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"What is that?" you mutter, staring in consternation at something that looks mid-way between an elk or great cow of some sort, but with a shaggy blue pelt and a thick mane. It has a horned head, and bulging, furious eyes, but its maw is that of an omnivore, with an eclectic collection of teeth. It looks to be at least ten feet in length, not counting a short, thin tail, and it is easily eight feet at the shoulder. Bulging below its throat is a wattle, like that of your basilisk back home, but as it wheels about to face you it balloons up like that of a toad.
Your Lancer mounts their centipede Honemdym, but you signal the Drow to hold back. The frightened mystery-beast cries out in a long wailing moan as it sees your Wyrm Princes closing in, having heard the commotion and quickly grouped up.
“You have your quarry,” you tell them. “Work together. Bring it back, alive.”
Rattling hissing and chattering erupts from all around you, and the hunt is on.
You and your dark elf companion follow at a distance. Your sons make quite the racket, all moving as a pack in pursuit of the fleeing blue-beast. Even if they did not, the beast itself is no subtle thing—presumably why it charged you to begin with, hoping to frighten you away since it knew it could not evade you with stealth. It is now terribly swift, either, but its strength is admirable—when trees are dense enough to impede progress, it simply bashes them down with a throw of its great armoured skull.
However, that skull is not a shelter for any special cunning… Certainly nothing to match that of Telov, Nopti, and Tud. Your swiftest son took quickly to the air, with some clumsiness but a seed you find yourself envying; from his vantage point, he signaled his musically-inclined sibling, who sang a terrible dirge to direct the skulking Telov. The Terror Twins and Tonu Ironclad herded the beast into position, and Telov struck, lashing out with snapping jaws and seizing with pincer-like claws upon his middle pair of limbs!
Unfortunately, it was then that the creature revealed the purpose of its throat pouch.
