Faith will heal Aerys:
"Counting the corpses, does it seem like there should be more cannibals? Or am I misremembering how many there were? Two here, two on the stairs, five carrying bundles, the boss, the witch, two dead women, Pookie...."
"Did the monkey die when the witch died, or do we have an angry ex-familiar we need to take care of?"
Faith sighs. "Too many people on this deserted island."
"Oof. Well, making sure this place is truly cleared out can be on tomorrow's agenda. I'm not in any shape for more fighting now. Later? Tulip can track..."
Tulip looks up, gore dripping from her jaws.
"Not now, girl," Zaine says, and the t-rex goes back to gorging. "Like I said, T-U-L-I-P can T-R-A-C-K by scent, so if anything's out there, we should be able to find it. I'd also like to spend a day replenishing my ammo. I can do that in the alchemist hut. There's enough material to keep both guns full for a long, long time."
"...and tomorrow I can heal more of us. I'm thinking out loud. My only agenda item is suggesting we spend the night here rather than try to carry the unconscious and wounded back to the cave."
He manages not to roll his eyes.
"...and tomorrow I can heal more of us. I'm thinking out loud. My only agenda item is suggesting we spend the night here rather than try to carry the unconscious and wounded back to the cave."
"Agreed. That lighthouse is the most defensible thing on the island."
Faith will heal Aerys.
Aerys comes up swinging but fortunately Faith wears armor so her knuckles just get bloodied rather than damaging Faith. It takes a moment, her hands going to her midsection, then hoarsely, "The cannibals found our camp."
"Give that dead redhead an extra chomp on her behalf, Tulip."
Tulip looks up at her name, follows Faith's pointing and proceeds to eviscerate the chieftain. Then looks to Faith for her 'good girl' treat.
"Did the monkey die when the witch died, or do we have an angry ex-familiar we need to take care of?"
Thinking back on it, you do believe the injured monkey ran off into the jungle when the witch was shot.
Zaine spots something on the floor, pries up a floorboard with a dagger, and pulls out a little gray bag glowing with magic.
Inside the bag is a soft cloth, also glowing, and scroll with flourished title: "In Enchanting Weapons" followed by a long list of instructions on how to use the cloth to transfer enhancement magic to a weapon on your choice. It involves herbs and water. Which based on the old dried twigs also in the bag had been included seventy years ago.
Thinking back on it, you do believe the injured monkey ran off into the jungle when the witch was shot.
"On the upside, the one thing we know about this place is there's something in the jungle eating monkeys."
Inside the bag is a soft cloth, also glowing, and scroll with flourished title: "In Enchanting Weapons" followed by a long list of instructions on how to use the cloth to transfer enhancement magic to a weapon on your choice. It involves herbs and water. Which based on the old dried twigs also in the bag had been included seventy years ago.
"Well, hello there, gorgeous."
"Counting the corpses, does it seem like there should be more cannibals? Or am I misremembering how many there were? Two here, two on the stairs, five carrying bundles, the boss, the witch, two dead women, Pookie...."
Áine ticks off silently on her fingers, then adds, "I'm getting 18.
2 initial guards. 3 women. 2 guards in the tower. The witch, not counting her familiar and all her skeletons. 11 in the returning party plus 2 already dead." she shrugs. "Not saying we shouldn't be wary, but I think that's most of them." She looks around again, "Anyone have any idea where Gelik is?" she asks, "Maybe he knows where any remaining cannibals might be."It takes a moment, her hands going to her midsection, then hoarsely, "The cannibals found our camp."
"So we gathered. You all should be all right now. Any chance you know where the halfling is? Haven't seen him yet."
It takes a moment, her hands going to her midsection, then hoarsely, "The cannibals found our camp."
Faith sets a hand on her shoulder, briefly. "We found theirs, and it's ours now."
Tulip looks up at her name, follows Faith's pointing and proceeds to eviscerate the chieftain. Then looks to Faith for her 'good girl' treat.
Faith looks over to Zaine. "What kind of treat does she normally get? Or do you rub her belly?"
"Anyone have any idea where Gelik is?"
Faith smacks his forehead with his palm. "Gelik! I knew someone was missing."
Faith listens to Áine run down the list of cannibals and points at corpses (or where they were if they were near Tulip) and counts on his fingers.
"Okay," he says. "You saw more of the courtyard than I did."
Faith listens to Áine run down the list of cannibals and points at corpses (or where they were if they were near Tulip) and counts on his fingers.
