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MAP 2.,3: CAMP RIGHTEOUS

per player character. Leading the group is a goblin boss
North of the camp is a ridge, built into which is an
named Yokka. The goblins wear wooden masks and
80-foot-tall stone statue carved to look like a man with hide in the foliage north of the camp. They believe the
a crocodile on his back. Between the statue's feet is a shrine is cursed, so they avoid it. However, Yokka had
stone archway leading to a dark tunnel. To the left of the a vision of a treasure inside the shrine that could make
statue is a crude animal pen with a small, panicked bird him a great figure in his tribe, so he and his followers
have spent the last tenday trying to work up the courage
running around inside it. There are no other signs of life.
to tackle the shrine's traps. The arrival of adventurers
is a great boon from Yokka's point of view. If they defeat
When the Order of the Gauntlet first brought its war the shrine's traps, he can simply take its treasure from
agafost undead to Chult, its members established this them as they emerge. If they don't, they might at least
base camp (map 2.3) around an ancient Chultan shrine, weaken the shrine's defenses.
which local guides cal1 the House of the Crocodile. The Yokka's band bedevils the party without revealing
shrine wasn't the focus of the order's activity, but it was its presence until the final moment. For example, if no
an object of intense curiosity. Despite being in ruins, the guard is left to watch over the party's boats, the goblins
shrine's traps were still active, and they overcame the steal them or knock holes in their bottoms. If all the
order's attempts to reach the heart of the shrine. party members enter the shrine, the goblins set up an
The overconfident visitors neglected to build defenses ambush outside. If all else fails, the goblins use horns
around the camp, believing that their own strong arms and animal calls to draw the attention of nearby undead
were sufficient protection. A couple months ago, they (ld8 zombies and ld8 skeletons) or aggressive beasts
were proved tragically wrong when hundreds of undead (a hungry allosaurus and ld4 + 1 axe beaks).
swarmed out of the jungle and overran the camp. Only
a handful of warriors escaped from that slaughter. No 1. COMMAND TENTS
bodies remain in the camp; the remains of everyone Templars from the Order of the Gauntlet removed ev-
who died defending it have either been buried by the erything of value from these tents when they came to
second wave of templars (now at Camp Vengeance) or inspect the scene of the disaster. A character who pokes
dragged away by jungle scavengers. around in one of these tents has a 1-in-6 chance of stir-
When characters arrive, the camp is being watched ring up a poisonous snake.
by a party of Batiri goblins consisting of two goblins

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