Re: Plains of Golarin, 26 Talisandre
[OOC: It is still daylight. Finding and getting to the durge was a mid to late morning job.]
While large and sturdy, the durge are extremely slow and easy prey for the professional hunter. Bringing down two of them, some distance away from one another, is a relatively easy, if time consuming task.
Mirna searches about, and identifies a spot for a fire. Jaxar scents the wind and recommends a different spot, which is agreed upon after some discussion. It takes some trying, and a lot of work to keep it going, but you are able to keep up a fire built from twisted dry grasses, there being no trees or wood in the vicinity.
Butchering the durge and preserving the meat takes you through the afternoon, but at the end of the day, with some searching about for herbs and edible plants on the plains, you're able to come away with a week's lean rations.
A pack of dracs shows up at one point, but quickly decide to go after the other dead durge. Later in the afternoon, Kar spots an Omnivrax, which scatters the dracs until it has eaten its fill, then wanders away, leaving the dracs to their feast once again.
So the day passes, and a good campsite is agreed upon, several miles from where the kill was made, everyone's packs, and the two greymanes loaded with meat from the durge.
The night passes uneventfully, the only wildlife seen being of the smaller and non-threatening variety.