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[Org]

I saw a cheesy B-movie lately where they tossed in sacrifices down a pit to a large maze to be devoured by a minotaur, that empire's living god. I instantly thought of Dwarf Fortress and making a fort built over a cave.

If you could capture something horrible enough you could sacrifice your migrants to an actual megabeast or something like it, you know. Send them to try to wrassle the Titan in it's sealed throne room or to that dragon in his den under your fortress.

That would be "minotaur" then? That movie was good ... in the beginning then it turned into utter shit.
I agree though that's a cool concept. One I might utilize as I have spotted a wild troll on my map... it's extra fun since he can actually find his way out of the labyrinth! ... I hope his pathfinding isn't as good as the dorfs, they always know the path out after all.

Dragon

[Iapetus]

Recruit them, and send them to spar with an elite champion armed with an artifact axe or sword?

[Org]

Look at the Dwarf Marathon thread.

Do the idea in the thread.

[Rusty Mcloon]

Build bridge walkway on the top of your tower.

Recruit them, put them on the bridge.

Retract it, sending them flying into the air ... those who survive the fall somehow (landing on trees, buildings or animals) have been favored by armok and will live. Those who die will have their bones desecrated! IT IS THE WILL OF ARMOK!

This is exactly why I love DF (and its community).

[Greiger]

When migrants arrive lock all entrances to your fortress.  The temple of armok should be outside and the only meeting area still accessible.  Once they arrive lock the doors to the temple.

Plan A: Pull lever inside fortress unleashing caged untamed Giant Tigers, Giant Eagles, Trolls, Lions, what have you inside the temple.  Afterward unlock the door so the animals will fall into the cage traps at the entrance thus recycling the animals.

PLAN B: Litter the floor with spike traps. Pull lever on repeat.

PLAN C: Build the actual temple of Armok 10 z-levels below the meeting area. Make the fake temple have a retracting bridge for a floor. Pull lever.

PLAN D: Have a self sufficient fortress.  Have the Temple of Armok the entrance to the fortress. Open the outer door during sieges.  When the migrants die open the inner door with army of champions to eliminate the goblins in the temple.

PLAN E: Identify the animals the migrants brought with them.  Cage all animals of the same species inside the fortress. Save and quit. Use raws to trigger a "nuclear cat/donkey/mule/horsesplosion". (Danger, has potential to go horribly wrong inside the fortress)

[ThtblovesDF]

Please tell me more about plan E, what would I have to add to the Raws?

Homotherm and something else or?

[Greiger]

I need to look it up again, Think it had to do with giving the animal sever on breaks and some temperature tag.  Post an edit with the details soon.

Homeotherm 40000 and severonbreaks.  I never tried PLAN E myself it was more theory than the others.  Make sure to tell us how it goes.  I made some assumptions about the cages.  Cages seem to act like stasis chambers in most respects so I assume the cages will protect the animals from the temperature effects.  If it doesn't... well then that's just more "fun".

[zchris13]

Make sure to save and quit before AND after the splosion.  It helps prevent it from doing nothing.

[RAM]

Just build a fort where no dwarf ever wants to go outside. Then set the entrance corridor to flood automatically whenever someone walks through it. Add a lever to disable it so that you can let the megabeasts in. Have it drain into a grate, over a stockpile for clothes you don't want, once all the useful body parts have been collected you flood the stockpile with magma.

Alternatively, teach all your citizens to swim, have the entrance flood automatically on a regular basis. Anyone who can't swim dies...

[Aspgren]

I need to look it up again, Think it had to do with giving the animal sever on breaks and some temperature tag.  Post an edit with the details soon.

Homeotherm 40000 and severonbreaks.  I never tried PLAN E myself it was more theory than the others.  Make sure to tell us how it goes.  I made some assumptions about the cages.  Cages seem to act like stasis chambers in most respects so I assume the cages will protect the animals from the temperature effects.  If it doesn't... well then that's just more "fun".

Sorry to bust your bubble but the cages don't protect.

I had a forest fire when merchants arrived with much needed supplies, the merchant, his pack mule and all the equipment burned to a crisp. I got the strange message "the horse has died of the heat" and went "what? I don't have any horse" .. upon later inspection one of the few things that survived the forest fire was a copper cage.
Inside of it? Horse bones.

[ThtblovesDF]

I added;
[HOMEOTHERM:40000]
and
[SEVERONBREAKS]


Nothing happend.

[cancel.man]

Nothing happend.

Wiki article Thermonuclear catsplosion didn't work for me either.

[Carcer]

Don't you have to regen the world or something for the changes to take place? Or at least start a new fortress?

set the meeting area on top of a retracting bridge above a huge pit. pull lever.

Entire goddamn fortress cancells task: resting injury.

Sigg'd

[Tcei]

I rather like the hand of Armok idea, not only should any that land on a ledge(hand) be seen as the chosen of Armok and be alowed to live, if one manages to survive the fall at the bottom of the pit, he is to have a grand tomb made for him and be made to take the fall a second time. If he survives again, it is clear he is the Avatar of Armok and must become the leader of your fort. The halls of the fort must run red with the blood of the unworthy.