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Woop!! Feels nice not having to worry about short stories ^^! Remember, if anyone is unokay with it you're 100% free to tell me so!Nojjesz - 213/500 HP
horserxdish-arpg - 15/80 HP
SHORT STORY by AthenaCykes
This was gonna be fine, Margaret thought to herself. But still... taking five tokos out hunting was... well, it was a lot. Kimy and Maya stuck together at the back of the group, seeming a little unwilling to hunt. Their handlers had told her they’d be fine but... they seemed a little reluctant to be here. Pamley, on the other hand, pulled away. While a little distant, she seemed like she was just raring to go today. Perhaps she wanted to show off? She seemed like a sweet heart, but also like a bit of a show off. Margaret sat firmly on Dylan’s back, the young girl a nice mount for the young handler. Tawanna stood at the very front of the group, ready to lead the all-female hunting party to success. And Margaret was ready to do all she could to help. Hunting knife? Check. Sword? Check. 5 tokotas? Check and double check. They were going goat hunting, which she’d been doing a lot lately, even more than her usual fox hunting. Margaret loved to hunt foxes, but goats were even easier. They weren’t as fast, or as smart, so it worked out perfectly.
As she let out a low whistle declaring that it was time to move, Tawanna took up a run, and Pamely followed behind, quickly yet elegantly. Dylan also began to move into a quick sprint to catch up to the head of the group, as Margaret was the handler, and the one who knew where they were going. Kimy began to pull ahead, but Maya faltered. The beautiful grey girl was nervous about going hunting. A true pacifist, Maya didn’t like the idea of going and hunting poor little goats. Kimmy didn’t, either, but she understood that what was necessary was necessary, and that if tokotas were going to eat they had to hunt, sometimes. She gave Maya a gentle, affectionate nudge, and soon the two were on their way. The way towards the mountains was fairly quiet. Moving quickly and efficiently, they reached the mountain with no more than one false alarm. Margaret really thought she saw some other tokotas in the distance and they’d headed over to meet them, but it had turned out to be a pair of bears, instead... Pamely had given her a very dirty look as they all ran like hell. None of them had come out here to hunt big dangerous bears, just little, stupid goats.
When she first spotted a goat, Margaret let out a small whistle to get the tokotas together to discuss the plan. What was decided upon was Tawanna and Margaret charging in head on, as such was Margaret’s style, and positioning Kimy and Maya in the back to herd them in, with Pamley and Dylan flanking them to prevent escape and to instead get a tasty horn to chew on. Maya and Kimy carefully, silently stalked around the back of the goats, until they were in position. Dylan and Pamley followed suit, and Margaret unsheathed her sword and mounted Tawanna. Raising her sword into the air with all the drama she could muster, she let out three high pitched whistles, and the tokos charged! Being the front chargers, the thrill of the hunt and the wind in their face clear, Margaret and Tawana were excited. Tawanna let out a bark of excitement while Margaret let out some kind of stupid battle cry as she jumped down from Tawanna’s back, swinging her sword at the first goat she saw. Tawanna followed suit, trying to deliver a swift and precise death blow to a large goat she’d captured, a smart girl who knew not to pierce the hide. Once they’d made their first strike, the goats scattered. Still nervous, Maya tried to look as imposing as possible, letting big snaps and howls drive the goats back into the center of this circle they’d created. Kimy got startled and let a few goats slip by, but after that happened she was watching them like hawks, howling and growling and snapping at all the ones that came near her, doing her best to impress the others. Pamley, like an elegant assassin, descended upon the goats, swiftly tearing the throat out of one and a flank off of another, before Margaret found her and delivered a death blow to the now 3 legged goat. Dylan also kept up her flank, and whenever a goat got near her she’d snap and growl, but once they got driven into a tighter circle she also went in for the kill, simply crushing the head on one of the smaller females. With no fewer than six dead goats at their feet, Margaret got to work cutting off pieces and cleaning them as quickly as possible. Thankfully, she’d remembered to outfit everyone with a large saddle bag, so by the time she gotten everything well cut and packed away they were ready to go, no complicated tying or balancing acts necessary. They headed back and distributed the meat and hides, with Margaret keeping some scraps for herself and Tiberon, of course. This had been a job well done.
Link to import sheet: Tawanna 12719
Link to (hunting/fishing/exploring/caving) journal: NEW Hunting-Fishing-Exploring Log (Nojjesz's Pack)
Items/Companions: None
Defects/Health Issues: None
Link to import sheet: Kimy 7710
Link to (hunting/fishing/exploring/caving) journal: NEW Hunting-Fishing-Exploring Log (Nojjesz's Pack)
Items/Companions: None
Defects/Health Issues: None
Link to import sheet: Pamely 9259
Link to (hunting/fishing/exploring/caving) journal: NEW Hunting-Fishing-Exploring Log (Nojjesz's Pack)
Items/Companions: None
Defects/Health Issues: None
Link to import sheet: Maya 7184
Link to (hunting/fishing/exploring/caving) journal: NEW Hunting-Fishing-Exploring Log (Nojjesz's Pack)
Items/Companions: None
Defects/Health Issues: None
Link to import sheet: Dylan 13542
Link to (hunting/fishing/exploring/caving) journal: HUNTING/FISHING/EXPLORATION JOURNAL
Items/Companions: None
Defects/Health Issues: None
Total = 15 each
3(fb colored shaded) + 2(complex bg) +4(800 WC) +2(handler) +2(starter) +2(hunt)
