Chapter 3: Meeting The Natives

FRICK and YGNE

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You step around Moss who seems to be getting a lecture from The Seventh and She Who Has Been Beyond the Reef. You step out into the village and feel strong, cool winds on your face. Storm clouds are racing in from the sea, steadily conquering the blue sky.

The village is in bad shape; the two watchtowers and three huts are but splinters. Bodies of villagers and monsters alike have been laid across the open dueling circle, decapitated. It appears The Seventh has been busy.

All around villagers are organizing. Some pay respects to the dead, mounting a small red paper lantern on a pole beside the corpse. Some of the corpses have three or four lanterns dangling from their pole. Others are getting on with reconstruction. A group with axes and other lumberjacking tools is assembling at the edge of the village, while others are raising a makeshift shelter.

Over the edge of cliff overlooking the sea, three figures stride up from the beach; Jarveena, Elspa, and Rygnar ascend into the village.

ELSPA, JARVEENA, and RYGNAR

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You make your way down the beach and past the waterfall. The sky overhead is a boiling mass of storm clouds, the kind that would make sailors want to find port as soon as possible.

Soon you find yourself crossing the pebble beach. The bodies of the zombies still lie in a heap, but now giant crabs and birds fight over their meat. They are too preoccupied with their feast to bother with you. You ascend the blood-stained stairs that you so ably defended only a handful of hours ago.

The village is in bad shape; the two watchtowers and three huts are but splinters. Bodies of villagers and monsters alike have been laid across the open dueling circle, decapitated. Two corpses of strange bird-like creatures stand out from among the rest.

All around villagers are organizing. Some pay respects to the dead, mounting a small red paper lantern on a pole beside the corpse. Some of the corpses have three or four lanterns dangling from their pole. Others are getting on with reconstruction. A group with axes and other lumberjacking tools is assembling at the edge of the village, while others are raising a makeshift shelter.

From behind the waterfall stride two figures, which you quickly realize are Frick and Ygne.

Good question. Yes, they are. There are exits from the behind the waterfall to both sides of the ravine, so we'll assume you are all on the same side.

MOSS

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Moss stalks off down the stairs, past the massacre. The crab-infested pile of bodies at the ground, metal swords and armor glinting in the sun, remind you of your days as a Troglodyte prisoner. This would have been a prime catch for your former masters.