Rapanui, Calistria's chosen

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## Bio

### Beginning

Rapanui never knew his father, and was the child of a nomadic woman who traveled in a traveling carnival. He grew up with a very diverse group of races, as well as visited many different places while on the road, which caused him to be especially comfortable with meeting unfamiliar people, and experiencing different cultures. To pull his own weight, he was taught to scam, pickpocket, and eventually rob people.
Many of his friends growing up decided to eventually branch off, and joined up with sailors looking for workers. They quickly influenced these sailors to aim more in the piracy profession, and they soon became the Pumpkin Pirates. River piracy was very hit and miss, and it was difficult to escape when things got to be too much, Rapanui took it upon himself to pool resources and invest in getting a ship to go out to sea, This group made of many Pumpkin Pirate members were known as the Purple Pirates. Rapanui is one of 2 other leaders. and have been for the most part successful in what they have set out to accomplish.

### Changing Course

Out on the sea, and being happy with stacking up victories here and there, but consistently, Rapanui became more bold with how he acted around others. He often outshined the other leaders, and was certainly more outspoken too, he became extremely popular within his group. From incredibly lucky things happening in the midst of boarding another boat, that were seemingly miracles, to bagging a lot of beautiful women on their downtime, his ego started to grow. People who the Purple Pirates dealt with and knew they were being scammed to a degree, Rapanui decided that enough was enough, and started to become obsessed with how to get vengeance for these transgressions, and when the time came, those he plotted against were dealt with in a way many thought was going too far, but the end result was that many were dissuaded from slighting them.

Rapanui suddenly awoke, and realized that what they were doing was too small time, and his ambitions grew to massive new heights. He informed everyone in his crew that he was the chosen one of Calistria, and with her blessing, he would quickly ascend into greatness bringing all his friends along with him to riches, and a he would personally become a God. Instead of worrying most people, the crew cheered and a large celebration happened. Once affairs where in order, Rapanui left the Purple Pirates, and headed in land to begin his journey.

## Painted Dungeon Exploration

### Following the woman's voice

Rapanui while looking for people to join his gang entered a tavern, and immediately heard a strange voice call out to him. It was the voice of a woman, and it seemed to be calling him to enter a doorway that went below. He soon found the painting of the woman, and was told about the dungeon ahead. Rapanui walked right past the warning signs and immediately got to work looking around for that sweet treasure.

Rapanui came across what seems to be a small body of water with treasure submerged in it, but when getting closer and touching the puddle finds out that it was just an illusion, sparking a bit of anger from Rapanui from being tricked. From Rapanui's muttering, it seems someone else had heard him, and cried out for help. Rapanui found what turned out to be someone else going down into the dungeon, but ended up being paralyzed by fear. Rapanui told them to leave, and that the treasure was his, and pointed the person to the exit, and in exchange he was thanked profusely and offered to shine Rapanui's armor/shoes when they meet again.

Rapanui continued further into the dungeon, and spotted a succubus. Unlike what most people would do, Rapanui rushed over to her, and immediately inquired about getting busy with her, and getting hooked up with all sorts of super powers. The Succubus responds positively to everything Rapanui said, and suddenly vanished. Rapanui more angry than the last time shouted out a curse that the woman was a "scumlord" for doing that to him, and yells for her to come back. After a few minutes pass by, Rapanui continued forward into the dungeon.

Rapanui being so fed up finds a room with a cat, and just picks it up and starts to pet it, then next a room full of nasty gore he just ignores and walks through, and then finally he sees a large construct which he just shoves over, followed by pulling out his weapon to blast weird shadow creatures in the room. The woman of the painting was about to offer a warning about these things, but Rapanui reacted too quickly for her to speak.

Upon making it to the ancient storehouse, Rapanui is told he may claim rewards in this room, and to not be too greedy. Rapanui gives a sigh of relief that there was actually treasure to be made here, and before touching the objects, hesitates for a moment thinking it might be another illusion, and then quickly pokes to see that it is indeed real.

Rapanui took the following items: Masterwork Buckler, Masterwork Quilted cloth armor, Masterwork Cestus

Rapanui told the woman he was still upset about the Succubus, but thanked her anyways for the loot anyways before he headed out.

