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I gather random fauna and begin to build a fire.
[4] You look at the fire that Jets has made, and scoff. What was he thinking? He made that fire out of *plants*! Not acceptable. Not acceptable at all. You set your pitcher of blood aside and stalk off into the Jungle, looking for something more suitable. You search for a bit, coming across a burrow at the base of a tree. Fearlessly, you reach your hand in and feel something small, soft, and alive. Pulling it out you see it to be a small, furry, four-legged creature, with small split toes, gray and brown fur, a trunk, and sweet, innocent eyes. Obviously an infant, and terrified. You reach back in the hole and pull out three more, and carry them towards Base Camp. As you walk, you see what looks like a birds nest in the trees, along with a oft noise coming from it. You cast about looking for a rock or something to throw, but then you think, 'Hey, work smarter, not harder.' Using one of baby trunked things, you throw it at the nest. Bullseye! The trunked thing hits the ground with a small, sad crunch as the other two let out soft whimpering trumpet noises in terror. You pick up the broken body of the trunked creature, and the infant bird-things, still in their nest. Arriving back at camp, you use a log to light the small, defenseless baby creatures on fire. They scream as they burn, and you think about how superior your fire is to Jets'.
Get the hell out of the water.
[1] You freeze. Terror clenches at your guts as you see the ripples dart towards you, the unknown creature(s) moving at you, unseen. You can't move. All you can do is watch. Suddenly, there is pain. Your leg jerks from under you and you are pulled under the water. You manage to gasp, getting some precious air before you are pulled under. Whatever has you is cutting into your leg, and you struggle against it. Still near the bank, you push up against the bottom of the stream and your head breaks the surface of the water. You manage a scream before you are pulled back under, and try to keep it from bringing you further into the water.
I retrieve my thrown spear. If somebody gathers wood, I'll create more. Otherwise I'll gather wood myself.
[1] (I'd actually let you keep that since it wasn't destroyed, I rather assumed you picked it up after the battle, so that part you are safe on.) Thinking to yourself that you could really use some more of these throwing spears, you head off into the Jungle. You cast about for more wood that would make a good spear, but you simply cannot find anything. All wood loose that you find is rotted and weak and damp, and all branches you see are either too high, too small, or too tough. Before long, you end up lost in the Jungle. You start panicking, and look for the Base Camp, but cannot find it. Suddenly, you hear a scream.
I analyze the plants to see if they are similarly related to earth-species.
[5] Vitalized by your findings, you quickly decide that you need to know if all of this planet is Earth related. You run out to gather a few different plants' samples, and run back to your
Escape Pod Lab. You run a few quick tests, and quickly determine that, though the plants you have tested do have something very much like DNA, none of them could have possibly come from Earth. You gain insight into the biology of this planet, but are no closer to answering where the Man-beast came from.
Gained: +2 Exp BiologyJETS HUNGRY< JETS COOK MEET
[4] You roast the meat, and even add some of its blood as a glaze over the flesh. It smells delicious, like roast pork. You watch the flesh drip upon the fire, and the hiss and sizzle of the meat cooking, and your stomach growls. Goddamn that smells good. Daniel wanders over and starts rambling for a while, something about how great he is, but you really don't give a damn. While it's still Medium-Rare, you pull the roasting meat off the spit and quickly start eating. Salty, juicy, meaty. Oh, God, it's good. You're still basking in the afterglow of having eaten, when you hear the scream from the south. That sounded like Jess.
Gained: +1 Exp Cooking Tell anybody at the camp made-up stories making myself out as a great hero.
[3] With everyone busy, you decide to settle down at the campfire, and start espousing about how awesome you are. Shortly, you realize how ineffectual this is, as the only person even around is Jets, and he's way more interested in the roasted beast he is cooking. Even your stomach growls, and you get hungry watching him pull it off and eat it. You can't stop shaking, and stand up, pacing quickly. Ever since you ate that berry you cannot seem to hold still. You are energetic, and need to do SOMETHING. Suddenly, you hear a scream.
