[center][h1][color=ed1c24]Gren[/color][/h1]
Location: Forests
Quest: Hunt for Food!
Current Activity: Harvesting materials with Vola [@Unkown58][/center]

[color=ed1c24]"A stretcher? Wuzzthat? You mean one of thems thing that the hunters would sometimes put animals on when they kill em? Yeah that makes sense, better than dragging em all through the forest and stuff. Could damage the skin and meat. I'll keep an eye out fer stuff like that. Anyways you seem ta know what you're doin, so I'll just follow you."[/color]

Thanks to Vola's better survival skills, she seemed to be able to find north way better than Gren could. Sure he found moss on a tree, but the moss was going [i]all[/i] around the tree, so he had no idea which way was north just by moss presence alone. Maybe if he finds freshly grown moss he'll be able to tell which way is north, but most of the trees he found had moss growing all around them or none at all. But while he was looking for moss on trees, and trees in general, he found a nice tree that he could try and cut down. And even better, it had some vines and such on it!

Of course Gren wasn't so cocky that he would just go up to the tree and start grabbing at it. It could be poison ivy, or a coiled snake. And so Gren looks to Vola and motions for the axe. [color=ed1c24]"Hey Vola, lemme use tha axe for a bit. I see a tree that'll make a good spear, and some vines, but in case it's a snake I wanna chop it first."[/color] Once the axe was obtained, Gren would hack into the vine, trying to harvest some for the sake of having something he could use to make into some rope. Since he didn't really know how to harvest tree sap for glue and duct tape probably doesn't exist, he would need to rely on more conventional means to keep stuff together. Like rope.

Assuming that the vine doesn't bite him, Gren would also work on trying to harvest a large branch. While he ideally could make some throwing spears, he and Vola would need a weapon. He felt confident that he could handle the axe if he really needs to, so Vola is going to need a weapon. Unless they can find a nice rock they could make another stone axe out of, the next best thing would be a spear. With some extra rope they could make a nice stone-tipped spear along enough for Vola to stab stuff from a safe distance, or failing that they could just sharpen a long branch into a wooden spear. It'll probably be just as effective.

They'd need the extra weapon if they would be going into those caves. Who knows what sort of monsters are in there. Though they'd also need something that could be used to dig up those ores too. Probably some sort of stone pick, since they'd be breaking rocks instead of digging through dirt, probably. Maybe they could use the axe? How does one identify what metal ores look like compared to normal rocks anyways? Rocks were rocks to him.... Hopefully Vola's got the smarts to identify what's good metal ore and what's just regular stone, or else this whole operation is a bust. Either way, it was time to continue their journey north bound.