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[MidnightJaguar]

I guess find bugs and then cook bugcakes. Do we need a fire or is it more of a no bake type of situation with the ant paste?

Before we go to bed, ask Throlu if he knows anything else about the area and how we can get through it, and what we'll find once we do. Basically I mean what place is next up after this one, west of this one. The one closer to where we are going to be with the other goblins?

+1 As well as ask Throlu about his medical magic, we should see if he can teach us.

[Robot Parade Leader]

(OOC: Yes, bugcakes are no bakes)

Your bug finding skills are excellent and you find many, including a large number of ants tasty grubs, and tasty beetles (You focus on bugcake ingredients). You mash up the ants into a nice paste and prepare the tasty beetles and tasty gubs as well, seering it over a nice, small fire that gives off minimal smoke (for now). It isn't as good as your old kitchen, but it does the trick. You wind up with 2 dozen bugcakes (24). Your bug finding and bug cooking skills have paid off already on the first day.

You can't help but miss your destroyed home a bit though, cave sweet cave.... It was nice, with a soft moss bed and everything. Better kitchen, etc. One day perhaps you'll have something like it again.

You eventually go inside the shelter Throlu has constructed and find it surprisingly roomy given the short amount of time used to construct it in the middle of basically nothing but forest. Cozy, but useful.

You ask him to describe the areas you might have to go through and the area in general. The Zuffen responds in detail:

"This is the Ogre Plovin's Land. A dreaded taskmaster of slaves. He rules the central part directly and has 4 ogre generals rule each cardinal direction for him.

The West, (we may pass through it) is ruled by Croshin - is heavily fortified, against the Shrocav Goblins to the west.
They mine Iron, copper, tin, and chop lumber, hunting huge wild game herds to eat.
Settlements are  Croshin's Court, and Westdoor Gate with some other scatterings about, and I don't know how many watchtowers inside the wall.
He maybe has 4 to 5 thousand Orcs, Goblins, and Humans owned, and let's say 50 to 100 of his ogre tribe.

The North is ruled by Axenishin and fortified but forested and penetrable, because you can't really wall out the Eldoriva Elves up there
They get stone, wood and the most wild game to eat from there (the elves took care of the herds forever).
Settlements are Axenishin's Court, Northdoor Gate, Rockgrave and probably some others I don't know.
Axenshin has to have 10,000, including those horrible gnoll savagers against the elves there

The East is ruled by Droshin, and is fairly open farmlands, formerly for the humans....
They get vegetables, grain and foodstuffs from here (a lot of it for the slaves to eat one way or another
There are lots of old human settlements here, but the main ones are Droshin's Court, Eastdoor Gate, and a few others.
He's got about 10,000 too.

Then there's the South where we are ruled by Mershin, the fairly open woodlands we're in.
Lots of wood and wild herds to hunt for meat here....
She's got at least 6,000 around here, and the rest I told you before about the guard towers, Southdoor Gate (lumber camp) and Mershin's Court. I know of three watchtowers and her patrols are around as you found out....

I can tell you anything else you want to know that I can...?

My healing? We Zuffens are good at it as a people. Maybe that's part of why we have a bounty on us here. Plovin likes the idea of slaves who can heal him whenever, and hates us hiding, which we also do well, as you can see from what we're inside. I don't know how to teach you if you're not a Zuffen. That's kind of what we are, hidden, perceptive, and healing...? That's why they pay more for us tortured and broken than dead...."

What do you do?


Added Item: (24) bugcakes
Added Skill: (1) Club
Added Skill: (1) Bug Finding
Added Skill: (1) Bug Cooking
Added Skill: (1) Hide
Added Skill: (1) Handle Animal
Added Skill: (1) Ride

[MidnightJaguar]

Feed our boar 10 bug cakes then sleep until we feel better.

I get the feeling our goblin will be a beast master by the time this game is over.

[vkiNm]

This is useful. Propose that we become mates purely for the sake of survival.

[Lidku]

Self-proclaim ourselves Gobler Knighter, vigilante of the wayward Bug Devour. If not, wish Throlu a good night and attempt to sleep. Maybe if we're not that tired, we will take first night watch while our Zeffern friend rests.

[DolosusDoleus]

Feed our boar 10 bug cakes then sleep until we feel better.

Woah there, that's a lot of bugcakes! How about 4? You never know if we'll run into an area with no bugs.

Self-proclaim ourselves Gobler Knighter, vigilante of the wayward Bug Devour. If not, wish Throlu a good night and attempt to sleep. Maybe if we're not that tired, we will take first night watch while our Zeffern friend rests.

+1

[femmelf]

At some point go to bed, and think about asking Throlu what route we should take to get to the west where goblins are.

[helmacon]

We gained skill in club, but not any in axe?

Can we get a running total of inventory/skills in every post? It makes things a lot easier to keep track of.

[femmelf]

Can we get a running total of inventory/skills in every post? It makes things a lot easier to keep track of.

First post dude.

Also we should probably eat a couple of our bugcakes and make sure throlu has something like those rations or something.

[Robot Parade Leader]

(OOC: It hasn't even been 24 hours in game yet. If you hit something with the axe or train or something, you might gain skill with it. You hit a lot with that club ).

The boar seems to readily eat the four bug cakes, and you take one for yourself as well. You make a note to offer Throlu a ration.

You seem to declare yourself, "Gobler Knighter, vigilante of the wayward Bug Devour," to no one in particular. The boar enjoys the bugcakes.

Throlu welcomes you into the cozy but oddly roomy enough as far as you're concerned shelter. Clearly he has built these before here. You ask him about possible moves for the morning and he notes that,

"I'm not sure exactly how to get past the western wall, but there must be some way to sneak through or around it. There are a fair deal of escaped slaves who are supposed to have organized against the Ogres a bit. That's why they keep sending out the slave catchers. They might know a way, but I'm not sure exactly how to contact them or where they are.

There is one of those guard towers around here. We could try to somehow get a key from them, but I don't know how many of them we'd have to face or how we'd do it.

We should probably go at least a little ways west of here. There are ruins we could hide in if we have to.

I'm not entirely sure just now. Maybe we can sleep on it?"

If there's nothing else, the Zuffen would nod off.

You do seem to miss your cave sweet cave and you can hardly believe it's gone, though it hasn't even been a day yet.

Lost Items: 5 bugcakes, 1 ration


What do you do?

[vkiNm]

the Zuffen.

[birdy51]

Perhaps... Don't do the Zuffen.

Feed the boat. Contemplate naming the boat?

[Robot Parade Leader]

(OOC:

What do you do?

the Zuffen.

No.

Perhaps... Don't do the Zuffen.

Feed the boat. Contemplate naming the boat?

Yes, thank you. The boar just ate 4 bugcakes, so he's good but being the pig he is, I'm sure he'd always take more. Please feel free to name him. )

[DolosusDoleus]

The boar's name shall be... Mr Pigglesworlth!

[MidnightJaguar]

+1 All who hear his name in battle will die with a smile on their face and fear in their eyes.