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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 2630861" data-attributes="member: 10913">Journeyan post 1.1You hear a scream for help, growing nearer, from within the forest. In a few seconds, a woman bursts out of the woods. At a glimpse you see she is young, wearing a redcap (marking her as an Hermetic messenger) and a bloodstained shirt. She stops for only a moment, taken aback at seeing you all. That’s a mistake.Something dark and large slams into her from behind, and suddenly she is flang up in the air, borne on impossibly large antlers. It’s a stag, a huge stag taller than a warhorse and just as massive, with a black coat. It shakes the woman loose, throwing her at its feet where she gasps for air, the wind taken out of her by the blow. You can see holes in her fur shirt, where the antlers pierced deep.The stag stomps its feet and straightens, as if showing off its size and strength. It puffs, frost forming off its humid breath in the cold, as it looks you over.OOC: You may wish to throw initiative before describing your action [basically Quickness+stress; see <a href="http://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/arm5formulae.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> under Obstacles on page 3]. Gasparius [Olive’s character] recognizes it as the Black Stag, the companion of Veles the Hunter, god of the Underworld and Agriculture, he who makes the sacrifice [giving away the bounty of nature], and he who takes it [taking sacrifices in return].You may assume Gasparius tells you of this, if you like, unless Olive steps in to tell otherwise before you post. [Oh Olive, where art though?]You can google Veles and Cernunnos for some taste of the god; seek out the darker themes.</blockquote>

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