Encounter - Animal Rescue

Encounter - Animal Rescue

During a recent attack by Carnivorous Apes (See Murders in Rag Alley) It was learned that the merchant ship Pit Bull had brought the creatures from Hepmonaland only to lose them in the harbor of the City of Greyhawk. Still secured onboard ship are a caged group of baboons, about 20 still surviving. A ranger from Hepmonaland, Mtaalamu, has followed this ship and is seeking aid freeing these Baboons from captivity.

The captain of the Pit Bull is an unsavory man to say the least, but capturing, killing or selling wild animals is of little concern outside of some druids and members of the Old Faith. Mtaalamu himself only values these baboons as they were stolen from a shrine sacred to his people. If he cannot free them he must see them slain and their spirits released. If so he must collect their heads and return them to the shrine.

Mtaalamu has some experience with traders and hunters from the flanaess and bears several diamonds and bars of unworked rough gold to pay for help. He has no concern over slaying the crew and captain of the Pit Bull, a ship of about 35 hands and 7 officers.