After waking up, the Guardians of Hope continued to make their way through the canyon. After about 30 minutes of travel, they were contacted by a Belgoi speaking badly common. He asked for peace and wanted the Guardians to follow him. They decided to do so. The Belgoi lead them to a cave where they met with a Belgoi leader. He offered them a magical necklace and some magical legbands, if they would travel 4 hours to the west and deal with a small clan of gnolls who had been hunting the Belgoi. They were led by a big gnoll called Fangren.
The Guardians agreed to the deal, and headed immediately west. First they ran into some more grey humanoids, this time with a pet lizard. They found some gnolls in an outpost, and dealt with them. They proceeded into the gnoll cave, where they ran into more gnolls. At this point, they were quite wounded and decided to retire and set up in the outpost tower the rest of the day, getting some rest.
As it was getting dark, they spotted a gnoll watching them from afar. Not quite ready to fight on, they decided to leave the outpost tower and hide nearby. Once they were ready, they headed back to the cave. There they followed the tunnels down, and ended up in a cave with acidic pools, stalagmites and a stone altar. In the back of the cavern, they spotted entrances to more caves, one of which had a lot of gnoll pups hiding in it. Before they could do anything, Fangren and 4-5 other gnolls came back. Fangren was very angry that they had invaded his home and killed his gnolls. He got even more angry when he found out the Guardians were working for the Belgoi. According to him, it was the Belgoi who were hunting the gnolls, stealing their pups to sacrifice in order to fuel their magical bells. He asked the Guardians to do the honorable thing and leave him and his alone. When that didn't do anything, he pointed out that if they went back and killed the Belgoi, they would end up with the same as if they killed him - the two magical items. He sweetened the deal with a lifelong free passage in the gnoll hills. That swayed the group, although the was no consensus.
Grabbing a head from one of the dead gnolls, they headed back to the Belgois. "Po" disguised the head to look like Fangren's, in the hope of fooling him.
5th day of Mist In Sun Descending, Year of the Priest's Defiance
Arriving early in the morning at the Belgoi cave, they tried their bluff with the fake gnoll head, but the Belgoi leader saw through it, and the fight was on. Moments later, 5 dead Belgois were dead, and the Guardians had two magical items more than before. Jelastra had taken a beating - again, but was still alive.
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