- Continuation of: http://pastebin.com/9DcR10mN
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSbyIl_jEE
- >It's not a particularly long trip to the forest
- >You headed through town with only minor incident
- >'Minor' being a loose term
- >Almost as soon as you set out from Twilight's house and headed through the town to reach the forest, things started going to pot.
- >A pony saw your weapons, started yelling in a horrified manner, and doors and windows started slamming all across town
- >skittish lot, these ponies
- >Just another reason for you to take pride in what you're doing
- >Even if they don't know it's you doing it yet
- >You continue towards the forest, unhindered
- >You stop, at the edge of the forest
- >Eyes closed, you take a deep breathe, hold it a moment and exhale
- >First day jitters
- >Great
- >You head inside, following the trail before you
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12gvHVKXHvE
- >You begin to explore the woods, looking for the materials you were tasked to obtain, but the forest becomes darker the deeper in you go
- >It's foreboding, unsettling and highly unnatural
- >Like the forest itself is alive
- >But that's silly, forests are not living creatures
- >Or are they?
- >The trees do seem to be glaring menacingly at you
- >Almost as if they don't want you there
- >You soon find the first of the items you were tasked to find out here
- >A small patch of mushrooms
- >You start picking through them, ignoring the blatantly poisonous ones
- >You come up with 5 blue mushrooms, and an exciteshroom
- >Not much, all things considered, but you could easily return to town now
- >You decide it's probably a better idea to get some other things while you're out here
- >Y'know, never know what you might need
- >Besides, you still needed herbs, and you were still contemplating getting the Poison Joke flower
- >You've been in this forest for a good couple of hours now
- >Still exploring, still looking for anything that could be of any use
- >You finally come across a familiar sight
- >Kelbi
- >These damned things really ARE everywhere, aren't they?
- >Seems to be a couple of doe and a buck or two, but no alpha males
- >None of them have the right size horns for it
- >You seem to recall that kelbi horn is useful as an ingredient in healing salves
- >You also remember that it has to have been carved from a living specimen to be used
- >You look at your short blade and wonder how you're going to be able to get a horn without outright killing them
- >Then you remember that you're a god damned hunter, and you can get pelts off of them too
- >Warm Pelts that you can take to have some basic leather armor crafted
- >It'll atleast provide more protection than what you've got on right now, anyway
- >You kinda got thrown into this job though
- >You don't even know who the local smithy is
- >oh shit
- >You don't even know IF there's a local smithy
- >This might be harder than you thought
- >Just... fuck
- >Not important now
- >If there's no smithy, you can always take the pelts to a clothier
- >These are sentient ponies you're talking about
- >Even if first impression of the town you're in says otherwise, you know these ponies wear clothing at least SOMETIMES
- >You certainly seem to remember a bunch of them in Canterlot wearing jackets, dresses and hats, at the very least
- >Hell, the 'Wonderbolts', or whatever they called themselves, had those neat looking jumpsuits
- >That would just leave the matter of upgrading, or even making weapons, but that can wait atleast a little bit
- >You have some weapons for now
- >Armor is the priority
- >Kelbi are most certainly NOT fighters
- >As you start attacking them, they do try to fend you off, but to no avail
- >You've already taken down a number of them
- >The rest have fled
- >Kelbi aren't tough or hard to handle
- >not even the alpha males of the group
- >too bad one them didn't show up
- >Their horns are perfect for making medicines
- >As it stands, though, you've gotten more than enough Warm Pelts to make that leather armor
- >Plus some Raw Meat
- >Just need something to cook it with
- >You casually wonder what they p0nies would think about you eating it
- >They are largely herbivores, after all
- >Although Twilight certainly seemed to enjoy those pancakes Spike made, and they have eggs and milk in them
- >...
- >...
- >...
- >Meh, you'll worry about it later
- >You've wondered about the forest another couple of hours
- >It should be about mid-day now, but the forest's canopy is literally blocking out all light.
- >You should have grabbed a torch or a lantern or something on your way in here
- >And you STILL haven't seen any herbs OR Poison Joke
- >The herbs are a new plant species here, so finding them may be difficult
- >But what about the Poison Joke?
- >Didn't Twilight say something about them growing on the path?
