Ug'luk is stupid. Ug'luk is a troll. But every now and again even stupid things come up with ideas. This is how Ug'luk's idea came into being. Ug'luk is hungry Ug'luk is always hungry it seems. Ug'luk wanted not to be hungry anymore so Ug'luk was doing what he did best. Ug'luk was hunting. Ug'luk smelled a man, the easiest scent to follow due to the power of it. He followed the scent, which eventually led to a large human. The human was staring at a piece of paper. Seeing his chance Ug'luk was about to attack when he recognized something. The angry human face on the paper was nothing. Most of the symbols and markings meant nothing as well. But Ug'luk as stupid as he was, was bright for a troll. He knew numbers, well knew very basic things about numbers. One of these things he knew about numbers was their use to show an amount of gold. Known in the villages and townships as Crowns. He didn't know how much 5,000 or 10,000 crowns were. But he had seen what was described as 100 crowns in an elf's attempt to buy its freedom. The elf was tasty and the ax he bought with the crowns lasted him quite some time. Now the large man had mentioned collecting the reward to the angry face on the paper. Why the man was talking to faces on paper Ug'luk would never be able to comprehend. But if the man could lead him to the money the paper spoke of then Ug'luk would probably be set for a while. Now a troll, even a bright one, making that many connections to form an idea to follow this man to steal this gold was amazing. Never mind it took him about 2 hours of fierce concentration and he nearly lost the scent of the man completely. But in the end he did form this idea and he did follow the man.
Following the man was a good idea but unfortunately it did not solve the hunger problem which left Ug'luk in a predicament. He had to follow the large man but he also needed to eat. Despite how much he wanted to, Ug'luk had firmly decided not to eat this man no matter what, so that was out of the question. During day one of the mutual hunt Ug'luk thought of using the man's horse for a meal but realized that the man would notice the lack of a horse and probably realize something was up. By day two Ug'luk was starting to get really hungry. He thought, "maybe if I just nibbled a bit on the horse and left it mostly intact.... No no the man would notice that too and I would be caught." Now as day three rolled around Ug'luk was spending all of his free time trying to find a way the horse could have an "accident" then the man would leave the horse behind. Unfortunately his most creative idea involved a thrown rock, which he would have tried, if it weren't for the fact he couldn't find a big enough rock . This was maddening, for he had seen so many big rocks along the way before he had actually begun looking for one! By the forth day plans and such were beyond him. The horse and its potential to become a meal were all encompassing, the horse was life. He would eat the horse that night.