Sense the bleeding of the creature and collect it in a spare container, if there are any. Never know when you need monster blood.
You grab some of the monster blood in a glass jar. Might be useful, you never know.
- Neat. Hey people! It seems that it is safe to yank things out of this thing! Just pull them right off, don't wiggle them if they don't come out.
John looks down and addresses to those still on the ground:
- Good job on that prey, Hyenakles! That will keep us sustained for a while. Penguin dude, wanna go up? Hang in there for a moment, I'll make something for ya. Bring over the empty vessels from the jeep while I'm at it, ok?
Get a piece of cloth (we had some of that around, some spare banners, I believe) and tie the corners of it so I can lift things in it with the rope Mr.Bird and Flamengo made. Help penguin up.
See what's up with the water supply that we found on Warbeast - the food has clearly gone bad, but what about the water?
Go around the platforms and collect the special-looking weatherworn items. What are they? After having a look, roll them into some cloth and put them under the roof.
Finally, pick up engine spirit. How my own internal engine feels about it? Carrying engine spirit, get over to control seat and check out controls of the Warbeast. See if dead guy in the chair has anything valuable.
You hoist the penguin up and then go check on the water. It's got a thin film of greenish stuff on it so you're gonna bet it's not safe to drink.
There are a variety of what look like unique items, but you're not sure if any of them have any worth. The corpse of the driver has unique regalia and armor, as well as what were once ornate weapons. There's scattered corpses with higher quality, or at least different from the standard stuff, gear or weapons. A few objects like pins or medallions, but none of it has that sort of incorruptibility that you find in truly powerful things.
Someone else has the engine spirit right now, so you'll have to get it from him. And he seems stabby.
Take the engine spirit to the main control platform, set it in a few different places to see if it reacts. And if anybody tries to take the engine spirit, threaten to stab them with the spike. Or actually stab them if they don't back off.
You set it around. No effect when it's on the platform floor, but when you rest it on one of the control ropes the creature suddenly starts shifting and groaning.
"Ugh. Psudeoflesh. I hate psudeoflesh." The engine spirit grumbles. "Repairing."
The warbeast bends lower and begins digging huge mounds of dirt and rock out of the ground and shoveling them into its mouth.
I'm not sure, did the outfits on the beast have pockets? If not, use my old clothes to fashion myself a makeshift rucksack.
"Hey, baby! I can see clouds and mist behind us. Might be nothing, but it looks mighty ominous!"
No, they didn't. We'll assume you make that rucksack out of your clothing.
"Hey, is there anything up there we could wrap this meat in? Paper, cloth, anything?"
- We do have cloth. We should probably roast it first though. Can you put up a fire?
"Hey, baby! I can see clouds and mist behind us. Might be nothing, but it looks mighty ominous!"
- Frankly, I don't feel like riding towards Failures at Warbeast - not exactly the manoeuvrable transport. We should probably hunt around, make a roundtrip on jeep for water and traverse the plains. We could trade the jeep for some goodies from lupine people before we journey on. In fact, we might try to trade a running jeep for a large supply of food and water and journey on right away. Yeah, I think that'll work. What do you think?
Remember, they're at the bottom of a gorge and travel by waterways. Jeep might not be too useful to them. At least not as a whole. Maybe the engine. The parts.
grumble grumble -humans- grumble grumble
Get to work making a fire, using the aforementioned lighter and any kindling/grass I can accumulate. Cook up the meat.
The building with the beds actually has a metal firepit in the center with a central hole in the ceiling for the smoke. The hole is covered by a hatch right now, but you should be able to open it. You get the fire pit filled with grass and some of the twisted wood from the small trees around the area.
- Frankly, I don't feel like riding towards Failures at Warbeast - not exactly the manoeuvrable transport. We should probably hunt around, make a roundtrip on jeep for water and traverse the plains. We could trade the jeep for some goodies from lupine people before we journey on. In fact, we might try to trade a running jeep for a large supply of food and water and journey on right away. Yeah, I think that'll work. What do you think?
"... sounds... sensible," Mr. Bird slowly replies from his position, not all there at the moment.
Continue napping while the other yobs do their things.
NAP NAP NAP
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