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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8389510" data-attributes="member: 59816">The yuan-ti had come to Omu after its fall - after the time when Acererak had murdered their gods and enslaved the human population. They had come following Ras Nsi, who promised to bring forth Dendar the Night Serpent. Ussal had his own reasons to be here, and his own beliefs. He knew of these fallen "gods" who had been powerful and contentious animal spirits, with fiercely diverse personalities; alliances and rivalries abounded between them. Looking at their statues, he saw that each faced its arch rival across the halls - first Moa the honest jaculi (a serpent) faced Wongo the deranged su-monster (a monkey-thing); next I’jin the fickle almiraj (a horned rabbit) faced Obo’laka the obsessive zorbo (a koala-type); then Papazotl the shrewd eblis (a stork) faced Kubazan the spirited froghemoth (enormous frog); finally Nangnang the selfish grung (frog-folk) faced Shagambi the wise kamadan (jaguar-with-snakes).Thinking on it, Ussal knew that the missing ninth trickster god was Unkh the mighty but indecisive flail-snail. There was nowhere to put any stone cubes, but the carvings on the cubes that showed which god they belonged to matched similar carvings on the oil-basins at the base of each statue. Outside the tunnels, the group took stock of the puzzle cubes, to make sure they held all nine. The Sticks had found Moa's cube at the shrine on the pillar of earth. In fact, they'd found three of them. They had retrieved the cubes for Kubazan, Shagambi, and Unkh off of a Red Wizard's body at the end of the fight with the Yuan-Ti. Ras-Nsi had agreed to send with them the cubes for I'jin, Nangnang, Papazotl, and Wongo. Ussal was in charge here, but Yassah held them. Zagmira held the cube for Obo'laka. There were eleven cubes, but each of the nine gods were represented.</blockquote>

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