Of Wolves and Men: A Werewolf Quest
- Thread starter LinkOnScepter
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
Turn 2
LinkOnScepter
The One who Strangles Concepts to death
- Location
- Interwebs
Food Search: 91 + 10 (Wisdom) = 101 Artificial Crit
Your search for food goes swimmingly.
However, you mostly chalk it up to sheer luck.
Not having the best sense of direction, you decided to head on out and see if you could find anything. Either you find food and come back to a feast, or you don't and….best not to think about it.
You were expecting to have to make a few traps, pick a couple of berries, maybe even be forced to make a sling to hunt down something to eat. After all, survival is not a walk in the park. You have to be diligent, steadfast, and ready to do anything you need to survive.
….Or find a cave that it's recently deceased owner left behind, with plenty of food to get you by for at least 2 months.
You probably stand there for about five minutes before picking your jaw up off the floor. The cave itself isn't really all that special. It's a plain old, gray rock cave that goes on for a good few feet. Thankfully, it's not so deep that if a cave-in happened you'd be stuck inside with nowhere to go. However, the things that really interest you are the corpse sitting at the mouth of the cave next to three bags of various foodstuffs.
You inspect the dead body first, making sure to whisper out some Last Rites for the man. He's recently deceased, his body not yet decomposing. Purple robes stained with blood cover his pudgy body, while a hood covers up most of his features. The robe doesn't appear to have anything in it, and you don't see anything on his arms or hands. A hole the size of a longbow arrow is a prominent feature in his chest, the projectile long since pulled out.
Your gaze shifts downward to a small note scrawled in blood next to the man's right hand. Gingerly, you pick it up and bring it to your face. It's difficult to make out, due to it being written in blood and all. Thankfully, it's written in Common, so you're able to get the gist of the letter:
"Assassins….ambushed me….got hit...barbed and poisoned...won't last the night….to whoever reads this….never trust an Arthraki…..damn...winged...bastards….."
That's where the note, and presumably the man's life, ends. You shake your head and look towards the bags filled with goods. From what you can see, you've got a good haul. The bags are about as tall as your leg and wide as your foot. Two are filled with fruits and vegetables and the other bread. You should be able to survive on this for a long time.
You make ready to pick the bags up, but think better of it.
Why take these back to that undergrowth, when you can just stay here in the cave?
You put a hand to your chin in thought. That's not a bad idea. Makes it less of a hassle for you, and you get a much better place to sleep at night. Gonna need to do something about that body though...
[] What do you do with the body?
--[] Bury it
--[] Leave it
--[] Take its clothes, then bury it
Gained 2 months worth of foodstuff!
Gained new Hideout: Arnabi Forest Cave!
Water Search: 19 + 10 (Wisdom) = 29 High Failure
After deciding where your new residence will be, you went off to search for the second most important thing to your survival (next to a good sword or shield); Water.
So you, once again, employed the previously proven strategy of picking a random direction and walking that way. Your optimism is brimming right now! You've already have in mind the idea of you stumbling upon a waterfall with crystal clear water that you can drink to your heart's content!
That illusion is thoroughly shattered when you do find water.
It was pretty easy to find. All you did was follow the sound of rushing water and soon enough you found a running stream. You follow the small amount of liquid into a larger river, and are just about to take a sip when you realize you are not alone.
You are just able to move out of the way before a giant furred body comes barreling at you with a loud squawking roar. It turns up grass and dust in its clawed feet, clipping your side with a sharp wing as it rushes past. You hiss when you feel your wound opening up. It was healing quickly earlier (something you had planned to question later), now it's bleeding profusely again.
You roll onto your haunches to observe your adversary, but find it gone. The only evidence left of its passing are the claw prints driven into the ground from where it ran past you. You look around the area, trying to get a bead on it. Just when you think it might be gone you get sent flying forward when something slams into your back. The pain reverberates throughout your body, but you don't cry out. Instead you choose to land on your hands, springing upwards to land back on your feet.
You look up, seeing that once again your adversary had disappeared into the underbush. You can't fight this thing, not now anyway. You need to come back when you have a plan and maybe some weapons.
Gritting your teeth, you choose to make a tactical retreat. You rush through the forest, heading back to your current abode. When you get there, you lean up against the closest thing to a wall you can find. You wince and place a hand on your back, feeling a bruise starting to form where that thing hit you.
Looks like your luck ran out on that one.
Fantastic.
Source of Water found, but it's guarded by some kind of beast.
New Action: Hunt the Beast.
Turn 2 Start:
Actions: 2
Current Hideout: Aranbi Forest Cave
-Current Food: 2 Months worth
--Food Consumption: 1 Per Day (Gaston)
Current Hunt Level: 0
Current Health: Freshly opened, but slowly healing wound on right side; Slowly healing bruise on back
[] Training: Might as well hone your skills while you're here. Don't want to get rusty.
