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Topic Started: Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:12 pm (1,131 Views)
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Raina just smiled “I guess I’m just going to have to become a carnivore then,” She plucked a piece of grass from the ground and twirled it in her hands. She knew what fruits were safe to eat so she was sure that she could survive for a bit on it.

She let the three sit in a bit of silence for a moment listening to the night’s sounds. The fire was nearly down and she didn’t feel like kindling it again. Her day had been light and she was used to a lot of work during the day. Now she was antsy, especially after the scare she had, and wanted to do something with all her energy that was built up.

“Alright!” She stood up from her seat and kicked a bit of dirt onto the fire, not enough to put it out but she felt like it made a point. “Let’s go hunt some deer!” Raina gathered up her supplies and slung her bow over her back. “I’m heading into Norwood,” She pointed to the forest that cropped up in the distance. It wasn’t even that far anymore and deer normally wandered out of the forest anyway, Debon plains was practically teeming with them.

Now she was excited, ready to go off into the world and find deer and learn to hunt and finally start her adventure across Imythess! She was nearly jumping instead of walking by the time she reached Justin. She petted him and smooshed her face into his nose.

“Ollie! I’m so excited!! Come on Pess!” She waved them both over.

((OoC: To save time you have my permission to take control of Raina for the travel to find Deer so we don’t have to RP literally walking until we find one… unless you wanna… and we can shorted the walk and find into one post.))
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"I think it's just rabbits," Ollie said to Pessach's worry of his meat heavy diet. "If you just eat them, you start getting sick because they're missing something you need. I forget what. Deer is healthier in that regard." He didn't mention how odd it seemed that a plant mage wouldn't even know what a simple herbalist would, but, from the sound of it, his skills were less with growing and identifying plants as they were for using flora for some rather diabolical purposes. He'd have to look into that manipulating vines spell, though Ollie doubted he'd manage to learn it.

Raina was ecstatic, or perhaps just full of nervous energy, and wanted to set out on a hunt right away. She rushed out into the fields, finally darkened by night, and called for the two of them to follow. Ollie rose, kicked dirt over the fire until it went dark, and walked pass Justin, patting his side and nudging him to follow. "You might as well come along, Pessach," he called over his shoulder. "I doubt two would be able to handle a whole deer on their own, and we might end up needing that vine trick of yours."

He walked and caught up with Raina, who nearly skipped about as they strode toward the woods. Ollie considered lighting his magical light again to give the other two a reference, but decided against it. They couldn't use that while they were tracking, and it'd be better for them to adjust to the darkness. Ollie rummaged in his bag and extracted a worn, dogeared book, its red cover beginning to fade.

"Here," he said, handing it to Raina. "This is a good reference for surviving in the woods. Talks about hunting and gathering and getting water and building shelters. It's helped me out quite a bit. You can have it. I practically have it memorized." The book, An Explorer's Guide to Surviving the Forest, was full of notes and explanations in the margins he'd added in with a graphite stick. Most wouldn't be legible to Raina, he guessed, since they were more a reference for himself, but the book itself was chock full of simple information that would let her survive on her own without fretting over money.

They reached the edge of the woods, an area overgrown with bushes, young trees, and other short, sunloving plants that couldn't thrive within the dappled sunlight of Norwood Forest proper.

"Alright," he said, "I would honestly suggest you set your sights on smaller game in the future, but both you and this thing," Ollie paused to prod the tiny dragon still lounging on his head, "are dead set on venison, so we'll start with that. At night, you're more likely to come across bucks rather than does, and usually the craftier ones, at that. We'll start by looking for tracks and deer trails and set up near one to..."

Ollie trailed off and turned to stare at Pessach. "I'm sorry, this is really bothering me. Are you seriously suggesting you were a spatula? One of the scraping, flapjack flipping things? And how does that make you an heir of anything? Unless the king of this place had a fetish for kitchen utensils...."
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"Ollie! I'm so excited!! Come on Pess!" Raina shouted to Pessach when he slipped out of focus and let his attention fall flat. He perked up and witnessed Raina skipping along with Ollie.

"You might as well come along, Pessach," Ollie called over his shoulder. "I doubt two would be able to handle a whole deer on their own, and we might end up needing that vine trick of yours." Pessach complied silently and quickly swung his legs over the log he sat atop. He stumbled as he stood, but he caught himself and prayed no one noticed. As he neared, Pessach noticed Ollie making some generous transaction involving a survival book, no doubt to assist with the upcoming hunting trip.

