Started new game and just escaped after grinding my Strength to 50 and thoughness to 30.

The escape went very well and managed to steal some food cubes, bandages and Paladin armor on the way out. I also managed to escape with 5 shek prisoners that joined me.

Only problem is that I am now in the floodlands with 5 hungry sheks. Normally getting food is no problem when it is only myself, but having this many mouths to feed already can be problematic.

Normally I would go down to Vain and bait beakthings into hive villages for loads of meat, but I am to far away for that. So thinking of heading to the great desert to do the same but with skimmers there, though it is still risky.

Any alternative advice?

Note: I won't steal or sell any of my freed slave companions back into slavery.

Edit: Ty for all the great advice 😁! I definitely missed the Flotsam village safe house shack with food, but managed to get to the great desert where I lured Garry and skimmers to be killed by other npcs.

Though my issue has been resolved, I feel there are many that have experienced the same thing and will leave the post up.

PS: Discovered later that all the 5 Sheks are females so my character is currently a Greenlander male version of the piper Perri bench meme.