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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 2823924" data-attributes="member: 1210">With the possibility of eggs and/or fowl on the horizon, it is only natural that mistakes should be made.  The bird-men, potential allies, instead become prey to our hungry heroes.  Sadly, there are no eggs, and the bird-men prove they are intelligent by turning out to carry javelins.  Once the battle starts, there is no stopping it until it is over, and then the humanoid birds have been felled by our heroes.“Chicken!” gurgles Naomi.“They were intelligent,” points out Martini.“We don’t know that,” the fat psion/elementalist replies.He holds up one of their javelins meaningfully.“Circumstantial evidence,” she snorts. He just shakes his head.“We have plenty food anyway,” Jawbreaker states, shaking his magical bag.  “Well, then, we should throw the bodies down to the halflings below,” suggests Naomi.“Will they even eat them?” Nara asks dubiously.  It seems to her that the intelligence is obvious on the bird creatures’ faces.  “They will if they don’t want to be hungry,” Erasmuz chuckles.Martini shakes his head, but the party kicks the corpses over the edge anyway.  Erasmuz has a point: without food, the halflings in the gorge below won’t be able to even defend themselves if the mind flayers come for them.  We have to find a way to rescue them, the archer thinks grimly.“Look up there,” points Nara.Silhouetted against the darkening sky is a cliff-top building of some sort.  “It looks like a monastery,” Martini muses, and Erasmuz looks uncomfortable.  He has long since abandoned the precepts of his monkish training, as he has abandoned all belief in gods as anything but tools to be exploited by his powerful will.  “Maybe they can help us rescue the other halflings,” Nara says eagerly.“Maybe they have some crahk,” Tron adds, his voice yearning.  The others scowl.***“I saw something,” murmurs Martini abruptly.  The party is panting, having climbed most of the way to the building.  “I think there is a lookout.”  He points.  “Do you think they’ve seen us, buddy?” Erasmuz asks nervously.“I guess we’ll see,” the archer replies.  Soon after, as our heroes continue their ascent, they begin to hear bits of movement.  Pebbles, dislodged from one location or another, bounce down from above.  Shuffling sounds approach the group.Our heroes find a ledge to await what they hope is help.  A few dozen minutes pass, and then a figure arrives, small of stature and-“It’s a kobold!” yells Martini, amazed.  But before our heroes can marshal an attack on the grubby little humanoid, it speaks to them.“My friends!” it pipes.  “How did it go?”“Uh- what?”  Nara is nonplussed.“Oh, no,” the kobold groans.“Have we met?” Martini asks.“What is the last thing you remember?” the kobold inquires.The party hesitates.  Could this kobold have some of the answers to the questions that are dogging them?  Erasmuz answers it after a long moment.  “There was the false promised land,” he grumbles, “and a book of halfling lore...”“Yip!”  The kobold seems distressed.  “The revolution?  Do you remember the battle against Stackler?”  Seeing our heroes’ face, the kobold sighs heavily.  “You had better come with me,” it tells them.  “I am sure you have many questions, my friends.  “Equally, I am sure that Father Yip is better equipped to answer them.”Next Time: Answers at the Yip Monastery!</blockquote>

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