Out of the Jungle.... almost...

July 12 - 20

After enlarging some new dragonfly mounts, we continue on our long, disease-ridden jungle safari. Although we do our best to avoid any Elephant birds or other such horrors, we are attacked by a Gryphon, a bunch of Giants, some flying snakes, a horde of posessed gorillas, a lot of ants, and a whole bunch of undead following a Living Idol.

On the 16th we encountered a sneaky, white-haired dwarf who wanted revenge against Harald. His name was Novo Tralanana, and he had a ring-tailed lemur named Zaza on one shoulder and a Good-aligined outer planar being that looked like an elephant head on a dinosaur body on his other shoulder. It referred to itself as a Boco when it was telepathically talking in our brains. Novo got ready to attack Harald, mentioning his fellow villagers being massacred. Harald, who is pretty used to this sort of thing by now, rolled his eye and talked Novo down with the tale of his many clones. The Boco, who seemed to be in charge, got much bigger and told us that a very pale and sun-avoiding Harald looking guy had come to Novo's village in the hills of Madagascar in a boat with some Arab traders. He killed everyone in the village by rending them limd from limb with his bare hands, then he stole a different boat and left, sailing west. They have been following him since. Harald said that this guy might be Atigat, or it might just be a new Vampire Harald. We parted as friends.

Around the 19th we at last begin to see signs of civilization, but as we are an odd-looking bunch, we decide to keep to the trees. One of the villages had been apparently invaded and destroyed (not by us) but as the inhabitants were nowhere to be found, we decide to push on.