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[Remalle]

Pauly pauses for a moment to grin at his good luck.
He grabs the nearest pebble and tosses it into the puddle before carefully entering the pyramid, using his stick to trap check.

[Zako]

"Darn."

Try again, more carefully this time.

[Orb]

Spoiler: Turn 13: Mysterious Stick in The Sand (click to show/hide)

Find a trident shaped stick, or at least one that I could use as a weapon or more preferably, a tool.

Something flexible but sturdy would do.

In Axel's general direction, if possible.

[3] You wander into the jungle and end up next to Axel, somehow. He's throwing pebbles at a stick, stuck in the sand in a clearing.

He grabs the nearest pebble and tosses it into the puddle before carefully entering the pyramid, using his stick to trap check.

[4] You find a pebble in the clearing and toss it at the pond. It hits something in the water. Er.

Try again, more carefully this time.

[4] Your aim is true, and you hit the stick. The stick moves an inch back (like, falling down back) from the blow.

(-1 Pebble)

Spoiler: Additional Info (click to show/hide)

I think I'm going to make turns shorter for the next iteration. So you'll get less done in a turn, but it will take more turns for you to die of starvation. Just a thought

Spoiler: Campsite - Team 1 (click to show/hide)

1 Kindling
3 wet fire fuel (1 fuel = 10 turns for a small fire)
A-Frame

Spoiler: Bestiary (click to show/hide)

Whippersnap: A plant that is a good source of string/rope. Found in areas with high sunshine, and low moisture.

Ambush Snake: Makes it's dens in the rolling hills of the center and south. Ambushes prey nearing it's den with a paralytic toxin, allowing it to kill and consume it.

Pitcher Plant: Hostile. Vines. (?)

Black Fruit: (?)

Black and Yellow Fungus: Puffs (?)

Mutant Fern: Standing 8ft tall, it is the only one of its kind.

Spoiler: Profiles (click to show/hide)

Pauly: 2 Hunger
Big Stick^tm

Ferren: 2 Hunger
6 pebbles
Broken Rubber Band

Axel: 2 Hunger
6 Yards of String
1 Stone Axe
8 pebbles

[Remalle]

(I don't know, I kind of like having turns that are this long.)
Pauly grimaces.  What had he just hit?  After some consideration, he realizes what he's up against.
"Fuck!  It's the Watcher in the Water!"
Gripping his big stick firmly in both hands, (...) he lifts it over his head and brings it down on the water with all his strength.  If something attacks him he'll run, otherwise he'll continue into the pyramid as before.

[Tiruin]

"Fuck!  It's the Watcher in the Water!"

"Hey, you read that too?"

((Erp, supposed to be an OOC thing))
Ferren decided to ask Axel for some of his yards of string to form a Sling from what she had.

[Zako]

(Pauly is by the pryamid. We're out in the jungle. We can't hear him.)

Axel looked at Ferren and then looked back at the stick in the clearing.

"If you go grab that for me, I'll give you some. I don't like the feeling about it. I think it's a trap."

[Tiruin]

Oh dear, deals this early.

Ferren looked at the stick Axel was indicating, it could be a trap, and the deal felt somewhat one-sided if it was...but he had the measure to tell her of it.

"You have a deal."


Get yon stick.

[Zako]

"Cool. I'll help if I can if you get into trouble."

Watch carefully and keep a lookout for anything suspicious. Warn Ferren if something is coming straight at her or around her.

[Orb]

Spoiler: Turn 14: It's a Trap! (click to show/hide)

Gripping his big stick firmly in both hands, (...) he lifts it over his head and brings it down on the water with all his strength.  If something attacks him he'll run, otherwise he'll continue into the pyramid as before.

[4] You walk over to the pond. You think you see a rock in it. You're about a few yards away when something leaps out of the water and attacks you! You barely dodge it, with it nicking your left hand with razor sharp teeth. It lands into the foliage at the end of the clearing.

[2] You scream from being startled and the intense pain coming from your hand. You hear splashes behind you. Oh dear.

(+1 Light Injury to Left Hand. -1 to rolls involving that hand. You'll be able to ignore the pain in 4 turns.)

Get yon stick.

[4] You're about to walk into the clearing when you hear a scream to your right. A scream only Pauly could make.

You stop paying attention to what you're doing when your foot hits the sand. It's quicksand. You quickly lose your balance and fall face first. Gripping for anything to hold yourself up, you find the long stick floating in the quicksand. Gripping it with both hands while rapidly sinking, you push it down until you hit solid ground, pushing you up.

