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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 3567779" data-attributes="member: 7006">"Some people are out there!"  Rogan says, rushing back to the the Guardian's campsite.  "We've got company!"The guards in the area immediately get into readied actions... Skargash takes out his bow and gets in behind a short wooden wall ready to defend the camp... Rogan rushes to the ruins with another guard and starts picking their way down through it's tunnels to find Zendarrill and the others... Jakk Corren and a couple of the sneakier scouts dive into the jungle underbrush to circle the incoming people and gather intel.***The travel through the jungle had not been easy for Cerril, Ari, and the others in the scouting party.  To be honest... none of them were really suited for this kind of work, and their attempts at tracking were pretty miserable.  Only the quiet guy... by the name of Aerndel Barrne... seemed to be okay with how things were going.  His recollections of what was seen by who and where had given them a direction to march, and if nothing else they were making rather good time into the jungle all things considered."From what I read and what Elder Nevillom told me, we're in pretty good shape.  Sightings were stronger about a quarter-mile further east." Aerndel says... to which a welcomed murmur can be heard amongst the men.  Cerill Maise looks around and leads them up a small slope to a higher hill above the surrounding jungle floor.  "Then let's camp for the night.  Two man watch.  Tomorrow morning we advance further and hope we find something before Nevillom and the others arrive.  I don't want to have to tell him this whole thing was for naught."  However, by her tone it is easy for both Ari and 'Aerndel' to tell that she'd be quite happy to do just that and prove the Elder wrong.***A couple hours later, Zendarrill Loren and the rest of the Daggerspell Guardians are back up from the catacombs beneath the temple ruins, and have received the report of the dozen armored men and women camped about a quarter-mile to the west.  One of the Daggerspell Mages goes into a trance and finds the group with his mind's eye and begins reporting on what he "sees".  Several of the Daggerspell Shapers immediately wild shape into jungle animals... panthers, birds, raptors, and the like, and go out into the darkness to scout further and get a nature's sense of their location.***Ari does not know much about animal behavior... but he does know when he's being watched.  And in the middle of the night, on his watch... the Child of Khyber feels with that hunter's sense of his... a tickle in the back of his head... that tells him his prey is near and that it's aware of his presence.  Very odd.  Perhaps those animals out there in the darkness aren't just animals after all?  Maybe there's more to Nevillom's claims than he gave credit for?</blockquote>

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