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Now a titan -- this has been a busy goddamn year. No casualties this time, but one of my axedwarves has become a wrestler. I hope we can save his arm, because I didn't train him and make him a steel axe for nothing.

There's a chest and cabinet there already, and neither appear to be used. I can't see any contents in them, or in the tile that they're in, and the hospital zone information doesn't register anything that isn't already stockpiled.

However, I do know that stockpiled soap, splints, crutches and gypsum powder are getting used; I've seen the supplies come down, and I've seen multiple diagnoses for cleaning that didn't result in death by infection.

My first FB -- a giant skinless alligator. I didn't expect him to act like this, but he acts the way he looks, like an alligator. He lurks under a bridge and jumps out at anyone who passes by, so slowly that civilians outrun him, and only managed to get two dogs and a baby. But whenever I bring a squad around, he stays underwater, lurking. Still no idea what kind of threat he is. I could just tap the volcano and let it burn him out, but that'll cut off my water supply and disrupt the magmaworks up top, not to mention the silk plant I just set up near the only patch of subterranean floor.

We were getting low on booze and people were starting to hoard food, so I mopped up the siege. I didn't expect much out of them since my adventurer already wiped out their leadership and left them embroiled in holy war.

The siege snuffed within the last week of spring; immediately come summer we received a diplomat and trade caravan. Food and boozables, yay! I accepted their plea for peace and gifted a masterworked figurine of some human venturing into these mountains, a popular subject with some of the craftsdwarves.

I really need to train siege operators in case I have to use these things seriously. Catapults are sloooooow. Slow loading, slow firing, and miss the mark even when the stone flies through a whole row of targets. My operator was struck by a fey mood, but fortunately we had the parts to make his legendary bone helm, and then he threw a party to celebrate it. The rest of the time,  he'd wander past the 30+ stone stockpile set right next to him to find one single stone deep in the fortress, and it didn't even match his favorite stones, so wtf is that about? After all those years, he only went from novice to talented, so I set up a channeled backboard for target practice.

I'm going to make the most of this flooded cavern and see if I can make a spire city. There'll be a warehouse hub at ceiling level, a network of pontoons at the water level, and walkways between them at intervals up the sides. Each spire will be like a skyscraper, housing it's own shops, the worker's homes, cafeteria and brewery. It'll be about impossible to defend, so I'm keeping a single, destructible access to the fort above, in case I have to scuttle the whole thing.

Humans are at the gates because goblin raiders killed their diplomat. Goblin raiders are here too, so why aren't they going after each other?

Oh well, my siege operator has plenty of stones to throw at them while three squads are training inside. By the time I slaughter all these mules, my breeding animals will have birthed another generation. Terracing the mountainside seems to give me such a good mix of both exterior biome and cavern plants that I don't even need to farm, which is fortunate since the caverns below are so full of water that I hardly have ground to stand on. So I'm set to wait it out, and when the gates open again I'll be the richest city to trade with. If I get bored, I could just open the drawbridge and let them meet my giant.

I thought I could catch an intruder for target practice. When a hostile enters, 90% of the entry corridor drops away, leaving a long and winding path of weapon traps filled with training weapons, through 1-level pits with floor grates over the ramps at an edge of each pit.

And it works, next critter to breach the gate is going to have a giant for company. Surprisingly, the grates don't alarm every civilian who walks across, so I assume that means it's not possible to shoot him through them? The floor can be opened by levers behind fortifications along each side of the corridor, so they could pelt him with bone bolts for practice, when I get around to it.