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[Leonidas]

Some merchants in my fort got spooked by combat, so they refused to leave. This is a new fort, so if their guards stuck around long enough to go insane they could easily kill everyone. I needed them to be dead or gone.

The merchants and guards were all clustered together down in the first cavern. I dug shafts over them and dropped rocks on them. They dodged the rocks every time. So I built a wall around them, built a retractable bridge over them, loaded it with rocks, and carpet-bombed them. Some of them died; some still managed to dodge.

After three rounds of bombing, one hammerdwarf simply refused to die. So I decided to drown her. I designated my bridge as a pond, loaded it with water, and dropped it. Her tile went to 7/7 water, but she didn't drown. Instead she climbed up out of her tile, found a staircase on the z above, and walked straight out of the fort.

The moral of this story: If someone in your fort is stuck, try building a wall around them and dumping water on them. The urge to avoid drowning might jump-start their AI and get them moving again.

[thefinn]

If they have already packed up their stuff and are stuck before leaving the map - then you can deconstruct the trade depot without issue.

Otherwise you can deconstruct it and you'll end up with all their stuff - I believe it still considers that stealing their haul. This might not effect things with the civ that sent them.