Arc:The Most Dangerous Game

Rumors of a skilled organization of poachers have begun to spread. Their targets are extremely large and dangerous creatures, including dragons. Several members of The Eyrie have already been touched by the threat of this elusive enemy... The dryad Madigan raises a dragon orphaned due to the poachers. Satoshi's companion, the couatl Emiur, was captured by them, leaving behind a clutch of five eggs now in her and Svilfon's care. Others still have likely had their fates interwoven with these hunters. Hunters that are quickly becoming the hunted...

The Couatl Clutch

• The smallest egg has a velvet-soft shell the color of new Spring grass. -Entrusted to Svilfon
  • Status: Hatched. Named Alahir. Wings presently are the vibrant hues of desert nomad art.

• The second smallest egg is porcelain soft and colored like pale Jade. -Entrusted itself to Iintahquohae
  • Status: Hatched. Named Pinquettki. Scales of lime and turquoise.

• The middle egg has a firm, smooth shell of a deep hunter green. -Entrusted to Hildegarde
  • Status: Hatched. Named Kenway. Scales are teal colored and wings iridescent.

• The second largest egg has a slightly bumpy shell that's deep viridian in color. -In Satoshi's care
  • Status:Hatched. Named Emielle. Scales are variegated blue and wings are colorless.

• The largest egg has a scaly surface and is a rich emerald in color. -Entrusted to Daisy
  • Status: Hatched. Named Mamoru. A couatl considerably larger than his siblings. Stalwart, protective, and a hint lazy.

Known

• These details are OOC information for the sake of consistency among RPers in the Arc, unless you have been specifically told ICly about them--or were the ones to find the information yourself. Please add further details to this list as RPs develop, so that everyone is on the same page in the Arc. Thank you.

There is a tunnel opening that leads further into the caverns from the cavity where Kirien and Madigan had made their find. This was the only obvious entrance they spotted into the cavity, however they didn't explore it and instead went back the way they entered (through a shaft in the rock ceiling Madigan had fallen through accidentally). Feel free to explore this tunnel, but for the sake of consistency, link the setting details with that of the original RP (i.e., don't walk into the Craughmoyle cavern and say you see the tunnel straight ahead because that's not how Kirien and Madigan came across it, but feel free to start your RP at the specific tunnel's entrance to skip irrelevant details).

• Some activities take place in Craughmoyle's caverns

• Potential leads found in Venturil

• What they do to captured dragons:
  • chain down/trap/restrict movement
  • declaw, rip out all teeth, cut off whole tail, de-scale
  • smash eggs
  • torture, starve

• The poachers:
  • little/short (perhaps dwarves, gnomes, hobbits, or other small race)
  • skilled, fast, and efficient, leaving few trails or clues behind
  • ruthless and ambitious
  • They pay others to scout out potential captures
  • These hired hands are not privy to many details about the group
  • There is the corpse of a dead poacher west of the causeway in Venturil that could perhaps hold some clues to any who find it

• There is a branch of them in Frostmaw, with a highly defended hideout

Chapters

1. The Initial Spark
2. A Different Kind of Tracking
3. The Beasts Within
4. A Tracker Recruited
5. A Prince in Desert Feathers
6. Hunters and the Hunted
7. A Twin Hatching
8. Kissed by Chaos
9. Gifts from Kits and Kittens
10. Futile Attempts at Picking Fights
11. Moral Codes and Machiavellian Masks
12. A Clash of Silvers, an Eidolon Realized
13. Burning Off Energy Too Literally
14. A Trap for Mice and Men, Part 1
15. A Trap for Mice and Men, Part 2
16. A Trap Divided: A story running parallel to Ch. 17
17. Brother's Keeper: A story running parallel to Ch. 16
18. Into the Teeth
19. As Threads That Bind Us
20. Silence is All You Know