Chapter 6 Scene 1

At the Village, Keruka watches as the castaways and native children all return. When they are cleaned up, she listens to their stories.

Tom explains, "We were all in the large cave. Stefi had been stuck in a giant spider web, and I just cut her loose with the machete when there was a tremendous explosion.  Many heavy boulders fell and sealed the entrance, trapping us.  We found pieces of a map, but they were of no use until these children found us the next day and rescued us."

Pelubo adds, "After we helped our visitors climb to a higher level and we were all in this big chamber, there was another explosion that blocked off the passage we came from. The map showed that there were six more passages from the chamber, and we each followed one of them."

"Do you have this map?" asks Keruka.

"I have it here," offers Nicole, who shows Keruka the map. Apparently these symbols indicated where statues were."

Keruka then explains, "I have encountered the enemy. There are two men.  One, whose hair looks like a smoldering fire, appears to be under the control of the other, who has a large black beard.  There is also a monkey who I convinced to help me escape the men.  The leader is after all the gold on our island, and will be trying to steal the statues.  They must be guarded at all times." She leaves out the details of her encounter, and no one dares ask her about them.

"Can we use one of the statues as bait?" suggests Tom. "We could lie in wait, and capture him when he makes his move."

"Or we can make a trap for him!" exclaims Bukela.

"I am not sure ordinary traps can catch the evil one," answers Keruka. "He seemed to be not quite of this world."

"You mean he's in the world of the Spirits?" asks Rogula.

"It is difficult to say. It was as if he were between our world and that of the Spirits."

"So what should we do?" asks Otanve.

"We need to make an offering to the Spirits to thank them for your safe return, and then make a good meal for us. Do you have any food with you?"

"There's some in our bags," offers Stefi.

"I caught an eel we didn't need," adds Gopumbi.

"That's good; we should use it for eel soup, but we need more. Let's also make a boar dish, vegetable stew, crab stew, and a healing dish."

Quest 66: Make all the dishes for dinner.

Keruka continutes, "For the Spirits, a suitable gift is ten fish, five eels, three squid, five crabs, three boars, and three snakes."

Quest 67: Prepare the suitable gift for the Spirits.

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