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Not found on any map, Endrykas is a large migrating tent city wherein the horseclans of Cyphrus gather to trade and exchange information. [Lore]

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Postby Amunet on November 1st, 2015, 11:35 pm

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The smile went from polite to soft. He asked if she could teach him to preserve mint. “I would like that. My family is a bunch of crafters so none of them take after herbal preparations or medicine. “

He surprised her with how he wanted to know. Those sky blue eyes looked into his own eyes again. “That will probably have to wait for another day though.” The girl said artfully as maybe he would want to agree. He had this casual way of calm and he really wanted to know what she knew.

When he caught up with her at the beginning of the trail she went off towards. The girl flushed as he reminded her that she shouldn’t go off into the unknown like that. “Sorry.” He didn't say it in a way to condemn her which she also was not used to. She fidgeted with her fingers a little in an awkward way. For some reason none of her usual retorts came to play, but then he wasn't admonishing her either. That, too, was very different. "Thank you. I can sometimes not think of those things. It sounds kind of foolish i guess." The girl looked to the ground as he started his instruction. He started explaining he various aspects of the blood on the trail.

To this she got to the ground. Amunet had a strong eye for detail. Those sharp eyes looked at the blood and the way it dried. Like he said. The edges were flaking slightly on the older parts. The girl went back to the spot where she had nailed the pig’s hock. It was well flaked. Then she went to the other blood spots as they were darkened but not flaky yet. The girl looked up ahead. “So the pig went that way?” Pointing in the direction of where the glint of light was on the fresher blood.

The girl took note of prints and fecal evidence that Lian had spoken of. Maybe she could become at least decent at hunting to keep herself and her animals fed, maybe even bring down something for her family. That might be out of scope for her this day. The girl pulled out the slingshot as she moved forward towards the wetter parts. Her dog and cat was not far behind. She tried to wave them back but they were not trained for those signs. A young juvenile boar would hurt either of them.

The snort alerted her that she had at least come in close proximity of the creature. Amunet turned around this way and that to look for it before suddenly it barreled from behind her hobbling forward in its half charge and knocked her off of her feet. It squealed as it was trying to find a new hiding spot. She had nailed the top edge of the elbow of the right hind leg. She had aimed to hit something, anything, it had moved and she clipped the elbow enough to chip the bone. The pig was limping something awful from that.

The dog growled at the Pig as its light and quick agile form barked at it to keep it from hiding. Camile was low on her front paws leaping from side to side to cut it off from retreat. Those sharp teeth tried to get at the neck but it was too thick. Leia, the 5 month old hunting cat, went to hide as she was too small, but she had to add her hiss into the mix.
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Postby Lian Windrunner on December 5th, 2015, 2:45 am

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When Amunet admitted to not always thinking of "those things," meaning remembering to be careful while out in the Sea of Grass, he simply nodded. The gesture was neither condemning, nor approving. It was merely an acknowledgement.

"Foolish, perhaps. The dangers out here are very real, and they are not forgiving of mistakes, or lapses in attention. It is understandable, though. You seem to get excited when it comes to learning something new. And it is easy to forget to keep an eye on your surroundings when you are focused on learning a new skill, or practicing something you have recently learned. Even so."

Lian hesitated, trying to think of something he could compare it to. He didn't want to insult the woman. Although he hadn't spent much time in his company, he did respect her for what she had done in the caves last season. And he found himself genuinely enjoying her company. Her eagerness was refreshing, even if it did remind him of a child on their first hunt. Her excitement made him look at the world with new eyes, trying to see it the way she did.

"You said that you are a midwife at the River Flower. And you seem to know a great deal about herbs. What would you tell someone who came to the River Flower, and wanted to drink all of the medicinal teas they found because they looked like they would taste good?"

Lian knew nothing of medicinal teas. But it seemed to him like it would be a bad idea to drink them if you weren't sick. And it seemed like a worse idea still to drink a bunch of them at once, without knowing what you were drinking.

Lian watched as Amunet examined the blood trail. His eyes raked across the scene, and he noticed the spot where the blood was the freshest. The one that indicated which way the boar had gone. Would Amunet see it? If she did, would she recognize it for what it was? When Amunet pointed, and asked him if the boar had gone in the direction she was pointing in, Lian smiled, and nodded.

"Yes, it did. You're catching on a lot faster than I did." he said quietly.

When Amunet followed the trail, Lian followed her. It didn't take long before the young boar was found. Or rather, it found her. The boar charged her from behind, knocking her off of her feet. Lian grabbed an arrow, and readied his shot, but it turned out not to be needed. Amunet rallied, and proved to him that her slingshot was a far better weapon than he would have guessed. Her aim wasn't completely true, but that was because the creature moved as she took her shot. Even so, she managed to clip it in its hind leg with enough force to cause it to limp badly.

