Summary: On a pleasant sunny afternoon, a fig tree stands in a clearing in the thick woods. In the clearing are a number of people. They came here to eat figs, but the figs aren't ripe yet. The plan after that was to head to the banana grove, but it's occupied by goblins!
Most of the people are hungry and nauseous from eating unripe figs. They're complaining and whining. They begin to argue.
Sbacat in a fit of anger stalks off into the bushes and is grabbed by a grue! Blood spatters can be seen as the body is dragged off. After some time, Avalanchethecat goes to investigate.
Elsewhere in the clearing, fights begin to break out until an outright brawl commences with clubs and teeth used in earnest!
First MrPhil and the Banana King get into a fight. MrPhil knocks the Banana King unconscious with a club but is driven away up into a tree by two Banana Acolytes and range blasts the berserker! Once he fled, range blasts began to eat Banana King alive until his acolytes were able to drag their King away into the bushes!
As the King is being dragged off, PBE6, another Banana Cultist, snatches up a spiked club and moves cautiously toward the melee.
Meanwhile, Avalanche has followed sbacat's blood trail to a tree, where the grue sits devouring sbacat's mangled corpse. Avalanche quickly darts away into the woods!
Iamatiger growls and climbs the fig tree to get a better view of things. He sees the grue's eyes in a dark treetop far away. He sees a MrPhil and a goblin reaching out for one another, and he sees the events in the fig clearing.
MrPhil is hungry, but not nauseous. In one grubby hand he has a couple of partially squashed bugs. He dropped about half of them and killed the rest when he climbed the tree.
wolfgang59 and sonhouse are hungry, but not nauseous. They are fig experts.
sbacat is dead.
Avalanche is deep in the woods.
Thomaster is an expert on local geography.
Banana King is an expert on bananas. He is nauseous, hungry, unconscious and bleeding from a wound in his thigh. He is being dragged through the bushes by his acolytes.
Vultures circle overhead.
Range blasts begins to pursue the acolytes! Now he's in the bush...the realm of the predator. He's in his element, frenzied and energized by the flesh and blood he devoured! He is a terrifying sight, snarling like a beast, with blood flecks all over his face, chest and hands! As he enters the bushes he notices Iamatiger and fantasizes for a moment how tasty he looks before resuming the chase.
Iamatiger climbs down and heads over to where he saw the grue. That's where Avalanchethecat went. Agerg joins him as they follow sbacat's blood trail toward the tree where the fiend feasts. Agerg, another Banana Cultist, grumbles about being unable to find any banana skins here. If only the goblins weren't occupying the banana grove...
He gets closer and closer...the frantic acolytes are panicking...one trips...and then range blast's conscious self fades away as he assumes the form of the grue and begins to feed.
Banana King is dead.
Range blasts is no longer hungry. His blood pulses as it absorbs the sweet, sacred banana blood and flesh of the Banana King himself!
MrPhil and his new friend, up in the tree tops, reach out to one another as MrPhil offers his bugs and the goblin delicately picks one and puts it in it's mouth and chews thoughtfully.
With the fiend out of the clearing, PBE6 begins to gather leaves soaked in the Banana King's blood.
An old man looks up at MrPhil and says, "We're all hungry and scared of the grues and goblins! If we make you Chief will you protect us and feed us? Our Banana King is dead! We don't know what to do!"
It is late afternoon. The day is cooling off.
Avalanche wanders, deep in the woods, alone, but at home. Like the grue, he is comfortable in the woods at night.
Look! A mouse! He pounces!
Avalanche is no longer hungry.
Iamatiger and Agerg walk along the path following the blood trail. They arrive at the tree and see the blood trail going up the trunk, but there's nothing in the tree! The grue has fled. Iamatiger scampers up and catches the smell of grue and of it's victim, a friend of his...sbacat!
Snarling, he begins to follow the trail. Agerg follows him. As they continue into the woods, Avalanchethecat, finishing off his mouse sees them and joins them.
Sbacat, Avalanchethecat, Iamatiger...you are (were) long term companions. You have joined the Banana Tribe (if that's what they're still calling themselves) because they have earned the Blessing of Cat. You know this because Avalanchethecat told you so. You suspect however that maybe it's just because he likes bananas.
Iamatiger of course is the most massive and powerful of you all, larger and with rippling muscles. He also eats more. He's very intimidating; the tough guy of your little crew. And sbacat...
Well, he's dead.
The two of you follow the scent and Agerg follows you out of the woods and up a rocky slope. Off to your right you see a cave but the trail doesn't go quite that way...oh wait, here's the rest of sbacat. There's not much.
You lost the trail. It wasn't heading for the cave exactly...more like near it...but it could have doubled back on itself...and you do see...something...about man sized...in the cave...with glinting eyes!
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Guard friends. Watch and smell for grue, attack if it comes into the light. Suggest they find flint, sticks and light fire, suggest they cook rest of sbacat and share for sustenance (no sense wasting him). if grue appears fend off with fire. One fire is lit take flaming branches and attack grue in cave.
The goblin accepts the second bug from MrPhil and eats it. He then leaves, only to come back with a banana! He sits down next to MrPhil as if they were old buddies, breaks the banana in half and gives half to MrPhil. He then starts munching on his half.
This goblin has long, lanky arms and a comically wide mouth that makes him look like he's smirking a lot. His hair is medium brown.
MrPhil is experienced with the Club. He is an initiate of the Goblin Way. He is hungry but holds half a banana.
The old man shouts, "MrPhil has the blessing of the banana! He must be our new chief! The Banana People are saved! Huzzah!"
Originally posted by AThousandYoungtrade with MrPhil news of direction from which marauding orcs plan to attack banana people's position (as claimed seen from top of rocky slope) in exchange for banana skins
[b]The goblin accepts the second bug from MrPhil and eats it. He then leaves, only to come back with a banana! He sits down next to MrPhil as if they were old buddies, breaks the banana in half and gives half to MrPhil. He then starts munching on his half.
This goblin has long, lanky arms and a comically wide mouth that makes him look like he' essing of the banana! He must be our new chief! The Banana People are saved! Huzzah!"[/b]
Avalanchethecat, Iamatiger and Agerg stand on a gentle rocky slope with few trees. They have followed the grue's scent trail until they found one of sbacat's hind legs here and lost the trail. Not far off is a dark cave with what seems to be a large grue within. The whole area smells of rotting meat and blood.
Iamatiger picks up the hind leg and brings it over to Agerg. He strips off a small strip of meat and wolfs it down. He then drops the rest, looks at Agerg meaningfully...and then looks confused. Something about sharp edged flint rocks that slice paws and painful burns...
Iamatiger is still a little hungry, but not so much as before. He's a pretty big feline after all. He's also feeling as though a little bit of his friend is now with him...forever. It feels nice.
Avalanchethecat curls up and goes to sleep with the scent of his friend in his nostrils.
Iamatiger shakes off his confusion and then begins to patrol. He sniffs around, keeps an eye on the cave and watches out for his friends. Avalanche is quick, but not strong, and Agerg is pretty helpless out away from his tribe and his bananas...though he is pretty big relative to Avalanche for example...and there's something scary in that dark cave...They need protection.
Agerg is still wishing for banana skins. He wonders if anyone back in the clearing has found any yet. He turns and scans from his vantage point...climbs a tree....looks down towards the clearing...
He sees something yellow! In a tree! It looks like two goblins are sharing a banana near the clearing! He can also see a big brute of a goblin with blonde hair moving towards the clearing with a few little ones following behind!