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Episode 14 - Dinosaurs and Daddy Issues Pt. 2
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The Hunter’s Trial has begun! The objective: Succeed or die trying. Join our feathered heroes as they make a plan, make some rope, and go big.
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Transcript
Morning and Blanket Creation
00:00:23
Speaker
So what's the next morning? And it's pretty early morning when kind of a chill that wakes you up oh because the fires die down. You're the first one up. Odie's still sleeping and you don't hear anything from Cricket.
00:00:37
Speaker
ah so what are you doing? First one wake at Cain. That's chilly, right? Yeah. Well, looking at Odie, looking at like Cricket's still in there. Yeah, you see her still in there. She's curled up by herself.
00:00:49
Speaker
Okay. Heidi's going to open the display panel on her on her device. Okay. On her antenna. And she's going to make a prop.
00:01:00
Speaker
Okay. um A big, like, woolly blanket. Okay. um I mean, not super big, but ah big enough to cover her.
00:01:13
Speaker
Okay. Well, okay. Actually, first she goes to go for a coat. And then she realizes, oh, wait. Raptors wear coats. yeah So then she goes for the blanket.
00:01:25
Speaker
Okay. um It's not tiny. No, okay. So this is this is tricky because a blanket. You can fold it up. Yeah, it can fit in a one-foot cube. Yeah. I'll go small. It's fine. Okay.
00:01:37
Speaker
So that's what? One? Two. who Yeah, two. One is tiny. Yeah, okay. Shit. Yeah, so you burned another one. Yeah, another one bites the dust.
00:01:48
Speaker
So, she makes this blanket, and... What is this blanket like? is it like What is it made out of? Um... Wool? Okay.
00:01:59
Speaker
Like, I don't know. Like, a big... a big Animal animalal hide of some kind? Yeah, maybe me a big furry blanket. So, I don't know. It's a big blanket. I was wondering, like... It's not gonna last very long. yeah hu Um... Okay, just making a blanket and just, like, go back sleep, or what are you doing?
00:02:15
Speaker
Um, okay, so... She tried to, like, point it in the air so that it would fall on her, but it... She miscalculated. And now she's trying to figure out how to get this blanket up and around her.
Playful Blanket Conversation
00:02:31
Speaker
She does not want to resort to using her mouth. Um, but... You know, that was, like, the grasping mechanism for all these raptor folk.
00:02:44
Speaker
For a lot of most animals, yes. Yes. Um...
00:02:50
Speaker
But she's just, she's fighting it. And she's like she, like, sort of sort of, like, kicks it up, and then that doesn't work, and she, like, gets to try to get her tail underneath, and, like,
00:03:02
Speaker
flick it and does that doesn't work eventually she just yeah eventually she just lets out a big sigh
00:03:15
Speaker
and reaches down with her mouth and bites it and kind of brings it up and flings it over her laughing And ah you turn around you see Cricket just standing there watching you do all this. And she says, Good morning.
00:03:32
Speaker
What are you doing? Where'd you get that? Oh, from Oakry. ah hey And, uh, Odie wakes up and, uh, um, he says, uh, what, uh, where did you get that?
00:03:47
Speaker
ah Why? that This is what you gave me. and he just looks around he says, uh, uh, yes, I was, I was gifted this, um, during our travels. Um,
00:04:03
Speaker
And ah Cricket says, ah wow, it looks really warm. Yeah, it's from the one of the clans in the cold region.
00:04:15
Speaker
In the mountains? Is that where the cold region is? Yeah, I've never been there before. We live near the mountains, but not on top of them. Yes, so on top of the mountain, that's where it came from, 100%. Sure,
00:04:31
Speaker
ah and she she laugh she's like alright cool um uh do you should we head back now ah Yeah, we can we can head back um unless um Okra has any any other ideas.
00:04:47
Speaker
but And he says, no, I i think we're ah we're we're fine to head back. um Well, Cricket, you lead the way. and ah And she says, okay, okay.
Return to Village and Cultural Tensions
00:05:01
Speaker
Yeah, this way. And she starts walking off. um i've I've kind of got the like blanket. like I'm holding it with my little hand. but Oh, okay. So it's like gripped over you like a cape? Yeah. Okay.
00:05:16
Speaker
Cool. And I just like pull it tighter.
00:05:21
Speaker
And intentionally do not look over at OD.
00:05:28
Speaker
You're showing this little, this tiny raptor a lot of, a lot of things that are not supposed to exist.
00:05:38
Speaker
Okay, alsoll so you're just following her back to camp. Yep. Okay. So it takes about an hour, hour and a half for you guys to walk through this. ah It's kind of like down a big mountain. Well, not down a mountain, but like a very, very large hill. um Like the fucking mountains, quote unquote, we did in Ohio. And... I don't think we even put quotes on it. We don't... No one calls anything mountains here, aren do they?
00:06:02
Speaker
Mountain is hilly. Yeah. They do? Yeah. All right. Well, people are weird. So, and you do see this camp. Like, it's it's a little hard to see now that um there's no fire being lit up. It's not like a beacon in the middle of darkness. um But you do see um kind of cliff face. It's like almost like a collapsed hillside um that this ah encampment is butted up against.
00:06:27
Speaker
um And you do see a sort of pathway um that leads to this village, quote like this this encampment. The closer and closer you get to it, Because you get the feeling that there are wandering individuals or tribes um that pass through this area, maybe on their way to the mountains.
00:06:47
Speaker
um And so this, kind of similar to the village that Idy came from, um there's a path that kind of cuts through it um So you do see little huts on either side of this path. It's primarily in like this, almost like a cookie cutter cutout. um This round...
00:07:07
Speaker
what was it called a sack cut out area um against this cliff face and you do see other raptors here and they're just as drab and plain looking as a little cricket um and kind of like OD too there's kind of shades of brown and like maybe little hints of green here and there where they kind blend into the grasses And ah you see Cricket finally, like, she, when you get closer closer to this camp, she almost runs a little bit faster. um Because she seems to recognize that this is is home and she's like, she's just happy to be home. they all, instead of being stuck in the woods.
00:07:43
Speaker
um once Once she, like, starts running ahead, um...
00:07:50
Speaker
I.D. is going to dismiss the blanket. Okay. Um...
00:07:59
Speaker
And she's going to sort of, like, move her head sort of towards Odie and message him. Okay.
00:08:11
Speaker
Hey, um...
00:08:19
Speaker
I'm beginning to think that maybe picked the wrong colors. But i if I change now, Cricket's going to ask questions. And I can always say that that's just something that people from my clan could do.
00:08:40
Speaker
Well, I thought we were just going with that you're from the jungle. The jungle raptors are are quite colorful. Okay, yeah, I know, it's just... You were just a very, very long way from home. Yeah, i it's one thing, like, if it was just the three of us, but now...
00:08:56
Speaker
i kind of don't like standing out. Well, it's too late to change now. It's like...
00:09:12
Speaker
I think more questions would be raised, as you said, if you were to suddenly lose all your color.
00:09:20
Speaker
I mean, aren't there the animals that change colors on places? Not within a few minutes. We have some frogs that do that.
00:09:31
Speaker
within a few minutes span. And not these raptors. Okay. Well, all right. I just... I feel weird, and I feel like they're going to stare at me. and Well, now we escort this young cricket home. We can we can leave soon after.
00:09:47
Speaker
all right. I don't know why I feel so weird about it all of a sudden, but I do. Okay. okay All right, ah'll so you head into the village?
00:09:58
Speaker
Yeah, we're following Cricket, just ok not running. Yeah. Yeah, you kind of tail her. Like, you don't lose sight of her because she is keeping you guys in mind. She's still leading into town. ah But just when the like the encampment's in sight, you know, she kind of darts off ahead. And ah you do see her, um like, you're too far away to hear the conversation, but you do see... ah Another raptor that looks a lot like her, um run out to greet her. And ah you can tell is that this male raptor is like you know pretty obvious her her dad. um And he looks a little you know panicked, but also relieved to see her.
00:10:33
Speaker
And ah she turns around and she points one of her little like little arms in your direction. And ah this big raptor walks over to the both of you. The two of you. know to you Idy, like, sort of waves with her little arm.
00:10:50
Speaker
ah And then, like, keeps waving. And ah this this raptor kind of gives you, ah ah like, a little curious look. But he dips his head almost like a bow. And ah he says, thank you, thank you so much for husking my young cricket. I had no idea where she was.
00:11:12
Speaker
Thank you, thank you so much. And ah Cricket comes up behind this big rafter and ah she's like, this is my dad. And dad, these are my new friends. Idy has feelings and thoughts about Cricket's dad. Yeah.
00:11:33
Speaker
And she's trying to keep it to herself.
00:11:40
Speaker
And so
Emotional Reunion and Parenting Clash
00:11:41
Speaker
she just sort of like nods her head. And Cricket says, she's from the jungle. Have you ever seen anything like that before? her She's so colorful. And ah in her dad's like, yes, yes, yes. I met jungle dwellers before. They're very unique. ah Well, it's is's very nice to meet both of you.
00:12:03
Speaker
ah Cricket, again, just next time you go out, bring one of us with you or or have one of your friends with you. I hate to have you go out alone like this. You know, she's pretty capable all on her own.
00:12:18
Speaker
and ah Before, ID says, before she could stop herself. Yeah. And the raptor looks up at you like he's of like surprised. And um and ah he says, capable? ah Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:34
Speaker
And Ogree says, yes, we we saw her make quite an impressive trap. um She says she prefers hunting in that way. And ah her dad looks down her and she says, ah yeah, i like the ropes I showed you, the ropes I learned how to make, I learned how to trap things with them.
00:12:57
Speaker
And her dad's like, did you did she catch anything? Yes, she sure did. And it was impressive, the size of it. It was as big as she is.
00:13:09
Speaker
did you Did you harvest the meat? did you Well, we had to have dinner and breakfast, so... And she looks up at her and she's like, yeah, I was hungry, so we hunted and ate it together.
00:13:25
Speaker
And we just came up. We just came upon it. Cricket while she was, you know, she started to to prepare dinner and she offered to share with us.
00:13:36
Speaker
So she caught it all on her own because she is quite capable. And if you just give her a chance, like you'll see that she can do things on her own. And ah her father looks down at her and ah she says and he says, ah well, her trial's in a few days. And I am curious how well she she does. I mean, she has she's free to choose what she what trial she wants to accomplish.
00:14:08
Speaker
I'm just concerned. Is she, though? Is she... She is. Though i my only concern is that the hunters go out and they take on some of the most dangerous creatures that live out in the wilderness.
00:14:22
Speaker
And for her traps, she would have to lure it there. I just don't see how that's effective, Cricket. Oh, you wouldn't see, would you?
00:14:33
Speaker
And Oni says, ah listen, um we we are we would love to stay. and Just because she does it a different way than you doesn't mean it's the it's a wrong way or a bad way or not effective.
00:14:46
Speaker
Maybe she has better ideas than you do. you ever think about that? No, you only care about your stupid farm and your stupid pollination. Oni, like, tongues on your tail, like, just like, no, no, no, no.
00:15:00
Speaker
And, uh... I mean...
00:15:03
Speaker
Tries to cough. yeah Why don't you roll for me? I'm going to roll the bad dice because I want this to fail. Yeah. Watch these bad dice that you roll good for once.
00:15:15
Speaker
Nope. That's a five. why ah Is that fair to do? mean, you can choose to fail, too. You can just choose for it to go bad. Just let me know.
00:15:27
Speaker
ah You can leave it up to fate. um You can leave it up to a dice roll. But if you want something to if you want something to go bad intentionally, just let me know. Well, at least I have my bad dice and my good dice.
00:15:40
Speaker
This, uh, this rapper kind of, like, stands up tall and flushes feathers out. And he says, do you have children of your own, stranger?