Pessach caught up soon enough, and walked along side his companions as they traversed the plains and arrived at forest edge, decorated with floral life that could not survive in the thick wood ahead. He knew little of these plants; the spatula was disappointed in himself. The floramancer made a mental note to fetch a book on plant life and study up.

"Alright, I would honestly suggest you set your sights on smaller game in the future, but both you and this thing are dead set on venison, so we'll start with that," started Ollie. "At night, you're more likely to come across bucks rather than does, and usually the craftier ones, at that. We'll start by looking for tracks and deer trails and set up near one to..." He cut himself off and looked straight at Pessach.

He then spoke up, "I'm sorry, this is really bothering me. Are you seriously suggesting you were a spatula? One of the scraping, flapjack flipping things? And how does that make you an heir of anything? Unless the king of this place had a fetish for kitchen utensils...."

"Yeah, um, it's a really odd story," Pessach admitted without hesitation. "I do not expect you to believe, but I can promise my tale is genuine. From what that wizard told me, he accidentally made all of the utensils into people he used to know, including me-- He made me into the guy who was king for a while, only he died in power. So, now I'm just a philosopher and a floramancer tasked with learning for the sake of becoming a good king." The spatula ended his recital of intention with a gentle grab for air and looked into the trees ahead with innocent longing.

"So, what were you saying about that hunting?" Pessach wondered. With a flick of the wrist, he released the Scholar's Lotus, his most trusted pink scythe, from the cache he held. Resting the tool on his shoulder, the spatula was excited to hunt for venison under the cover of the night sky.
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Raina accepted the book. She ran her fingers over the leather cover and along the engraved words, An Explorer’s Guide to Surviving the Forest. She opened it up and flipped through the pages, seeing the markings of Ollie’s notes and the small print of the book. She stood for a moment awed. She couldn’t make out the words right now so she closed the book and held it to her chest.

“Ollie… wow…. Thank you.”

After that sobering moment she walked along calmly, letting Ollie take the lead. Raina just kept smiling and giving the book a little squeeze every now and then as she made her way along.

Once they reached the edge of the woods Raina quickly put the book away and ran her fingers over the arrows in her quiver making sure they were all there and easy to reach. Her bow was already strung so she wouldn’t have to worry about that.

“Deer or nothing right Dragon,” Raina winked at the tiny dragon, her excitement creeping back in. Raina started moving slowly, keeping her gaze on the ground, looking for tracks. When Ollie asked if he was really a spatula Raina paused to listen to the exchange.

“That is…. an odd story.” Raina was staring at Pessach. She was glad Ollie had asked though because she had been dying to know. “So this wizard just decided to experiment with kitchen utensils? That’s weird. Who was the wizard? Wait, no, I’m sorry that’s really personal you don’t have to tell me.”

Raina glanced down to her right and a smile spread over her face. “Ollie!” She pointed down at the ground. “Look those are tracks! Can we follow it and find a deer?”
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"Hmmm..." Ollie said, kneeling beside the hoofprints. He reached down, ran his fingers along the inside of the crescent shape, raised it to his face, rubbed the fingers against his thumb, and sniffed the clinging dirt.

"It is said," Ollie said, looking up at Raina, "That a master tracker can follow a fox across bare rock three days after its passing." He rose and pushed back his hood, revealing tousled black hair. "But I'm not one of those. I can tell these are deer, at least, and," he pointed to the faint, thin line of bent grass snaking through the brush and into the forest. "This seems to be one of the deer's routes. Good eyes, Raina."

He couldn't hear any deer hearts beating nearby, but that hearing did have limited range. "With hunting, it's less about tracking and chasing, especially if you're using a bow, which I'm guessing you are, Raina. What you want to do is figure out where the prey will be and wait. Though not here. Stationary targets are best so....hmm..."

This was harder than he thought. He was trying to work out how to hunt without his vampire powers, and it was a pain in his backside. He couldn't fly overhead, he couldn't rely on hearing heartbeats, he couldn't even use that weird sight thing that he mostly avoided because overusing it made his eyes bleed. It was hard, like he was trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle blindfolded, but this was less for him and more a demonstration for Raina. He had to do this as she would, and that meant no Creature of the Night abilities.

"No whining," the dragon said, furling and unfurling its wings in anticipation. "Get deer."

"Right." Ollie pinched the bridge of his nose, considering their options.

"Smell water," the dragon suddenly said, lifting its head and staring away from the woods, toward the plains.

