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VixereGoblin Aya
Aya almost signed aloud as it seemed she’d convinced her brother not to simply throw himself to the wolves, only stopping herself as a means of saving face. It seemed he wanted her to make some kind of weapon for him. Fair enough, she’d been planning to do this if he wasn’t capable of doing it himself anyway, the question was what to make. On the one hand, Aya’s own preference was to put as much distance between herself and her opponent as possible in a fight or better yet not directly confront them, but she doubted that convincing Argos of that would be within her power so she was left to devise something more hands-on. Still, anything was better than nothing at least and he’d said he wanted something to improve his fists, so maybe knuckles of some kind? “Um… I guess after we're done hunting I could make you something to brace and protect your fists so you could punch harder without risk. Ideally, I’d make something with some heft so you could get more force out of your punches but for the time being we’re probably going to be stuck using bone and wood. It should still allow you to punch harder without hurting yourself and a smaller impact surface would increase the damage you could deal…” Aya realised she was rambling so she trailed off and retreating back into her head again.
As much as she wanted to ponder the ideas for weapon designs that were beginning to surface for which she definitely didn’t have the tools, materials or know-how to make, right now Aya had a more important task and that was to gather the materials for the tools she could make. The only problem was now that she was looking for it she couldn’t seem to find the vital component her ideas had hinged on, a stand-in for rope. She’d been hoping for vines but there were none in sight and in hindsight had probably been unreasonable to hope for ones that would be flexible enough to work into a net in the first place. The alternative was to break up other plants for fibres and work those into rope, which while time-consuming would be a better solution in the long term anyway, but looking around now none of the shrubbery seemed like the kind she could break down without a time investment beyond what she could put in for now, certainly not without having the right tools first.
Aya was about to ask Lexie for suggestions, given she'd shown interest in the rope plan, only to realise that they’d wandered off at some point. Worse still, sister Kir was now saying she planned to go off hunting without traps and was inviting Argos along. Actually, that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, all things considered, Kir was obviously at least fairly intelligent and could violate physics so they’d be fine and the fact that she was now talking to Argos was also great, if anything their mutual head-on approach made them a far better match up without Aya getting in the way. Still, that wasn't exactly great for Aya.
Should she just give in and go hunting without making every advantage she could for herself? She really didn’t want to without knowing anything in advance. Move further away to search for materials? A much better idea but still risky, especially the prospect of crafting in the middle of nowhere. Maybe just pray to Shirila and hope that easy pray would come straight to her? She had no reason to assume the gods of this world actually existed or that they would respond in any case, even if she did know the proper rites to worship them. Wait, why did she know that? It wasn’t something the elder had gone into in that much depth... Was it another case in which by learning a bit she’d somehow attained a wealth of related knowledge? If that was the case then she’d totally been going about her lack of information in the wrong way this entire time, all she needed to do was understand enough that she could spontaneously learn the rest, in fact, if the number of mistakes she’d noticed after learning to craft was any indications her understanding of the subject didn’t even need to be strictly correct.
Aya was getting excited at the prospect of learning something new, both in terms of understanding how this spontaneous learning worked and hopefully learning about the ecology of the local creatures, or better yet just ecology in general. Having hyped herself with this plan to the point that she found herself rationalising that she could look for materials as she went, while completely ignoring the risks that would normally be plaguing her mind around that point. “It doesn’t look like there’s anything I can use as rope here so I'm going to go looking for something further out and to scout out anything that it looks like we could hunt safely while I'm at it. Okay? I’ll tell you guys if I find anything worthwhile.”
Even as excited as she was Aya still maintained a degree of her usual paranoia and while she figured the horn Argos had given her would work as a decent weapon until she could get make something better having the other hand empty didn’t exactly do much to help her either so after a brief moment to look around Aya picked up a sizable stone that had long since fallen from the crumbling church, before she beginning to move away from said church and into the wild, al the while trying to spy any subjects for her analysis and mumbling to herself about the creatures she’d already seen.
The horned rabbits were most likely herbivores considering what Aya knew about rabbits and creatures with horns, though now that she thought about it Aya cursed her own stupidity for not thinking to check out the creature's teeth when she’d had the chance. If she had to guess perhaps the horn had once been a tool for digging or pulling up roots that had then later evolved into a more defensive weapon. Given that Aya was pretty sure that rabbits were meant to live in burrows for safety and that she couldn’t imagine the horns making that lifestyle all that easy she guessed that there was probably a predator that could hunt the rabbits in their burrows, thus leading the this otherwise disadvantages evolution and that there was a strong possibility that the horned rabbits didn’t even live in burrows.
Moving on to the only other species she’d had gotten a good look at thus far Aya went back over everything she’d already guessed about goblins. They grew almost impossibly fast, probably survived via throwing extreme numbers at things and having the lucky ones propagate by chance and probably had some unknown method for suddenly gaining large amounts of knowledge. As for their growth, Aya had noticed that the goblins seemed to come in two sizes with a large gap in between, at first she’d assumed this meant that goblins somehow synchronised their births to ensure the maximum number of newborns released into the wild at once, especially since that seemed to be supported by the large litter she’d been born into, but this theory fell apart when she realised that there were small goblins that were not part of her generation, did goblins go through specific growth spurts, that might mean they lived longer than she’d worried about, or perhaps it was some other epigenetic response that grew them to specific sizes. The sudden bursts of knowledge proved to be harder to explain, perhaps the goblins shared some kind of pseudo-hivemind that let them learn things from one another, which might explain the apparent disinterest in teaching the new generations before sending them off. Actually, that might not be a goblin unique phenomena, perhaps even the rabbits could do it.
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