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Scare them into the deeper parts and cave in parts of the cavern, sealing them in

Take out their leaders and try to convince them to surrender

Slaughter them all

Ignore them and look elsewhere

Other (post and specify)

[highmax28]

((I think we have a source of enlarge person potions. James calls dibs on any fire flowers that we find that lets you spam fireball attacks. ))

James prepares the cloven badger with his dagger, but leaves the more intact one untouched for later study before butchering. Experimentally, he casts Purify Food and Drink on the prepared badger.

"Well, we got something fresh to eat tonight, but once Mauricio is back, we can better catch up with the others and make sure we're safely in cover before nightfall."

They take about an hour to prepare and the sun starts to lower. There is a lot of meat here, being that the badger is the size of a bear. You purify the prepared badger meat. Varg took this time to assist you as well.

[TD1]

((I searched too. And looked for my daggers.))

[highmax28]

((I searched too. And looked for my daggers.))

You find your daggers. They have some excess gore on them and chunks of eyeball on it, but otherwise, its fine. ((I didn;t skip you. They aren't arrows so they won't break, so I assumed you got them without a hassle))

[Hanzoku]

((Oh... Cutting one in half suddenly became a lot more epic, I thought it was the size of a large dog >_>

I assume preparing the badger for transport took the same amount of time as the mushroom hunt. If we split up the load, can we carry everything back without movement penalties? ((for example, Varg and James carrying the intact badger and the others splitting up the badger meat))

[apiks]

((I thought that Varg was leaning on somebody the whole way because he was that wounded. Is he even in a state of carrying anything instead of fainting from loss of blood?))

[Hanzoku]

((I healed him up to his current best condition, and he was able to fight, but that is the question if he can help carry the badgers or not))

[highmax28]

((I healed him up to his current best condition, and he was able to fight, but that is the question if he can help carry the badgers or not))

((Just a warning, he has a con score of 7 right now. That's why he's pale, he had a lot of con damage))

[USEC_OFFICER]

"Ah, I see that you have started the dissection," Mauricio jokes as he rejoins the group. "I have collected several samples to investigate more thoroughly when we return to camp. Shall we begin the journey or is there some other task we need to accomplish first?"

[TD1]

Wiping off his daggers, Martijn returns in time to hear Mauricio's question. He expresses desire to go back, then offers to help carry badger produce.

[Hanzoku]

James grins a little at Mauricio's joke "I think anything else can better wait until tomorrow. The cave is the opposite direction from where the boats landed, and we need to kick anyone still lingering there awake on our way through. I imagine the White Fangs are going to notice ships beached on the shore rather quickly."

James divies up carrying duties to take as much of the badgers with them as possible.

[Sirus]

Ritiki offers to carry what he can, but it should be obvious to all that his carrying capacity is...not great.

[Hanzoku]

((Yeah, I worded it that way so that Highmax, who has access to everyone's character sheets, can figure out how much the badgers weigh and how much each person can carry. ))

[highmax28]

((Chances are, you'll be dragging parts of it. Again, these are the size of black bears. And it's either these or the dire wolverines that are 1000lbs. I'll check when I'm home, I've been either working or asleep the past couple days))

[highmax28]

((Correction: they are 500lbs and 4ft tall when on all fours))

After field dressing the badger ((removing internal organs, etc.)) you have 295lbs of meat to carry back, plus a giant badger head and four paws (head weighs 10lbs, paws are 3lbs each). To carry it all back, everyone has to carry 59lbs of meat ((not including the body of the intact badger)). The intact badger is too heavy for everyone to carry alone (and poor Ritiki can't even drag the thing bigger than him).

Adding on the weight, everyone is at at least medium load and some are almost at their heavy load. Everyone is treated as carrying a medium load (20ft move speed (15ft for Ritiki), max dex bonus is +3 for AC, -3 to certain checks). Varg takes some extra so Ritiki isn't at a heavy load.

What will the party do about the body?

[Hanzoku]

((Does some checking...

OK, heavy loads doesn't reduce our movement speed any further. I suggest that Ritiki's load is shifted so that he only has a light load, and then we're all moving at 20ft/round for going back.

Also, I've done some looking, and I don't see anything to indicate that the carried amount reduces your ability to drag something, in which case, James alone is fully capable of dragging the badger corpse along behind them. It won't be as pretty by the end I'm guessing, but we'll have it. We wouldn't be able to carry it without three or four fully unloaded people.))


James sees Ritiki stagger a bit under the amount of meat piled in his arms and gestures for him to give him some until he's down to a light burden, grunting only a little as the weight is added to what he's carrying. "Let's not get caught out here carrying piles of meat. Everyone done, everyone has what they were looking for? Let's get going then."

James grabs the front legs of the badger and growls as he starts pulling the heavy corpse along, muttering in Draconic to himself.

Spoiler: Draconic (click to show/hide)

"Why couldn't we have fought regular badgers? I thought they had meant large for a badger, not large for a pony. And then we had to run into two of them, not just the wounded one. At least I'll get to keep the head of the one who nearly gutted me, though how we're going to preserve it, the Goddess only knows. Maybe I'll just keep the skull...