Ugnir gon do me some skill grinds...
Total word count from the thread sitting on 6197 wordses.
Blade, Globe and RodentI went all over the place between doing some manual labor for Endurance and Bodybuilding to having some bickering for cultivating Intimidation to having a heated sparring session go by, sporting the use of Poleaxe, Flux, Unarmed Combat, and yet more Intimidation and I guess I could skim additional endurance from the whole combat ordeal... including some extra coin on the side, so I'd say it was a solid grind all over the place.
As for the red ball and the black mouse, while they are scarcely mentioned, I've went with the idea of having the ball be displayed at the very start of the thread and near the point where it took a turn from bickering to a physical confrontation, as a means of its presence being a sign of initiating each of the two conflicts respectfully.
As for the mouse, I figured it could play a role in resolving the conflict by revealing itself and taking action to interrupt the ongoing brawl, bringing both parties back to reality and the fact that they weren't originally supposed to beat each other bloody.
Then I had both the rodent and the ball reoccur by each other's side, namely with the mouse using the ball as a chewing toy, at the end, as some abs sort of symbolism referring to the fact that the conflict had been settled.
(I feel as though I've thought, and rambled, way too much and written way too little in comparison about the objects that were requested in the challenge, still, it was a fun thing to integrate, and I pushed way past what I thought was my limit in the sheer amount of any form of sensible writing while doing it, so... Imma go ahead with a double yay over this one whatever someone might say in retrospect.)