Hitting them where it hurts

I was glad that Prince Liuni's gathering had not ended in bloodshed, it was a nice change compared to the previous party i went to. I had briefly spoken with prince Liuni and let him know that i would help him with his cause in defeating the cults. I also made it clear to him that i had promised my friends i would help them with their problems and would not leave Zyniii until i had done so.
 
He had reached out to us since the gathering and asked for our assistance in attacking the Enceladus, Morvor, Prima and Edo'ghan cult outposts situated throughout Zyniii. We met up with him at his garrison in the Rose district and were also joined by Lady Saadiah. Together we came up with a plan of attack that involved us splitting into groups and each group would attack an outpost. The Gleam boys were also going to help us and were willing to lend us their gleam pods for the attack.
 
The duplicate Zeno was somewhere in the vincinty and luckily for us he had no ill intentions towards us. Syrus beleived the duplicate Zeno, or Z2 as i liked to call him, was a shape-shifter. It struck me how prince Liuni was not fazed by the fact that we had a shape-shifter in our mist and did not immediately investigate why Z2 was there in the first place. I get that he was focused on the cults but you would think he would want to make sure that Z2 was not going to cause any trouble. Also the others did not seemed fazed by Z2's prescence, especially Zyanaya and the original Zeno. Maybe Zyanaya liked having an extra Zeno to play with.
 
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I chose to attack the Prima outpost and was accompanied by Arthom, Prince Liuni and Whisper from the Gleam Boys gang. I opted out of using one of the gleam pods and hitched a ride on the back of Gallant, it was handy having a large warhound for a companion. We headed towards the coast of Zyniii where the outpost was situated, meanwhile Whisper went to meet up with a gang of Aurelian elves hoping to acquire their aid. As we were making our way towards the outpost a tidal wave began to form and headed straight for us. Fortunately Gallant was able to sense the tidal wave's approach and began to outrun it, thank goodness for my trusty sidekick. I looked back and was terrified to see that Arthom and Prince Liuni was about to be engulfed by the wave. Thankfully Prince Liuni was able to jump out of the gleam pod and in a impressive display of magic slammed his sword into the ground which appeared to split the wave down the middle avoiding us altogether.
 
We eventually arrived at the outpost and then Whisper turned up with the gang of Aurelian elves. The Aurelian elves started running towards the outpost but some of them got taken down by a bunch of tentactes that had shot out of the ground. Fuck these cultists, first they try to drown us with a tidal wave and then they throw tentacles at us. We forced our way into the outpost and made those cultists pay for trying to kill us. Gallant and i were a superb duo, whilst perched on Gallant's back I loosed a bunch of arrows at the cultists with my bow and Gallant mauled any other cult members that came at us. Meanwhile Arthom had shape-shifted his hands into warhound paws with sharp claws, and tore into multiple cult members with those massive claws as he fought back-to-back with Whisper, while Prince Liuni also struck down cult members. There was a not a cult member left standing by the time were through with them. We also decided to do some damage to the Triad's reputation by way of Arthom drawing their Lotus flower symbol in blood on the wall. Let the cults think they were responsible for the attack, and If we were lucky they would fight eachother, which would make it easier for us when we helped Ko take down the Triad.
 
After our bloody rampage was done and the Prima outpost was in ruins we met up with the rest of the misfits at a tavern. They had also been successful in their mission and i was glad that we had done some serious damage to the cults in Zyniii. As i listened to my fellow misfitts recount the details of their mission a feeling of doubt suddenly came upon me. I could not help but wonder if my friends were proud of how i fought tonight, or would they always see me as the inept wolf who needed saving regardless of how well i did. They did not think twice about commenting on my past failures, it would be nice to hear them say something positive for once instead.