## Valley of Music

Rapanui looking for pretty much any opportunity to make money followed along with many others to help out the Marzipan Man. By the sounds of it, the Marzipan Man makes great food, and getting on their good side could at least earn him an amazing meal, and with all these other people entering this cave, Rapanui was completely confident that everything would work out. Before entering the cave, he saw someone setting up a cooking station, and saw the Marzipan Man start to act strangely as a result of it.

Upon entering the cave, the music began to influence his movements more and more as he got further inside. From the occasional head bob, and tapping his hand on his side to match the beat, his movements further into the cave had him leaping about while dancing. He made things extremely dark around him, while being able to see through the darkness completely so that other creatures in the cave could not see him, and that he wouldn't stumble onto something dangerous. Almost around every corner there would be someone completely taken away by the music, just dancing in place, or strange creatures, such as rats and bats that you'd never think could dance, but in fact doing it. The music was obviously a source of some powerful magic, and Rapanui needed to make sure he didn't lose himself to it.

Finally when he thought he got to the end of it, he saw a few people walking directly into a pit trap, and Rapanui tried his best to warn them to stop, but instead of a quick concise warning, his voice instead sung it aloud. They heard him, but weren't sure what to make of it, and danced their way right onto the trap falling down. Rapanui rushed to go see if he could help, but skeletons emerged out of the ground around the pit, surrounding it, and dancing in place. Rapanui attacked the skeletons, causing their bones to break down, and somehow make music as it clanged on the floor. Even the shots he took with his weapon collaborated with the music, and booby traps that went off from the skeleton bones rolling onto things to trigger them also did the same. Once clear, he looked into the pit to find the others were okay, and dancing while preparing a grappling hook and rope to get out. Rapanui feeling they were okay set out, and seemed to finally reach the end of the cave,

## Mortal Potential

Rapanui has grown quite strong, just as he expected after learning he is the chosen one of Calistria, and soon to be God himself. With the understanding he can’t be reckless, and places like the Ghostlands could be an end to his journey if he makes a wrong move, he is sure to be cautious.

Per usual, Rapanui summoned an area of extra thick darkness, and with his new found powers was able to fly perfectly in the air, at extremely fast speeds in order to patrol the area for the groups that are first embarking further in. Using his sniper scope on his weapon, and his ability to see through darkness, he spots undead, which without mercy gives them death from above. Incorporeal creatures not having the luxury of shrugging off the attacks due to Rapanui's ability to fully interact with such creatures, they quickly dissipated to the barrage of sling bullets rapidly firing down from the sky. Creatures that tried to make a move flying high up into the air towards the black sphere of darkness are torn up quickly, or shocked to find out just before they get close enough, it vanishes appearing elsewhere while continuing the attack.

Rapanui occasionally flew back to report what he had found, and relayed warnings of things he spotted that seemed like it would need more of a combined effort to deal with, suspecting that it would be unwise to go it alone even with his advantages. The information he relays were quickly circled back confirming that it saved groups from walking into death traps, and helping others to form precise and deadly attacks on the undead, especially when many would have been otherwise poorly prepared to deal with creatures such as incorporeal types.

Unable to speak for everyone, Rapanui had an easy time with his strategy, but since he hadn’t gone too close to the ground, he wasn’t able to see much in terms of loot and treasures to scoop up. The thought of finding a dead adventurer, and grabbing their stuff up crossed his mind, but that would most likely not go well for him, and besides, all these people entering into the Ghostlands he considers allies that would need him busy dealing with the undead, and not getting treasures.

Hours go by, and finally there is word of something big going down deep in the Ghostlands, in an area that won’t have the luxury of being able to attack from the skies, due to a very thick treeline. Rapanui could have just let it be, since it would most likely resolve in their favor, even if it took a few waves of forces to deal with it, but he felt like it would be a shame to get overshadowed by what could be the final battle for their push. He confirmed with others how to get to the location, and flew towards the location immediately.

