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You lower your hand back down to your side and pull yourself off the ground.
Turning around, you leave the kobolds and walk a little ways off.
This whole area is a pine forest. It's pretty dense, but you can still make your way through it without too much difficulty.
You find a branch that has fallen from one of the trees. It's a good size, and straight.
You strip the needles from it, and scrape the end against a rock to form a point. Perfect.
You make your way back to the fire. The kobolds haven't moved much.
You hold the end of the stick in the fire to harden the point, turning it slowly to make it even.

When it's done, you flip the stick around so the point isn't facing the kobold, and try offering it to him.
He stares blankly at it until he burns his hand and gets distracted.
"Dringus!"
You roll your eyes, and flip the stick back around before stabbing the rabbit out of his hands, causing him to pull his arms back to himself.
You then hold the rabbit over the fire by the stick, and try offering the handle again.
The kobold slowly takes the rabbit stick from you, and holds it over the fire, keeping his hands out of it.
His eyes light up, and the other kobold relaxes and looks at what you've created with a fascinated look.

Awesome!

One question though: I put Passive/Active on my first ability because I wasn't sure which one it would count as.
Do we have a limit on how many times we can use active skills, or is the distinction in this case kinda irrelevant?

You look at yourself.
You are wearing two shoes, under which are two socks.
You are wearing trousers, over which you also wear a skirt.
You have a shirt beneath your coat, which is covered by your cloak.
You possess gloves beneath your mittens, and a cap beneath your hood.

You know, casual dwarven attire.

You desire more, however. You lock stares with the kobold with the stick. You then slowly shift your eyes to the stick itself, and the kobold follows suit. You hold out your palm demandingly and motion for him to hand it over.
He responds by curling himself up tighter, and clutching the stick close to his body.

Two kobolds sit in front of a small campfire, just outside the mouth of a cave, carved into the side of a cliff.

One of the kobolds is holding a dead rabbit over the fire by his bare hand, trying to cook it, but keeps pulling back his hand as he's accidentally cooking himself, too.
He swears, "Dringus!"

The other kobold pokes the fire with a stick, ignoring the one cooking.


And suddenly, a Dwarf walks up.

The two kobolds stop and stare at the newcomer, nobody moving a muscle, until the first kobold burns himself again.
"Dringus!"

Yeah, reading the hell out of the book is a great help.

Also, if you have time, practice writing up characters and have them mock-battle/skill-test crap.
It makes it easier to remember what all goes into such things come gametime. I did a fuckload of mock battles with hastily-made characters when I was younger. T'was fun.

I also use spoilers just so my genome doesn't take up a bunch of space in my post.

So if people want to look at my genetic coding and shit, go right ahead.

_{Turns out writing 'dwarfs' into your genome makes you a cancerous gas-bladder. I am disappoint.}

"It seems we've made our choice, then! Let us return those fallen to their resting grounds once more! And pray that this time, it will be for good."

Graveyard time

Heh.  I must admit I forgot this was even a thing, I was surprised to see it still posted in.

Seconding this.