Monster Challenge Part 1

Walking in the moonlight while clutching her sniper rifle and feeling the wind blow her hair about, Diana was on familiar turf when she came to the Abandoned Cabin. She had been here before to retrieve the golden necklace with the ruby pendant for the youth whose name she never learned. The last time she was here there were a dozen zombies standing just outside the cabin and a few more zombies inside the cabin, but tonight there were not any, which was quite strange. The blonde knelt and looked through her scope to see why that was.

A quick glance through the scope showed that something had killed and partially eaten the zombies. She did not know what creature would willingly prey on rotting corpses because most scavenging animals tended to keep clear of zombies unless they had been killed for a second time. She was not getting paid to ask questions about the undead. She was getting paid to bring in a dead animal for a mage who questioned her worth.

Diana lowered her rifle and looked all around her to make sure that no zombies were shambling towards her while she was distracted with looking straight ahead. Getting tunnel vision in the middle of zombie-infested territory was a good way to get eaten and join their ranks. Fortunately for the blonde, there were no walking corpses in the area to threaten her while she looked for the target. She switched to night vision and looked around the cabin for her quarry.

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Diana Winchester rolls one Normal Die.

The member 'Diana Winchester' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Normal Dice' :

Diana was seeing nothing in night vision, so she switched to infrared vision and soon picked up a large heat signature that could just barely be spotted behind the cabin. Diana raised her scope to get an aim on the target. Because she had sanction to do this job, she did not have to worry about poaching or being stopped at the border. All she had to do was kill it and drag it back as proof to the doubting mage that the blonde was not someone to dismiss. The only reason she was even doing this was to make the Cursed Lands just a tiny bit safer... and the money, so those were two reasons for taking the job.

Diana noticed small patches of scorched grass, so what she was targeting had to be a fire-based creature. It was a good thing that she did not have to get close to her target in order to kill it. The blonde dropped to a knee and waited until the target meandered from behind the cabin and to the front door. It was that moment where she saw her quarry. It was a red goblin with numerous yellow spikes that was almost the height of a grown man and looked vaguely like a dinosaur with a sword... it looked in her direction briefly, then turned its head away to look towards the woods.

While she had never seen anything like it before, that changed nothing. Diana was here to kill it and drag it back as proof and she was going to kill it before it even knew she was here. Lowering her rifle and looking around for zombies one last time, Diana confirmed that she was safe before aiming at the red creature's head.

She took a breath and slowly squeezed the trigger, firing a Full Metal Jacket round that connected with its head and made it tumble forward and sprawl face-down like a puppet whose strings had been cut. Not wanting to take a chance that it was still alive and only playing dead, she fired another shot into its head to be absolutely sure that it was dead. Once its head jerked from the shot but otherwise remained motionless, the blonde knew that it was dead.

She searched the cabin and found an old but still serviceable tarp that she could use to drag its body along with. With great effort, the blonde shoved its corpse onto the tarp and bundled up one end, dispelling her rifle and bringing out her pistol in case the zombies came out to play. Diana then began dragging the dead goblin behind her while certain that this kill would prove to the mage that she was a huntress worthy of the name. After several tense minutes of walking she left the cabin behind without encountering a single zombie or other undead menace. She put away her pistol and dragged the tap with both hands to make better time... she wondered what the challenger would have to say once Diana brought him indisputable proof of the kill.

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