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Hi and thanks! Let me answer your questions!

- There's nothing like an assist action in Yeld. Instead, we imagine Friends helping each other in two ways. In fights, the Action Chain represents Friends setting up success for each other. So when a Friend passes on an Action Chain bonus, they're providing their assistance. That can be framed as combat momentum, but it can also be described as a Friend explicitly providing assistance.

Outside of fights, a challenge can be framed as something the Friends all do together, or something one Friend does to help another. For example, you can frame a challenge as "All the Friends need to climb up this tree, so each of you please make a Climb roll." That Climb roll may end up being impossible for some Friends, which creates a new challenge. "Nalani can't climb the tree, so we need to figure out how to help her." Which may involve other Friends doing a challenge involving a Strong roll, or the Do things with Rope Special die, or something else.

 So the idea here is that you're not taking an assist action to provide extra dice so another friend can do something, but instead taking on a new challenge to help them. Lets help Sarah hide. Lets help Dino pick this lock. Lets help Alex talk to this adult.

Does that make sense?

- This is a typo! And a ridiculous one. My god. You are correct, interruptions always use Brave. What happened is that a few months ago I added some clarifying text around interruptions, and for SOME REASON I changed Brave to Smart. I have no idea why. I may have just been tired. Look for a corrected PDF next week.

- Yes, Yeld's meat products are largely harvested from the Animal Tribes, and members of the Animal Tribes are people. Yeld's food chain is pretty grim. The Animal tribes themselves have complicated rules about who is allowed to eat who, and this is an expected part of their life cycle. Keep in mind, a lot of Yeld's other people also get eaten pretty regularly by monsters. And Vampires.

The good news is that Yeld has well established vegan options, and a lot of Yeld's people are vegans (or limit their meat intake). This is noted in a few Yeld products (there's a note in the comics on page 4 of the rulebook). 

Some monsters are non-intelligent, like Broccoli Lobsters. And these are  harvested and eaten.

There's some argument over whether fish talk and are intelligent.  In the past we've said they aren't, but we've also shown some of the mermaids talking at fish. Although the fish don't respond. So its unclear.

I love it when people are interested in playing along with our world as written, but I always encourage people to change elements they don't like. So if a complicated and frankly uncomfortable food chain doesn't appeal to you, feel free to make adjustments!