Early Evening

There's a fair bit of noise coming from the front of the Inn, it's famous golden sign swinging gently in the cold breeze above the approaching braves. It's dark outside but the Inn's interior seems warm and inviting behind the closed door.

Looking excited, Melock turns to the others, "Time to relax before we earn our keep." He opens the door and walks in to Lilinas.
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And straight into a punch to the face.

Melock goes flying backwards, leaving a surprised looking man who'd crouched down in the doorway just as the punch had been thrown by an irate looking customer standing behind him. Beyond the bar looks full and following the punch comes a wave of noise and smells.

This is our kind of place Temush says waiting to see if Melock still wants to be the first in.

The man crouching down stands up. He's the same height as Temush.

"Temush....is that you?"

It's cousin Swift Kick.

While he's on the floor, Melock feels his nose to check it isn't broken, "I've had worse than that in the bachelor tent." He slowly gets to his feet, "and that doesn't count as me getting in to trouble. I think someone else should go first, maybe Kobal?"

Horn and hide. Didn't even know to open the door cautiously. What have I started here?

Back up he suggests to the others. Walk into a strange fight in there, you get hammered. If I know Lilina, she'll get order back shortly.

He crouches down next to Melock keeping a wary lookout for belligerents emerging from the bar. Anything broken? Dose of healing?

Swiftie? What are you doing here? I heard you'd run off to join Skywalker.

"Just a second!" and the pygmy turns to deliver a swift kick to his assailant's goolies. Then stepping over his victim he leads the braves in to the tap room. The place smells of stale beer, sweat and blood. It's raucous, wild and looks like a fun place. Several locals nod at Hoskar and several others nod at Grundar, their colours denoting that they're members of the local gang.

Pushing his way through the crowd Swifty clears enough space at a low bench for the Rangers to sit, then turning he places both hands on his cousin's shoulders so as to welcome him properly.

"Good t....What! You are wearing the Khan's ring...You're...How??...Khan!"  He drops to his knees and salutes his clan's Leader, with tears in his eyes.
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"I'm alright, I should remember to always let someone bigger than me go first." He chuckles, "I think a drink is in order, do you think they do food here?" Melock makes sure he sits at the opposite end of the bench to the Temush.

Without even asking, bowls of the daily stew are placed before each brave and several jugs of Kvass and mugs too.

As you were Swifty. Have a seat, and a drink. Temush frowns and purses his lips
It's hard times for the Big Peckers, is what it is. As of right now the parts of the clan that I know for sure how to find, are you, me, and the ghost of Khan Blue who the Mother lets me call up once a season. I won't hide the truth, a lot of us are dead, could be most of us in fact. Broos. Broos took us down in the Bleak Hills. Sunny Side had sent me off on a ghost walk and I missed it... not there. Some may have got free. A lot had been took as slaves when the Impala came on a raid. Might try to find if they went to Pimper's block.

The band I'm here with. they'd met with us some time back, they were first on the scene. Khan Blue's ghost got them to take the ring, and in the end I met up with them. He leans close to avoid being overheard They run Bison and Rhino, and they have a thing. But how is it with you? What's the Town like? what do you need?
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In reply to Melock (msg # 10):

Henal laughs "That lets me and Temush off the hook then, but looks like his cousin is a  feisty one."

Melock laughs with Henal. He beckons Grundar over, "Now we have some time,  I think you should be told about what we've been up to. I'll skip our initiations in to the Feathered Rivals." Melock takes a sip of beer to wet his throat before he begins, "Why we were each called upon to work together is one question I don't think any of us know the answer to, unless someone isn't sharing." He looks round at the other Rangers before continuing, "Our first adventure as a group was to scout for the clan and keep some hyena's away from our beasts. While we did this we found signs that someone had called down a Leaping Bear spirit called Tripanandar on us. After killing some leaping bears we managed to tracking it down to its lair where we killed it's family and after much fighting and the loss of Hacha Lor we killed it and banished the spirit." Melock raises his mug of beer in salute to Hacha Lor, "To the first of us to die." He is silent for a moment before he continues his story.

"It was when we were on our way back from that, that we met Sky Bone Blue, Khan of Temush's people," He raises his mug towards Temush and Swifty, "To Sky Bone Blue, a generous Khan, he even had a friendly welcome for me." Another moment of silence.

"When we made it back to the clan they where getting ready to perform the Rainman ritual and fight the Wicked Writher so our Khan Nausyas the Iron Bull, my brother in law, can control the rains. We helped keep the bastard impalas from stopping the ceremony. He pauses long enough to quickly chew a few mouthfuls of stew, "when things had calmed down and we told the elders what we had seen and done. The shamans told us that Long Grass the shaman's spirit had been bound and now his fetch was in his body and that we needed to rescue him from another shaman, who it turns out was the one that called down Tripanandar on us." He rubs his eyes, "Is that last bit making sense to you Grundar, there are a lot of shamans to keep track of."

"I wish you'd think that before going off on one of your Raven-brained adventures," says Kobal as he settles into a seat.



Kobal pours some kvass into a mug and tastes the liquid.  He frowns.  "Is there even any alcohol in this?  Weak." he says to no one in particular.  He listens as Melock recounts events to Grundar.



While Melock takes another mouthful of stew, Kobal chips in, "Our clans sent a war party to defeat this shaman, who was of the Red Thorn clan, rival to we Prairie Thunder.  We Rangers were not part of the war party, but some of us had visions which suggested that the shaman would outwit the war party.  So we set out ourselves.

"Along the way, we met some rhino riders of the Summer Fury clan.  Lead by Krakka Rumble - curse his name.  With them was Hoskar here.  Krakka showed us hospitality so that we dropped our guard, then he slit the throat of our friend Kaonu Windspeaker.  When we find him, we'll do the same to him."

Amara looked distinctly ill at ease in Loud Lilina's. It's wasn't that she looked out of place, it was just more that the place was outwith her tastes. She almost wished she were spending some time at the Lunar temple in the company of friends rather than having to pretend to be ferocious so they wouldn't be harassed by the locals.

"We avenged the Big Peckers by killing all of the broo that destroyed the clan. It was my privilege to reunite Khan Big Blue with Temush." Amara focused on Temush and his cousin "And should there be any at the Pimpers block, we will get them back."


She turned to Kobal "You know Krakka's wife has a cousin in the city. I was looking to try to find here, but so far...nothing. Was hoping we might learn some things to make our search more fruitful."