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YOUR VOICES MAKE AN ASSORTMENT OF EXCELLENT BUT SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT TO RECONCILE SUGGESTIONS. IN THE END, YOU RESOLVE TO SECURE THE APPROVAL OF YOUR PARTY BEFORE ACTING RASHLY. YOU BEGIN BY ASKING ABOUT HOW TRUSTWORTHY GOATS ARE AND WHETHER THEY ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME.
"BAWK BAWK BAKAW?"
"CLUCK CLUCK!"
"CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK!"
"CLUCK 'PLOMANCY!'"
"CLUCK 'PRIME!'"
"'EXTRA DOUBLE SECRET' CLUCK!"
YOU'RE ALMOST SURE SOMETHING GOT LOST IN TRANSLATION, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE GOAT IS A NONHEREDITARY TITLE THAT CAN BE EARNED AS EASILY AS, SAY, STEALING SOMEONE'S SHOES OR EATING SCRAP METAL AND GROWING AN EXOSKELETON. NEXT, YOU INCITE THE SACRED WAR DANCE(S) OF THE CHICKEN GODS TO READY YOUR PARTY FOR AN ATTACK ON THE SMALL CARAVAN. YOU'RE NOT THE MOST CHOREOLOGICALLY INCLINED CHICKEN, BUT BASED ON THE WALTZY RHYTHM OF THEIR DANCES, YOU SUSPECT THAT TWO OF YOUR RECRUITS ARE TRIADISTS, MEMBERS OF A SECT THAT WORSHIP ONLY THE THREE MOVERS OF MOISTURE, MIXTURE, AND MAIZE. THE OTHERS ARE MORE DIFFICULT TO PIN DOWN DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THEIR STEPS BUT MOST LIKELY ALSO FOLLOW THE MOVER OF MOTIVATIONS AND THE MOVER OF MULTIPLICITIES AND MAYBE THE MORE ESOTERIC/HERETICAL MOVER OF METALS OR THE MOVER OF MONSTERS. SPEAKING OF WHICH, HOW MANY OF THE CHICKEN GODS ARE YOU YOURSELF A PRACTICING ADHERENT OF ANYWAY?
YOU SEND THE FIRST CHICKEN WHO MANAGES TO CALM DOWN AFTER THE FEARSOME DANCE OVER TO SPEAK TO THE GOATS AND ASK ABOUT BUTTER PRICES OR SOMETHING TO ASCERTAIN THEIR MOTIVES/CONNECTION TO THE MARGARINE MARQUIS. WHATEVER THEY'RE DISCUSSING, IT SEEMS TO BE GOING FAIRLY WELL RELATIVE TO MOST ATTEMPTS AT CHICKEN DIPLOMACY. AFTER A WHOPPING THIRTY SECONDS OF DISCUSSION, NONE OF THE GOATS HAVE DRAWN THEIR WEAPONS. THIS CALM DOESN'T LAST LONG, OF COURSE. BORED OF WATCHING AN OUTRAGEOUSLY UNEVENTFUL TALK AND FRENZIED AFTER THE WAR DANCE, ONE OF YOUR RECRUITS LOOSES A BLOODCURDLING WAR CRY! YOU YOURSELF, GOADED BY THE MORE CHICKENHAWKISH VOICES, SIGNAL FOR AN ALL-OUT ATTACK ON THE LITTLE CARAVAN! YOUR PARTY MANAGES TO WOUND ONE OF THE ARMORED GOATS AND TWO OF THE OTHERS WITHOUT CASUALTIES IN THE ENSUING BRAWL THE SOON OUTNUMBERED GOATS SCATTER OFF THE ROAD WITH AGITATED CHICKENS IN HOT PURSUIT.
WITH THE GOATS ROUTED, YOUR VICTORIOUS RECRUITS OPEN VARIOUS BARRELS AND ARE OVERJOYED TO FIND ONE BARREL FILLED WITH BUTTER AFTER FINDING THREE BARRELS OF WORTHLESS SPOILED GRAPE JUICE, THE FIRST OF WHICH AN ANGRY RECRUIT HACKED TO SPLINTERS AND SAWDUST. NIGHT IS FALLING. YOUR RECRUITS WOULD LIKE TO ROOST NEAR THE ABANDONED CARTS. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO NEXT?