Wild Bunch #26

• The Wild Bunch followed Millie into the shining room at the base of the temple to Mag on the small island south of Topside

• Within, they found a pearl-white room, glimmering with ten receptacles for what they soon discovered were the Wavebender oars Uqupa had been collecting

• Additionally, they found a red cube maybe of some type of stone within the room, and a tree growing from the cube, its roots wrapped around it and digging into it

  • From the tree, stark red leaves were growing, as well as the fruit Millie had been feeding to Melvin

  • There was also a man collapsed at the base of the tree who seemed not in his right mind

• Millie attempted to get the group to eat the fruit but they refused, and when she tried to force the fruit into the mouth of Nickelgin, Winnifred threw a piece of fruit at her, knocking her off the cube, and breaking her neck, killing her instantly

• The man at the base of the tree, who called himself Hinto Blackberry, awoke, told the group to burn the tree, and ran from the temple

  • Rusty and Alexander chased him outside only to encounter Jemiah, Melvin, and Equaline

    • Rusty seemed to recognize Melvin and attempted to get him to remember something, calling him Doxx

• Meanwhile Alexander chased down Hinto, who had absconded with their ship

  • Alexander and Hinto fought aboard the ship as it drifted out to sea, and Alexander eventually rendered him unconscious, but not before Hinto changed the form of one of Alexander's summoned creature by force feeding it a fruit from the tree

  • Alexander tied up Hinto and considered how to get the ship back to shore with a destroyed anchor and slashed sails

• Meanwhile in the temple, Winnifred, Tricks, and Nickelgin tried to figure out what the white room was intended for, and heard a knocking coming from within the red cube.

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