Cyrus smiled upon seeing Edon open the door to the hall. "Ah Edon, I was expecting you to turn up." he smiled and led Edon to the weapons cabinet were all the hunting gear was stored, he knew why Edon was there. "Here are you choices. Once you've picked go look for the Chief, she probably has a simple quest for you to start out with." He pointed to a door that lay open on the left if the massive fireplace. A quiet humming came from within the doorway.

Edon looked for a weapon.The sword and shield would catch Edon's eyes he was trained in using those weapons. "These looks good." Edon was ready he wanted to be a hunter ever since he was a young lad. He wanted to go the volcano and fight a dragon but he will do that in time or perhaps now. He would grab the sword and shield and walk towards the door where Cyrus wanted me to go.

Cyrus nodded. "Good, also warning. You might have to speak a little louder when talking to the chief, her hearing isn't what it used to be." a grumble came from the open door. "Well it's good enough to hear you, ya cheeky sod!" said a now grumpy old lady who stood stirring a large pot of soup. She required a stool to be able to reach the required vantage point for optimal stirring. "So you came to be a hunter to. It might actually be lucky you were a little later than the others." She pulled a paper with a picture of some raw meat on it and a X8 scribbled on it on it. "Now off with ya. I'll need that meat quick smart!" said the chief in a chirpy voice. Before returning to her giant pot of soup.



Clara nodded showing Armend the ones she'd grabbed. "Yeah, ones like these." She then tilted her head as he started laughing. "Are you alright?" She was confused as to why he started laughing, she then stuffed the shrooms back into her pocket and stood up fully. She then produced her map "It doesn't matter. Let's get moving, Area three might be where we need to go next." She held an arm out for Armend then nodded towards a path that was just past the Aptonoth.


The large Male Aptonoth landed back onto all fours with a thud then if sniffed a push and started eating, the baby made a sound of surprise when Armend started laughing which in turn spooked its parents. Then those parents convinced the rest of the heard to start leaving this noisy area. They walked off towards area two.

Edon would nod and exit the town hall with the paper and his new weapons "Well i guess we all have to start somewhere which is this case getting meat." Edon with his 'mission' on his mind he is ready to get meat



Edon hiked for 22 minutes because of a few stops. He climbed, he walked and he ate before he reached the highlands in order to get meat. He would put his shield at his back and his sword on a leather sheath with a few scratch marks. After the long hike he found himself on the magma highlands which is a little hot but nothing lethal. He looked around for something that can give him raw meat when saw a Aptonoth "Woah" Edon looked at the monster and he would slowly walk near it...

The Aptonoth are walking around area 2 and none seem to be bothered by Edon's presence because he is being quiet. The massive herd leader again rears up and looks around for signs of danger, two of the other adult sniff the air the look around. The baby trots around and sniffs a dry tuft of grass before giving it a taste.

"Well I have 3 and you have two. So we're halfway there." She led the way along the path to area 3 and pulled out a cool drink and downed the whole thing, this made her feel very comfortable even in the intense heat. She pulled out the quest paper and held it out for Armend. "Remember, like the ones in the picture." She said with a slightly patronising tone and a cheeky smirk. She kinda enjoyed being in charge, well at least she felt like she was in charge.



Clara and Armend would travel along a steep rocky path to get to area 3 which would be intensely hot. There were even exposed patches of lava that could be seen flowing underneath the very ground they walked on. Lucky for them there was a massive clump of Nitroshrooms clearly viable close to the end of their path that led to area 3. Around the centre of the craggy plain ahead of the there were two Ioprey. The red raptors hadn't noticed the pair and continued wandering around the centre or the area.

Edon looked for the most exposed Aptonoth he looks at the young Aptonoth and pulls out his shield, he plans to bash the creature with his shield followed by a 2 stabs from his sword a simple kill should everything go to plan

"Here goes......" Edon takes a deep breath and prepares to attack.

Edon emerges from the shadow and charges the Aptonoth.

When Edon burst from the shadows the Aptonoth all get startled and run for the path back to area 1, but the Baby Aptonoth is far to slow and gets intercepted by Edon. The large male sees this and stops running, he then starts to turn for Edon and swings his tail up high in the air as a sign of aggression. The baby cries out for help making the Male charge at Edon (mind its very far away.), the rest of the herd runs back to area 1.

Edon stabs the young Aptonoth 2 times before noticing the large Aptonoth. Edon prepares to fight with his shield block he pans to jump to the side then climb the Aptonoth and stab it many times. Without fear he follows his plan.

Clara gazed over at the Ioprey for a few moments before scanning the area for mushrooms. "Those are just Ioprey, they should leave us well alone as long as we don't get that close. Lucky for us the mushrooms are just over there." Clara pointed to the bunch of nitroshrooms and started walking over to them. "If they spot us then we'll just leave with the nitroshrooms, they won't be able to get to us before we pick them all. I'd rather not get poisoned today." Clara said in a tone that made it clear she'd been poisoned by these thing before.



The Baby Aptonoth goes down from the two stabs, being only a baby it's hide was easily torn through. As for the large adult it skidded to a halt and angled it's large tail spikes towards Edon. It violently swung its tail down at him in an attempt to crush him with it's sheer weight rather than using the tail spikes.

The Ioprey chattered to each other there odd beak like mouths lined with pointed teeth. They suddenly looked up and turned to a small cave in the wall and ran into it, as if they were summoned by something.

After taking a deep breath Edon prepares. He thinks that the Aptonoth will be slow which should give him an advantage. His plan shifts to climbing the monster and stabbing it from the top. He saw the loprey but thinks that he should focus at the Aptonoth.

Edon holds his position ready to roll to side stab the monster climb it and stab it again. If Edon climbs the monster and tries to attack him the monster will only hurt himself.

The Aptonoth's swing misses giving Edon an opening to jump onto the tail. But this would be a dangerous idea he could wait for it to wind up for another swing and safely mount it's side, or he could do the risky thing and try get onto it's back via it's tail.

Edon looked at the opening but he chose to take the safe route because the monster can easily knock him out should he climb via the tail. Edon charged forward without a hint of fear to mount the Aptonoth.

The Aptonoth let out a wail as it was mounted and started to rear up to stomp back down hopefully getting the assailant of it's side after that it would shake around weakly nothing that major. The open wounds on the corpse of the baby Aptonoth let out a sent that was sure to attract predators and scavengers alike.

Clara watched the Ioprey run off and let out a sigh of relief, she no longer had to continually look over her shoulder as she foraged fro Nitroshrooms. She then turned to Armend and frowned "Don't be stupid. We came here for the nitroshroom and now we got them. So lets get the heck out of here before something happens." Clara seemed adamant about this, her gaze alone made her point. She then stood up shoved all the nitroshrooms she could carry into her pouch then gestured for Armend to follow her back to area 1.