Well we've become a bit more adventurous and it's been.... interesting.
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Skier finds a herd of wild cows during his travels. He alerts Winless who happens to have many of the combat moves unlocked. Finally we might tame a milk cow so Spark might manufacture cheese! Skier begins surrounding the aurochsen with signposts to separate them, but before he could finish Winless declares "okay I think I know the strategy for this" and aggresses one, which angers the entire herd. Skier couldn't do anything to stop it from happening - the resulting stampede left Winless' face unrecognizable.
His gravestone reads:
Here lies Winless.
Confident until the very end.
Bit off more than he could chew.
Some are too wild to be tamed.
May his descendants seek revenge against the beasts.
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Spark wrote:The cows were trapped, their eyes wild and yearning for freedom. I found their captor, Eos, sitting patiently on the shore, waiting for us, her friends, to assist her in taming the beasts. She had avoided the mistakes of last time when her companions tried to tame these wild cattle and now she was tantalizingly close to her goal; a mere coil of rope was all she needed.
As she stared down one of the angry cows, she saw the panic, the fear, the terror, and understood what she must do. My curiosity drew me to a nearby field, where I found another pasture, and a herd of cows grazing peacefully, unaware of their imprisoned kin nearby. Fearful of the beast's power, I opted for a more diplomatic approach and soothed the beasts with some special four-leaf clovers in order to fill my milk pail in my long quest for delicious cheese.
Her lasso looped firmly around its neck, Eos tried to quell the beast. It fought, and thrashed in its enclosure, unable to escape or attack its jailer. I could hear their struggle as I was skipping through the flowers nearby. I returned to find the combatants in a respite, gathering their strength for another bout of strength and will.
Suddenly, the beast reared, and in his fury, the rope snagged around Eos' wrist and pulled her into the enclosure. In her panic, Eos scrambled against the signposts, unable to escape. The aurochs swung its great horns, and knocked her unconscious I desperately ran to her, and tugged at the cow's hair, trying to buy her some time. I was, unfortunately, too late, and he gored her corpse upon the shoreline. The pain of watching her body so savaged by that monster still haunts me today. I still blame myself for her death. If I hadn't mentioned my quest for cheese, she would not have had to face that beast's fury... all for a few drops of milk.
Her gravestone reads:
Here lies Eos.
A teacher to us all,
who walked on rabbits.
May we avenge her death
And her descendants walk among us always.
Seriously, fuck cows.
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Five or six of us decide to go on an expedition. There are abandoned ruins nearby ripe for the plundering; all we've got to do is find them, rummage through the rotten filth, and haul the good stuff home in carts we will construct on site. Nakamata, our newest convert, tags along to see the sights. Everything catches his eye. "What happens if I touch this? What are those! You can chop down trees? Dude! Your mom chopped down my tree last night. Bow chicka bow wow..." he rambles as we travel. We begin to tune him out so we can focus on reaching our goal. When we arrive at the ruins, we are too busy searching the scattered crates to notice that Nakamata did not arrive with us.
Nakamata knows why he is out here. These woods are just asking to be explored and tamed... bent to his will. He climbs a tree to survey the area. To the west, a swamp. To the north, a river. Past the river he can't quite see. That is where he will go! Into the unknown! He hefts his backpack onto his shoulder and has a spring in his step as he marches north. When he reaches the river he is not discouraged by its width or its rushing currents. He dives right in, and a few seconds later is sucked underwater. Despite our searches, we never find his body downriver... his bones are ground up and strewn between every river rock.
His gravestone reads:
Here lies Nakamata.
His thirst for the unknown
...was unquenchable.
May we admire his nerve,
and learn from him his recklessness.