Hunters Challenge [Festival Hunt Team Signups]

[ooc] Okay, this festival will be running well into summer ooc, I think, but dammit I am going to make this work. Bear with me, loves!

Cairo and Ardyn were the first to arrive, and Aurielle nodded at Cairo’s words, jotting him down for a randomized team. Ardyn received a bemused, semi-proud, semi-exasperatedly loving stare as he announced his desire to hunt bison. Not this year, boyo. She had plenty of trust in her children’s strengths, but there were points in life where mother did indeed know best.

She had to repress a shudder at the thought of her son trampled beneath the hooves of a bison, turning her attention to a pair – woman and pup – as they arrived. It was clearly the child entering, and Aurielle smiled down at the boy with a nod. “It’s lovely to meet you, Ulfr.”

Casso and Nolan arrived next, and Aurielle chuckled as her cousin chivied the older cousin into the crowd. “I’ll be sure to do that, Nolan. Hello Casso,” She added with a smile as the darker male was nudged into easy earshot, “How are you doing in Winterfell?”

She wasn’t sure where her alliance with Winterfell would go. The consideration that Acere would raid a perceived ally at the behest of a band of slavers worried her, made her reassess her character evaluation of the northern King. She didn’t know yet about the raid on Ashen, though that had no effect on Valhalla regardless.

A young man arrived next, though she thought she smelled Lirim on the breeze, and smiled warmly at him. A young girl from Aerie pranced up, and Aurielle realized that this was one of Ardyn’s friends. To be young and innocent again… hah.

The girl wasn’t alone, a man that was obviously her father hanging back. She flashed the man a grin before another woman arrived, a loner by her scent, and finally, Aslaug. “No one’s late in this.”

The glowing white Spirit waited for a few minutes more, scanning the distance before she turned to the group, pleased that they had even numbers enough that everyone would have partners in their team. Running her eyes over the group she made the random, snap decision of who would be with whom.

She announced the teams for each competition, with some overlapping for the bison hunt. Then she turned to the pups, completing, “Ardyn, Ulfr, and Dantalian, you three will hunt together, as there are only the three of you.”

She turned to the group as a whole and said, “You may work out among you who will be team leader of your teams. Work out your strategies. Hunt well, and have fun. For those wishing to also do solo hunting and skinning, you have that option as well between team hunts.”

[OOC: Though they weren’t all posted here, I’m listing those that entered via the Plotting festival announcement. Teams are in charge of posting their own hunts so you won’t have to wait on me to start you off <3]