INKTOBER '20 #18 - Trap

One can imagine that big city means a certain degree of polished civilization. And while that is certainly true, they often forget that big cities tend to have their own lowly issues - in this case, it’s rowdy animals. Wild dogs, hissy cats, venom spitting gorgons and free running gnolls. Mangy, canny, running scams on every corner, terrorizing slums with their invasive odour and rabid disposition. Fortunately, where there is game, you will find hunters, and the city didn’t have to look long for a boisterous volunteer to cull down the pests and make short work of the wild running animals. Meet Sir Roderick Trapesta of the Venus Clan - an avid hunter with a taste for something new. And the urban jungle, as he calls it, is a completely new environment to tackle in his esteemed career. Sure, the beasts lurking in dark alleyways might not be the biggest nor the grandest he ever took down, but the street vermin has a low cunning unmatched by any truly wild beast, for they had to find new ways and tactics to survive and even thrive in such dense, populated and dangerous habitat as the great sprawling city. And so, he became the Head of, and so far the only member of the City Pound, which mostly didn’t take the wildened critters off the streets but just took them off the list of the living.