His arrival was met with creatures he had never seen before, and pulsating dark energies he could see with his naked eye pushing the air in different directions from inside the horde of monsters. Bloodied paladins holding their ground, plenty of adventurer's doubled over bleeding out, screaming in agony from deep wounds or mental trauma, and corpses of men torn asunder across the battlefield. He felt like this should make him turn his head away, and become sick, but the adrenaline throughout the day steadied his resolve. He could hear some of the adventurer's talking about setting up a weapon, who were led by a Paladin woman, but they were being distracted by all sorts of strange undead that Rapanui had never seen before. Their limbs and tongues whipping out, stretching over to the crowded up adventurer's, and pulling them away. The adventurer's would brace for the impact, and if one was being pulled away, they desperately latched onto their companion to try and keep them from being removed. Rapanui's normal tricks weren't going to work here, and he could have just left, but he remembered the promise he made to the time knight he met, and to put his shield skills to use.

With his incredibly perfect fly speed, and natural dexterous movements, Rapanui leaped in front of the adventurer's, blasting his pelletbow, and causing their bodies to violently explode with exit wounds due to his critical strikes. He was not distracted from his plan, and waiting for their attacks to focus on him, he made sure to breathe in deep and steadily so he wouldn't gas out with what he needed to do. Time went by as he consistently dodged and evaded attacks. Creatures would vomit acid that seemed impossible to avoid, but he flew toward the creature, and quickly blasted its head off. While all this time was taken, the Paladin woman finally was able to finish improvising her weapon, and let loose.

Without warning, a huge blast of positive energy came from the woman’s chest, knocking her unconscious, and many of the men who were around her, but dazed, and blinded many of the undead creatures. Moments passed as those on both sides got back to their senses, and when it seemed like the fight was about to continue, pillars of light viciously tore down through the trees from the skies, and into the hordes of undead. The creatures, now on fire with holy radiant light on then, and the sounds of the impact were deafening. The adventurer's called for a retreat as the bombardment of holy energy continued to cleanse this area.

With that, Rapanui decided that he did his part, and was surrounded by praise from those who saw him risk his neck for them.

## Dread Gobbler Purge

Rapanui after hearing about these turkeys, thought about how these necro turkeys were out to go on a murder spree, including slaughtering innocent people. He could understand why they would be filled with such destructive rage, and he too would seek out to destroy those who did him wrong, but unfortunately for these turkeys, Rapanui was playing for the other team.

As he was in deep thought about the turkey problem while walking down the street, a massive explosion leveled a building right next to him. His uncanny reflexes and perception to danger allowed him to maneuver himself to safety, and avoid the explosion and oncoming shrapnel. The loud moans of survivors, and screams of agony filled the air, followed by the sound of massive thuds. When the smoke began to clear, 3 giant turkeys were searching for survivors in the rubble, and one began to inhale sharply, which Rapanui could tell it was doing something to cause some deadly breath attack. Right as the turkey was to exhale, Rapanui teleported in the air next to the creature, and kicked it in the face so its beak faced one of its allies, causing it to be engulfed in flames and acid. Rapanui quickly drew his weapon as he fell to the ground turning 180 degrees to face the other turkey, and put 5 shots in between its eyes, causing its skull to shred like paper. The last turkey horrified at what just happened panicked, and flew up into the air, and once again inhaled sharply. At the moment of exhaling the fire and acid death spew, Rapanui teleported, and shot the turkey in the throat. With the energy trapped inside its gullet, it swallowed it down, and the turkey went unconscious from the internal damage it was now suffering. Falling to the ground, steam began to come from the now turkey corpse.

Quickly first responders came to the rescue, while onlookers were confused at what these creatures were. Rapanui was amazed how quickly after being told these things existed that he met three of them. Just as he set off, a strange child wearing baggy and concealing robes shouted out to him asking about Purple Gang, and requesting aid. A short conversation with the child revealed that they wanted Rapanui to follow him to speak with someone who is also involved in stopping this turkey chaos quickly, before it got out of control. The plan so far was to look around aimlessly until something happened, so accepting this invitation was swiftly accepted.

