>>5678618https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WM8OEI7-toAs your footfalls crunch against the frozen dirt, coupling with the ever-present chittering of birdsong and the slowly evaporating breaths escaping your form, an odd but not unwelcome sensation washes over you.
The taiga has a strange power to it; not of devilish trickery or arcane might like you’ve grown accustomed.
This is primal land, yet untamed by the progress of the modern world.
Almost as if it’s quietly reminding you that it has stood for untold ages, and that it will continue to stand long after your name is dust.
You shake off the feeling and continue to follow a set of deep bear tracks that your trained eye was able to distinguish at a glance.
Conversation between your hunting partners has been quiet, but good-natured. Can’t afford to make too much noise, what with the hunt afoot.
Jack has settled on an interesting choice of weaponry, namely the classic Martini-Henry rifle that served as a workhorse of the Union Jack at the apex of its empire.
If you were to slap a pith helmet on him, give him a bright red uniform, and throw him into a time machine, he’d look right at home at Isandlwana. Might’ve even managed to turn it around, too.
In contrast, Pandion is packing a massive pigsticker of a spear that he calls a δόρυ, or dory. It’s far too big to throw with any real accuracy, but he can still swing it around like it were a damn toothpick. According to him, it’s the weapon of a hoplite.
As for you, you’ve decided to bring along…
> A Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle. It’s old, but reliable. That, and it just feels like a traditional pick for this wilderness.> Benelli M4 shotgun. Should things get too nasty, you’ll be glad to have a robust CQC option.> Apokoliptian Carbine. It might have a chance of harming the pelt, but you couldn’t ask for more penetrating power.> Spatha. Pandion’s getting by with that spear of his, you can do the same. it’ll be a way of putting Gaius’ training to good use.> Bare-handed. With the Claw and your magic, you don’t need anything else to take out an animal. Time for you to wrassle a bear.> Other? 