"Okay," he says. "You saw more of the courtyard than I did."
Áine frowns, "Nope, wait, double counted the women as part of the returning party. That makes it 15. ...not counting the lone cannibal near the hut. Don't know if he was part of this group or an exile. Still, most, but could be enough left to be trouble."
It takes a moment, her hands going to her midsection, then hoarsely, "The cannibals found our camp.""So we gathered. You all should be all right now. Any chance you know where the halfling is? Haven't seen him yet."
Aerys looks around, "Told him to run. Hide." She shakes her head, "He did run into the jungle, although I heard him flinging insults at the cannibals from his housing spot,at least until I got hit by the big one."
Near to dusk, when Tulip is in a post-gorge 'coma', a woman approaches the lighthouse settlement. Dressed minimally, like the cannibals in the hunting party, she takes in the pile of partially eaten bodies, all of you, Pookie. Pookie ends up being the target of her staccato of questions, hands gesturing to the pile of bodies and the hole. Pookie answers motioning to the dinosaur.
Angrily, the woman stalks to the pile of dead and starts to pull the first body towards the hole.
Aerys motions to the two women, "Why are they referring to the hole in the ground as the afterlife?"
Aerys looks around, "Told him to run. Hide." She shakes her head, "He did run into the jungle, although I heard him flinging insults at the cannibals from his housing spot,at least until I got hit by the big one."
Zaine frowns but doesn't say anything.
Near to dusk, when Tulip is in a post-gorge 'coma', a woman approaches the lighthouse settlement. Dressed minimally, like the cannibals in the hunting party, she takes in the pile of partially eaten bodies, all of you, Pookie. Pookie ends up being the target of her staccato of questions, hands gesturing to the pile of bodies and the hole. Pookie answers motioning to the dinosaur.
Angrily, the woman stalks to the pile of dead and starts to pull the first body towards the hole.
Aerys motions to the two women, "Why are they referring to the hole in the ground as the afterlife?"
Zaine watches the woman with interest, the musket across his lap. "Isn't that where the mother lives supposedly?"
Faith looks over to Zaine. "What kind of treat does she normally get? Or do you rub her belly?"
"Oh, she'll try to sucker you in for a belly rub, but then... you see this scar here? Anyway, you want to give her a treat? She likes bone marrow. Best thing in the world is the longbones of a pig. The sounds she makes..." Zaine shakes his head with a mixture of pride and horror. "Haunting."
"We think there is something in that pit they call the Mother. I was able to understand them for a while, but it was one-way. I communicated with charades. It went about as well as you would expect."
"Which is a roundabout way of saying that I don't know. Can you ask them?"
"Which is a roundabout way of saying that I don't know. Can you ask them?"
Aerys side-eyes the woman dragging a corpse to the hole, "What they are speaking isn't Infernal, I'm getting maybe one word in three."
She does raise her voice, "چرا این زندگی پس از مرگ است؟"
The woman hard at work moving the corpse ignores Aerys, all of you really, unless you force the issue. Pookie looks over, her eyes going from Aerys, then to Faith, then back to Aerys with the end of the question. The woman raises one eyebrow then, "این جایی است که ما باید مرده باشیم که مردم نمی خواهند در این دنیا زندگی کنند. هیچ کس برگشت نخواهد کرد، مرگ است"
Aerys just sits for a moment, trying to parse what is meant against what she hears. Then, "مادر مرده است؟"
The task oriented woman finally gets the first corpse to the hole, where she shoves the remaining branches aside.
Pookie, "ما می خواهیم به شما در این زمینه بپردازیم و به شما کمک کنیم تا بتوانید به راحتی و بدون هیچ مشکلی از آن استفاده کنید."
Aerys turns to Faith, "It's the afterlife because it is where the dead go and because living who go there don't come back." She shakes her head, "What she says about the mother just sounds like religion to me."
"That makes sense," Faith says. "I'll just have to learn whatever-it-is they speak."
He stretches and rolls his neck from side to side.
"Tomorrow."
Eventually Jask comes around, followed an hour later by Ishirou. The story all three tell is the same, coordinated attack by raging barbarian cannibals. Aerys and Ishirou taking up defensive positions while Jask tried to keep them on their feet and Gelik trying to be helpful. The chieftain stayed out of the fray until Aerys managed to break the neck of one of the attackers. ("Lucky blow, managed to hit his chin and the angle was good. Or bad, depending on who you were routing for.")
