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[Mr.Person]

Ok, I'm going to have to write up one of those long-ass fighting style things. Damn.

Meditate on... oh hell, how I could of dodged better and not get damaged so badly. Mostly reflection, I guess.

[zestorum]

I harvest the all the berries, crush them with my knife, apply them to my arrows and hope I have some left over.

[major_sephiroth]

I'll go for Keris, the male, non-lithe elven knight.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 2, Turn 2: Order:Mr. Person (3!,2!,4!,3!), Creeper (1!), Dwarmin (3!,2!,4!,1!), Weedo su (3!,3!); New order: Weedo su, Mr. Person, Dwarmin, Creeper

Weedo su-

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(Observation check:1!) (Action:3!) (Oh, about the lakes... it's entirely possible for a character to miss something like that with a bad observation check and then see them later. In this case you were descending from elevation headed towards them from above. It'd be nearly impossible to miss them. The other time you were headed up from below and unless you looked backwards you could easily miss them.)

You decide that you really, really need to be clean and pretty much ignore the rest of the world and hope no one cute is paying attention. Admittedly you're probably set on that account, particularly out here. Paranoid you look up for the eagle and quickly realize the fog hasn't burned off yet and you can't see all that high into the sky. The fog is hanging out just above the upper cliffs for now and in the distance you can see that it just barely covers the top of the wall.

You rinse out your clothing and do your best to wash yourself. You get most of the mud off but you're now soaking wet and cold to boot. At least you should dry out eventually. That took far longer than you thought and you kept finding little pockets of dirt as you went.

(Herbalism check:1!-1) You look around for plants that you recognize but there's nothing like carrots, potatoes or even onions. In fact you pull up something that you thought was a carrot but the root was white and quite bitter tasting so you spat it back out. You've now wandered into the swamp a little ways but you can still see the cliffs and ramp.

(The die apparently has no love for you today either.)

Mr. Person-

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(Meditate:4!+1-1) You relax your mind as you think back about the battle and soon it's almost as if you were watching it from somewhere above you. You see little dark red r's converging on you in the corridor and the combat occur in slow motion. It really was quite an impressive battle scene, all things considered. You realize now that you simply got somewhat unlucky. Of course it could always have been worse, but it could also have been much better.

(Focus:5!) You specifically look for areas in which you could improve and realize that your evasion tactics could have been better. You even see places where you think you could improve and you focus on those and embed the ideas in your mind.

(+2 Meditation exp., +2 Dodge exp.)
Recovery roll:6!,2! You are unaware of what is happening to your body.

Dwarmin-

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(To answer your questions- I'm not really sure what Gnomeblight does but from the sounds of it I keep getting images of something like Roundup for pesky vermin and small creatures. Dark gnomes are such terrible thieves and nuisances that spreading some on the ground outside your fortress might act as spraying your house for cockroaches or something. lol. It'd likely be some sort of poison, probably some sort of neuro-toxin. But if you wanted to create Gnomeblight I think you'd need a barrel. Or other similar hardy container.

Skinning and treating leather is also another interesting project. I think you should be able to manage to skin and clean the thing using a sharp knife or piece of obsidian as a blade and scraper. You'd need it skinned and then would need it cleaned (ie. remove all the fat and tissue from the back side of the hide). After that there are several methods for actually 'tanning' a hide. Most tanning agents were plant based back in the day and you might be able to find some around here. There was also the option of dry-salting the hides to 'cure' them as a preservation technique. If you want the fur attached it's more complex, if you just want the leather you need stronger tanning solutions. In either case, you'd again need some sort of container to tan it in, or a source of salt to cure it with. And then of course a stretcher, etc. I think your timeline is reasonable and it might require a turn or two a day to work and prep it. It takes longer in real life but that doesn't really matter.)

(Butchery:6!-1) You get back to the quarry and get to work on the large demon rat. You easily find a piece of obsidian you can use as a cutting tool (only works on 'soft' material) and quickly have the thing cut into appropriate pieces. You've removed the internal organs and viscera and piled the chunks to one side, next to the skull and bones of the demon rat. You managed to get about four pieces of meat from the demon rat as well as the demon rat skin. It was a rather messy job. But you've secured for yourself some useful material.

You decide you want to try and process the skin. You've seen people doing this back in your dwellings but have never done it yourself. You lay out the skin on a smooth flat piece of ground and get to work. (Process skin:4!-1) It's very slow going but you manage, with a few cuts and nicks in the skin to scrape it clean. Now you just need to tan it, stretch it and soften it in order to get some large demon rat leather.

(+2 Butchery exp.)

Creeper-

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(Herbalism check:4!+1) You pick a very large quantity of the berries, taking extreme care not to break them as you pick them. You think you easily managed to pick most of them. (No more bonus for Herbalism in the area) you place them in a small hollow in the ground and crush them with your knife, spitting into the mixture as needed to get it into the right pasty consistency. The white berries are a deep reddish color on the inside and the mixture quickly resembles a small pool of blood.

(Apply poison:4! No penalty, class skill) You pull out your quiver and spill the arrows onto the ground next to it and take some time to carefully rub the tips in the mixture and set them to one side to dry. You have enough to coat your entire quiver and there is a little left over in the depression.

(Poisoned knife, arrows with Baneberry (Fort save 4+ or suffer -1 STR). +2 Herbalism exp.)

[Mr.Person]

I guess I could try and appraise the scepter. There's really just so little to do, right now. If I had more food, I might attempt to learn some kind of magic, but since I'm super-starving, I'd rather not. I suppose I could attempt to chuck rocks around, assuming I can crawl without undue pain.

[Dwarmin]

Hmm, I'll think i should try brain tanning.

http://www.alpharubicon.com/primitive/tanningdragoona.htm

This seems about right. I have all the tools except for a wedge.

