You hear sounds of those fangbirds to the north of you. There seems to be another nest in that direction.
As for a water source, you cannot hear any stream that suggests anything of a sort.
Kasia's caution payed off. Behind the rocks lies a body of goat. The body has no obvious signs of decomposing besides a slight smell. You can see two holes on its neck, though no blood is not coming out of it.
Was this merely a snakebite, or something more sinister? Where did it go?
Upon seeing the goat, Raineth recoils slightly and covers her nose. "Perhaps it would not be prudent to migrate the camp here. Not unless we are willing to dispose of the nest to the North. "
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Looking closely at the goat reveals that the bite marks are too big to be a snake bite. The tracks around it seems to be from a medium size creature, however the tracks only made around the animal and the lack of the goat's hoof-prints suggest that the creature did not travel by land and that the goat was carried to this spot.
- "This is very interesting," said Lormo examining the bite marks.
"I remember, I read about something like that, but rendered that unimportant or unrealistic and paid less attention than needed. What a wonderful place, this island is... The untouched nature neighbors primal tribes of humans and prehistoric living beings, like those flying saurus we'be met" he made some notes in his notebook.
"Fangs are not from a snake, look at the spacing between the teeth. Too wide by a few centimeters. The tracks, too. Bipedal, possibly human, weighing.... 67 kilos? Possibly more given the weather we have been having."
Kasia pauses to examine the trees above them for ambushers
"Exsanguinated, otherwise it would be black around the site of the bite. Possibly Vampiric?"
"Regardless, this was a gift. Carried here from afar. Perhaps we should look elsewhere."
No, Kasia, not vampiric, but I don't think it is much better than that. This bite marks belong to a magical creature called Chupacabra. It's more like lizard or dinosaur, but with wings. If it was a vampire, we could be safe during the day, but this one - they tend to hide and stalk their victims. Lormo started to look around, just in case he would be lucky to see the awful monster, but it was same as previously.
Probably, we need to move and warn the camp. Gelik is not much bigger, than this goat and I think we are dealing with quite old creature - human size or even more
"Ah yes, a treacherous creature indeed... " Raineth nods. "We should be vigilant, as we may already be prey. Shall we continue our search for a new encampment? I would consider this region an unwise selection while this creature still hunts."
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- "On the other hand, we are locked in this part and isolated from main island. What if there is a ship or boat somewhere near southern shore? I think we might want to find another place for camp, but we definitely need to progress our exploration" Lormo loaded his crossbow "just in case" and started moving further south.
- "I still not used to get time in this environment, how long do we have before dark?"
It would be appear to still to be the afternoon, still plenty of light.
Heading south, you guys hear running water ahead of you. You also see a wreck on the beach to the east.
Raineth nods, "We should be cautious though..."
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