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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3489537" data-attributes="member: 11146">Using the same large boulder that, at dusk, Brakkus had used to secure his grappling hook, Maelicent loops a bit of rope at the base of the rock, then in a few short pushes with his feet, drops to the forest floor below.  The moon has risen and, filtered through the dust rising to the nighttime air from the steaming city's red brick paving stones beyond the keep's grounds, hangs low in the sky like an overripe orange plum.  Having marked a course for the curtain wall, Maelicent sets out and is soon engulfed by the deepening wood of the forest.  At night, and with a full moon, the trees are alive and readily part ways for the goblin.  A smooth path, devoid of roots and rock, but never forging more than 30 feet ahead into the distance, appears in front of Maelicent as he heads south, away from the cave containing his comrades.  The walk an easy ten minutes, Maelicent slows his pace when the trees thin a bit, signifying that the glade where the horned rabbits had earlier been fought off lies just ahead.  Recognizing the hoary old oak at the edge of the glade, Maelicent stops when he hears growling and the sound of flesh being torn in strips.40 feet to his right, Maelicent spies a gore-streaked animal that seems a cross between an overlarge rat and a wolf.  Spikes on the animal's rear haunches tip upward in a menacing spire at the nighttime sky.  The animal growls at its meal and, hunched over one of the rabbit carcasses, turns sideways a moment, the better to grasp at the rabbit's fetlock.  When the animal does so, Maelicent gets a clear view of bones of the creature's ribcage protruding between what looks to be a hide that hangs in loose narrow strips that barely cover the creature.  The creature moves with decidedly unnatural motions.  Giving the rabbit's fetlock a mighty tug, the creature pulls the entire leg away with one raucus rip and immediately sets upon the prize to feast with eager snarls.Spying out the terrain, Maelicent spots fresh drag marks where undoubtedly the skeletal rat has drug the rabbit carcass to its current location.  The two other dead horned rabbits lay close by, as yet untouched.</blockquote>

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