Only your head and part of your shoulders can be seen from the surface. You'll need to be creative or get some help to get out of this one.

(To get the stick, you had to 'swim' to the center of the quicksand, so you're just out of reach of Axel by hand)

Watch carefully and keep a lookout for anything suspicious. Warn Ferren if something is coming straight at her or around her.

You look for suspicious things. That stick sure is suspicious. You stare at it a few good seconds before you hear Pauly scream, and then a 'plop' as you watch Ferren fall face first into the quicksand. She's keeping herself afloat with the stick you were throwing pebbles at. She is just outside hand's reach.

Leave her for dead. Victory is just within your grasp. You could go home.

Spoiler: Additional Info (click to show/hide)

Don't always believe the suggestive flavor text to be true. 

Also, I don't know much about quicksand except Hollywood and a little research. I'm wondering if that pebble really would have sunk. It has the density, but it's not very heavy. I did settle for a middle ground and had it sink a little, but now I'm curious. Anyone know?

Spoiler: Campsite - Team 1 (click to show/hide)

1 Kindling
3 wet fire fuel (1 fuel = 10 turns for a small fire)
A-Frame

Spoiler: Bestiary (click to show/hide)

Whippersnap: A plant that is a good source of string/rope. Found in areas with high sunshine, and low moisture.

Ambush Snake: Makes it's dens in the rolling hills of the center and south. Ambushes prey nearing it's den with a paralytic toxin, allowing it to kill and consume it.

Pitcher Plant: Hostile. Vines. (?)

Black Fruit: (?)

Black and Yellow Fungus: Puffs (?)

Mutant Fern: Standing 8ft tall, it is the only one of its kind.

Giant Venomous Floating Rocks: Attacked Pauly (?)

Spoiler: Profiles (click to show/hide)

Pauly: 3 Hunger
Big Stick^tm
Light Wound on Left Hand: -1 to rolls involving it; 4 turns

Ferren: 3 Hunger
6 pebbles
Broken Rubber Band

Axel: 3 Hunger
6 Yards of String
1 Stone Axe
8 pebbles

[Tiruin]

((Do not believe those movies on quicksand.  ))

Ferren closed her eyes as she felt the pressure on her lower body. It was quicksand, something she learned to deal with in Engineering.

It dealt with pressure, and silt. Water, and sand.

Hmm...

Technically, it was impossible to even sink or drown in quicksand, unless something else was tampering with it. Thoughts of human density vs Quicksand density came into Ferren's mind.

Relax, take deep breaths.

"DON'T you help me, Axel! I can get out by myself!"

She knew that quicksand won't fully envelop the person, especially the upper parts like the head. Perhaps if a bit of air was introduced...

Wriggle legs to creates a space between the legs and the quicksand through which water can flow down to dilate [loosen] the sand. Keep on doing it slowly and progressively.

If possible, lay that stick behind me, parallel to the surface of the quicksand and use that to aid in balance.

[Remalle]

(Wow.  This went downhill extremely quickly.
I believe quicksand is a suspension of sand in water?  Or at least, that's what I remember from watching a few minutes of Mythbusters while not really paying attention quite a few years ago.)

Pauly runs like the wind, too panicked to really watch where he's going, singing "Brave Sir Robin" all the way.  He swings randomly behind him with a right-handed grip on his stick (...) .

[Orb]

Drat. Foiled again. Alright, I messed up with quicksand. Ferren won't have to roll for her next action and will get out safely.

Pauly runs like the wind, too panicked to really watch where he's going, singing "Brave Sir Robin" all the way.  He swings randomly behind him with a right-handed grip on his stick (...) .

Do you really want me to roll a die to decide which direction you go?

Also, just a reminder, I do update the bestiary whenever you guys find a new life form.

[Remalle]

Pauly runs like the wind, too panicked to really watch where he's going, singing "Brave Sir Robin" all the way.  He swings randomly behind him with a right-handed grip on his stick (...) .

Do you really want me to roll a die to decide which direction you go?

(How about we all just look the other way and pretend  Pauly ends up meeting back up with the others by a freak coincidence?)

[Zako]

(I FUCKING KNEW IT! DAMN YOU ACKBAR, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!!)

Axel heard the voice and pauly's scream. The temptation was strong, he could go home now! But he would have to kill a fellow human being to do so...

"How do I know you are telling the truth about the winner being sent home? Prove it. What's stopping you from dropping the winner into a pit of death as soon as they are the only one left?"

[Tiruin]

Addendum:

Then bring that stick along, and get Axel's string because intuition told me I made it out 

And then examine the current vicinity.