Lo' and behold, it's a roving pack of gobbies. What did I do? Chased the poor unarmed buggers down and cut them into little pieces with an axe. They run from you, too, though I'm not sure if this is an "Oh shit, heavily armed and armored dwarf about to kill me" run as much as it's a feature of them migrating.
Either way, there's a kind of sick satisfaction in chasing down goblin children and hacking them to bits. This was compounded further when I went to the travel screen to see the group had divided into at least 8 other separate smaller groups fleeing in random directions.
What did I do then? Drew straws to decide which group I was going to hunt down first. This kept me thoroughly entertained for about twenty minutes when I realized it would likely take me several hours to chase down and kill every single goblin that had scattered about.
Interestingly? It's sort of a new perspective. Normally it's the goblins coming to kill you when you're unarmed and defenseless. I like this retribution.
All because of Squatty McAngercrotch, Axedwarf, and the dark and aching void he ripped into a small goblin child's heart the day he decided to decapitate gobbo-mom. It's kinda like bambi, only with masterwork steel weapons and oodles and oodles of dwarven blood.
I love this game.
[ November 21, 2007: Message edited by: JT ]
Whenever I come across the telltale "-" symbol on the map and travel there.. I never can find anyone. Closest I've come is finding a human guard just standing around, but I could never find the rest of the caravan. I don't know of a way to open a map for the local area since there's no quest or site there. And then that's assuming there's a blue area to narrow down the location.
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Originally posted by Blargh:
<STRONG>Squatty McAngercrotch, Axedwarf</STRONG>
I'm glad there's no one else here at my office, because I laughed out loud at this.
I can see that now, one maniacal adventurer shows up in the middle of it, one week later half the map is replaced by randomly wandering -'s
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Originally posted by Greiger:
<STRONG>Usually when I push > on top of a migrating group I get plopped right in the middle of their little caravan. Maybe the - is only 1 or 2, and only the = is a group. Heck eventually there could be ≡ for entire nomadic civs.I can see that now, one maniacal adventurer shows up in the middle of it, one week later half the map is replaced by randomly wandering -'s</STRONG>
Hmm, that might make sense. Although there have been two joined civs in the town where I'm seeing these small "-" migrations (The town needs some culling, like a horse stampede and gopher attack that happened to poor Friendlytoes village.) So maybe these are leftovers or new mini-migrants?
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Originally posted by JoRo:
<STRONG>I wonder when you'll look up your adventurer in the legends screen and see something like "Rabin Vipershanks the Yellow Truss of Violators was a human born in 1018. It is universally agreed that Rabin Vipershanks the Yellow Truss of Violators was a complete asshole. A few issues still trouble scholars, but they're confident he was a total jerk. [five pages of dead migrants go here]."</STRONG>
:D