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[4] You sit around the camp for a while. Jets is cooking, Daniel is rambling and jittery, and you are bored. You get up and start going for a walk, generally wandering south because of the stream Daniel talked about. After a short while, you hear a scream, and you run south, breaking through the foliage, and you see Jess just a bit downstream, in the water, just for a second. She thrashes about before being pulled under, and you run to the bank where you last saw her.
Name: Frederick XVI
Gender: Male
Profession: Engineer
General appearance: I am fairly short, but keep myself in good physical shape in the ship's gym. I like to read about a variety of topics in my off-duty hours.
Equipment: Normal Clothes, Mechanical Tool Kit, Electrical Tool Kit, Pointy Aerodynamic Stick
Skills: Adequate Mechanical Engineering, Adequate Electrical Engineering, Novice Woodcutting, Dabbling Woodcutting
Status:
Location: Base Camp
Name: Kenton
Gender: Male
Profession: Geneticist
General appearance: A weedy little man, not actually short, just thin and pale from too much time in the lab. Sits off in a corner, nervously fiddling with his bags. He clearly does not enjoy spaceflight.
Equipment: Normal Clothes, Pistol, Medikit, Plant Samples, Creature Chunks [2]
Skills: Genetic Engineering, Biology (2/8) Exp, Dabbling First Aid, Novice Pistols Training
Status: Healthy
Location: Base Camp
Name: Jets
Gender: Male
Profession: Meatshield Marine Forces, Assault group 1
General appearance: A Marine with his fatigues, he comes to the colony to protect it from alien scum or other weird shit.
Equipment: Flak Jacket, Personal Computer, Knife, Medikit, Semi-Portable Rail Gun, Improved Shock Spear
Skills: Personal Combat, Rifle Training, Dabbling Weapon smith,Dabbling Fire Starter, Dabbling Cook
Status: Soiled
Location: Base Camp
Name: Markus
Gender: Male
Profession: Forge worker
General appearance: A burly man, Markus came on the transport ship to haul goods on and off the ship.
Skills: Strong, Forge working
Equipment: Tough Workman's Clothing, Back Brace, Money, Navigation of Mysterious Blue/Green Planet, Warm Clothes (5), Blankets (5), Large, Blue Tarp, Club
Status: Nightmares
Location: Base Camp
Name: Jess Brown
Gender: Female
Profession: Pilot/vehicle operator
General Appearance: A lithe, fit woman with brown hair (worn pulled back) and green eyes. She spurns the usual uniform in favor of jeans, casual shirt, and her old flight jacket, but was granted a dispensation because of her skill with vehicles.
Skills: Piloting, Gunner, Novice Knowledge of Smaliens, Shock Pistol Expertise
Equipment: Jeans, TShirt and Flight Jacket, Backpack, Shock Pistol
Location: The River
Name: Kat
Gender: Indeterminable
Profession: Cabin boy/girl/thing
General Description: Weedy, buried underneath piles of ragged clothing that obscure face and hair. The voice is androgynous, and all mannerisms are ordinary. Nothing unusual stands out about Kat beyond his/her clothing. Coated in blood.
Skills:Strong, Tough, Dabbling Hiding
Equipment: Raggedy Clothes, Bloody Vial, 4 Vials of Human-like Creature Blood, Pitcher Plant full of blood.
Status: Coated in blood.
Location: Base Camp
Name: Daniel Carrion
Gender: Male
Profession: Con Man
General description: A tall lean well groomed man who had snuck onto the transport.
Skills:Adequate Persuader(0/8 Exp), Adequate Liar, Enchanting
Equipment: Styling Clothes, 6 small, purple berries.
Status: SO[/b] awesome.]Delusions of Grandeur, Pumped!
Humanoid Creature Chunks [17]
Description: Human face, goat-like brown eyes, giant fangs, short green hair covering the body, large gorilla uper torso.
Status: Dead, and flat.
Abilities: Excessively Strong
Base Camp The Escape Pod is covered with a wooden structure and bright blue tarps. There's a normal campfire, a fire made out of small animals, a pouded-flat creature, and signs of woodcutting.
Present: Kenton, Jets, Markus, Kat, Daniel
The River A small river, or large stream, south of Base Camp.
Present: Jess Brown, Markus
Somehwere in the Jungle: Kenton
Observations: [1] You see nuttin!
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