( 5 Years | Ranger lvl 5 | +1 to hunt rolls, -1 to dodge roll for prey, Gives every lion in the hunt a +1 to hunt rolls, Specializes in hunting African Donkey and auto-success a hunt with it as prey & Counts as two lions in any hunt )

With summer here and @Zoticus now High Sovereign of the Rainforest those that had chosen to stay would be less than if Roarke had won, but that mattered now. The pride still needed to eat. There was still work to do and in the cooler hours of the summer morning the orange faced lady let out a few chuffs alerting those awake she was going for a morning hunt before the heat and humidity of Firnen became smothering. No one liked hunting when the air was so thick and humid they couldn’t breath. As she found a good place to hunt she wondered if @Aryana was up yet or if @Walpurgis would make an appearance. Heck she wondered if anyone was awake yet as the first rays of the sun hadn’t even peeked yet through the trees, but the stars had started to fade away.

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ZOTICUS

||5 yr / lvl 3 ranger // gets submaster perk

There was a lot to do around the Rainforest, but luckily for him he didn't have to necessarily do it alone. With their relationship fixed, perhaps even stronger than before, Zoticus was fond to hear @Arjana call across the skies. Tending to the cache and building back up their resources was smart. He wasn't sure how many remained from the rule of Roarke- but no matter how small, he was eager to make sure they were all taken care of. Eager to grow and thrive.

Paws brought him closer to where Arjana was, letting his own chuff out to alert her. He was still wounded, and wasn't at his best, but that mattered little. There were things that had to be done, and he couldn't just sit idly to the side and let her handle them. He was here. He was present. He was ready.

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age: 7 bonus: nope

Walpurgis was ready for food at any time. Her wounds needed to heal and they were itchy and that made her angry. Plus her body needed to eat. To be even stronger. To win a pride. The ragged female crashed through the undergrowth, already panting. Her eyes were dark, wide circles, barely ringed by red and a flash of gold. "Where'z it?" she demanded as she felt another knot of hunger. She bared her teeth as itchy sweat cracked through her scruff, and liquid-cat-twirled herself around to try to nip at her neck. There were still mats, and dried blood, and itchy oozing tissue under there. Her tail swat with the pain spike.

She hadn't left. She had followed Calhoun secretively to the bloodshed and then lingered amidst the aftermath; hovering the near borders until her flesh smelt more of rainforest and less of the sea. And with each passing hour she only grew in comfort, forcing her salt-lust to retreat in place of dense leaflitter and soggy toe-dirt. Archesia is a woman of unpredictable peculiarity, and she yields to the awakening call of a hunt as though she were a woman of Firnen all along; slinking quietly beneath the stars to find the company of unknown body shapes amidst the trees. She chuffs, a mindless greeting, her thoughts absent from her trespass in order to pose beneath an incidental guise.

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HUNT REQUEST
— RESULTS —

Rolled Prey: Easy; Dorcas Gazelle
Number of Prey Animals: 1

Hunting Party Stats: 3 Adults, 1 Ranger Lv. 5, 1 Ranger Lv. 3; 6 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 = 15 ( -2 Prey Dodge)
Lion Hits: 8
Prey Dodges: 0

Lion Successful Hits: 8

LIONS HAVE WON!

dice were rolled in discord by @Sylvey. you can play out the remainder of the hunt however you’d like.

She was disappointed that her daughter nor her son had joined the hunt, however she wasn’t about to hold it against them. Yet it was disappointing that so few remained in the pride that only @Zoticus and @Walpurgis showed up to help. Well that and one more who she doesn’t recognize. Eyeballing @Archesia suspiciously she gave the lioness the benefit of the doubt that she wasn’t here up to no good. For all she knew the stranger was a friend not foe. It wasn’t like they where stalking around hiding since she made herself known. Right? Sure. “Arjana and you are?” She said to the lioness before she focused again on the chosen prey. A single Dorcas Gazelle. Which should be doable for them. Looking at Whooper Arjana pointed with her paw towards the food. After all she had asked where it was and it was only polite to point the maned woman in the right direction.

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ZOTICUS

The gazelle proved to be little of a match to the pride of Firnen; the prey crumbling easy under their strength. Zoticus nods in approval at this as he catches his breath from the hunt, looking to @Walpurgis and @Arjana and ensuring the two of them were okay. However, one lioness stood out a stranger to his eyes and Zoticus narrowed them on her.

Arjana addressed her first, which was probably a wise choice. Zoticus moved forward, walking to Arjana's side and silently stares at @Archesia , observing her and studying her- and ready to lunge at her if she gave the wrong answers.

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She fixated on the possibility of food, such that the new female passed below her notice. Lionesses filtered in and out of prides all the time. And out of her life. The foreign tang under fresh Rainforest scent wasn't enough to bother her. She only moved her head once with a sharp jerk to follow Arjana's gesture. She scissored her shoulders as she stared at the prey, eventually remembering to wiggle her rump. Walpurgis performed, if not admirably or nobly, eagerly. She latched her fangs into a fleshy rump and made like a dead weight until it was grounded.

She waded through its innards, steeped to her chest in blood, content to cat-loaf and eat. The tension between the others was watched with a dull, steady glare. Fights and arguments around a kill were common. Unless it was addressed toward her, she'd rather stuff her face.

She would do as much as they allowed her; though she was in some means of the word, a pirate, she was not entirely indecent. The Firnen trio fell the beast with somewhat ease, though by that point Archesia had undoubtedly earnt herself the watchful eyes of @Arjana, and whilst a maned woman would dig heartedly into the catch, Archie felt the other two had little intention to share.

"Neptis," she responds whole-heartedly, no lapse within the response. A smile curled firmly across the feminine reaches of her lips. She sensed no danger here, as foolish as that was, and while many might seek to infiltrate the borders of a pride (potentially considered enemy), Archesia knows very little of the magnitude of Roarke's loss - and instead, casts her lies out of a meagre desire for entertainment and not with sinister intention.

She had been bored at the Cay. There had been no direction, no demand to infiltrate or plunder, or anything really. And so she had chosen to remain at Firnen after it's challenge out of a somewhat absent intention to just do something. Her figure, small and golden despite it's earth-sullied condition, lowers beneath the prying gaze of the two leaders; cast into a lax sprawl across the loam, behavior out of place for anybody but she, her hinds kicked out behind her like a dog about to belly-drag.

"I could use companions to hunt with as much as your home could use bodies to house it seems," the pride must have been small.

@Zoticus

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ZOTICUS

Zoticus fits her name int his memory, his eyes still watching her closely for any sign of danger- anything that may seem off about her. He watches as she lowers, and be it simply to relax or show submission he wasn't too sure. He merely frowns at this.

"So, Firnen was not your home prior then. And you have trespassed into a hunt, no?" A brow raises, before his face becomes serious. "Why should I allow you into my pride after such a thing?" He lets her have the chance to talk; but maybe only because Arjana was near and so was the prying eyes of another Firnen member. He'd much rather tear into her for daring to come into his lands- let alone hunt with them as if she wasn't doing any wrong.

@Archesia @Walpurgis @Arjana

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