This post marks the beginning of my mission using the following storyboard elements:
-Defend yourself from wild animals (3)
Summary:
During her patrol, Nana finds wild animals with strange deaths in the forrest with unknown symbols carved into trees. Following them to the source, Nana discovers a cave network infested with a cult devoted to a Snake god planning to spread over the lands. (multi mission)
As most of the clones left off for their patrols, one of Nanas clones stayed behind, to guard the port town. She figured that it would be best to start here while the other spread across the lands. While the town lately hadnt had much trouble, every now and then something would come up, whether it would be something like the gangs getting a bit too rowdy, or enemy shinobi infiltrating the town, Nana had to be ever vigilant to protect her citizens. Becoming Kage was a big responsibility to her and she didnt want to let then down.
Her usual patrol routes in the city seemed to yield no troubles, a good sign. The gangs were quiet, no visible bandits on the streets. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary, suspicious or looking like trouble brewing. Letting herself a brief moment to taoe a breath, she relaxed. Smiling and nodding at the public, she walked along the street back to her vigilant self. As she walked past one of the huntmasters huts however, she overheard something that sounded odd and worth investigating.
"Yeah it was really strange, like two huge holes in the neck"
"Do you think it was a vampire?"
"Ahaha dont be stupid, imagine that though, a vampire in the woods."
"But you said it looked infected?"
"Yeah, what ever made those marks had poison. They were too big for fangs. Never seen an animal with fangs that big. They were about a foot wide each hole"
This was troubling news, some strange animal taking out wildlife in the forrest? It could come closer to the village and be a danger to the villagers, maybe it was best to investigate and take it out now. Turning and heading South to the village border, she made a line directly for the forrest. It wasnt long before she reach the walls, and passed through them, and went onwards towards the forrest. Picking up to a travel pace, she reached the Hidden Grove, the forrest at the base of the mountains, its white powered trees creating the image of trees made from ice.
The next step was trying to find out where the animal was, and if the corpse was still there. The hunter probably stuck to the southern side of the forrest, not wanting to delve too far deep into the forrest, so Nana began searching for clues. Scouring the floor she eventually picked up on the hunters footprints, being able to trace them where he was coming from. Nana was lucky that it hadnt snowed since he had come back, it would have made it that much harder to track his prints. She walked a bit deeper into the forrest watching his prints as they shuffled the path, eventually breaking off between trees more likely to search for animals. Once or twice she found a few drops of blood, likely the animal he caught while working, but still no source of the strenge animal.
Then after a few more minutes of walking, she found it, a collapsed snow stag, one of the rare breeds of deer that made their homes in the northern lands.
Nana approached it with caution, unsure about what she would find, an uneasy feeling in her stomach growing. These creatures were peaceful and they didnt have any predators around this area, perhaps some of the snow leopards, but they were higher up in the mountains. Even then Snow Leopards werent poisonous, so it wouldnt make sense.
As she approached the corpse, she saw the marks the hunter described. Two large puncture wounds in the rear back left thigh, each around a foot in diameter, exposing the flesh inside. But that wasnt the most curious thing. There were black scorch marks around the edges of the wound, most likely the poison that burnt the skin.
Then Nana noticed it, the marks, uneven. They werent identical. Normally any kind of fang bite would be ifentialy and symmetrical, going in at the same angle.... so what caused this?
Nana was puzzeled when there was a noise coming from her right, something rushing through the bushes, between the trees. It broke the treeline, and a large snow buck charged forward, its eyes locking with Nana as it continued rushing towards her, lowering its head and baring its horns. Nana braced herself as she turned, quickly standing, and placed her hands out stretched. The buck charged wildly, horns clashing with Nanas hands as she caught the horns and it pushed her back. She didnt catch it at the right angle as the left horn slipped out of her hand, causigg her to lose balance, and falling backward stumbling, and tripping over the dead doe. Was it connected to this buck?
The buck round itself and prepared for another charge towards Nana, as she stood readying herself once again. Getting her hands into a readying stance to fight, she let the buck come towards her. It was sad, she didnt want to hurt this buck and they were nornally docile creatures but something must have been wrong. As the buck charged and was a few feet away, Nana performed her half step technique, and twisted out the way, as she dropped her elbow on the back of the Bucks neck, striking with force to knock it out. To tumbled forwards and collasped down gridning into the snow covered ground.
Nana quickly chekced over it, its breathing jad slowed right down, dangerously. This wasnt good. Nana needes to find out wjat was wrong before the damage became too much. And as she scanned the body, she saw it, and couldnt believe it. Under the chest of the buck was another puncture mark, fang like, similar to the doe right down the black scorch marks around the edge. But there was only one mark. So the source, creature, ahat ever it was had struck again. Perhaps if Nana acted quickly she could catch what ever was causing these issues. She hated leaving the buck there, but she needed to stop what ever was causing this.
