Chapter Six: Druid

Aruna, Xa'oc, Kriv sneak near the camp. Tenneth and Vex prepare to start the stampede at the appointed hour. Kriv begins burrowing. Fana helps us herd the sygra into the village. There are so many elves. The other cell contains an eerily still humanoid. The druid says that we have to kill the chief of the elves before he leaves with us, in order to send a message. Xa'oc promises to make the elves pay.

The druid says we should bring "that" out too, referring to the weird humanoid. Xa'oc sees a gith that is gaunt and gray, and he also notices that the gith has a steel smoking helix shortsword.

Xa'oc offers to free the gith, but it doesn't react, so Xa'oc grabs the weapon. The druid demands that Xa'oc brings the gith along, so Xa'oc grabs him.

The elf leader emerges from a nearby building and blasts Kriv with lightning. The leader goes invisible.

Xa'oc convinces the druid that it's time to leave.

Four elves corner Tenneth and Vex, they knock out Tennth, Vex convinces them that they have bigger problems to worry about.

Kriv's greatsword shatters.

Xa'oc decapitates the elf chieftan with his chatka.

Vex feeds a healing potion to Tenneth and they both leave to rendezvous with the others.

We take the gith with us, the druid takes the elf's head and starts eating it.

Xa'oc can tell there is something sinister about the sword.

The druid's name is Klick'chak'da. He says he doesn't know what's wrong with the gith, but he's giving off weird energy, has no life force. He says we should be careful about the sword, he hasn't seen anything like it before. He heads back to the oasis. He says it will take a few hours to fix the water: most of the water drains away, he puts some herbs in, then it starts filling back up again. He says "thank you for helping me restore this important oasis" and returns to his hut. We fill up every container we have with water.

Kriv mends his greatsword. We crash in the dwarf village. Kriv completes his contract with the dwarflings.

Xa'oc asks the dwarf cleric about the sword: "it has never seen the sun before", he is willing to examine it overnight. Kriv is going to start crafting a macuahuitl out of teeth and wood. We are invited to an honourary banquet in the morning.