Teleporting back to Breakbone

The party decide it needs to have a rest before putting the blocks in the spaces. During the nights resting, Kailyn, whilst investigating the sword, notices that the archway rippled slightly. He stands and moves towards the archway and rolls a ball of music through the archway which rolls straight through. During Fangs watch she walks the jungle which feels infinite but seems that she always ends up around the archway no matter the direction she takes.   In the morning, Yesne puts the blocks in the order left to right, as the last block is entered they all move downwards, a noise of rocks grating against each other comes from the anti chamber room. Nisus runs to the door just in time to see the mosaic pieces all cascading and shuffling around which forms a perfect opening. Inside is a sarcophagus, with a lady dressed in fur. Nisus shouts out for KayKay or Elessa. Insults Elessa’s intelligence and so she storms straight over to Nisus. Nisus thinks it may be the sarcophagus of Shagambi. Elessa has a look for traps doesn’t find any and asks Bjorn to leverage it over. Bjorn obliges. The sarcophagus opens (it is actually hinged) and Bjorn luckily opened it from the correct side.   Inside, is a woman. Not undead or deteriorated but almost as if they are asleep. Wearing furs and like they are lying on a bed. She is not breathing. Yesne sees a faint shimmer across the top of the sarcophagus. Yesne asks Kailyn to have a look with his goggles, he detects that it is an evocation spell of some sort. Kailyn puts his hand in and it is rebuffed. Nisus attempts to and the rest of the party see his eyes roll to the back of his head for a few seconds. In Nisus’ head he disappears from the room completely and feels he is stood in the middle of a jungle. Nisus is dressed only in chultan clothes and calls out ‘hello, my friends’ he hears some movement in the undergrowth ahead. A snake followed by another and another start appearing. As they rear upwards (6 in total) and a head of a jaguar comes through. Nisus makes eye contact with the creature and sees a deep level of intelligence in it’s eyes. ‘So you are my friend, why have you brought me here, I did as you asked’. ‘You did, and you are hear not just to purge an evil from the shrine but a successor is needed’ ‘you mean the warrior in the sarcophagus- this was your champion?’ ‘correct, the land needs champions’ ‘but I cannot stay in the sarcophagus – my friends need me, I need me, do you not know about the soul monger’ ‘from where I am held I cannot tell all the details and yes ras nsi has been a plague but there are others seeping across the land .champions are needed, good must prevail’ ‘ I. have greatly benefitted from your favours’ ‘ I do more than speak for shagambi – I am her. You have proven your determination and worth. Take on the mantle of my champion help free this land. But watch for others. I was not the only god to be locked away. Some will be beneficial, others less so. Sometimes following the law and rules will prevail. Othertimes we will be less conventional. Trust must be earned and you have earnt it for me’ ‘you speak of those not to be trusted and we have met great ones such as yourself, we have heard the stories and now meeting you must I believe there is not just you and moa, great shagambi but you are all hidden’ ‘hmm we are indeed all locked away, it shows chult must be able to bleed it’s spirits. But I will take advantage of anything we can use to prevail for good. We have little time left, I will be watching you and aid where I can as long as you follow our path. Chult is crying out for need, who knows how far this is spreading. It is getting worse and accelerating but I heed you hurry but be wary of who you trust, who we trust. Not all those who are there to help are there to help in the long term’ ‘two questions great one – most important if I consent to this great challenge I don’t have to be in a coffin?’ ‘you’ll know what to do’ and with that Nisus feels he has been swept out of a tunnel. For the rest of the party this only lasted maybe half a second. The shimmering glass turns into mots of tiny ambery red and disintegrates at which point the body too turns into tiny mots and disappears. There are things in the bottom of the coffin.   Yesne picks up the amulet and which has a small stone arch depicted on it. She takes it to the other room and when she is within 10ft of the stone arch it becomes opaque. Kailyn says he asked it to take us to Camp Vengeance. Kailyn tries to walk through and bounces back. Yesne realises it’s a teleportation spell. Yesne thinks about 5ft behind the party and a mirror appears reflecting the room. She tries to run through but Kailyn stops her suggesting it might be a one use only device. Kailyn sends Vorn back to Wakanga and the party decide they will get back to Camp Vengeance. Yesne thinks really hard about Camp Vengeance and it appears on the archway. The party step through…   The party don’t take particularly well to the transportation. Yesne, Nisus and Fang in particular are quite ill.   Kailyn is in the middle of dense jungle and it is deep night time. He feels panic when a hand touches his shoulder. Fang asks ‘where are we?’. They notice it is just the two of them. Elessa, also in the jungle and realises there is nobody else around. Bjorn, Nisus and Yesne also find themselves alone in the jungle. Yesne screams hello and Nisus hears her to his right. Elessa hears the scream faintly. Kailyn and Fang and Bjorn do not hear. Kailyn does hear chimpanzees above his head… Nisus sends Yesne a message. ‘Yesne my friend, stop screaming you will attract the beasts, you know what happens at night’ ‘omg why are we alone, I’m coming towards you. Love you’. Nisus casts a small red dot which Yesne sees about 60ft away. She starts running towards it. As she passes a large tree a huge snake shoots out to grab her but misses. She makes it all the way to Nisus.   Kailyn gives Fang a potion to get above the canopy, Fang declines to take it (though does put it in her pocket) and begins to climb the tree. Kailyn sees the chimpanzee troop moving across the canopy.   