Still half expecting Gina to come back Zats spent another few minutes in the treetop, until he noticed the setting sun. Hoping to meet her back home he climbed back down where he spotted the items she left for him. Despite the rabbit hide smelling and not being dry yet he used it as a replacement loincloth.
As he headed back towards the cave Zats made sure to check what Gina claimed was their other "private spot" near the river and decided that whether he saw her again or not he wouldn't tell any of the other Goblins about it. Despite the risk he spent about fifteen minutes waiting in hopes she would show up and occasionally even yelled her name in case she was nearby, knowing that he might attract the attention of some creature he couldn't defeat. When that time was up he continued on his way back to the cave.
EXP: 4
Inventory: Rabbit-spear, Rabbit hide, Sharp bone Acquired Skills: crush.
Seeing the small family of rabbits Gina, instantly fell in love with them as she sees the four small bunnies that were at the side of the mother. Feeding her young and her not wanting for her young to be motherless, she quickly face Zat and started planning their next steps in order to capture the mother.
"Quick what do we have?" She said as she quickly pulls out all of her equipment and materials on the ground. "I only have this with me." She said as she waits for him, with eyes burning with determination.
Zats had no idea why Gina wanted to know all of his equipment, but he followed her lead again, seeing no reason not to after she managed to capture a live rabbit. He placed his spear and and the rabbithide she cleaned on the ground next to her stuff.
"This is all I have. What are you planning to do?" Almost immediately after he asked he figured out that she was probaly trying to catch at least one of the babies and wondered if it was a good idea. Presumably, apart from maybe Grandpa, not a single Goblin knew anything about taking care of horned rabbits and he was sure she would be devastated if one of the babies in her care would die.
She stares at the item presented to her. Eyeing the strong robe and the rabbit fur then a quick though suddenly came to her. Looking at the nearby foliage, she noticed that it was secluded enough for a hiding place or a secret base. ”Want to tame them?” She said presenting the vaguest and craziest plan she has every thought of to date. “Zat, Lets us make this place our base.“ She said seriously and eager but, soft enough to not disturb the mother, waiting for his answer.
Zats didn't directyly understand what Gina meant by base, but a chance to study horned rabbits in the wild wasn't something that he was gonna pass up on. Who knew what sort of usefull stuff they could learn and maybe use ot impress others with.
He suddenly realized that multiple times during the time out of the cave he wanted opportunities to do something impressive and realized that he had a goal after all. He also decided that if he wanted to achieve it he couldn't always follow Gina around but for now he was fully willing to help her. "Sure, studying this nest could prove interesting after all."
”Studying? She asks quite confused as she didn’t mean that but, seeing him eager, and seeing a small fire lighting in his eyes, she smiled and nods in agreement. ”Yep, lets watch them together.” She replies as she pats his head before she proceeds to a tree which was a bit farther away from the hollowed out tree of the rabbits.
She then grabs the sharp bone that she made and stab it into the tree. “I pick this tree.” She said to him, gesturing to him to grab the other materials and gear they have.
When Gina had settled on a tree she wanted to use for their base Zats grabbed their equipment and headed in that direction. "do you think we'll be able to climb it? Neither of has had much luck your last attempt".
"Then lets not do what we did last time." She gives him a thumbs up, as she steps on the impaled bone. Quickly she points for him to go infront of her and to raise up his hands. waiting for him to get into position and gazing to the bunnies to make sure that nothing goes wrong.
Zats walked over to the point Gina indicated and once there he raised and cupped his hands. He was curious how she was planning to make it to the top of the tree and decided to remember her climbing method if she was succesfull.
Seeing that the bone was still not deep enough, she went down and kicked the bone even further into the trunk of the tree. She then took a long look as she gives her some time to motivate herself and to let the adrenaline pump into her system. She then started running jumping on top of the bone and then onto his hands which she briefly lands on, which she uses to jump again. Airborne she extends her arms as she lands on one hitting her belly with the branch making her gasps in pain. But, with her last bits of determination she positions herself on top to make sure she doesn’t fall back .
After he helped her up Zats backed away from the tree and studied Gina's climbing method. From what he could tell she used the sharpened bones she had attached to her feet like claws and climbed by forcing them into the wood. While it was clever he doubted it would take long for the bones to either break or get blunted.
She quickly pulls out the vine quickly tying it quickly to the bark so that she and he could climb up next time. She gestures him to climb up as she takes a little breather. As she could still feel the pain.
Considerably slower than Gina, even with the vine, Zats started climbing the tree. As he did he wondered if there was a way to make some kind of ladder but he had no idea what kind of material that would take.
After he was close enough she pulled him up, wanting him to enjoy the view she had the luxury of seeing. as she sees the forest, the sun and the mountains that she couldn't see before. "I did it." She said with glee as her eyes brightens as she stares at the view. "Thank you Zat." She said as her eyes watered as her emotions begins to swell as she finished her goal of the day. Though it wasn't the same tree that was near the cave she felt the acomplisement.
Summary
The duo decided to leave and study the rabbit.
Gina with the help of Zat finally climbed her first tree
They enjoy the view on top of the branch.