A short travel down an alley, and into a hidden entrance underground, the child took off their robe, and it was revealed to be some hybrid turkey human boy. Rapanui didn’t react, and kept following their lead. Finally, behind a curtain, there sat an old giant turkey, who had what seemed to be ghostly spirits that faded in and out of this plane of existence floating around them. The laboured breathing elderly turkey assured that he was no threat, and in his brief time as a giant turkey, learned much about intelligent civilization, and while reflecting on his life as a turkey surviving in the wild, and hearing from others who were domesticated as livestock, he adamantly disagreed that vengeance and violence was not the answer, and begged Rapanui for help.

The spirits around the turkey man started to stick around for longer, and would make gobble noises, which eventually caused the giant turkey mans eyes to roll backwards, and he would change the tone of his voice, as if possessed, and spoke in the common tongue. These spirits told their stories, bestowed their knowledge, and shared secret from beyond with Rapanui. There were indeed many strong giant blood thirsty turkeys, and people out trying to stop them, but no one knew about or was even close to locating the source of it all, which this elder turkey man explained not only how to find it, but how to stop it for good. After some careful consideration, trying to feel confident that he could trust this turkey man, Rapanui agreed to help.

Elder turkey asked Rapanui to step into the ritual circle that he had been working on, so he could do what was necessary to aid in this plan to defeat these evil turkeys. Gobbles, waving of giant turkey wings, and a very elaborate dance happened around the laid down Rapanui, which concluded in the turkey collapsing on the floor. He had given up the last of his life force to join the other turkey spirits, but with a deep purple hue to his spirit, and the winds began to pick up in the room as the spirits seemed to collect onto each other. Finally as the roars of the wind picked up to a deafening sound, the spirits flew directly into Rapanui’s chest causing him to have a quick flash of light, to dark, and finally when his vision was restored, he found himself next to a castle somewhere high in the mountains. He could feel the powers that were bestowed upon them, and the defenses of this castle would stop all magic with the exceptions from magic from a turkey, and there seemed to be a quite deadly miasma in the air that would also kill all non-turkeys too. These turkeys certainly knew what they were doing, and their defenses were so strong for beings that only existed in the state they were in for such a short amount of time. This thought worried Rapanui with how far they would come in just a few more days, and felt the urgency to stop this as soon as he could.

Rapanui ran to the gates, which promptly opened for him because he was seen as a turkey person to all these defensive measures. Flying through these halls, looking for this cursed artifact responsible for this giant turkey uprising, Rapanui passed by gigantic turkey designed golems, and looking through a window onto a courtyard, saw undead turkeys being lined up by Necromancer turkeys preparing them to be teleported away. He reached the throne room where he swung open the doors to see the master turkey with his turkey underlings looking at maps laid out on a table. They took a double take seeing a non-turkey in their throne room, while Rapanui turned his head towards the artifact he was here to destroy. Master turkey looked in the direction of where Rapanui was looking, then back at him now realizing what was about to happen. A loud turkey scream happened as all the turkeys rushed towards the artifact, some even trying for a dramatic leap reaching out their turkey wings, but Rapanui was too fast. Placing his hands on the figure, the spirits leaped out from his body and into the artifact, engulfing it in this purple aura, to finally cause the artifact to turn into dust.

Rapanui ran to the gates, which promptly opened for him because he was seen as a turkey person to all these defensive measures. Flying through these halls, looking for this cursed artifact responsible for this giant turkey uprising, Rapanui passed by gigantic turkey designed golems, and looking through a window onto a courtyard, saw undead turkeys being lined up by Necromancer turkeys preparing them to be teleported away. He reached the throne room where he swung open the doors to see the master turkey with his turkey underlings looking at maps laid out on a table. They took a double take seeing a non-turkey in their throne room, while Rapanui turned his head towards the artifact he was here to destroy. Master turkey looked in the direction of where Rapanui was looking, then back at him now realizing what was about to happen. A loud turkey scream happened as all the turkeys rushed towards the artifact, some even trying for a dramatic leap reaching out their turkey wings, but Rapanui was too fast. Placing his hands on the figure, the spirits leaped out from his body and into the artifact, engulfing it in this purple aura, to finally cause the artifact to turn into dust.

