a ding dang mingle

[endsjustified]

WHO: anyone
WHERE: anywhere
WHEN: Day 9, morning through to late afternoon

[well there's still new landmarks to explore, new teammates (and new ragged individuals) to meet. occasional gunfire's been resounding through the woods sometimes, scaring birds up into the air and sending wandering pygmidillos in the meadow askitter.

what are you up to this fine day?]

Comments

[plied_magic]

I don't know what those are. The only time I've heard sounds like this was when I was ten and pirates attacked Winding Circle temple. They used explosives launched by catapults.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Ah...

[ Hmm. He is trying to think. ]

They are perhaps... a smaller, more sophisticated version of that? They are full of something called bullets. If you aim and shoot, the bullet travels so quickly that it can tear through a person's body or even walls. They are incredibly deadly.

Some individuals use them for hunting, or because they claim they need protection. While others have much more sinister reasons for possessing one.

[plied_magic]

[she nods]

I can imagine that there are good uses for it, but my first encounter with it doesn't exactly make me want to seek it out.

[heavyliesthecrown]

To be honest, it is a weapon that I would prefer to avoid. But surely, whoever is out there encountered something or someone. I hope it was merely hunting.

[plied_magic]

And them hunting, not whatever they found.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I don't want to think over what sort of creatures might intentionally hunt us out there.

[plied_magic]

Good point. It's not a large forest, so maybe nothing that big can live there.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Well, we know wolves for certain.

[plied_magic]

Wolves at least would probably rather eat the four-legged sheep than us. Actual wolves, I mean, not wolf creatures from the fog.

[heavyliesthecrown]

The ones from the fog are just plain frightening. When I encountered one, it asked if I was a predator or prey.

[plied_magic]

What did you say?

[heavyliesthecrown]

Since it had called me a lamb, I had simply responded that I was not a lamb, but that I was a man.

. . . And it laughed.

[plied_magic]

That's worrying.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I was rather offended in the end.

But after that, I became incredibly dizzy. I felt nauseous and when I opened my eyes, I was in the meadow.

[plied_magic]

Right. Avoid the fog. Not that I wasn't already.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I wanted to see what that fox was up to, but in the end I was unable to properly follow him.

[plied_magic]

Even normal foxes are pretty smart.

If we gave him something I made, we could track him.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Truly? We would have to give it to him in a manner that was not at all suspicious.

[plied_magic]

There's always barter. But if it's made of cloth or thread, I can put enough magic into it that I can sense where it is.