EXP: 4
Inventory: Sharp Bone Strong vine Makeshift net (rabbit)
Gina happily made her way to Zat. “I want to find something for him or her?” She answers gesturing to its wounded and bleeding leg. “And something I want to hunt more of them just to be able to make something I’ve thought of.” She follows. “IT WOULD HELP ME CLIMB MY TREE!” She ends waiting for her partner’s answer. “And also I need to make something that can make me hide my body.” She says care freely unknowly emphasizing herself.
Since Zats did ask her what they should stay he saw no reason to disagree. "Yeah alright, just try not let my loincloth get damaged and while we are out here can you help me look for a long stick?" He hoped that whatever Gina wanted to make didn't require the horns of every rabbit they ended up bringing back home, but if it did they could probably figure things out.
"Thanks." Gina smiled as she expects his kill giving him a thumbs up for executing his part in the plan as she hoped for. "Do you want to eat it now?" She asks pointing at the carcass. "Its been a long day and I haven't eaten anything as of now, of course, I can still want if you want to." She continues quite embrarass because she though that she was being too pushy and asking him for too much since he did land the final blow to the creature.
Zats agreed that eating now was easier than carrying the carcass around and he was kinda hungry himself. "Yeah okay, I am pretty hungry He looked for away to get past it's hide before realizing the perfect tool came attached to the rabbit. After picking up another rock he began the horn close to the base, until it broke off. He then used it to poorly skin the dead animal. Once he was he tore off some the meat and began eating.
"Yeah." Gina said happy to finally get something to eat taking a piece of the rabbit and shoving it towards her mouth. Due to hunger or to her new form, Gina noticed that she could easily eat it raw, though it didn't taste that good and cooking it is clearly a better way of eating it, they just didn't have the time and the patience to do so.
By the time they were finish, they were able to finish off most of the rabbit eatable flesh. "Thank you for the food." She glady says to him. Now well fed and full she was able to think freely. As she goes to her pet cutting some of the loincloth, forming a small long bangang like cloth and tying it to the rabbits injuired leg, wrapping it tightly to its wounds to stop the bleeding.
"Want to make some tools?" She asks pointing at the bones of the rabbit.
He was surprised, the rabbit meat tasted a lot better than the catterpillars he had eaten so far. Before long he and Gina had devoured every edible part of carcass."I just want the horn, a stick and something to tie them together. What parts do you want?"
He looked around for a stick that was the right size while not being too thick and heavy. It took him a few seconds of searching but he found something he thought could make a nice spear. Ths stick was a bit shorter than he wanted but it would do.
"I'll get the bones then." She responds quite happy that the he didn't decide to get the bones. Grabbing a rock she bash the joints that still connecting the bone to the body. After a few strikes she was able to break the tip making a unaligned but, jagged edge that she could use to stab someone or something with. But, she didn't see it as a weapon but, a tool to help her in climbing her previous tree.
Though she fashion it to help her collect the other materials she needed. "Want to go to the river with me?" She asks him, wanting to collect more of what she needed for something that she wanted to make. "Nice." She said as she sees h partner's spear.
Zats gave his spear a few practice swings, while the stick was light enough to use easily, he wasn't too sure about the rabbit guts he used to tie the horn to it. Still they seemed to hold for now. He was curious what Gina wanted to make and was about to ask her when she suggested going to the river. He had to admit it was a good idea as he was a bit thirsty. "Sure, I can use a bit to drink." In order to familiarize himself a bit with the weapon he started thrusting his spear, making sure that it was impossible for him to accidentally hit his partner.
"Do you have the fur of the rabbit?" She said, gathering the bones of the rabbit, thinking that it could be useful for the group. "I was thinking of making clothes with it." She said as she grips the bones with her right arm and keeping the sharp bone in her left hand. She starts ahead, slowing down to make sure that Zat is with her. Hoping that they could see something useful on the way or the rabbits to get more experience.
"Hmmm... Zat what's you're goal?" She asks him to break the ice lowering it down to prevent potential prey from fleeing. "You know that I plan to climb my tree. " She follows as they try to find the river or a source of water.
Gina's idea aboyt making clothes out of the rabbit fur wasn't a bad one. In fact he had been thinking of the same thing, though it would probably have to be cleaned first. "Yeah I got it."
He made sure to stay behind Gina a few feet to avoid bumoing her if she suddenly stopped or something. Her sudeen question about his goal surprised him. so far he hadn't really though about it, in fact it woudln't shock him to hear that the same applied to the rest of her generation. "Don't know yet, I'm sure I will think of something though." he answered honestly seeing no reason to be embarresed over it.
Day three continued While Zats was glad that they managed to both get what they wanted from their first trip outside, he hoped Gina's net aka his loincloth wouldn't get damaged to the point where it became useless. He also wasn't too happy with how he killed his rabbit, sure crushing it's skull worked but it required getting way too close the business end of the horned rabbit.
He had an idea on how to solve that problem, but had no idea if it was possible. He would ponder that in the cave, for now he dragged his kill behind him and looked for a relatively straight stick that was about twice as long as his arm.
"Yes we did. Do you want to go back to the cave or try and find more rabbits? Personally he preferred to go back but since they didn't know how lucky the others were in their hunt, it wasn't a bad idea to catch some more.
EXP: 4
Inventory:
Acquired Skills: crush allows the user to create a heavy strike best used with a blunt weapon.