98th - Mountable Creatures

98th MOUNTABLE CREATURES

For the 98th Hunger Games, two optional mountable creatures will be available in select parts of the arena for tributes to try their hand at taming. Any attempts at catching one of these majestic creatures must be included in a written post, with a Trapping attempt (see non-combat rolls). We encourage tributes to get creative in their ideas, be it a looped lasso, taming through a song, finding the right place to scritch, offering up a dead rabbit, you name it, we’re excited to see your tributes try.

Special Notes: Tributes who take the Charisma, Trapping, or Mutt Tamer stations will succeed on their taming roll as if they had the Trapping Station, i.e. succeeding on a 1 in a 1-2 dice roll. Tributes without the listed stations will roll as if Trapping without the station, i.e. succeeding on an 8-10, in a 1-10 die roll.

Tributes may only attempt to claim one creature. Once one is claimed, another may not be caught after, even in the event of the mount's death. Tributes with mountable creatures do not grant tributes additional movement, and if the tribute dies, their mountable creature will flee to their home region unless otherwise decided by their writer. Do clear other plots regarding the mounts with your GM’s, pretty please!

Mounts must be noted in tribute maintenance, but do not take up inventory slots.

PEGASI

The regal mirror to their foes across the bay on the northern island, the Pegasi who populate the FLOWERY FOREST are much easier to find than their prowling, skittish descendants. They dance the border between the ponds and the forest, dipping hooves in the shallow pools before looping back towards a grove at the south end of the woods, their main home, though they roam all the nearby skies. While the evidence isn’t obvious, those paying attention would notice that all the pegasi have a golden sheen to their feathers that exactly matches that of the glow in the wyvern’s eyes. The story goes that a devil shore the gold-tipped feathers from a pegasi's wings as part of the process in creating the wyvern genome, leaving them without the grace of the more equestrian creature, their eyes and their broad wings the only evidence of their ancestry. Fearless and loyal, these creatures mate for life, unlikely to leave the side of whoever they believe will lead them towards the light. 

WYVERN

Such lonely, lost things, locked away in the cage of leaves and tall grass on the overgrown island out past the bay. Deep in THE WILDS, the land suggests to you over and over that these creatures were once much larger beasts than the ones that hide amongst the thickets now. The first sign of them is always their eyes, those glowing golden orbs cutting through a shadow. After that, hope you have luck on your side, because these fearsome, flying foes are as prone to pouncing on you to play as they are to nipping your head from your shoulders. A wyvern turned skeleton, spine the length of the training center’s elevator shaft, populates the majority of a clearing where more playful, friendly spirits like to curl up for their afternoon naps. Wiser tributes will look for their mounts their, while other may trek deeper amongst the jungle in search of wilder things.