Tributary II «7» — Day 3, Morning — Bah, no one seems to care.

[SWAT One]

Troublesome.  Adok instead sets out toward the sound of a tree being chopped.

Adok travels southwest, where he sights three strains of mushroom growing around or in the swamp.

«Adok has discovered the Mondobo Mushroom^Ψ, Stonag Mushroom^Ψ, and the Tyrkyev Mushroom^Ψ.»

He remembers where they were, but then sees a man chopping wood while standing in mud.


Kamila wakes up to a black nose of an animal's snout sniffing her face.  She awakes with a start and a scream.  As she does so, the animal is just as alarmed and scampers back where more of its canine comrades are waiting in the woods.  The creatures do not seem malicious, but only curious of her presence.  She knows all too well that this animal is a predator, though.  Her axe is just out of reach, and thus does not want to make any sudden movements to warrant an attack that would inevitably mean her demise.  She silently watches them while trying to remain very still.

«Kamila has discovered the Makon^Ψ.»


While Adok is observing Aesc silently from a discance in a somewhat inconspicuous position, Adok hears a growling squeal behind him, turning to see a crazed bolgil charging at him despite the mud.  Despite the fact that Adok hasn't seen a bolgil before, he notices that it is behaving strangely, almost erratically, as it would make no sense to charge through a muddy swamp.  Aesc also notices the angry boar heading in his direction due to Adok, Aesc and the boar being nearly in-line with one another.


As Olga is building her hut and retrieving supplies, she sees a small group of antelope-like creatures in the distance drinking from the water from across the Ostyak.

«Olga has discovered the Dagu^Ψ.»

Added a new poll.  Here's a sample that I just wrote up:

[Ad Bot]

[Juncoph]

Olga throws her spearlog and axe at two dagu, aiming for two kills.

[SWAT One]

Olga throws her spearlog and axe at two dagu, aiming for two kills.

Olga throws the spearlog and axe, which both fall short by several yards, landing in the river.  The dagu scamper off.  The spearlog begins to drift slowly downstream and the axe sinks to the bottom.

[grunterdb1951]

Initially oblivious to the encroaching Adok, Aesc saunters down to collect the logs that have fallen into the water and drag them out onto drier land. He begins to strip down his fallen trees of bark while also moving to snap off branches suitable for a spear before he notices Adok and stares, both freezing somewhat in surprise mixed with fear and surveying the mans actions.

When the boar comes charging in for home and country, assuming that Adok doesn't do anything to stop it, Aesc would attempt to let it come over a distance before moving to side step and strike it in the neck/head region with his stone adze

[blazerblock2]

Adok turns to see the crazed Bolgil making a charge at him, and quickly steps to the side to avoid serious injury.

[Juncoph]

Olga observes the depth of the river, and then goes to make herself hot to the point of sweating by the fire she had made earlier. When she's got beads of sweat running down her forehead, she sprints down the hillside and performs a shallow dive in, careful to avoid hitting her head on the riverbed. After adjusting to the freezing water for a moment, she dives further for her axe and scrambles for the shore. At the very least, she got the grime off.

[SWAT One]

When the boar comes charging in for home and country, assuming that Adok doesn't do anything to stop it, Aesc would attempt to let it come over a distance before moving to side step and strike it in the neck/head region with his stone adze

Adok turns to see the crazed Bolgil making a charge at him, and quickly steps to the side to avoid serious injury.

As Adok tries to dodge, the boar attempts to swing at him, hitting him in the foot with the broad side of the tusk, causing him to fall over into the mud on his back.  After a moment of confusion, the pig runs toward Aesc.  As the pig gets close, Aesc crowns the boar as hard as he can, caving the boar's face in while dodging him.

Olga observes the depth of the river, and then goes to make herself hot to the point of sweating by the fire she had made earlier. When she's got beads of sweat running down her forehead, she sprints down the hillside and performs a shallow dive in, careful to avoid hitting her head on the riverbed. After adjusting to the freezing water for a moment, she dives further for her axe and scrambles for the shore. At the very least, she got the grime off.

As a result of this dive, Olga is very cold as the highland wind brushes past her.  She dashes up the hill and stands by the fire, heating herself up.

After all this very hard labor, her blistered hands and aching legs and back are telling her that she needs to rest.


The wolves around Kamila eventually lose interest and run off into the forest.  A few of them serve as temporary sentries as the pack retreats.

Kamila waits for a moment and then get back up.

[blazerblock2]

Adok hurries to his feet, panicked!  He looks around, searching for the boar and readying his axe.  Should the boar come back for another run, he would take a swing.

[SWAT One]

Boar ded m8

[Kringleberg]

Veho spots a group of three mountain goats searching for food in the rocky areas north of him.
«Veho has discovered the Soudowek^Ψ.»

Holding his axe ready in his hand, Veho sneaks closer to the goat farthest away from the rest of the group. When he is close enough, he leaps and attacks the goat by hacking away at the head with his axe.

[blazerblock2]

Adok recollects himself, finding that the boar has been slain.  He looks to the slayer, and adjusts his posture to a much more defensive stance.

[SWAT One]

Holding his axe ready in his hand, Veho sneaks closer to the goat farthest away from the rest of the group. When he is close enough, he leaps and attacks the goat by hacking away at the head with his axe.

By now the goats will have scampered off after scaling the mountain.  However, Veho sees more of them up higher in the mountains.

[SWAT One]

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[Juncoph]

Olga collects her baculum knife and begins stripping pork cuts of fat until she's left with 8 lbs of lean pork slices. She builds a simple drying rack over the bonfire with a similar structure to her bareboned shelter and mounts the lean slices to the rack. Afterward, she uses a few other sticks to have 8 more lbs of pork cooking significantly closer to the fire. She also hangs bushels of potatoes over the blaze.

Olga then begins to let herself rest, gradually slumping more and more as the minutes pass by. She idly begins gutting and skinning the zvyrma she'd downed earlier, before using it along with some of the bolgil pelt hanging off of the ribcage rucksack to fashion herself a new hat. She adorns the sides of the hat with the skeletal wings of the zvyrma's remains.

[Kringleberg]

However, Veho sees more of them up higher in the mountains.

Veho decides not to spend the day climbing a mountain. He moves further inland.