Brazen Wolfe Tabletop

The Largest Catch

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The party eventually found the source of the stemmed water. A ramshackle but functional dam had been created in the middle of the stream causing the wet season river to well up and flood a well established pool into something even more. A small hake had been falling behind the dam and several trees that had once been at the rivers edge now had several feet of water encroaching up their trunks.

As the party looked over the waters surface they noticed a bunch of leaves moving across the waters surface. Not thinking much of it as the volume of water backed up behind this dam consisting of mud, trees and rocks was quite active as the currents swirled behind it. But soon they saw the leaves and connected branches were occasionally moving against the current as if something was caught on the other end.

Sil pointed at it a few heart beats after they had noticed. ‘There’s a fish or something big trapped in that branch. Its got to be the creature that attacked me!’ before waiting for a reply she was climbing up the more solid parts of the dam where they formed a natural blockade where a large rocky outcrop rose out of the soil.

Within moments the party were following her up the rocks and dirt and they watched as she hurled a silken rope with a large weighted hook at one end at the branches. It struck true and as she hauled on it the rope went tight. within moments she was being pulled towards the water and if it wasn’t for her throwing herself around a tree at the now-lakes edge she would have been dragged into the water.

‘I don’t remember it being this strong!’ she called out as the party reached her. The rope had managed to wrap itself around her wrist and as it pulled her arm became tangled and stuck between rope and the trunk of the tree. As the party added their strength to this side of the tug of war they could feel the power of the creature on the other end. Not only was it pulling against them but against the current to and only after a few minutes of heaving on the rope did it start to tire and they started gaining more ground again.

Suddenly the tension was lost and the party fell back into the wet soil with Sil. They hauled in the branch expecting an exhausted monstrous fish on the other end but instead the lower parts of the branch had been stripped clean of its bark and branches and saw like markings could be found long it all. As they examined the branch the waters surface broke as two eyes watched them from the surface as the creature crept closer.

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