"Hm?" Ollie stared, and he could see an area nearby where the grass was less the brown of vegetation recovering from winter and more a revitalizing green surrounded by brush and cattails. "Oh, huh. Not sure how I missed that."

"Thinking too much like a deadie," the dragon said, then launched itself into the air, stretching and flying overhead.

Ollie sighed. "Alright, so it seems the deer come out here to drink from what looks like a stream or pool over there. We can circle around, get into cover downstream and in range of the stream. Then, we wait, which is the most boring part of this whole thing. Raina, I'm guessing you want to take the shot, since you have your bow and arrows ready, so you'll do that, and Pessach..." Ollie trailed off, tapping the side of his face as he thought.

"Actually, um, I have no idea what you can do besides make strangle vines. Can you....help build a blind for us from the plants around here or something? I don't know anything about floromancy."
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Raina began to question Pessach about the specifics of his tale, but she decided it was a bit too personal. Pessach failed to understand how this was considered intrusive.

"A story for another day," Pessach generously offered. Just then, Raina pointed out some tracks on the ground. As Ollie began to decipher them, Pessach looked on with curiosity. Ollie seemed to be slightly outside his element, as if he was completely changing the way he hunted. The spatula decided to give him the benefit of the doubt-- looks could be deceiving, after all.

While the two seemed fixed on the tracks and a nearby water source, Pessach attempted to establish a role for himself in this little hunting party.

"How much use am I in this? I usually just let them walk to-- well, normally I don't hunt-- but when I hunt, I usually just let them walk towards me and then kill them," Pessach thought. He understood this was not typical animal behavior. Pessach believed his flower's abilities made him more likable to animals.

"...and Pessach..." came Ollie's call. Pessach whirled around and looked at him as he began to question Pessach's potential in the hunt. He even suggested using plants to build some kind of hunting blind. The spatula assumed this was some sort of makeshift shelter to hide from wildlife.

"Hmm, would making it out of vines alone work? Or would that be too obvious?" he asked. The floramancer also suggested, "Oh, and I can wall off the deer's escape route and buy Raina an extra shot or two in case she doesn't take care of it the first time." Pessach removed the Stampaggio Viti seeds from his pocket and considered planting them at the choice site of this 'hunting blind' Ollie had requested, to grow for them some sort of hut at the location of choice.
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Raina flashed Ollie a huge smile when he told her that she had good eyes. Maybe one day she would become a master tracker, the kind Ollie had told her about, then she would never go hungry. She’d be able to hunt deer and find lost children or something. For now though she could only really point to tracks and say that they were tracks.

“Hm? Missed what?” Raina looked at Ollie confused when he suddenly spoke after a moment of silence. It sounded like he was addressing someone. It took her a moment to remember that he had warned them that might happen around the campfire.

“Oh,” Raina looked off at the water. When Ollie said they should circle around Raina slowly started to make her way closer to the water so she could find a place to hide. When she noticed they hadn’t followed her Raina stopped a few paces away and continued to listen. She realized that she might be a little overeager on this.

“That’s a great idea Pessach.” Raina wandered back. “My skills are somewhat… lacking… so I don’t think I’ll be able to take down a deer on the first shot.” She grabbed one of Ollie’s hands and then one of Pessach’s. “But first we have to get there.” She dragged them a couple steps and then started walking towards the lake.

While walking she placed herself next to Ollie and stared at the Dragon.

“Hi.” She tilted her head to the side. “I’m Raina. I’ll be hunting the deer. I hear you like deer.” She tripped over a stump and quickly caught herself before falling. She let out a nervous giggle and smiled shyly at both men. “Hehe, whoops.” She turned her attention back to the dragon. “Come on talk to me. I’m cute. Pleeeease.”
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"Hi!" said a bright, oddly nasally voice in Raina's head. "Deer's the best. Sitting on your head. Cold." The fly dragon twirled in his aerial piroet to settle on Raina's head, tucking his wings in and curling his body like a leathery tiara around the crown of her skull, his head raised to watch the surroundings. "Nights get cold. Too cold."

Ollie, being left out of the mental conversation, held back scowled and hoped the dragon wasn't sharing anything untoward with Raina. "Alright, We can duck behind some bushes. This pond seems to be more long than wide and not too deep, though we should probably try to stay out of it and not get wet." He considered Pessach. It seemed the plant mage was limited to just his vines. Then again, Ollie had no idea how floromancers learned their trade. Maybe they did just focus on one sort of plant at a time. "Your vine wall should be helpful from keeping the deer from getting far, and if Raina wounds it and it manages to get away from that, I can probaby catch up to it and take it down."

