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The Prospect of Plenty

You decide to keep looking for at least a little while longer. You still have daylight to work with, and your gargantuan stomach has started grumbling again with even greater force, as if complaining in response to the mere idea of going without a meal. Having regained your wits, you continue to wander deeper into the forest.

It is only a few minutes before your perseverance appears to pay off. A sudden shift in the wind grants you a whiff of something that smells like… you’re not certain what is smells like, but it’s an animal, that’s certain enough. You follow the scent, quickly coming across deep hoof-prints in the snow – a deer! Strangely, something appears to have been dragged through the snow over the prints, obscuring some of them with its own indentation. You resolve to follow the hoof-prints regardless, going as stealthily as a beast of your proportions can manage.

You follow the tracks for only a few minutes more when, following the tracks around a pile of boulders, you finally spot your quarry. It’s a deer, as you suspected, an enormous eight-point buck What you hadn’t suspected was what the deer had been dragging - the buck sports a hanging, nearly spherical gut between his four powerful legs, so big it drags along the ground. At current, the deer is hunched over and panting heavily, apparently exhausted from carrying this burden.

How the deer got so large escapes you, but it’s the furthest thing from your mind as your mouth begins to water with anticipation. "What a find!" you think to yourself, "my first find is a deer too tired to run and big enough to make a full meal by itself!" Suddenly, the deer lifts its head, quizzically sniffing the air, and laboriously pulls itself to its feet. You are still a good fifty feet from it. What do you do?


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