Welcome to the Jungle [Ugz & Rondun]

There was another startled noise from Ugz as the creature ripped the log off of it's own back to use as a weapon against his brother. "Hey! I was using that!" Indeed he had been. It was effectively what had been keeping him from sliding off of the moss-monster's back and away from his prize. Robbed of what he'd been using, he started to slide off of the plant's back, forcing him to stab it again and use the handhold that he gained from the knife piercing its skin to stay where he was. Which was largely looking longingly at the beetle which was still completely oblivious to what was going on around it.

“Well then brace yourself.”

Brace himself? Brace himself on what? Ugz got a better grip on his switchblade and clung for dear life to the weapon as the monster began to try in earnest to kill his brother. In truth, watching from over it's shoulder even he could admit that his brother was an impressive player. He really seemed to know what he was doing; attacking when the creature was vulnerable and blocking its strikes with his shield.

Not that Ugz would ever say such a thing.

Instead the small goblin waited for the monster to hit the ground and then rolled away toward his prize, grabbing up the odd-looking beetle and yelling his victory. "YEA!" He quickly stashed the beetle in his inventory and grinned at his brother for just a second before he remembered to scowl. "I mean, lets get this back to the man who wanted it."

Ugz smiled! That was all the victory he needed. Rondun smiled at his brother even when he returned to his usual scowl. This was all he needed out of this mission. He let grind his mace down one last time to ensure the creatures death. Before sheathing his shield and mace completely.

“Sure, but let me to make things a little easier.” He turned back to the water. It started to churn a little with dark shadows moving about underneath the surface. His blood must have attracted them, it was a little bit but a good size swarm has landed. Thankfully the log didn’t disintegrate with the monster so he didn’t hesitate to hull the whole thing fully out of the water and put the ends to both side of the shore.

He reequipped the mace again and entered the water. The shadows swarmed about his legs and he could completely confirm they are piranhas. So low levelled they barely made a dent in his health pool, with some miss coming out from above their head. He completely ignored them and just pushed the log to a steadier position before walking all the way to the other side of the shore. Having lost precisely one point of health throughout the whole trek, even with some more determined fish latching on to his feet and not even breaking the leather wrappings around his feet. He just shook them off into the water and waited for Ugz to come back to the other side.

For a moment he thought about just carrying his little brother, but he hasn’t done that since they were little boys and he wasn’t sure if he would appreciate it. Would it be even weirder to voice it out? He didn’t want to coddle him too much, Ugz is a preteen right now and he find it best to let them slowly sort out their head and just be supportive, but he could be just a bit more supportive.

Of course he voiced none of this, just let his thought runs in circle as he waited.

Admittedly Ugz was distracted, looking in his inventory at the bug that he had managed to successfully capture. It hardly mattered at all to him that his brother had helped. It was him that had caught the thing! Speaking of his brother, the dumb bunny had forgotten to loot the plant corpse! Ugz quickly took care of that for him, finding little enough in its corpse. It seemed that the plant didn't have much need for cool equipment or other items so all it had on it were some partially digested... bits.

Ugz made a sound not unlike his name and turned to check on his brother only to find that the man was currently wading through the stream in order to make sure that the log he'd placed over it was in place. Awesome! Now he wouldn't have to walk through the water himself and get all wet again. Ugz trekked away from the plant monster's disappearing corpse and nimbly hopped up on top of the log.

Later, much later, after he'd turned in his beetle and gotten the promised reward Ugz convinced his brother to come with him and celebrate with ice cream. They had just enough reward money for the treat, and Ugz thought that it was a fine way to spend the money. Sitting in the ice cream shop he stabbed his spoon into the offending mango sherbet with obvious enthusiasm and looked around at the other goblins that were wandering around the area. "Okay. Maybe we can play again. It wasn't that bad."

Ugz grinned, flashing all sharp teeth and bit into his treat savagely. No, he could get used to this.