"We'd love your company. Perhaps... ahhhh... we could share some of our cuisine with you along the way?" Father Kerndrew gives Shalissa a slightly sheepish look to the side at mention of the food.
Pezcock turns his head and looks at the small altar when considering your offer.
"I am not sure this is a wise idea. My subjects need me and my decision to guide their live. But you would go and visit the cannibals you say? What do you plan to do when yu see them? They slaughtered my mate and all ourt friends when our ship crashed on this beach and my sabre lusts for revenge a long time already. If you will help me in this I will come wiht you and lead you wherever you need on this island."
When Pezcock mentiones his Sawtooth saber, you look at it again and notice that it is in a much better condition than the rest of his belongings.
"Yes; while it's not revenge that we seek, but safety on this island instead, cannibalism is an evil practice. Iomedae commands that I deal with such threats if its within my means."
He looks at the tengu's blade with respect. "With your fine blade, and these fine friends, I believe this is within our means."
"I do not know to what extend we should fight the cannibals, specially if they are numerous Pezcock, but I certainly want to check out that lighthouse" Shalissa looks at the others for their willingness to remove the cannibals from the island.
"I will support you on making the island safer, as long as we do not take too much risk. Even if we agree to join forces against the cannibals I think we should visit Aycenia first"
Gregor looks at Shalissa and frowned then looked at The Tengu. Rest assured Pezcock, we will be there to help you, if you help us. Additionally we have several friends that may be willing to help as well back at our base camp, if it turns into us against a village.
Davor nods to the others words. "With proper strategy I'm sure that we will prevail, even if they have a numerical advantage."
"I do not know to what extend we should fight the cannibals, specially if they are numerous Pezcock, but I certainly want to check out that lighthouse" Shalissa looks at the others for their willingness to remove the cannibals from the island.
"I will support you on making the island safer, as long as we do not take too much risk. Even if we agree to join forces against the cannibals I think we should visit Aycenia first"
"Didn't you come from down that beach. And saw what they do, when they find you and your group? My ingdom has been the only one to withstand their raids."
Why do you think that is Pezcock? said Gregor? The Crab? If we saw through it...why havent they? Or because your kingdom is dead....and they dont think its worth the effort...Sooner or later, they may get hungry enough to come at you.
"They are cannibals.so they eat humans. and do I look like a human to you?"
Pezcock looks very convinced of this logic and you got the feeling its not worth fighting that argument.
Pezcocks starts packing a small bagpack with food and clothing before a short prayer on the shrine for his fallen comrades. "Eraka the time your killers and avenge your death."
Then he steps out onto the beach overlooks his "Grand Kingdom" once more murmuring, "I hope you fare well without me. I will miss you my dear subjects."
Once you are on the way he leeds you back to the pludered camp and then on the trail through the jungle. After an hour he stops before the trail leads into a narrow Gulch.
"Careful there are often cannibals laying in ambush here. I think we should climb up to the op of the gulch and circle around it on the western side."
Gregor grins maliciously. why don't we ambush the ambushers and thin the ranks of what we will be facing and see about capturing one to gain some intel
Davor looks ahead at the gulch, and the sides. "The high ground could win the battle though. Gregor and I are pretty good at moving quietly. We could scout ahead on either side, and signal when the rest of you should move slowly in. Knowing when and where the ambush will come from and ambushing them should make this encounter over really quick!"
Gregor carefully looks over the sides of the gulch from where they have paused looking for any sign of the Ambushers
If somebody is here, they are well hidden.
You see anything Davor? This ground is not conducive for a two pronged assault. we either bypass or all hit one side.
Davor studies the sides of the gulch.
"Well, being caught IN the gulch would be bad. Anyone from the top could just toss rocks.... If we don't want to split, the " " east side looks like maybe the best way?"
"Are we sure about waiting here? Perhaps the cannibals only pass through once every few weeks" Shalissa looks at Pezcock "Is there another way to surround the gulch without having to climb?"
If there is no other way Shalissa will try out to follow Pezcok sure way up through the top.
"If we want to reach Aycenia we need to get up that plateau. either through the gulch or we climb somewhere up."
"Whether there are any here or not, this looks like a perfect place for a trap. And since we need to climb to reach the plateau anyway.... Gregor and I can lead and set ropes to make the climb easier for others."
Gregor and Davor silently advance slightly inland of the clif along the gulchs edge trying to spot any ambushers lying in wait.
At first nobody can be seen, but when the come near the spot where the gulch is tightest Gregor spots a slight movement under one of the bushes. He looks closer and just as he is sure there is somebody lying in wait a javellin comes flying out of the bush towards Davor but falls short.
Gregor quickly moves straight in trying to move around to cut off retreat, pulling his Battle Axe and a throwing axe as he moved. he spun after 30 feet and threw the Throwing axe at the further one from Davor. He saw the axe go into the shoulder of the Cannibal.
Gregors daring maneuver takes the Cannibal by surprise and he cannot avoid the short distance throw completely. When the axe hits him in the shoulder the Man roars out in frustration making himself rready to attack.
Hearing the cries of battle ahead, the Father knows there's no need to stay hidden any longer. He starts forward, trying to get closer.
The cannibals break out of their hiding spot and come running after you.
The Cannibal With the Blue Warpaint steps out of his hiding spot and tries to stab Gregor, but the ranger is able to deflect the scimitar with his weapons and avoid being hit.
