Soot's Journal: Manic Mammoth!

21th of Hammer, 1512 DR
 
We followed the wolves back to the Frost Giant's home. Find a dead whale and snap off a rib for my chieftain necklace. We encounter the giant's mammoth who is mourning the death of the giant. The giant's body is in an icy coffin. The mammoth attacks us so I attack. I rage and ignite my hammer, and summon Cinder. The mammoth knocks Luna unconscious, but I teleport her away with Cinder and Electra heals her with a potion.
 
The mammoth reels back in front of me and gores me with its tusks. Its sharp ivory pierces my skin and coats my fur in warm red blood. The pain motivates me as I hear Luna start to wake up behind me. Bloodlust consumes me as I life my hammer to the sky and bring it down onto the head of the mammoth, swinging it back up again into its stomach and lifting it slightly off the ground. I hear crunching of ribs as my hammer impacts the mammoth, and it starts to cower before me. I lower myself and let out a massive roar of anger, nothing but desire to kill the creature overflowing within me. Behind me, I hear the echo of Luna shouting, and suddenly a blinding light shoots over me, impacting the mammoth and killing it.
 
With triumph finally upon us, I climb on top of the mammoth and let out another roar, as I start to break off one of its tusks as a trophy of our victory! But, as the bloodlust begins to wane, I see out the front door that Dyleth is unconscious in the snow! I had no idea that he had been following us, and panic started rushing through me as I realized all my friends are at risk of dying. As I start to dash out the window, I call upon my nature powers to heal my wounds and call Cinder to teleport us like a burning phoenix a bit closer. Getting closer, I could also see that Madu was knocked out in the snow too!
 
Knowing that I could not heal them from far away, the nature powers take control and reform my body into that of a large stallion! I gallop towards them and revert back whenever I get close. However, my panic seems to have been a bit unnecessary, as when I arrived Luna healed them all from a distance... However, when they stood up, I healed them with my paws, and told them we needed to find those children.
 
Madu started attacking strange and said that the wolves attacked him and then ran off. Make sense to me, we never should have trusted those evil and vile winter wolves. However, once we collected out senses, we entered the bottom section of the building and found the two children in a cage!
 
They seemed scared of me at first, but I told them my name, gave them some food, and held out fire to warm them as Madu broke upon the cage. Afterwards, they ran into my arms, and I carried them out and kept them warm. On the way out, Luna convinced us all the investigate the throne room now that the mammoth was dead, and we went back into to check things out.
 
Inside the throne room, Madu came to learn that on the throne there was a giant rune for "Ice" on the throne itself. However, as Dyleth went to touch it, it began to glow a chilling blue color. So, I scooped up the children and rushed out of the room with the party in case the rune did anything while we were alone. We walked into the next room and found a massive bedroom with a tunnel in the corner. The hole was massive and smelled of whale oil.
 
After a long journey, we make it back to the Dougan's Hole and find a carnival of tents outside of the town. The kids ask to go home immediately, so Electra and I take them back while the others approach the carnival... as much as I really really wanted to go. The little cubs lead us back to their home where we find their mother. She is very greatful, but she does not have any shiny pieces to pay us. She does however give me a pair of navy blue fur lined boots! They feel really warm whenever I hold them, so I was thinking maybe they are magical? She also gives us two greater healing potions, and agrees to let us stay there!
 
She does mention though, that her deceased husband, who last owned the boots, was actually her brother... It got very awkward for a moment, and then I realized that is probably why the kids look a little messed up... Anywho, Electra and I rush away to go back to the group! On the way back to the carnival, I started to investigate and analyze the booties. I could tell for sure that they were like super magical, and then after some deduction I realized that these are Boots of the Winterlands!
 
~ Soot Isbjorn