00:15:51
Speaker
No, I'm not old enough for that. Then why are we having this conversation about how I should parent? This is the way things are here.
00:16:05
Speaker
Cricket is welcome to do things a certain way, but she will one day have to choose for herself what she wants to do.
00:16:14
Speaker
She, and she will choose. But just don't be surprised if she chooses to do it not here. And like, she just kind of like,
00:16:29
Speaker
Excuse me. And she like goes off somewhere. And take a walk. This raptor looks at Odie. He's like, I think you should leave. Both of you.
00:16:41
Speaker
I appreciate you saving my daughter and keeping her safe. But I do not think it's wise for you to be here any longer.
00:16:51
Speaker
And, uh, like, little Cricket's, like, standing behind this, like, this big raptor, like, just a little nervous, but she can tell she's upset. Like, you don't see her, but she's upset. And, um, and, uh, Odie says, uh, very well, um, take care, Cricket.
00:17:07
Speaker
And he walks off to join you. I'm just, I'm just, like, I, I'm, like, close to the, like, outskirts of of the village, uh, and I'm just pacing back and forth.
Regret and Apology Attempt
00:17:21
Speaker
I know he joins you and he says, ah ah we were directed to leave. um I think it's wise if we continue forward. I messed up. I messed up. Yes. um I appreciate what you were trying to say back there, but...
00:17:37
Speaker
It is difficult to change a culture. It doesn't change overnight. I've watched these raptors evolve for the last several hundred years. ah And the evolution of their cultures is is incredible. But there are some aspects that they change very slowly.
00:17:56
Speaker
And Cricket is one of those individuals. I think if she goes the route she wants to go, she will bring an era of change. One day she might split off and start her own clan that will do things differently. And I think you had a little help in inspiring her to do that.
00:18:15
Speaker
I just, I thought that by leaving the town plain, ah you know, I could just get away from my dad and all of that and just be done with it.
00:18:32
Speaker
But I don't know if that's even possible. It's just going to follow me wherever I go. It can be hard to leave some things behind, but I suppose in one respect... it's just It just... I just... I just don't want anyone to go through what I went through, O.D.
00:18:59
Speaker
I understand that. And Cricket doesn't... She is so smart and... She just doesn't deserve that.
00:19:11
Speaker
I didn't deserve that. I understand. ah But I have a feeling just like you, Cricket will persevere. And one day she will be like you and be her own individual and use the issues she had growing up to become a better person, better than her own parents.
00:19:35
Speaker
I think that's the ultimate goal of any child is to become better than their parents.
00:19:42
Speaker
You haven't met the other children in my village, have you? I've... They are dumb as rocks, and they're gonna be no better than their parents. Trust me.
00:19:54
Speaker
Well... i suppose not everyone, but it's the goal that I think a lot of children should make for themselves is to just be better.
00:20:06
Speaker
And Cricket, i know, she she's a lot like you. And knowing you, she is going to persevere no matter what someone tells her, and she's going to become better. She's going to become her own individual.
00:20:21
Speaker
We can't leave yet. We were told to leave. I think if we stay here, we'll create a very, very big problem. We can't leave yet. I have to have to make sure that her trial goes well.
00:20:33
Speaker
Her trial's in a few more days. Did you... Do you want to stay here or head back and... I... Come back later? It's so far to the door. We can't stay here on the outskirts of their camp. Surely they'll send someone after us. Well, let me...
00:20:49
Speaker
but can't believe I'm saying this. Let me go and try to apologize. Ugh. Okay. got me to camp? She's gonna go and find Cricket's dad. Okay.
00:21:03
Speaker
Yes. ah It's not hard to find him. How far away did you go? don't know. that's like like not Not even outside, just like by the
Failed Persuasion and Departure
00:21:14
Speaker
entryway. Okay. The gate, if you will. Yeah.
00:21:18
Speaker
ah So it's not hard to find him. um And you see him and and our smaller raptor that you assume to be mom. ah She's you know with a few other younglings. They're all about Cricket's age. You you suspect that don't think we ever discussed, like, how many kids they have at one time, but you expect that, like, they're nest mates. Yeah. um they're They hatch together. um And you see that the two that are with Cricket, like, you see Cricket's, like, a little miserable. She's sitting there on her on her butt, like, just in the dirt, and has her two siblings around her. And, um, you see this, ah like, the dad, after her, he catches sight of you, and he starts approaching both of you.
00:21:59
Speaker
Um... I.D. like lowers her head. Okay. Like in deference.
00:22:11
Speaker
And ah this rafter says, I thought I told you to leave. I need to apologize. i that was ah very much out of line what I what i had said.
00:22:29
Speaker
and I had no right.
00:22:37
Speaker
I have a difficult relationship with my parents. And... I guess I just...
00:22:52
Speaker
I see a lot of me in cricket, and... i
00:22:59
Speaker
None of that was meant for you. All of that was meant for my own father. And i I deeply apologize. I don't want Cricket to to suffer for my mistake.
00:23:15
Speaker
Why don't you roll persuasion here? You used the same shitty dice, sir? No. Okay. I still get a negative one. yo shit.
00:23:28
Speaker
Fuck. don't you roll? I roll a five and a one. Fuck me. Minus one. Fuck me. ah ah Shit. oh I mean, there's nothing you can do, Janiel. Nothing you can do. dice tell the story here, and it's a sad, bad story. It's very sad story. ah Um...
00:23:55
Speaker
ah The different sizes. I think that's what's probably the problem. The uneven dice. Yeah. Okay. ah Because that was the one, the little one. So shit. Oh, fuck me. um Come on. I failed.
00:24:12
Speaker
I just tried think what rapture says. um So you had similar traditions back where you came from. Yeah. I'm curious now. What trial did you accomplish?
00:24:24
Speaker
I... She looks sort of looks at Odie like... Odie's just like... Like... Um... I... am
00:24:37
Speaker
She's trying to decide whether she's going to lie or not. i finish the trial of education. in this rhetoric not tilts his head. Education?
00:24:48
Speaker
Yes. You know, teaching the younglings. So you're a wandering teacher. Sort of. Bringing poisonous ideals into my clan.
00:25:00
Speaker
I don't necessarily see it that way. um she kind of like moves her lips back to try and smile. but it does like I don't know what that does, what that looks like. I mean, you saw Cricket's smile. It's like a toothy yeah toothy reptilian grin. um But yeah you don't see this this raptor's face flinch at all.
00:25:24
Speaker
He says, I think that gives you less of a reason to be here. Can I at least say goodbye to Cricket?
00:25:33
Speaker
Do a luck roll for me. D10. Oh, man. Yeah. Which one do I pick? Choose wisely. They're all over here. I'm looking for five or above.
00:25:45
Speaker
Fucking hell! What'd you roll? It's one. Oh, fuck me. What the hell? Shit, man, you're really rolling bad today.
00:25:56
Speaker
Fuck. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. Listeners, at this point, i am considering ah stopping this recording and redoing it another time when my the dice are going to be happier with me.
00:26:13
Speaker
But I will not. We will continue. And this fucking sucks. You may not leave. I may not leave.
00:26:24
Speaker
Leave now. she kind of like startled and jumps back.
00:26:35
Speaker
Fine. I'm leaving. And she turns around and starts
Debate on Interference and Trial Plan
00:26:41
Speaker
walking away. And then she like stops after a few steps and she turns back around. And I take back my apology too.
00:26:47
Speaker
you jerk.
00:26:51
Speaker
She stomps off out some... Yeah, when he follows him, he's just like, okay. yeah This motherfucker thinks he can just... I was unaware that was the clan leader.
00:27:06
Speaker
Wait, what? He said, he's a much my my clan. Oh, I just thought that...
00:27:13
Speaker
Oh, boy.
00:27:17
Speaker
Well, that's a thing. um
00:27:22
Speaker
Surely I can kill him, right? don No, we we're we're not going to do any violence here. We've already done enough damage. and
00:27:32
Speaker
Yeah, but like I could take him um if I wanted to. Miss Heidi, no, no. height I said if I wanted to. I'm sure you're capable, but no Oh, I have thoughts, Odie.
00:27:49
Speaker
You just gave me this lens and I have thoughts now. Just don't. we're We're not supposed to do anything violently. know. I'm trying give you this technology. I know. i know.
00:28:01
Speaker
All right, but we're still not leaving. Okay. um So what what do you suggest we do? Okay. let's Let's leave this camp for now.
00:28:13
Speaker
And once we get outside...
00:28:20
Speaker
What small animals are in this plane, let's I wonder?
00:28:27
Speaker
Uh, we can always look. Well, yes, that's... She stops walking and just, like, looks at him like... No, he just is towards your like device. Yeah, obviously. i was... i Oh, never mind.
00:28:48
Speaker
How long have you been doing this again? but he says, hu sometimes I think too long. but and Well, there's things you still don't know about people.
00:29:00
Speaker
ah Okay. So once they clear, you know, the village and kind of the woods or whatever, the entrance to the path yeah to the whatever. You're just going back to the circle of woods or? Oh, no, just.
00:29:17
Speaker
No, not that far. Okay. mean, like, 10, 15 minutes. Okay. um She's got to stop. Okay. She looks around to see if anybody's looking.
00:29:31
Speaker
And by anybody, she mean... i mean ah You're well outside of the camp. Is there anybody out here? No. Okay. She...
00:29:47
Speaker
Is she going to the thing that I...
00:29:53
Speaker
No, she's not. um She's going to open up her antenna. She's like, okay, what do we got? What do we got? What do we got? What did we establish as the other animals here? It's like um we gave a few random small dinosaurs and like small mammal-ish creatures.
00:30:14
Speaker
Any, like, little flying things? Little flying things? No. Shit. Like, little crawling things that could climb a tree? Like, little insects or something?
00:30:24
Speaker
Or... I guess? I mean, just... It's probably, like, a squirrel-like creature. Like... Okay. Let's go a flying squirrel. Meet you in the middle here. Okay.
00:30:37
Speaker
Can't fly, but gliding squirrel. Okay. Well, that's not helpful. Okay. Okay. You said something like scurry up a tree and fly. Well, I said scurry up a tree because you there was no fly. Ah.
00:30:50
Speaker
Okay. um Here's what we're going to do We are going to, well, I'm going to become, what is this thing? A proto...
00:31:07
Speaker
Rodentia? Whatever that is. Okay.
00:31:13
Speaker
This little thing looks like it can climb trees. Alright, so I'm gonna be this little thing. Okay. And I'm gonna sneak back into camp and I'm gonna keep an eye on Cricket.
00:31:26
Speaker
Oh, okay. Uh, for... Why? Like... What do you... No, I mean, I understand why keeping an eye on her, but, like, how would this benefit her trials exceeding? Because I can be there to help.
00:31:40
Speaker
Okay. Uh, sure. We can do that. Why don't- why doesn't it sound like you think that's a good idea? No, I just- I mean, turning into a small creature and enter into a village of a bunch of large carnivores, it sounds- The scurrying up the tree part.
00:31:58
Speaker
Did you miss that part? That's okay. I mean, there's cliff walls but no trees in their village. Right. I guess I wasn't paying much attention. Um, I don't know what to do, Odie. I just, maybe we should just go.
00:32:14
Speaker
i mean, i'm I'm leaving that up to you. I understand why you want to help, Cricket. I just, a lot of parts of me are screaming to leave because we are getting involved and we're not supposed to get involved. The last time I got involved, I had to bring you up on the buzzard and I don't want to bring a raptor with me this time around.
00:32:31
Speaker
We already discussed it. We're not taking her with us. I understand that, but getting involved, potentially revealing too much, influencing Native cultures too much could be bad. Oh, calm down.
00:32:46
Speaker
you overestimate your abilities here, my friend. I am here because i was destined to be here. You are just a vehicle for my expansive journey into knowledge.