From loud turkey noises, to dead silence. Their turkey armor and clothing laid on the floor, and then popped out normal looking turkeys. All the turkeys had been stopped from the destruction of this artifact, and once again a flash of light, then dark, Rapanui’s vision set back to where he was for the ritual. The turkey hybrid child cheered and hugged Rapanui thanking him for what he had done. The boy said that the turkey Gods were surely to bless him while bowing deeply giving his respect. Rapanui said it wasn’t a big deal, patted the boy on the head, and went back to his daily routine.

## Jumanji

Quickly from entering the jungle, especially while flying a good distance in the air, he noticed that there was a path that goes downward. It seemed to stand out enough that Rapanui decided to go directly towards it, and follow the path more closely to the ground for a bit. Things change quite a lot as the jungle soon becomes more alive, and he didn’t know for certain, but it felt like he had ended up someplace else than where he originally was. He had been in jungles plenty of times before, for the flora and fauna he saw looked very strange compared to anything he had ever been seen before, and he thought if he somehow ended up in one of those multi dimensions that his robot friends tell him where they’re from.

While stopping to look at the landscape, everything went dark as he was being covered in something, and he felt like he was being lifted off the ground to be completely upside down. He could feel his legs still exposed to the outside, so he bent them so it was harder for him to go further into whatever had him. Once he saw an opening outside, Rapanui teleports away, and looks down at where he was. A giant plant that looked like it has a wide clasping mouth is snapping its plant like jaws at him, and wriggling its vines making a whipping sound occasionally. He realized that he had been ignoring the constant drumming music, and with the whipping sounds, it jolted him back to noticing they were much louder. Rapanui pulled out his weapon to slay the plant creature, but suddenly these twisted looking giant gorilla things appeared out of thin air, and quickly tore the plant to pieces, and looked like they were blocking where he had just came from. They quickly drew their attention to Rapanui who didn’t flinch, and was ready to cut them down, but around him, an onslaught of miasma poofing around him, with a good amount of force, and feeling like something was trying to paralyze him, but to no avail. More showed up, screeching and howling, and Rapanui knew this was going to be too dangerous to do unprepared with their numbers growing so fast, and flew off.

Soon Rapanui noticed that there were things on the ground that occasionally lit up, and saw a pattern that they were all in a continuous path. Problem was, to get a better sense of following along, he knew he would have to go back to the ground. He decided to just go with it, in hopes that it paid off, and followed along. The rocks glew, and Rapanui kept going towards, while above him, the trees became more dense to the point you couldn’t see the sky anymore. Through the loud drumming, he heard voices sobbing, and immediately spoke out for it. They responded back, and it turned out it was someone who had gotten lost, what he quickly found out to be a local of this place. The local decided to go into much more dangerous territory when he heard cries for help, which was something he had never done before, and quickly found out why not to, which was that the jungle is a place to easily get lost in. They were debating resting for a bit, before trying to find a nearby village, and Rapanui chose to stick around to help them.

A fire was made, and bananas were handed out. The local man spoke about the creatures that he has heard about existing in the forbidden parts of the jungle, and was deeply scared of them, and in mid story, loud thuds became to sound, and heavy vibrations were felt. They all turned to where the sound was coming from, unsure what to expect, and thuds that were more closer to them began to happen. Rapanui looked around, and giant insects were all over the place, failing around to get to their legs. One spit acid towards the local, but the outsider quickly tackled him out of the way. Rapanui began to cut them down, sometimes at the last second saving the others from an attack just inches away from striking. The other two picked up a spear, and a log that was on fire, to defend themselves, but it was clearly too much. The bugs were so thick that they made it onto Rapanui’s back, and made it so the others couldn’t be seen. They yelled out in agony, and creatures also burrowed from under the ground. The thuds and vibrations continued to increase in intensity, making the drumming sound be completely drowned out, and could be felt in your bones. Rapanui focused on his powers to move freely through anything to rush over to the other two men, and when he could see them, the sounds of trees splintering were deafening. The bugs began to splatter, Rapanui was thrown around, rolling in complete chaos as he felt himself violently bumping into something sturdy and fleshy, and could occasionally see the light of the sky as he rolled around. After a few moments it was over, and from the opposite direction that he originally heard the thudding, were massive dinosaurs just trampling through the jungle. Dazed from the violent motions, he had to kick start his brain to remember of the bugs, and the guys he was with, and jumped to his feet shouting for them. Somehow they were safe with the exception of some bite marks on their hide clothing, and covered in bug guts mixed in with dirt. The local pointed in the direction the dinosaurs were going, and said that his village was that way. Rapanui saw the stones also went into that direction, and they set over that way.

