The Minions Meet...

Tap! Tap! Tap!... went the gavel on the stone podium.  Tap! Tap! Tap!... but with everyone talking, yelling, screaming, and arguing, nobody heard the minion standing behind the rock podium tapping the small wooden gavel she held in her hand.  Realizing that it was not working, she reached down and pulled up a larger metal hammer five times the size of the little gavel, lifted it high above her head and slammed it down on the rock several times.  

Each time the hammer hit the stone podium a loud booming noise rang out, reverberating throughout the enormous cavern chamber that all the other minions were in. ​

Quickly the loud roar of the minions quieted and soon all eyes were watching her as she threateningly bounced the hammer in one hand while holding the handle in the other.  "If everyone will be silent we will start this emergency meeting of C.O.G. so we can get back to our other minion business."  She continued when all eyes were watching her (except for the few younger minions in the back by the food tables trying to eat all of the sweets they could before the meeting ended).  

"I am sure that by now most of you are aware of the discovery that was recently made and being a member of the Cooperation of Organized Grunts (C.O.G.) we have called here this special meeting to discuss what needs to be done about it."

After getting the crowd's attention with this statement, she started talking again as they slowly quieted down.  "Fellow members of C.O.G., for those of you who have not heard the entirety of the situation, it has come to our attention that the 'Borrowers'..." and with the mention of their name a loud groan escaped the lips of each of the listening members.  The speaker gave a minute for the group to quiet down again before continuing, "The 'Borrowers' have discovered a tablet left behind by the Dragons.  We still do not know what is written on the tablet but we have heard that several different factions are trying to obtain it for their own purposes.  We must get it first!"  With that statement, the minion crowd again went wild and starting cheering and chanting - "The tablet... The tablet!"

"As minions of the various leaders in the Realms, we are the ones that make the wheels turn (quite literally) and make daily things happen.  That is why we have organized to make sure that confusion and disorganization does not reign and that one day we will be recognized for our efforts and become leaders of these realms," she ended to the loud roar of approval and agreement from the other minions.

Again, waiting for the crowd to quiet down, the speaker continued, "But since it is not our way for violence, we must do something else to win their support.  I have held council with several of the other minion groups and we have come to only one option that has the highest chance of success.  We must convince the 'Borrowers' to join C.O.G."

The silence in the chamber was astounding!  Even the younger members trying to eat the last of the cookies on the snack tables stopped chewing and starred at the speaker as if she had just grown another head.  Have the 'Borrowers' join C.O.G.?  They must have heard wrong...