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Princess_Feylin rolled 5 4-sided dice:
3, 4, 3, 4, 1
Total: 15 (5-20)
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:20 pm
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After his last rather disastrous encounter with a Stormborn reaver, A'asifa Ramliya, formerly a Pad of the Ukuucha'Wafalme, had been seriously on the fence about whether he truly wanted to return and issue another challenge to join the pride. He would have liked to re-find the lioness Gintare and ask her if his experience had been normal, but when he prowled the rogue lands in search of the brown-furred, blue-eyed lioness she was nowhere to be found.
So instead he had done his best to begin a training regimen that he hoped would make him more ready for his next encounter, and vowed that if his second challenge brought him into contact with anyone as weird as his first one, he was done with this pride forever. Being allowed to have a harem would be nice, but he could probably do that in the rogue lands, too, if he could find some suitable lionesses. He wouldn't be able to offer them the safety of a pride, but Ram would say he was still a pretty good catch on his own.
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Princess_Feylin rolled 5 4-sided dice:
2, 4, 3, 1, 1
Total: 11 (5-20)
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:24 pm
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There was not a single thought going through Aagen's head when he heard a roar of challenge. He wasn't really on patrol, even, so he wasn't actually under any obligation to answer the challenge, but he didn't have anything better to do, and so he decided he may as well make himself useful to the pride. Assuming the reaver who was actually on patrol didn't get to the challenger first. If that was the case, Aagen figured he could just hang around and heckle the challengers.
Actually, that sounded like more fun than actually participating in an askorun, now that Aagen thought about it, and so he slowed his pace to a very deliberate, almost plodding stride to give the reavers on patrol time to hone in on the challenger's roar and arrive before him.
Thus, it was with some disappointment that Aagen found himself facing a smaller lion with the scent of the rogue lands about him, and no other lion in sight. It seemed there would be no entertaining battles for him to watch after all. Still, he liked fighting, too, and it was something to do.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:18 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 6:18 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 6:30 am
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Ram grew increasingly relaxed as he realized that he was not dealing with an obviously insane lion. it was, of course, entirely possible that his opponent-to-be was insane in a less obvious way, but as long as he kept the crazy in check, Ram found he didn't much care.
The fight between them was far more even than Ram's first fight had been. It was still hard - one of the hardest things Ram had ever done in his life, in fact - keeping up with the larger, dark-coated lion. It was also frustrating to sense that the other lion was not putting forth as much effort as Ram himself was, but Ram remembered the warning that he had received, that this was just a means by which the other lion would gauge his fitness. Gintare had said much the same, all those months ago.
After several furious clashes that involved some fairly exhausting martial acrobatics on A'asifa Ramliya's part, Ram was glad to see Aagen sitting back, signalling for a break in the violence. Ram mirrored the dark lion's pose and waited to see what would happen next.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:02 am
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Aagen could tell he was fighting a self-taught lion almost immediately. The swirl-patterned lion was bold in his attacks, but slow to defend, as though he was not accustomed to having a live opponent. That, Aagen knew from experience, could be fixed simply enough. He just had to be surprise attacked a lot, as Aagen had been when he first came to the pride in his youth, seeking his father. His cousins and half-siblings had called it "training," and although he'd found it annoying, it had helped.
Overall, though, Aagen thought that the challenger would be able to learn Stormborn ways and become enough of a fighter that he wouldn't embarrass the pride. His enthusiasm had given Aagen reason to work during their fight, and although Aagen was far from the pride's greatest fighter, he was a reaver and had earned the title by going on a viking and doing a not-awful job.
"I think I've seen enough," Aagen said. "As far as I'm concerned you'll be able to find a place for yourself here. Congratulations!"
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:02 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:03 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:34 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:40 am
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Aagen couldn't believe that the new freeborn had somehow managed to run into the one of the Brothers Grei. That trio was a very private, very unusual family with a reputation for subjecting their thralls to very specific behavioral rules. He, personally, had never had any dealings with them, but word did travel, and they were successful traders, and so he knew a little bit of them.
When his laughter subsided, he imparted what he knew and then assured the yellow lion, "We're not all like that. It's really just him. And his two brothers. And maybe their thralls, a little, but you should have no difficulties there. They pretty much keep to themselves."
He chuckled again and then continued, "If there's anything else you'd like to know, I'll do my best to tell you, but the lawspeaker will absolutely do a better job of it, so let's get going."
Then the two lions set off from the border toward the stronghold, with Aagen still occasionally bursting into chuckles as he remembered A'asifa Ramliya's story of his first attempt to fight his way into the pride. Aagen couldn't wait to start telling that story to his friends.
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