Under Strange Stars II

[Zerth]

Amira flies closer to Razeem and Jagra casting yet another spell. This time she summons a cloud of fog to cover Jagra's retreat, should the gnome go for it. "Jagra, run now while this fog hides you!" she shouts from the air.

Razeem keeps distracting the chick in front of him, dodging and weaving in the air.

OOC: Cast Fog Cloud centered on the chick chasing Jagra. Total defense for Razeem, AC 28.

 

[Someone]

Seeing Amira fly to help Jagra, Al-Khazad runs with Akeeta and Menghil to the safety of the narrow cave. They arrive there and seconds later the chick slams anaginst the wall or rock, with a thunderous sound, making sand and a couple small rocks fall from the ceiling.

The other bird is suddendly enveloped in a cloud of thick mist. When the monster manages to come out of it, it finds a huge worm scuttling at it´s feet and delighted eats it, only to find that it dissapears in it´s beak. The young gigantic falcon chirps angrily, but Jagra is already away. He, Razeem and Amira only have to wait until the other chick leave the cave´s mouth to join the rest.

There´s a man there, dressed with clothes that have seen better times; his face is hidden behind a thick beard. "Congratulations!" says. "You´re the first group I´ve seen surviving those feestros! Come on, this deserves some fire."

He goes deeper into the cave and gathers some wood while singing softly "Seven horses coming from bonasa, jarl!"

 

[Ashy]

Jagra looks around with a bewildered look upon his features. "What in the....???" he mutters...

 

[Someone]

The man lights a fire. "So, my name´s Calzada" says. "Tell me, how´s that you´re here?"

When he says that his face changes, as if he suddendly had remembered or realized something. "Wait, if you... I can´t I can´t... so, you have a.... ship? O, please, tell me you have a ship"

 

[hafrogman]

Menghil looks around the cave cautiously for a moment before studying the man in front of the group.

"We came by ship, but as to whether or not we still have one . . . that remains to be seen."

[ooc - so are Jagra and the others still stuck outside, or did the last chick give up?]

 

[Someone]

(Yes, everybody´s in. Since only Jagra and Razeem were outside, I choose to get round the procees of getting them in.)

The cave is just a crack in the rock wall, long and deep enough to allow a man to live in it a rather uncomfortable life. You notice hundreds, in fact thousands of scratches in the wall, like the ones prisoners make to count the passing of days.

"For my mother´s glory, what do you mean with that?" asks Calzada. "Ten years, ten years waiting alone, and you now say you don´t have a ship? Jarl!"

 

[dead_radish]

"Have the feestros kept you pinned in the entire time? Have you not tried to flee?"

 

[Someone]

"Many have tried, those that were not eaten by the birds." says Calzada. "But where? This is a savage island. There is one eyed monsters, and wild men in the jungle, and... er... many things, but no way to sail out of here. No, this is the closest thing to freedom we´ll ever be. Oh, look at that magnificent ship, so well built."

Calzada points at the stranded ships with a bony finger. "You know, actually this was not a life so bad until the chicks were born. The mother left the nest for days at a time, and I could walk freely. There are great treasures in those ships, you know I can´t I can´t[/i] but since those monsters left the egg I can barely stretch my legs and see how the mother brings ships, the youngs eat the crew and the survivors leave for a certain death in the jungle."

 

[Zerth]

"I am Princess Amira," she states proudly to Calzada.

"You've been here ten years? Well, we did not come all the way up to live here or enjoy the view. We do have a ship, but is was badly damaged by the combination of a storm and a couple of fiendish sea serpents. We noticed the giant bird had carried all these ships up here and were hoping to find some replacement parts," she explains.

"We've met the cyclopses and the apefolk and can't say we're on good terms with either one of them. The cyclopses basically declared war on us, since they don't want any outsiders on their island. Their priests explained that's their god's will - the god in question being this overgrown bird. So, I'm afraid matters could not be much worse," she says and sighs.

 

[Ashy]

"Treasures?" Jagra asks, suddenly far more interested in what the crazed old man has to say. He strokes his chin thoughtfully, "Hmmm...perhaps we can find something within those treasures to get us all off this forsaken island..."