Night of the First Day
The night winds down and Carl let's the droids deactivate. He wanders around the perimeter of the clearing, gathering branches of various sizes to create shelter for the camp. After he's created a decent sized pile of them, he starts wrapping leaves and vines around them. He has a bit of difficulty with this, but Ms Tasilvinadr comes to his aid, tying the plants while Carl holds them aloft. During this time, Harvey has been pacing back and forth, eyes watching for any sign of more creatures like those they had recently killed. He steps over the strange corpses as well as the corpse of whoever it was that had been in the droppod.
After Carl has finished his shelter preparations, he sits down to eat a ration bar, tenderly rubbing his calves and thighs, trying to urge the strain out of them. Ms Martin notices his discomfort and approaches, telling him to remove his armour and lay down on some leaves. She expertly massages his muscles, evoking groans of satisfaction from Carl, and before long he is fit as could be, although truly ready to sleep now. She aids him in adorning his armor, before he finishes what's left over from his ration bar. He then approaches the makeshift tent and lays down. For Ms Martin, however, she has turned her eyes to the fire. Throughout the course of the fight, it has burned, but now its size has diminished; Ms Martin fetches more fallen branches, both to add to the fire immediately and over the course of the night.
Ms Martin decides that there's enough wood for the night, so she also partakes of a ration bar, before joining Carl in the hovel. Ms Tasilvinadr looks to Harvey and sees that he is currently watching over the camp. She walks over to him and tells him to wake her when he begins to tire, and she will continue the watch. Shen then settles down to eat and sleep.
After 5 hours of keeping watch, as the daylight fades to nothingness and there's nothing but the flickering light of the fire to keep him company, Harvey's energy fades. He partook of a ration bar over the course of his watch, but now he needs to sleep. Waking Ms Tasilvinadr, he takes her spot under the canopy as she takes his by the fire.
Just an hour into her watch, however, she notices the sound of cracking. At first she just assumes it's the fire crackling, but there's too much rhythm to this. She scans the dark treeline, searching for movement, before finding a set of compound eyes staring back at her, shimmering from the fire light. She let's out a cry to her sleeping comrades, as the creature bounds out of the jungle. As it approaches, she levels her gun and fires. Her first shot strikes its leg, but misses the second from the creature tripping onto the ground. It quickly rights itself, and charges Serina headfirst. Another set of eyes stare out of the jungle, ready to attack.
Carl and Ms Martin each get a partial action due to waking immediately from Ms Tasilvinadr's exclamation. Harvey doesn't wake. (A partial action means that Ms Martin can get up and fire as if she were running; Carl can get up and cover someone, but cannot attack the creatures currently (someone needs to give him a battery for his weapon!). If they take these actions, they will attack at an additional -2 the next combat turn.)
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Topic: Neustra Veritas: Betrayal and Survival (7/4) (Read 21726 times)