00:33:03
Speaker
Okay. You didn't do anything. I'm the one who made you take me, yes. So you can just take that little guilt, little guilt bubble, bubble, bubble, whatever, that little collection of guilt, and you can just throw it right away.
00:33:19
Speaker
Uh, okay. Go on. Throw it away. i can't modify my own emotions more than can. Oh, you didn't mean that literally. What's the metaphor, Odie? Okay. i will I will do whichever you want to do Okay.
00:33:33
Speaker
Help me decide what I want to do. Miss Eide, I already told you I want to leave, but if you want to yes, yes. But I need you to tell me what I want to do. It looks almost like he broke him, and he says, uh, well, I mean, that's your decision.
00:33:52
Speaker
what What would make you feel less guilty? Whoa, hey, who said guilty? i don't feel guilty. uh, maybe he feels guilty. again yeah was Yeah, because you didn't throw it out like I told you to.
00:34:05
Speaker
All right, listen, i I need to know how this trial goes. I need to be here one way or another to see her succeed. All right, so maybe
Impersonation Plan for Trial
00:34:15
Speaker
I should... And if she fails, I need to be there take her away. Maybe I should explain you how these trials work.
00:34:21
Speaker
Yeah, okay, so what what what are these trials? Okay. So it sounds like Cricket wants to pursue hunting, though she is more into trapping. Obviously, her village doesn't have that sort of outlet. They don't hunt that way.
00:34:35
Speaker
So when it comes to the trials of hunting, they have to go out and slay a very large, potentially dangerous creature. And that is how they graduate into adulthood.
00:34:49
Speaker
And they can take on many professions. There's building, there's tool crafting, there's numerous paths. thinking Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They gotta go out and hunt a giant creature.
00:35:02
Speaker
Yes, I... That's really stupid. Well, generally they do not do it alone. They take other hunters that are doing their trials together, and they will go out and slay a beast and bring...
00:35:16
Speaker
Perfect.
00:35:20
Speaker
I'll disguise myself as a young trialer.
00:35:28
Speaker
What? Why? Trial? put Why am I having trouble with this? juvenile raptor. Yes, on the trial. Why? Jeez. So, trial disguising yourself as a juvenile raptor from another clan, then?
00:35:43
Speaker
oh Uh, well, yeah. I think they would know who's in their own clan. O.D., come on. if
00:35:52
Speaker
Well, generally when multiple clans come together, they meet at a certain position. And when they meet that location, they go off and do their hunt.
00:36:05
Speaker
Though I'm not sure where that location would be. Do you have... Okay, so you're you're just full of of tech, right? That's... it Like, my body is full of guts and yours is full of tech, right? Yes. Okay.
00:36:21
Speaker
Well, don't look at me like that. I'm questioning um where this conversation is going. I'm not judging. Gosh. Do you have the ability to, like, hear things from far away?
00:36:34
Speaker
Yes, certainly. Perfect. So I need you to eavesdrop and find out where they're supposed to meet. Okay. Or, help me figure out how I can do that.
00:36:46
Speaker
Well, eventually I might be able to figure that sort of technology out to add to your device, but not within the next couple days. Okay. Well, then, you know, put your ear to the ground, so to speak.
00:36:59
Speaker
Or whatever you do. Okay. Yeah, so guess I'll be on a listen for that then. Does his antenna, like, extend into a little, like, radar dish? It does extend as telescoping. So like it's a it's yeah. But like he can hear things from a ways away. And I can see his.
00:37:17
Speaker
Antenna, right? Yeah. Like you can like it's kind of there. It's it's almost like a door when you first saw it. It's like yeah if you squint hard enough, you can kind of see there's something there. um But like it's just there.
00:37:28
Speaker
It's just visible enough that you can interact with you know your device and he can interact of his. Okay, while he's doing that, her one hand is going to go and activate the biometric sensor scanner, pointing it at Odie.
00:37:44
Speaker
And what she's trying to do is see if she can't get her device to learn what Odie is doing. Now, keeping in mind that that is not what it's meant for,
00:37:59
Speaker
Right. It doesn't have like a, it's like trying to get a cell phone to be a TV. I know, but she's still doing it. Okay. I should say an old cell phone. I mean, our smartphones are. Well, yeah, I knew what you meant. Yeah.
00:38:14
Speaker
A telephone act like a TV or a car. um How the fuck do that even work? It doesn't have the like right technology with it.
00:38:27
Speaker
It can't, like, pick up on a ping. Like, it's just... I know. It's gonna be a hard roll.
00:38:34
Speaker
Then need to roll d20, then. Let's go old school D&D. Okay.
00:38:40
Speaker
I thought you were going give me like a minus two to it or something. No, no. I'm going to give you one to 20. Although that would that would activate herd minus two of not knowing how things work. Yeah, but I think one to 20 is more interesting instead of one to 12. All right. Two to 12. All right.
00:38:59
Speaker
ah
00:39:02
Speaker
Come on. That way i can set a DC to it. Okay. Come on. Come on.
00:39:09
Speaker
Jesus fucking Christ. Are you rolling, like, dog shit today? Like, what'd you roll? A five. Oh, well, you I mean, that was gonna fail either way.
00:39:21
Speaker
I don't know what's going on. I'm using multiple different dice.
00:39:26
Speaker
Holy be shit. The dice don't want you to have your way today. I mean, this was a shot in the dark. I know. It makes sense, right? Because the technology you have strapped to your wrist, it doesn't have, like, sonar or radar attached it. I know. I Yeah, so, like, you, like, point at Idy, or point at Odie, but, like, he's off kind of listening. Like, he's, you know, has, like, wrapped her head in the direction of this camp, like, listening in, but...
00:39:56
Speaker
your thing isn't doing anything. It's just like, it's scanning him, but like, it returns like, oh, it's a raptor. Because like, again, and when you transform into things, like, like, Odie's a flesh and blood raptor right now.
00:40:08
Speaker
So. So, um, okay. So she's, she's watching Odie do his thing and all of a sudden her, her wrist beeps and she kind of like looks down and she's kind of,
00:40:23
Speaker
What? Okay, back. Then we scanned Odie. That's weird. And she closes the the ah the screen. Okay.
00:40:35
Speaker
So you got a couple days before this trial. Let's kind of like do a quick fast forward these couple days. so what are you spending this couple of days doing? Just kind listening in for information? Literally just waiting.
00:40:46
Speaker
Okay. ah And it's making her more and more irritable. I gotta roll, see how well... Oh, I mean, he got an eight. ah so Odie did pick up some information on where it was supposed to meet. And it's several miles away to the east. um Kind of, like, between the mountains. Like, her clan is in between kind of, like, this hilly valley area and these this mountain range. And so they're meeting um near the base of the mountains because there's a couple clans coming down from the mountains um that are participating in this hunt.
00:41:21
Speaker
So there are a total of ah four different clans that are going to meet at this place. So they're sending kind of like representatives of their clan and also the the raptors that are actually going on trial.
00:41:35
Speaker
You know, their their hunting trial. Okay. And said there's a total of eight individuals who are participating in the hunt. Okay, Odie, so here's what I need you to do.
00:41:45
Speaker
I need you to kidnap one of the trialers. Why do I keep wanting to say that?
00:41:54
Speaker
The, uh... this' is That's in character, by the way. what What? Gosh. This is. Oh, man. You're not kidnapping anybody. I mean, these. No, no, no, no, no. Not permanently.
00:42:07
Speaker
Just listen. Everyone knows who is is there. Right. Everyone's going to know. Well, they're good. Someone's going to notice that. Oh, wait, where do you belong?
00:42:19
Speaker
guess That's very true, but I feel terribly guilty if we just... Oh my gosh, with your guilt again. One of these young these young trial seekers from doing their hunt. She sends him an emoji of a trash can.
00:42:33
Speaker
Just, please, just throw it in there. Get rid of the guilt. Right. I would not. I i can't do that, beside me. I can't. would be very unfair to these these these young raptors.
00:42:45
Speaker
They deserve to participate and win this trial as much as cricket does. One of them has to be a dick, right? Like, surely, by numbers. One one of every eight raptors is an asshole. Yeah. like In my experience, that's kind of how it goes, right? Like, one of them's got to be someone who's planning on cheating or something.
00:43:05
Speaker
Right? Aren't we technically cheating? We're not actually doing anything. Except for kidnapping someone and making sure that Cricket passes her trial.
00:43:16
Speaker
Okay, fine. we're Maybe we're cheating. But listen, just this if the stakes the stakes are high enough, sometimes, sometimes, what is that saying in the book?
00:43:29
Speaker
The end justifies the means. Miss Heidi, would not be able to... That ten ball game would have went a lot quicker if we had used... What's his face? ok Ugh. The mind mini guy. The tall death guy. Uh... Fill up.
00:43:44
Speaker
Fill up. Um... He says, Miss Eide, I would not be able to do that. Okay, fine. Fine. Fine. And she's like... She's like looking and thinking.
00:43:56
Speaker
And she starts like pacing again. Thinking. And her head's moving like side to side. okay okay. So... We gotta get to the meeting place. And then... gotta get integrated.
00:44:09
Speaker
you said that there's four other clans? There's three coming. Okay. Okay. Let's pretend that there there's a fourth clan coming, but we are the only ones that made it made the journey.
00:44:23
Speaker
When they send someone for trial, one is a representative of that clan and one is the juvenile participating. Exactly. I'll be the participant. I'm not going to win. Don't worry. Although, I think we both know i could kick all these little kids' asses. um And you'd be the representative.
00:44:43
Speaker
I suppose that will you've been watching these people. Like, what's a what's a what's a what's a clan? What's a tribe that we could be? And ah he's like, okay, I suppose that would work. ah We will need to modify our disguises. Well, yes. Yes.
00:45:00
Speaker
Okay. i think that's a yeah I think that's a good idea, Miss Aidee. Gosh, I don't... I thought I would like that, but it turns out i don't. It makes me feel weird when you... Like that's a good idea?
00:45:13
Speaker
don't like you telling me it's a good idea. Well, it is a good idea. it's It's non-violence and... Well, except for slaying a giant creature, but... I... Well... Hey, you're the one who's been watching these people like this is how they live.
00:45:27
Speaker
It is. And they that's how they survive. Alright, whatever. I'll figure out why that makes me feel icky later. Alright, let's go.
Trial and Strategy Discussion
00:45:37
Speaker
So like it's the day of the trial. like We'll fast forward to the morning of. And you do see... Well, I think like it makes most sense. like Maybe you guys count gravitate like ah maybe towards the mountains a little bit so you can kind of make your way down from there. um And you see Odie... He turns himself into a different kind of raptor. a little bit bigger.
00:45:56
Speaker
um like sturdier looking. And he says, okay, so if they ask, we are not from on top the mountains, but within the mountains. The raptors there are hardier and bit stronger. They survive by leaping from rock to rock, and they that's how they chase agile prey.
00:46:15
Speaker
So that is where we are from. Yeah, no, no, but that tracks. Okay, so you maybe not for you so much, but... I would for even like a ah like a rock jumper, um raptor, like he's still pretty, I would assume, small and lean. ah He's not super musky muscular compared to other ones, I'm sure.
00:46:37
Speaker
Well, and she also thinks herself to be better than him. Yeah. All right. um This time she intentionally used the biometric scanner to just as a shortcut.
00:46:51
Speaker
Okay. um we're Nope. We're not going to. We're going to exit out of character creation. and but the Just kidding. ah All right. It was seven to become a raptor from ID, but ID is already a raptor.
00:47:08
Speaker
Yeah. So you're doing a kind of minor change. the like that changing it Like changing your feathers and changing your body structure a little bit. So this is like a minor change or a medium change? Medium.
