[h3]Orchid’s Party[/h3]
[@Lucius Cypher]
Of the handful of goblins that heard Orchid barking orders, only a few of them listened. And even then, they looked at each other in confusion for a moment. Finally, about three of them went off to gather the wood and leaves Orchid wanted, but more than that just ignored her and went back to what they were doing. One in particular, another female, crossed her arms and yelled back. 

“Shut up! You talks too much--why you think I gots to listen!?”

When Orchid explained her plan to Crispy and Rattleskull, Crispy shook his head. His advice was probably worth listening to, considering he had the most experience with fires out of all of them. 

“Could use dat to smoke rats and lizards out of tunnels, but won’t work for whole cave.” He pointed through the entranceway up to the stone ceiling. There were a few other shafts of sunlight besides the entrance. “There’s still places where smoke can get through da ground. I had bonfire going for a long time, but we neva got smoked out. Is cause da ceilin’ is high, and cause da smoke eventually finds way out.”

“Dat coward way anyhow!” Rattleskull snorted, stomping one foot. “We gonna kill ‘em! Get to work!” He glared at Orchid for a moment, before heading over to the wood pile. He grabbed a thick branch about six feet long, then levered it over another piece of wood and under one more. With it rooted in place, he took a few steps back, then made a running start. He jumped, and came down with all his body weight on the wedged branch, breaking off about two feet of its length. This he sat down with, and using the stone headed end of his axe he began to scrape one end of it. He seemed to be leaving the tip of this end untouched, but slightly tapering the rest of it for a couple of hand lengths. Slowly it began to resemble a shape more like a baseball bat. 

“You dere! Gimme rock, small sharp one!” he barked at another Goblin. Unlike with Orchid, the trembling green creature hastened to obey and handed him a Sharp Rock. Rattleskull’s tongue poked out of one side of his mouth as he concentrated on tapping one side of the bat and then the other, making a slightly larger mark each time…

[quote=System:Orchid]
You’ve made an item!
Bark Fiber (Low Quality) + Bark Fiber (Low Quality)
Your Crafting III Skill increases the quality of your item. Low Quality > Average
Your method of crafting is more effective compared to your raw materials. The quality of your item is increased. Average > Good
You made: Fiber Cordage (Good)!
[/quote]

Though Crispy couldn’t help with his own crafting, he gathered a few of the smaller sticks and some loose grass and leaves just by feeling along the ground with his hands. Once he had them piled up, in mere seconds he had a smaller fire started. The same female goblin that had refused to follow Orchid began blackening the tip of a Sharp Stick in the fire, then shaving off the blackened bits against a Hard Rock. All around, the other Goblins were doing similar things--either gathering or crafting. While none of them except maybe Rattleskull went at it with anything similar to the methods Orchid did, they seemed to be quite capable of either learning by example, or simply following what Rattleskull and Crispy ordered them to do.