[Locked] Pack Mangement: You don't have one yet.
[Locked] Social Ventures: No one to talk to right now.
Your search for food goes swimmingly.
However, you mostly chalk it up to sheer luck.
Not having the best sense of direction, you decided to head on out and see if you could find anything. Either you find food and come back to a feast, or you don't and….best not to think about it.
You were expecting to have to make a few traps, pick a couple of berries, maybe even be forced to make a sling to hunt down something to eat. After all, survival is not a walk in the park. You have to be diligent, steadfast, and ready to do anything you need to survive.
….Or find a cave that it's recently deceased owner left behind, with plenty of food to get you by for at least 2 months.
You probably stand there for about five minutes before picking your jaw up off the floor. The cave itself isn't really all that special. It's a plain old, gray rock cave that goes on for a good few feet. Thankfully, it's not so deep that if a cave-in happened you'd be stuck inside with nowhere to go. However, the things that really interest you are the corpse sitting at the mouth of the cave next to three bags of various foodstuffs.
You inspect the dead body first, making sure to whisper out some Last Rites for the man. He's recently deceased, his body not yet decomposing. Purple robes stained with blood cover his pudgy body, while a hood covers up most of his features. The robe doesn't appear to have anything in it, and you don't see anything on his arms or hands. A hole the size of a longbow arrow is a prominent feature in his chest, the projectile long since pulled out.
Your gaze shifts downward to a small note scrawled in blood next to the man's right hand. Gingerly, you pick it up and bring it to your face. It's difficult to make out, due to it being written in blood and all. Thankfully, it's written in Common, so you're able to get the gist of the letter:
"Assassins….ambushed me….got hit...barbed and poisoned...won't last the night….to whoever reads this….never trust an Arthraki…..damn...winged...bastards….."
That's where the note, and presumably the man's life, ends. You shake your head and look towards the bags filled with goods. From what you can see, you've got a good haul. The bags are about as tall as your leg and wide as your foot. Two are filled with fruits and vegetables and the other bread. You should be able to survive on this for a long time.
You make ready to pick the bags up, but think better of it.
Why take these back to that undergrowth, when you can just stay here in the cave?
You put a hand to your chin in thought. That's not a bad idea. Makes it less of a hassle for you, and you get a much better place to sleep at night. Gonna need to do something about that body though...
[] What do you do with the body?
--[] Bury it
--[] Leave it
--[] Take its clothes, then bury it
Gained 2 months worth of foodstuff!
Gained new Hideout: Arnabi Forest Cave!
Water Search: 19 + 10 (Wisdom) = 29 High Failure
After deciding where your new residence will be, you went off to search for the second most important thing to your survival (next to a good sword or shield); Water.
So you, once again, employed the previously proven strategy of picking a random direction and walking that way. Your optimism is brimming right now! You've already have in mind the idea of you stumbling upon a waterfall with crystal clear water that you can drink to your heart's content!
That illusion is thoroughly shattered when you do find water.
It was pretty easy to find. All you did was follow the sound of rushing water and soon enough you found a running stream. You follow the small amount of liquid into a larger river, and are just about to take a sip when you realize you are not alone.
You are just able to move out of the way before a giant furred body comes barreling at you with a loud squawking roar. It turns up grass and dust in its clawed feet, clipping your side with a sharp wing as it rushes past. You hiss when you feel your wound opening up. It was healing quickly earlier (something you had planned to question later), now it's bleeding profusely again.
You roll onto your haunches to observe your adversary, but find it gone. The only evidence left of its passing are the claw prints driven into the ground from where it ran past you. You look around the area, trying to get a bead on it. Just when you think it might be gone you get sent flying forward when something slams into your back. The pain reverberates throughout your body, but you don't cry out. Instead you choose to land on your hands, springing upwards to land back on your feet.
You look up, seeing that once again your adversary had disappeared into the underbush. You can't fight this thing, not now anyway. You need to come back when you have a plan and maybe some weapons.
Gritting your teeth, you choose to make a tactical retreat. You rush through the forest, heading back to your current abode. When you get there, you lean up against the closest thing to a wall you can find. You wince and place a hand on your back, feeling a bruise starting to form where that thing hit you.
Looks like your luck ran out on that one.
Fantastic.
Source of Water found, but it's guarded by some kind of beast.
New Action: Hunt the Beast.
Turn 2 Start:
Actions: 2
Current Hideout: Aranbi Forest Cave
-Current Food: 2 Months worth
--Food Consumption: 1 Per Day (Gaston)
Current Hunt Level: 0
Current Health: Freshly opened, but slowly healing wound on right side; Slowly healing bruise on back
[] Training: Might as well hone your skills while you're here. Don't want to get rusty.
- [] Train Physical Stats
- [] General or Specific?
- [] Train Social Stats
- [] General or Specific?
- [] Train Mental Stats
- [] General or Specific?
