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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alsih2o" data-source="post: 840813" data-attributes="member: 4790">Ry was amazed. His club, it had to be the club. The curbles was wearing him down with its clumsy but strong blows and his clumsy but strong blows were all striking earth. He was more than shaken and wandered if the spirit in the wood of his club had somehow been upset. Rinney move over to assist him in his efforts against the giant hairy beast and stung it deeply, and then Ry found his mark. His greatclub landed sharply against his opponent’s ear and her head lolled oddly to the side and she crashed into the soft litter of the forest floor.    Kolindras jar was almost full of the sweet, gooey honey when she heard Thaby cry out.      “Their coming back!” Thabyra cried loading a stone in her sling.    Thabyra popped a sling stone off of one of the curbles hairy hides without effect and then Tavania struck deep and hard, piercing the lead runner to the heart and dropping him midstride. Finn struck in from behind sunk a bolt from his crossbow deep in the leg of the smallest curble and the two decided they had had enough. They took off the path and ran for the woods, self-preservation beating out any sense of loyalty to their band.  As everyone’s eyes swept the field looking for danger they all eventually rested on Kolindra. She was up to her elbow in the hive and thick yellow honey streamed down her arm into the jar as giant bees climbed down the hive, over her body and back up. When the jar was filled and sealed Kolindra joined the rest on the ground. The group was proud of their accomplishment anxious for the riches it would bring them, but Kolindra only wanted a spot to clean up. “I have to get some of this off me” she pleaded, “it is getting heavy and the sweet smell is getting sickening.” Tavania pointed out that water must be nearby for the curbles and the bees and the party began to scour the perimeter for tracks, eventually finding a well-worn path to a beautifully clear pond. Tavania immediately jumped in and the honey and pollen began to seep stringily into the water around her.   Everyone took the opportunity to clean up from days in the plains and their recent bloody battle. A swarm of small blue fish immediately surrounded Kolindra and began feasting on the sweet residue she was washing from hr skin and clothes.     “Somebody give me a sack” said Tavania  Tavania began scooping the small blue fish into the sack as they fed. “These will feed us for a day or two at least.” She offered   Ichiopa drank with a deep slurping sound and Kolindra got out to dry herself and her clothes, leaving everyone else to turn away from her woodland sensibilities about nudity. The discussion quickly turned to their next direction.   “Gems” said Thabyra “We will be wanting to head wherever gems are and collect as much of them as possible.”    “Didn’t you have some other task to attend to?” asked Finn    Rinney replied “Yes, yes, one of my other acquaintances want the horns of a bison. He has quite a collection from his time as a hero, but managed to never get bison horns. He has promised some choices from his weapons collection if we can aquire him a set from a Shokta mount”   “Where would gems be?” asked Thabyra    “Well, the Shokta are all around us, we will come upon them eventually, it is almost certain” said Tavania, her dislike of the entire breed showing through her voice.    “I really would like a chance to see some of the other fantastic creatures of this land, but I must keep my mind to finding my communities scythe” added Kolindra  “But seriously” interrupted Thabyra “where would there be gems?”  The party discussed their plans at some length and eventually decided on a northward route, hoping to find the StoneChildren and assuming that anyone who lived in a mountain would have gems aplenty.  The whole time Ry sat questioning his greatclub “you…you…no like ry now?”  The party headed north, appreciating the easier travel amongst the mature trees of the valley. After a few hours they came to the cliff that made the northern wall of the valley and chose to make camp, preferring to find their way out of the valley the next morning, when the whole day was theirs to explore.   As they made camp and everyone began to settle in Ry approached Rinney while Tavania cooked the small blue fish in a pan over the fire.    “you..carve for me…carve EarthShaker on club of mine” stumbled Ry doing his best imitation of a request.   Rinney spent the night carving on Rys club, trying to not pay attention to Thabyra and Finn joking about eating his cow.     “Bovimancy, that is what he practices” Said Finn, sending Thabyra into fits of laughter  As the night wound down Rinney handed his club back to Ry.  “It says EarthShaker” said Rinney, proud of his skills underneath EarthShaker Rinney had added “that which smites stones”   "My...friend..I..am..in...your...debt" stumbled Ry. He cradled the club and let sleep take him.   As they slept that night Thabyra, Kolindra, Finn and Ry had a terrible dream 3 times.    In their dream a small woman, possibly a midget, was being dragged toward a reddish light, and was screaming for help. Each kept the dream to themselves and in the morning they headed east, searching for a way out of the valley. In a few hundred yards they came upon a 15 foot wide perfectly cobbled stone road leaving the valley. It was cut perfectly into the side of the hill.</blockquote>

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