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<blockquote data-quote="Orichalcum" data-source="post: 1078670" data-attributes="member: 3722"><p><strong>Fourth Session: Legacies and Freedom Fourth Post: The Wild Hunt</strong></p><p></p><p>A little drenched, we proceed onwards, The fog is a little less dense in this section of the forest, although still murky and misty, with little sunlight striking through the foliage. We begin to see abandoned huts scattered on either side of the overgrown path. Llyr and Wena go off to investigate one, and see small skeletons lying on rude bunks, necks broken while the young trainees lie asleep. As they encounter this horror, their eyes glaze, and Wena turns to Llyr. "We have to escape," she whispers. "The Romans are coming to get us." Llyr nods, takes out his ax, and begins chopping a hole in the back of the dilapidated cabin, while Wena peers out, terrified, through a crack in the door. Meanwhile, Metellus, glancing around at the abandoned scene of past carnage, also feels the same presence grab him which it did earlier, and draws his sword, announcing that the mission is to kill every last Druid. Meloch, of all people, manages to calm him down and snap out of his trance, while Marcus and Cornelia go looking for Wena and Llyr. Upon opening the cabin door, the two Celts, who believe themselves to be Druidic trainees, scream, and try to run. Marcus finally successfully orders Llyr to drop his axe, in the name of the Legion, and restores him to self knowledge; Cornelia appeals to Wena's sense of loyalty to her. We decide to stay together, from now on, and keep ensuring that we all know who we are and why we're here. I decide to crouch even further in Meloch's shoulder-bag, determined that I like neither the weather nor the spirits on Mona.</p><p></p><p> The path becomes clearer and clearer, with signs of once having been regularly trod, perhaps as the main pathway for the Druidic settlement. Suddenly, a group of six stags comes hurtling around a curve in the path, heading straight towards us, their antlers gleaming brightly. These are the first animals we have seen on Mona. Everyone except Cornelia and Meloch dives successfully out of the way, but they get gored by the stags, who halt their progress, and begin butting their antlers at all of us. With the combined fighting skills of Llyr, Metellus, Marcus, and Heilyn, they are dispatched relatively quickly, but with some confusion. Heilyn and Wena offer some healing to the sorcerers, and we continue onwards, besmirched with blood. (Llyr offers to skin and cook the deer, but the plan is abandoned due to the general hurry. Oddly, Aeduana's curse, while it has destroyed the grass around the village where we walked, does not seem to affect these animals, any more than it affected the Wall of Trees.) Still, Meloch and I are increasingly unhappy about the general smell of rotting plants that dogs our footsteps.</p><p></p><p> We continue onwards, perhaps 100 feet, and the path curves again just out of our sight. Nearly everyone hears the heavy pounding of hooves, and we scramble off the path just as fifteen bison charge down it. However, upon seeing us they split into two groups and charge us among the gradually rotting-shrubbery. The following combat is nasty and intense, but aided by spells from Heilyn, mental commands from Wena, and some helpful missile shots from Cornelia, eventually all the bison are slaughtered. Wena notices that during this combat, some of the bison seemed to be attacking their packs as much as the humans themselves, but decides not to mention it. I try to tell Meloch this, having been utterly terrified when a horn nearly speared my eye while in my safe leather pouch with my dried, tasteless, cursed berries, but he's too busy to listen.</p><p></p><p> "Is this another barrier?" Cornelia wonders.</p><p> "It's not a wall. Therefore, it's not a barrier." Marcus replies dogmatically. </p><p> "Besides, all the previous barriers were elements," Metellus points out. "Fire, trees, water. Bison are not an element."</p><p> Everyone is at least willing to agree with the latter statement, and we proceed cautiously onwards, weapons drawn. Sure enough, it's not long before we can both see and hear eight wild boars hurtling towards us. By this point, most of the group are suffering from minor or fairly significant wounds, and many of the party's spells have been exhausted. Still, we form a line (Meloch and I jump into a tree) and prepare to chop pork. </p><p></p><p> In the middle of this combat, during which we are increasingly exhausted and bleeding, although likely to eventually win, both Llyr and Cornelia notice the boars' focus on Meloch's food-pack, which he has left on the ground. "You gave the pigs our food???" I chitter angrily to Meloch in the tree. "We're going to starve because you can't climb trees well with a pack on?" He shushes me, and continues casting spells, sending some of the boars to sleep. The boar who finally tears open Meloch's pack and begins munching on the dried soldiers' rations inside (horrible stuff) stops fighting any of our group, and in fact, waddles over to the tree on whose branches we are perched and curls up peacefully, snorting gently. </p><p></p><p> "They want...food?" Cornelia asks. She tries holding out some of her own rations, and two more boars come, eat the dry gruel mix from her hand, and settle down peacefully, even nuzzling her slightly. While Marcus announces that he'd prefer to kill the rest, for practice, and eliminating evil Druidic creatures, Metellus commands everyone to feed the boars, and they do, using most of our non-meat foodstuffs (the boars only eat the plantstuffs) but calming the animals completely. </p><p></p><p> Llyr thinks for a few seconds and announces, "This lesson is: Dinner is served until you serve dinner." No one quite understands this one, and Cornelia and Marcus propose a different rubric - some of the barriers are elements, like the fire and water ones, and some are parts of life, like the trees and animals. Since Llyr's lessons don't provide much insight into the next barrier, we decide to tentatively adopt Cornelia and Marcus's