00:47:21
Speaker
So that's what, three? It's three. Fuck me, man. Yeah, you're burning up your charges. Okay. Ooh, I do kind of feel a little bit. She like jumps up and down. Yeah, you notice that you're definitely a little more muscular, especially in your legs. Like you're made for jumping around run rocks. um and Not so much running, but doing a lot of jumping and climbing. So she's going to start like jumping around. Yeah.
00:47:45
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. All right.
00:47:49
Speaker
All right. Yeah. So are you ready?
00:47:55
Speaker
what's What's, okay, what's ah what's a what kind of names do these folks have? Right. Well, mine was Okri last time. ah He's like, he's like i only usually come of one name for places I visit.
00:48:14
Speaker
ah Short, simple, nature-inspired. think cricket, though cricket is from the plains, so think of something in the mountains.
00:48:27
Speaker
I literally have no idea what lives in a mountain. ah Rocks, stone, different types of stone, animals. ah You saw where I came from.
00:48:42
Speaker
There was not a mountain anywhere near us. i dont There was lot of range that kind of came. Yeah, but like she's never left her village. um And he looks at the ground and he flicks a little stone with his like big raptor claw. He says, pebble.
00:49:02
Speaker
Pebble. Pebble. That sounds kind of weak. What about boulder? you can be boulder. Yeah. The boulder... The boulder.
00:49:15
Speaker
Okay, I like that one. You can be Pebble. How about that? can Pebble. She's kind of like Snickers. All right. I am the boulder. I am the boulder. All right. Let's go. Let's go. All right.
00:49:27
Speaker
Yeah. So you, um, you kind of walk down from these mountains and like, it's like, you weren't quite on the mountains ah just yet, but like, you're kind of act like acting like you're walking down these, you know, in case anyone does see you. Um, but like, yeah, it's a lot easier to navigate these rocks in your new disguises.
00:49:46
Speaker
um And you do see, ah like, at the base of the mountains, you do see almost like a um like a flag set up. It has, like, a piece of, of like a like, animal hide um on top of a a pole. And it's just, like, being used as a marker. And you do see there att already, um you do see Cricket and her father um as the leader of, you know, that clan.
00:50:10
Speaker
um You also see ah another member of that clan. It's actually one of Cricket's siblings. And you see a couple more raptors come in from our clan, our village.
00:50:22
Speaker
going to start like recording names. Let's see. So, yeah, while they're going down the mountain, going to be, like, you know, very agilely, like, hopping down. um And then she's going to intentionally trip herself and roll down the rest of the mountain. Okay.
00:50:45
Speaker
So, yeah, I tumble down the mountain and eat shit at the bottom of it. Intentionally? Okay. Okay. Uh, and you see the few raptors that are standing there. Uh, they look a little perplexed. And, uh, Krikit says, are you okay?
00:51:03
Speaker
Yeah. um um oh Yeah, I'm okay. He took a pretty big fall. I've taken bigger falls than this.
00:51:16
Speaker
yeah I think. Yeah. And ah ah one of the raptors, like from ah this other clan that's there, um like when ah she shows up with her, three younglings are traveling with her. ah She says, where are you from?
00:51:39
Speaker
I am from... oh ow, ow. my my heart my My heart, no. My heart. ah love Oh, I think i i already got her twisted something. And then she messages Odie, you got to do it, dude. And Odie shows up and he says, ah i am Pebble. ah We are from Butterclaw. And ah we heard that there was a trial starting today.
00:52:07
Speaker
ah But I just wanted to give my daughter here a chance to participate we were a bit behind on attending other trials yeah tech um yeah technically i'm not quite old enough but i think i'm ready and so we just had to like convince the elders to let me do it
00:52:37
Speaker
And these elder raptors look at each other and ah they say, okay, I've certainly never heard of you before. But i suppose it doesn't really matter at this point. What really matters is that young Boulder here graduates and becomes an adult by the end of the day.
00:53:00
Speaker
Yes, the boulder will will become an adult. ah Nice. um And you see um ah a couple more um raptors show up. And...
00:53:15
Speaker
They're very different, um these raptors. They are covered in dense white feathers. And they have fastened around their heads antlers of some kind. um like They're almost wearing them. like he almost like When they first appear, um make you think they're like attached to them. like They're just born with these antlers, but they're strapped to their head. um And these are members of Frostfeather. They are...
00:53:41
Speaker
like from high up on the mountains, from like the most frigid region in this area. um And you see the two... like they're They're elders with them, but the two ah ah two youngsters that are you know ah tailing him, ah you can see that they're like almost uncomfortable here. like They're...
00:54:01
Speaker
little uncomfortable in this very warm environment. yeah They're very dense feathers. um It's like fucking couple penguins to you know going to fucking Hawaii, I'm sure. It's it's it's not very comfortable for them. um may you see You soon see all these raptors line up, these eight other raptors. And a couple of adults are looking at you and Odie like, oh, I've never seen these guys before.
00:54:26
Speaker
um But then like They kind of shrug it off. Like, okay, well, they're here for the same reason we are. so yeah, like, these elder raptors, um, like, they all eraduce themselves. And they pretty much say that, like, they have also graduated, like, from this trial in particular. They're all former hunters.
00:54:49
Speaker
And as Cricket said, like, her dad was a hunter. So, like, He, like, all all these elders, they put weapons down the ground for them to take. Like, spears, flint weapons. um You see the Frostfeather younglings. ah They shrug the weapons off because their weapons are attached to their head. um And ah that's what they're armed with. And you see Cricket. um Like, she has supplies with her. Like, they're all given, like, a pack.
00:55:19
Speaker
um Because who knows how long this trial is going to actually last. They have to find the beast first and then kill it. um But you can tell that she has rope on her. um So like she brought with her her own stuff. um But one of the elders from ah Haven's Crest, ah he says, once you are complete...
00:55:42
Speaker
You haul this creature back to this spot, and we will meet up with you. And that will conclude the hunter trial. Are you all clear on your instructions? The boulder is ready.
00:55:54
Speaker
ah and ah he looks he looks down. He's like, very strange. You are? That's intentional. but And ah he says, good luck to all of you. May the ancestors be with you all.
00:56:07
Speaker
What that guy said. And, uh, Odie looks at you like, are you okay with this? Like, going off?
00:56:20
Speaker
Yeah. what if Just... She messages him. Yeah, just don't... You gotta stay somewhat close, though. Uh, he nods, and, uh, he looks at the art elders, and, uh, he says, I, ah And, uh, he says, i Oh, fuck. What does he say?
00:56:42
Speaker
Like, excuse to run off. Um... She messaged him before he, like, decides what he's gonna say. no no, don't just... Don't... Just sneak away later, okay?
00:56:57
Speaker
Gosh. And yeah, uh, you leave Odie and these other elder raptors behind. So... so You're just tailing behind you. Are you doing anything with Cricket? are your act Yeah, I'm going to head up and like sort of like run up next to Cricket.
00:57:16
Speaker
She sees you and she's like, oh hello, a Are you ready for this? I'm not really sure. um i thought I was this morning, but I saw everyone else here and they're so much bigger than me.
00:57:31
Speaker
um I'm a little nervous, but za i'm going to do it. um What about you? That's the that's the spirit. What's your name?
00:57:43
Speaker
I am the ah Boulder. okay. And the Boulder never fails at what I, he, she, I do.
00:57:57
Speaker
When you were announcing that earlier, I didn't know that was your name. I thought there was a title or something. It is both. Well, it's nice to meet you, Boulder. Mine is Cricket.
00:58:09
Speaker
Hello, Cricket.
00:58:13
Speaker
It's a fine name for... Sounds like a smart name.
Trial Strategy and Cooperation
00:58:22
Speaker
Yeah, I try.
00:58:25
Speaker
I'm sure that you're quite the intelligent young... going to trip myself again. are you Are you okay? Is there something wrong?
00:58:38
Speaker
um dust myself off. and Yes, am fine. You don't look fine. I mean, need to run super fast and super hard if we want to find this creature. Okay, let's let's go Okay, so you keep running? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, like you see, um like some of these hunters in training, they had more training than the others.
00:59:06
Speaker
ah So you see a couple of them take the kind of the like head the pack. um You see them track, you see them smell, you see them listen for things, ah and they occasionally give directions.
00:59:19
Speaker
um And finally, ah you see ah Skyfly, um which is one of the the ah Haven's Crest ah raptors, like yourre also like a rocky raptor, or you built like you. A rocky ah raptor a rocky raptor. Yeah,
00:59:35
Speaker
yes ah And she directs all of you ah to look and see what she sees. And you see long-necked, very big creature, like ah like a brontosaur, in the middle of this big open field.
00:59:53
Speaker
And it's small, so expect it might be like a juvenile. And you see some adults nearby. and um that She indicates that is the target that they're going after.
01:00:08
Speaker
Odie. Yeah. Yes.
01:00:12
Speaker
What's the range on. on ah you You know, he's close by like you can you can almost tell like. No, no, she's asking him. Oh, what is the range on this, by the way? Like, how far away can we be?
01:00:24
Speaker
A few hundred feet before it gets a little grainy, but I can... Well, at least that's that's your device. I haven't quite perfected it like mine yet.
01:00:36
Speaker
Wow.
01:00:39
Speaker
I haven't quite mastered duplicating my technology. Don't don't worry. i I'll get it sorted out later. Okay. Is this like a competitive thing or a cooperative thing? It is strictly cooperative.
01:00:53
Speaker
Well, that's dumb. Okay. Well, you can't expect to take down a creature like that yourself. Why not? Because it outweighs you by several hundred tons. my gosh.
01:01:04
Speaker
I shouldn't say 700 tons. Outweighs you by several tons. Do you not know about fulcrums and levers? i I do. Okay, well, big things can be moved by small things. It's not a big deal. Okay.
01:01:19
Speaker
Okay, um, right. So we all have to win or no one wins. Or, what our wait. You only have to succeed in killing this beast and bring it back to the meeting point.
01:01:33
Speaker
Ones that fail to travel are ones who perish, usually. I'm sorry. what The hunter trial is the most dangerous of all the trials. I mean, if if you mess up construction, you just fail to build a house. But if you fail to hunt a creature, you fail to bring it back. You fail to kill it. You most often die in the process.
01:01:56
Speaker
And you're just telling me this now. I thought there was obvious way to fail hunting. I don't know anything about hunting. i'm a farmer.
01:02:08
Speaker
Okay, alright. Now I'm going to keep extra eyes on Cricket because, oh my gosh. Okay. Yeah. And ah you see ah Skyfly, like, ah we you all kind of hold together in this, like, small encampment you make overnight to, like, you're still tracking this creature, but, like, from what they say, that these creatures don't move very much because food's still plentiful.
01:02:31
Speaker
So Skyfly says, okay, do any of you guys have ideas of what we should do? I think... Cricket probably has many ideas. And Cricket's just like, what? No, I, I, uh, I, I don't, I don't, I, I, uh, I don't know.
01:02:48
Speaker
Well, what do you guys usually do? you you You were tracking them, weren't you? And ah Moss, which is ah one of the ones that was tracking, um he says, ah yeah, I tracked my dad before, but we've hunted little things. They're just jumping around the rocks. Nothing anything like this.
01:03:08
Speaker
Snowdrift was just one of the antlered raptors. She says, ah well, that's why we are taking this on together. No one takes a creature like this down on their own. So we have to compile our efforts here, are strategies.
01:03:23
Speaker
So let's go around the group here. What do you bring to the what do you bring to the circle? Boulder? The boulder brings moral support. Everyone looks at you and ah you hear Snowdrift sigh and she says, Cricket, what do you bring?
01:03:42
Speaker
And ah Cricket says, oh, I um i make traps. And she brings out her rope. And ah she shows them all rope. And she actually gets a lot of them looking at, like, ooh, rope. Like, building rope is is, like, a very rare thing. ah So, like, they're looking at this, like, nice, nice, nice. And, ah like, you see her face light up, like, seeing all these other raptors go, ooh, ooh, that's really good. Like, it's really well made. And they're, like, passing this rope around, like, looking at it. Um, and, uh, Viper, her, uh, sibling, um, he says, uh, what does he say?
