"Where are you Gregor?! We are facing trouble here!" Shalissa shouts with fear when she sees the cannibal does not fall and the group is split around the camp.
While everybody is distracted inside the hut, Klozack and the other cannibals are rushing out from the southern hut, trying to catch you from behind.
Overhearing the battle developing outside and Gregor's pain, Shalissa let's the other know she is coming on support "Hold this hut Kerndrew! I am going to help Gregor outside!"
She runs to support the group, and when she sees the ranger's condition, she rushes to touch him some healing.
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when the chieftan and his men rushed out to ambush him Gregor saw Pezock and Ishirou and Jask come to his aid, and Then the brute and cut Gregor, Shalissa came up and healed part of the damage.
Gregor grinned through clenched teeth and growled saying Lets see how you fair when faced with a real combatant Chief.
and he went at him both axes striking out. His battleaxe had cut deep into the chief.. The hand axe was extra.
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Frustrated by his inability to find his missing comrade, Gregor turns towards the chieftain of the Cannibals and lashes out with furious strikes. Klozak is trying to raise his Scimitar in defense, but is utterly overwhelmed. The mighty strike with the greataxe breaks his defenses down and brings him to his knees, where he heets the upswing of Gregors second axe, for a fatal blow to the chin.
Seeing their chieftain fall the remaining cannibals drop their weapon and fall on their knees to hail their new Chieftain.
Pezock in his fighting fury doesn't seem to recognize the gesture and kill two more cannibals before he can be stopped shouting "I will avenge you Eraka!"
Shalissa looks in equal parts relieved and horrified how Gregor chops down Klozak like if it was a shaky tree.
Noticing the shock and unwillingness of the remaining cannibals, Shalissa raises her voice "Kneel now in front of your new Chieftain!"
The elven female looks sad at Pezock and tries to calm him down "Eraka has been avenged. Cool down my friend. There is no more need to shed blood"
"We need to find a safe place where to bind this people until we can exert this ideas from them"
Hearing the.... strange words from outside, Davor ducks to the side to be out of sight of the enemies within. "Guys. Clear the door so they can't hit you with thrown javelins! Something has happened outside."
When Shalissa manages to get through to Pezcok he is slowly calming down and starts to sob and then cry: "All of them they killed all of my friends. They were so horrible."
When the last Survivor on the main plaza sees that he is not in danger anymore, he is willing to speak to the group on the Lookout.
He stells him about the fight between Gregor and Klozak: "Big man very strong be. Killed old chief in one strike. Is very great warrior. Will be even greater after eats chiefs heart."
Hearing all this the other cannibals agree to come down and hand over their weapons.
"Well, that was easier--and better--than I thought. While Iomedae was willing to send these souls to Pharasma by my hand--if we don't need to, we shouldn't."
Gregor looked at the 4 Cannibals and said I will become your new Chieftain. Your tribe will become greater than ever under my leadership. We must tell the rest of the tribe inside. How many more? and who else must I fight to make sure my leadership is successful? Are there any who would oppose me?
Shalissa gathers the party for some healing.
Shalissa's eyes go wide when the cannibals comment Gregor will eat now the heart of the old chief "No one is going to eat the heart of anyone, or any other part of the body!"
"Those are heretical believes that have brought doom to both Klozak and Melikanda. Had you not been cannibals and received us in peace, as human beings, they would be alive now and we would be working together to escape this island" Shalissa says with a serious but calm and maternal expression "We need to come back to the natural balance if you want to recover the gods favor and work with us for a chance to survive this island"
The elven looks around to her shipwreck companions for some help and support.
Gregor sighed and leaned close to Shalissa whispering I was going to wait to bring that up til after we find Sasha.
then he raises his voice. Our Witch Doctor is correct. Your tribe has fallen out of favor with the Gods. To restore favor you must desist in eating the flesh of those with intelligence, and only eat the flesh of beasts you hunt. I will teach you this way. With it you shall bring glory and balance and restoration.
"Are you currently holding any prisoners? One of our tribe has gone missing."
" But how will gain knowledge and might of Klozak?" The Cannibals seem unconvinced by all this new concepts, but for now they refrain from cutting out any hearts.
When Gregor asks about Sasha the cannibal with the dark brown shirt points towards the southwestern Building. "Prisoner be there."
"Those are unreal believes they have used to control you" Shalissa is more hard now, trying to convince or at least leave the cannibals confused enough for now.
"Free her now" Shalissa moves to the building pointed out and peeks in "How many of you remain?"
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"Klozak was weak; look how easily he was defeated. Why would Gregor want his knowledge and might, when it was so obviously inferior?"
