《The Monster We Are》 Prologue: The End That Was A Beginning. Do you ever think what life would be, where you will go , after you die. I pause the holographic image, she freezes mid stride..... I reach to touch her face.Hair the colour of blood in the deepest twilight, eyes as striking as a mountain glacier and skin... skin like the purest of snow in the light of dawn.My love, my life , my alabaster goddess. Her smile brings a tear to my eyes, and my sight falls to her belly. A bitter sweet smile spreads to my face. The day i took this she had told me the greatest of news, Mehahaa father. But the war started, and took them away " This world, this world and those goddamned creatures have taken to much" I howl to the mountains. I turn off the holoprocesser and turn the collar of my coat up to ward away the chill that didn''t only come from the mountain air. Picking up my sword, I strap it to my back, I pick up my cane turning to my destination. Ruins that have became a home to bandits. Theywon''tstop me. As i near the entryway I draw my sword and start to sprint, within meters of it two heads pop out from within the entrance as they see me they cry out a warning. I push myself forward and lash out with my blade cutting their throats they fall to the floor clutching their necks as the life drains away. Entering the ancient hallwaysIfollow the maps in my head diverting as collapsed routes appear, as I near the inner sanctum I hear the drum of boots echoing along the stone corridoors. As I turn the corridoor the doors to the sanctum five men arrange themselves behind a low barricade. I raise my cane, one of the men dare chuckle, I flick the release on the side and the lower 2/3 fire off. It crushes the the larynx of the amused bandit, a blade giving off a chilling aura is left in its wake. I dash in vaulting off the barricade taking the heads of two men, landing I reverse my grips on the swords while pivoting and ram the blades through the hearts of the last of the men. The swords come lose as the men fall to the floor, I clean the blades and resheath them. I proceed past the corpses and enter. The inner sanctum of the ruins is a cavern so vast that the sides can not be seen. The path from the door can fit three men abreast then drops off in to an abyss, the path leads to a peninsula at it centre lies a dias and a way behind a wall with a statue twice the dimensions of a man. The cavern is in a gloomy light, columns spread out into the darkness even into the abyss.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. There are 6 men loitering around the dias at the centre,as i approach i remove my coat and top, keeping my sword and cane in my grasp. Once they see me walking across the path they all startle. " Wha..what are you doing here where are the guards." One of the banditsstutter out. Pulling the blade from the cane letting the rest fall I reply " Dead, stand in my way and so will you." " Kill him!" Another shouts as he draws his sword, the others follow suit. I rush forwards into the path of their blades, i parry one blade into another and slash off the blocked blades hand. Turning to the first I boot him in the chest off and over the edge to the darkness below, his screams mixing with the handless fellowechoing out in the bleakness. It shakes the remain menmomentarily, giving me time to knock another weapon from its path and opening the throat of its owner. The last three snap out of it and attack together, blocking two of the weapons I recieve a slash across the chest from the third. I jump back then pounce forward in a roll slashing the legs of the men I blocked. They cry out in pain as i come out of the roll kicking the knee with a sicking crunch of the slasher his wail spills into the crys of pain. As i straighten up i turn a separate the heads from the first two men and pivot back altering the grip of my blades, ramming the down behind the collar bones of the last, whilst ramming my knee into tho his face. I leave my blades in him as i walk towards the dais, I wipe my hand across my chest bloodying it. I brush it across the dais. It glows a faint blue. "HAHAHAHA it''s true" I scream out. I continue walking to the back. A grinding sound can be heard as the statue splits in two reavealing an iron maiden like interior. This place The Reaper''s Clock runs on blood and sacifice of the willing. I enter the statue turning to face out it begins to close. I do not fear death. I begin to remember you, the way you look, the spikes begin to pierce me i shut off the pain. The way yor skin feeels.Blood runs down my body. The way..the way... you......Tasssteeee. Outside in the cavern bright blue lights begin to run from the maiden a few a first then hundred and thousands. Lightning starts cascading between the columns inside the vast underground kingdom. The light blinding in the darkness of the undergroung kingdom, the lighting picking up frequency and intensity and in thecrescendo of it all, an orb appears around the statue it, engulfing it. Then all the energy turns black exploding in a flash. In the silence, the gradual cloistering of bells can be heard echoing through a glassed ruin. Chapter 2 I drift. In the darkness, the pain no more. I¡¯m not sure when the pain stopped or when I came into this space. ¡° You used the clock young soul.