The Devil's Nest, Thursday Evening

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Thor's plans for the day had been somewhat stymied by the lack of functional knives on the island, but it was fine. He had merely had to rearrange his plans for tomorrow somewhat, and apologize to Don for having to do so.

Now he was keeping a close eye on Tiny, since his current architectural endeavors seemed to involve candy canes and if they suddenly turned back into knives, that seemed likely to end poorly.

Specials
Glögg
Spiked Peppermint Hot Chocolate

The Devil's Nest is open!

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"I don't know what Glögg is," said Gladio, after giving Tiny a nod of approval for more seasonal artistic pursuits, he always loved to see it, and reaching the bar with a nod of greeting to Thor, "but I know I wanna try it. How's it going, Thor?"

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"Tis a form of mulled wine," Thor told him. "Superior to what came from the faucets a few days ago." Because it had more alcohol in it. "It goes well," he added. "I had good hunting this morning, though I had to travel to find proper hunting grounds." Not a lot of wild boar in Maryland, as it turned out.

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"Yeah," Gladio's grumbling sigh was sympathetic and understanding, "hunting's not great around here. Just not a whole lot out there, and what they do have is pretty tiny, especially with what I'm used to hunting back home. And that's not even getting into all the regulations and restrictions, too..."

Thank gods for portals, the danger shop, and necromancy to help him keep that particular itch scratched.

"But good on you for finding something," he added. "What'd ya catch?"

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"A boar," Thor reported. "I would have settled for elk, but a full-grown boar is a more worthy opponent."

A moose would have been the most fun, but trickier to get on the spit.

"What sort of game do you hunt at home?"

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And that question definitely got Gladio's grin back without much effort.

"Behemoths," he answered, a big wistfully, but eagerly, thinking of all the hunts he'd been on and how many more there still were ahead of him. "Garula. Bulettes. Daggerquills and dualhorns. Seadevils, saberclaws, voretooths....man." He shook his head, chuckling. "I could go on...but Eosian beasts really are a different breed. But, hey, now that the portals open again, maybe I can take you sometime and you can see what I mean first hand."

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"Ah," Thor said in tones of fond nostalgia. "I have hunted such beasts in other realms. Perhaps not the same ones, but...of a similar nature, I suspect. But the beasts of Midgard have their charms, as well." Even if there were regulations against hunting most of the really fun ones because humans had gone and endangered them. Tsk.

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You had to respect the balance!

"Oh, man," Gladio's grin grew even more as he shook his head with his own stirring of nostalgia, "that just makes me think of the midgardsormrs we've taken down. They're real nasty pieces of work, but pretty satisfying once you get 'em down.

"Around here," he laughed a little, "it's mostly just been deer at my girlfriend's place, but she only lets me go for one or two at a time," and he felt kind of bad doing more than that, anyway, they were so gentle and just minded their own business, "and whatever shows up on the island on occasion, but I'm not sure you can really count those as regular hunting.