01:04:22
Speaker
Um. shit. He's like, I bring my spears. And he brings out his pack with these long sticks that are, like, ended in these sharp flint blades. And they're really well made. But you can tell he, like, he's a hunter. He didn't make these. He, like, purchased these or traded for them. Like, he, these are weapons that he acquired somehow.
01:04:43
Speaker
Um... Eyes right down. And you see ah both Skyfly and Rainrunner. They're from Haven's Crest. They specialize in spears. um Actually, Rainrunner has daggers that are kind of strapped to her feet.
01:04:58
Speaker
um like In addition to her big raptor claws, they're almost like additions. like they're They're almost like glued on the tip of her raptor claws on their extensions. um So she flashes those.
01:05:12
Speaker
um Copycat. You had flit claws. No, ah well, yeah. Idy says that, like, under her breath. Just like, copycat. And, ah Boss says, like, I bring tracking, but I can also deliver my jaws and my claws.
01:05:31
Speaker
um Sorry, I'm trying to decide whether I want to make a joke from that or not. um And it's Snowdrift and Tusk, ah they're the two antlered individuals, and they shake their heads probably with these these antlers on the top of their head, and they're huge. They're almost like like moose antlers.
01:05:50
Speaker
And some of the ends of them have been sharpened to a point. So you suspect that, like, they they ram these antlers into things and do of, like, bludgeoning and piercing with them in a way. So they're armed with these antlers.
01:06:05
Speaker
Okay, so as everyone's, you know, going around, Idy is, like, recalculating Root here because she thought it was a competition, which is why she was intentionally, like, being, like,
01:06:19
Speaker
What, you were going to kill the beast four of them? No, no, no. She was intentionally, like, being not really any competition. Oh. Because she didn't want to, like, she want this needs to be about cricket.
01:06:34
Speaker
But now that Odie says, like, oh, no, it's cooperative, and also... You could die. You could die she's going to She's, like, scrambling in her brain, like, okay, what about... Um... Um... Um...
01:06:47
Speaker
um Oh, she's going like, turn around and she's going to put her head down and she's going to, like, back like she's fumbling for something in her pack.
01:07:02
Speaker
um Meanwhile, she opens up her antenna and she's trying to find, like, a helmet. Okay, a raptor helmet? Yeah, like, because she's like, okay, um...
01:07:19
Speaker
We live in the mountains, rocks, maybe they can, yeah, like a ramming helmet or something. So she's like looking for something like that.
01:07:30
Speaker
Okay. then like ah this other raptor introduced herself, Dew from River's Mouth. ah She's the only one of her clan here. And ah she says, I bring my speed and my daggers.
01:07:42
Speaker
And ah so, like, everyone's introduced their weaponry here. So you have, like, a mix of... You have one trapper who brings rope, and then you have spears, daggers, native weaponry, antlers, and... Yeah.
01:07:58
Speaker
So she... Does she find the helmet in there? and Like, can she... Should I roll for that? roll Yeah, because it's a custom thing that you're, like... yeah know There's a raptor helmet that he uploaded into here as ah as an asset.
01:08:13
Speaker
Does this benefit from figuring shit out or no? Are you trying to ah kind of program one in there? like Well, if it's not in there, yeah. And there's no raptor helmet. Who's got to upload it raptor helmet and gas it? Then I guess it's figuring shit out.
01:08:28
Speaker
Yeah. ye Okay. That's a seven plus two is a nine. Okay. Well, you make success. Okay. So you do find, like, you're it's able to make a helmet.
01:08:43
Speaker
um It's kind of fucking tight. It's not quite your your size. um Like, it's very uncomfortable to wear this fucking thing. But it's... You can you can manage it all right. So i I put it on and I turn back around. What's this thing out of?
01:09:02
Speaker
I don't know. Because they're not metalsmiths. No. Um...
01:09:09
Speaker
Unless you want to reduce metal smithing and lie. Okay. Those, um, what are those? Pachyosaurs? The head butting? Oh, yeah, like a skull of one of those things? Yeah, that's what it does. Okay, cool. all right I like that. Okay.
01:09:26
Speaker
So it's bone helmet. It's like very a so a skull, yeah essentially. Okay. um With some padding in there. Gotcha. And like I rip back around and I say, The boulder brings!
01:09:41
Speaker
Pure force. and Everyone looks at you and you see Tusk say, where was that five minutes ago?
01:09:53
Speaker
In my pack, of course. Along with your moral support? And like to like a lot of them just like start laughing.
01:10:03
Speaker
Well, I didn't have... Turns out and' have room for moral support for everybody, so I guess you don't get any.
01:10:12
Speaker
And um ah here's one speaking before. ah ah Snowdrift ah says, remember, we are all in this together.
01:10:25
Speaker
If you see someone struggling, you help them out. So we can all win this and nobody dies. But surely the the statistics on this, like one of us is going to die, right?
01:10:41
Speaker
I mean, that's usually the case, but I'm trying to prevent that. So which one's the most likely here? It's usually the small ones. And you see Cricket, like, shrink.
01:10:55
Speaker
Well, not this time. So...
01:11:01
Speaker
You and... Like, she's, like... You're pointing to... Just some random person. Doesn't even matter. She didn't pay attention to names. ok Why don't you hang on. ah Roll a d10 for me. I mean, there's no d9, but... A d8, actually. Roll a d8.
01:11:18
Speaker
Because it's not including you.
01:11:26
Speaker
What? That's no drift, is it? Okay, well... She's not gonna do that. Roll again, I guess. Fuck me. 4.
01:11:37
Speaker
four One, two, three, four. Okay, Rainrunner. Planet Rainrunner, he's just like, what why be And like, she like, puts her face down low.
01:11:54
Speaker
You know why. like, i've I've killed a small one of these things before. Oh, of course. We all have. Even Cricket has. And Cricket's like, no, no, you haven't. You know me.
01:12:09
Speaker
Well, I'm sure you have.
01:12:12
Speaker
And ah and ah Snowdrift, she's like taking like leadership role here. She says, okay. So, based on what I know about these creatures, does anyone know more about the longnecks?
01:12:26
Speaker
Psst, Odie. Yes? I need you to, like, tell me everything there is to know about these longneck things. ah Okay, so heat he sends you like a book of a text message. um And so they're observant because... think I can read fast. Jesus Christ.
01:12:47
Speaker
So like he tells you that... like They're big, for one, so like don't get stepped on, don't get tail-whipped. That tail's dangerous. um And he says they're very slow-moving, but they have a tall, long neck that they're used to kind of like periscope and like observe their hurt surroundings.
01:13:04
Speaker
They can't hear very well, and they're also diurnal, so... Excuse me, they're not active at night. Yeah, so... ever um We all know these things.
01:13:18
Speaker
Watch for the tails. Don't get stepped on. They can't hear very well. And they're only active during the day. Well, those are the obvious things, yes.
01:13:32
Speaker
Odie, give me something else. And, uh, uh, Moss, uh, actually Rainrunner, uh, says, well, from my personal experience, they don't have a great sense of smell or hearing, so if we stay downwind of them, we should be able to sneak up them at night.
01:13:56
Speaker
Quick hop on top, strike to the throat, just avoid the tail.
01:14:02
Speaker
She looks at Rainrunner. A quick hop on top, huh? Well, yeah, you climb. Surely you climb. You're from the mountains. Oh, i knew But can you outrun?
01:14:17
Speaker
of those giant feet? They don't move very fast. You better hope so for your sake. He's just like, why are you targeting me? We're in this together.
01:14:29
Speaker
I'm just, so I, it's simple. it is simple mathematics.
01:14:36
Speaker
They all look at you like, what the fuck? Like, I've just assessed, you know, you just happen to be the most likely one to die. Like, it's nothing to be ashamed of. And, uh, Snowdrift, uh, like, almost it interrupts you and she says, Cricket, what can you use your traps for when it comes to that beast down there?
01:14:57
Speaker
And, uh, Kriky says, oh, well, you said the tail's dangerous? What if we tie up the tail or something? I just, I just nod, like, yeah, that's, see? Now, see, that's, that's some thinking.
01:15:12
Speaker
She, like, glares at Rainrunner.
01:15:16
Speaker
That's using your brain.
01:15:20
Speaker
And, uh, and Soda's like, all right, all right, uh, What do you propose we tie the tail to out middle of the valley? Anyone have any ideas?
01:15:34
Speaker
ah You can look at the valley again if you want. See if there's anything out there. Yeah, I'm going to look out there. Yeah. Why don't you give me a flat roll? Because Cricket's got to look for ah with you, so like roll twice and take the highest. like So, like, there's obviously trees, right? There's some trees. Because that's what they eat. Yeah.
01:15:52
Speaker
They're not putting that neck all the way down. Well, they're not drinking, I guess. Yeah.
01:15:58
Speaker
Ooh.
01:16:00
Speaker
Well, that's a 12. Oh, wow. I don't think you roll any more then. Nope, I sure don't. Okay, shit. Okay. Yeah, you see in this valley, they're spotty. like like ah Like, there's spots of trees. There's individual trees growing throughout this valley that these tall-necked dinosaurs are visiting and eating leaves off of.
01:16:20
Speaker
um And you do see a few trees that are particularly big um and sturdy. Because a lot of the trees you're looking at are like, oh no, like they ripped out of the ground if this creature took off running. But you do see a few very big, um strong old trees that are in various places um around the ah like this small group of long-necked dinosaurs.
01:16:47
Speaker
There. The boulder thinks we should tie the tail to one of those big trees.
01:16:56
Speaker
Okay, uh, Cricket, do you suppose you can make us some more rope so we can also secure the neck? And, uh, Cricket's like, I can, I can try if, if, if, uh, you want to help me, do any of you know how to make ropes?
01:17:11
Speaker
And everyone just looks at HR like, no. The boulder can make a rope. Oh, okay, cool. Uh, yeah, you want to help me? Sure.
01:17:22
Speaker
Because I'd be watched. Yeah. oh So um she's like, okay, then we'll be right back then. And ah she you know instructs you to you know come come follow her.
01:17:35
Speaker
like We need to get more materials.
01:17:38
Speaker
You know, Cricket, you should um be more confident. You have skills here. i I know. I mean, i I wasn't aware that I was the only one that can make rope.
01:17:53
Speaker
That's, uh... I guess it's helpful. It's super helpful. It's gonna help us pass this trial. Yeah, yeah! And she starts picking up like vines and stuff like from these trees.
01:18:07
Speaker
And you see, she's pretty skilled at climbing trees. You expect that like she's done this a million times before. And she keeps pulling down vines and kind of drapes them over you. And she starts looping one around a tree and she flips on her back and she starts weaving them. And she's like, like this, right? You know?
01:18:27
Speaker
Yeah. That's a different little bit different way than we do it, but you know what? but I think that works better. oh ah Oh, I'm curious how you do it. Well, I think yours works better. It takes us a lot longer, so we'll just do it your way.
01:18:40
Speaker
Okay. Alright, yeah, roll see how well you make this rope. I got this says like got no modifiers. Yeah, flat roll. Fuck, what'd you roll?
01:18:53
Speaker
Five? okay. Um... Seven to nine is supposed to be the average roll for two D6s. You're only, like, fucking, like...
01:19:05
Speaker
This is... but I need to get dedicated ID dice. I think... Okay. I think I know what the problem is here. um So the Rocky Raptors, they're a little bit bigger on the feet and legs.
01:19:20
Speaker
So like you saw her do this back when you were jungle Raptor. um But to get those little ropes, like the individual like vines around your big claws, it's a little weird. It's a little uncomfortable.
