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[Hanslanda]

That's uh... That's both beautiful and horrifying. I like it.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Dwarves locked in their rooms, alone or in groups. Starvation, dehydration, insanity, rage against an absurd and meaningless existence, the desperate struggle to reach that door. Tales of woe, suffering, denial and acceptance of a dwarf's place in the senselessly malevolent hands of fate.

You've just described the first 5-10 years of every one of my forts.  One day I'll have one that doesn't get an early tantrum spiral killing 80-90% of the fortress population....

[vicwarrior]

I lock my legendary usefull dwarves somewhere sealed from everything and start a loyalty cascade then abandon once it ends or breach hfs and see who is the winner then abandon.

[TerringtonSnyde]

How do I end my fortress?

This is the way my fortress ends.
This is the way my fortress ends.
This is the way my fortress ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.

...ok, seriously though, what typically motivates me to quit a fort is when some catastrophe hasn't quite destroyed it outright but brought it close enough to extinction that the prospect of trying to rebuild becomes too daunting for me, and I just abandon the wretched survivors in the anti-climactic aftermath. Although, if it's available, I do like to try and spread as much magma and water around as possible. Because THE PENALTY FOR INCOMPETENCE IS BURNING, FOLLOWED BY DROWNING. AND SOMETIMES VICE VERSA. and all that.
 

I normally drop my dining hall down 40 Z-leves or so.

I keep a reserve of danger room trained legendary goblin captives on hand, just in case... uh... well, I don't really know why I do it. But if a fort gets boring, I wait for autumn to roll around, give everyone crossbows, open the caverns to the numerous FBs I've been ignoring, release the legendary gobbos, and start a loyalty cascade. It's pretty glorious.

but these are both genius and I believe I will now do my best to make them my ritual blaze-of-glory-and-beautiful-chaos self-termination modus operandi from here on out.