Rapanui decided to stay the night there, taking the hospitality of the villagers, before setting out again. He asked where the path he seemed to be going led to, and he was told a huge black ziggurat made of stone was a few days travel. They gave him some clean drinking water, and he set off to find the place. Being more cautious than before, he thankfully didn’t encounter any more issues, and the path ended with the structure that was described to him.

## Bakeoff

The time had finally come, where after all his hard work collaborating with the great chef Tayio, he would be able to enjoy the celebrations with the rest of Purple Gang. Standing next to Sniffer, Rapanui strutted down the streets, spotting all sorts of snacks to grab up and eat. Occasionally he would yell at people to shake Sniffers hand, and Sniffer would just sniff them, and if someone called out with a “PURPLE GANG”, “PURPLE POWER”, or even “BANANA MAN”, Rapanui would break shout it back, and do a short but intense dance.

Eventually a small gnome man approaches Rapanui, and extends his thanks for saving the forest where he lives, and helping the locals in the nearby village when it came to the necromatic totem that was decaying everything around it, and caused undead bees to exist. This man extended an invitation for Rapanui to preform during this mans musical act that was going to happen in the next few minutes, which Rapanui happily accepted. The gnome used his druid powers and bestowed a powerful boon upon Rapanui, and told him that his dance on stage will forever live in the memories that witness it. Despite being a druid, the music that played was somewhat in the electronic genre (see Revenge of the Nerds talent show song), and as soon as Rapanui started to dance, he was joined with hundreds of cats on stage. They all mirrored the movements of Rapanui in perfect sync, and you could see Troll, and Sniffer clapping along, as well as Blob hopping around. At the conclusion of the song, Rapanui struck an original pose, and so did all the cats in some sort of other unique pose, and the crowd erupted with cheers. Chants of “PURPLE GANG” echoed for a good ten minutes, and the sound from the chants could be felt in peoples chests, and windows could clearly be seen vibrating too.

When the chants finally died down from the announcer getting on stage, the man started to announce that was the last act for the world championship talent show extravaganza, and it was clear from the performance that was just seen, who the clear winner was. The man just as he was about to announce the winner was interrupted by a loud crash nearby, and flames erupted around where the sound originated. I giant man stood on top of a building he had just jumped upon, and caused it to collapse under his weight. In front of him was a giant cooked turkey, which was part of the cooking competition, and this man, despite having an extremely strong physique, looked ill. A black ichor oozed out of his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, with his full attention on Rapanui. He raised a fist into the air and shouted out, "I, Lord of the Dark realm, and all that is unholy have taken this vessel to take vengeance upon the one known as Rapanui, the chosen of Calistria. All here to bear witness to my greatness shall soon join the abyss, where your souls will be twisted for all eternity.” The man then took his hand, and plunged it into his chest, to tear out a giant blackheart, gushing with the black ooze. Some sort of necromancy mixed in with time magic was used, as he squeezed the heart, causing the ooze to fall into the food below. The giant mans body began to collapse into itself as he slumped over onto the broken building.

Suddenly all the air flew towards the spot, causing everyone to start suffocating. Violent motions began to happen on the table as black tentacles writhed around, breaking things around it, but no sound came due to the lack of air. People struggled to run away, while trampling on one another, all while the ooze built itself up larger and larger. The air returned, the people screamed as they panicked, and the ooze took the form of an egg, which then cracked open. It was a giant Turkey, that roared out causing all those who heard it to become paralyzed. The guards that showed up fell to the ground, while the crowd fell like dominos, but Rapanui and Purple Gang still stood. The creature vomited a string of the black ooze towards Rapanui, but Sniffer quickly took Blob, and threw them, intercepting the attack, deflecting it away.

