
Steals chases after Kin. As he runs, he hears a loud squawk from behind him and a yelp from (presumably) the old man.

Kin keeps on running back to camp...

Silver prods the other coconut and makes even more of a mess and loses another coconut shard in amongst the sticky goop. Oh well.

Buttons heaves the heavy swamp-water barrel inside the mine entrance and grabs a plank of wood to protect himself from the mushrooms. Once inside, he pulls on his miner's helmet and will be ready to cross the rope next turn.

In the balloon, Treasures goes to pull up the anchor, but it's way too heavy to move it by herself. She's going to need some help to do this... From the south-east she hears the faint squawking of birds and a yelp.

"Not bad! What is the sap used in or for? Give it a taste...I'm gonna call you Grig."
"Mostly we burn it for fuel. It makes nice green flame that's got very popular over the past few years so it's in quite high demand. It doesn't last very long though, so we always need more. It's getting harder to find suitable trees though, the draining doesn't do them much good."
"Hmm...A few days seems like a bit long to wait. You don't have any sort of emergency signal?"
"Well... It's not really allowed... But... Ok, listen - if you really want out, I can get the boys to help you, but you'll have to trade us something in return."
(Let me know if you want to go ahead and use the purple gem or do something else in light of the new info).
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