Neroon's Story - 20-28 of Famine, YND 744

Entry 1 - During the first two days of your return you are very busy caring for the Dejy slaves. They were overawed with your display of holy power in the ship's hold, and gather around you everytime you visit. Using your divine abilities, you move among them healing the wounded and tending the sick. You even manage to teach them some Merchant's Tongue, enough to so that they understand your preaching of the Canon of the Eternal Lantern, glorifying the light of day urging battle against the darkness of night, and the creatures that hide within it.

From the Dejy you learn that they lived far to the south, and had been on the ship for many days, perhaps a month or more. They lived a relatively peaceful life, hunting & gathering in the jungle and fishing on the coast. They had heard stories of traders in ships coming with metal items and exchanging for animal skins, ivory, and tropical hardwood. They assumed that the slavers were traders when they appeared in the cove where there village was. They are afraid of what may happen to them, amazed at the stone city they can see from the deck, and all are grieving for the children and elders lost in the raid. One of them tells you a legend in their tribe of a great warrior who defeated a dark shadow to save the sun. Seizing on this link, one by one you win the Dejy over to the worship of the Eternal Lantern. As each of them professes devotion to your Gawd you lead them up out of the dark ship's hold and into the sunlight, a symbolic cleansing as well as welcome relief from the misery below decks.


For the rest of your time, you spend your evenings writing in your diary, studying the Canon of the Eternal Lantern and other religious writings available to you, and visiting with your friend Belar on the docks. He is most interested in your tales of different lands and especially of the Obakasek jungle. In exchange, Belar teaches you some of the new wrestling tricks and tells you of the goings on around town. On your walks back to your quarters you are often stopped and asked to officiate on the local wrestling matches. These can get quite serious as neighbourhood champions move from street to street accepting challenges, and the even hand of a holy man is needed to adjudicate.

Studying the logs and charts of the slave ship don't leave you with much more than what Finn had already surmised. But in Cosulting with Wien and Belar, you are reasonably certain with the log and charts a ship could be sent back to the tribe's homelands. Perhaps you can encourage some of your brethren to journey with them and continue their religious education?