Lian took aim, but he did not release his arrow. This was Amunet's hunt, and he wasn't going to take that from her. He would be ready if she needed his assistance, or if another boar showed up, but otherwise, he would wait for Amunet to make the kill.

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Postby Amunet on December 6th, 2015, 3:17 pm

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She was breathing hard as she was trying to get up and her dog was cutting the young boar off. She saw Lian notch the arrow. She figured she would need to share her kill as she wasn’t very good at this but something happened she didn’t expect. He didn’t fire his arrow. It stayed trained on the boar as if waiting for something. She turned her eyes and looked at Lian with a mixture of emotions that was in her eyes. Surprise, wonder, excitement, were among them.

Amunet was not easy for her father to understand much less a strange man, but that simple act of waiting for her to act spoke to her more than anything. No one waited for her as they usually marked her as inadequate. She wasn’t a hunter, she knew that. She did mean to provide for herself and her animals to pull her weight. In those scant moments she looked in his eyes as the surprise was quickly replaced with grateful and a question, why?

She wasted little time after that as she drew one of her daggers. Camile had her on the one side and Amunet came to the opposite side. The triangle kept the boar to his fate. She darted to the boar to land on his back as her weight pushed the animal down on its bad leg and she plunged her dagger into the side pushing the dagger to go between the ribs, behind the shoulder and foreleg as she aimed to hit the heart. He was a small boar so his heart laid not far from that point. Helping clean many an animal in her time as well as the medicine of knowing some anatomy of humans and basics of animals held true to this instance of where the heart had laid. A loud squeal was uttered as blood trailed down his mouth and tried to do one more death lung towards the opening behind Lian.

It was several moments before she realized the young boar was not moving. Camile sat primly by as the target had stopped moving. There was nothing for her to chase. The young drykas woman reached over and ruffled her long ears a little. “Good, girl.” She said with a smile as she got up. The blood on her was the boars. She felt battered but she also felt accomplished.

She went to stand before the man and looked him in the eyes again with that ‘why’ expression on her face. “Thank you.” She said to him. In that 'thank you' carried a deeper meaning. It was thank you for not taking her size for granted. Thank you for not thinking her inadequate or placing a role or mold on her, thank you for letting her be herself. Within that simple ‘thank you’, passed another strange feeling that spoke to her. It caused her not only to know why but what of his nature within those blue eyes of his own laid hidden that she may find out. It found her curious to know this man just a little more. Would it be wise? She did not know but she wanted to know.

A smile drew along her face in a delicate way and it was a soft caress that graced the curve of her cheeks and jaw. There words shared in the caves came to the fore as she remembered they shared the same curiosity about things. It was a nice feeling to share words with another like that.
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Postby Rufio on April 19th, 2016, 10:59 am

 
lookie lookie!

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a m u n e t

xp

Riding: Horse +1
Observation +5
Botany +2
Herbalism +1
Animal Husbandry +1
Endurance +1
Foraging +3
Socialization +2
Rhetoric +2
Teaching +2
Logic +1
Tracking +1
Deduction +1
Intelligence +1
Hunting +1
Weapon: Dagger +2
Weapon: Slingshot +2
Brawling +1


lores

Horse-riding: Using pelvis pressure to slow towards a stop
Location, Cyphrus: Zies River
Landmark, Sea Of Grass: Hoof's Rock
Location, Cyphrus: The Hangman's Tree
Herbalism: Mint a common herb with many uses
Herbalism: Mint may be used fresh or dry
Botany: Berries growth habits
Botany: Mint growth habits
Foraging: Gather from lower branches
Foraging: Harvest mint by cutting low on the stem
Hunting: Using a stick to flush-out small game from tall grass
Hunting: Injuring prey
Hunting: Herd animals scatter quickly
Hunting: Boar are dangerous prey
Hunting: Making a kill
Weapon, Slingshot: Exhale on the release
Weapon, Slingshot: Accuracy is a challenge
Weapon, Dagger: Cutting Branches
Wilderness Survival, Plains: Listening to your strider to stay mindful of dangers
Animal husbandry: Using hand signals to augment verbal commands
Animal Husbandry: Training dogs takes repetition
Animal Husbandry: Rewarding desired behaviours
Lian Windrunner: Of the Sapphire Clan
Amunet: Reverence for Caiyha
Tracking: How to follow a blood trail
Tracking: How to follow the hoof print of a boar
Tracking: By tufts of fur caught in brush
Tracking: By disturbed or broken grasses and brush
Tracking: By animal feces
Brawling: Using your weight


penalties

Amunet will be mildly sore in her arms & thighs,
recovering over 1-2 days.

rewards

+2lbs Berries
+2lbs Chokeberries
+1⁄2lb Mint
+100lb Wild boar meat
 


notes

Aah what an exciting ending!
A pleasure to read and grade, thank you.


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