Welp, Adil Silkyorbs died almost immediately. Gored in the chest by a warthog.
Her sister* Tuma, however, did much better. Their civilization, the Tiled Confederation, occupied a smallish island off the coast of Cereteteyo. It was, surprisingly, almost bereft of night creatures; however, it had more than its fair share of monsters from the depths of the earth. Trolls, voracious cave crawlers, blind cave ogres: Tuma killed them all. And I do mean all:when she finished, there was not a single monster or bandit left on the island. They had all been turned into jewelry (the monsters) or money (the bandits' gear).
After that, she bid her companions goodbye and made for the west coast, with the intention of swimming the straits and seeking further adventure on the mainland. She made it across with little difficulty, but slowly enough that night was just falling as she pulled herself from the water. Her only hope was a mad cross-country dash through the night toward a fortress she had glimpsed in the distance.
As it happened, she got lost on her way there... but stumbled across the fortress anyway, completely by chance. There didn't seem to be a lord around when she got there, but she was too tired to worry about it and got a random wrestler's permission instead.
When she woke up, the wrestler tried to kill her. She fended him off and stumbled outside, only to find the courtyard full of wrestlers. They stood and looked at her for a moment, then began to advance menacingly. It appeared that Tuma had unwittingly stumbled across one of those death monasteries everybody's been talking about! She killed a few of them, evaded the rest, and fled yet again toward a village on the horizon.
She arrived again just as the sun was setting. Glad to finally be safe, she went to sleep on the overland map, not even bothering to talk to the villagers. This was a mistake.
I usually sleep outdoors in villages. It's quicker when you don't have to ask permission, and in my experience the boogeymen don't like civilized areas.
In retrospect, it's probably only civilized areas in which you're accepted. In my haste to get to sleep, I never got the villagers' recognition and protection.
A few hours later, Tuma awoke to the terrifying sight of a boogeyman rushing across the fields toward her. She leapt to her feet, but was far too woozy to get more than a few steps before the boogeyman was upon her. She swung at it, missed, and then it kicked her in the leg which was apparently so painful that she fell unconscious for a number of minutes, which was long enough for the boogeyman to very slowly pummel her to death. She died within sight of a house.
A terrible ending to a great adventure. I got about ten ears. It's hard to remember to cut them off when you're fighting for your life.
*Seriously, they probably are sisters. Same last name, same hometown, and they even have similar looks.
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