To be cont.
-Defend yourself from wild animals (3)
Summary:
During her patrol, Nana finds wild animals with strange deaths in the forrest with unknown symbols carved into trees. Following them to the source, Nana discovers a cave network infested with a cult devoted to a Snake god planning to spread over the lands. (multi mission)
As most of the clones left off for their patrols, one of Nanas clones stayed behind, to guard the port town. She figured that it would be best to start here while the other spread across the lands. While the town lately hadnt had much trouble, every now and then something would come up, whether it would be something like the gangs getting a bit too rowdy, or enemy shinobi infiltrating the town, Nana had to be ever vigilant to protect her citizens. Becoming Kage was a big responsibility to her and she didnt want to let then down.
Her usual patrol routes in the city seemed to yield no troubles, a good sign. The gangs were quiet, no visible bandits on the streets. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary, suspicious or looking like trouble brewing. Letting herself a brief moment to taoe a breath, she relaxed. Smiling and nodding at the public, she walked along the street back to her vigilant self. As she walked past one of the huntmasters huts however, she overheard something that sounded odd and worth investigating.
"Yeah it was really strange, like two huge holes in the neck"
"Do you think it was a vampire?"
"Ahaha dont be stupid, imagine that though, a vampire in the woods."
"But you said it looked infected?"
"Yeah, what ever made those marks had poison. They were too big for fangs. Never seen an animal with fangs that big. They were about a foot wide each hole"
This was troubling news, some strange animal taking out wildlife in the forrest? It could come closer to the village and be a danger to the villagers, maybe it was best to investigate and take it out now. Turning and heading South to the village border, she made a line directly for the forrest. It wasnt long before she reach the walls, and passed through them, and went onwards towards the forrest. Picking up to a travel pace, she reached the Hidden Grove, the forrest at the base of the mountains, its white powered trees creating the image of trees made from ice.
The next step was trying to find out where the animal was, and if the corpse was still there. The hunter probably stuck to the southern side of the forrest, not wanting to delve too far deep into the forrest, so Nana began searching for clues. Scouring the floor she eventually picked up on the hunters footprints, being able to trace them where he was coming from. Nana was lucky that it hadnt snowed since he had come back, it would have made it that much harder to track his prints. She walked a bit deeper into the forrest watching his prints as they shuffled the path, eventually breaking off between trees more likely to search for animals. Once or twice she found a few drops of blood, likely the animal he caught while working, but still no source of the strenge animal.
Then after a few more minutes of walking, she found it, a collapsed snow stag, one of the rare breeds of deer that made their homes in the northern lands.
Nana approached it with caution, unsure about what she would find, an uneasy feeling in her stomach growing. These creatures were peaceful and they didnt have any predators around this area, perhaps some of the snow leopards, but they were higher up in the mountains. Even then Snow Leopards werent poisonous, so it wouldnt make sense.
As she approached the corpse, she saw the marks the hunter described. Two large puncture wounds in the rear back left thigh, each around a foot in diameter, exposing the flesh inside. But that wasnt the most curious thing. There were black scorch marks around the edges of the wound, most likely the poison that burnt the skin.
Then Nana noticed it, the marks, uneven. They werent identical. Normally any kind of fang bite would be ifentialy and symmetrical, going in at the same angle.... so what caused this?
Nana was puzzeled when there was a noise coming from her right, something rushing through the bushes, between the trees. It broke the treeline, and a large snow buck charged forward, its eyes locking with Nana as it continued rushing towards her, lowering its head and baring its horns. Nana braced herself as she turned, quickly standing, and placed her hands out stretched. The buck charged wildly, horns clashing with Nanas hands as she caught the horns and it pushed her back. She didnt catch it at the right angle as the left horn slipped out of her hand, causigg her to lose balance, and falling backward stumbling, and tripping over the dead doe. Was it connected to this buck?
The buck round itself and prepared for another charge towards Nana, as she stood readying herself once again. Getting her hands into a readying stance to fight, she let the buck come towards her. It was sad, she didnt want to hurt this buck and they were nornally docile creatures but something must have been wrong. As the buck charged and was a few feet away, Nana performed her half step technique, and twisted out the way, as she dropped her elbow on the back of the Bucks neck, striking with force to knock it out. To tumbled forwards and collasped down gridning into the snow covered ground.
Nana quickly chekced over it, its breathing jad slowed right down, dangerously. This wasnt good. Nana needes to find out wjat was wrong before the damage became too much. And as she scanned the body, she saw it, and couldnt believe it. Under the chest of the buck was another puncture mark, fang like, similar to the doe right down the black scorch marks around the edge. But there was only one mark. So the source, creature, ahat ever it was had struck again. Perhaps if Nana acted quickly she could catch what ever was causing these issues. She hated leaving the buck there, but she needed to stop what ever was causing this.
To be cont.