Just started a new fort with version 0.31.12, after a few months without playing.
I've just had my first human caravan arrive, with the messages:
The human Animal Trainer Innu Uselecsha from Pessalpesor has arrived.
A human caravan from Pessalpesor has arrived.
My first thought was "Eh? Has a human just immigrated?", but it turned out that the humans had sent an animal trainer as a diplomat
I then checked the diplomat's details:
Her greasy hair is extremely long. She is tall and scrawny. Her very large-irised protruding dark green eyes are slit. Her somewhat short fuse-lobed ears are very splayed out. She has low cheekbones, and she has a deeply recessed chin. Her lips are very thick. Her teeth are tangled. Her ears are somewhat narrow. Her eyebrows are quite dense. Her hair is goldenrod. Her skin is pale pink.
Oh, great. Not only do they not send a professional diplomat, they send some weird-looking inbred freak. Obviously the humans don't view diplomatic relations with the dwarves as very important.
She sounds like a crackhead.
Anyway:
*Random merchants arrive*
A vile force of darkness has arrived!
Dwarf: Oh, let's just let them in- whoops, somebody accidently pulled the close drawbridge lever. Okay, then they'll be fin- Whoops, somebody just pulled the "The sky is falling!" lever. Okay then, maybe somebody survi- Oh look at that, somebody accidently pulled the "Noah couldn't survive this" lever. Good luck merchants.