Fuzz:Kweed''rik'tik hauls the eagle over to you and drops it where you work. You set about plucking its feathers, setting aside the strongest undamaged ones for other tasks. You cut the bird's head off and hack its beak away; the rest of the head is too damaged to be useful.
-1 messy-faced giant eagle corpse
+33 giant eagle feathers
+7 giant eagle bones
+4 giant eagle meals
+1 giant eagle beakLikesfighting comes to help you make armour from the mantis chitin. Together you bend and bash the pieces of the creature's exoskeleton until they're of a shape that could fit on the torso of a kobold.
-2 units subtle chitin
+2 subtle chitin armour plates-you are at the kobold cave-
Nreelrroi:You head away from the camp and to a meadow you sometimes visit. Butterflies flit around you and you delight in their colours, while bunnies graze at your feet, undisturbed by your presence.
You drop to your belly amidst the peaceful scene and start picking flowers. Sadly, every time you try to pick one, you accidentally crush the petals. After a while, and with a small pile of destroyed flowers in front of you, you give up.
-you are in a meadow near the kobold cave-
Kurtulmak:You start flinging sticks at the beak dogs, causing them to screech and hiss. Most of them eventually go off to do other things, but 2 indeed remain behind to keep an eye on you. You seize the moent and leap from the tree, aiming for a beak dog. It hops back out of your way and you land on your feet in front of it.
You grab one of the beak dogs around its mouth so it can't bite you, and whisper to it, shifting your eyebrows to look as much like an adorable baby beak dog as you can. It tilts its head at you and relaxes.
The other beak dog, though, can't see your face right now, and you fail to avoid it as it scratches your left leg with its foot. You swing your net at it and catch it by its legs, tripping it over. While it struggles with the net, you assume the most innocent, undelicious stance you can, and by the time the beak dog is back up it has no desire to fight you.
medium wound
+2 non-tame, non-hostile beak dogsYou head over to the human town and the beak dogs follow out of curiousity. You find the kitchen you were looking for and, using one of the beak dogs as a step, clamber in through the window. A large human woman is standing by the stove, stirring something delicious. You silently snatch a pair of glass bottles (which you assume contain fun juice) and move them over by the window.
Then you notice the bag of white-rock on the table next to where the human is cooking. In a stroke of genius you climb back out of the window, run around the house and bang on the door. You run to the window again as fast as you can, and pull up just as you see the human take her apron off and leave the room. You rush in, grab the bag of white rock, the apron, a handful of stew and the bottles, then dive back out of the window. You scamper off into the forest, clinking slightly, before you stop to share your food with the beak dogs.
+2 non-tame, friendly beak dogs
+1 bag of white-rock
+2 glass bottles of something
+1 large floral-embroidered apron (2 cloth units)
+3 immediately-eaten hearty stew meals-you are near the Southern human town, with stolen goods and a pair of beak dogs-
Tiggi:You finish dancing your awesome victory dance of cougar-teasing (your shaking catches the eye of all the nearby males) and dash off along the river, into the forest, on your way to steal clothes. You move through the forest like little more than a shadow, blending in perfectly with the background. Then, suddenly you bump into something you can't quite see. Something spins around in front of you and stares at you with compound eyes briefly. It's a mantis-man, and it seems you were equally startled by one another.
It reacts first, slashing at you, but you bring up your buckler and shove it, knocking it off balance. You kick it in its chest, not seeming to harm it, but sending it staggering back. You take the opportunity to abscond. It's not worth the risk fighting something like this without a proper weapon.
Tiggi gained a level in blocker!You arrive at the town; it's bustling with activity.
-you are outside the human forest town-
Likesfighting:You help Fuzz bash the chitin armour into shape, and he's grateful for your good performance.
You then venture out from the cave to hunt again, but a couple of hours later and all you've managed to find are trees.
...damn trees, always messing up your tracking.
-you are a short ways from the kobold cave-
Kweed''rik'tik:You try to relax, but your back is really itchy and you can't help but rub up against a tree. Suddenly you realise this was a bad idea when you notice you're rubbing against a thorn tree. Your back hurts a lot more; perhaps a fixer oughta take a look at it. No fixer is here right now, though.
your medium wound has worsened slightlyStill, you're sure you look awful good in your new helmet.
-you are at the kobold cave, looking like a hedgehog-
Ichi:Once more you make the journey to the Southern human town, and once again you are unnoticed, although you don't notice anything that could notice you anyway.
When you arrive you meet Kurtulmak, with a couple of beak dogs strolling either side of him. His arms are laden with goods.
-you are outside the Southern human town-
Ungbuktu:You find a soft patch in the cave and start digging out a sleeping-hole with your hands. You make slow progress, and it'd probably be much easier with a tool, but you don't know what tool you'd use and you won't just give up. Within the few hours you've worked, you managed to dig 2 holes, deep and large enough to be comfortable and still out of sight.
+2 piles of dirt
+2 stealthy sleepy holes-you are at the kobold cave-
TIME OF DAY:
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Mid-Morning
~the forest is lively~