theory, particularly as no more animals are charging us any longer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orichalcum, post: 1078670, member: 3722"] [b]Fourth Session: Legacies and Freedom Fourth Post: The Wild Hunt[/b] A little drenched, we proceed onwards, The fog is a little less dense in this section of the forest, although still murky and misty, with little sunlight striking through the foliage. We begin to see abandoned huts scattered on either side of the overgrown path. Llyr and Wena go off to investigate one, and see small skeletons lying on rude bunks, necks broken while the young trainees lie asleep. As they encounter this horror, their eyes glaze, and Wena turns to Llyr. "We have to escape," she whispers. "The Romans are coming to get us." Llyr nods, takes out his ax, and begins chopping a hole in the back of the dilapidated cabin, while Wena peers out, terrified, through a crack in the door. Meanwhile, Metellus, glancing around at the abandoned scene of past carnage, also feels the same presence grab him which it did earlier, and draws his sword, announcing that the mission is to kill every last Druid. Meloch, of all people, manages to calm him down and snap out of his trance, while Marcus and Cornelia go looking for Wena and Llyr. Upon opening the cabin door, the two Celts, who believe themselves to be Druidic trainees, scream, and try to run. Marcus finally successfully orders Llyr to drop his axe, in the name of the Legion, and restores him to self knowledge; Cornelia appeals to Wena's sense of loyalty to her. We decide to stay together, from now on, and keep ensuring that we all know who we are and why we're here. I decide to crouch even further in Meloch's shoulder-bag, determined that I like neither the weather nor the spirits on Mona. The path becomes clearer and clearer, with signs of once having been regularly trod, perhaps as the main pathway for the Druidic settlement. Suddenly, a group of six stags comes hurtling around a curve in the path, heading straight towards us, their antlers gleaming brightly. These are the first animals we have seen on Mona. Everyone except Cornelia and Meloch dives successfully out of the way, but they get gored by the stags, who halt their progress, and begin butting their antlers at all of us. With the combined fighting skills of Llyr, Metellus, Marcus, and Heilyn, they are dispatched relatively quickly, but with some confusion. Heilyn and Wena offer some healing to the sorcerers, and we continue onwards, besmirched with blood. (Llyr offers to skin and cook the deer, but the plan is abandoned due to the general hurry. Oddly, Aeduana's curse, while it has destroyed the grass around the village where we walked, does not seem to affect these animals, any more than it affected the Wall of Trees.) Still, Meloch and I are increasingly unhappy about the general smell of rotting plants that dogs our footsteps. We continue onwards, perhaps 100 feet, and the path curves again just out of our sight. Nearly everyone hears the heavy pounding of hooves, and we scramble off the path just as fifteen bison charge down it. However, upon seeing us they split into two groups and charge us among the gradually rotting-shrubbery. The following combat is nasty and intense, but aided by spells from Heilyn, mental commands from Wena, and some helpful missile shots from Cornelia, eventually all the bison are slaughtered. Wena notices that during this combat, some of the bison seemed to be attacking their packs as much as the humans themselves, but decides not to mention it. I try to tell Meloch this, having been utterly terrified when a horn nearly speared my eye while in my safe leather pouch with my dried, tasteless, cursed berries, but he's too busy to listen. "Is this another barrier?" Cornelia wonders. "It's not a wall. Therefore, it's not a barrier." Marcus replies dogmatically. "Besides, all the previous barriers were elements," Metellus points out. "Fire, trees, water. Bison are not an element." Everyone is at least willing to agree with the latter statement, and we proceed cautiously onwards, weapons drawn. Sure enough, it's not long before we can both see and hear eight wild boars hurtling towards us. By this point, most of the group are suffering from minor or fairly significant wounds, and many of the party's spells have been exhausted. Still, we form a line (Meloch and I jump into a tree) and prepare to chop pork. In the middle of this combat, during which we are increasingly exhausted and bleeding, although likely to eventually win, both Llyr and Cornelia notice the boars' focus on Meloch's food-pack, which he has left on the ground. "You gave the pigs our food???" I chitter angrily to Meloch in the tree. "We're going to starve because you can't climb trees well with a pack on?" He shushes me, and continues casting spells, sending some of the boars to sleep. The boar who finally tears open Meloch's pack and begins munching on the dried soldiers' rations inside (horrible stuff) stops fighting any of our group, and in fact, waddles over to the tree on whose branches we are perched and curls up peacefully, snorting gently. "They want...food?" Cornelia asks. She tries holding out some of her own rations, and two more boars come, eat the dry gruel mix from her hand, and settle down peacefully, even nuzzling her slightly. While Marcus announces that he'd prefer to kill the rest, for practice, and eliminating evil Druidic creatures, Metellus commands everyone to feed the boars, and they do, using most of our non-meat foodstuffs (the boars only eat the plantstuffs) but calming the animals completely. Llyr thinks for a few seconds and announces, "This lesson is: Dinner is served until you serve dinner." No one quite understands this one, and Cornelia and Marcus propose a different rubric - some of the barriers are elements, like the fire and water ones, and some are parts of life, like the trees and animals. Since Llyr's lessons don't provide much insight into the next barrier, we decide to tentatively adopt Cornelia and Marcus's theory, particularly as no more animals are charging us any longer. [/QUOTE]
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