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| A Roleplaying Game Where YOU ... Select a Tribal Totem Explore an Ice Age Wilderness Master Tribal Magics Wander Two Worlds, the Spirit and the Earthly, Simultaneously Fight Exiles, Ogres and Elementals Quest For Artefacts of Power For Your Tribe THE HUNTER THE STONES THE SPIRITS THE TRIBE Stares Deep - A Campaign Appendix "Our Storyteller taught us that the StoneTooth Tribe was born of the Rock. For many years our ancestors fed on pebbles and boulders before the Great Sprit fashioned the plants and animals that we feed on today. From dust we came and to dust we shall return." "There are patterns in the cliffs and on boulders which the Storyteller taught us are the birthmarks of our ancestors. On Spirit Days we dress these clefts and marks with flowers, and paint them with clay and ochre." "When I became a Hunter, I had to recite the names of all of my ancestors and I had to climb The Pinnacle and spend three nights and three days atop its terrifying height. When I returned I was looked upon as a Hunter of the Rock, a Hunter of the StoneTooth People, a Hunter of the Tribe. Finally my family prepared to welcome me into their Clan.. Our Clan Spirit is FireFoot - the Horse Spirit and he tested me severely. With help from my Clan Folk I had to steal the tail-hairs of a wild horse identified as sacred by the Storyteller. Three hairs cost me a broken nose and two black eyes - but I was at last a Hunter of the Clan alongside my Kin. The hard won hair I braided with horse hide as a fillet for my pony-tail." "FireFoot has granted me his powers of speed and quickness that I may hunt for the Tribe and bring honour upon my Clan. My Kin have taught me many things; they have imparted to me knowledge of the seasons, of the trail, of the forests and the hills, they have taught me how to pitch a camp and strike it in the morning, how to to fish for bream in the rivers, how to make a spear, a blade, a bow, boots, clothes and everything else I may need. They taught me the way of spirits and the duties of a Hunter. Finally I learnt an extra skill since each Hunter must strive to outdo his Kinsmen in one activity. My talent is for jumping and leaping. My father knows well the art of healing wounds with herbs, while my brother-in-law knows the courses and ways of the local rivers and is an excellent swimmer." "My Clan call me Two Tongues because they find my laughter strange. They say it sounds like two people laughing at once! My wife was formerly a member of the Cave Bear Clan, but she has been given a warm welcome by FireFoot and by my Kinsmen also. She is called SweetSun (the Great Spirit bless her)." "Before I leave you for the hunt, I will show you my Kit, for I made all of it with my own hands. I wear a tunic of deerskin under a jacket of fox fur. My leggings are also of fox fur and my boots are of seal-skin and bison hide. I carry fur mittens and a shelter of seasoned willow wood staves that will support a tent skin made of wild cattle (auroch). I have two spears, one tipped with a good flint blade, the other tipped with a serrated bone blade. The flint spear is heavy and deadly, the bone spear is lighter and can be thrown a long way. My backpack is made of auroch hide and covered with a thatch of bound reeds to keep the rain off. This soft leather pouch here contains my tools. If I open it out you can see my flint scraper, a hole borer, a flint slicer, a flint sparker, a flint axe and a chopper. In this other pouch I keep sinew thread and a bone needle (my most treasured possession). This pouch also keeps my sphagnum moss dry - I will use that as tinder to start a fire out on the trail." "You've already seen the band for my pony-tail. But around my neck I wear a hare's foot which gives me the power to leap and jump as I do. Every skill and talent must have a physical correlation for it to work. The Storyteller calls this 'magic' but for my Kinsmen it is just the way of things." "My uncle is calling me. We are ready for the trail. We are expecting snow today, and that will mask the sounds of our movement from the deer. And we are expecting to meet the Spirit of the Yellow Forest (the Great Spirit bless us). Join us! I will show you the way ..." |
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