G14 - 3rd Genocide

Date: Deeproot (5) 20th Feyday, 760

Posco disappeared shortly after the Coyote God was slayed. His belongings, wolf pelt and stick were left behind. After collecting his belongings, the party debated if they should go back to the treasure room to collect items of interest, but initially decided not to.

Leah Hanali and Nethtari, followed by Nereid - Crab God used the mushroom as a trampoline to go to a higher level. In a small room a dead skeleton wearing a feathered head dress laid against a heavy stone door. His hands clasped a stone tablet with a lithograph depicting a person eerily similar to Neth.

Neth collected the picture and tried to open the door, a relatively easy task from this side. The door swung out, on the other side a cracked altar was affixed to the door. They found themselves in a temple with most of its walled collapsed, and the island's tropical vegetation swallowing the stone. Re-orienting themselves, they realized that they were now on the top of the foothill with the Pyramid ruins. The strangely empty village at the base of it.

They walked to the beach where their boat was, Nereid, arriving at the beach, couldn't help but touch the ocean with her fingers, making her smile. She produced two statuettes from one of her hidden pockets. An eel, that she threw in the water, Chac. And another of a human, similar to the ones you saw in the diorama room.

Inspecting the human statuette she said "Otis, my champion, you are free. You need to follow this group. They will need you to help them overcome the obstacles that await them." A human with an old military uniform appeared in front of them. With that, Nereid entered the water, with Chac swimming close by. Her dress resembling sea foam blended in with the waves. As she walked further into the sea, she said “Thank you” and disappeared. Only the sound of waves remained.

The party, exhausted, made a fire to get to rest and get to know Otis.

They found out that

* Otis was a statuette for hundreds of years, year 222
* He was aware of what was happening around him, but he mostly slept
* Had a very similar evasive way of speaking as Nereid
* The Olman Empire people were all called to the island which is what lured him back
* The priest class turned everyone to statuettes due to a prophecy that in the year 760 all gods would die (which is the current year)
* The priest that started all of this was called Alamerichan, and he learned this through Zehir the Snake God

They started to debate if they should go back and grab all the statuettes now that they were aware that they were actual people. They thought that maybe bringing them back was a mistake, but leaving them there also felt wrong. There was also the question of getting the treasure.

The next morning, they headed back to the temple. They grabbed most, but not all the treasure, and headed to the diorama room. In their horror, they discovered that most of the statuettes were smashed to pieces. Nereid being the only suspect they had. Saddened, they collected some statuettes that did make it and returned to their boat.

They left the island with the plan of heading to Shiba West, however they didn't even remember Posco's wife name, or knew what she looked like it. Their hope was that Posco would return before they arrived there. They spent eight days in the Deep Sea traveling West, and then started heading North to go around the continent to Shiba West. On a dark night, when all three moons were at their new moon phase, a ship approached them. They tried to avoid it, but it continued to try to intercept them. Once it came close, a dark mist and shadows attacked them.

It was a peculiar fight, fighting nothingness that slowly sapped them of their strength and life force, but eventually they prevailed. A quick investigation of the boat showed that no people inhabited it. There was rotten food in some barrels, indicating that someone living used to own the boat. No other clues were found.

The party is 3-4 days from Shiba West, Posco is nowhere to be found and the party has two boats. What will they do next?