pools dry out during summer, it almost never rains here and when rains come, they only fill the pools to 2/7 or so... But i'm hoping that some day i'll get a thunderstorm of biblical proportions.
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