Fowl Humor
Dragonlance Authors answer the question:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Nancy Varian Berberick: It wasn't really a chicken. It was a man transformed into a chicken who loved a woman on the other side of the road.
Jeff Crook: It was the bastard child of Tanis Half-Elven's prize rooster searching for its shalifi.
Don Perrin: The chicken was part of the fourth division corps of egglayers for the dragonarmies and was on a routine patrol mission.
Jeff Grubb: Three words: gnomish chicken plucker.
John Grubber: Because climate changes occuring immediately after the cataclysm forced a mass chicken migration from Nordmaar to Abanasinia.
Mary Herbert: The chicken had suddenly realized her love for the puissant rooster that lived on the other side of the divide, and was following her heart.
Tracy Hickman: We can't tell you why but it will be very exciting.
Richard Knaak: Because not all chickens are bound to this side of the road.
James Lowder: The chicken stepped through the Mists and realized this was not her road....
Steve Miller: You can read about it in The Odyssey of the Chicken.
Roger Moore: The chicken didn't really mean to only there was this rather nice ring, and it just happened to slip it on and....
Doug Niles: The chicken was leading its fellow chickens out of occupied lands and to freedom.
Janet Pack: No doubt it involved a kender.
Jean Rabe: It did not cross. It was just sick.
Jean Rabe: OK, it had crossed once already but the game department made it cross back.
Paul Thompson: We were trying to write a DL book in the style of a Tarantino thriller, and the chicken was trying to get away from the mafia.
Margaret Weis: I *KNOW* this chicken better than anyone. There are times when I was writing that I could hear the ruffle of its feathers. And I'm telling you it crossed.
Michael Williams:
Hear the crow, bastion call
Summoning from ages fallen
Hens terrible and fierce
To cross the final stretch of road.
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