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[Llahlahkje]

I've definitely made a 4 story drop as a sort of "Trial by Ordeal" ...

The goal was to see who lived and who did not. If you did not live, you were clearly impure and had no place in my society.

If you did, the second ordeal was surviving recovery. If you did not survive that, it was the will of the gods.

... but I had the luckiest living citizens ever!

[Cthulhu]

I don't usually do mean things.  The meanest thing I've ever done is picked a random useless dwarf, drafted him, gave him a crossbow and ten catbone bolts and sent him out against a pack of undead horses.

He lasted all of two seconds.

[CardinalXimenes]

Meanest thing? Well, one thing springs to mind....

I was digging out a cistern in my fortress. The surface river would freeze during winter, and I didn't want my vict... er, dwarves to die of thirst if they got injured sparring. I dug out a nice room three levels below the surface, and I created a 3x3 room inside that room to hold the water- I planned to decorate the outer walls of it and so forth.

Then I had a miner knock a few holes in the floor above it and set my bucket-dwarves to filling it. It took forever, but at last, they had filled the cistern. So I closed over the random holes I'd punched and prepared to open a well. Unfortunately, due to some confusion, I ended up dropping a dwarf in the full cistern.

It was highly annoying. I'd have to knock open a hole in the cistern to get him out, and I really didn't want to bother refilling it. So I just built the well on top of him and let him dogpaddle down in the dark, drowning by inches for my convenience.

He lasted almost three seasons before he finally died- but the vicious little thing got his revenge. The stench from his corpse boiled up through the wellhead and stank up my meeting room, so I had to knock open the cistern after all.

[Karpatius]

quote:Originally posted by Joseph Miles:
<STRONG>Don't forget to add a room with magma and water, kill 'em with the heat  

That still works, right?</STRONG>

That's a sauna!
Not really mean to pamper your dwarfs to a spa holiday...

[Joseph Miles]

quote:Originally posted by Karpatius:
<STRONG>

That's a sauna!
Not really mean to pamper your dwarfs to a spa holiday...</STRONG>

Not really, as I recall last time I tried it they died right out. Not sure if it still works like that.

[Lacota]

quote:Originally posted by ShadowDragon8685:
<STRONG>Title says it all. I'll just let the picture speak for me:

  </STRONG>

What tileset is this?

[Dwarf Fanatic]

Mayday's I presume.

The meanest: hmmmmm...... Hmmmmmm..... Imp infested HELL land, Sends 1 marksdwarf Ranger to fight. mwaha

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I slaughtered an entire family plus pets because I didn't like the baby.
I dropped them all down the chasm with a retracting bridge.
Funny thing:
I forgot their dog, which leapt down after them, dunno how.

[Elitay]

I has every single dwarf work on a dam across a river wider than my screen. I had two rows of pumps stretching across the river so it was safe. Sortof. There were still carp. Anyways, once my fps was down to 1 I decided it was to much trouble to keep going. I turned the pumps off and let the river+carp down on their heads.

[KrunkSplein]

I try and keep my fortress dwarves happy, so I don't really do anything mean to them.

But in adventure mode, I go around gouging eyes out with my bare hands.

[Pickerel]

I don't know if by mean you mean outright cruel without reason, or if you simply mean cruel though with good reason.

Example: I sentence all caravans to death by using my trading post as an entrance to funnel all goblins through it.  The reason: the trader's accompaniment kills off goblin sieges effectively.  Basically I pit goblins vs caravans.  The end result is that, usually, a few goblins get through to my traps after leaving elven, human, and dwarven corpses littering the ground.  The benefit to me is that I now get free goblin stuff, free human stuff, free elven stuff, and free dwarven stuff.  On some occasions, goblins lose before destroying caravans, in which case I sell to these caravans their stuff back.

So I have good reason.

Also mean but with good reason: all my forts are defended, nowadays, by a series of bridges 6+ z-levels above the ground, requiring goblins to weave their way over them to the entrance.  An entire siege can be on the bridges when the lever is pulled.  A walled off 'landing pad', an upraised area at the bottom so that the goblins can't get on and survivors can't get off, allows my dwarves to pick off survivors through fortifications, and collect their stuff in complete safety.  30 second genocide.  I have had occasions where caravans were on the bridge too.  Anyone below would have been hit by a plethora of falling anvils, as it was the dwarven caravan.

Arbitrarily mean: I have kept dwarves in two seperate societies, let them all (on each side) become best friends/married, then killed off half of one side of them to see what they would do.  I then let the ragers into the other side.  The fortress fell, as one might believe, quickly but efficiently.  Love Love Love Love makes society fall down ^.^

[cuthbert19]

Totally owned my residential level once by trying to make a sweet sewer system the level below. It ended up flooding the whole level above the sewer, so the dwarves were trapped in my room. As soon as I was able to dig em out I got bored with the fort and channeled into the rooms... Poor guys, hearing new tunnels dug from above them for a month, only to find it was their watery death they were hearing.

[Erk]

I dug a channel directly below a trapped merchant, causing him to fall into the pit I'd dug.

Then I bricked in on top of it.

I felt very guilty though, and stopped trying to play a mean fortress.

[Logical2u]

I was playing a very serious fortress for once, working on getting a fractal tower of bedrooms going.

My uber-mayor was suddenly not elected for his umpteenth term. Some random peasant was.

I drafted him, sent him out to the river, and drowned him. My old mayor dug the channel tiles.

I first noticed something was different about this mayor when he wanted tin on a fortress without ore.

[Untelligent]

One of my mayors issued a glass mandate on a sandless map, so I built a narrow bridge over a magma pool and told him to attach a floor to the bridge.