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You speak with Guret of the Taya, Captain of the Elite Guard.
“We head out tonight, we’re talking all the foreigners with us.”
<span class="mu-b">Are you sure that’s wise? We took their weapons but we’re still outnumbered.</span>
“We have to maintain control, by any means.”
You head through the trail at night, leaving the rest of your fleet to recover from the months abroad. The Anyaten you nicknamed Stoneface is kept in front of you, so you can always keep an eye on them.
Sneaking through the route is harder than you planned. When you left this was a small footpath, it’s now home to massive caravans and runners sending messages back and forth. It seems your parent's plans to turn Kutha Rakyat into a trade city are paying off.
You stop for the night at the Great Creek, the traditional border of the Ahi Coast. Guret takes the first watch. Normally they would have backup but you needed the others to watch the Anyaten.
You stay up longer than you should waiting for Stoneface to go to sleep. When you can’t keep your eyes open any longer, they shut for just a second...
<span class="mu-b">Captain, look out!</span>
Guret pulls you away before a sharpened goat horn found its way through your temple.
The Camp is under attack by Ponni raiders. You’ve heard stories of them, but they haven't been seen since The Great Peace.
<span class="mu-r">Give us your supplies and you go in peace!</span>
“Calm down, we can talk this out.”
Stoneface sneaks behind the lead raider and bashes them in the head with a stone. He picks up their weapon and cuts a path of death in the melee that follows.
The foreign weapons and deadly skills of the Anyaten are no match for the raiders. Within moments only two survivors lay wounded on the ground.
Stoneface leads the Anyaten in something between a cheer and a chant before trying to crush a wounded raider’s skull.
“Stop! Get those weapons out of their hands!”
Stoneface gives a confused look as they hand over the bloody horn.
<span class="mu-g">They enemy, true?</span>
The language barrier is thin but it's still there.
<span class="mu-r">Wait, I know you, Captain Lono. I guess the Axeholder’s big dream was only HALF full of crap.</span>
This is bad, back on shore for two days and already blood bed. <span class="mu-s">Nine foreigners are too many to fully control with one squad.</span> They are behaving, for now. But until you get to the Great Hall you’ll have to trust they’ll stay in line.
As for the raiders-
>Take them, prisoner, with you to The Great Hall>Execute them>Let them go>Write-in. 