text: [Themes: sci-fi, war]
  
  You start to question the Lizards but won't say anything, they just give you a cold reptilian stare, start to get agitated and begin hissing at you.
  "Ssssak Sakkeekeessss!"
  You begin to get angry. How dare these lower life forms withhold information from you!
  
  As your voice raises, the Lizard you're questioning says something in his native tongue "Sliiisssthelisk!" and swipes his claw across your face. You immediately shoot him. This results in further carnage.
  
  The battle is quick and bloody, you round up the demoralized survivors and question them further, but most of them don't know anything and just repeat some prayer to their gods in their language. Salo is eager to kill them, but you decide they will be useful to carry your excess belongings. You begin to use them as "pack animals" and head off.
  
  The Elojin begins to lead your team deep further into the jungle, keeping up his usual chatty demeanor.
  
  "Oh yes, it's this way, now we may run into more of those reptiles, but I'm sure you'll have no trouble handling them, like you handled these fellows here."
  "Quiet Elojin! Your constant prattle is annoying and serves no purpose!" Alyssa snaps.
  "One could say the same about your presence here. At least I'm serving a useful purpose, of leading you to what could be the find of the millennium, you on the other hand are just an expendable soldier of an Empire slave race. Any fool that knows how to use a weapon could replace you." The Elojin retorts.
  Alyssa smashes the Elojin in the back of the head with her weapon; he falls to the ground in pain. You immediately intervene.
  
  "Sergeant! What the hell do you think you're doing?! He has to lead us to the Xont city!"
  "His words dishonored me! I will not put up with his disrespect!"
  "You WILL follow my orders sergeant! Don't do that again!"
  "Yes sir!" Alyssa says and falls in line, but she stays as far as way possible from the Elojin. That blue bitch better remember whose boss around here if she knows what's good for her.
  
  "I guess my thanks goes to you again Captain. This is the second time you've personally saved me from your overzealous team. I admire your domination over them."
  "Shut up Elojin and do your fucking job! Speak disrespectfully like that again to any of my team and I'm sure Salo can find a way to cause you great discomfort without hampering you from your appointed task."
  
  The Elojin looks genuinely worried for the first time, and shuts up. He leads on with less talk, until you get to another Lizard village.
  
  "Now this is the Lizard village I tried to recruit to help me, the first time I found the structure. The Xont building isn't far now, but we'll get to it quicker if we go through the village."
  
  > go through the village
  You reign in your temper and intolerance, and decide that you shouldn't waste any more ammo if possible, after all who knows what lies in the Xont structure. You state you're going to march through the village "peacefully" but if the Lizards attack then you shall respond in kind.
  
  When you get to the village, it's empty. You certainly weren't expecting that. The Elojin begins talking again.
  
  "Hey how about we rest here before continuing on? The creatures in that Xont building are going to require you guys to be at the top of your game." He says.
  "Presumptuous alien trash! The Empire can face any challenge, unlike you Elojin who are weak and cowardly and run at the first sign of danger." Salo retorts.
  "You mean like now?" the Elojin says and quickly pushes Salo to the ground and runs off into one of the huts. Two of your team give chase and immediately fall into a pit! Arrows begin flying with deadly accuracy. It's a Lizard ambush!
  
  Taking advantage of your temporary unalert state, the Lizards manage to severely wound many of your team, before you can launch a suitable defense. Your enslaved Lizards either run off or join your attackers. Even under all these conditions you probably still would've been able to defeat them, if an Elojin team didn't come out of nowhere to help them.
  
  You fight on, but suddenly feel a blow to the back of your head, knocking you out.
  
  Time passes...
  
  You wake up tied to a post, you see Alyssa and a few of your other team members tied to others, you see what looks to be the head of Salo on a spike. Nearby are some Lizards eating, you draw your own conclusions. You see many of the Lizards holding your guns, and shooting them and examining your other equipment with curiosity.
  
  There are a few Elojin arguing amongst themselves, but the one who lead you into this trap in the first place comes up to you with a big grin, he's also flipping his coins that you had taken from him earlier.
  
  "Ah, you're up. Good. I was tired of talking with natives, let alone my fellow Elojin. I swear we can't agree on anything. One of them says we should kill you right now; another says we should get information out of you first then kill you. Yet another says we should keep you all to sell into slavery. (Sigh) why can't we ever be single minded for once?"
  "I suggest you kill us, because if we get out of this, I guarantee we'll kill you." You say grimly.
  "Hmm, yes I suppose you would and that would be the wisest course of action, but we're in a bit of a bind of our own doing I fear. You see, these natives seem to be a little different than the others on this planet, they're very curious about technology. When we first made contact with them they actually agreed they would enter the structure and help us explore it if we gave them ours, of course we weren't going to do that. So that's where I came in, my disastrous attempt to try to trick the Mazatt turned out to be lucky a break when you humans came along with all your lovely equipment. Now we have their help, so I thank you."
  "Look just put a fucking bullet in my brain now, but don't fucking bore me to death with your constant blather."
  "I just said there are problems with that course of action. Apparently you're considered prisoners of these reptiles and as you were captured in battle, you have to be sacrificed to their idols to appease whatever weird gods they worship. This of course is annoying to us, as we would rather not risk leaving you to the natives whom you may escape from, but as I tried to reason with my fellow Elojin we obviously can't go against them now that we have their help and especially since they have heavier fire power, as well as still outnumbering us. Oh the tangled web we've weaved. (Sigh) I guess we'll all just agree to wait until they sacrifice the lot of you before we can explore without worrying about vengeful humans sneaking up on us. I guess we can wait until morning. See you then."
  The Elojin leaves you to fester with rage, but it's more at yourself, for allowing yourself to get caught up in this whole fool quest to begin with. You've acted recklessly and irrationally. You vow to make this right if you get a chance.
  
  And fortunately you're getting a chance now. In the form of Lieutenant LaFleur of all things. You see him lurking nearby one of the huts, trying his best not to be seen. He must've ran off and hid during the attack. He sees you and looks around to see if anyone's watching.
  
  > wait for him to untie you
  After seeing that the coast is clear, Lieutenant LaFleur makes his move...and promptly runs off into the jungle!
  
  "YOU COWARDLY SONOFABITCH!" You shout, causing the Lizards to come and shut you up in a physical way until you're knocked unconscious again.
  
  The next time you wake up, is just in time for you to see a sharp knife plunge into your chest.