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The Cannibal leads you inside the hut.
A wide area has an open wall looking out over the prisoner pen to the south. Two long, horrifically bloodstained slabs of wood serve as butcher’s tables. Behind a small rail, open to the sky, a muddy yard is fenced in by a bamboo and driftwood fence. Numerous stakes driven deep into the ground provide places for prisoners to be tied with their hands behind their backs. Currently only one stake is in use and there you see poor Sasha sitting in the burning sun.
Behind the pen a large hole in the ground opens into a refuse pit providing a very appetizing odour to the area.
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When asked about others the cannibal replies: "Its only us for and wives remaining."
Shalissa frowns at the odor, but is lightened by the sight of Sasha "It is a relieve to see your body is still full"
The elf smiles at the woman and tries to unbind her and provide some basic medical treatment "Come here darling, the cannibals are defeated. What have those beasts done to you?"
Gregor runs over and helps Shalissa cut Sasha free. We came as soon as we could. Are you ok?
Sasha is dehydrated and can barely cough. "I am allright. They have been waiting for a feast or something."
You lead Sasha out of the sun and into the large communal hut where you put her on one of the beds and let her rest, after some bringing her some water.
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Father Kerndrew kneels by Sasha and offers a prayer to Iomedae in her name. "Inheritor, Shining Sword, most beautiful and divine Iomedae. This servant Sasha has endured undeserved suffering today. Please heal her wounds and make her whole."
Davor looks to the cannibals and nods to the words of the others. "Think of it this way. They ways of your old chief caused the deaths of your old tribe mates. You stopped following them when it was proven that they were wrong and weak. The ways of Gregor are stronger. You are a survivor so you are also stronger. And.... You say it's just you and The Wives left? So you will need to stay stronger for all of the wives, right?"
Shalissa smiles when the woman proofs to be in good enough shape after Kerndrew's cares.
"Well, we need to secure this place. Make sure we can trust the cannibals, we better have enough people caring on them for a long time..." Shalissa starts by searching the lighthouse "Let's search consciously all the buildings. We probably want to rest at the lighthouse as that is the easier place to defend"
The group basically will want to search all the buildings in the village for dangers, supplies, and treasure.
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Klozak the Red
When you search Klozaks body you find him over and over covered in red scars, most of them in the form of pentagramms.
Apart from his loincloth and animal hide he is caarying a Scimitar(*), 5 Javelins and a much larger version of these red pearl amulets.
Scimitar +1
The communal hut (A)
The largest hut in the camp, this is
where the male cannibals share living space and where you have laid down Sasha for now.
Behind the hut a guard post sits 10 feet above the
ground on thick stilts, and grants an excellent view of the sea and the path leading up to the camp.
When you climb up here and watch over the surrounding area, you are also spotting a shiv dragon guarding the path approaching the camp from below.
Especially Shalissa remembers your Encounter with such a beast quite vividly and is happy you have chosen another route this time.
Storage Hut (B)
This hut is used to store tools, food, drinking water, and Sashas confiscated gear.
Malikandas Hut (C)
This hut is divided in a bedroom and a workshop.
The Bedroom is a filthy chamber is decorated with hundreds of tiny bones and feathers hanging from twine. The place smells hideous—a combination of body odor, bitter alchemical waste, and monkey.
The other room Malikanda used as a alchemical workshop. A search of the area turns up three antitoxins, two smokesticks, three tanglefoot bags, a thunderstone, and 6 + 2 unknown potions.
6x Cure Light Wounds
2x lesser restoration
The Butchery and Prisoners Pen (D)
Here you found Sasha as well as multiple gruesome tools of the cannibals horrifying trade.
Skeleton Pen (E)
After you killed the skeletons this oen is empty.
"Nice, it seems Klozak found a magical scimitar" Shalissa swings it a bit after a magical analysis, then offers it to Kerndrew or Gregor "We might need its magic if we face a monster resistant to mundane weapons"
Shalissa waves her hand with disgust to make the air circulate in front of her nose as the group explores Melikanda's hut "Do not expect me to take this room"
"These 6 potions are light healing ones. Good thing" the elf distributes the potions giving a couple to each of the fighters "And these other two are restorative ones, in case we are affected by poison or some undead"
Shalissa takes the tanglefoot bags, smokesticks and thunderstone as well as one antitoxin for herself and offers the other two to the group.
When the group has time, she will as well help search the lighthouse thoroughtly.
Father Kerndrew nods towards Gregor when Sasha offers the magical scimitar. "We call her 'The Lady of the Sword' for a reason. The magic will be useful, but I trust in Iomedae's weapon of choice."
