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[Danjen]

Suddenly, Fun happens and your great fortress is wiped out. The circumstances don't matter, but all dwarves inside have either fled, died, or become enslaved. Years pass. A decade? A century? Who knows. But then, it is rediscovered by archaelogists. They don't find all the minutiae that made your culture or fortress unique, but they do find something that is representative of it. What is it?

[Urist Imiknorris]

"You have broken through into a peculiar chamber at the base of the mountain."


It's filled with charcoal.

[Jacob/Lee]

A Vile force of rotting corpses has arrived!

[Halceon]

Dense-packed overground slums with labyrinthine passageways across multiple levels stretching as far as the eye can see. A sub-civ of long forgotten dwarfs may or may not be still living there, but the archaeologists will probably never find them.

[Tirin]

An entirely hollowed out mountain. The cause of the fortress's demise is obvious. All the stone has somehow been placed in the exact same spot, and it has collapsed in on itself to form a small black hole floating in the dining hall, the dwarves still visible even thousands of years later as time has gone loopy in the vincinity.

[Kidiri]

A lever.

[wagawaga]

Magma.

[Vester]

"This is an engraving of a dwarf and a horse. The dwarf is in a fetal position. The horse is screaming."

A lever.

That is perfect.

[wagawaga]

A lever.

Magma.

Now I realize its probably linked to- AARGH IT BURNS!

[ungulateman]

A hole in the ground, with a surveying platform over a canyon near the dining halls and tides of rats swarming all over the food stocks.

[wagawaga]

In one of my fortresses it could be "hordes of zombie cats adopting you to death"

[XSI]

Tunnels. Lots of tunnels with lots of levers. Oversized rooms filled with rocks and maybe a bed under them, and levers, half of them not even attached to anything.

I just like building levers, anyone that sees my fort gets confused by them. Sometimes I link a lever to something and remove the linked object, just so it shows a mechanism extra with t, so they think it's connected to something.

[Psithief]

After finding some blueprints, they come across a scrawled note in in the margin. "Excellent work, but how does the fountain turn itself off in winter?"

[SethCreiyd]

Many bones, empty bottles of booze, and clothes everywhere.

[sproingie]

Smoke.  It'll still be burning.  Fire pretty much brings down all my fortresses.