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[khearn]

I had a situation where an early siege group of goblins had gotten stuck because their leaders were caught in cages on the bridges (floors, actually) I built over the stream on my map. I needed to end the siege so I could get more migrants and caravans, and I didn't have enough trained military  to really take them head on. So I let my civilians go out, hoping to lure the goblins in closer where they would hit more cages.

So one civilian heads out that general direction to store something in a stockpile. he gets close enough to see the goblins and turns and runs. I turn my civilian burrow back on to get everyone to head back inside, then go to watch the hauler haul his backside back to the fort, expecting him to have a goblin chasing him the whole way. Well, Urist starts moving at a fairly normal speed back to the fort 9or at least away from the goblins), and all the sudden, something rockets in from the edge of the screen. I thought it was a bolt from the crossbowgoblin that's been swimming in the stream, it was that fast. But all the sudden there's a gray g next to the hauler and the hauler is dead. A goblin lasher had arrived like he was wearing rocket skates and taken him out. Seriously, he was moving at about the same speed a bolt typically travels.

Has anyone else seen this sort of warp speed movement?

   Keith

[Darulio]

That is all.

[dwarf_reform]

I love it when beautiful Renaissance-era artwork is used as an accurate answer