_/Labour Report\_
ForagingGathering RocksMollask: x1
Mu Rex: x0
Molloch the Devourer: x0
Zark the Red: x1
Fish Sugarpants: x0
Shelbie: x0
Walnut: x0
Mr. Lobster: x0
Rocks Gathered= 2
Gathering WaterMollask: x0
Mu Rex: x0
Molloch the Devourer: x1
Zark the Red: x1
Fish Sugarpants: x0
Shelbie: x0
Walnut: x0
Mr. Lobster: x0
Water Gathered= 6
Hunting Animals (%33 Success Rate)
Mollask: x0
Mu Rex: x3 (✓)(x)(x)
Molloch the Devourer: x0
Zark the Red: x1 (x)
Fish Sugarpants: x3 (✓)(x)(✓)
Shelbie: x0
Walnut: x0
Mr. Lobster: x2 (✓)(✓)
Meat Hunted= 15
Leather Harvested= 5
Bones Collected= 0
Hunting Plants (%33 Success Rate)
Mollask: x0
Mu Rex: x0
Molloch the Devourer: x0
Zark the Red: x0
Fish Sugarpants: x0
Shelbie: x3 (x)(✓)(x)
Walnut: x0
Mr. Lobster: x1 (✓)
Fuel Gathered= 2
Construction and ProductionItems Crafted(0/0)
1 Sharp Stone by Mollask
1 Sharp Stone by Molloch the Devourer
2 Leather Bags by Walnut
Buildings Built...
Meat Dried(1/3)
Once by Molloch the Devourer
Meat Dried= 3
Leather Dried(3/3)
Once by Mollask
Once by Walnut
Leather Dried= 2
Molloch wakes up. The heavy, weird, earthy smell of cold petrichor is in the air. The rain is still going on, but has calmed since yesterday. It can even be called pleasant.
Molloch gets up and leaves his cave, and hops onto the balcony to see the fire, or what's left of it. The damp air and a full night of burning had reduced it to glowing embers. It isn't hot enough to dry the raw meat. He remembers how they had two pieces of dried meat left. He eats his before the other arrive and fight over the last one.
The others also wake up and start moving about. They are all hungry, so they go to the balcony to see the striking abzence of a meal. Molloch steps aside to show the last piece of cooked food available. The balcony turns into a little warzone. Expletitives are shouted, bridges are burnt.
Fish dodges the fight and eats the last piece whole. The other five on the other hand, do not get their deserved rations. This angers them greatly, and they begin to quietly protest, but the situation is quickly dissolved when it is pointed out by Molloch that there was simply no way they could split a single piece and and fed everyone sufficently with small morsels.
The squabble simmers down and everyone goes to get their water. Fortunately, there is enough water for all, so an immidiate, impending asphyxiation crisis is averted.
But the five of the seven shellpeople are still very hungry. Water will only smother their growling stomachs for a short time. So, with no other choice, they decide someone needs to go on a hunt while hungry. Mu and Zark volunteer for such a task, and Fish decides to tag along. Grabbing six empty bags, and retrieving their spears, they set out to find food, hopefully quickly.
Before they go, however, Zark decides to leave a bag behind so collect rainwater and adds a random rock to storage. Other two shoot him weird looks, but Zark doesn't really notices. He is not thinking rationally at the moment.
While the three hungry tentacle aliens leave, Shelbie decides to set off also. The tribe has no fuel left, and so no way to cook. And they will need to soon enough. He grabs his own equipment and moves out into into the rainy wilderness.
The three left at the base start handling whatever they can. Walnut starts crafting the pelt they have into bags, while Mollask finds and sharpens a rock. Molloch goes to find a large and clean enough puddle to fill a bag full of water. Sea is wild right now. Approaching it is not wise.
Molloch drops the bag of water and picks up a stone from the storage, then sits besides Mollask and joins in the rock sharpening. Mollask is quickly done and is exhausted. He retreats to his cave to sleep. Walnut follows an hour later.
Molloch is left alone. He stares around. He looks at the mountain again. It is barely visible through the rain, but the orange is still there. He sits and watches the rain while waiting for the others to arrive.
Meanwhile, Shelbie was in a tiny bit of trouble.
A Cloudtree found him sneaking into its kindergarten. This particular specimen of the small-plane-sized plantimal was an amateur mother, it seems. It had nested not on an high ledge like its kind usually does, but on top of a rock. He managed to steal a seedling and kill it. But the mother had seen him do so. Now he needs to run away from a small plant-zeppelin-dragon floating after him.
Shelbie manages to make it lose interest eventually. the cloudtree realises that it had left its other seedlings unguarded and rushes back to its nest, writing the already killed one off as a loss.
Shelbie returns, and Molloch grabs the seedling corpse is uses it as fuel almost immidiately. With the fire at least active once more, he quickly dries the raw meat available, distributing it between Shelbie, Mollask and Walnut, who had had awakened from the smell. Mollask and Walnut then each grab a raw leather and dry it into pelt, while Molloch retrieved the water bag Zark had set up earlier in the day.
While they were doing that, the meat hunting party was also in a struggle One that is arguably a worse one than maternal cloudtree. They had encountered a mated pair of Afternooners. A crepuscular species related to bubblefish, only much bigger, and specialised on hunting plantimals. The party weren't pursuing them. Instead, the duo had found them unknowingly wandering about in their territory and decided to attack. One of them alone could be deadly. Two of them were deadly.
Zark looks up to the aerial beasts wheezing and whistling. He was hungry and exhausted. Spear throws kept getting deflected off the animals' extremely elastic hide. There was one thing left to do, and it was to hide. He signalled to the others to hide also. Fish did not listen. He had an idea.
