crossbow and a hundred steel bolts with the rest of my money. I intend not to come back to Balmora for some time, if ever.
I headed north from Balmora for the first time, to Caldera. At a crossroads, I found another of those proboscis-wolf-insects - it was engrossed in eating something and didn't hear me approach. I got close enough to shoot it with the crossbow. What a handy little weapon! Miles easier to aim than a bow, much lighter and compact too. The proboscis-wolf is not in the Guide to Vvardenfell. I got a good, long look at it: they are the size of a very large wolf, with light carapaces, but heavier shells
toward the front, around their neck and throat specifically. They have four legs, much like the Kwama worker's but leaner, uncannily like a dog's. All four are digitigrade and align vertically with their torso in the same way, instead of jutting out sideways like a lizard or spider's. They have red, pupiled eyes, and what appeared at first to be a three-part mouth: a proboscis and two pincers, but after observing a dead one up close, the pinsers are actually the jointed sixth limbs of the animal, and attach to the very front of the thorax. They use them to hold and manipulate the bodies of their prey while feeding.
Perhaps it was paranoid of me, but