>>5737546Hmm, you got a hunch that there's more of them, out of sight. Good thing Valencio's here.
"Hey Valencio, think you can do your ground scan thing you did with the orphans' crates the other day, from here? See if there's more of them, and if you can hear what they say."
"Oh, I see! This will be a challenge for me - I like it. I won't understand what they're saying, though." Valencio slowly reached towards the ground.
"Yeah, it's fine, we'll need to communicate with them eventually - so we'll need a sample of their words." This got you thinking - how the hell did the first people in Gongalla speak to each other?
"Grandpa, do you know how our ancestors speak to one another, and to their different neighbors?" You ask Grandpa as Valencio's scanning.
"Huh, I guess it was the old prisoner collars that did it, somehow? The Kobolds never had it, and we had to learn the hard way - still learning, even. I kept mine in my inventory, just in case." Ah, so the old collars- wait, just in case for what?
Before you can voice that question, however, Valencio waves you over. "There's two more in the outpost, in a room underground. They sound... agitated, confused, desperate. Unlike the three above, who are oblivious to the two's distress. Curious..."
"How do they talk? Go on, say it as you hear it."
"Alright, let's focus on the ones below. Hmm... 'Komo iso pode ser' 'o portal neo esta abrindo' 'neo vamos voltar para o noso pes, panera'..." Huh, strange words indeed. Did one just say pies? You peek a bit towards these strange men.
You see one of the three men above waving a device with a weird branching wire, which beeps every once in a while. Then, to your alarm, he started pointing it towards your general direction - and you noticed the beeps becoming more frequent. You duck just as he says something. "Valencio, you see that?"
"More like I heard him, too. 'Sinal estrano detektado' is what he said." You wish you know precisely what the strange man said, but you think your position has been discovered.
>CHOOSE ONE>□ Stay still stay silent stay scanning>□ Have Valencio stop scanning and get ready to cqc>□ Have Nemo shapeshift into one of them so they drop their guard>□ Have Craig put a spell on him that makes him sleepy>□ Let him get close and slap Grandpa's old collar on him>□ Sneak into a new position and re-scan>□ Just show yourself, slowly, without any sudden movements>□ Show the entire team to the strange men, carefully>□ Other (fill in) 