The Heart Calls to Hunt (attn: Alice)
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Alice wakes.
She can feel the doorway from her bathroom resonate with the Wyrd and calls to her, a pulse deep inside. Sitting up and wiping away the last vesiges of her dreams, she can feel the pulsing deep inside as her heartbeat thumping against her chest. Turning towards the door, which she did replace, Alice realizes it takes more to permanently shut a Hedge gate once one has been opened.
The Hedge calls to her.
It tells her to hunt.
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Alice stared at the bathroom door; her breathing came in small gasps. The pull was intense and overpowering. It could not be ignored. More than a little scared at this development and her uncontrollable impulse, she quickly got dressed and ready for an excursion into the hedge. She grabbed her weapons and backpack, glad that she kept a pack ready in her room for emergency trips.
She approached her bathroom door as her heart quickened in her chest. Was this how they come to take you again? Her fear was palpable as she adjusted her rifle and gear. But the call, the pull clouded her mind and before she knew it the bathroom hedge gate was opened and she entered.
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Stepping through, she finds herself walking onto the familiar path where she came with Enzo in search of a hollow for the motley that has sinced disbanded under a cloud of disinterest.
However, now, Alice was alone and she knew she needed a clear mind for whatever pulled her to this place. Her pulse quickened as the gate closed behind her as her connection to Arcadia seemed to be in flux, ebbing and flowing like the tide.
Can Alice please roll Wits + Survival + Wyrd
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What am I doing?! I need to go back! She thought to her self when the gate closed, but her reason was drown out like a whisper of clarity in a hurricane of instinct. HUNT! was her driving thought.
She was still in her right enough mind that this sense of flux of her Wyrd frightened her. She only hoped that she would not end up as one of the hedge beasts people fear.
wits, survival, wyrd roll - 2 successes
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And she can instantly sense it. Something skittering along the path around a quarter of a mile ahead as muchas one can judge distances in the Briars. The tell tale signs of pawprints mark the muddy ground and that give away the PREY! as something roughly the size and weight of a rabbit.
Around her, the Hedge seems to constrict and funnel Alice towards the PREY!!, given the sensation of tunnel vision.
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Then her keen instincts spot it...PREY. Alice feels her mouth begin to salivate at the thought of a successful hunt within reach. Her heart beats wildly threatening to beat its way out of her chest and flop on the ground like a fish out of water.
She started down the path toward the hedge creature. Somewhere in the back of her mind there was fear at the thought that the hedge was actually helping her on this hunt and what that could mean, but it was as if it was felt by someone else and largely ignored by the hunter.
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Further down the path and Alice spots it. It is a rabbit, its long ears touching the ground with its back facing the Elemental. So far, it hasn't moved to notice her approach. If anything, the Hedge seems to bend to obscure her from view.
Dexterity + Stealth + Wyrd roll please to sneak up on the Hedge creature
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Alice smiled as she spotted the creature up close. She crouched down and while watching her footing she slowly approached the rabbit. Thankfully the creature's back was to her which gave her a chance to approach it.
Stealth roll 3 successes
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The creature doesn't flinch, just continuing to sit there without moving. Whatever it was doing, it's head was aimed towards it feet.
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Studying the creature for a moment she wondered what it was looking at that drew it's attention to the ground so intently. But, whatever it was she chose to capitalize on it and while grinning wickedly she rushed the created and pounced on it.
She could hear the sound of her own heart beat as her hands grasped the rabbit. The thrill of a capture rushed through her and nearly had her shaking with excitement.
Grapple 3 success
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