Ishirou saw Aerys go down to a quick series of attacks by the red-headed big man, but he got overwhelmed.
Meanwhile, the new female cannibal pulls each of the corpses and dumps it into the tribe's afterlife - alone. Pookie just watches. (Unless someone stops her.)
Once every corpse has been thrown down the hole, the female looks for one of the many vine ropes, preparing to climb down herself.
Heading back to your near-spring campsite, you find your carefully crafted home in disarray - although it doesn't look like the cannibals spent much time destroying things once they had their captives. Nervous as a polecat and dodging to a hidding spot as soon as he hears you approach, Gelik comes out once he sees who it is. Bruised and battered (but not captured) the halfling rushes to tell you the same story you already know - his voice only petering out when he sees you have Aerys with you.
Meanwhile, the new female cannibal pulls each of the corpses and dumps it into the tribe's afterlife - alone. Pookie just watches. (Unless someone stops her.)
Once every corpse has been thrown down the hole, the female looks for one of the many vine ropes, preparing to climb down herself.
Zaine merely watches.
Heading back to your near-spring campsite, you find your carefully crafted home in disarray - although it doesn't look like the cannibals spent much time destroying things once they had their captives. Nervous as a polecat and dodging to a hidding spot as soon as he hears you approach, Gelik comes out once he sees who it is. Bruised and battered (but not captured) the halfling rushes to tell you the same story you already know - his voice only petering out when he sees you have Aerys with you.
"So, good news, we've moved into the old cannibal camp. It's nicer than it sounds."
Faith walks over to the woman, points at her, crosses his arms in a scissoring motion, and says, "...I don't know how to mime You don't have to feed the monster if you don't want to"
Faith nods to confirm Zaine's account. "It's worth moving. They have a stone lighthouse, which is actually defensible."
Faith nods to confirm Zaine's account. "It's worth moving. They have a stone lighthouse, which is actually defensible."
"and is now ours." Áine says.
"It is good to see you are all right." she smiles, then adds "Out of curiosity, how many cannibals were in the party that attacked the camp?"
Faith walks over to the woman, points at her, crosses his arms in a scissoring motion, and says, "...I don't know how to mime You don't have to feed the monster if you don't want to"
The woman looks at Faith with black hatred in her light colored eyes, then over to Pookie, "آیا این چیزی است که ما را خیانت کردید؟ شما یک خائن هستید و لعنت می کنید که بعد از این زندگی هیچ زندگی نداشته باشید." She bares her filed teeth at Faith, turning to the rope down with determination.
"So... to the cannibal lair." A pause, "If this lighthouse isn't appropriately decorated with skulls and human bones, I feel it is going to be a let down."
To Aine's question, "Ten or tweleve?" He shrugs, "Tactics aren't really my thing and it felt like they exploded out of the woods all at once."
A pause, "Are Jask and Ishirou alright?"
The second night that you are encamped at the lighthouse, those who are on watch just as everyone is going to bed are startled when a something drops from the sky to land in the fire pit, sending up a cloud of burning embers, dust and smoke.
Zaine spends the day in the alchemist hut. Before long, foul smelling smoke issues from the chimney.
Zaine and Tulip head out at daybreak.
The second night that you are encamped at the lighthouse, those who are on watch just as everyone is going to bed are startled when a something drops from the sky to land in the fire pit, sending up a cloud of burning embers, dust and smoke.
Zaine cocks his gun and approaches cautiously with Tulip. "Y'know, girl, I'm beginning to think this island is insane."
She bares her filed teeth at Faith, turning to the rope down with determination.
"Do we really want her possibly warning whatever monster they worship down there?" Áine asks as much to herself as anyone else.
"If this lighthouse isn't appropriately decorated with skulls and human bones, I feel it is going to be a let down."
Áine smiles and shrugs.
To Aine's question, "Ten or tweleve?"
"I see. Okay." she frowns for a second,then smiles, "and don't worry, I won't hold you to it.
A pause, [b]"Are Jask and Ishirou alright?"
Áine nods, "they are healing."
The second night that you are encamped at the lighthouse, those who are on watch just as everyone is going to bed are startled when a something drops from the sky to land in the fire pit, sending up a cloud of burning embers, dust and smoke.
Áine immrdiately looks up, searching the skies. If she sees nothing, she will look to see what landed in the fire.
Zaine cocks his gun and approaches cautiously with Tulip. "Y'know, girl, I'm beginning to think this island is insane."
