Aif succeeds in gathering enough wood for a campfire, as well as a suitable hunk of flint, however he still lacks proper tinder for his fire. A short search reveals some semi-dry grass not too far into the forest. There are also numerous pine needles and cones which were made damp by the storm, but would make excellent tinder and kindling if dried.
Coming from under this layer of needles is a few small caps.
« Aif has discovered the Polodi Mushroom »
« Aif has discovered the Paludiak Mushroom »
Close inspection reveals that some are proportionally fatter than others, and those that are thin have caps which droop down.
Upon inspecting the bush, the red somethings are berries—small, aggregate red berries—and plenty of them. The stem is smooth and the leaves still carry some dampness from the rain. It is uncertain whether this water would sufficiently quench his thirst.
Theric heads into the forest, moving to reach the village, camp, town, settlement, or whatever lies beyond the woods.
A short trip in reveals some Polodi and Paludiak Mushrooms as well as some large berry bush, and he is able to identify its features—small, blue berries in clusters; the bush appears to be perennial based on its woody, thorny stems. He is about to pluck one from the bush before he is distracted by a rustling and a deer running out from it to the NNE, already slightly slowed and bloodied by the thorny branches that cling to the deer.
« Theric has discovered the Andinan Deer »
« Theric has discovered the Taralki Bush »
Yana places the rocks in a bough near to her hammock and feels a gust of cold wind.
It would be best that I build a campfire.
Who knows hoe cold the nights could get here. She looks through her rocks and concludes that none of them are flint, and climbs don the tree to look for more. For the greater part of 20 minutes, she searches with little success, but eventually finds a piece and stuffs it in her pocket. She heads back to her hammock camp and begins to clear a space before she hears a guttural squeal and the thumping of approaching hooves. Knowing she can't get up the tree in time, she readies her knife and holds it out in front of her, turning to face her aggressor and taking a broad stance.
« Yana has discovered the Woolswine »
She waits until the woolswine gets close, before leaping to the left, letting her knife-wielding right hand lag behind, but twisting her wrist down to decrease the chances of getting impaled by the tusks. It works. The animal receives a slash to the snout, and the animal continues through. Meanwhile, the action throws Yana off-balance, and she turns back around to face it to receive any additional charge. The sine slows and rounds about to face Yana, grunting and shaking its head, perhaps unsure if it would like to take any chances again...
It's not like I can cook this thing. There's no way I could prepare a fire before a predator could close in and steal any meat I could get from this. The swine decides instead to leave, trotting off to the northwest.
Oh, thank God. She relaxes and checks that she has no blood on her hands and stabs the knife into the earth, pulling it out to clean the knife from any blood.
She continues to clear an area for building a campfire and searches for suitable logs for kindling and burning, as well as tinder.
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