¡± A voice booms from the abyss around me, I try to look around but I don¡¯t move, at least I can¡¯t tell if I do. ¡°WHY.¡± ¡°Why? Why do you want to know? Who are you? Where am I.¡± I demand. ¡° HAHAHA, young one, I am the one that decides what happens to you here. THIS is my domain. The place between all, the place where even reapers must count time.¡± The voice counters. It comes from everywhere yet nowhere. ¡° Tell me why did you use my shrine, so I can decide your fate.¡± I consider what the voice said, I lose nothing by telling it, I¡¯m already dead either way. ¡° I lost everything and my world fell to chaos¡­.to the darkness. I couldn¡¯t find a way to stop or reverse it. And found a snippet, so old¡­ so ancient even the myths and legends thought it was a story. The tales of otherworlders beings of enormous power that changed the balance of kingdoms where ever they tread. Beings summoned by magic in places of power, with blood and death.¡± ¡° That still doesn¡¯t tell me WHY you used mine and your own life.¡± The voice responds ¡° I..I searched many of the world''s oldest ruins and found mention of these sites and even found a few. They all required the life of others to bring beings here at massive expenses, but there was no helping my world any more. It was already doomed, hanging on the precipice...waiting to fade, to finally devoured by IT.¡± I tell with sorrow, remembering the my lose again and the state of what was left. ¡° I found a reference to a source. A source of where the plans for these sites came from, a place that the ancients found couldn¡¯t bring forth benefits but only send. I¡¯ve been searching for years for this place¡­ no that place. And¡­ the one that I cared for would admonish me if I did nothing with my life, so I decided that if I¡­¡­ No once I found it I would use it to stop what happened here to other places at any cost. So she could hopefully see me with head held high, when i finally succumbed. She knew the horrors I left in my wake.*sob* And she.. she still loved ME!! She knew i did it to keep HER safe and if she was safe so where millions of others. She¡­. She didn¡¯t judge me she just, just loved¡­...me.¡±This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. ¡°And why didn¡¯t you use your own life and not others?¡± The voice questions. ¡° Because in ever legend, myth and story, blood willing has a power greater than that taken and a..life freely given is worlds apart. And if the fragments I found proved false I would find either oblivion or what I deserved .¡± I confess. ¡° Not an afterlife with your loved ones?¡± The voice sounds confused. ¡° No not a reunion. The things I have done, had to do and choose to..to live and protect her. I chose to do what others couldn¡¯t and would not do, so she wouldn¡¯t have to suffer. I became a something that even the monsters weeped in my passing and even the Darkness cringed at my mention. The bogeyman of the monsters of the world. But in the end it still wasn¡¯t enough, I wasn¡¯t enough, strong enough to stop what happened in the end.¡± I declare to the voice. ¡° Hummmm. Ok. I¡¯ll send you to a new world, but there will be conditions. This is for my amusement.¡± I frown. ¡° WHAT!!¡± I shout. ¡° QUIET!!!¡± The being bellows the force of it causes me pain. ¡° You tell me that you where a beyond a monster, a terror of those that were deserving, so the condition I give is that you will be a monster of the world I send you to.¡± ¡°¡­¡­.¡± I float confused. ¡° Nothing to say.¡± The voice asks. ¡° What do you mean a monster.¡± I ask in return. ¡° The world I will send you to contains more than one race, and a number of monster race not all civilized. All races and be upgraded with the power of the gods that reside there and by defeating threats. The monsters can evolve into new and more powerful species as they accumulate power from thing they do and eat. So my condition is that you will be a monster to begin with they gain power slower that the races but that power is much more in the long run. And as you have told being a monster does not bother you.¡± It explains. ¡°¡­¡­OK.¡± I respond. ¡° Hopefully you will be able to stop what will happen in this world, it is only in the opening phase what IT has planed. Much much earlier than your own world.¡± I startle. ¡° Yes I know what happen in you own and what is planned here it much more insidious than that.¡± ¡°Why did you tell me all this instead of sending me once I agree if this is for your amusement.¡± I ask. ¡°Because I is one of my favorite worlds.¡± It tells me. ¡° Now go.¡± Energy starts to build up around me. ¡°This place is outside of creation of what was left of before so I can look freely upon all, including the plain of souls, whose time if so much faster than anywhere.¡± I struggle understand what the voice is on about as the hum of energy begins to pick up. ¡° Your wife.. gave up her natural reincarnation to let you unborn child have that chance, generations of you child¡¯s family exist within this world. Keep it safe.¡± ¡° WHAT!!!!¡± I bellow as the void takes my senses again. Chapter 3 ¡°WAIT. WHAT!!!!¡± I holler, as my senses return.
Hidden requirement met
What the hell a bunch of blue windows just appeared before me.
