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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3340463" data-attributes="member: 11760">Fourteen piles of rocks. Two piles of twigs and leaves. Two coughing fits.Emmerson looks up again at the barrow, then at the road, then at Katadid's rock-piles, tunes into Renraw's current monologue and Bufer's recitations."So much for a silent vigil," he murmurs, opening the book to continue reading the tale of a former Knight of St. Chausle and the Toruk-Ruk orc babies.Hazel looks over her shoulder at the rest of the group."With all the noise you've been making, half a dozen bandits could be out there and we'd never know it.""Indeed," Emmerson says pointedly. "Silence from now on."* * *"No," Tucker says. "No silent friends."The constable snorts."Make do, then. Find out what the kobolds are up to. Don't offer violence first, but I don't like them wandering around freely. The dragon's gone; this is our land now."* * *"-- and then I said to her," Tock says, leaning over his drink, "if it didn't fit before it sure will now!"Ragglus snorts a slight laugh into his beer and the dwarf just sort of keeps drinking."When it comes to sex," Tock winks, "honesty is the best policy. Usually."Tucker enters The Cat & The Fiddle just as Tock is finishing his story."Does that mean you're ready to tell everyone where you really spend your nights, or why you keep sending those letters through the general store? That sort of honesty?""I didn't realize you could speak without the constable's arm up your arse, deputy," Tock sneers."Stow it. I need a tracker, now. Have any of you seen Tosh around?""Not recently. But the other ass-high's gone to sit in the snow outside the barrow in case that note turns anything up. I think he's got the wizards and your boy Grant out there, too."Without waiting for any more, Tucker grunts, turns on his heel and leaves, not hearing Emus trying to talk to him urgently through a mouthful of breakfast. The dwarf swallows and looks up at Ragglus and Tock."I'm gonna catch up with Tucker and head to the barrow. You two might as well come with us," he says, tossing some coins for his meal on the table. "You're not going to get rich in a tavern. And they might have found somethin' interesting at the barrow."He's about to get up when his second breakfast and the next round of drinks arrives."I'm going to catch up with Tucker after I finish this, though."* * *Heading north along the frozen banks of the Moss River, Tucker crosses the kobolds' path through the snow within half an hour and then turns, following them southeast. The kobolds appear to be wearing heavily bundled rags or shoes around their feet, instead of going barefoot as they normally do. They are making bad time as a result, and leaving a clear path for him to follow. How many there are, he cannot guess, although as he continues to trudge through the underbrush after them, it becomes clear that they are heading for the Tulgey Barrow.With the kobold's destination clear, Tucker strikes out at an angle, hoping to get around them unnoticed and warn the stakeout party of what's headed their way.* * *Still reading his holy tome, Bufer unscrews the cap off the top of his bottle of brown liquid, takes a sip, swallows, and then jerks as though physically struck."Whoo-waah!" he says, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes. Blinking rapidly, he shakes his head as though trying to jerk something loose, then smiles offers his jar to the rest of the party, who look at him and the jar skeptically.A loud crashing noise in the underbrush, north of where the adventurers are huddled, suddenly grabs their attention.</blockquote>

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