[OOC: i just spent a WHOLE F*CKING HOUR typing out a reply in which i introduced my bounty hunters, got Aura out of the tree, and sent the bounties off to convenient places so Malice could dispose of them at his leisure. then the F*CKING UBB decided to suddenly delete the whole post for no reason. i can't be bothered to retype it, so i'm just going to give you a rough plot synopsis of what happened...
Aura saw a group of 11 people walking under her tree, and they helped her down. There was a Glukkon, Smick [if you remember him from the one post he has previously appeared in], a very Large Slig, Krik [not a bigbro, but almost as big from sheer training], and 9 muds. The two muds with particlular distinguishing features that Aura noticed were Hoan, a quite old-looking, slender mud who nevertheless moved quickly, lithely, and confidently, and a mud with incredibly bright green skin who didn't say much [Aura never found out his name]. They revealed themselves to be Bounty Hunters who had been sent after Malice.
Krik decided that he'd had enough of the others' indecisiveness and inaction, and ran off on his own to try and find Malice to kill him [Krik's philosophy is 'The Direct Approach is Always the Best Approach'...].
After a brief argument about what to do, Smick, Hoan, Aura, and the bright green mud headed off to Pyke to try and find Ludd, while the other 7 muds decided to scout out the area, to see if Malice had any particular base of operations, and to try and find out where he is now.
Just add some poetic language and first class descriptive writing, and you have what i posted before...
j/k...