Elessa who heard Yesne a second time starts to move towards her. On her way to Yesne and Nisus she sees a dinosaur creeping up on them. She creeps towards Yesne and Elessa. Nisus retrieves the Saj Nbaza charm and gives himself and Yesne darkvision.   Bjorn also shouts out ‘hello’ and Yesnes, Nisus and Elessa all hear him very clearly.   Fang, whilst trying to climb the tree slips, but does manage to keep a hold of the tree. Kailyn says ‘I told you to drink the potion’ but she still declines.   Elessa tells Nisus and Yesne she sees a dinosaur and points to where it was. They try and have a look.   Whilst looking for the dinosaur, two more dinosaurs attack them from behind.   Kailyn hears the commotion and calls Fang down the tree.   Having despatched the dinosaurs, the group, now together again try to establish where they are. Fang attempts to climb the tree to see if she can spot Camp Vengeance. Kailyn wishes she had given her the spyglass ‘I can take it for you’ comes a voice in his head. She takes it up to Fang who asks ‘have you seen Camp Vengeance’ ‘Yes it’s behind us’. Fang looks in the direction Ilonas suggested and using the spyglass is able to locate it. She spots a break within the treelines which she recognises as the river then behind her, she sees several spluttering flames and torchlights which would be camp vengeance. Fang climbs down the tree and relays the information to the party. It is around a 20 minute walk through the jungle so the party decide to make their way to the gates. After around 15 minutes we start to see the flickering lights of the watch tower. There is a lot of fire from inside the camp itself (more than expected). There are various birds flying.   Yesne sends a message to Inete. ‘We’re near camp. All ok? What’s the fire? Anything we should know before knocking? Is breakbone still a dick? Love you, reply back’. Inete replies ‘oh my god totally a massive dick. Cyas leading prayers and funerals. disease still real bad. food lower than letting on. come here soon. Love’   The party decide to head to the gates, torches lit and as unobscured as possible. Bjorn announces the party when we come within range. One of the guards recognises Bjorn and tries to allow them in. Silvertusk comes to the gate and allows them through. Bjorn takes the guards hand and cures him of the disease inside. Bjorn asks where he can go for help. ‘Cyas is currently leading the funeral of this weeks dead’. Undrill comments we have new members since last time and suggests we bring in our entrance quietly and head to the mess hall.   The soldiers tents have halved since last time. Standing to the side of Cyas is Commander Breakbone watching over the procession. Silvertusk takes us to the mess hall. On the way past Elessa and Yesne notices that in one group apart from the others are the scouts, and towards the front is Lorsa.   Bjorn hands over the dinosaur to the quartermaster in the mess hall. He takes Nisus with him and begins healing anyone who may need it. Kailyn heads over to the medic tent and notices that the funeral is coming to an end. Inside is no improvement.   Inete runs in to the tent and hugs Yesne, they have a recount of the days since they last saw each other. Salida also enters and welcomes Fang back. Nisus questions why it’s so bad. Undrill answers, ‘You’re new, but the camps design and structure struggles in this environment. As you can see things have not improved, reinforcements have not come’. ‘If you need to change your outcome, we had rank and order like yourselves but we changed things if needed’ ‘I will let you take things up with Breakbone yourself’ ‘Absolutely not, I don’t know better. This might be the worse place I’ve ever been in Chult’. Undrill laughs, it’s hard in the circumstances. ‘After weekly farewells, the following day at midday is a convening of counsels for the leaders of the military’ ‘It is possible the party could be invited, it is to discuss the next plans of action’ Undrill agrees to pass on the news that we have arrived.   Bjorn takes the jug and fills it with ale from the Jug of Ubato and passes out tankards of beer. They take the drink but are suspicious of it. They do drink and eventually smell the cooking of meat.   In comes an arm on Bjorns shoulder ‘and where’s my gift’…… Azzaka is stood behind him. Bjorn gives her a drink. Nisus introduces himself. Azzaka ‘come on Bjorn lets catch up’ and tries to drag him outside ‘One second’ and he turns to Nisus and says ‘I need to borrow something’…. He takes the manacles from Nisus’ backpack and they leave the mess tent.   Someone strikes up a lute and Yesne begins singing ‘raindrops on roses…..’ Inete joins in and they start dancing. Nisus gets up and dances, as does Salida.   Back in the medic tent. Sister Cyas comes over to greet Kailyn ‘you’ve returned, I see you have woven some of your positivity into some of our individuals and it sounds like some is in the mess hall’ ‘we do what we can, unnecessary death. Things have gotten worse?’ ‘yes it is still pretty relentless because we haven’t changed’ ‘I hope we can resolve that potentially’ ‘is there anything I can do to assist’ ‘words of support would be helpful. We are strangers to Breakbone. You are a powerful voice in the camp and your support would aid’ ‘for all that you have done you have it in spades with me. You will need to solve Wolf and Lorsa thought’ ‘I think I have ideas for lorsa but wolf I am unsure of, you will need a good scout master here to protect the boarder – that would be my argument to keep him here. I do not know wolf enough to know if that is an argument’ ‘an opportunity to leave and wolf would do it he is not keen to stay. There needs to be no opportunity for him to leave. Breakbone will see him as a useful ally. Nip it in the bud before trying to persuade. I hold a vote but I am not the military. The undead are slaughtering his scouts, he is not a tactitioner he will follow breakbone. Breakbone respects the tool that he is. Wolf is protective of his men but he wants out unless he can see improvements. He sees his men dying and that is playing on his mind’.