After thinking on it for a little while, I have an idea. An eagle before fell for the bait of a bunch of fish dressed up to be shaped like a goblin. I don't knoell it will work though if the eagle 't carry the food off to its . So we'll need a detly tough skin for the meat. Something that won't fall apart while the eagle is carrying it. Perhaps if we use fish skins, tie them together, and then also use an overall binding, we make a rge enough k of food that the eagle will take it.

  It's obviously quite the rge food sink to have to feed this eagle every two days though. Plus we'll o be stious of when the eagle es for food, so no goblins actally get taken. If it works out though, we make a feedial, and just leave the food there outside the vilge, and hopefully train the eagle to e get food at a certain time, then it shouldn't bee as big of an issue.

  As always though, exeg this pn isn't easy. First, I'll o vihe goblins of the pn tonight, and then also prepare the food tribute. Those two things themselves are going to be cutting it close time wise. Then we'll basically just be waiting around tomorrow, hiding, until the eagle actually es for food. Fingers crossed it doesn't kill a goblin iher vilge instead. We 't even send a goblin to go unicate the threat to them, si'd leave the messenger open to attack.

  It took less time than I thought to vihe goblins to give this pn a try. Mostly because so many of the goblins are new, and didn't live through the previous eagle attacks. After that, I had a bunch of goblins help me gather fish skins a, and make the rge food bundle. So today, I mahe steam on in case we .

  The eagle flew overhead for quite a while. It didn't e down from the mountain when we first saw it, but instead came around the isnd from the dire it had huhe goblin scout squad. After looking around for a while, it eventually did e down to the food bundle we made. It stood over it for a while, seemingly unsure if the food was good or not. I mean, if it's used to getting live food, I'm sure this is fusing. Eventually though, it leaned over and bit into the bundle of fish.

  The eagle initially tried to carry the bundle, but after having torn into it, the innards spilled out when it grabbed the buh its talon. Thankfully, the eagle just decided to eat the spilled food before leaving.

  The good news from all this is that it seemingly worked. The bad hough is that preparing that much food for the eagle is basically a full time job foblin. The adventuring party seems happy about the oute, so I figured I'd take advantage of that fact to "ence" Shasta and Ambel to be in charge of preparing the eagle's tributes. Both of them have been low on work for a little while anyway, so I don't feel particurly bad about that.

  My pn is to build a raised stone pad just outside the vilge on the uphill side where we leave the food for it. By putting the food uphill, closer to the mountain, I'm hoping that the eagle doesn't even boing further, since most of our vilge's strus are downhill of the vilge, except for the dam and reservoir which we don't o go to often.

  The eagle has gohrough two feeding cycles now at the stone pad without much of a hitbsp; Shasta is pining about everything smelling like fish, but she seems to just be joking, rather than actually being upset. The goblins still get quite nervous when the eagle es down, and I don't bme them. The messenger we sent over to the other vilge hasn't quite returned yet, but I imagihat vilge is going to be even more ed over the whole ordeal, but I really doubt they have anything they do about it.

  I'm thankful we expahe tide pools before this, but now we'll o sider expanding them again soohan I anticipated. That eagle is eating as much food as nearly 30 goblins. Since we're currently not expanding the popution of the vilge anyway, I want to focus oing the ing location built within the vilge.

  The messenger came back from the other vilge after an additional two days. I was right, they are clearly not happy with the idea that we aren't going to kill the eagle. They've been told to just hide if the eagle is overhead, and it should e ahe food we've prepared for it. They're their own people though, so if they want to attempt anything, they're wele to. I doubt they will though. That vilge is all made up of goblins who have been around sihe first eagle was here, and all probably have some memory of their attempts from that time.

  Things had beey quiet for two weeks, so I should have known we'd have some problem. Three goblins came running to our vilge walls in the evening. They were yelling and asking for help. We quickly realized they were from the other vilge, and after they ehey started to frantically expiuation.

  I was worried that perhaps their vilge had been attacked by the eagle, but what has actually happened is much worse. Sihe eagle i, we hadn't sent the scouts back out to watch that side of the isnd, because we were worried for their safety. Well, that's ing back to bite us now. A group of hunters from the other vilge spotted strange new creatures ial armor. When they called out to them, expeg them to be some new form of demon, they were attacked.

  One made it back to warn the rest of that vilge, and they formed a fighting group to face off against this hreat. These three goblihe first to ruhey saw how outmatched they were. The vilge was overrun by hundreds of the armored creatures, and everyone was brutally sughtered.

  It didn't take long through the expnation before Shasta had wandered over, and the fearful goblins looked at her, and made the same e that I worried about. It seems like the long awaited rescue party arrived while we had a blind spot. Not only that, but it seems like they've e with the same attitude that the group tured had. Sughter all the demons you find.

  Shasta actually seemed quite saddened while listening to the gobliol the horrors of watg their vilge be destroyed. I myself am saddened a little. Most of the goblins there had some form of disdain for me, but I didn't wish death on them. The only individual there that I am truly sad to hear perished was Gakus. He retty straightfuy, and hearing that he was likely killed while proteg the pce he set out to build has me feeling angry.

  I calmed myself somewhat before I spoke with Shasha, although I was still quite stern, "Go. You, Ambel, and Katarko. Take your ons and armor and go meet that army. You e back with a small group of fifteen people including yourselves to get the human and the crystal that reminds you of 'ParTor'. If anymore show up, we'll fight back."

  Shasta seemed worried about my tone, "Now? It's almost night. I'm not happy about what they did either, but if I just expiuatiohey get here..."

  "No, if an army arrives here now, I myself am already pretty upset, and I wasn't particurly fond of most of those goblins. The rest of this vilge is likely very upset. So go. Now. Either you vihem we aren't hostile, and maybe we have further versations, or we'll give them the fight they want. If that is the case, it was at least o get to know you, Shasta." I said.

  As the three quickly gathered their things to set off into the night, I made sure that they had general information about the location of the other vilge, as well as torches for traveling at night.

  After they left, we began our preparations to fight...