11th Malachite, 11
It's a surprisingly quiet night in the jungle. Maybe the bad weather keeps the monsters in their hideouts. It's still raining when we wake up in the morning.
After a short walk we run into another weird creature. An enermous hamster! For such a huge animal it moves amazingly fast. Ettad gets knocked down repeatedly by the hamster's charges and he seems to have real trouble fighting with it. I try my luck wrestling with the animal, but it's way too heavy for me to move. I manage to break its leg with my pick, slowing it down and then get a really nice Fist of Urist moment.
We meet more animals like the hamster. Giant animals. Strange giant sponges in the rivers. And alligators. Getting around them with a murderous human takes a lot of time. I sure hope we can get out of this damned jungle soon. We are forced to spend another night in the jungle.
12th Malachite, 11
Something wakes us up in the middle of the night. I can't see anything behind the campfire perimeter, and I'm not going to wander around in the middle of the night with all those giant animals roaming around. Maybe we're just getting paranoid. After a while we manage to fall back to sleep and wake up in the morning, refreshed.
Later in the morning when we cross another river, a carp lunges at me. I end up fighting with a whole bunch of carps, while Ettad runs around after wild boars.
Finally! We're out from the jungle. I'm not really sure if that's a good thing, seeing what's in front of us. The landscape looks... evil.
While we are wondering which way to go to get around the haunted area, two lions ambush us. We're both first knocked down by their charges, but we manage to get the upper edge by disabling their legs.
We end up walking right through the haunted area. It doesn't actually look so bad. Just some weird smoke floating around. I still feel we should stay clear from that.
The wildlife here seems possessed by evil forces. We meet a herd of impalas, but they're not running away from us like the other herbivores we have seen before. Instead, they attack us. Ettad seems pleased.
Suddenly the weird looking smoke starts moving towards us. We're only seconds away from being engulfed in the smoke when we dive into a river.
We spend a few moments in the river waiting for the smoke to drift away. When the air has cleared we get up, and see what the smoke did to the wildlife. Two warthogs got caught in the smoke and they turned into these ...monstrous
things, that I don't even know how to describe. They charge at us, Ettad gets hurt, and we're soon in a big trouble.
No matter how much we beat them, they just won't die. We can only hope that dismembering them enough will make them stop moving.
The battlefield is soon cluttered with various warthog parts, but the things are still moving! We manage to remove their most dangerous parts: their husks and hooves, but they're still trying to wrestle us.
After what feels like hours of fighting, I finally manage to get a lucky headshot and behead one of the warthogs, and it falls down dead.
The other warthog is even harder to kill, even with its limbs cut off it keeps dodging my blows. It takes a lot of beating until I get another lucky strike and remove its head.
Ettad took quite a beating and has been unconscious and vomiting. I can't do much but wait and hope that he recovers enough so that we can move out from the haunted area.
After a few hours, Ettad gets back on his feet again and we can finally leave the cursed area behind.
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