Anyone else seen this? (Adoption Failed)

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So I sit down, turn the computer on and load my Rome campaign. As soon as the campaign loads a message pops up saying I have a new adoptee. I'm thinking, "huh?", because that message wasn't there when I saved, and the game doesn't save random chance messages like that anyway.

Nevertheless I'm happy to see another general so I of course click the "Accept" button. Whereupon a new message pops up saying the man I was going to adopt is dead. At which point I'm thinking, "wtf??? what was the point of that?" Anyway, here are the relevant screenshots so you can see for yourselves:



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Oh, and I got the screenshots because after this very strange event, I exited and loaded game again, and the same sequence occured. So I was able to get screenshots of it.