A second Man with his body covered in red scars wants to attack Davor but is foiled by Father Kerndrew stepping up and giving cover to the Halforc. He raises his scimitar over his head charges against the Paladin, but is unable to hit him over his shield cover.
Father Kerndrew swings at the cannibal that attacked him, but seems to favor his defense, causing the swing to go wildly wide.
"Can you understand us? There is no need to fight!" Shalissa shouts at the cannibals while she approaches the group. Holding the trident in one hand she throws a spark with the other at the first human.
But with both enemies engaged in combat, her aim has to be too careful to avoid hitting Gregor or Kerndrew and the spark goes wide "Let's stop this before it is too late, there is no reason for battle"
As the Cannibal comes close he swung the battleaxe tiwards the side of the native. and saw the axe go into its side. He reached with his other hand and pulled his hand axe out.
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Seeing the cannibal emboiled in combat with Kerndrew, Davor rushes forward trying to cut of flight too. He tries to lash out at the man with his rapier but the swing gets entangled in a liana and misses wildly.
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Pezcock rushes forward into the fight and draws his sabre ready to join the carnage next round.
Shalissa fires another electric arc into the melee, but gets just blocked by Kerndrews shiield getting in the way, The arc fizzled out harmless, but shakes Kerndrew just enough to miss his strike too. On the other end Gregor is putting down mighty strikes onto his opponent wounding him once more. Being severely wounded by now, his opponent decides to cathc a head start and withdraws.
His companion tries to hit Kerndrew once more. but is easily blocked.
Father Kerndrew brings his longsword down on the remaining cannibal. "Try not to let the other get away; we don't want them to know we're coming!"
"I am on it!" Shalissa rushes forward through the palm trees trying to make Father Kerndrew desires come true. The elven woman shots another electrical arc at the feeing cannibal.
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Gregor drops the battle axe and hand axe to the ground as he takes off after the fleeing wounded cannibal. He moves close to half the distance as he pulls his longbow, nocking an arrow and letting fly. The arrow clipped the side of the cannibals head.
Having brushed the attacking Scimitar aside with his shield , Father Kerndrew is capitalizing on the opening by landing a solid blow on the collarbone of the cannibal severely wounding him. The cannibal falls to his knees and is easily finished of by Pezocks sabre.
The Father looks at the disturbed jungle in Gregor's wake, and hopes the man is able to stop the cannibal's flight.
In the meantime, he binds the cannibal on the ground so they can try to interrogate the man later.
"I agree we need to stop him" Shalissa will quickly start to cast summon monster to bring a celestial eagle pointing the cannibal "Stop him" then she will run after with the rest of the party.
Gregor chases the Fleeing cannibal, jumping over roots, ducking under branches, moving around bushes, pausing to loose an arrow. He grazes the cannibals side a second time and continues. and loses the arrow in the trees. The cannibal disappears from site and Gregor curses under his breath and turns back to the group.
The cannibal weaving through the undergrowth provides a tough target and so all Gregor is managing is another grazing hit.
Shalissa summons a mighty eagle and send him to hunt down the prey. The eagle rises into the sky and circles there for a few seconds. Just when you think its lost its prey, it dive down into the jungle where the cannibal disappeared and sounds of beating wings and cries of pain are heard in the distance.
With the one cannibal dropped and the other fleeing, Davor draws on his magic and tries....
He quickly casts a spell (Cheetah's Sprint) and almost flies after the cannibal. Attacking him as he shoots by.
Quickly after summoning the eagle Shalissa kneels before the unconscious cannibal and tries to safe him "No beast deserves a death like this, we might be able to save him and even get some information"
After things are settled, Shalissa will look for where the eagle swooped down over the cannibal prey "I think it must have dropped here"
If the other cannibal is found, Shalissa will help bring the body, dead or alive, to gather with the other one, so the group can decide what to do about them.
"I think we shall tie them down then I can bring them back to life for us to interrogate" if everything works, then Shalissa will channel energy to heal the group and the bound cannibals so the group can ask them questions.
Meanwhile Shalissa has propped up the other victim such that he can be interrogated.
Gregor returns, picking up his Axes, he comes over to the tied Cannibal and says Shalissa you may want to excuse yourself from this. It might not be pretty. He grinned at the Canniabl evilly, and ran his thumb along the edge of the hand axe. Do you speak the Common tongue?
"Whoa now; I don't like that look in your eye, Gregor. If you're warning people off from what you're about to do, I'm surprised you'd think I should stick around."
Gregor Nods Grimly at Father Kerndrew saying Indeed with a slight wink
"Very well." He turns to the cannibal, and using a lot of gestures to support the simple language he uses, he shakes his head as if with concern. "I don't like the sound of that at all."
He turns to Shalissa, keeping his voice loud enough to be heard, and his face in view of the cannibal. "Come," he says, "let's not watch this. It could get ugly." He begins leading Shalissa a just far enough away so as not to be seen.
The cannibal is much to intimitated by Gregors behaviour to look through Father Kerndrews Bluff.
He crawls backwards trying to get away from the huge man Shouting "Leave Alone! Or we kill you!"
"What do you mean Gregor?" Shalissa tries to intervene but it is difficult for her when both Gregor and Kerndrew is dragging her out of the place "These are human beings, we sure can negotiate with them Gregor. Do not hurt him"
"You should talk or I will not be able to save you" Shalissa attempts to play the good policeman in the interrogation for the time she is allowed to voice herself up before the violence starts.