He does, though, take the offered potions, claiming two of the cure light wounds and one lesser restoration, to carry and hold for later if nothing else.
While searching the huts you also find Gelik sitting in te shade of the storage hut and looking really weak. "I know I am not as young as Sasha but I hope you can help me finding a place to rest too."
Father Kerndrew offers up the potion of lesser restoration that he just claimed. "I think this will help, and you've earned it."
Gelik eagerly takes teh offered potion. Unfortunately Malikanda seems to be only a mediocre alchemist and the postion is almost worthless.
"Come here darling, we do not want that poison to keep hurting you" Shalissa will use a dagger sterilized on fire to cut the area affected and after extracting as much venom as possible she makes a bandage with some clean clothing.
In general, before going to sleep, she will take cares of the group (up to six people) for them to double the healing .
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Davor glances up at the lighthouse. "Maybe we could light it up for a rescue? But then we won't catch up to the Captain and the woman...."
After having checked out all the buildings and taken care of the injured you approach the light house.
Lighthouse Ground Floor (F)
When you enter the Lighthouse you come into an open but empty foyer from which a set of stairs lead into the second floor and two doors to separate rooms are visible.
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Gregor gives the other potion of lesser restoration to Gelik as well and puts a cure light in his pouch. He helps Gelik into the same room as Sasha. and tells him to get some rest. He asks Isharou and Aerys to take turns on the guard watch tower, while the other rests or patrols the camp. He asks Jask to tend Sasha and Gelik.
Thank you all for your help in this. I know none of you have formally met Pezock Hes an ally also. So please get acquainted. Pezock. Youve fought with them, now become friends. they are all valuable to us.
"Oh yeah! That's a bright idea Davor! Maybe we can light it up and look for the Captain while it shines in the coast" pointing at the other survivors she adds "Our friends can work on the camp and take care of the light meanwhile"
"Yes, thanks all. Without your efforts and the risk you took, I fear the cannibals would have defeated us" Shalissa brings a hand to her heart and vows in full sincerity.
Shalissa looks at the foyer and the other rooms for supplies and anything that might be of use to light up the lighthouse. She will also go up to check in what conditions the light lantern is.
"Thank you all you have been taking good care of all of us." Gelik thanks Everybody who is helping him.
Even though the potions proove top be very weak, he is valiantly trying to stand up and look healthy again "And now go and find out how we can call a ship to this godforsken island."
Later at the Lighthouse Shalissa is looking into the room on the left to find a storage area converted into a guest room. It contains a crude (but comfortable) bed made of driftwood and a homemade feather mattress, along
with the remains of several meals.
You easily recognize the meal as a ration taken from the Jeniveres Supplies
A stranger place is hidden behind the northern door. This cluttered room has been decorated with all manner of relics and remnants taken from the wreck of a ship, including its Asmodeus-shaped figurehead, which looms to the north as the centerpiece of this temple-like area.
These items date from the earliest days of the House of Thrune’s rule over Cheliax, and were likely taken from one of several ships that sailed south to Sargava over 70 years ago in the failed attempt to reestablish control over the wayward colony.
Gregor commands the remaining Cannibals to come with them to search the light house, not wanting to leave them alone with the allies.
Each of you will guard one of us with your lives. Doing so will set you right with the Gods so you can now start anew. Being reborn as a Man of virtue. what are your names?
"Asmodeus... this must come from Cheliax I do guess" Shalissa registers the driftwood and matresses.
"Impressive... These items date from the earliest days of the House of Thrune’s rule over Cheliax, and were likely taken from one of several ships that sailed south to Sargava over 70 years ago in the failed attempt to reestablish control over the wayward colony." Shalissa nods observing the stuff "These people has been here around for longer than I thought I do fear..."
Gregor turns to the Cannibals Who slept in this room? Who was this? and where did they go?
The cannibals have no problems following Gregors commands for now.
"Sharp Knife living here. Bringing new prisoner and getting rewarded with room."
"Sharp Knife?" Shalissa tilts her head a bit worried "Who is that one? One of your fallen?"
"No, he went to the afterlife to visit the great mother a few suns ago."
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"Hey, look at this ration; it's from the Jenivieve!"
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Davor listens, getting more and more confused. Obviously there is more here that they hadn't found, yet.
"Where is this afterlife and the great mother? Is that part of your old religion?"
"Many time ago when we found new home, the mother went to afterlife to rule there. When cannibal is worthy he ay follow her. One day I will go there too."
After some more discusssions you find out that the mother lives in the caverns.
Can you describe the mother?
"Mother doesn't visit us. I have not seen her."
who was sharp knife? a member of the tribe? or someone else..an outsider?
"Where are the caverns?"