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<blockquote data-quote="Sic_Pixie" data-source="post: 5862714" data-attributes="member: 52403"><p><strong>Ustalav ... not a place for a picnic ...</strong></p><p></p><p>Traveling through the day; they don’t actually get started until mid morning as Kat just had to pick up that last bit of something she can’t do without. Following the trail they head mostly north; the river an ever chattering companion to their journey; it’s a nice sunny day; a slight chill in the air and a light wind coming from the west. Through the day they chat amicably about the hectic last few days and enjoying the lack of urgency in their current travel. It’s a pleasant change to the pace even though they are still under a time constraint it’s a much more forgiving constraint than they have become accustomed to. There is laughter and joking as they ride along; even Pringle seems to be sitting his horse better though no-one envies him the discomfort he will be experiencing once they stop. </p><p></p><p>Lunch is a basic affair; stopping for an hour or so to stretch legs and work out the kinks in their tortured muscles; more for Pringle than anyone else. They soon mount up again and head along the river; they travel on for another couple of hours before they meet anything that does not run from the party. Rounding a bend in the river the come practically face to face with a pair of large bear-like creatures with long vicious claws and owl like beaks; Sayuri remembers a fairly interesting book she read a while ago reporting one of the theories on the creation of the owlbear and until now she had never seen one and would be happy if they never again saw one. This pair look well fed and in the peak of fitness as they notice the party as they are themselves seen; they turn and on all fours move surprisingly quickly towards the mounted party. One heads for Grembor and Pringle while the other moves towards the back of the party and decides Sayuri looks good enough to eat; Grembor dodges a ferocious swing of a set of claws that could if it connected take his head and a substantial part of the rest of him with it. Kat whips out her bow and fires off a shot at one of them while Sayuri does likewise with her crossbow. Neither cause enough damage to do anything more then annoy the large already unimpressed Owlbear; Sayuri jumps off her horse and is met half way down by a set of large wickedly curved claws which leave trails of blood on her shoulder. Her horse whickers and backs away rearing and lashing out with it’s hooves which narrowly miss Sayuri’s head; Pringle shoots off his crossbow and the bolt goes very wide of the mark. With a shrug he starts reloading while Grembor strikes out with his sword scoring a minor hit on the creature; who is less than impressed and tries a bone crushing bear hug on him which thankfully misses.</p><p></p><p>Sayuri however is not so lucky and a powerful claw again scores her back as she twists to try avoiding it while the beak rips a chunk out of her other shoulder. She is backed up to the river already so she unleashes a deadly flurry of kicks and punches towards the beast with most of them striking true; the beast steps a pace back in surprise as it’s small meal fights back like a panther backed into a corner. Shaking its head to clear the ringing it is an easy target for Kat who unleashes a pair of arrows from her bow from only a few feet distant. Both arrows strike true which drop the creature to its knees with blood fountaining from it’s mouth which makes Sayuri already covered in her own blood look like she had been bathing in the stuff. Sayuri is badly damaged with blood dripping down her arms and back from three very nasty hits as she checks her pouch again in the vain hope of finding a healing potion she somehow missed previously.</p><p></p><p>Kat sends her wolf circling round the remaining Owlbear to assist Grembor; trying to bite the rough feathery hide of the beast fails to impress the creature but the distraction is enough for Grembor to slide his sword through the creature impaling it’s heart as his sword is buried to it’s hilt in it’s chest. With a low growling gurgle it expires and slumps to the ground twitching as its brain tries to refute the evidence its body is trying to present about its lack of life. The body wins and the creature lies still as blood spreads slowly around it.</p><p></p><p>They patch up their various wounds and carry on more carefully than before; the attack with the Owlbears reminding them that this is not a stroll in the park but a serious walkabout in dangerous territory. This is still Ustalav and the threat of a painful lingering undeath is never far away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sic_Pixie, post: 5862714, member: 52403"] [b]Ustalav ... not a place for a picnic ...[/b] Traveling through the day; they don’t actually get started until mid morning as Kat just had to pick up that last bit of something she can’t do without. Following the trail they head mostly north; the river an ever chattering companion to their journey; it’s a nice sunny day; a slight chill in the air and a light wind coming from the west. Through the day they chat amicably about the hectic last few days and enjoying the lack of urgency in their current travel. It’s a pleasant change to the pace even though they are still under a time constraint it’s a much more forgiving constraint than they have become accustomed to. There is laughter and joking as they ride along; even Pringle seems to be sitting his horse better though no-one envies him the discomfort he will be experiencing once they stop. Lunch is a basic affair; stopping for an hour or so to stretch legs and work out the kinks in their tortured muscles; more for Pringle than anyone else. They soon mount up again and head along the river; they travel on for another couple of hours before they meet anything that does not run from the party. Rounding a bend in the river the come practically face to face with a pair of large bear-like creatures with long vicious claws and owl like beaks; Sayuri remembers a fairly interesting book she read a while ago reporting one of the theories on the creation of the owlbear and until now she had never seen one and would be happy if they never again saw one. This pair look well fed and in the peak of fitness as they notice the party as they are themselves seen; they turn and on all fours move surprisingly quickly towards the mounted party. One heads for Grembor and Pringle while the other moves towards the back of the party and decides Sayuri looks good enough to eat; Grembor dodges a ferocious swing of a set of claws that could if it connected take his head and a substantial part of the rest of him with it. Kat whips out her bow and fires off a shot at one of them while Sayuri does likewise with her crossbow. Neither cause enough damage to do anything more then annoy the large already unimpressed Owlbear; Sayuri jumps off her horse and is met half way down by a set of large wickedly curved claws which leave trails of blood on her shoulder. Her horse whickers and backs away rearing and lashing out with it’s hooves which narrowly miss Sayuri’s head; Pringle shoots off his crossbow and the bolt goes very wide of the mark. With a shrug he starts reloading while Grembor strikes out with his sword scoring a minor hit on the creature; who is less than impressed and tries a bone crushing bear hug on him which thankfully misses. Sayuri however is not so lucky and a powerful claw again scores her back as she twists to try avoiding it while the beak rips a chunk out of her other shoulder. She is backed up to the river already so she unleashes a deadly flurry of kicks and punches towards the beast with most of them striking true; the beast steps a pace back in surprise as it’s small meal fights back like a panther backed into a corner. Shaking its head to clear the ringing it is an easy target for Kat who unleashes a pair of arrows from her bow from only a few feet distant. Both arrows strike true which drop the creature to its knees with blood fountaining from it’s mouth which makes Sayuri already covered in her own blood look like she had been bathing in the stuff. Sayuri is badly damaged with blood dripping down her arms and back from three very nasty hits as she checks her pouch again in the vain hope of finding a healing potion she somehow missed previously. Kat sends her wolf circling round the remaining Owlbear to assist Grembor; trying to bite the rough feathery hide of the beast fails to impress the creature but the distraction is enough for Grembor to slide his sword through the creature impaling it’s heart as his sword is buried to it’s hilt in it’s chest. With a low growling gurgle it expires and slumps to the ground twitching as its brain tries to refute the evidence its body is trying to present about its lack of life. The body wins and the creature lies still as blood spreads slowly around it. They patch up their various wounds and carry on more carefully than before; the attack with the Owlbears reminding them that this is not a stroll in the park but a serious walkabout in dangerous territory. This is still Ustalav and the threat of a painful lingering undeath is never far away. [/QUOTE]
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