He didn't say how he'd do this, but he patted Justin's neck, who happily began sucking in mouthfuls of water from the pond. Ollie let him. The sight of the horse drinking usually seemed to calm local wildlife into coming closer, though one could never tell with older bucks. There was a reason they reached their full maturity.

"We'll stay here," Ollie said, pointing out some bushes that lacked thorns, were close enough together to act as a blind, but not so closely bunched that they couldn't spy through the branches. "Keep low, keep quiet, and watch for deer." He paused, and considered his first deer hunt. "To increase our odds, I could try to hunt and flush out some deer to shoot, except they'd be running and not calmly drinking...Nevermind."

He took out an oilskin blanket and spread it on the damp ground. They didn't need to get soaked and catch a cold doing this, after all. He settled down on the blanket, rechecking his own quiver's position, and waiting for the others to join him.
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Raina dragged Pessach and Ollie both towards the water with an eager step. The spatula willingly followed.

Ollie seemed to be under the impression that Pessach could quickly form a wall of vines to trap the deer, though the spatula did not correct him. He could rapidly establish a barrier, that much was fact; his seeds would go without use.

"Alright," Pessach muttered to nobody in particular. "Let's see if we can trip up this deer." He traveled around the edge of the water, stepping over roots and telling branches and the like to move aside as he passed. Pessach brought forth his scythe and laid it horizontally on the ground, blade pointed towards the group. It was his belief that he could create the barrier of thorns and then pull the enchanted Lotus towards himself and trip the creature as it attempted to travel around the blockade, maybe even cut its leg up to prevent its escape. With a nod of self-approval, he returned to the bushes. There, Ollie told him to keep quiet and watch for deer as Raina took the shot. The hunter began to suggest an alternative to waiting for the deer to take a drink of the liquids, though he quickly silenced himself and shook it off.

With a skillful slight of hand, Ollie revealed an oilskin blanket. He spread it over the landscape behind the brush, as a seat for keeping from the filth. Pessach was somewhat surprised that hunters considered that sort of thing. Ollie settled there atop the blanket and checked his quiver. The floramancer joined him, kneeling to his left and pulling out his most trusted Cascadian Protector-- after all, he had placed the Scholar's Lotus on the ground across the water, creating a magical trap of potential success.

"And now we wait," Pessach pointed out.
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((Sorry for the short replies. The drugs are making it hard to focus for a long post. Hope it’s okay anyway))

“He talked to me Ollie!!” She addressed Dragon again. “Once we get you some deer we’ll make a fire and you can curl up near that and get warm,” She smiled at the little dragon in her hair. It was such an usual feeling but she didn’t mind. It was the first time she’d ever been close to a dragon.

Raina listened to Ollie and nodded along while he explained the basics of what would happen tonight. She joined the other two men on the oilskin blanket and nodded to Pessach. “Now we wait,” She repeated and smiled.

While they waited Raina reached up and stroked the smooth scales of Dragon’s skin. The night dragged on a bit as they all sat in silence, not wanting to scare away the deer. Raina was cleaning under her fingernails with one of her arrows when she looked up and spotted a deer. She was about to jump and point but she calmed herself. She tapped Ollie and Pessach and pointed slowly and calmly.

Raina pulled out her bow and arrow and stood up. Her lack of skills at the bow didn’t really allow her to crouch and fire. As she got up the deer raised its head and its ears flickered. Raina fired. It hit the deer in the shoulder. The deer bolted. Raina got another shot in the deer’s rump.

“Ollie! Pess! Help! Look I almost got it!!”
Edited by Raina, Mon Apr 8, 2013 3:37 am.
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Ollie gave a sharp whistle, and Justin's head shot up from the marsh plant it'd been chewing and rushed up beside Ollie. He reached up, tapped his brooch, and pulled free a dark brown shortbow, already strung and ready to shoot.

"Get that wall up if you can, Pessach," Ollie said, voice urgent but controlled. "Raina, take a deep breath, focus, and take another shot. I'll get it if you can't."

Ollie gripped Justin's rein, ready to mount up and set out after the wounded buck. Thank goodness he'd been practicing shooting from horseback.

