When I play A:DD after A:MFP

[Fortigurn]

Plus it doesn't even make sense, considering your children are clearly free and ethereal. Finding out that the Machine is referring to your Pig-Children doesn't make matters much better.

This was definitely a very confused area of the plot. It seems to have suffered several changes during the script development, from which it never quite recovered.

There's all this urgency right at the start, and carefully orchestrated near encounters with children who are supposedly only just out of sight, while at the same time you're being told they're miles away in the depths of some tunnels, but it takes you ages to get anywhere and there's no obvious penalty for delay, and the sense of urgency is lost. Then the length of time between messages urging you to hurry grows longer and longer, and you lose interest in the whole idea of saving them at all (at least I did).