The Raconteur
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Dec 10, 2019 20:50:26 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 10, 2019 20:50:26 GMT -8
The biggest and most obvious thing around would have to be the giant log, but that doesn't seem very useful to binding it per se. Though, at this point Olive will have seen the Krampus try to evade the log several times in their kerfuffle, even if doing so would be to its detriment.
Otherwise, there's a large assortment of different festive bindings littered about, there's also a lot of regular rope, though one would have to tie them together to get something long enough to effectively inhibit the movement of this creature; which may prove difficult for someone to do while not being eaten alive by a hypothetical Krampus.
The situation is only made worse by the fact that everyone that is in the square attempting to leave as rapidly as possible, therefore causing a sort of tiny stampede.
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Olive Atwood
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Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 10, 2019 21:01:40 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 10, 2019 21:01:40 GMT -8
Olive wonders if the Krampus dislikes the log. She shrugs and decides to give it a try. She picks up the log the best as she could and waves it in his direction seeing if it'll do anything.
"stay back I have a.....log" She continues to swing the log at him. If she gets eaten then so be it.
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The Raconteur
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Dec 10, 2019 21:17:28 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 10, 2019 21:17:28 GMT -8
The first thing Olive realizes is that despite her desperation, this log is the size of a house, the almost immediately second she notices the Krampus absolutely refuses to step any closer than 20 feet away from it, simply snarling at Olive, or killing more townspeople as the mood strikes it.
If Olive stays there for a long time, the Krampus will attempt to pelt her with coal.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 10, 2019 21:35:48 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 10, 2019 21:35:48 GMT -8
"Krampus why are you doing this" Olive asks before maybe trying to restain him with some rope. She fastens two ropes together securely before throwing a rock at the Krampus and getting its attention.
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Dec 10, 2019 22:26:07 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 10, 2019 22:26:07 GMT -8
Given that Olive has now found a place that she can safely tie ropes together for as long as she can tolerate being pelted with coal (which is starting to really hurt by the way), she can find enough rope to tie this beast up, the problem being, actually doing that.
Even when it eats the people around it, it maintains aggressive eye contact, so when you throw that rock and yell stuff at it, all that happens is it gets angier. It's not exactly clear why, but the Krampus seems more feral then Krampuses usually do, and doesn't seem to be interested in conversation.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 10, 2019 22:33:44 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 10, 2019 22:33:44 GMT -8
"I see this Krampus doesn't seem to be in the holiday spirit." Olive tries to lasso the angry Krampus. At this point, she's just hoping anything works. She powers through the pain of being pelted with coal. Please let this be her lucky day. She has rangled enough stuff already she doesn't mind rangling one more.
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Dec 10, 2019 23:03:23 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 10, 2019 23:03:23 GMT -8
With extreme wrangling skill, Olive easily lassoes the great beast around the horns, only to realize what a mistake that was a moment after as she is dragged along the ground by the Krampus that is now freaking out.
As Olive is being dragged about by a rope, she begins to climb up in an attempt to get at the creature properly.
After a solid ten minutes of distraction, misdirection, and good ol' agility, Olive manages to hogtie the squirming beast.
Even then the thing attempts to do everything in its power to hurt you even if it has no way to do so.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 12, 2019 14:42:45 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 12, 2019 14:42:45 GMT -8
Hm Olive wonders if she has to truly slay the beast or just keep him in check. She looks around to see if there's a fire she can drop him into or something so he doesn't regenerate. If only Krampus would actually make conversation with her. She decides to slowly drag him with her.
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The Raconteur
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Dec 13, 2019 3:28:46 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 13, 2019 3:28:46 GMT -8
There are several small fires, such as the dropped torches as townspeople ran for their lives, but that won't be enough to kill the Krampus, one would need some sort of really big fire to kill it.
Hmmm, quite the conundrum.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 13, 2019 9:30:58 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 13, 2019 9:30:58 GMT -8
Olive starts collecting bits and pieces of dried leaves, parts of trees, and whatever else she can use as tinder large enough for the krampus. She uses one of the still lit torches to start her large bonfire. She drags the krampus closer and closer to the fire. "Any last words before you go up in flames?" Olive asks the beast giving him one last look over.
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The Raconteur
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Dec 13, 2019 10:22:27 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 13, 2019 10:22:27 GMT -8
The Krampus does little except struggle impotently against its bonds in response to your question.
Olive takes that as a "no" and lights the bonfire.
The Krampus goes up in flames, causing the struggle to reach a fever pitch until the fire burns through the ropes and it begins running around in circles.
The regeneration of the Krampus seemed to make it unable to die, even from being burned alive in that manner, until in its frenzy, it crashes head-first into the Yuletide Log.
As the fire from the Krampus's body ignites the very-ready-to-burn log, it turns for a moment and says a single word.
"Crambo."
