Well, you toss the bodies overboard, of course. Kasia shakes the comment off.
"Let's go then. If we get back to camp early enough, we may be able to fortify it further before the light dies."
Kasia heads back to camp with the others.
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Lormo took his backpack and other stuff he left on shore. "Let's return to camp," he said, "guys should be happy to hear about local barbarians, shipwreck zombies and other stories. I cannot wait to give this longspear to others. Would be nice if we could find more weapons tomorrow."
There is no point in hiding the truth from them.
"I think, they should be aware that there is a lot of danger on this island, but we are taking care about them: bringing weapons and stuff. " Lormo was a bit naive, when someone was thinking about hiding knowledge.
"I do not fear for want of weapons, but want of knowledge. If we starve the others, then we starve ourselves of allies. Trust is a commodity we cannot ignore, even as strangers before this latest calamity."
"Mosi, I fear this is only the beginning of what lies in waiting for us."
It took your group about nightfall to eventually reach your camp. The other ship wreckers looked surprise at your arrival. Jask goes up to your group with a relieved looked on his face, "Thank Nethys your safe!. We all thought that something got you out there. What happen out there?"
"No worries, Jask. His all-seeing eye is always upon us. We have some interesting discoveries, while investigating west part of our island. First of all, it took us several hours to get there. While marching we were attacked by several aborigines.. poor people, who still wander wearing leaves and hides. They are pretty territorial anyways, so watch out for them and never leave camp alone. As we reached the west edge, we found a shipwreck much older than ours. It was guarded by several zombies, but thanks to my fellow teammates, it took us almost no time to free those poor souls back to their creator. We found some useful tools there, for example fishnet and this spear, but most of the hull and cargo was damaged by water or otherway inaccessible." Lormo ended his speech and looked around camp, they left in a morning. "How was your day? Any problems here?
"Well none so far. Our traps didn't catch anything so far, though Sasha found plenty of food for today. Aerys looked abit sick, at least to me in any case, but she says she's fine." Jask shrugs, with a face saying "what can you do".
"Anyways, we have seen any of those natives so it was thankfully uneventful, much to the red-head's and that other gnome's disappointment. By the way Lormo, none of us fed your reptiles since you left. We don't want to get bitten by them so they're responsibility."
"Thank you, Jask, I'll feed them now. Need to eat myself afterwards. These jungle is pretty rough, takes lot of juice to walk in that heat. And Kasia, you should try to speak with Sasha, since no one better understand a human woman, than another human woman. "
Baelir's ears perk up at the mentioning of understanding. He cocks an eyebrow and smiles.
"Hey, I'm human... mostly. As for the woman part that I can't do but I do know how to read people very well. It comes with the sword. You have to be able to judge people's intentions and read the mood."
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"Oh, Aerys probably was looking sick, because she was worried about us.. Anyway, it worth to talk to anyone just in case, one starts missing home or worry about something. I read, so people are not comfortable with understanding of fact that everything is dependent only on them.. An getting in such situation might increase that discomfort."
Elf headed to a tree to verify his pets conditions.
While she doesn't say anything right away merely nodding, Kasia tries to take a private moment to speak with the woman when the time presents itself. "I thought I would speak with you and see how you are doing, Aerys."
"I'm fine, though I appreciate your concern. Something I ate must have not agree with me."
Your experience as a healer tell you otherwise: she looks more like one of those addicts that try to cut cold turkey and reeling in the effects of the absence of it.
Kasia smiles, "You know. I do not think I have told you of my village. Would you care to hear the story?"
Regardless, she carries on, "Really, it was a quiet place. I have many fond memories. And yet, something lurked below the surface of all the Good Days and Fare Thee Wells. ... Below the surface, the families were bleeding."
"No one caught it until it was too late, but in Varisia we have a saying, "the man who writes of peace casts his words upon flowing water" and so I suppose that it should not have come as such a surprise."
"We found that the other clan, who pretended to follow Desna; they were selling the Devils' Blood among the other families. By that point it was too late, of course. It is quite insidious. Before long, half the village was soaked in the presence of evil things."
"If I could go back across the days and hours, If there was one thing I could do, I would tell them. I would tell them good and early, that the truth would set them free."
"We were unfortunate in Bielefeld. But Others should not ever suffer alone."
Aerys raises an eyebrow at you, "I... am sorry about your loss. But, uh, is there a reason you are telling me that?"
"I share this story with you, because you are exhibiting signs of withdrawal distress. You should know that beyond what the others may think, beyond what you may fear, I wish to be able to support you should you require assisstance."
If she rejects kasia's help, then the cleric leaves her alone for the rest of the night.
"If I do, I'll let you know."
Morning comes without incident. Everyone at camp seem to be generally calming down, if still a little unsure about their current situation.
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"Morning, Mosi", said Lormo, who just finished checking condition of his animals, "I was thinking to check the inner bay, might be we can find something interesting there."
He verified his equipment is OK, and was ready to go south.
"Yes, probably we can look for something," he looked at Jask and Sasha, "Do you need some herbs or anything?"
You all head south from the camp. It has been an hour when you spot a winged creature flying above. It is heading to the direction to the cliffs in the west that lines the sea.
"And up there you can see a nice specimen is crossing sky, it probably a male of..." Lormo hesitated for a moment, trying to recover a title used commonly.
As we walk, Kasia check here and there for signs of other creatures who might have passed through.
"...Dimorphodon, medium-sized pterosaur, that are totally dead in advanced part of the world, but greatly exist in isolated environments like this island. According to prof. Luckdanb researches, they started as insectivore, but later transformed into piscivore. Probably, they were, oh I should use are, they are capable of consuming the small vertebrae pray, like bird or dog."
He watched the dimorphodon and continued:
"I think, they will form flocks to attack bigger pray and attack from above with series of poisonous bites and then wait until creature become paralized."
You keep on heading south when you saw a group of human-looking figures fighting in clearing. About three of them are dressed in a similar clothes as the savages from the other day. The other two, who are on the defensive, appears be a female elf and a male human with a large axe.
