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[Daywalkah]

I trapped a Forgotten Beast under a bridge, prisoners/nobles are thrown in there. It is an entertaining execution.

[Supercharazad]

A small pit, a halway at the bottom, the hallway leads to the main fort, it is filled with single copper whip traps, it has a cage trap at the end Also, the same, only with a locked door before the hallway and a 4X4 space in the pit, each  space has a copper whip trap with one whip

[Medicine Man]

Chain em up,have them get knocked out,have your war cats nibble them to death }:D

[Heavenfall]

I love the smell of magma in the morning.

[thijser]

a simple 15z plus fall down. Usually done by making the cage or noble´s room on one side then having the fall covered with a hatch and having a dwarf repeatatly pull that lever.

[Gatleos]

As soon as I get some other things in my fortress out of the way, I'll make some kind of underground maze surrounding the outskirts of my fortress. I'll release all my prisoners in there, along with my war animals.

[Dood]

Stuff 'em in a room while they are still fully equipped. Once you've got more than 15 gobbos in there pump in some magma through the ceiling. Then watch as they all flee until they can go no further and burst into flames. Pump the magma out of the room, wait a few minutes and grab all the shiny goblinite for melting. Added bonus: No corpses or crappy gobbo clothing to dispose of. Clean and simple. 

[EyeOfNundinate]

I sell them in a caravan, then destroy that caravan.
If I start a war, I paralyze them, then leave them for dead.

[FreakyCheeseMan]

My usual thing is to keep the gobbo prisoners in cages connecting to the noble's quarters, and once in a while let them fight it out. Big enough fortresses get actual, grandiose arenas for that sort of thing.

My personal favorite trick, though, involves a dwarven noble. Knock him out with a cave in on top of a cage trap (or something) and then either set him up in your zoo where he belongs, or sell him back to the mountainhome in exchange for something useful.

Booyah.

[jimjulius]

I have a 9 Z level pit in a room adjacent to my main dining room. The bottom of the pit has one Z 7/7 water, three trained giant toads, and no stairs. Anything that survives the drop is seriously injured with multiple breakages, and has to endure being eaten alive by giant toads while drowning.

I was going to use cave crocodiles, but thought giant toads was far more dwarfy.

[Talfryn]

I have a 9 Z level pit in a room adjacent to my main dining room. The bottom of the pit has one Z 7/7 water, three trained giant toads, and no stairs. Anything that survives the drop is seriously injured with multiple breakages, and has to endure being eaten alive by giant toads while drowning.

I was going to use cave crocodiles, but thought giant toads was far more dwarfy.

If I where female, I would ask to have your children.

[Angry Bob]

Craftsfrills had two such devices. One was a 6 z-level shaft with upright spikes at the bottom. In theory, you toss prisoners down it that you don't want, but in practice, since the first one I tried it with bled all over the main hall, it was relegated to tossing the odd animal down when I was bored.

The other was a small irrigation duct that could be sealed off. It had a weapon trap in the end of it, so you could chain a goblin in it, seal it off, leave, and pull the irrigation lever to flush the prisoner into what amounted to an automated meat grinder.

[ledgekindred]

bookmarking this thread.  I have like 28 goblin prisoners from a couple of recent "ambushes" (heh... cage traps...) that I have been figuring out what to do with.

I was thinking about chucking them into the magma or a long drop into a pit but that seemed so boring.   I'll probably use at least a few of them as sparring practice for the military. 

Right now I've got a big room walled off into a maze leading to a "side door" and filled with dozens of stone traps.  When they attack I raise the bridge and unlock the outside door.  They can take one or two rocks to the head before falling over unconscious, but they'll usually manage to crawl through a half dozen or so before they finally succumb to blood loss or plain old blunt trauma.  It'd probably work just as well releasing the gobbos on this side of the maze too.  (Or maybe a room in the middle... hmm...)  There's a lot of fun to be had watching a goblin get bonked on the head by rocks and then falling down over and over as he tries to run to freedom.   And if they do get past all the rocks ... roomful of cages.

I'm also working on building a "goblin masher" in the maze.  1-tile-wide drawbridges alternating along the path with the stonefall traps.  When a goblin gets stunned by a rock dropping on his head, drop the bridge.  He'll either stumble into the next trap or fall down in the square with the masher in it.  I'm still getting it built so I don't know if it will actually work, but I sure hope so.  I want to get fancy and hook the bridges up to pressure plates so he triggers a bridge behind him and squashes his mates into dust but it needs to work at all first.

I thought about putting a few cages up near the trade depot hooked up to levers and when the caravan guards arrived, open up the doors.  (Debating whether I would first strip them or not.  If they take out the merchants, hey, free stuff!) 

I like "volunteering" them to be a cavern explorer idea too.

[Gatleos]

The Water Slide of Death: Water from a pipe leading from a nearby river is pumped at high speed up a pump stack, then dropped down a 4 z-level pit. The result is a swirling whirlpool that sucks anything thrown in down a long ramp leading into my moat. The ramp is covered in weapon traps, so anything that passes through is cut to ribbons by iron battle axes.

Also, I caught a cyclops and a two-headed titan. I was just gonna put them in a pit and throw goblins in as playmates, but does anyone else have a more devious idea?

[Urist McTaverish]

What I like to call the "Saarlac":

A pit into the earth (tower optional), going several Z-levels down with two or three levels of random spike traps spaced evenly apart.  At the bottom is just an empty room, and any survivors get to stay there until they die.  For extra Dwarf points, make the bottom a magma chamber.