Tales from Talaveroth

“Well, we have done what we came for. How about we head back down?”

"We could try fighting it, but it seems to me that the birds will have a significant height advantage, and could just get out of range of our attacks until we retire, leaving us in a somewhat unsatisfactory stale mate. Of course, I'm no expert fighter, I much rather win through trickery.

The bright light doesn't seem to disturb the birds, and judging by the loud bang, neither do sounds. What could do it though is if the bird thought that this tower was on fire... If we can create some form of choking smoke, the birds will have to leave, likely never to return. Now, depending on how alcoholic this wine here is, I might be able to mix it with some wood ash to then set on fire, which should make for thick smoke that burns the eyes. All I'd need is to find something that burns quickly and with a lot of heat. Once we prepare the mixture, we could try and get it as far up the tower as possible, attach a waxy or soaked rag as a fuse, light it from down here, and watch the smoke billowing out and up. Additional benefits might be that the wizard, if they're still close by, might want to check in and see what is going on. What do you think?"

"You should try that near the top of the tower from within......let the heat and smoke rise.....right into their nest up top...."

"Or we just run and the birds will likely leave us alone when we're away from their nest. They didn't care when I was out there, they just watched." 

"I could fly out towards the beach......see if they follow......and if they do, there's potentially two ships to fire upon them......"

"Oh, I was under the impression we'd have to deliver these bottles to the wizard. They aren't here, so we might need to find out where they are, and I much rather search this place without large birds sitting on top of it. But then, I might just be too stubborn to allow that "captain" to get a win over us."

"Yes..... maybe we should have a.....discussion...... with the captain........see if he had any idea if those birds were here....."

Paren must looks at the bottles. "adjust leave a note. 'Dear Mr. Wizard, your tower was full of a bunch of angry things so we decided to leave with our lives. Here is our gift. Thank you for maintaining the lighthouse. Sincerely, the two ships below. P.s. If this is unsatisfactory please direct all vengeance to the Captain of the Mobius." 

After Paren leaves his note, Si'Juul cracks his neck and flares his wings in a sort of stretch, preparing himself for a very quick flight.

"Alright......unless someone has a better idea.....I will be outta here and seeing if the things follow me...."

Twitch is still worried. The lighthouse was important, and the birds here were preventing it from working as intended. She felt that they had to do something about this, to make sure other ships could profit from the lighthouse in worse conditions than they had found themselves.

"What about the light up above? It's still burning, but the bird's nest could block it eventually. We should make sure that the light is visible and that the birds don't block it."

"Well then we need to kill the bird. No bird is just going to let you mess with it's nest. I'm not a big fan of that since the bird never did anything too me, and also I punch things. It's a bit hard to punch things that fly." 

".......I don't think we have much choice, much as I don't like it......"

”What if we pour the whine on the nest? Would that make the birds leave it? I can’t imagine that they would like to live in a whine smelling nest?”  “Si’Juul, maybe you could fly it up there? Or we take it through the roof?” In case more alcohol would be needed, Elhanna will look around to see if she sees any other strong smelling liquids in the wizards house. 

perception: 19

Hmmm, most of the containers in storage under the stairs are food and basic supplies,  but you do find a small keg of oil and a barrel of tar.

“This should do it I think” comes from in under the stairs and out come Elhanna with her findings.

"so....burn them out then.....as for getting up there, I didn't see any means of getting on top of the tower from within.....so it will have to be me to fly up....."

“Oh no, we shouldn’t kill them. I just meant to drive them off for a while with the stink. Or maybe we can do a Twitch said and smoke them out?” 

Twtich's eyes would sparkle at finding the tar and the oil. They would work even better! But how to get them up to the nest? Si'Juul flying it up there certainly was a possibility, but he was likely going to be out-matched in an aerial fight.

"What if we move all the furniture out of the top room, and just set a fire there? The smoke and the flames would rise, but we could stay safely below..."

"Far as I could tell, there wasn't any opening of any sort from inside to the top on the outside"

(Did I at least see if the top of the tower below the overhanging shields was solid rock like the rest of the tower, or something else?)

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(Did I at least see if the top of the tower below the overhanging shields was solid rock like the rest of the tower, or something else?)

 Nope, it was covered by a giant bird nest, and when you dislodged one of the branches it came from, the dragon bird popped out and tried to kill you.)