Access to world system interface given (rudimentary level)
Access to¡­.. Status screen unlocked¡­¡­(rudimentary level) Help window unlocked.
To access Help Window Think or say ¡® Help Window¡¯ followed by a question.
The hell with this. ¡°HEY, HEY OHH AREN''T YOU LISTEN. I SAID WHAT DID YOU SAY.¡± I scream out with my mind. There¡¯s no reply. I cry, i cry knowing now that my child got to live. But why, why did she do that WHY!!!!! I...know why, and i feel guilty now for question her act. I would have done the same for her and more. my reasons for stopping the plans against this world now hold even more weight. Wait I...I cried. I have a body. I¡¯m in what feels like liquid and there are others around me. Where the sodding hell am I, and what is that drumming sound¡­ wait I recognize that rhythm a heart beat. Now, what was those window about. I try to remember what they said¡­¡­¡­...there was a help function. What was it, what was it¡­.. AHHH. Help Window what is the world system interface.
it is the system employed by gods and those that have been granted access to make adjustments to areas under their influence.
I start to feel sleepy.. why. I wake up after unknown amount of time. That was weird it feels tighter in this place now. I think I must be in a womb and the others must be my siblings, wow that feels weird right there.I miss her. Hehe my child lived¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ Now what where those windows about¡­¡­.. shit I fell asleep again. And again Help window what is the status window.
The status window is part of the world interface system that lets members of the non monster race look at the statuses, abilities, skills, magic, titles and blessings. To access simply say or think ¡® status screen¡¯
Ok.. Status Screen. Status Screen NAME???? LevelN/AStolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. RaceEldrin Goblin BlessingsBlessing of what came before Holy shit that is..... is different. No name that is weird my name is ..... wait I can¡¯t remember my name. That rather disconcerting. And my race i know what a goblin is but what the hell is a Eldrin goblin. Help Window what is a Eldrin goblin.
ERROR ERROR
What ok ok ummm.... Help Window what is Eldrin.
Eldrin: a title given to the wisest of the elder races to signify wisdom beyond their year.
Ok. Help Window what caused the ERROR when asking about a eldrin goblin.
ERROR was brought about as there is no such thing as a eldrin goblin.
I frown at that. Help Window why is there no such thing as a eldrin goblin.
It is because there is no such thing as a goblin wise beyond his years as goblins are low ranking creatures that are unable to comprehend ideas and cultural advance beyond a certain level.
That is rude i think. It might be because intelligent goblin are few and far between or there haven¡¯t any reincarnated monsters before. I start to feel drowsy again. As i wake up if feels even tighter. I have a feeling i may be born soon. I call up my status screen a look at my blessing. Help Window what is a blessing.
A blessing is given by a god or a being of enormous power it bestows upon the blessed additional advantages that may include stat increases, abilities, skills and /or magic (passive or active) or access to locations.
Good, Help Window How do i find out what a blessing gives.
Open your status screen and then think or say (name of blessing)
O....................................... Fuck i fell asleep again it¡¯s even tighter in here again must be nearing labour day soon. Status screen. Status Screen NAME???? LevelN/A RaceEldrin Goblin BlessingsBlessing of what came before Blessing of what came before. Blessing of what came before what came before existed before %&%**. The blessing gives: Access to world system interface Increased learning speed. Able to learn a information regardless of class and or race restrictions. Access to additional unique or new rank ups ¡°¡ê*¡ê*&¡ê%¡ê*@¡ê*¡ê¡ê. ***$%¡±*@@###. That¡¯s pretty good I think but what in the name of everything is those weird symbols mean. Help Window what does a load of weird symbols mean in a description.
It indicates information that is either locked out or you do not meet the requirements to see it. The effects may still be active.
