It was not totally unexpected, but it was a bit of a suprise. For you see, having grown up on a ship (for all of 5 minutes) before landing on the isle of refuge, Golnoth had never seen anything taller than the mast of the ship. Sure, Gol knew that when you threw a rock up in the air, it would come back down. Even the birds had to come back down...eventually. And I think this is where Golnoth's trouble began. Golnath was not a bird. He knew this. Rappadon knew this. Elim knew this. Even Carlito the cobbler knew this. What Golnath didn't know is how birds could fly. This was not importatn to him. Golnath didn't want to fly. He just wanted to get to the coast in North Freeport without having to walk down the long winding roads. His idea was not a great leap of mental prowess. Golnoth never had those. Gol was not a thinker. He was just impatient. Very impatient. And he wanted to get to the docks. The drop did not look very far, but Golnoth had little to compare it to. Sure it was probably taller than the mast of the ship, but he had seen Elim jump from the mast of the ship into the water many times to catch fish for dinner. And dinner is exatly what Golnoth was after. Golnoth knew that he could ring the bell at the docks to take him to Big Bend. And Big Bend is where the food was. Not the sissy human food they have here, but the real food that proper trolls should eat. Food that hasn't had all of its skin cooked away in a proper fire. Food that isn't eaten quickly before it has had proper time to age and color. No, the food here was not good for a troll. So I guess you could say that hunger is what drove Golnoth to his unsightly end. So with a smile on his face knowing that his stomach would soon be filled with the entrails of long dead animals, Golnoth happily jumped the wall and fell the many feet to his death on the street below. Let this be a warning to all the hungry trolls out there; It may be quicker to jump off the cliff, but it only makes a bigger mess to clean up. Message Edited by MrBulwark on 11-12-2004 08:42 AM
