[hider=Location - A Series of Events] [b]Foundation of Gibb.[/b] Originally an inland settlement in Western Australia, Gibb became a coastal ruin due to the environmental shift and rising sea levels that caused Western Australia to be abandoned by humanity. It would not stay abandoned however. A tribe of Octopi would move into the region in time and, discovering various written words left behind by the elder race that had originally lived there, opted to retain the name Gibb... at least in writing. They pronounce it very differently then the humans of old did. In time, the city state of Gibb would start to attract other tribes of Octopi interested in trade... and in time other cities from the south. Octopi explorers, colonists and fortune seekers seeking to discover new lands, establish new homes and discover what resources were out there would from over the Octopi world would gather in Gibb as a staging ground towards the northern part of their known world. While not the grandest of the Octopi city states, Gibb was a prestigious one and generally well respected among their peers. ................................................... [b]First Contact[/b] The exploration of the Octopi at Gibb was mostly focused along the coast, with a handful of expeditions heading inland. However, one expedition opted to swim out north in order to see what was out there. No one from this expedition returned and the Gibb Octopi took their disappearance as a sign that they should focus their exploration efforts in other directions they were better prepared for. Unknown to Gibb, the doomed north expedition had actually found land. And a complete new and alien people they had never seen before! Unfortunately for them, this new land and people they had discovered was one of the southern most islands of Indonesia. The human occupants left none alive and discovered two things that day. The first was that the strange octopus creatures tasted pretty damn tasty. The second was that Australia might not have been such a lifeless waste as was originally believed. ................................................................... [b]Bloodshed at Gibb[/b] It took the pirate scouts some time to locate Gibb; While it had become a center for the Octopi in the north of their known world, the Australian coastline was rather big and the logistics of scouting along it required covering a lot of ground. It was via running into an exploration group of Octopi exploring the coast that the scouts started to narrow it down (as well as remain in the field longer due to having new provisions). The raid on Gibb was a time of firsts for both the attacker and defender. While the humans were raiders by lifestyle and profession, they had never assaulted an Octopi settlement before. For the Octopi... this was the first time one of their settlements had ever been truly assaulted with hostile intent. They had built some defenses in order to help protect them from wild animals from both inland and the water, but until this point there had never been a need for the Octopi to fight amongst each other; This was the first time in their history that an intelligent being capable of thought opted for violent hostility. The raiders hit hard and fast during the night. The Octopi, many still in the process of waking up scared and confused did not get the opportunity to organize a defense against such a fast, organized assault. Those that tried to fight back were killed or maimed to die slowly. Many were taken by the raiders. The pillaging continued until their boats were full of slaves and whatever seemed worth taking at the time. What they couldn't take, they set fire too. A third of the population of Gibb were killed or taken in a single night... and their homes on land were burning. ............................................................................ [b]The start of the First Octo-Human war. [/b] While the majority of Gibb was shell-shocked by what had happened and word began to trickle down to the other city states of what happened, a group of Octopi hunters that had managed to escape into the ocean when the raiders came bravely decided to follow the boats. Their motives for doing so were many and interlinked, ranging from trying to save friends and family to seeking vengeance on the monsters who had attacked them unprovoked, but they followed all the same. The pursuit lasted for days, with the Octopi opting to go without sleep in order to keep up with the raiders... but not catching up with them until the boats reached land. While the desire to launch an attack right then and there was strong, the hunting party was exhausted and the enemy's numbers had increased as those who had remained on the island appeared to help celebrate the return of an overwhelming successful raid. A frontal assault was suicide, so the party opted to find a hidden location nearby and set up camp. Once they had rested up and scavenged from what little was available under the waves, the hunting party would sneak onto land under cover of darkness. Their goal was to find and liberate their people. They found their people but... nowhere near as many as had been taken. The traumatized survivors... or at least those still able to talk, told a harrowing tale of what happened to the rest of their people. While the urge to avenge their murdered and consumed people was strong, the hunters knew that they were the only ones who knew the way back home and that without them, the people they could save wouldn't make it back alive. And they now knew where their vile enemy lived. With vows to return one day to wipe this nest of monsters out to the last, the Octopi focused on getting those they could save home. They would not be taken by surprise like this again. The pirates for their part were furious when they discovered that some of their recently occupied slave pens were empty and those guarding them were dead, but they still had a few pens deeper in and they now knew where this tasty and ill prepared new source of meat could be located. They had some time to rest and prepare for another raid. Plus they needed to let the stupid creatures pretending to be people a chance to repopulate a bit before the harvest. [/hider]