AHHHHHHH.. there is mass of pressure around me and my siblings , I think it¡¯s nearly time to be born. Chapter 4 Life. Life, I¡¯ve found as a baby is hard. Well if you have an adults mind it is. Being born kind of hurt, the pressure from being pushed out was painful it was like having a bear hug¡­that pulsated down your body. It was an odd sensation being aware during childbirth. After being born I was laid down in something soft and scratchy. I could hear some grunting noises and what sounded like voices and crying. I think one of my siblings just got delivered, the crying is getting closer and is laid down beside me. The crying sounds like a cross between a baby and a cat mewling. And now there¡¯s more crying this sounds slightly different a slightly deeper pitch, a boy maybe. The voices sound like they¡¯re discussing something, it¡¯s a language or tongue i¡¯ve never heard before, I try to listen in to it and by god there¡¯s even more crying. How many siblings do I have. This happens a few more times before I start to get sleepy. *yawn* Not this again bloody baby body. I look down at myself and I¡¯m¡­¡­.AHHHH ¡°ahhggg¡± grey, what was that sound, fuck I think that was my baby speak. I look at my hands there a very dark shade of grey. *¡­¡­¡­.* My instincts from my previous life make me feel like I¡¯m being watched. I try to look around and I notice that a sibling is green. Right I¡¯m an goblin which explains why by siblings are going to be green but why am I grey.*yaaaawwn* I awake to being really itchy. It¡¯s the straw. This is uncomfortable, I try to roll. Yes I did it. I can move that¡¯s good, but I feel bigger than yesterday, but it doesn¡¯t feel unnatural. *grumble* Huh.. My stomach growled. ¡°AHHHHHHG¡± My world is shaken. I¡¯m being picked up and get placed back on the straw. Fuck. I start to move my limbs and body, slowly in a bid to get used to it. I start to get tired, my eyelids getting heavier. *... ¡­ ¡­.* I¡¯m being watched again. I get picked up and something gets shoved in my mouth. It feels like a teat. I start sucking before realized I had. MILK.. I think its milk. After a few minutes I get taking off the teat, opening my weary eyes. I look up at the person holding me, there holding me in both arms, wow I¡¯m big¡­¡­ wait if I¡¯m being held with then where¡¯s the bottle. I look down and there is a green tit looking at me. ¡°AHHHHHG Fuuugggck.¡± The goblin starts chatting to me I think as I spoke out loud again in baby. Sounded closer to what I thought I shouted by accident. It.. she places me down and picks up another goblin baby and the starts feeding that one. She¡¯s talking to that goblin as well now. *Yawn* not again. This pattern continues for a few more days I think. Its kinda hard to tell time as everything is lit by torches and not the battery powered ones, and my internal clock has yet to develop. I¡¯m starting to understand the language a little. I have four other siblings they don¡¯t seem to be as active as me yet. I also seem to be slightly bigger than the others and I¡¯m still the only grey goblin I¡¯ve seen. All the others seem to be varying shades of green. *yawn*
Goblin Language Learnt (basic)
WHAT *YAWN* I¡¯m awake again. I seem bigger again, it looks like I have a increased growth rate, as do the others beside me. Status screen. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.
Status Screen
NAME????
Level1(locked)
RaceEldrin Goblin
BlessingsBlessing of what came before
Titles
Youngling All physical stats locked at below 5. LV lock at 1.
Strength:3Agility:3
Vitality: 5 Charisma 3
Intelligence:15Wisdom:10
Leadership:7Luck:4
It must be a racial thing. My senses have gotten better. I can see much of the room now, this is quite weird. I look down my body. ¡°THANK FUCK.¡± I exclaim. The other children look at me in wonder. Oppps shouldn¡¯t have said that out loud. I look at the others by the looks of it I have two brothers and two sisters. *growl* I¡¯m hungry again. ¡°UP!¡± I stare around bewildered. There is one of the females, I hope they¡¯re females that have been feeding us. ¡°*sigh* I forgot young ones don¡¯t talk yet.¡± Looking at her she is wearing a loin cloth and has a bandoleer between her breasts, with various things and a small knife by her hip. I stand up. She looks over again and I¡¯m already standing, my workouts to get used to being in a new body has paid off letting me accomplish getting up quickly . ¡°Weird.¡± She mutters, I just about hear her. She starts to pick and stand up a the other little ones and motions us to follow her, apart from one of the girls who stood up with some effort on her wobbly legs. Were taken to a room a few doors down, I peeked into the other rooms a we passed. They were filled with bundles of what looked like bedding with an odd odor coming from them. Within the room we were taken one wall is peppered with holes. The she goblin reaches into one of the crevasses and pulls out a grub about 2¡± long and about an 1¡± thick and proceeds to take a bite out it and gestures to us the wall and then her mouth and then repeats this motion a few times. Knowing what she getting at and my siblings not I walk over to the wall and then reach into a hole and feel around and find a grub. I take it out, it¡¯s a tiny bit bigger than the one the she-goblin has, and think I take a bit out of it. *chew chew* It¡¯s not actual that bad, there¡¯s not really a taste behind it kind of just tastes like protein. I¡¯ve eaten a lot worse in my life, my last life. The others still looking a bit bewildered. ¡°UMMMMMMMMM¡±. I go. Then take another bite. The sister that stood up, proceeds to wobbly over to me and reaches into a hole and feels around. She then giggles, and pulls out a grub smaller than our guardians one. She sniffs it, and nearly drops it when it wiggles in her grasp. Giggling again she takes a bite out of it. The others then come over and then all reach into different holes, and they all do the same as my other sister. ¡°Wow that weird¡­¡± *¡­¡­¡­.* I can tell that the she-goblin is staring at me again. ¡°Little weird fellow¡­ and weird colour¡­.better tell %¡±$%^.¡± She starts to mutter to herself again I didn¡¯t understand that last word. Must be because I learnt basic level goblin. I¡¯m going to have to listen more to understand the language better. I¡¯m starting to get a bit of a chill around the nether regions. I walk up to the she-goblin. Point at her loincloth and then to myself, and gesture again. ¡°HUH¡­. You want cloth¡­¡­.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.¡± the she-goblin cackles. She pushes me towards the others and starts to mutter under hear breath I have no trouble hear her this close. ¡°Take grey skin to E$%er, take litter back first, yes, yes.¡± She starts herding us out of the room. ¡° First grey one stand when told, then eat food first without force feed , make other eat as well, weird¡­weird then..then ask for loincloth. Not natural *shudder* yes yes El%er know, Elder know what do.¡± She continues to murmur. Just listen to her more helped me pick up that word, so goblins have an elder as an alpha. We¡¯re back at the room we were born in. The she-gob then nudges me to the side before pushing the others back into the room. Turning to me she utters ¡° Follow.¡± Then starts walking away. I follow, the she looks over her shoulder *shiver* ¡°not right¡± she groans.
