**Lealap's scenic route down the mountain is broken when he hears an incredible roar of fury ... followed by the even louder roar of a large cat. Something's coming at him from the woods below. Something's coming fast!
The road is nowhere in sight; the boy had traveled gone quite far from the beaten track.**
Laelaps and Streep looked for any large rocks nearby before Laelaps pulled out his javelin and cast Call. The next sound made in the area was the roar of a Supreme Alpha Warg.
**A man riding a white tiger tears out of the forest. The man's chest was mostly bare but his back was covered, a flag hooked into the leather. His scarf, a creamy white with frosted reds and blues, shook fiercely in the wind created by his charge. In his hands were a trident and a large net.
Behind him run eight men with garbed with half-masks and black cloaks. The first two bear clubs, the second pair bear spiked clubs, the next two bear giant staff-sized spoons, and the last two arduously haul a cauldron.**
**The man changes direction as well to continue riding directly at the duo! He points the trident towards Laelaps as man and tiger charge up the mountainside.**
**One of the spiked club bearers takes a javelin to the chest and slumps to the ground. The others caw fiercely and cease surrounding in favor of charging the boy in a half-circle formation**
Laelaps charged at one of the cloaked men that had been near the one that had just been downed. He threw another javelin, this one aimed straight ahead. Streep flew closely behind the boy.
Laelaps cast Savage Claws and brought his protected hands up to block the club blows. He ran through the gap he had made in his pursuers' formation to surround him. Streep rose up out of the reach of the masked men.
Laelaps kept moving forward and threw another javelin at the tiger-rider. The boy then pulled off one of the clawed-knuckles and tossed it at the tiger-rider as well.
**The tiger-riders slaps away the spear and laughs, failing utterly to block the back end of the claw knuckles from hitting him in the face. Ow. Laelaps is suddenly overtaken by shadow as a large pot falls towards him, open side first.**
The boy threw his other clawed-knuckles at the tiger-rider. Laelaps then tried to bring the blunt end of the javelin up to prevent the pot from covering him completely.
**The blunt end of the spear slides into the apparent void-pot, followed shortly by the rest of Laelaps. He finds himself spinning around in hot water.**
Laelaps did his best to tread the water as he put his javelin away and grabbed his rope. The boy looked around after dealing with his void pack. While this happened, Streep watched to see the results of the second set of thrown clawed-knuckles.
**Streep notices the gloves cut into the man's arms but otherwise get deflected away. The whole hoard grabs the pot and dashes off into the woods.
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Meanwhile, Laelaps emerges from the pot to find he is now in a large building, his pot over a fire. The wooden dining hall before him is decorated with nets hanging from the ceiling, seashells, little carvings of gulls, and even an elaborate mural of a white tiger running through an open field on the wall opposite the boy.
Sitting at the long center table, his back turned towards Laelaps, is what appears to be a much older relative than the tiger-rider. He's crying.**
Laelaps tried climbing out of the pot. Meanwhile, Streep followed the hoard into the Sekoran forest as the tiger-rider's arms likely bleed from the wounds caused by the Savage Claws.
**Laelaps finds climbing out of the pot to be... very easy! It wasn't even that hot yet. The crying man hadn't noticed him yet.**
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**Streeps entered the forest to find the pot, right-side-up and seemingly empty and guarded only by the two spoon-staff wielders. The tiger-rider's yelps of pain can be heard deeper in the woods.**
The road is nowhere in sight; the boy had traveled gone quite far from the beaten track.**
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Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Behind him run eight men with garbed with half-masks and black cloaks. The first two bear clubs, the second pair bear spiked clubs, the next two bear giant staff-sized spoons, and the last two arduously haul a cauldron.**
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Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Laelaps and Streep did their best to move out of the man riding the white tiger's way.
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
The Man - "Return what you have taken!"
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Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Laelaps threw his javelin over the man and then continued trying to move out of the way of the charge.
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Man - "He must be the one! Surround him, my friends!"
**The cloaked, unusually speedy men caw like seagulls as they pick up speed and move to surround.**
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Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
The cloaked men continue moving to surround.**
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Man - "He's a slippery one!"
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
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Meanwhile, Laelaps emerges from the pot to find he is now in a large building, his pot over a fire. The wooden dining hall before him is decorated with nets hanging from the ceiling, seashells, little carvings of gulls, and even an elaborate mural of a white tiger running through an open field on the wall opposite the boy.
Sitting at the long center table, his back turned towards Laelaps, is what appears to be a much older relative than the tiger-rider. He's crying.**
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
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**Streeps entered the forest to find the pot, right-side-up and seemingly empty and guarded only by the two spoon-staff wielders. The tiger-rider's yelps of pain can be heard deeper in the woods.**
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Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Laelaps - What's going on, who are you?
Meanwhile, Stree flew closer to the gaurded pot but did his best to stay above the two spoon-staff wielders lines of vision.
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Man - "Who are you?!"
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**The guards do not notice the Coatl.**
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya