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Rhindeer

August 04, 2016, 05:40:54 PM
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The rain poured down, soaking Monster to the bone as she crept cautiously into the village.

It was night time, and she had checked very carefully to make sure no one was about before she made the decision to raid the rubbish heaps for food. She might be strong, and she might be fast, but she still hadn't managed to catch a single thing she'd hunted in the last few months and, thus, she had to resort to digging though trash. It was kind of embarrassing. Here she was, a great, hulking beast that so many feared, and she hadn't even been able to catch a rabbit! She didn't know the first thing about doing it.

Oh, well, that was a lie. She had caught one rabbit. And then she had just stared down at it in bewilderment as it struggled and kicked as she pinned it, its eyes wide and rolling. She had realized, in that moment, that in order to eat it she had to kill it after she caught it, and once she'd realized that fairly obvious truth, she hadn't been able to do it. She didn't know how. The mechanics were obvious: crush it, or cut its throat, something like that. But to go through with it? She couldn't stomach it. And so, after a long, awkward silence, she'd finally lifted her paw and let it run off into the bushes, likely as confused about the whole ordeal as she was.

She hadn't caught a single animal since.

Now here she was, not for the first time, keeping her ears perked for noise as she shuffled trash around and nudged at promising scraps of food with her bony nose, before chomping it down and swallowing it whole. Her stomach was rather indiscriminate; so far, nothing she ate upset it, even rotten meat, and she found she could eat quite a bit! She knew, deep down, that it should gross her out, though, and on some level she still felt that revulsion.

Chomping down an old chicken leg, she cringed on the inside even as she crunched it in two and gulped it down.

Delicious.

Tonight's rubbish pile was pretty promising, and she'd stumbled upon a veritable feast of slaughterhouse scraps. Knowing it might be a while before she ate this well again, she set to it, downing as much as she could--and letting her guard down a little too much in the process, not realizing that she wasn't alone.
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August 04, 2016, 09:53:04 PM
Even though it was raining hard, a lantern hung on the slaughterhouse's walls kept the streets partially lit.

But suddenly a shadow appeared from the corner, it was big. But as the being got closer, the sound of heavy foot steps became audible, the shadow it self got bigger, and bigger, and bigger...

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#2
August 04, 2016, 10:15:09 PM
With her head down, Monster didn't notice the shadow--but her keen ears did pick up the boot steps. With a start, she snapped her head back up and rose up onto both hind feet, the furred crest along her back bristling so it stood on end. She noticed the shadow then and let out a soft growl. Not an aggressive sound, but more of a worried one as she took a slow step away from her meal, glowing "eyes" searching for the shadow's source.
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#3
August 04, 2016, 10:26:36 PM
Instead of a towering creatures that step out from the corner, it was a short but stout dwarf. He wore a cloak and had one his shoulders a crossbow. He had a smile on his face and was humming a happy tune...

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August 05, 2016, 11:06:15 AM
Small or not, it was the crossbow that got Monster's attention. A weapon like that didn't need a big person to wield it--it hurt just as badly, and it could kill just as well! With a pang of fear, she looked around quickly for a place to hide--before quickly scampering behind a large pile of refuse and curling up, though her twitching horse's tail was still visible.
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#5
August 05, 2016, 12:01:05 PM
Josef was actually having a lovely day. Some people may despise the rain but he loved it. Underground, you never got a constant shower of water, and to the dwarf it felt good having pellets fall on his beard.

It was then he heard a rustling and instinctively brought his crossbow up to the sound. His eyes, homed for the darkness from the time he had lived underground, could make out somthing flicking in what seemed to be a garbage pile. But the rain made it hard to see what it is in the darkness.

It was a good thing Josef lit a lantern on raining nights. He grabbed it from where it was hanging on his pack. With one hand still holding the crossbow by the trigger, he cautiously stepped forward with the light. "Oi, show yeself."
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