Directly following that, it explodes unceremoniously and the log is lit in its entirety.
The Yuletide Log itself then moves impossibly onto its side and opens like a house-sized rosebud.
"E̶̮̋͝n̸̺̥͐͑̓͜͜t̶̗͚̮̾̍ẻ̴̡̬͕͑̕͝r̶͚̝̠̿̾̿ ̵͚̔t̴̠͋̊͋h̴̜̮̜͚̉̑̚e̷̘̬̅͑͠ ̶͓͉̅̉l̸̯̟̹̯͠ò̶͙̩͇͒͜g̸̛̜̓̈́" (Enter the log)
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 13, 2019 10:27:39 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 13, 2019 10:27:39 GMT -8
Olive scratched her head before shrugging and entering the log making sure she has her weapons and belonging. "Well this day certainly keeps getting weirder" She climbs into the log not exactly sure why this log is as spacious as it is or why it opens like that. Chill Olive, and just go with it.
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Dec 13, 2019 11:08:11 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 13, 2019 11:08:11 GMT -8
As Olive enters the log, it suddenly drops, and she blacks out.
Suddenly, Olive wakes up to the sound of someone banging a hammer on the anvil she was resting her head on. "Olive, what are you doing taking a nap on my anvil? Go prepare a crucible like I told you ten minutes ago!" As it turned out the aggressor of Olive's ears was none other than the one she was an apprentice blacksmith under, Mr. Ultea.
As she regained her barings and the ability to her out of her right ear, she looked around the room at the familiar scene. All the various tools and accoutrement were on the walls as perfectly aligned as Mr. Ultea always insisted they'd stay.
This was a harsh lifestyle, but one that she would be able to reap the benefits from in a few years time.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 13, 2019 11:22:50 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 13, 2019 11:22:50 GMT -8
Olive nods and goes and gets what Mr. Ultea wanted. She brings back the crucible for him, the ringing of hammers loud in the room. Maybe everything that had happened was a dream. She's finally awake but something feels off.
"what are you making?" Olive asks the blacksmith.
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The Raconteur
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Dec 13, 2019 12:17:19 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 13, 2019 12:17:19 GMT -8
Mr. Ultea looks at the empty crucible and sighs. "I can see that today must be rough for you, so I'll just tell you... that crucible is supposed to have metal in it and be in the furnace." And as an afterthought, he adds: "Make sure it's steel that you're making and not iron."
Not long after he mentioned that the day had been rough on Olive, she realized that she actually had a persistent headache since this morning... at first she thought it was from the banging earlier, but that should have gone away by now.
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 13, 2019 12:28:43 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 13, 2019 12:28:43 GMT -8
Olive shakes her head trying to get her bearings and starts filling the crucible and then putting it in the furnace. She double-checked that its steel and not iron. The pounding in her head seems much worse than the pounding of the hammers.
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Dec 13, 2019 12:53:09 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 13, 2019 12:53:09 GMT -8
After a moment making sure that everything was correctly in place, Mr. Ultea pulled out a half-finished sword and began instruction on how to prepare a steel sword for enchantment.
Several hours later, Mr. Ultea grabbed his coat and yelled to Olive from the entrance to where she was standing at the time. "Olive! Mind the shop, I've got to go to the market to meet an old friend! Make sure to not give any discounts over 30%!"
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 13, 2019 12:56:28 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 13, 2019 12:56:28 GMT -8
"yes, sir" she says as the man exits the store. Well Olive better get acquainted with the different items that are for sale. She rubs her temples as her headache grows more. Why does it feel like she's trying to remember something she's forgotten? Nevermind that, she better not disappoint Mr. Ultea.
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Dec 13, 2019 13:09:26 GMT -8
Post by The Raconteur on Dec 13, 2019 13:09:26 GMT -8
Not long after manning the shop, a customer wearing general adventurer's gear strides in with a very confused and pained expression on his face. "I need, um..." He paused, rubbing his temples. "I can't remember anything with this blasted headache! Did I drink too much last night?"
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Olive Atwood
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Roleplay posts: 114
Age: 24
Physical Description: Height: 6ft
Eye color: Hazel
Hair color: golden blonde
Olive has a slim yet muscular build.
Art Source: https://www.deviantart.com/guweiz/art/Archer-573092302
Clothes and Equipment: Often times she is seen in leather armor and boots with a steel breastplate, and iron armbands. with a quiver of arrows on her back along with her trusty dark oak bow with gold engravings etched into the wood and a steel blade at her hip. When she is not in her gear, she can be seen wearing a ruffled summer dress and a sun hat to match/
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Dec 13, 2019 13:22:51 GMT -8
Post by Olive Atwood on Dec 13, 2019 13:22:51 GMT -8
Olive blinks her eyes at the man. "I too feel like I have a headache. Seems like you an I are in the same boat" she smiles at the adventurer. "take your time and look around"
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