The Chikauitl aim strike a blow against the slavers that will ignite a beacon of hope for all tribes to see. They want to show that allying with the resurging primal powers is the way forward and allows them to beat the strangers back without engaging in large-scale warfare and costly battles.

What they learned

• the Tepui holds a now-buried Rumi Runa city
• the "zealot tribes" of the Nuqanchik and their gods still have the upper hand versus the primal world here in the heartlands, but they are no longer as dominant as before
• the "zealot tribes" have successfully occupied some temples and held them as strongholds against the invaders; the temples also still have the divine "warding aura"
• the forces of the slavers are partly league soldiers, partly Shar mercenaries; supported by specially trained dogs to run down fleeing captives
• not all Shar mercenaries are particularly happy with "killing children and old people" and their slaving-duty; they had signed on for more "glory"
• the league ships are extremely valuable: the league will pay a very high cost to recover these assets
• league leadership rests among "masked people"; these likely have supernatural abilities, but it is unclear how they manifest

What happened

• Group arrived through a Rumi Runa Gate into a large Tepui
• Nuqanchik at the foot of the Tepui were awed, gave the first reports
• the group immediately set out to lay a trap for the Pharic slavers, in response to a recent raid: with the help of a powerful spirit, they would trap a ship in the middle of a hostile swamp
• to secure cooperation from the spirits, the group freed captured spirits from one of the zealot temples
• the trapped ship and troops were then subjected to both intimidation and multiple targeted strikes against their supplies
• the group attacked and destroyed one shar foraging party, taking one prisoner and freeing thirty slaves
• they freed another twenty-five slaves sent out to forage
• the invaders are building a fort at where the river still flows
• the group raided the fort, freeing all slaves, further demoralizing the Shar and stealing some food supplies