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Looking at three women, all ready to pledge themselves to a common cause and asking her to join, Jasmine grins. "Of course I'll come with you! But I'm holding you to the offer for extra treasure!" She announced to them, putting hands on her chubby hips and walking towards the cart. "Let's get a move on, though! Time's a wasting!"Excited at their offer being accepted, the two women capable of walking nodded and walked to the front of the main cart, Alexis whipping the horses into a stir and pulling the incredibly heavy load to be ready to leave. "Wait!" Came a yell from the camp.
The women turn to see the woman who worked with Vicky, the elf that had joined them, running towards their caravan. "What is it Elsin?" Vicky asks her.
"Well, you'll work the horses too hard if you drag the prisoners behind you. Leave them in the cells here, I can wait until you return to go back to our village," she offers to them.
Vicky nods and smiles at the other elf. "Take them. Keep them fed and alive until we return, and don't get yourselves killed!"
"Aye, miss!" The elvish woman shouts back, detaching the prisoner cart from their own.
At that note the cart of adventurers barrels it's way through the woods and out of the forest, Alexis and Jasmine on the seat, Vicky sitting on the back lip, and Sylvia hidden behind the curtain, stowed into the back of the cart. With heavy thuds and deep tracks, the cart rolls back onto the main road, and their journey begins.
Hours pass with the women sitting and travelling, Alexis keeping tabs with Vicky on their path. "Should we turn here?"
"No," Vicky responds. "Goes through too many cities and towns, not safe for me."
"You could hide in there with Sylvia?" Alexis suggests to her.
"No thanks! That blob of a woman sweats twice as much as I did, even before you took my fat! It smells like human in there."
"You say that like that's a bad thing," Alexis says with a chuckle.
Vicky laughs a little, replying, "Maybe for a human it isn't, but you smell like boars to an elf. I can smell her from up here," she complains.
"I can *munch* hear you *chew* down here *bite* y'know!" Sylvia complains up to her.
"Good goods, lass. Are you still eating? It's been hours!"
"Whatever, *munch*... Sylvia takes a moment to swallow and stops eating to talk, almost reluctantly. "Alexis is a great hunter, and you said we have days worth of food in here."
"I said weeks worth of food! And that's only if we ration. The woods ahead have less animals, so we will need that food. Plus, we want to get there quickly, the prisoners said a meeting was coming up, we want to take the leader out before they have reinforcements."
Alexis, listening in on their conversation, speaks up. "Will their defenses be hired hands, like me?"
"Most likely," Vicky she replies. "She said there are few warriors between them, and limited spell-casters as well."
"Interesting... We should be able to sneak in and bribe them with more gold, then..." Alexis says.
"But they'll have lots of food and fat flasks and money there, right?" Jasmine asks, holding a hand to her growling gut.
Vicky sighs, audibly. "Humans are so gluttonous. Yes, they'll have all that. And as far as I know, the corruption doesn't extend to the capital, so they'll fetch a bounty, at least."
"That's good news," Alexis says. "Jasmine, if you're hungry I can go get some food from the food stores with Sylvia."
"Mmmm! Yes please!" She replies, taking the reigns as Alexis hops down and walks to the back. Jasmine can hear groans and grunts as Alexis struggles past the monstrously obese woman in their cart. A minute later she comes back with a loaf of bread and a wedge of cheese.
"Got any for me?" Vicky asks.
"No, you'll have to deal with the sweat monster to get some yourself."
"And why's she get special treatment?" Vicky asks, crossing her arms and frowning.
"For starters, the mages should be rested as possible. Secondly, she's going to make tonight fun for me, and I take it you aren't planning on it, especially since I tend to get sweaty when I have fun at night," she tells her half tauntingly.
"Ew, fine. No special treatment," Vicky says, laughing and leaning back.
Some time passes and eventually, with a deep sigh, Vicky says, "you folks are alright. Especially for humans."
The days roll on like that, the woods growing darker and thicker as the cart moves on. No bandits or animals show up as they travel deeper into the woods. After days like that, a shout of terror comes from the inside of the cart. "Aaaaaahhhh!" Sylvia yells.