- >How have you not seen them yet?
- >You stop
- >Something is amiss here
- >...
- >Something is following you
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF_0cDR657Y
- >You continue along the path as best you can in this horrible dark
- >You're none too sure what has found you, but you're figuring it is no kelbi
- >Too predatory in it's approach
- >Attempting to be silent
- >Stalking you as though you're it's next meal, and not vice-versa
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeWGSo17BAc
- >You turn to see a wolf like creature
- >It seems to be entirely made of wood, however
- >This is not a creature you've ever encountered or even heard of before
- >It comes closer, sizing you up
- >Then you hear more of them to either side of you
- >they've got you surrounded
- >atleast from this side
- >You give no ground though
- >They sense that you're not going to shy away from a fight
- >after moment more of sizing you up, the first one lunges at you, going for your throat
- >Only to have your shield smack it headfirst into the dirt
- >You apply pressure with your shield to hold it in place
- >Quickly, you unsheathe your iron knife and thrust the blade into its head
- >The body clatters into a heap of wooden brush and...
- >HERBS!
- >No time for that now, though
- >You've still got a pack of these bastards around you
- >and now they want your blood
- >They've given up coordinized hunting tactics and are instead attacking you as savagely as their hulls will allow them
- >And more of them are cropping up out of seemingly nowhere
- >You fight them off as best you can, but they're quickly overpowering you with sheer numbers
- >You've taken down no less than 15 of the feral, wooden bastards, but they just keep coming
- >and finally, it happens
- >You make a mistake
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkLN0Q-tqzA
- >You falter to a strike from one them, and are knocked backwards
- >the wolves quickly swarm to your fallen form and pin you down
- >one of them is on your chest, and slowly lowers it's face to meet yours
- >Snarling and drooling, savoring its victory
- >Well that was a quick run, wasn't it?
- >This creatures breathe is terrible
- >You're battered and beaten
- >You're about to become food for a pack of wooden wolves
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKK1pc3u4d8
- >and now you get to deal with incessant buzzing of insects
- >The wolf's face is now inches from your own
- >You close your eyes and make your peace with the world
- >Except for those damnable insects buzzing about
- >In tartarus name, they actually seem to be getting louder!
- >You suddenly feel the pressure on your chest removed
- >The buzzing seems to peak in loudness, and then slowly begins to fade
- >You open your eyes and see that the wolves are gone!
- >Well, except the ones you'd already 'killed'
- >'Killed' being a loose term, you don't tend to think of plants as alive
- >These may be an exception.
- >Why didn't they finish you when they had such a clean opportunity do so?
- >Had the bugs driven them off?
- >Maybe it was some sort of termites that scared them off?
- >Perhaps some Bnahabra?
- >No, you'd grown up in Moga Village, you knew the sound of the Bnahabra
- >That was most certainly not it
- >So what was it?
- ...
- >You decide that you've had enough of this place for today
- >You take what you can get from the woodpiles/corpses you'd made
- >7 herbs, 2 might seeds, and an adamant seed
- >Not too shabby, all things considered
- >After you're done with your gathering, you slowly trudge your way along the path back to town
- >You walk on the path for a couple of hours, and finally you see the way back to town
- >And it's absolutely teeming with those horrible blue plants you've been searching for
- >Poison Joke
- >Did you waltz right through them on your way into there?
- >You had to have, this is the way you entered the forest
- >All the extra time you spent in the damned forest and they were right. Fucking. THERE!?
- >You walk up to the large group of flowers, and violently rip one of them straight from the earth, roots and all
- >You thrust your arm into the air, still clutching the plant in your balled fist, and yell at the sky
- "I don't know what you're planning, Princess, but I'll be damned if you think you're gonna get the better of me today!"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjEU9PKEYrI
- >A little overly dramatic, but fuck it
- >You got your ass kicked looking for this shit
- >You almost DIED looking for this shit
- >When you get back to town, you're getting your 'bits', finding the nearest fucking bar, and getting shitfaced
- >...
- >Oh, right
- >AFTER you've gone to the spa and gotten whatever nastiness this plant causes washed off of you.
- >You've got enough problems without abberant shit happening to you during a hunt just because
- >You begin the trek back into town, heading for the library
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