He got the attention of the male, which turned to him and opened its mouth to attack. Fish went into a hole between two rocks. The afternooner could not reach him, so it started to suck in air to vacuum its enemy instead. Fish held on, and threw his spear into the gaping maw. The spear went right in and punctured the gas sack from the inside. The animal slowly deflated. It's partner, seeing what was happening, retreated away, abandoning its mate.
Killing it after was the easy part. A stab to the artery did the trick. Then they started to butcher the thing. Zark and Mu, still hungry, went into the corpse and ate as much as they could. It was raw, but it was still divine.
After their display of feral hunger, they got out of the corpse, and four of them picked apart as much of the elastic flesh and guts as they could- Wait who the fuck is this guy?!
To the trios surprise, there was a stranger among them, stealing from their kill! They didn't really mind. There was more here than they could feasibly carry back anyways. Besides, after a bit of talking with the guy, who named himself as Mr. Lobster, seemed to had heard of them back at his home and wanted to join them. They welcome him into the group.
Just as they were done with the butchering, Lobster found a dead sacktree inside of the beasts stomach. They take the dead plantimal along with them. More fuel couldn't hurt.
The quad only manages to get back to the tribe at evening. Mr. Lobster is introduced to the other four original members. The meat hunters drop off their gathered resource. The evening turns into a rainy night and the tribe disperses back to their caves. Except Lobster, who sleeps besides the fire.
_/The Uch-Urum Tribe\_
_/Population\_: 8/7
_/Resources\_¤ Raw Meat: 15/15 (15 spoils in 2 turns)
¤ Dried Meat: 0/15 (+0 / -8)
¤ Bones: 4/0
¤ Raw Leather: 5/0 (5 spoils in 2 turns)
¤ Pelt: 2/0
¤ Stones: 1/0
¤ Water: 6/15 (+0 / -8)
¤ Fuel: 1/0 (-1)
_/Tools\_14 Leather Bags (10 used, 4 available)
8 Bone Spears (7 used, 0 available)
8 Leather Clothes (7 used, 0 available)
2 Sharp Stones
_/Buildings\_3 Storage Caves (45 Storage Total, 23 Used)
7 Cave Homes (7 Housing)
1 Carved Balcony
+1 Small Fireplace
_/Toolmaking\_Primitive Crafts
These do not require a workshop to be made.
¤ Sharp Stone: 1 Stone
A simple tool used for a variety of purposes.
¤ Bone Spear: 1 Bone, 1 Sharp Stone
Spear made of animal bone. Used for hunting. Isn't necessary to hunt.
¤ Leather Clothes: 1 Pelt
Garments made of animal pelt. Increases armor.
¤ Leather Bag: 1 Pelt
Used to store, and transport resources more efficently. Can hold up to 3 units of resources. Can only hold 1 type of resource at a time. Necessary for storage caves to function as food/water stores.
_/Indoor Construction\_
¤ Cave Home: 1 Sharp Stone (H)
Small housing carved into rock. Houses 1 shellperson. Uses up 1 Sharp Stone.
¤ Storage Cave: 1 Sharp Stone (S)
Small storage carved into rock. Uses up 1 Sharp Stone. Can contain 5 items, including leather bags that have items in them. Can contain multiple kinds of resources at once.
¤Corridor: 1 Sharp Stone (╣,║,╗╝,╚,╔,╩,╦,╠,═,╬)
A long tunnel into stone. Can link to 3 constructions. Those constructions can be corridors. Can be built upon where a room is to turn it into a corridor.
¤Carved Balcony: 1 Sharp Stone (B)
Artificial cavity on rock face. Can be used to have campfires technically inside and be protected from rain. Can only be built on places bordering outside.
¤Workshop Cave: 1 Sharp Stone, 2 Stones (W)
A cave with a workshop in it.
_/Outdoor Construction\_
¤ Primitive Workshop: 2 Stones
A small outdoor workbench used to craft basic tools and items.
¤ Fireplace: 1-2 Fuel (S: s) (M: S)
A communal fireplace. Used to cook food and dry animal skins. Consumes 1 or 2 Fuel every turn, depending on its size. Doesn't consumes fuel the turn it is first built. Goes out or downgrades if no fuel is left in storage to sustain it.
None
_/Cave Map\_
PlayersPlayer: Crystalizedmire
Appearance: ....
Items:
Leather Clothes
Bone Spear
Habitation: Cave Home
Player: A_Curious_Cat
Appearance: ....
Items:
Leather Clothes
Bone Spear
Habitation: Cave Home
Player: Maximum Spin
Appearance: He is a particularly large Shellperson. His beak is sharp and triangular. His shell is symetric and rough. His shell is colored a very dark brown. His eyes are small. His light organ has along stalk and is large. His duel tentacle is extremely sharp.
Items:
Leather Clothes
Bone Spear
Habitation: Cave Home
Player: Funk
Appearance: ....
Items:
Leather Clothes
Bone Spear
Habitation: Cave Home
Player: Supernerd
Appearance: ....
Items:
Leather Clothes
Bone Spear
Habitation: Cave Home
Player: The Canadian Kitten
Appearance: ....
Items:
Leather Clothes
Bone Spear
Habitation: Cave Home
Player: King Zultan
Appearance: ....
Items:
Leather Clothes
Bone Spear
Habitation: Cave Home
Player: BlackPaladin99
Appearance: ....
Items:
Leather Clothes
Bone Spear
Habitation: ...
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Topic: The Survival of The Shellfolk | For the Lauv of God (Read 7315 times)