"I'll give you 'quite unusual' at the very least." Áine says with a tight grin.
Faith shrugs and steps away, but he keeps watch on the woman.
"What, you prefer weeks of fishing and solitude before our eventual rescue? Where's the fun in that?"
It's clear from the eager expression on his face that Faith is hoping for more undead.
The woman drops her vine rope down the hole and proceeds to climb slide down the length where she sits in the dark next you the pile of the dead.
Zaine cocks his gun and approaches cautiously with Tulip. "Y'know, girl, I'm beginning to think this island is insane.""I'll give you 'quite unusual' at the very least." Áine says with a tight grin.
Listening hard you think you hear the beat of wings but the sound is receding. The object dropped into the fire proves to be a goat. Also the hair of the beast is singed when you fish it out the only marks are two puncture wounds at the creature's carotid, the body drained of blood before dropped.
Listening hard you think you hear the beat of wings but the sound is receding. The object dropped into the fire proves to be a goat. Also the hair of the beast is singed when you fish it out the only marks are two puncture wounds at the creature's carotid, the body drained of blood before dropped.
"Oh, good. Giant flying vampires," Zaine says.
The woman drops her vine rope down the hole and proceeds to climb slide down the length where she sits in the dark next to the pile of the dead.
"Now that...Just seems kind of sad." Áine says. But then proceeds too bring the driftwood back to the hole. "I think it goes without saying, we were going to be holding watches anyway."
After a few hours, she looks for a vessel she fills with water, then lowers it down Via the vine the woman climbed down.
goat
"Oh, good. Giant flying vampires," Zaine says.
"Unless someone wants to eat that, shall i dump it down the hole as well?"
"Unless someone wants to eat that, shall i dump it down the hole as well?"
"No, I'm not going to eat the sky-goat," Zaine says.
oh She ducks back into the foliage, wait just a bit if you ple
And the jungle around Zaine is its normal quiet as the woman's voice is cut off. After maybe five minutes, she comes back, a large leaf in her hands, holding a thick syrup or sap. She holds it out, all is young on the island now so if you find what you need this should help it grow my tree donated some of its time
The third night that you sleep at the lighthouse (which has two rooom with beds - Pookie's and the one downstairs with the comfortable if makeshift bedframe), you are woken (or notice if you are not sleeping on watch) by you look outside and to the east in time to notice bolts of lightning that lance into the sky from somewhere on the east side of the island. After the single rumble of thunder and the lightshow, all is silent.
For an hour. Then, if you went back to sleep, you are woken again by the . This time you see no lightning.
Zaine returns late in the day.
Zaine spends this day in the alchemist lab, but this time any scents coming from it are far more pleasant.
The third night that you sleep at the lighthouse (which has two rooom with beds - Pookie's and the one downstairs with the comfortable if makeshift bedframe), you are woken (or notice if you are not sleeping on watch) by you look outside and to the east in time to notice bolts of lightning that lance into the sky from somewhere on the east side of the island. After the single rumble of thunder and the lightshow, all is silent.
For an hour. Then, if you went back to sleep, you are woken again by the . This time you see no lightning.
"I'm going to get some sleep," Zaine yawns. "Let me know if there's a big monster to be shot."
You mentioned both the water and watch - how often are you checking down the hole?
Probably twice a day to replace the water, unless she hears the driftwood being moved.
Faith checks in periodically on the woman in the pit. He expects she will vanish when the dead bodies do.
"No, I'm not going to eat the sky-goat," Zaine says.
Faith looks sad for a moment, then nods. "Probably for the best. I wonder where the giant flying bloodsucker found a goat."
Then, on Day 3, he will perform the ritual. This is a pretty important moment for himself, literally making the weapon of his forebears magical, the one that killed Lord Horn.
Faith looks sad for a moment, then nods. "Probably for the best. I wonder where the giant flying bloodsucker found a goat."
"Does this island even have a goatery?"
"I could see if maybe some shipwreck had goats a while back, there might be a native population," Faith says.
"...assuming they didn't run afoul of undead. Or cannibals. Or very large birds."
"I could see if maybe some shipwreck had goats a while back, there might be a native population," Faith says.
"...assuming they didn't run afoul of undead. Or cannibals. Or very large birds."
"Goats would be useful, especially if one of us knew how to make cheese?" Zaine asks hopefully.
You don't see any of the bodies either.
