Malvec defeated, Mandrin found

"Ugggg" He groans for the 101th time...

"Hmmm... nobody around. I thought they would be spying on who comes down from the mountain. Maybe that woman didn't tell everyone we were here... which would have been smart. Well... can't waste time finding them. Off to the game trail and our skiff... I don't want to lose any good wind."
 

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Over the next two hours you follow the game trail through the jungle and over the mountain to the north side of the island. When you arrive at the beach it is nearing midday.

You find some commotion at the beach as well. There is a large group of islanders around your boat having an animated discussion. Several people have the oars in their hands and the mast has been unstepped and is now lying on the sand.
 

"What the! Well blow me down... this is the last thing I expected to see. Stealin' our oars. Gah! By the depth's of the deep... they bloomin' took der mast down."

Ezieer is visibly upset.
 
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The dwarf scowls and looks to Eisinrhyr. "Care to tell them to bugger off o' our ship, lad!? What's goin' on here, eh? Mayhap we needs t' tell 'em Malvec's dead, aye?" Theodus doesn't seem too eager to try chasing them off right now, him being all pale from the poison and weak from the injuries suffered earlier. Still, he pulls out his sling in case he needs to try fighting off the 'human vultures'.
 

"Better to let the smooth talking Azeem address them. He's never let me down before... he's even a better liar than I am... stone cold he is."

He grins in between a fit of nausea...

"Just get them to leave the mast alone... the oars aren't that important... but if they screw up the rigging more than they have I'll have a helluva time putting it back together."
 
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The villagers see you emerge from the trees and several (4) of the men begin to approach you. Each is well tanned and muscular. They have some farming tools with them, but no obvious weapons. Several more (7) of the villagers stay back at the boat. You recognize the woman who has 'helped' you in the cave in that group.
 

Ezieer concentrates on their demeanor and body language to determine their hostility.

"Aint the friendliest group I've gazed on... looks like dere is a disagreement in the tribe... and dese are tha ones being the most disagreeable."
 
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Theodus looks at Ezieer again. "Well lad, ye be the only one o' us speakin' their tongue, so get on with it! Ask 'em to let us leave with our ship an' we'll never be back again."
 


The four men approach your group and one speaks up in the dialect of Eisinrhyr, "What have you done! You have slain Malvec and the others as well as a child of The Mother. Why should you not die?!"

As the dread of facing this rabble fills you the woman whom you have already spoken with screams at the man, "Jallar you fool! They have freed us from the evil of Malvec and his dreams of becoming the next Fyndor. He had already killed Ullesi and Norga to take their wives as his own. Do you think he would stop at just two? DO YOU?! What did Fyndor do next after taking all of his 'wives' to his temple? Tell me."

The man Jallar and the others take a less aggressive posture after the woman's outburst. Jallar quietly says, "He changed them..."

The woman continues, "He didn't CHANGE them. He experimented on them and made them half creatures or worse. They all became abominations. Some still wander the wildlands of home eating livestock and unwary travelers. Is that what you want to become of me?"

She then walks up to the group of men and more calmly speaks, "Put away your weapons. We are now free from this evil. We have these men to thank. Let them take the trinkets. We don't need them."

The men seem to melt under her verbal assault and back off. She then turns to you, "Your boat is intact. Only the mast was taken down, but not injured. Please leave the religious items so that we may continue to worship our loving Mother in the peaceful manner we came here for." She points out the holy symbols, the silver chain, the horse figurine, the silver ring (skull emblem) and Malvec's shield as those items.
 

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