Vicky and Alexis react quickly, jumping from their posts and drawing weapons. The two warriors fling open the curtains at the back of the cart, to see Sylvia in tears, empty barels behidn her and food smeared on her face an torso. "What is it, Sylvia?" Alexis asks, looking with darting eyes.
"The food is allllll goooooooooooooone!" She announces, crying and holding flabby hands to her face.
"You ate all our food?!" Vikcy screams.
"Sylvia, that was for all of us!" Alexis protests.
"Even my sweets!?" Jasmine exclaims with terror.
"Okay, no worries. I'll go hunt something and come back. Vicky, Jasmine, set up a base camp here!" Jasmine nods, and hops off of her seat, and Vicky groans.
"I told you, there are fewer animals in the dark woods."
"Well, it's a better option than nothing," Alexis says, storming into the woods.
Aftera few moments, Sylvia whimpers, "I'm sorry..."
"Sorry won't feed us," Vicky says, setting up her tent.
Hours later, Alexis comes back with no animals. "I set up some traps, but didn't spot any game. We may be out of luck," she says, sighing. "Maybe we can make it to them before we starve and steal their food," she says.
"Hopefully," Sylvia plees over the roaring of her belly.
Almost on that note exactly, a pink cart led by oxen pulls it's way up around the bend, and stops right by them. Either a tall dwarf, or a short man hops off, and pulls a switch, the side board falling iinto a shelf, revealing dozens of pastries inside the cart. "Hi there!" The person says.
Astonished at this, the women stop and stare at what stands before them. Sylvia, hidden behind her curtain, yells, "what is it, I can't see?"
"There's a... Dessert cart," says Jasmine, hungrily, feelign her belly roar in hungry protest.
"What? Let me see! Take down the curtain!"
Alexis takes the curtain down, sicne Sylva had previously made it clear that putting the curtains off to the side wasn't 'enough of a view,' for her. "Woaaaah!" She yells, looking at the tasty sweet rolls and cakes before her.
The person's eyes light up with excitment you woudl expect from a baker looking at the hungry blob that sat before him. "Name's Dirk, the greatest baker around! I'm on route to the capital, but I'm selling my baked goods along the way! Anyone here... Hungry?" He asks.
"Yeeeeessss," Jasmine adn Sylvia answer excitedly, almost jumping with joy.
"Ladies, let's have a quick talk about this," Vicky motions, guiding them into a huddle.
"I don't think we can trust this, so close to their bas,e it has to be a trap," Alexis offers.
"But sweet rolls!" Jasmine says.
"Can the mages cast detect poison?" Vicky asks.
"Didn't prepare it," says SYlvia.
"Can't cast it, and I want sweet rolls!" Jasmine says.
"I say we trust them!" Sylvia adds in.
"She was their prisoner, maybe we should trust her judgment?" Alexis offers.
"Yeah! Sweet rolls!" Jasmien throws in.
"And they captured her! Plus she ate ALL of our food! Maybe her gut isn't the best source of judgment!" Vicky protests.
"My gut has yet to make a misake, and it says sweet rolls!" Jasmine interjects.
"But we are starving, and this is very convineient," counters Alexis.
Replying, Vicky scoffs. "You said you could catch something?"
"Or we could rush to their base? Looking at her price board i can see that we can afford the lot, but barely. Maybe we should get just enough to make it there barely, so we have cash left to bribe guards," Alexis offers.
"And that could mean sweet rolls..." Jasmien drools out.
"Alright, let's make a choice," Vicky proposes, the group nodding to it.
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ExtraBaggageClaim In reply to SenorX007 [2016-09-15 20:22:01 +0000 UTC]
Seems so from the voting so far!
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TheRevivedracer [2016-09-15 02:44:58 +0000 UTC]
A rather convenient situation, I have to say.
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ExtraBaggageClaim In reply to TheRevivedracer [2016-09-15 18:49:19 +0000 UTC]
Almost... Too convenient...
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ExtraBaggageClaim In reply to marvin250432 [2016-09-14 22:19:28 +0000 UTC]
There'll be more Glad you like it, though
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