Purple Gang immediately jumped over the crowd to surround this giant Turkey, who began to grow out giant razor sharp tentacles, but underneath Rapanui’s feet, tentacles had gone through the ground, and grasped around his ankle. They both instantly vanished from everyone's sight, and seconds later they both returned. Rapanui standing on top of the creature, now laid dead on the remains of the giant table it once stood on. After a few moments of silence, and confusion at what people just saw, and coming out of their paralyzed state, people once again cheered, and began helping those who had become injured during the massive panic. The announcer returned to the stage to finish what he was saying, and announced the gnomes band the winner, but also included a special thanks to Rapanui and purple gang.

When asked what had happened when he had vanished, Rapanui couldn’t remember. He was also unsure who it was that came to take vengeance, but felt it was a sure bet that wasn’t the last he would see of them.

The crowd demanded an encore, and with the gnomes band, and the dancing cats, Rapanui once again performed.

## Better Tommorow

The Ghostlands campaign had just gotten started, and many from all walks of life, and from all around the world have come to give their aid. Rapanui is not much for hard labor unless it is something he enjoys doing, but was willing to show people what he had to offer using his skills to apply them to land based operations. While sailing, he has had to improvise plenty to make things work when seconds counted, which included making emergency repairs, boarding another ship, and quickly gathering up plunder. He directly went over to the dwarves who were in charge and introduced himself as Calistria's chosen, and the leader of Purple Gang as he always does, and he got a mixed response from it. Rapanui laid out if he could be given some room, and people willing to hear him out, he expected to make things more efficent than what they had planned already. One of the dwarves allowed him to come to where he was managing things to show what he could do, and Rapanui immediately got to work.

Assessing what tools were around, Rapanui started planning out how to make use of ropes and make use out of pully devices around. For the short term, this would help get supplies around for construction, and for the long term, this would improve the loading and unloading of supplies between carts, werehouses, and trains. He consulted with engineers, and the dwarf that was allowing him to work independently to get a better idea of how to make things more modular in case there were more unique circumstances that came about.

His next project was to help with optimizing the space inside of the train carts, and finding the right tools to move things around quickly. Again, consulting with engineers, Rapanui pointed out improvements to how to properly place supplies, the best methods of shelving, and how to use things like the pulley systems to make better use of the amount of labor it would take to do things. Short handed, Rapanui had to help with constructing the shelving, and installing the pulley systems inside of the train carts, since they were more unique that what was created outside. Not having the talent for expert craftsmanship, he made sure to things like cut out the general shapes of things, and then handed what he had done over to an actual carpenter. Plenty of times during this Rapanui regretted signing on, because he found it to be extremely boring, and uncomfortable.

After a few days, the other dwarves picked up on what he had set up, and asked Rapanui to lay out what he did so it could be written down for others to use. They were impressed at the things they admittedly wouldn't have thought of otherwise, and felt confident in what Rapanui passed along to them. Rapanui feeling that he had given enough of his time over, decided he should go back to doing Purple Gang stuff, and headed out.

## Dread Killer

After handing over a large number of carrots to the creature, and seeing not only everything he brought, but others did get devoured in seconds, Rapanui questioned if he has just wasted his time. Others around him were shocked at what they saw, with their mouths wide open. As he began to walk out, the creature expressed to others about the existence of a holy artifact called the holy hand grenade, and how it wouldn’t be an easy task to go get it. Looking around at who actually showed up, and knowing the importance of the Ghostlands campaign, Rapanui decided to stick around, and was happy that he could at least do something besides bringing a creature some food.

Two different tasks were decided, one being a distraction team, and the other would be going to retrieve the holy artifact, while trying to be stealthy. A caveat like in a past mission was to not overdo things when it came to the distraction, and Rapanui felt it was probably harder to do the retrieving. Confident in his abilities to go deep into the Ghostlands, he volunteered to get the artifact, and was directed over to a few groups of people who would be going with. He didn’t recognize anyone, and people already made groups who didn’t seem to care to communicate with everyone else, so he went over to the smallest group to make sure they weren’t short handed.

