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[RogerN]

I was traveling the world map in Adventure mode when I noticed something else moving.  It was represented by an '=' symbol.  At first I thought it was a storm; but it was moving much too slowly.  I caught up with it and entered the site.  I was immediately surrounded by a group of about 30 dwarves.

Who are these guys?  Are they refugees?  An army?  Unfortunately I couldn't get any information out of them, because they keep saying "Ask me when I've returned to my home!"

Only a small number of them appear to be military dwarves.  The rest have normal professions: engineer, craftsdwarf, stoneworker, etc...  They do not move at all while I'm there, but if I go back to traveling on the world map then the group keeps moving.

[RogerN]

Looks like I've answered my own question.  I tried entering the site a little later, and since there were multiple objects on that tile of the world map it gave me a choice of which one I wanted to visit.  One of them was a "migrating group".   So it looks like they're just migrating dwarves.

Only they don't appear to be migrating to anywhere in particular.  They keep traveling back and forth between two human towns.

[RogerN]

More answers abound!  I looked up one of the dwarves in Legend mode... he was a survivor from one of my previously abandoned fortresses!  I didn't recognize the poor little fellow.

*spoilers below*

The group of dwarves is extremely large because I was attempting to reclaim a botched attempt at undermining a goblin fortress.  While digging beneath the goblin towers, I (totally by accident) released the Hidden Fun Stuff.  The resulting carnage was really quite impressive.  Goblins, human prisoners, dwarves, and dozens of babbling denizens of the underworld were running in every direction.  Demons were hurling a constant stream of fireballs.  Body parts of all types littered the multi-level goblin fortresses.  My poor dwarves were trapped on the top floor of one of the towers (how the heck they got the wagon up there I'll never know).

The battle brought my computer to a crawl, so I abandoned... and now I find the survivors wandering the world map

[Christes]

The group of dwarves is extremely large because I was attempting to reclaim a botched attempt at undermining a goblin fortress.  While digging beneath the goblin towers, I (totally by accident) released the Hidden Fun Stuff.  The resulting carnage was really quite impressive.  Goblins, human prisoners, dwarves, and dozens of babbling denizens of the underworld were running in every direction.  Demons were hurling a constant stream of fireballs.  Body parts of all types littered the multi-level goblin fortresses.  My poor dwarves were trapped on the top floor of one of the towers (how the heck they got the wagon up there I'll never know).

Wow...

If only you got a video of it.