“Fox elder magic is often unheard of – and unused because of fox’s humble lives. They prefer not to go down the path as they just need a peaceful life, and they will be happy.”

-Fern, mythical nature scholar

Running thru the grass, I feel it brush against my back. The scents of flowers dancing thru my nostrils. The sun backing my back as I scamper thru the beautiful meadow.

Suddenly, my senses flare as I notice a rabbit scamper off thru the bushes! I speed off after it quickly catching up. As the rabbit scampers into the rabbit hole, I follow her I notice that she has a whole den of baby rabbits. All of them, shivering from fear at the big scarry fox about eat their mommy. I decide to back off.

After getting out of the nest, I decide to join up to Hazel, Mark, and Morthil. They tell me that I should scout ahead to alert us of any enemies ahead of us. They tell me that we are heading north towards the mountains. After scouting – and exploring through the forest for about an hour I stumble upon a wonderful waterfall with water flowing down in a mesmerizing fashion. I hurry back to the party to inform about the waterfall. Al three of them agree that they should stop there to eat lunch.

They are going to get there in about an hour, so I decide to give them a surprise by catching a pheasant or two. After searching for a bit, I find a magnificent bird pecking away at the ground about the size of myself! I crouch and activate invisibility as I get ready to pounce at the bird. I pounce and bite down on its neck causing it a quick death! Yay! I caught my first prey!

Level Up! Congratulations, you have caught your first bird and have gained one level in hunting!

Returning to the waterfall is a breeze and I notice that the party is almost here to I decide to turn on invisibility and hide so that I can surprise them with the bird. Once I turn on invisibility, I crouch and wait as they slowly start setting up camp. Right as Mark is passing next to me, I become visible and surprise him with the bird. He is scared to much that he even screams as if he’s getting ambushed.

Everyone turns their heads towards Mark and laugh in amusement at seeing him so scared. After the notice that it is me who scared him, they notice my big bird and stare while drooling. I laugh and ask if we are going to cook the bird or not. After cooking the bird, we all eat it with delight. It is already evening, so I find a nice place to curl up next to the fire.

Suddenly, a hunting horn sounds, and I’m alerted to a horde of goblins heading our way! I awake the group and we create a plan. I am going to distract the goblins before they reach the camp and take as many out while I’m at it. Hazel, meanwhile, will be shooting arrows at all the goblins from the camp. Morthil, and Mark, however, will flank the goblins and attack from behind.

Putting the plan into action, I activate invisible and sprint down the hill to the goblins. When I’m inside them, I Fox Bite their leader and chaos ensue. When I take physical action against their leader, my invisibility diffuses, and I sprint back around to Mark and Morthil. They congratulate me and then charge in to ensue even more chaos. Hazel, meanwhile, is carefully and effectively taking down the goblins from afar.

After what felt like hours of biting and slashing, the last goblin finally fell dead.

Battle Log:

Ash Morrow: 3 Levels

Hp: 100/100

Stamina: 467/500

Mark Bullock: 2 Levels

Hp: 97/100

Stamina: 231/610

Morthil Bullock: 2 Levels

Hp: 100/100

Stamina: 230/600

Mana: 120/120

Hazel Ritter: 3 Levels

Hp: 100/100

Stamina: 385/500

Mana: 120/120

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I decided to start investing in the Fox Elder Magic so that I had a means of implicating more magical damage from afar.

Fox Elder Magic Skill Tree:

Invisibility Ward: Removes the invisibility effect of People and Items

Cost: 50 mana per hour Length: Infinite (activated) Strength: can’t be resisted

Lore: The invisibility ward was created when the first Elder was tired of his children ease dropping on him using invisibility

Convinced Surrender: Forces the enemy to surrender (single subject spell recommended to be focused on leader)

Cost: 100 mana Length: until surreders Strength: 45% of resist/level

Lore: Because of Elder Magic’s famous non-harming approach, they created a spell to not harm anybody at all

Mind Control: Puts subject into control of caster. Caster can use the subject to kill his own. (Note: if caster or any friendly forces harm the subject, it breaks free)

Cost: 100 mana Length: 5 hours Strength: 61% of resist/level

Lore: Elder magic makes it so that the user doesn’t kill anything, so his/her karma stays good.

With my choices made, I decided to finally sleep for the few hours remaining until dawn. After a “meh” night’s rest I was ready. The morning air slightly misty with water from the waterfall tagging me every so often, life was a dream. I could go wherever whenever I want to, and I could fit into any hole I dreamed of. But thoughts aside, I had some hunting I needed to do. Today, I felt like catching a rabbit, so I set out.

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