Travis and Lurt had started to hand dead carcasses, and meat from various animals off the cliff face, once they got close enough they would start dropping them, hoping to lead them towards the path to the canyon. Everything seemed to be working well, the trap was finishing being stepped up, a flare had shown in the distance, and Travis had told Kurt it signified that Simon was ready if necessary, a second flare would mean he was fully prepared.
The Lizard Ants had stayed in the relatively same vicinity, there was a small pool of rain water there, it was drying fast. They were about as ready as they were ever going to be. They were waiting on Simon to send up the last flare, and they would start throwing the meat, hoping that the movement and access would be what started corralling them toward the right direction. Travis had gathered up everyone except those down the path.
"Alright guys the plan is simple once they breach and start we run with the mounts, let them give us chase, we have set up things along the way that should distract them as well, but it's likely they will make short work of it."said Travis, "sir Kurt and I will be the ones remaining here we can move the fasted over the terrain here, when you hear my War cry send up the flare, that's the signal that they have breached the canyon and hopefully begin chasing me as well, the rest of you should set up along the path, be ready to draw their attention away from me and Kurt, we want to keep to giving them more to chase after until they fall into the canyon, there are several flags we want to head there, the ground should collapse. If we have their attention all we have to do is stay ahead of them, and lead them right where we want."
The goblins and Kurt were listening intently to the word of Travis. They were about to lay the trap out. "You two," pointing to a scout and warrior, "will stay here, if you see them coming this way or worse heading the wrong way, follow them if they move and try to inform the war party if necessary, if everything goes wrong, we will be following you as well. If they split I will follow whatever way the two go and Kurt will follow the last one. Remember we are not the one laying the killing blow but leading them to their deaths, I don't want to see any of you trying to kill them yourselves, hit and run. Once we have their attention we have to keep moving, trust your mounts. And may glory be ours."
"What if they all go the wrong way?" said Kurt
"Then we make a different signal and Simon will take command of the troop on the path. Let's hope that doesn't happen. The best is we get one to move towards the war party, and two towards the canyon, but all three to the canyon works almost as well, if Simon can't get all three we can move the war party for an offensive led by Thomas. We have a plan for everything. Let's hope we can entice at least two of them, as that gives us our best shot."
They were ready, but still waiting for Simon flare to show up. The other goblins had gone to their places as well. The moment was tense once it went up everything was going to start moving. War Lord Travis sat upon his Barbara's, you were eating some grass, he had a large battle axe on his hip, with a rope tied to a large chuck of meat, he was swinging it casually, as it would be the first thing he would throw to lure the beasts.
The flare finally went up, and Travis smiled. "You ready?"
"As I'm ever going to be," Kurt got up and picked up his own rope of meat. The idea was they were going to leap frog each other, moving to each location, throwing meat for them to see, as well as smaller bundles up on the wall. As soon as they got up the cliff, it was to run towards the canyon, and find the path they had set up.
Travis commanded his mount to move up to the cliff face, gave a terrible shout, while swinging the rope around, not caring it was bleeding off, and threw the meat about 30 meters from them in the direction he wanted them to go. Immediately all three Giant Lizard Ants took notice, and scuttled to the meat. The three of them began to fight, and one took it and landed blows on the other two. They took off in opposite directions, one still being led by Kurt, and the other two heading the wrong way. The plan had basically backfired, instead of luring them one way we ended up scaring them the other.
Travis jumped off his mount and grabbed three more meat ropes he was hoping to turn them around, but he threw one and the two had ignored it. The other was paying a lot of attention to Kurt and had noticed the first set of meat on the wall.
"Go," shouted Travis, "I'll follow the other two, this one looks like it's prime for the plan at least," he laughed "this means I get to have a crack at one of them." He kicked his Barbariape and it roared, lifting its front legs into the air, and started charging in the direction the two Lizard Ant had gone.
And there it was, Kurt was going to lead one of them right to the canyon, hopefully. It ended up being easy enough, Kurt could just cut off the ropes of the smaller bundles, this was preferable as they could come back for some of it, much of it was recently killed wildlife. It was a little gruesome, but the meat would be good for a day or two at least.
The Lizard Ant continued to screech at Kurt the entire time, he had definitely gotten his attention. The creature then made a dive up to one of the meat bag, and a piece of the cliff face fell off, and some more started to tumble. Kurt looked at it, and thought, it's going to breach the cliff, and get up right now. A little earlier than expected.