Sean ran through the forest the trees flying by as he fled from the barking hounds pursuing him. The young slim half-elven man's green eyes were wide as he summoned his power and a skunk emerged from a log spraying him full on making him choke and cough. He dropped to the ground and rolled around as his control slipped and the power within burst out roots springing from the ground and wrapping around his wrists and ankles binding him tight. Sean cursed heavy as his spell backfired and tried to remember the counterspell but the stench of skunk kept him from concentrating.
Darth followed the hounds as they tracked the mage/thief who had been stealing from the houses of the wealthy village of Cocks Landing. Coming over the hill the hounds whined and stopped backing up as the wind picked up and Darth caught the whiff of skunk. Darth put a cloth over his nose and plunged on knowing something had to trigger the event. As he crested the hill, He had to laugh seeing the thief strung up by his own magic. Darth walked over as the wave of skunk funk rolled in waves off the half-elf and pulled out a anti magic slave collar and locked it around the neck of the mage. The roots receded into the ground as Darth grabbed the mages hands and bound them with a leather thong. Darth took his lasso out and tied one end of the rope to the mages waist and walked out as far as the rope would go and led the mage back towards the village.
Sean coughed hard at the pungent stench reeking from his clothing as he was led by the Human back towards the village unable to focus clearly. His eyes watered and he staggered behind the tall bald middle aged man trying to focus but the countermagic in the collar on his neck keeping him from gathering power. At the edge of the village the man stopped and walked towards him with a knife cutting off his pungent clothing and tossing them onto a burn pile leaving him only in a loincloth that had seen better days.