01:19:37
Speaker
And, like, you're making a braid, but it's kind of full knots and uneven. So, like, it's not, you know, it's not a very good rope. But, uh, um, uh, Cricket looks over at you and she's like, how, um, how are you doing over there?
01:19:54
Speaker
Not as good as I
Rope Challenges and Trap Setting
01:19:58
Speaker
thought remember being at this. guess I was much smaller. The boulder does not understand...
01:20:07
Speaker
why this is happening perhaps perhaps you since you are so adept at this oh i can make the rope but um to save some time you want to go find more vines that i can do okay so like maybe you're gonna go off and find more i'm not gonna make you roll for that because like you've already had so many dog shit rolls turkos don't um Don't pity me. don't need your pity. sorry, but like, if you fuck up in finding vines, you're not gonna make enough rope at all.
01:20:39
Speaker
Oh, no, there'll be rope. Just not rope and a helmet at the same time. Yeah, you make fucking prop rope. Well, oh shit, how much was the helmet?
01:20:55
Speaker
Uh, it was small. Okay. Yeah, I forgot that. Thank you. So that's one. Two. Oh, fucking hell, man.
01:21:06
Speaker
Yep, you're you're burning you're burning away your resources. Yeah, well. You're using a lot more than I thought you were your first time out. Maybe you should have done some of that giant-ass rock. I warned you.
01:21:19
Speaker
I warned you? um yeah, so you find more vines bring up the cricket, and, like, she's making very quick work of this rope. Like, you see her twisting out these vines, and then she loops it back again, she braids them again, like, she makes she's making a very strong, like, triple braided rope, because, it's like, this needs to hold back a very, very strong beast. Um...
01:21:42
Speaker
And when she's done, she has a ton of rope. like You have to assist her holding you know this rope and cutting it into lengths. um But yeah, you bring that back to camp and you see the other raptors.
01:21:55
Speaker
that like it's um It's almost the end of the day when you walk all the way out here um and you're thinking about your... Your method of attack. um So, like, these raptors aren't really committing the camp. They're clearly planning how to, you know, set the trap and ambush this this ah this young, long-necked dinosaur. um And ah you see... um to my thing here You see Snowdrift, and she says, Oh, good. Excellent. That looks like very good rope.
01:22:29
Speaker
Thank you, Cricket and Boulder. It was mostly cricket. And ah she just smiles. um And ah so Snowdrift says, okay, nightfall is coming. If we have to make this it reate this work tonight, we have to set traps now.
01:22:47
Speaker
And we suspect that based on these long-necked dinosaurs... Wow, why would that they name these things? Long-necks, I guess?
01:22:59
Speaker
i there would be no reason for them not to. Yeah. And based on movements of these longnecks, they are approaching these trees. So if we're going to set some traps, we need to set them on the trees between here and them. If we set those traps and lure them into this area, we should be able to snare them and then go for the kill. Does that sound good for all of you? not
Ambush Planning
01:23:26
Speaker
and She nods, assuming everyone else is nodding. And she says, Boulder, since you seem to be capable of smashing things with that helmet of yours, wonder if it's possible you can slow this creature down by ramming one of its legs.
01:23:42
Speaker
The boulder can certainly do that.
01:23:46
Speaker
And once it's distracted, we'll be able to when When the trap is sprung, the the beast is probably going to freak out and try to pull the tree out, which... Or we have to pick a strong enough tree.
01:24:03
Speaker
Could happen, unless
01:24:08
Speaker
I distract it by kneecapping it. I... Ramming its foot hard. Okay, yeah, that that should work. I wouldn't think it would down it, but it would certainly cause a distraction. Just don't get stepped on.
01:24:26
Speaker
And she looks to Rainrunner and like sort of eyes them like... Rainrunner is going to be running up and going for the kill along with me and a few others.
01:24:39
Speaker
She's still ice. but And Tuss says, well, I'll be helping you take down the feet. you know I can ram with these things, too. All right.
01:24:51
Speaker
We'll be ram friends. ram Ramkins? No.
01:24:57
Speaker
Ram rods? Nope. no we well Well, we'll workshop it.
01:25:09
Speaker
He's like, all right, yes, we can do that. All right. ah And she says, Cricket, Viper, if you can set the traps, we can head down there now and assist you with that.
01:25:25
Speaker
And he nods and Cricket's like excited. Like she's like, seems to be getting like into the mood to do this hunt. Like she's like, yeah, she's like, yeah, let's do it. Okay, let's do it.
01:25:36
Speaker
Okay, so you're all heading down to Lee? Okay. So like it's getting to be kind nightfall. It's like golden hour kind of you know i yeah deal here.
01:25:49
Speaker
Excuse me. And as you're heading down, you actually see um a little like flicker of light. And you can tell that it is Odie who just transformed into something. um And he transforms into a small bird and he goes into the tree that you're approaching to set one of the traps.
01:26:10
Speaker
You motherfucker. You said there was no flying things. And also, i saw that. and he says, I just didn't want you to be killed by the big predators we're were now accompanying.
01:26:25
Speaker
I will never forgive you. Okay, so like, Cricket knows her way around traps. ah So she sets a basic, like, almost like hand-triggered trap.
01:26:41
Speaker
And she says, when... These guys get close. I'll pull this and it adult should snare them. But we have to drive them into the trap.
01:26:53
Speaker
You can do that. And ah she sets one up and she covers it with leaves. And she sets another one up for like, just, she sets several ah up in case like, you know, they miss a trap or so. um And you see her get more and more confident as she sets these these traps up. And she's like, you do you think that's enough?
01:27:16
Speaker
Do I? Yeah. Does it seem like it's enough? oh yeah She sets like four of them. Like two on either side of this like pathway they want to like shepherd the long-like dinosaur down.
01:27:29
Speaker
That seems fine to me. Okay. I just ah never set a trap for a creature this big before. Sure you have. You just haven't realized it yet.
01:27:41
Speaker
I mean, I trapped like things that I ate myself or brought home from my brother, but... it's It's the same principle. You just scale it up. ah She's like, yeah, buy a lot.
01:27:56
Speaker
And like now that you're like in the same valley as these dinosaurs, it's huge. I mean, the one that you're targeting is like a two story house. it's ah It's a big creature.
01:28:06
Speaker
And it's a youngling. like is It's with some adults, but the adults are kind of like doing their own thing. you You guess that like this long-knock dinosaur relatively the same age as like the the raptors on the cusp of adulthood, but just like kind of threw it off it's you know going off its own thing, but like not being really protected by its parents. So that's why they singled this one out.
01:28:28
Speaker
Um, I do like when she gets the like full scale of the thing, she's like, oh, damn, that that that is really fucking big. It's a unit.
01:28:39
Speaker
I mean, um, it's nothing we can't handle. Yeah, we can handle together. I mean, there's nine of us. Well, eight plus.
01:28:50
Speaker
And she looks at Rainrunner. And Ritter is just like, but what? Why? Why? and like, he actually, like, approaches you, and he's like, do you have a problem with me?
01:29:01
Speaker
The boulder does not have problems with anyone. i just don't understand why he keeps singling me out. The probability says that you are most the most likely to die. That's all.
01:29:12
Speaker
I mean, i give it what they're saying is true, that one is most likely to die. But she's not going to participate in the hunt so much. She's just triggering traps. Oh, Jimmy.
01:29:23
Speaker
How dare you? How dare you? i'd be like, stands up as tall as she can and, like, puts her face right in their face.
01:29:41
Speaker
And she's, like, sort of whispers so just only they can hear h Listen, you little fuckwad. The only reason that we're going accomplish this is because of her.
01:29:57
Speaker
Don't you ever say anything like that about her again. I will crush you.
Tensions and Hunt Initiation
01:30:07
Speaker
make you Make a roll for me. Intimidation here. Does she have anything for like intimidation? or no of course not. Yeah.
01:30:17
Speaker
It's athletics and figuring shit out. That's negatives. Peopling and not knowing stuff. None of this counts as people. it Just give me a flat roll.
01:30:31
Speaker
You're trying to intimidate us get this guy. Okay. That's a seven. Okay, it's mixed. um You see kind of shrink back away from you. And ah he's like, pal, I like your big teeth, but I don't think you really know how to use them.
01:30:49
Speaker
And you're not going use them on me. Again, we're in this together. And the only way anyone's going to fail this is is being killed by that thing. We're not here to kill each other. You got it?
01:31:00
Speaker
Do you have it? die Yes. As long as you keep your mouth shut and don't talk about my friend that way, we'll be fine. um Yeah, and she's intentionally using her normal voice.
01:31:16
Speaker
And this like this guy kind of looks at you is like and like, I putting on some kind of act here? or What's going on? What's going on is that we're about to do something magnificent, and it's all because of cricket.
01:31:29
Speaker
So do your job and try not to be the statistic that I know you are. Okay? He's just like, okay, yeah, whatever. He like shakes it off and he he walks away.
01:31:42
Speaker
And Cricket's like, um, thanks for standing up for me, but we are all in this together. we sure are. So ah I guess we're we're all set now. We just have to wait for whoever's going shepherd them towards the traps.
01:31:57
Speaker
Cricket, are you ready for this? I'm ready. Yeah. That's the answer. good Let's do this now then. Okay, cool. And I take off running. Okay.
01:32:10
Speaker
So you see, um like, ah yeah the other raptors kind of posted up nearby, like, kind of lurking in the bushes and under these trees and behind trees. And you see ah Snowdrift and a couple others, like Dew and ah Viper, they all kind of go ahead of the pack because she's of directing them to start chasing this thing in the direction that they need it. And she talks to you and Tusk. She says, okay, so...
01:32:34
Speaker
Once that thing is ensnared the traps, you can start ramming it. We need to prevent it from we prevent it from getting loose of those traps. If they do, it could be very, very bad for all of us.
01:32:45
Speaker
Got it. The boulder will do his job. Great. Thank you. And she says, I will roll off ahead and we will chase it in your direction. I understand what you're doing. Both you. Tuzk nods his head. i nod my head.
01:32:56
Speaker
right. And let's do this. And she runs off ahead of the pack. It's quiet for a while, and, like, you i you know when things are going to start because this fucking thing's going to start running. Well, as much as it can. As much as it can.
01:33:09
Speaker
But, like, the sun goes down, and you see these these star pods, these long-necked dinosaurs. They pretty much go to sleep. Their necks kind of bend down, like, almost like ah like a small droop, but, like, not all the way to the ground, obviously.
Dinosaur Ensnarement and Chaos
01:33:21
Speaker
They're not, like like, like a giraffe would sleep. But then you hear like a loud trumpeting sound from the youngest of this group, the smallest sauropod, and you see it start kind of hobbling in your direction like as fast as it could, you know, its stumpy legs can carry it. But it is such a big beast. It makes the ground tremble. Like, you know, it's it's coming. And you stay near Cricket's traps, and she's ready for it. like she's ready She's ready to ensnare this thing. So I'm going to roll four times. so see how well her traps ensnare this thing.
01:33:55
Speaker
And if there's one success, she's got to grab a a leg of some kind. If there's two or more... I think you guys would have to like throw the ah the rope over its neck um if you do snag it.
01:34:07
Speaker
So I'm going to see, out of her four traps, how much he how much she can snag this beast. that's nine. That is a six, a ten, a ten. Okay, so there was two successes in there.
01:34:22
Speaker
There's one mixed. Yeah. So, yeah. cri so this thing cricket and what's up So this thing runs through the gauntlet being tailed by these raptors. And it gets two of its legs ah snared in these traps.
01:34:35
Speaker
I think I roll for due because she's got to grab one of these ropes and try to throw it over the neck of this beast. Let's see how well she does with that. That is a seven...