"Goats would be useful, especially if one of us knew how to make cheese?" Zaine asks hopefully."I could see if maybe some shipwreck had goats a while back, there might be a native population," Faith says.
"...assuming they didn't run afoul of undead. Or cannibals. Or very large birds."
"I know how to pickle fruit which tastes amazing with brandy and goat cheese." Aerys comments.
Jask, looking at his nails, "When I first left Eleder I worked at a fromager." He looks around, "The flavor with depend on the natural flora of the island."
"You know this smells worse than the poison mistress's workshop." Sasha comments after an hour of distracting Tulip into giving Zaine some space. Then apropos of nothing she's said earlier in the day, "Why were you so excited for Faith to heal Aerys?"
Jask is up early, tending the fire. He smiles when he sees Zaine. "It's an important honor imbuing magic into a object." He offers some of the seaweed soup that he made.
"I know how to pickle fruit which tastes amazing with brandy and goat cheese." Aerys comments.
Jask, looking at his nails, "When I first left Eleder I worked at a fromager." He looks around, "The flavor with depend on the natural flora of the island."
"All right! Find out who this Mother thing is, then we're getting Red Mountain goats."
Zaine, in the midst of making a large batch of gunpowder, shrugs. "I just think he and Aerys are cute together is all. Besides, a little romance on a deserted island... well, all right, not deserted, but remote. Pretty. Anyway, that does a body good, and happy companions lead to happy companies."
Zaine accepts the soup with an appreciative nod. "Depends on the magic. Depends on the object. In this case, it is."
1. I assume Pookie is still around?
2. Get the lighthouse working
3. Since Áine does not have the expertise to create a rebreather, she makes a small stockpile of arrows (depending on how long #2 takes
"Does this island even have a goatery?"
Áine tries hard not to show anyone how humerous she finds this comment.
One night when Faith is due to relieve Aerys on watch, he arrives early.
"I have a little something. Scavenged from the finest shipwrecks this island has to offer."
He holds up a bottle of rum with the topless mermaid label.
"I like cheese," Faith says. "Sounds like we need to find those goats. And somebody should tell our crab friend that the cannibals are gone."
Faith gestures toward Pookie's room. "...mostly."
2. Fixing/finishing the lighthouse will take days. This time can be reduced with K:engineering or Craft (carpentry/stonmasonry)
3. stockpile of ammo noted
As she looks over her left shoulder, Faith see her start to roll up her loose papers into the leather tied scroll she stored in the waterproof section of the camp for so long.
Sasha tosses a bit of fish jerky towards the door of the hot, stinking room - encouraging Tulip to keep towards the little bit of clear space in the small hut. She breaks into a smile, "I wouldn't have even thought..." She shrugs, "Aerys seemed to prefer to have a wall between her and everyone else when we were on the Jenivere."
Quietly, "Wouldn't romance just make people more focused on each other, less likely to take care of what they need to do, less likely to keep an eye out for danger?"
Jask cocks his head to the side slightly, his long black grey locks following the movement. "To me and mine to make magic permanent is the goal in and of itself." Curiosity that must have led the older man astray many times alive in the light brown eyes, "Is the importance more than just making your weapon more efficient and deadly?"
Although not a surprise to some, there are no corpses and no woman in the hole when you descend on the morning of the forth day. Although Sasha seems eager to something, Aerys and Jask are more than happy to run the basics of the camp (although it is more civilized with actual buildings now).
Climbing down the rope you find a uneven floor stained with blood and scattered with wood, fallen leaves, broken metal and bone. Once you are halfway down the rope, you see a single exit from the cave in the eastern wall, the tunnel sloping down.
The air doesn't move much in underground complex, but about 30-feet down the twisting, pitch-black tunnel you can't help but smell the decay and death. After 60-feet of tunnel, you enter a larger cave and you hear the scratch of claws against stone.
To the west the cave roof slopes down until it is only three feet from the floor which is strewn with old bone and bits of flesh. To the east the ceiling bulges upward in a dome - and six circular, pod-like alcoves line the walls. Movement to the west, two medium quadruped shapes and more claw over stone. To the east, a humanoid shape in the shadows of one of the pods.
Zaine pulls the hammer back on the musket and peers into the dark.
1. Does the camp have a well? Offer Pookie water or food foraged from surrounding area.
2. Regarding fixing lighthouse
3. Probably won't get to it, but she should be okay. Hopefully. She does replenish her supply of wax and keeps her bow and strings protected from the ocean and jungle climates.
