Jack:
13:23, Today: Jack rolled 10 using 2d6 with rolls of 6,4.
Jack may not have known which way to go to get back to the truck, but once Alec accurately pointed the way, it was Jack who stopped the group of 4 before they ran into a new problem...
Right before he would have walked out into the open again, Jack heard something, and silently warned his cousin and colleagues to stop.
Someone was where they had killed the little goblinoids...
APES!
Gorillas, specifically, with horses. (Big, healthy horses.)
Two gorillas, specifically, sporting machine guns.
The Truant Officers... Whitey mouths, horrified...
"Look,
someone moved the vehicle. I don't care what Cyrus says, there's someone with a brain besides us around here," says one ape. "And I say we should stop ignoring the evidence. I'm gonna talk to Simon about it."
"Simon's just gonna say a lot of fancy talk and stall again," says the other ape.
"Not this time," snarls the first ape. "He's been looking for a way to get the advantage over his rivals, especially Andre. And little Oliver will love to make a big deal of this-- he's little, but he's annoying, and I've seen him influence Simon more than once before, like when Flavia was talking about allowing forays into the Off-Limits Territories."
"Yeah... Come on, Mikhail, it's eerie to hang around here," says the second ape. "Feels like we're being watched. Let's get back to the barracks."
"Oh... I suppose there's nothing more we can do here anyway..." Mikhail says with frustration...
It seems like the apes are about to ride off, if you don't do anything...