01:34:47
Speaker
It happens. Yeah, it happens, but it rips this rope out of the ground and takes two for a ride. like She's swinging around. So like you have this thing. like It has a rope around its neck, but it is pissed off. It's trying to get free. Two of its legs, since it because those two successes. well i would say because of the mix, she had three legs caught, but one of the ropes has broken, so she has...
01:35:09
Speaker
There's three legs of this beast. They have ropes on them. One of them is loose. Two of them are safely tied down. This thing's not going anywhere. and it also has a rope around the neck. Okay. So Tuska, go for one of the back legs on this thing. I want you to roll to ram this thing wherever you want to ram it. ah Right head on.
01:35:27
Speaker
Its head's way in the air. of its feet. Yeah, you know what I meant. One of its secured feet. Yeah. ah well actually, I'm going to go for one of the unsecured ones. Really? The unsecured one, yeah. Okay. So Tux is going to go for one of the back legs that's secured, so it's angered to the ground. He rolls a fucking 12.
01:35:45
Speaker
So... That's his athletics, right? Yeah. Boy, did I need that plus one. That's a seventh. No shit. So like you see Tusk with his mighty 12 roll. He rams this thing in the back leg and he gets his antlers right in the ankle.
01:36:01
Speaker
And this thing like almost classes on top of him, but he's able to run out of the way. But like that leg's not looking too good. This thing is kind of down. Like it's like, even if it broke free you these traps, ah it's not going anywhere, anywhere fast. Yeah. You hit it in that unsecured leg, but it wheels it up in the air and it tries to bring that down on top of you. i need you to run.
01:36:22
Speaker
make a roll for me. Okay. Still in athletics. Yep. Twelve. Fuck me, really? Okay. wrote 11 plus one. Shit, yeah. So, like, you hit this thing. It goes, oh, fuck. And, like, it, like, rears this big leg up and tries to slam back down on top of you. But you dive of there pretty quickly.
01:36:41
Speaker
You didn't really cause a lot of injury to it. Just enough to, like, get a reaction. Right. But that's the point. Yeah. Because the other ones should be climbing up to... So now you see... I'm going make a roll for Dew here, who is swinging around on this rope by her mouth.
01:36:55
Speaker
She rolls a three. She gets flung off and into the dirt. And you see the R-raptors run up. um I'm going to make a roll for all of them. You're not running up, right? Are you staying kind of on the ground? Um... It's the only thing to, like, stab this thing with.
01:37:10
Speaker
Not yet. Unless someone in an R-proper, going have anything to stab this thing with. Well, i I'm going to keep... I'm going to look... i mean ah I'm going to keep an eye on Cricket, but I also want to keep an eye on what's going on.
01:37:21
Speaker
Okay. going to make a roll for... I'm going to make a roll for Cricket because she's... She's triggered her trap. she's She's good. She's kind of off doing her own. like Actually, watching this thing no, I changed my mind. Okay.
01:37:34
Speaker
I'm going to run to do... Okay. ah So we'll get to that in a minute. I make a roll for Viper to see how well he does his thing. He rolls a fucking two. That's not good.
01:37:45
Speaker
i think he tries to run up this creature's back, but he gets swatted by the tail and gets flung. So I'm not sure what's gonna happen to him. Let's see. There's Skyfly.
01:37:57
Speaker
Rolls a fucking 12. Skyfly flies up this thing. Basically, like she sees Viper get swatted and out of the way, but she takes advantage of that tail being down on the ground, and she uses it as a ramp.
01:38:09
Speaker
And she runs up this thing's back. A roll for Rainrunner, who rolls a seven. So Rainrunner, you see him get up there with like some difficulty. He almost like falls off the tail. But like he's kind of clung onto the table like tail, like holding onto it. like He's on this thing back, but he's being swung around a little bit.
01:38:28
Speaker
He just wants Rainrunner to die. at Moss, he also rolls a seven. He tries to climb up one of the legs of this creature ah that's secure on the ground, but he's like having a hard time finding purchase on this thing's stick hide. so he's He's climbing, but he's not quite where he needs to be right now. like Skyfly flew up this thing's back and is like making her way towards the neck of this thing to deliver a killing blow.
01:38:52
Speaker
Snowdrift, who's kind of the leader here but She rolls an eight. So she gets up and just like Moss, she's like struggling to get on top of this thing, but she makes a little bit more progress than Moss. um like She's just able to get on top of this thing, but like fucking sky flies flying past everybody to get to this the neck of this creature to kill it.
01:39:12
Speaker
Tusk was on the ground and he rolls a fucking nine. lot of kind of mediocre rolls for these raptors. They are... you know yeah so like he's like along with his sister like they just are climbing on top of this beast and having kind rough go of it but is skyfly who comes up to the neck of this thing and jams one of her spears into it um and you see this thing just fucking go mad like one spear is not gonna down it but like it's it's injured but it has several raptors on top of it do um i'm gonna make a roll for do
01:39:45
Speaker
Well, fuck me. And one goes flying out of the tray. Uh, dude's okay. she's She's roughed up. She rolled a 10 on and her little, like, rough and tumble roll. So, like, you see her and she's getting up and, like, she's kind of beating this shit, but she's still standing. Uh, I just say,
Cricket's Pivotal Role
01:40:01
Speaker
oh good, because it wasn't supposed to be you. was supposed to be Rainrunner.
01:40:05
Speaker
What? Do you have a problem with that guy? What do you doing to you Are you okay? Yeah, i'm I'm fine. I mean, it's gotta be hard walking home. This hurts. Uh, yeah, I'm sure it does. Okay. Uh, and she just turns and goes bad. Okay.
01:40:20
Speaker
Uh, got, like, a roll for Viper. ah he's okay, but now he roll as high. He rolled a six. I'll just have six, ah seven. So like he gets up, but like he's hurting. You can tell he's kind of in rough shape. And you see Cricket run to him like that's her brother. Like that's not good that he got flung.
01:40:37
Speaker
I'm gonna make a roll for a couple other raptors here. Cricket's off. Vipers off. Skyfly is the one who already fucking pierced the neck of it. Rainrunner. He's on top of I'm going see how he rolls here. He rolls a 10.
01:40:52
Speaker
He gets in there with his daggers, like his daggers on his feet, and he has his claws in this thing. Moss rolls a 5. I don't think he's got to quite make it to the killing blow of this thing, but he's on top of it.
01:41:05
Speaker
um He doesn't get flung off. Actually, no, with a 5, he does get flung off. He fails. He just drop drops off of it. Like, he's not being smushed or anything. He's not being whipped. um So, like, he takes a fall, but he's he's okay.
01:41:18
Speaker
snowdrift who is on top of there uh she rolls a three i think she just gets bucked by this thing and she goes tumbling off and since she's like on top of this thing i make her early survival roll and she rolls a seven she's kind of like in the same situation as viper like she's kind of beaten the ship she's alive so she's she's so this isn't but necessarily going well Not very well, no. You have basically two reactors who are attempting to kill this thing, but not very many. that like Not the number necessary to kill it.
01:41:51
Speaker
Tusk, he also gets flung off, but he like he's kind of on the side of it, so he doesn't take a very long fall and can make a role survival roll for that. So you hear a sky fly who like he has a like a couple spears in this thing by now. She's like, we need more people up here.
01:42:03
Speaker
so like you have cricket who is not prepared to go toe to toe. She's a trapper. She's not, she doesn't have any weapons to do this. Viper is out. Snow drift is out and do is out. I'm going to run up to cricket.
01:42:18
Speaker
Okay. Cricket, do you have any more of those ropes? Uh, well, I mean, there's a couple of traps that broke. You can use a rope for those. I've got an idea. You may not like it. Uh, okay. What are you doing? Also, like, she's using her normal voice because, like, the shit has, like, hit the fan. Shit has hit the fan, yeah. All right, listen. If I can get you up to the head, can you loop the rope around it and then we can pull it down? You're sending me up there? You're the only one that can tie knot, man. Like... mean, can tie ropes. A lot of people can tie knots. It's gotta be you, Cricket. Okay.
01:42:54
Speaker
Um, all right. ah what So what are we doing? And I'm going to go behind her. Now, just take a deep breath and try not to freak out.
01:43:06
Speaker
Okay. What are you doing? Okay. She's going to alter her disguise a little bit. Okay. Just a little bit to make her arms longer so that she can actually use them.
01:43:20
Speaker
I gotta throw this little raptor up there. She is gonna throw the raptor up there. Okay. Okay. So, what what how much power that take to extend my arms? I'll i'll do one. I'll charge you one. ok Well, that kills another kills another cell Okay, now she's behind Cricket and it's dark out.
01:43:42
Speaker
huh Okay, right? Is the moon now? Is bright? mean, they're fucking raptors. are like they can they there They wouldn't be out here if they couldn't have can't hunt at night. They have dark visions. But still, okay.
01:43:54
Speaker
It's in the dark. Anyway, it's still, it's different. Okay. She's going put her hands around Cricket. Okay. And then she stiffens up like, what are you doing?
01:44:05
Speaker
Just, it's okay. Just trust me, okay? you tying a rope to her or she used she's just like has her rope in her mouth? Yeah, we got a rope. Okay. Okay. Once you're up there, loop it around the head and make sure it's it's tight.
01:44:18
Speaker
Okay? Okay. And then i need you to slide down the rope and I will catch you and then going to give the rope to me. Okay? Okay. Just remember, you can do anything.
01:44:30
Speaker
Okay, yeah, yeah, let's do this. Yes, just try not to get your foot caught in it again. And she lifts she lifts her up, and she's gonna she's gonna fucking You're gonna chuck this rafter, okay.
01:44:43
Speaker
Make a roll. Athletics, thank you. Eh? Okay. Yeah, you you don't get her to the head, obviously, but, like, you throw her up there and she sinks her little claws into the side of this thing. And, like, this thing's already so pissed off and, like, distracted by the spears and daggers in its neck that, like, it doesn't notice her ah get up there.
01:45:03
Speaker
So, like, she starts making her way to the head. i got to make some rolls for the remaining raptors who are available. So Cricket's on there. and And then I'm going to fix my arms. Okay. Yeah, you're burning that shit. Skyfly is on is Rainrunner is the other one who has his daggers in the neck of this thing.
01:45:25
Speaker
Make him roll for Moss because he fell off, but he's not injured. ah He rolls a 10, so he flies up there again and with much more success this time. And he actually...
01:45:36
Speaker
like runs past Cricket. He's kind of like, how'd you get up here? ah kind of things's like She wasn't there a second ago. but He runs over and he sinks his jaws into this thing's neck. and He also has his claws in there. Snowdrift can't do anything. Tusk is going to make another roll to try to get up on there.
01:45:57
Speaker
He absolutely fails. So he like tries to get up there. I think from his fall, he must have injured one of his feet or something because he can't he can't quite get up there. um But he actually has to like dodge out of the way of one of this thing's ah feet um as it comes down. But like thankfully, it doesn't get them.
01:46:13
Speaker
But he sees you and ah he says, hey, ah are are you going up there at all? The boulder has a plan. What's your plan? that can i help?
01:46:26
Speaker
The boulder is putting all eggs in the cricket basket. ah How'd she get up there? ah She's not supposed to be up there. She's very resourceful. All right, I'm going to make a rule. And then she's like, ah, fuck this.
Dinosaur Defeated and Celebration
01:46:42
Speaker
Come on, cricket, you got this. And ah like Cricket's like, okay. And ah she makes up this thing. I see how well she does like tying her rope to this thing. Shit you not, she rolls an 11. I'm so like, yeah. I'm telling you, do anything. Yeah, she gets up there and like she gets in between like everyone else who's up here and she runs up to the head of this thing, loops this thing around its neck, and she starts sliding down this rope.
