the grand deer of ice charges towards the camp, leaving a trail of ice pillars behind in it's wake, as it go's through the camp, it doesn't stop, and literally just charges past most of the people, but still flash freezing or harming several either with its ice or its own massive girth, but before running off, it looks back, and huffs at the humans
the elder, like all others in the tribe, is reasonably upset by this rapid-fire of attacks, the hunters also desiring to kill and skin the beast, for its eye-catching white coat, they want to bring along some of the crafters, healers, and magic users[the terms used being makers, shamans, and stick wavers, respectively] to ensure that the "winter bringer elk" will not harm them again. vake and khic come along on the expedition to better study the new creature that they can tell was a side effect of the wish stone explosion, being local heroes, they are quickly accepted into it. khic being surrounded by the male hunters, and vake being fawned over by the mostly female magic users.
the beast left behind an obvious trail of dead and frozen plants and animals, leaving no shortage of direction or food for the expedition to follow. the path mostly grassland was also a help, the trip lasted days, if not a week of following the trail of carnage, the group got more excited and peeved as time went on, desiring to end the creature responsible for such death. some like vake, were interested in how it killed so effectively, as well as how it made snow and ice appear regardless of the weather.
after following it for so long, they finally caught sight of it, resting curled up in the center of a clearing it made from its mere presence. the hunters drew up a plan of action(mostly in the dirt with Xs and Os to indicate the ones that will use weapons, and the ones that use magic from a distance, as well as a crude image of the elks head to indicate it) khic offering his 2 cents on how the magic users could distract it, while the hunters sneak up and bash it's legs in from behind, vake giving her response to that plan, by pulling on his ear to lead him away to "have a chat with him", ultimately, they decided to have both hunters and magic users distract and damage it in turns, and from all angles, to cut off its escape.
after the group got into their positions, they waited until they remembered that they forgot to think up a signal of attack until the lead hunter took the initiative and rushed forward to club the elk's head to disorient it, prompting the first group to get up from hiding to assault the creature before it got properly ready to retaliate, the leader almost freezing to death when the elk suddenly gave him a literally ice stare, being saved by a magic-user throwing a fireball past him to heat up the remaining area between him and the ice elk. the beast seemingly having an aura of cold that keeps the fireballs from properly reaching it. the fireballs not just managing to do their job of distracting it from the hunters charging forward to break it's legs, but also to keep the close range hunters from freezing when they get close to the ice elk.
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after an hour of what could definitely be called a fight more than a hunt, the group manages to get it to fall over on its side from all the bloodloss and broken bones, the group suffering quite a few lacerations and broken ribs from the ice pillars and the creatures constant charging at them. the final blow was awarded to khic, due to his planning, and use of his summoned extra limbs to block the beasts' charges and to help others to get out of the way of them, keeping the casualties low, with only one or 2 people dying. khic took a spear, and shoved it through the beasts' eye, piercing its brain. vake and the ones dutied with stripping away its pelt and meat, gathered around the corpse, vake deciding to take the job of digging out it's guts, so she can get a better understanding of what "made it cold, not hot".
a different looking wish stone from the ones they have seen before is found inside its body, this one ice blue instead of the normal purple, after scratching some gore off it, a small animal seemed to pop out of it in a flash of light, it's size being able to fit in the palm of a hand, it looked like the ice dear, but more humanoid in posture and having only one antler, this creature being more docile than it's former container, it seems to blow cold air at the on holding it.
Vake looks at the stone, and the little being, and waves her scepter in the pattern reminiscent of the icey beast, and a strong drop in temperature happened in the direction she pointed it, causing the ground itself to blast upwards with small ice pillars.
DOO-DOO-DOO-DAAA, spell gained: elks gust, AKA small ice spell
TA-DA: vake has acquired the worlds first familiar: infant wendigo ice elemental
vake doesn't see the utility of the rune outside of combat and hunting just yet, but she will, eventually. the creature: she will fawn over for now.(narater takes out phone to play a rimshot)