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| title | created | updated |
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| 00006 - egre | Tue, 26 Jul 2022 20:32:23 -0600 | Tue, 26 Jul 2022 20:32:23 -0600 |
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Standing guard at the entrance to the kobit tunnels is a massive egre, a fearsome bird beast, muscles rippling and bulging beneath its beautiful white plumage. It turns its head and regards you with one jet black eye and then the other, snapping its sharp beak in the air as it tosses its head back and forth.
It looks you up and down, and its gaze rests on your freshly polished shoes. It huffs and grunts, "Your shoes look clean. You can enter." And it steps aside.
The smallest of you can stand upright in the kobit tunnels. The largest of you have to crawl.
Kobits are vaguely mammalian, slightly reptilian bipedal creatures. They are scaly and furry, and live in burrows and tunnels deep in the earth. They have huge eyes, and long fine whiskers at the end of their snout, all of which help them find their way around in the dark. They also have long, thick, course, drooping mustaches which are mostly decorative. The overall effect is that they look like tiny, monstrous, perpetually startled cowboy extras from the set of some old spaghetti western movie.
Suddenly three gophers come crashing through the trees behind you into the dig site. One is wearing a sash of many pockets. One is wearing cargo shorts of many pockets. And the last is wearing a vest of many pockets. All three are wearing hats that resemble waffles.
They march up to you.
"Out of the way, losers!" Sash cries, grabs the zipline trolley, and immediately dives off the side of the cliff down into the hole.
Vest introduces himself, "Retrieval Team 70 here! We are here to retrieve the Ginnarak Crystal that is reported to be in this location. After we collect all five, then it will be us who get to hang out in the Benefactor's hot tub! Not you!"
Sash has reached the bottom of the deep hole, and Shorts has started reeling in the pulley.
Vest leans in close and looks at you closely. "You must be the new Retrieval Team 43. Hmmph. Shame what happened to the old Team 43. Hope you know what you're doing!"
Shorts grabs the trolley and leaps down into the hole, sailing down the line toward Sash at the bottom.
"Welp!" Vest concludes. "No hard feelings, I hope! After we collect this crystal, we just need four more, and then we get to meet the Benefactor!"
He waddles off and starts reeling in the trolley.
WHAT DO YOU DO