- [] Look for food
- [] Look for water
- [] Look for anything
- [] Hunt the Beast
- [] Build a Sling
- [] Build a Trap
[Locked] Pack Mangement: You don't have one yet.
[Locked] Social Ventures: No one to talk to right now.
- Location
- United States
[X] What do you do with the body?
--[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
We must mount that Beast's head on our cave's wall! It will look good over the future fire place.
--[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
We must mount that Beast's head on our cave's wall! It will look good over the future fire place.
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Kanata.EXE
Programmer
- Location
- Indonesia
[X] What do you do with the body?
-[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Look for water
--[X] In the other direction.
-[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Look for water
--[X] In the other direction.
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Rungni Khazadson
Just another random Runesmith!
- Location
- New Zealand
[X] What do you do with the body?
--[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
[X] Train Physical Stats
-[X] General
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
--[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
[X] Train Physical Stats
-[X] General
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
FullNothingness
Mostly DHMO.
[X] What do you do with the body?
-[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Look for water
--[X] In the other direction.
Not interested in clothes that smell like carrion and are covered in blood. That is just asking for trouble.
Weapon because running around a forest with monsters in it without one is pretty suicidal.
And water again because we need that stuff and I'd rather not have to risk battle before recovering some.
-[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Look for water
--[X] In the other direction.
Not interested in clothes that smell like carrion and are covered in blood. That is just asking for trouble.
Weapon because running around a forest with monsters in it without one is pretty suicidal.
And water again because we need that stuff and I'd rather not have to risk battle before recovering some.
[X] What do you do with the body?
-[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
-[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
- Location
- Mists of Albion
[X] What do you do with the body?
--[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
[X] Train Physical Stats
-[X] General
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
--[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
[X] Train Physical Stats
-[X] General
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
......
Crawkid
Lover of quests and community
- Location
- holed up in my room
[X] What do you do with the body?
-[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Look for water
--[X] In the other direction.
This'll work...
-[X] Bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Look for water
--[X] In the other direction.
This'll work...
- Location
- St. Petersburg
[X] What do you do with the body?
--[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
No [ ] add it to the food supply? It's still fresh!
Eh, at least we can wash off the clothes once we drive away the beastie.
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
--[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
No [ ] add it to the food supply? It's still fresh!
Eh, at least we can wash off the clothes once we drive away the beastie.
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
- Location
- Canada
[X] What do you do with the body?
--[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
[X] Train Physical Stats
-[X] General
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
--[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
[X] Train Physical Stats
-[X] General
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Hunt the Beast
ConfusedPotato
Unverified Verifier
- Location
- Australia
[X] What do you do with the body?
-[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Look for water
--[X] In the other direction.
-[X] Take its clothes, then bury it
[X] Misc: Random things that might need doing.
-[X] Find/Make a weapon. Even a good long solid branch will do as a staff or club. Maybe with a bit of work with some edged stone you could make a improvised spear by sharpening one end. Practically anything is better than being unarmed.
[X] Exploration: Rule 1 of Survival: Know your surroundings.
-[X] Look for water
--[X] In the other direction.
FullNothingness
Mostly DHMO.
Guys, is there really a need to grab the clothes that are basically telling every predator in the area "food here"... I mean yeah our current clothes are pretty messed up but at least they don't smell like carrion.
Also keep in mind that we are in a magical setting here. It is just possible that desecrating corpses may cause more problems than that. We don't really need this guy haunting us, especially if he was some kind of mage like those robes indicate he might be. Taking his food is one thing, stealing his clothes another.
Robes are not a great option for us to wear regardless. They get you attention, purple isn't particularly stealthy and they'll likely impede us from fighting. Cleaning blood out of cloth isn't particularly easy either without any supplies so we would likely not be able to do so any time soon.
All in all if we want new clothes we should just go steal or otherwise acquire some others later, not take these.
Also keep in mind that we are in a magical setting here. It is just possible that desecrating corpses may cause more problems than that. We don't really need this guy haunting us, especially if he was some kind of mage like those robes indicate he might be. Taking his food is one thing, stealing his clothes another.
Robes are not a great option for us to wear regardless. They get you attention, purple isn't particularly stealthy and they'll likely impede us from fighting. Cleaning blood out of cloth isn't particularly easy either without any supplies so we would likely not be able to do so any time soon.
All in all if we want new clothes we should just go steal or otherwise acquire some others later, not take these.
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We picked the fighty wuff.
FullNothingness
Mostly DHMO.
Yes... But that doesn't mean being attacked all the time is a good thing. We are already wounded and need time to heal. In the future we'll want to pick our fights not get into random ones. Smelling like carrion is counterproductive.
Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Even the brawniest of predators doesn't fight when it's not necessary. Fighting risks injury, which makes it harder to hunt, which risks more injury and gradual weakening from hunger, and so on and so forth.
LinkOnScepter
The One who Strangles Concepts to death
- Location
- Interwebs
Alright time for rolls.