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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aura" data-source="post: 6420751" data-attributes="member: 6747658">The group heads up the less severe slope, towards the apparent source of the smokey odor, rather than confronting the bluff directly. Along the way, Jonas gives words of comfort to Myrtle, who has calmed appreciably since the dust-up at the end of the battle with the gnolls. She responds with some nickering and other similar subvocalizaitons.Keeping a watchful eye up the hill proves to be a bit difficult, particularly towards the summit of the bluff over the Orino (forward and to the right, as you head up). From your perspective, the low sun is right on the horizon as you head up the hill, although reaching the top would change that. The sun, still yellow and bright, also makes it difficult to look toward the likely location of whatever is making the smoke, although it is less of an impediment than when you look right.Despite this, at the summit of the bluff, more than 100 yards distant still, Hawk thinks she spies a smallish figure with two notable features. First, the head is clearly, almost comically, oversized. And second, it has a bow. Before she can verify, it ducks out of view, the underbrush and distance providing ample opportunities to break contact.Soon after, the chatter begins, and even an odd chant. And although few in the group understand it, it's a known sound: the pig language of the goblins…[sblock=Mystie]The initial voice cries out: "Big people come, with dogs and horses! And gnomes!"It is met with: "Gnomes?" "Gnomes!"Eventually, another chants: "Dinner dinner, stoke the fire, add more wood, make it higher! Yea, gnomes!"After that, the sound of laughter makes picking out specific voices impossible.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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