[@Zeroth] Your scouts have only brought back information on the Jak-Jak; any other mammals and plants you encounter is completely foreign to you, so whatever you scavenge you would be experimenting it.

* You have set up camp in the underbrush, but you come from a makeshift village about 15 miles away.

* A little weary, a little confused; but still ready to slay a beast.

* I'm fine with Gaki finding himself fighting with the hunters, perhaps because the Jak-Jak engaged him. But, yes, Gaki does not need to be with the hunters at first.