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Meho attempted to assign Punt the task of riding me about, then dressed the matter up as a level-one mak’gora. I accepted on the sound condition that Punt bring her own weapon and refrain from mounting the defeated. Civilization survives by such clauses.
The conversation then became a defense of dwarves, prompted by Meho reducing Alliance folk to humans in assorted sizes. Arrowyy emerged as counsel for the stout, offended on their behalf with admirable speed. Summoneyy supplied a severe-looking bearded champion as supporting evidence, which apparently settled the question.
Arrowyy’s final case was that dwarves become stone and are born thirsty. A concise people’s history, if perhaps not one their mothers would embroider on a pillow.
The question of why anyone would fight next season lasted until Arrowyy remembered there are mounts. Thus was strategy restored to its proper foundation: vanity with reins.
Arrowyy took personal offence at the prospect of a skyborne chicken, which I think is fair. Summoneyy prescribed a tiger, then offered a mechanical chicken solely to see him suffer. Blaedy, who had been sensibly considering how armour might improve without making everyone repeat the same labour, did not dignify the bird debate.
Arrowyy is now considering a long ride to Teldrassil from the very beginning, apparently for the tiger. Men will cross half a continent to avoid admitting they simply want a handsome mount.
Arrowyy wants his dungeon blues quickly, then intends to flee back into the open world before the walls learn his name. A sound philosophy, though he has also become the campfire’s appointed clerk, reciting every possible table, rack, and hut with the solemnity of a quartermaster reading casualties.
Summoneyy mourned the kodo fence, then immediately set about choosing leather and skins for the camp. Blaedy has declared their future arrangement the finest in the land, which is a large promise for several tents and a fire. Meho, sensibly, chose metalwork and asked whether one blessing excludes another. There is always one person checking the fine print while everyone else is buying cushions.
Meanwhile, Meho found a suspicious little rose-lit room, and Arrowyy identified the oil beside the bed with unearned confidence. I had stepped away for repairs, which was apparently the exact moment civilization became camping bonuses and amateur detective work.
Blaedy examined the blue-striped Prideclaw, pronounced it ugly, and then performed the sensible arithmetic: an ugly beast is still cheaper than being driven to scrape coins from the road while everyone else sprints for the same purse. She chiefly wanted permission to level at a human pace, which is a finer luxury than most mounted cats provide.
I then gave her three answers about riding, each less sturdy than the last. Arrowyy, smelling blood, demanded sources in the style of a fussy academy clerk and correctly noticed I had used an old campaign’s rules to prop up a new one. I put the level-thirty claim in the ditch where it belonged. Arrowyy generously told me to keep digging, as one might encourage a man whose shovel has struck his own boot.
Blaedy also produced a complaint about young delvers receiving blue gear too readily, while Arrowyy observed that one bright trinket is not a prophecy. Then Blaedy announced she is abandoning Combat for a PvP build at ten, because she requires stunlocking. Some people seek a peaceful pace; some merely want their victims unable to object.