Also I guess you should remove "Dirty" from my status list, if I cleaned myself off enough last turn. Then again, Kobolds are always dirty, so maybe you left it there on purpose.   

Actions

Start a fire to begin, and clean and cook all my meat, as well the rats brain.

While i'm waiting, remove the fur from the skin, and then commence the brain tanning, as noted above. I'll attempt to make a bowl from the rats skull since the mug is probably too small. After I'm done, stake the skin into the ground and let it sit. When I get back tonight, I guess I can submerge it in the lake? Weigh it down a section of rope tied to a rock, I dunno lol

When I'm done with all that, take all the inedible chunks and drop them a good ways from my quarry for the local animals to feed on. From there, start wandering around looking for plants, or zombies to rekill.

[zestorum]

Great! Now I survey the land and if there are any trees nearby, head towards them, otherwise explore to the east.

Just leave the mixture here, as long as I can remember this place, can I quick travel back?

[Anti-Paragon]

Slightly frustrated, I take a small break to look around for anything interesting and calm myself down, then go back to look for any shrubs or stalks that I recognize. This swamp can't be all bad. I'll walk back to the wounded man after searching/collecting, regardless if I harvest any or not.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

(Zerstorum, you'd be looking for a small depression in a very large hill-side. You can quick travel back to the area but unless you mark it very obviously somehow it would take considerable searching to find it again.

And yes Dwarmin, Brain-tanning should be fine. I'd heard about it before but wasn't sure of the process. So, nice link. I've actually tanned a few things myself but I used an alum based solution.)

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 3, Turn 3: Order:Weedo su (2!), Mr. Person (1!), Dwarmin (4!), Creeper (3!); New order: Dwarmin, Creeper, Weedo su, Mr. Person

Dwarmin-

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(Bonecarving:5!) You take the rat's skull and use some of the rough stone to grind off the lower portions of the jaw, creating a very useable bowl out of the skull itself. It's crude but functional.

(Cook:5!) You then quickly start a fire using the wood you have gathered and begin cooking the large demon rat meat. Soon a very tasty smell is beginning to waft from the meat. You place the demon rat brain back in the bowl you extracted it from and add a bit of water and place it near the edge of the fire to cook. The smell of cooking meat makes you hungrier. You have to go back to the fire from time to time to turn the meat that's on spits but you manage to get it to the perfect coloration. Rare. (You are a kobold after all...) You have enough wood left after all that for a small fire, but nothing large enough to cook again on.

(I'm afraid that between making the bowl and tending to the fire and cooking you've no more time this turn for the other actions. They can carry over next time. Generally crafting skills tend to be more time consuming than you might imagine.)

(+2 Bonecarving exp., +2 cooking exp, cooked large demon rat meat.)

Creeper-

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(Observation check:2!) You look around and don't see any trees in the area and decide to head east. It's somewhat uphill but technically you're climbing a small spur and will descend again into a valley on the other side. There are a few trees in the valley that you can see from the top and you make it a good portion of the way to the south-east corner of the fortress. You still see no entrance.

Weedo su-

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(Action/Observation check:3!) You take a moment to try and calm yourself down but the whole mud incident what highly annoying. Besides you think there's a little bit of sand or grit in your unmentionables.

(Herbalism check:6!-1) You look around again and now realize that there are thin stalks rising from the soft ground with large bunches of purple flowers. They look a little familiar to you and you hesitantly pull one up. Huh. Who'd have thought. Wild garlic. It's very pungent and strong and would probably be better roasted but it is food. You look around and easily recognize others and begin pulling them up with zeal. Soon you've gotten quite the handful. Even the green stalks/leaves should be edible at this point and the flowers too, the bulbs themselves would be hard to choke down as they are but they preserve very well.  You begin making your way back towards the ramp.

(+2 Herbalism exp., 2 bunches of wild garlic (Each good for two small meals). (greens and flowers may be eaten for one meal, bulbs SHOULD be roasted but technically can be eaten raw for another))

Mr. Person-

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(Break Meditation:2!-1) You try and return to conciousness but instead of it happening properly the white sand simply fades to black and you begin snoring gently. You are tired after all, and quite weak. Perhaps you'll wake up soon.

(Perhaps not at all... )
Recovery roll:4! You are unconcious

[Mr.Person]

Can't really complain. Blarg. If I wake up and have any time, throw rocks around, I guess.

[Dwarmin]

Fair enough. Continue with the actions already stated.

Tear into one of those juicy meats, though

[Anti-Paragon]

Return to Dais, drop off stalks, go back for firewood (or disarm the traps and go look for something burnable down the ramp if it's significantly shorter) and get a fire going. Then to practice some hotrock cooking!

(This all assumes I managed to start a fire with my flint'n'jazz) I pull out those small, (hopefully quite clean) flat rocks I keep in my pack and set them quite close to the fire. I remove the stalks from the garlic (which should be quite easy) and put the bulbs on the small rocks and leave them there for now.

(Regardless of the hotrock cooking/whatnot) Hmm. I'm clueless on what to do with how to prepare the stalks. I'll have to meditate/think over this. Also, the smell of slow-cooking garlic should totally be a bonus to Mr. Person waking up. Cooking food + potent smell + crackling fire and smell of smoke = lots of sensory stimulation.


By the way. Being hungry as a monk; what bonuses does it provide, aside from 'simply preference'?

[Mr.Person]

Also, how long until I starve to death?

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

(Anti-P Being hungry for monks makes it easier for them to 'attune' themselves to their deity or discipline of worship.

Mr. Person, you have half a loaf of bread next to you that Weedo su gave you. If you starve at this point it's your own fault. (Oh, and it occurs at -20))