[center][color=306EFF][h1]Vola[/h1][/color][/center]

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[b]Current Location[/b]: Forests 
[b]Current Activity[/b]: Working with Gren [@Lucius Cypher] to clean a Tatzelwurm. 
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It was a tense few minutes as they waited for the bleeding to stop – a thousand different worst-case scenarios playing out in Vola’s mind. Did she apply the leaves properly? Is she doing this right? Are these leaves actually poisonous? Is she inadvertently responsible for causing Gren’s arm to fall off? Thankfully, before Vola’s thoughts could take too dark of a turn, Gren’s bleeding stopped. The relief was immense.

The worry wasn’t completely gone though, and she had to bite her tongue to keep from ordering Gren to sit back down. He should know the limits of his own body, so if he thinks that he was alright to keep chopping, then he probably was. Besides, it wasn’t like they could just sit here and twiddle their thumbs the entire day either…there are only so many hours in the day after all and they still had a lot of things to accomplish. So instead, she just widened her smile slightly and gave Gren a nod. [color=306EFF]It was my pleasure, Gren. Just be careful while you chop alright? Let me know if the bleeding starts again, or if your arm hurts or feels funny, okay? I’ll get started on the snake then, it might not be pretty, but I should be able to get the job done![/color]

And while every atom of her body was rebelling at the thought of raw food, it wasn’t like she knew anything about starting a fire apart from rubbing two sticks together like in cartoons. This was her own fault for refusing to join the girl-scouts when her parents suggested it. She has nobody to blame but herself. Besides…maybe it won’t be so bad? People eat sushi after all, and that is just raw fish! This is also a new body, with a new sense of taste, maybe it’s normal for orcs to eat raw meat if they can’t cook it? 

The thought still makes her shudder, though. 

Okay, she’ll cross that bridge when she comet to it! Right now, she just needs to focus on cleaning and skinning this thing to the best of her abilities. Looking at the corpse in front of her and at her sharp stone, Vola tried to conjure up everything that she knew about biology, anatomy and cooking that might be able to help her in this situation. First things first, she should probably drain the blood, and since she agrees with Gren that the head is most likely full of poison…

Taking a bracing breath, Vola stabbed the stone into the flesh, doing her best to neatly cut off the head from where its neck met the shoulders. It was a bit of a hassle to get through the spine, but she managed eventually. Next, she worked on removing its front paws, also at the shoulders. The first one didn’t exactly come off easily, but the second one went slightly better since she knew what to expect. She then looked at the rest of the body, now just resembling a large snake without the top half. It was still bleeding a lot, so Vola held up the tip of the tail, her hands slowly moving down the length of the body, raising as much of it as possible before lowering that area and moving on to the next as she attempted to get the blood to flow down faster. Once it looked like the flow more or less stopped, Vola straightened out the corpse, positioning it so that it was belly up.

Now came the hard part. Making a long cut straight down through the middle of its belly, vola worked to try to neatly separate the skin from the flesh, removing any organs as she came across them ass well as large bones. She separated the piles as best as she could, organs in one part, bones in the other and any meat that looked safe to eat was placed on a neat heap on top of an area of the skin she finished. All the while, she did her best to keep the skin as intact as possible, if they find a way to have it properly treated, the leather could be valuable.

The process was then repeated with the Snake-cat’s arms, with her paying close attention to the bones and claws of the limbs. Maybe those could be used in crafting? Then all that was left was the head…Vola didn’t really trust the meat from this part, knowing that her meat-cleaning skills weren’t nearly efficient enough to remove all the poison from it, but the teeth might be useful, and it could help her know what to look out for with future Snake-cats. If she can find the poison sack or whatever it was, they might even be able to tip their weapons with poison to give themselves an advantage with other creatures? Which is why, gross as it was, Vola started to skin the head very carefully, the meat from that part going into its own small ‘Eat if you dare’ pile.
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[u][b]Current Skills:[/b][/u][list]
[*][b]Ingestion[/b] - [i]After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.[/i]
[*][b]Rune Scribe[/b] - Rank I - [i]Isekai Skill. Normally, this Skill requires the User to be capable of at least one other Magic Skill. Use a personal writing system to imbue magical effects. At Rank I, the scribed Rune has only half the effectiveness of the original Spell and fades after 1 day. (For example, one could use this with a piece of parchment to produce a consumable Scroll of Fire Bolt--or place the Rune somewhere in the environment with certain spells to create a sort of booby-trap.)[/i]  
[*]Empty Skill Slot
[*]Empty Skill Slot[/list]

[u][b]Equipment and Inventory:[/b][/u][list]
[*][b]Swaddling Pelts[/b] - Equip, Clothes - [i]Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.[/i]
[*][b]Wooden Stick[/b] - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - [i]A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.[/i]
[*][b]Sharp Rock[/b] - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - [i]A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.[/i]
[*][b]Stone Hatchet[/b] - Equip, Weapon/Tool - [i]Gren has it.[/i] 
[*][b]Tungem Leaf x4[/b] – Material – [i]Can be used to make a Leaf Compress[/i][/list]
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[hider=Current Quest]
[b] Quest[/b]: Hunt for Food!
[b]Optional Quests Available[/b]:[list][*]Gather wood for Bowbh’s forges.
[*]Gather ore for Bowbh’s forges.[list]
[*]Optional: Gather Bog Ore
[*]Optional: Gather Cave Ore
[*]Optional: Bring Bowbh high quality ore.[/list]
[*]Discover the North Cave[/list]
[b]Target[/b]: Random 
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