Hug a tree and hug it so hard that you wil form it into a wooden armor
Your hugs might be highly valued by many, but not
quite valued enough to compensate for the fact that you are not an elf.
Try engraving some text onto wooden tablets claiming to be from the kings of the various enemy civilizations in the area, in the native tongues of those civilizations of course.
The tablets should read as advertisements for bounty hunters, we want our enemies to be killing each other, what better way to do that than with a propaganda campaign? Should figure out a way to give these to really stupid human adventurers...
One from the elven king for example should read:
"I have had enough of these dwarves, desecrating our land, killing our people! For the entity that brings me the head of the dwarven king, I offer the hand of my eldest daughter in marriage, and riches beyond your wildest dreams! I also offer 1000 gold for the heads of any other dwarves you may slay!"
Maybe even figure out a way to write the tablets in such a way, that the dwarves think elven merchants are parties of assassins in disguise when they actually get their hands on them.
You come up with one bright idea abaut using propaganda warfare and pitting you dwarves and humans* against each other, but hit quite a snag in that you don't know either language well enough to make a plausible forgery.
*Elves and goblins are not actually known about other than second hand tales from eavesdropping on human merchants.
If I correctly understand we have been working with rocks and sticks right?
Maple forest dood! MAPLE FOREST!!!
Pick up some rope reed. And you know what you can do with rope reed? Well, ropes of course!
So make some ropes (and / or strings) and try to create one of the following:
sling,bow,catapult,rock fall trap, traps that catch a foot and then swing you high up in the air, lasso, net, ultimate contraption of DOOM!!!
Instead, you focus on continuing those experiments. You hit a snag of what was possible with the metwrials you had yesterday, but after sleeping on the problem a bit you have reasized that string and rope might open out a wole new avenue of technology. After thinking more about what you learned about bending wood that reverted into it's original shape, you think you might have figured out how to replicate those elven bows...
You set to work immediately, gathering rope reed plants and processing them into thread. After about two hours you have enough to start experiments.
Basicaly, it's similar in principle to those snares that you useto cach prey; you simply take a bendable stick, tie a string shorter than it to both ends, and use another stick for an arrow. You draw the makeshift bow and...
*ksnp*, the bowstring strikes you paw making you involuntary yell out, and propels the arow abut a meter away. Back to the figurative drawing board.
The next various dosn't hurt you, and propels the stick with a fair amount of force, but the stick starts to tumble in the air and fall short of the target, the same happen with the next attempted bow and several more arrows. You are missing something here.
Afrer a while of more general experimenting, you do figure out a few things, including that a more loosely tied version of a fishing net works well for entangling humanoids, and a device that is spun around to throw a rock with more power than can be easily done by hand, thou it does have a slight accuracy problem.
That is more usefull however, is that using a large amount of string tied around the top of a young tree and a medium sized rock in certain ways, you can make the rebounding tree hurl the rock a sizable distance, and high enought that if it was posible to aim the thing it couls be considerably dangerus. (you used the jocks to bend the tree down, by the way, they were very impressed)
It is now midnight.
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