The group he walked over to did not welcome him, and they were made up of two dwarves, and a much older human. Instead of discussing the task at hand, they instead were engaging in banter, and immediately when Rapanui came close, one of the dwarves began to complain, making comments about him being some wannabe gangster brat. The others laughed, and joined in lobbing insults about the gang name. Rapanui held back and explained that it wasn’t a time to dick around, and provoke infighting when what they were about to do was going to be extremely dangerous. The others waved him off, and told him to beat it. Rapanui used his ability to communicate with himself in the future, and was assured he would be successful, but that the others needed to not touch the ground near the location, and to stay away from the tree branches in the surrounding area too. Calls for people to assemble and move out began, and Rapanui went over to inform the others, which upon hearing it said they weren’t going to take orders from a snot nosed brat. They went off not caring if they left Rapanui behind.

The two dwarves were not prepared for a stealth mission, wearing heavy armor, and what seemed to be impractical large two handed weapons, while the human, while not wearing anything to burden him, didn’t seem noble in the least. A woman in charge walked over and said she heard a bit of what was said, and pointed out that no one besides Rapanui has been in the Ghostlands, and if they didn’t want to end up dead, or wasting their time, that they’d at least pay attention to what Rapanui had to say with navigation. The others politely agreed with the woman, but still ignoring Rapanui.

They traveled right near the edge of the Ghostlands, and the dwarves using some divine magic gave themselves the ability to fly, while the old man took out a broom, and sat on it, floating in the air. One of the dwarves spoke to Rapanui asking where to, and they set out. The journey was very uneventful, but it took longer than it should because where Rapanui could have easily traveled alone, the others were clearly incapable of doing so themselves, so longer detours were constantly taken due to the density of dangers all around.

Hours went by, and Rapanui could tell that at least the dwarves were irritated by the fact they hadn’t gotten into any physical altercation on the way. It appeared that one of the dwarves was about to speak out their frustrations, and as they started to utter words, Rapanui noticed they finally got to the location. The dwarves began to celebrate, but the human quickly shushed them, reminding them that they needed to be quiet. Rapanui went down, reminding them that they would been to avoid the trees, and to not touch the ground. It looked like if they wanted to not get too close to the trees, they’d need to backtrack a bit to safely get to the location. The dwarves reluctantly followed along.

Finding a clearing, and Rapanui keeping a sharp mental note on a path he saw when he was above, began to direct the group to the location. Dead silent as they flew avoiding the trees, they found the small structure that had an opening leading into a small hill. One of the dwarves flew by Rapanui, and landed just in front of the doorway, and right after the thud of his feet hitting the ground, a massive creature tore from under violently forcing the dwarf into its mouth. The creature almost instantly burrowed back under, leaving no trace above. Rapanui held back his words, while the other two began to panic. The other dwarf screamed in terror, and flew upwards. He brushed on the tree branches, and quickly the shouts went to a muffle. What was once a heavy armored flying dwarf, was a creature completely engulfed in what seemed to be very tiny black colored creatures. It fell towards the ground, but stopped before hitting with what looked to be spider silk quickly pulling him upwards, followed by sounds of a sudden crunching and crushing. Finally the human man who didn’t react as fast, and didn’t see the fate of the other dwarf also began to fly upwards, but Rapanui, able to react, grabbed his leg, and quickly covered the man’s mouth. A few moments and the muffled screams of the man stopped as he got his bearings back. With the exception of some branches scratching together from the wind, dead silence once more.

The human started to indicate that he couldn’t continue, and pulled out a pouch. It contained dust of disappearance, and offered it over, but Rapanui pushed it back. Whispering he told the man to just sit still, he’d take care of the rest, and when he was done inside, he’d get them out so fast that his head would spin. The man soaked in sweat nodded in agreement, and Rapanui flew towards the entrance. Rapanui once again consulted with his future self, and got the directions to where he needed to go, and warning of injuries he took. He began to stealth inside, heeding the advice he had gotten, and successfully managed to find the artifact. Upon exiting, Rapanui wrote in big letters on a piece of paper, and stuck it on the structure leading into the entrance, in hopes that it would warn others who showed up. Spotting the man who waited for him, he flew over, cut into the air causing a rift into the plane of shadow, and used shadow walk to quickly leave.