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 Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:14 pm
 Drip. Drip. Drop.
Warm, thick, it plopped down on her head, swelled, slid down her hair and into fur. Startled -- had a rain shower come? -- and yet eyes still thick with sleep, she awoke. Rivers of red had fallen down her cheeks; this was not rain. Nor snow.
She tilted her head to find the cause. Warm, red blood lazily slid from an overarching vine of brambles. It was far from the only evidence. For before her was the mangled body of -- oh god.
A cry stuttered from her suddenly constricted throat as Giveforward rose in a clumsy rush and darted forward. Dearest sister. Thick tears flooded into her green eyes. The cold of her nose pressed against her sister's cheek, it, too, cold. Takeback was never cold. She was fire and passion and life. And then like a sudden bolt of thunder, hatred, anger, flooded into her body. Never in her lifetime had she felt like this.
"I'll make them pay," she growled, vicious. Gone was the docile, sweet, naive lamb. In its place, an avenging lion.
Giveforward stomped harshly onward, furby heeling at her side.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 75 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 0/5 Section notes: Opening Post
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 10-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-10)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:16 pm
The path before her is interrupted by a wall of vines that spring up suddenly. A thick wall of brown and flashes of red. Brambles and blood.
There is no way around or under. If she had wings she may be able to fly over but whimsical wishes will not help her here. And she finds herself rearing upward to force her way through the wall.
Thorns rip into her legs as she comes down and though a section is torn by the weight of her hooves it is not enough to move forward. It is however enough to reveal a flash of crimson -- a meager trail of bloody hoof prints is pressed into the ground. She presses one of her own near to it and grimaces. A kin did this. A kin murdered her sister. How could they do such a thing? Perhaps a wolf or caiman but a kin?
She must find them and make them pay.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 73 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 1/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin Section notes: Trap - Red Vines
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 10-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-10)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:30 pm
The loss of the fallen section reveals weaknesses in the wall and she manages to quickly kick her way through without another scratch. Still it is with extreme carefulness that she makes her way through the frame of the red vines.
On the other side, she is greeted with nothing. The pathway slopes down and disappears into a dark, glittering stream. Anything could be hidden within it. Trepidation pulses within her but she knows she must go onward.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 73 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 1/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin Section notes: Trap - Red Vines
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 6-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-6)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:49 pm
And onward she goes. She nips gently at the furby and settles it onto her back before she enters into the water.
It is cold but the current is slow. The image of herself as a young filly exploring the water ways as her equally young sister warned of danger flits through her mind. At first she thinks the pang she feels is grief and then it slices fiercely into an ankle. A harsh slap of muscle snaps her into action.
She stamps a hoof downward and then kicks forward, connecting with the vicious pike. It however is not deterred and moves to strike again.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 69 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 1/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin Section notes: Enemy Pike - 4/10
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 6-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-6)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:13 pm
The next kick is glancing and only manages to connect briefly with fish's back before skimming downward. She manages to pin it's tail, fin tearing, but this only makes the fish angrier.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 65 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 1/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin Section notes: Enemy Pike - 2/10
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 6-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-6)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:16 pm
As the pike rounds once more, she stomps viciously and feels its body give underneath the force. There are no more teeth assaulting her and in irritation she kicks at the lifeless form before pulling herself out of the frothing waters.
The water cascades down her fur and she hisses at the stinging left behind from the pike's teeth. The cold and the adrenaline had numbed the damage but now she feels it keenly. But there is no time to rest. She must move onward.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 1/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin Section notes: Enemy Pike - 0/10
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
11
Total: 11 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:22 pm
The ravine is steep before her and she finds weariness nipping at her heels. She thinks of her sister. Dead, alone. A rush of determination surges through her and she runs upward.
The progress is small but sudden, a wheeze rattling through her lungs as she stops to catch her breath. She lifts her eyes and finds a patch of creamy white fur hanging on the branch of a tree. Another clue.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 2/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin, a patch of creamy white fur Section notes: Ravine - 5/20
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:35 pm
The next step is unsteady -- her attention still on the fur -- and she slides downward. She manages to dig her heels in at the last moment and barely keeps herself from falling to the bottom.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 2/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin, a patch of creamy white fur Section notes: Ravine - 2/20
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
13
Total: 13 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:37 pm
Another surge, another branch. A black feather greets her, a wink of green coloring the edge and she is reminded of swans. Her brow knits in confusion. Why on earth would a feather resembling her own swan be here? Had the villain used a swan that looked like Refuge to lure her sister to a violent end?
No. Not Takeback. No.
Denial rings fiercely in her head. Her sister is -- was -- no fool. Had the deviant stolen Refuge?
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 3/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin, a patch of creamy white fur, a black swan feather tinged with green Section notes: Ravine - 7/20
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
13
Total: 13 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:42 pm
She picks her way forward and stumbles upon a makeshift trail that gets her pass the halfway point. She can see the lip of the ravine more clearly now. Another branch impedes her path.
The wind floats through and strands of bloodstained hair -- only the moon lets her see this for the color is quite dark -- blow in the wind. Another clue. And yet she feels no closer.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 4/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin, a patch of creamy white fur, a black swan feather tinged with green, a string of bloodstained hair Section notes: Ravine - 12/20
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:04 pm
As she moves to head forward the sting of wounds sidelines her and she has to pause. She lowers to inspect the damage and finds a torn moth wing. Strange.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 5/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin, a patch of creamy white fur, a black swan feather tinged with green, a string of bloodstained hair, a torn moth wing Section notes: Ravine - 12/20
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
14
Total: 14 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:09 pm
She progresses and finds the top of the ravine close -- just out of reach. She moves to duck under a shorn branch when she notices something balancing on it's flat top. At first she thinks it is a strange tooth, dark with mud, but then she realizes it is the tip of a broken backscale. So it is a kimeti that felled her sister. One of her own kind. Sickness blossom in her stomach at the thought.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 6/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin, a patch of creamy white fur, a black swan feather tinged with green, a string of bloodstained hair, a torn moth wing, a broken backscale Section notes: Ravine - 17/20
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:17 pm
Unfocused and disturbed she slides backwards.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 6/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin, a patch of creamy white fur, a black swan feather tinged with green, a string of bloodstained hair, a torn moth wing, a broken backscale Section notes: Ravine - 14/20
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 6 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:19 pm
She digs her hooves in and forces her way upward. It is slow and steady. Only a little more...
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 6/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin, a patch of creamy white fur, a black swan feather tinged with green, a string of bloodstained hair, a torn moth wing, a broken backscale Section notes: Ravine - 19/20
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 4 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:21 pm
As she readies to move forward, a lock of blonde hair catches her sight. The shade is unmistakeable. The gentle wave. It is her sister's hair. She doesn't want to think about what this new clue means. She doesn't want to think at all.
OOC Footnote Current HP: 61 Chosen familiar: Furby Clues acquired: 7/5; a meager trail of bloody hoof prints from a kin, a patch of creamy white fur, a black swan feather tinged with green, a string of bloodstained hair, a torn moth wing, a broken backscale, a lock of blonde hair Section notes: Ravine - 19/20
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