It is somewhere around midnight when you arrive back at the hut, and I
imagine your your friends are probably eagerly awaiting your return by this point. Yeah,
oh good, you didn't get eaten? Who today? They totally haven't
overstred dinner. Don't worry about it, Not today, Satan, Not today.
I thought it was important to show your friend the fish man and what
you might be dealing with out there. Fair enough, what did they look
like? Part fish? Part man has advertised a different version of our foes
by the Plateau all the way back there? I suppose they were all parts
department. Did I see the fishermen with crude tools? I did, right,
Yes. They had knives that appeared to be made of either bone or,
in some cases a strange stone like substance that you are not familiar with.
Some of them had spears. Many of them carried nets, although they
didn't come across anything big enough to use them on. I would say the
fishermen are smarter than our foes by the Plateau. Unfortunate the flying ones.
We don't know how old those skeletons were, right, correct, Also,
depending on circumstances, it's kind of a reach I know, but if you're
specifically out to target a specific thing, like a man with a sword,
you might not have the same kind of equipment as say, when you are
intending to gather a variety of things. What I mean is, yes,
we can confirm our fishmen here use tools and have some baseline level of intelligence
in that way. But I think that means instead of assuming that they're smarter
than the flying beast, it's the possibility I was talking about the degenerate that's
true. Yeah, yeah, it was also something with the heaps. Yeah,
okay, all right, there were two different plateaus. There was the
one that the sword was found on, and the other one was the degenerate
one. Yeah. I think there's this uncomfortable trend now that we're all talking
about the same things. Like, I think there's an uncomfortable trend of like
everything seems to be a little bit smarter than we would have initially thought,
and that makes them all very dangerous that I can agree with. Getting sick
of his part beast, part man thing that we keep having to run into.
I mean that's the other thing, right, if we've got fishnoviga bird
men, maybe don't know are there other men's all right. So you have
that night where you sit and you discuss what is potentially in front of you,
and the next evening, we'll say, is probably the third day of
your resting period, and Cole has been working on trying to make some extracts
of the oils of the herb bundles that Nala uses with Phaedra's help. As
the sun goes down that day, Nala seems like she's a little bit under
the weather, so she excuses herself early and working into the night. As
the two of you are, you kind of lose track of time, and
probably once the moon is up and over the canyon wall so that the light
levels outside come up a little bit and it's not pitch dark. Nala emerges
from her room wearing just like a shift just whatever she would normally sleep in,
crudely made from plant fibers and the like. She sort of has like
a dreamy expression on her face, and she wanders right past you, guys,
almost like she can't even see you. She approaches the front door and
opens it, and you realize that she does not have her necklace on with
her herbs who as you kind of just watch this play out Cole's gonna go
out and say, somebody grab the necklace. Yeah, I'm on it all
right. So Phaedra runs into her room and grabs the necklace, which is
with her bedding called. By the time you make it to the doorway,
she's probably about thirty or forty feet away from the front door, and she
stops and turns and looks up at the mo and then with horrific popping and
grinding, her body begins to jerk, and she begins to screen wow,
and before your eyes, she grows to twice her height and sprouts fur as
her face erupts into a snout filled with fangs. Can you behold a giant
wolf like bipedal creature? I'm just gonna quietly shut the door behind her.
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