4. Keep Shiv Dragon fed/watered, and make sure Aerys and Jask know how to do so safely.
Áine sights along her arrow, but tries to identify the creatures before firing, unless they have noticed us and are acting aggressive.
He gestures back to the lighthouse, and the rest of the buildings. "Felt like it was worth the hard stuff for a little celebration. I have it on good authority that this is some of the best alcohol available on this island."
Faith takes a step or two toward the movement, putting himself between it and Áine or Zaine.
Aine's darkvision or Faith's Light spell reveals the source of the scratching, two gaunt dogs which seem to have had more humanoid origins. There is no sound, no howl of warning as they charge the group.
2. Aine is able to get the lighthouse repaired and shined in 3 days.
Aerys looking at the Shiv dragon with a raised eyebrow. "So I take this hunk of meat and toss it close enough for the beastie to get it and it'll be fine, right?"
She takes a closer look at the bottle, "I do believe I've had something from that maker's mark, but the design on the bottle was all different. Or it might be the algae growing on the mermaid that makes it look so much more authentic." She moves over to offer a space on the bench that overlooks the bay and the wreck of the Thune's Fang on the far spit.
"With Aine fixing the light, are you planning on just fishing and drinking the remainder of your time on the Shiv?"
Aine's arrows plunge into one of the advancing dogs. It's legs fail as it tumbles out of control.
2.
Aerys looking at the Shiv dragon with a raised eyebrow."So I take this hunk of meat and toss it close enough for the beastie to get it and it'll be fine, right?"
"Yes." Aine grins, it'll need it's water replaced from time to time. Keep the bowl at the end of the tether and approach when it isn't there or use this long stick to retrieve the bowl, fill it, then push it back. Just be carefull and you'll be fine. Any other questions?"[/b]
Aine begins to haul wood logs up the tower. "So are we going to light this thing or wait for something specific...like sighting a ship, then send SOS signals or something?"
"Y'know, Faith, considering how much we run into these undead you're always praying for, it's almost enough to make me rethink my stance on the gods."
Perception:
Initiative
Zaine:
Tulip:
Zaine drops to one knee and fires into the dog-things.
Tulip gives a raptor's cry and intercepts whichever of the dog-things was going after Zaine.
"It is a real and true thing," Faith says.
"Those things are like ghouls with human intelligence," Faith says.
Faith expends a use of Fervor to cast Shield of Faith on himself without provoking AoO . His blade glows white with Holy Strike.
One of Aine's arrows plunge into one of the advancing dogs. It's legs fail for a moment as the arrow shreds something, but it doesn't quite halt the charge. As the arrow sinks in, it breaks one of the pustules throbbing on the undead's flesh, spraying the cave floor with a yellow pus funk.
The undead ghoul dogs charge forward, trying to sink impressive canines into Faith and Sasha. Faith's armor and Sasha's speed both save them from grievous injury.
Zaine drops to one knee and fires into the dog-things. Killing the undead undamaged by Aine's arrow.
"Those things are like ghouls with human intelligence," Faith says.
Faith expends a use of Fervor to cast Shield of Faith on himself. His blade glows white with Holy Strike.
Sasha tumbles around, flanking the injured festrog, her blade cutting into the heavily wounded undead - finishing what Aine did.
The shape in the alcove cough laughs again, "معمولی حتی تغییرات مقدس نباید بیش از حد انجام شود." A woman's voice, jagged shards compared to what it was a few days previous.
Zaine sets about reloading the musket.
"One of us is really going to have to learn cannibal," he mutters to himself.
Next to the strip of leather, there is a shard of bone which is stained with the blood used to write the confessional plea.
Once you are finished in the cave of unbirth and the one remaining cannibal (other than Pookie), the group is able to head down the tunnel that exits from it, after it curves 40-feet further down into the earth, it oprns up into another larger cave.
A dark pool of water lies in the center of this silo-shaped cavern. A five-foot-wide ledge of stone winds down to the pool below, passing several cave entrances along the way. The cave is 50-feet high and every so often you hear the plonk of water dripping down from the minute cracks in the roof.
To the west of the room (to your right) you see movement - a ghoul on the ledge 10-feet higher than where you stand - start to move away from the large room. Stealthily.
Zaine points out what's under the perception spoiler.
To the west of the room (to your right) you see movement - a ghoul on the ledge 10-feet...
Zaine frowns, as though he can't quite believe what he's seeing. He brings the musket up and fires.