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After a brief wait, the deer had arrived. Pessach watched as Raina took the arrow and sent it plunging into the shoulder (did deer have shoulders?) of the animal. Ollie whistled for his steed and commanded Pessach to put his wall up. The spatula sprinted forward and began to call the thorn wall, bringing up massive thorn after massive thorn.

The deer struggled to round the barrier, and Pessach quickly pulled his scythe towards himself with the magical tug of his enchantment. His scythe propelled forward, directly through the legs of the deer; it tripped and fell to the ground, and the spatula regained his scythe. In a quick motion, Pessach swung his arm around and pulled the trigger of his dagger, causing the blade to shoot out and hopefully strike the deer.

Unfortunately, Pessach failed to hit his mark in his haste. He noticed that, fortunately, his scythe's blade had slid along the deer's leg, almost taking it clean off. The deer struggled to get up.

"All you!" he shouted to his friends.
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A lifetime of killing chickens and slaughtering sow and cattle meant that as bloody as the scene was getting Raina didn’t mind continuing on. Despite her apparent innocence in both talking to strangers and taking care of herself off her farm.

She followed Ollie’s direction. She took a deep breath, steadied herself. The deer was down on its knees struggling to get up. She focused on the bobbing of its head and waited. She would need to do this one right. Her first shot was fired quickly but this one she wanted to fire right. The deer lowered its head for a second taking a break and Raina released her fingers. The bow string twanged and arrows flew through the night.

Raina held her breath as she watched and the arrow buried itself into the deer’s neck. Blood started pumping out, bleeding with the pool of red that was already under the deer’s legs. It bellowed out but it wasn’t loud, more pained. Then, almost in slow motion, the deer lowered its head. Raina could still see the deer breathing but she knew it wasn’t long before that too would cease.

Raina ran over to Pessach and hugged him before turning to Ollie on Justin. “I did it!” She bounced a bit before she ran over to the deer. Now all that was left was skinning and cooking it and they could all share a meal together. She wasn’t really expecting to meet people and make friends so soon but she couldn’t help just beaming at the two men who had found her on the plains.
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Ollie didn't realize he'd stepped away from Justin until he steeled himself to stay rooted in place. He stood, one foot forward, one hand tightly clamped over his mouth. He forced himself not to breath, but bits of wind still drifted fresh, dripping blood into his nostrils. It smelled, so, so good, so warm. It just made the heartbeats near him all the sharper, reminding him what they pulsed, beat by beat, through those lumbering sacks.

No, no! He couldn't start thinking that way. But he was so hungry; he needed to eat, and this deer blood wasn't helping in any way. But if he just left, one of the two might follow him, and that could be disastrous. He needed to get away, he thought as his eyes stayed rivited on the deer's severed neck, but in such a way they'd accept and not follow him out of any sort of misplaced concern, but he felt too nervous to draw the breath he'd need to form a sentence. What was he supposed to-

"Ollie needs to use little boy room," The dragon said in a smirking tone as it fluttered over Raina's head; from the echoing tones of it, he also broadcast that embarrassing statement to everyone here.

"What?" Ollie said, staring in annoyed rage and humiliation. He didn't need to go! In fact, he hadn't really had to go since, well, that night....but it was a reason for him to sneak off without question. "Oh, yes, um, I need a bit of....privacy...If you two think you can start rendering the corpse, I'll just...be back in a bit, alright?"

He would wait for confirmation before heading out, and ceased his breath again to prevent more blood from entering his senses. He'd walk out of sight, sprint or fly off, find a rabbit or something to eat, then come back, full and able to cope with the abundance of blood around him without killing anyone.
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Raina managed to put an arrow through the target and end it. Pessach blushed as she hugged him ("G-g-good job, Raina.") and celebrated the slaughter before moving to the deer to prepare it for what the spatula assumed related to skinning and consumption.

It was with a bit of suspicion that Pessach examined the distracted and uncomfortable hunter, as he almost seemed disgusted by the idea of a corpse, with face partially obscured and breaths reduced. He excused himself for the sake of relief, though Pessach assumed he was just uncomfortable. Maybe it was the brutality of the leg wound that the spatula had caused, or perhaps a period of unfamiliarity had he endured.

Pessach decided to join Raina alongside the deer, to see to the "rendering," as Ollie had referred to it.

"Ahm... right," Pessach muttered. "Rendering. That's skinning it and everything, right? I'm used to just cutting it open and taking a chunk out. Not my specialty here." He felt his uses were limited when it came to such a task as this rendering he had recently been told of. With reserved complaint, he noted mentally to look into the subject during his next library visit.

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