Card 5a: Bird in Hand (Shaggar)
With Kiley pushing him to hurry, Shaggar's struggles pay off! He bursts free leaving only a modicum of skin behind. The duo races across the open hillside!
Card 4b: Take the Low Road (B-Bear #1)
As you clear the hedge, you hear a bugbear curse, a splash of a body hitting water and then a scream as 'someone' tumbles down a waterfall.
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Card 2: The Washout (B-Bear #2)
Further away, you hear another bugbear scream amid the sounds of loose rock coming down a hillside…
Card 6a: Hillside Scramble (Kiley & Shaggar)
The bridge is in sight! Can our heroes trick the bugbears to delay them? Do you really need to after you heard what accidents befell them?
Kiley thinks she sees a path forward that will hide her movements for the most part. Unfortunately...
Shaggar almost hides his tracks well...
Card 5b: Whirlpool (B-Bear #1)
The first bugbear survives the waterfall and bellyflops into a large turbulent pool. Can he make it to shore without drowning?
Unfortunately, he learns what it feels like to be in the spin cycle...
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Card 4b: Take the Low Road (B-Bear #2)
The second bugbear rolls down the washout and winds up on the lower path that Kiley used. Will he be able to ford the rapids and avoid the waterfall?
And he falls screaming down the waterfall and into the whirlpool, nearly landing on his partner!
Card 6a: Hillside Scramble (Kiley & Shaggar)
Our heroes have confused themselves more than the enemy. With the second time be the charm?
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Card 5b: Whirlpool (B-Bear #1 & #2)
Can they escape without drowning?
After getting chased by a badger for a bit, Kiley manages to get away from it and use its angry thrashing to cover her disappearance into the underbrush.
Shaggar contemplates his navel...
Card 5b: Whirlpool (B-Bear #1 & #2)
Can they escape without drowning? NOPE!
Finally Shaggar realizes the goal is to NOT leave prints...
Card 5b: Whirlpool (B-Bear #1 & #2)
... And the bugbears dog-paddle and claw themselves out of the whirlpool!
Card 7: Logroller (Kiley & Shaggar)
Our heroes are on the last steep and open slope before the bridge and the river! They are practically in the clear with the bugbears probably drowned. They have forgotten one crucial rule… bastards always have kin. High up the hill, they see a third bugbear. He cuts the ropes holding a dozen cut trees and send them rolling down the slope at our heroes! Can they escape this final death trap… or will they be turned into jam?
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Card 6b: Shoot the Rapids (B-Bear #1 & #2)
Out of the watery frying pan and into the fire… The bugbears escape the whirlpool only to fall into a cataract and rapids that lead toward the bridge. Can they avoid the rocks and snares?
"تیز خرگوش!" Kiley yelps as she sees the third bugbear and the logs heading their way.
"Fluffy Bunnies!"
Once again, Kiley proves herself to be light on her feet as she practically dances through the barrage of logs. One hand reaches for her bow as fire lights in her eyes.
Shaggar turns to ask Kiley what she just said... and catches a tree right in the face.
The first bugbear manages to dodge the obstacle, reach the shore, and climb the bank near Kiley and Shaggar!
The second bugbear is getting kicked around in the rapids!
Card 7: Logroller (Shaggar & Bug #1)
Kiley has made it safely to the foot of the bridge and drawn her bow. Shaggar and a sodden bugbear are coming in her direction while trying to dodge bouncing logs!
Shaggar ducks beneath a log that smashes into the bugbear's ribs. Shaggar makes it to the relative safety of the bridge!
Then a second soaking bugbear climbs the embankment...
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Card 6b: Shoot the Rapids (B-Bear #2)
Kiley pulls out her bow and nocks an arrow. She ponders for a moment about which of the bugbears to target, and decides the one coming after her needs some persuasion on why that's a really bad idea.
Only to sigh as her shot pulls to the right.
"I need to put in more practice."
Card 8: Take it to the Bridge! (Kiley & Shaggar)
Our heroes are almost home free! They just need to make it across the bridge and hurdle a rampart without taking arrows from the zealous Nimeton defenders before them OR getting javelined from the bugbears behind them. How easy is that?!
Card 7: Logroller (Bugbears)
Them logs keep rollin...
Kiley slips through like a ghost.
Shaggar slips through like a monster truck.
And our heroes have reached Nimeton safely!
Kiley braces herself against her knees when she and Shaggar meet up safe and sound.
"A-are-- y-you-- *pant* al-- alright?"
He spits out a bloody and broken tooth from a face already turning purple from getting smacked with a tree trunk. "I'm great." He deadpans.
"Oh, Shaggar," Kiley says as she sees the state her friend is in. "Let's see if someone can help you out."
She grabs his hand and starts looking for a healer.