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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1517333" data-attributes="member: 4441">"Fair enough," Jalaro says, and retreats to her tent, only large enough for one.  Otherwise there are three other tents, and people can pair up.  Assuming someone will take third watch, perhaps Undinar, the rest of you can go to sleep.  Tiana, the fire provides some light and some warmth from the chill fog and damp of the evening.  The sounds here are different, very different from those on board the ship, or other places you have been in your travels.  Strange chirps and trills, the constant dripping of water; it's an odd place to be.*First watch passes uneventfully, and you awaken Jalaro.  No one gets woken up until Undinar is awakened to take his watch.  The lushness of the forest is almost like being at the bottom of some strange sea, albeit somewhat drier.  While you thought you saw some lights in the jungle that may have been from animals' eyes, none approached the camp.**In the morning, leftover stew and a firm, tough-skinned fruit called an "orange" are handed out for breakfast.  Jalaro is fairly quiet in the morning, and aids the others in breaking down the tents, burying their garbage and ashes, and loading up the frisky anklies with little comment.  You plod on into the jungle, traveling almost another three days without incident, other than seeing more variety of plant life in one day's travel than perhaps you've seen thus far in a lifetime.  Birds of fantastic colors fly in the canopy, and insects of every possible description, some quite beautiful, others so fantastically camoflauged that it's nigh impossible to see them are everywhere.  Odd beasts Jalaro calls "monkeys" live in the canopy, and a strange rodent as big as a dog, called a "capybara," you spotted swimming in a river.  A couple times you saw some beautiful silver and black spotted cats that lived in the trees, and another time you saw a pair of jaguars running from the anklies.**You steer clear of a man-high plant with a huge pod after seeing it suddenly clamp its pod closed on an unfortunate rat that fell into it.  Another time you saw an enormous flower, nearly six feet across, lying on the ground, in brilliant patterns of red and purple.  It also stank like rotting meat and was covered with flies, though Jalaro commented that that was normal.**On the afternoon of your fourth day of travel, Jalaro signals a halt.  Ahead of you there's a movement in the trees, and suddenly something brilliantly green and blue springs into flight from the tree.  Startlingly it lands in front of the lead ankly, about twenty feet away.  It resembles the thimble-sized, jewel-bright tree frogs with poisonous skin that you've seen about, save the fact that it is about two feet long, is wearing a belt made of vines with several pouches made from gourds on it, and it is carrying a spear tipped with obsidian.**Jalaro whispers to the party, "It's a grippli, though I don't recognize him personally.  He'll want to know who we are and what we're doing."*</blockquote>

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