Chapter 3: The Bigger they are
General Summary
The party hid out at The Butchered Boar for the day to let the heat die down from the brawl at the blacksmith's. As night falls Spalding readies himself for his planned events. He had discovered in his conversation with the juggler of an underground fighting ring behind the local stables.
On his way to the fights he was tailed by more or less the rest of the party, eager to see more action.
As they arrived behind the stables and noticed a single lantern hanging among the trees. The lantern signaled the start of a path through the woods that came out in a clearing filled with cages and a crowd of rowdy individuals gathered around a pit.
Spalding, excited with bloodlust, joined in the revelry against 3 wolves in the pit. 4 went in, 1 came out. Spalding had single handedly took down all of the wolves. Wanting to try his hand Belagar stepped into the pit against the night's main attraction, a captured scarecrow. Calling upon the powers of Helm he struck it down.
While Spalding and Belagar were fighting in the pit Nyx and Thonur were examining the rest of the cages. They came across a cage full of boars when Nyx had an idea. She cast speak with animals so she could ask the boars where they might find the biggest of their kind to get an advantage in The Great Hunt to come the following day.
They chose the smallest boar in the pen. He was a feisty one, with an attitude many times bigger than his form and a mouth that would make a sailor blush. The party took a liking to his attitude, named him Felix, and brought him, in secret, along with them to their rooms at the inn to rest and show them the way in the morning.
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This was it. The Great Hunt. The whole festival had been building to this event. The teams began to gather; Aurae, Castor, and Keiran all showed up with their own parties in tow. Our group walked up to the table where Loralle was registering the teams for the event. When prompted for a team name, Thonur answer with The Outsiders.
When all the preparations were in order Hector took to the stage and started the festivities. The teams dispersed into the foliage looking for the biggest boar they could bag. One team was not tracking boar however, they were tracking their gnomish friend as during this time Nyx and Felix had made their way deep into the woods to get a head start on the other teams.
Eventually they caught up to her in a clearing several miles north of town. When they found her she was on the edge of a clearing overlooking the biggest boar any of them had ever seen surrounded by his hog harem.
The battle began, the hog charged...and slipped in the muck of his own making, running headfirst into a large boulder, falling to the ground stunned. In this moment the team descended and tore into him; but it was Felix, our foul mouthed pygmy boar, who struck the final blow, stomping the larger boar's head in to a bloody pile of gore. With this kill Felix proved his strength gaining the mantle of the alpha, his own herd, and the "pig bitches" promised to him by Nyx. With his head held high Felix bid goodbye to the outsiders taking with him his herd and leaving them with the body of the boar they sought.
On his way to the fights he was tailed by more or less the rest of the party, eager to see more action.
As they arrived behind the stables and noticed a single lantern hanging among the trees. The lantern signaled the start of a path through the woods that came out in a clearing filled with cages and a crowd of rowdy individuals gathered around a pit.
Spalding, excited with bloodlust, joined in the revelry against 3 wolves in the pit. 4 went in, 1 came out. Spalding had single handedly took down all of the wolves. Wanting to try his hand Belagar stepped into the pit against the night's main attraction, a captured scarecrow. Calling upon the powers of Helm he struck it down.
While Spalding and Belagar were fighting in the pit Nyx and Thonur were examining the rest of the cages. They came across a cage full of boars when Nyx had an idea. She cast speak with animals so she could ask the boars where they might find the biggest of their kind to get an advantage in The Great Hunt to come the following day.
They chose the smallest boar in the pen. He was a feisty one, with an attitude many times bigger than his form and a mouth that would make a sailor blush. The party took a liking to his attitude, named him Felix, and brought him, in secret, along with them to their rooms at the inn to rest and show them the way in the morning.
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This was it. The Great Hunt. The whole festival had been building to this event. The teams began to gather; Aurae, Castor, and Keiran all showed up with their own parties in tow. Our group walked up to the table where Loralle was registering the teams for the event. When prompted for a team name, Thonur answer with The Outsiders.
When all the preparations were in order Hector took to the stage and started the festivities. The teams dispersed into the foliage looking for the biggest boar they could bag. One team was not tracking boar however, they were tracking their gnomish friend as during this time Nyx and Felix had made their way deep into the woods to get a head start on the other teams.
Eventually they caught up to her in a clearing several miles north of town. When they found her she was on the edge of a clearing overlooking the biggest boar any of them had ever seen surrounded by his hog harem.
The battle began, the hog charged...and slipped in the muck of his own making, running headfirst into a large boulder, falling to the ground stunned. In this moment the team descended and tore into him; but it was Felix, our foul mouthed pygmy boar, who struck the final blow, stomping the larger boar's head in to a bloody pile of gore. With this kill Felix proved his strength gaining the mantle of the alpha, his own herd, and the "pig bitches" promised to him by Nyx. With his head held high Felix bid goodbye to the outsiders taking with him his herd and leaving them with the body of the boar they sought.
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