01:47:11
Speaker
ah Make a roll to catch her. She's just he's on this rope. She's like falling, but she's sliding down it. That's a seven. It's a seven. Okay. Like athletics, right? Yeah. Okay. So like she's swinging around this rope because this thing is like going nuts. Like it is in trouble and it knows it. And like you, you catch her, but like she knocks the wind out of you. Like she knocks you down.
01:47:35
Speaker
And, uh, she's like, did it. I did it. you see that? Absolutely. I saw that. That was awesome. That was so fun, too. that was I mean, I've scaled down from trees before, but not trees that are big and moving.
01:47:48
Speaker
Right? And it wasn't that hard, was it? No, wasn't. Okay, can I have the rope? Yes. Yeah. And so are you like tugging this thing? Yeah, I'm going to take the rope and I'm going to pull as hard as I can on it to like pull its head down. Okay, roll for it.
01:48:07
Speaker
I mean, i I'll give you advantage on this because this thing is wounded. Like it's got several spears and claws and daggers and teeth in its neck. It's not looking good. and You are benevolent.
01:48:19
Speaker
Ooh, I needed that. Okay, because, like, even if you failed, like, how would this thing, like, it's not it's not going well for this creature right now. come on. Nine. Okay, shit, yeah.
01:48:29
Speaker
Yeah, so, like, you tug this thing down, it is rough. Because even though this thing is, like, on its last legs, it is a big, big, big, big creature. So like you're tugging at this thing and you feel it fighting every bit of the way.
01:48:43
Speaker
And there's at one point where it like almost takes the rope out of your mouth. But you see Cricket grab like the loose end of it. Who's kind of dangling out of your mouth. And she might not be putting in too much effort because like you have most of it. But she's like now she's a little more than half your size. She's small.
01:48:58
Speaker
But yeah, you tug this thing down. And coupled with its... like neck not in good shape it's back leg in bad shape and like gave it a stubbed toe um on its one leg uh you do bring this thing down and its head is on the ground it's where you want it so what do you do like what's what's the plan now um i'm going to hold the rope down with my foot cricket would you like to do the honors and uh she's like uh don't want you kill it with just my jaws
01:49:30
Speaker
I'm going to like frantically look around, and like but in such a way that like i my helmet slu like flies off. Ah. um And then... probably fit better on her small head. Well, it it flies off and then it gets dismissed because I'm going to pull a ah dagger out of my lens um and hand it to her.
01:49:57
Speaker
Okay. So a dagger with what, two? Uh, it's one. It's a small thing. Okay. Yeah. Here, use this. And ah she takes that and she steps up next to this sauropod who is not looking too well right now.
01:50:14
Speaker
And she dives that dagger deep and you feel this thing weaken. like the The rope, like the the slack on or the tension on it just seems to let loose. And this thing collapses on the ground.
01:50:29
Speaker
And it is dead. And ah you see her, like she leaves that dagger in there and she's like, Oh my god, I did it. I did it! I did it! You sure did.
01:50:40
Speaker
Cricket, you totally took this thing down, she says loudly. And like ah the other raptors are on top of this thing's back. And you see like her brother and Dew, they're kind of hobbling together. They're just kind of roughed up. Snowdrift isn't the same you know boat as they are, but she's a little bit bigger.
01:50:58
Speaker
um But they all slide down this thing and they're like, Yeah, yeah, we did it. We had to bring this thing. Holy crap, we had to bring this thing back. are to bring it back? Did we cut it up in pieces?
01:51:11
Speaker
That's for you guys to figure out. but She says, but like, which may probably sounds weird. We did the hard work. And um Cricket's like, well, i got we got ropes. We can we can just tow it back.
01:51:24
Speaker
Is there anything you can't do, Cricket? She's like, ah, well, I guess I'm not really a builder of houses. Yeah, you'd okay. Um, all right, guys, let's let's do this.
01:51:39
Speaker
All right, so you're are you, like, coming back
Cricket's Recognition and Farewell
01:51:41
Speaker
with them? Like, you're just at the meeting point? Yeah, I have to. Yeah, you have to your in they graduate year ceremony. But yeah, like you tie ropes to various like parts of this thing, and like if effort, you drag this thing back. Well, I'm sure we gut it first, right? like We don't need all the organs and shit.
01:52:00
Speaker
It's still meat. All right. I mean, there's nine of you. Well, a couple of you are suffering a little bit. yeah Maybe they're, you know, like, not pulling. They're just kind of, like, limping behind you. You know, like, Cricket's helping pull. And, like, she's, like, really, really happy. You what cat's like when they they kill something or they have a toy in their mouth or it's, like, parading it around? Like, she has this rope in her mouth and she's just, like...
01:52:24
Speaker
parading this like little rope in her mouth, like dragging this thing behind her. And you see Odie fly overhead, and he lands in the back of this thing. And ofve like one of the raptors always shoes him off, like, hey, like Buzzer, get out of here.
01:52:38
Speaker
And he he's just like, he just doesn't pay him any mind. Yeah. I sort of, I look up at him and I wink. yeah yeah like he He sends you like a bunch of like smiles. like He's just like, yeah, he's happy for you.
01:52:50
Speaker
I roll my eyes if that's even possible. Alright, yeah, so it takes you, like, the better part of a day to drag this thing back. But you do see the elders in this, like, encampment they made.
01:53:02
Speaker
And you do see, like, eventually Odie wander back as Pebble. And these these other rafters, like, look at them, like, where the fuck have you been? Like, they just kind of look at him like, why? Why'd you leave? And they look at you like like this, like, they look at all you, like, dragging this thing back. They're all shocked. Like, they probably weren't expecting for, you know, you guys to bring back something this big, but like, you did it. You see, like, Crickets and Viper's dad run to Viper, who's, like, visibly injured, and he's, like, comforting him, but yeah he's also like comforting Cricket. like
01:53:36
Speaker
Cricket runs to him. like he's like She's like so proud. and like She has a bit of rope in her mouth. And he just seems to be like delighted that she did the thing. like She's a hunter now. But in her own different way of doing things.
01:53:51
Speaker
You see these elders, like they each have like these necklaces prepared and like made of like bones and teeth. And they each drape these around the necks of their respected younglings.
01:54:05
Speaker
And you see Odie has one prepared for you. He drapes that around your neck and he's like, how does it feel to be a mighty hunter? Shut up. like everyone Everyone's kind of congratulating each other, and Cricket runs to you, and she's like, well, I think people are just kind of parting ways now, but um thanks for helping me. That was really kind to you.
01:54:25
Speaker
No problem. i Is everyone still just there? There's some that are kind of splintering off. like You see like the ah the um the frost feathers, that the antlered ah what the antlered individuals, they're they're going up the mountain again, because they have a long journey home, so I'm sure like they're fucked up, they want to head home, they just they're done. Okay.
01:54:45
Speaker
Okay, I'm going to take a quick is anyone looking over at Mean Cricket? Not really, because like her dad is like tending the viper who's beat up, so he's looking after him. Okay. Oh, shit, what are you doing? I'm going to moment ah do i have enough power for this probably momentarily change back so fantasia Okay.
01:55:14
Speaker
Okay, but here's the thing. She's going to do it it not not fully, just like a little flash of it. Okay. As she says, I'm very proud of you, Cricket.
01:55:25
Speaker
um Whatever you decide you want to do, if if you still want to go out on your adventure or you want to stay here, i just want you to be happy. And I just want you to... To know that you can do anything.
01:55:40
Speaker
You are smart and you are capable. And she, like, looks at you like... And, like, yeah, she flashes a little bit. Yeah. How'd you do that? How'd you do that? Shh.
01:55:52
Speaker
Shh. How'd you do that? Maybe I'll tell you someday. Okay, but, like, where are you going? Like, ah I mean, I'm like, I told you to leave, but, you know, I'm an adult now. I can i can i can leave and do my own thing. are you Are you guys going off and doing your own thing, too?
01:56:10
Speaker
Yeah, we have to we have to get back. ah Okay. um But maybe we'll see you around. Okay, yeah. um Also, don't tell anybody about this.
01:56:22
Speaker
No, i I won't. I must my dad be really mad if you came back. So I'm not going to tell him. right. Good luck. Thank you, Fantasia. And she gives you little bow, like polite bow.
01:56:35
Speaker
Heidi does the same thing. Okay. And she scampers off back to her dad, and her
Reflection and Future Opportunities
01:56:41
Speaker
brother. um And she turns back to Odie. Odie's just like horrified because he saw what you did. And he like sort of she just sort of gestures for to walk the opposite direction of everyone else.
01:56:52
Speaker
But ah he says, I saw you did back there. That was extremely risky. Will you? can Can we postpone the lecture? Yes. I'm i sure you're exhausted. Thank you.
01:57:03
Speaker
um We can head back to the door if you are done here. Yeah, I think um she'd like check her power. Like, yeah, I think ah this was significant enough practice.
01:57:17
Speaker
I would say so. So it's a good thing you didn't we didn't take those back down. And he says, uh, yes, I figured as such, which is why I kept it. I kept it available. Yeah. Um, I used up half of them.
01:57:34
Speaker
Uh, he's just like, oh, goodness. Uh, well, I guess we have work to do when we get back, don't we? Yeah, I'm going to try and see if we can alter the the power output of these things. um Or at least see if I can't get the intended to draw less power. um Well, that's something we can work on together.
01:57:52
Speaker
um Maybe. but Maybe I'll let you help. And then she doesn't say anything the rest of the way back to the door. Okay. You're just heading home? Mm-hmm. Right. And they get to the, like, when they eventually get back to the door and she, you dismisses her disguise. Mm-hmm.
01:58:08
Speaker
she's She's about to go through the door, and she turns to Odie, and she says, I have an apology to give to you.
01:58:20
Speaker
uh, okay. Okay. I have not been as um amenable as I should be.
01:58:30
Speaker
But I think i think now i am ready to actually take some things more seriously. um I've got a lot of things that I still need to deal with.
01:58:41
Speaker
You know, clearly, I've got daddy issues. And then she's like, man, these I'm learning some weird shit. Um, but, um, yeah, um, I guess I'm just, I'm sorry.
01:58:56
Speaker
oh I appreciate your apology, Miss Heidi, and, uh, I understand your frustrations, and I also understand how unfair things have been for you, and I also appreciate that you're going to take things more seriously. i mean, this, as you discovered today, is quite dangerous.
01:59:17
Speaker
ah Oh, no, I mean, I wasn't worried about that. That wasn't dangerous at all. What are you talking about? I mean, there was the threat of potentially getting stomped on. or yeah Maybe the other ones, maybe that rain runner, but not me.
01:59:32
Speaker
No, I just, I saw how proud and happy Cricket was that her ideas were, you know, came to fruition and she used them to accomplish a goal And it reminded me that I've been looking at this in a sort of selfish way. And I have forgotten that why I'm here.
01:59:58
Speaker
And it's to learn. And I haven't been really letting you teach me things necessarily. So I'm ready to get back to learning.
02:00:09
Speaker
Well, I appreciate that very much because I'm excited to teach. Yeah. And there is so much more you could learn out there.
02:00:19
Speaker
And I must say, Masati, you are making great progress. And the short time we've known each other, you have really excelled in understanding the e situation technology around you. Well, I am really smart.
02:00:31
Speaker
yeah I've never doubted that. I should hope not. yeah i think what's best for now is ah we go back and rest and replace what needs to be replaced with your power core.
02:00:44
Speaker
And then, maybe... Do you think... No. Surely not. Surely they don't have chocolate in the marketplace. I imagine so. What? Really?
02:00:55
Speaker
It's the market. They have absolutely everything there. Yeah, but from that one world? Well, not from that world in particular, but Augman, I'm sure. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. whoa Are you telling me that there's chocolate in other planes too?
02:01:09
Speaker
Yes, quite a few actually. Holy shit. Okay, we got work to do. But what are we standing out here for? Let's go.
02:01:32
Speaker
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