Paradise Violated
You aren't going to defeat them head on, this requires a little subtlety. You notice the cave is far enough away from the village that you could probably sneak in without raising an alarm. The plan is to silently kill the few Krik watching over the Lizards and see what's so important in those caves. If it's anything truly worthwhile you can ponder your next move, if it not, you can get the hell out and put a bunch of distance between you and this place.
Salo isn't too enthusiastic with this plan, he wants to attack head on.
"The Emperor will protect us! This creeping and sneaking is for Elojin!"
"I'm still in charge Salo, and I'll decide what's going to work! We aren't all going anyway, I'll be going, Alyssa, and two other team members. Lieutenant, you hold down the fort here, and dammit I NEED you to fucking muster up ALL your courage for this alright? If something goes wrong you need to get in there and help us."
"Um, I'll do m my best sir." LaFleur says unconvincingly.
You shake your head and hope for the best. You aren't worried so much that he'll run, Salo will make sure he doesn't, but you're more worried that Salo will act like the xenophobic hothead he is and start an attack without LaFleur's orders.
You, Alyssa, and your other two team members stealthily sneak into the cave. There's a weird fungus in here that causes a glow allowing you to barely see, but at least its light. The cave seems to descend lower the deeper you go, eventually you reach where the Krik and Lizards are, you keep hidden on an upper level and observe what they're up to.
You see the Lizards being forced to enter some strange doorway; it looks like they really don't want to either. A few go in, and some don't come back out. The ones that do are holding some shining crystals. They're Baz crystals. Figures the Krik would be able to find something of worth on this planet. You wonder how they found it though and what the danger is through the doorway that they're sending Lizards in there, let alone the fact that some of them aren't coming back.
Time to ponder your next move.
Salo isn't too enthusiastic with this plan, he wants to attack head on.
"The Emperor will protect us! This creeping and sneaking is for Elojin!"
"I'm still in charge Salo, and I'll decide what's going to work! We aren't all going anyway, I'll be going, Alyssa, and two other team members. Lieutenant, you hold down the fort here, and dammit I NEED you to fucking muster up ALL your courage for this alright? If something goes wrong you need to get in there and help us."
"Um, I'll do m my best sir." LaFleur says unconvincingly.
You shake your head and hope for the best. You aren't worried so much that he'll run, Salo will make sure he doesn't, but you're more worried that Salo will act like the xenophobic hothead he is and start an attack without LaFleur's orders.
You, Alyssa, and your other two team members stealthily sneak into the cave. There's a weird fungus in here that causes a glow allowing you to barely see, but at least its light. The cave seems to descend lower the deeper you go, eventually you reach where the Krik and Lizards are, you keep hidden on an upper level and observe what they're up to.
You see the Lizards being forced to enter some strange doorway; it looks like they really don't want to either. A few go in, and some don't come back out. The ones that do are holding some shining crystals. They're Baz crystals. Figures the Krik would be able to find something of worth on this planet. You wonder how they found it though and what the danger is through the doorway that they're sending Lizards in there, let alone the fact that some of them aren't coming back.
Time to ponder your next move.