Gulo Roarheal has begun her adventure. She leaves Jestpalm with Alir Apusagmo, a bowman, and Medon Raconrostfen, a crossbowman.
Her first quest is to kill a werecreature, who is only harmed by bronze. Good thing she carries a bronze sword.
Along the way, Gulo is ambushed by a mob of kangaroos- her friends disable two of them with bolts, while Gulo moves in to put them out of their misery. The other kangaroos flee. Gulo sets about the task of dissecting the kangaroo, for she has heard of the high protein content of kangaroo meats.
Gulo has butchered both the kangaroos, giving her a large store of food for now. She's thirsty, and has to find a river. There's not one close by, so she soldiers on.
Gulo nears the lair of the werebeast, when her group are ambushed by the Foolish Curse, a well known bandit group. Gulo engages a macegoblin while Alir and Medon unload their weapons into several goblins, crippling them while they wait for Gulo to finish off her foe.
A hammergoblin sneaks up on Gulo while she is flailing at the wounded macegoblin, but with a lightning fast reflex she whirls and cuts the hammergoblin's hand off, who takes one look at the stump spouting his foul blood and faints. Gulo then severs his other arm.
Medon takes a bad hit and is badly wounded. He lays on the ground, with his body leaking blood everywhere, so Gulo leaves the two crippled goblins she is fighting and rushes to him to engage the axegoblin standing over him.
Gulo and the axegoblin are engaged in a stalemate until finally Gulo manages to hit him in the foot, making him faint. Gulo then bisects the axegoblin, saving Medon.
Meanwhile, Alir has been fighting a pikegoblin. She holds her own, taking no injuries at all, even managing to get a good hit in by bashing the goblin with her bow, who promptly vomits up his breakfast.
The pikegoblin looks up at Gulo, then vomits and cowers before Gulo's onslaught. Gulo manages to cut the goblin's arm off, who faints.
Alir decides to try goblin. She bites the goblin's foot, and finds it not to her taste, so she lets go.
Eventually, given how thirsty she is, Gulo decides to drink the mingled kangaroo and goblin blood. The taste is odd, and not unwelcome. It sates her thirst.
The battle over, Gulo does a once-over on her friends. Alir has a cut on her arm, not serious, but Medon is very badly wounded.
Suddenly, a flying arrow comes out of nowhere! Gulo catches it on her shield and looks around wildly, to find a wounded goblin bowman. She and Alir advance on the bowman. The bowgoblin is easily destroyed.
Medon is set upon by a formerly wounded axegoblin, who Gulo thought she had run off. Medon manages to evade the goblin's strikes while Alir and Gulo sprint to his aid. Alir gets to him first and gets an axe to the thigh for her troubles. Gulo cuts into the goblin's stomach with her sword.
Elsewhere, a goblin hammerman gurgles and dies as he suffocates. Gulo manages to score a hit on the axegoblin's spine, rendering his arms useless. He drops his axe and shield. Medon crawls away from the battle to rest.
Gulo finally manages to defeat the axegoblin.
Gulo and the now badly wounded Alir attempt to find where Medon is; he had left a trail of blood.
They come across a corpse that is undoubtably Medon's. He fought well, and died well.
Gulo takes his helm and puts it on her head, and hefts up his corpse. He will be returned home.
Rest in peace, Medon Raconrostfen.
With that, Gulo has now got a title. She is Gulo Budoasla Casluperad, or Gulo Roarheal 'The Contest of Voices'.
Aaaand then after Gulo rests near the lair, having given Alir some food and drink, they are attacked by the remnants of the Foolish Curse. Alir fights well initially, but then takes a heavy hit, rendering her left arm useless. She faints from the pain, while Gulo thunders toward her. Gulo stands over the unconscious Alir, fighting off Goblin after goblin until Alir turns white and dies.
Grim, Gulo picks her corpse up too and advances on the lair of Nimu Veilpaints, a werecreature from the local town she was sent to kill.
Nimu appears just to be a peasant. Gulo hesitates, while Nimu bounds up and bites her arm, scoring the first hit anyone has made on Gulo. Gulo loses the use of her shield, and manages to bisect the werecreature. Gulo staggers away, with her arm pouring with blood.
The blood finally stops running, and Gulo feels a bit faint. She deems herself healthy enough to travel, and starts to travel. Soon, she is set upon by five wolves. She decides to outrun them, as she's fast and has to get back to town.
She does manage to outrun them, but at the river side she's attacked by the same wolves.
She outruns these ones too, finding herself at an impasse she leaps into the water and wades across.
The Foolish Curse are strong indeed. Gulo is attacked by another group of them.
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