To: All Dorfs, Ever,
Thank you for evolving the instinct to either a) stand immediately next to a pool of water while having no swimming skill, b) stand on the bridge over the only few tiles of lava, c) stand on the narrow walkway over the huge z-level drop ... while dodging during a fight. You could have moved a half dozen tiles in just about any other direction and been perfectly safe. How your entire species has managed to survive this long, when you all seem to insist on falling to your deaths at the drop of a hat is a puzzle for the ages.
Dear Urist McLegendaryMechanic and Urist McLegendaryWeaponsmith,
Thanks to the two of you, and no thanks to our incredibly inept military (see above re: idiots), the four, yes four weapon traps, filled with masterwork trap components and operated by masterwork mechanisms, managed to hold off the entire siege as they filed through the path of death in front of our gate. I'm only slightly irritated that I would have liked to have a few make it to the cage traps for training fodder, but I certainly cannot dispute the fact that your handful of traps turned the first dozen or so invaders through it into a fine mist, causing half the siege to retreat. Soon after which the rest of the siege decided to walk through the same traps that just a moment before chopped, sliced and tenderized the previous squad. While a few made it through, the traps apparently reset shortly after and when THEY retreated, were just as efficiently vaporized. You have been rewarded with lovely new bedrooms. If I had to complain about anything, it would be the fact that the traps were so effective that it took quite a bit of time to clean up all the chunks.
Dear Goblins,
Keep visiting if you'd like, those mysterious pad on the ground are just welcome mats! And most certainly not full of spinning death.
Yrs,
Omniscient Overseer