Goblin language advanced (standard)
Good that¡¯s a bit better. We continue down more corridors but I can''t see much as it''s too dark there doesn¡¯t seem to be many torches in here. The more we walk the better the area seems to get I start to notice and there seems to be stone work in some of the corridors now. I¡¯m starting to physically get tired after a small trek. The area we are in now is complete stonework we are outside a wooden door.
Awareness Stat unlock.
Wait I can unlock stats. I should check that out later. The she-gob opens the door. Chapter 5 The door creaks opens, prudent if done on purpose. We enter, the room is quite large I can barely see the edges of it. It looks like a medieval kitchen, dark, dank and smells of a multitude of odours. In what was the fire place sits a the largest and oldest looking goblin I have yet to see. For a lack of things to compare him to he looks like his skin is made of ball sacks it is that wrinkled, and there was a wisp of light grey hair on his chin. ¡° Why have you come¡± He growls. ¡° This youngling, he wrong..weird. He listen and do without kicking. And make his litter do without kicking. He not green. Strange¡­strange. Elder know what to do with freak. Right ,right Elder.¡± The she-gob spills to the old one. So the elder is the oldest goblin in this..what tribe, community? He stands up with a using a wooden stick, and waddles over. He walks around me. I watch him, his face is unreadable. ¡° You speak young one?¡± The old thing asks. I nod. ¡° Very strange for one so young.¡± He utters, turning to the she-gob. ¡° Has he been named.¡± ¡° No elder, he not old yet.¡± She replies. So you only get a name when your old enough, common enough in tribal societies. ¡° Hummmm, he has yet to undergo the rite of passage and his knowledge is great.¡± The old one holds his wrinkled and grey haired chin in. ¡° Yes yes¡­.. ummm¡­. should I¡­.. no no¡­. possible¡± the elder mumbles to himself. ¡° That will do¡­ yes yes..for now.¡± He continues to mutter. ¡° I shall name you Gray.¡± Wow what an imagination. The elder turn to the she-gob. ¡° Take him back. Start teaching them. Bring him back when he has learnt.¡± He instructs her. She nods. I stare a the old thing. *¡­¡­..!* I step to the side, narrowly dodging a kick to my behind. ¡° HUH, how you know.¡± The she-gob glares at me, the points toward the door. I start to head towards the door. I look around as I walk. There seems to be quite a lot of cobwebs. Walking out of the door, *CREEEEEAAAK* The she-gobs closes it, and the starts to head back the way we came. Following at a slower pace I notice that there is also a lot of web out here, actually it''s ever where. By the time I get back to the room in which I have been living in I am extremely tired, my other sibling are already asleep. This has been the most I¡¯ve done since I was reborn, a bit sad that it¡¯s just walking around has tired me out. I approach my sister and lay down next to her drifting off to sleep. I awake in pain, my side is throbbing. ¡° HAHA, got you freak, you not move this time HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.¡± I look up and it the she-gob from yesterday. Dancing up and down in glee. ¡° See see this how gobs learn¡± she continues to laugh. Her laughter wakes the others. I get up glaring at her ¡° Follow.¡± She then leaves the room, still holding my side I follow her reluctantly. Looking behind as I leave the room the others are following they¡¯re bigger again I look at myself as am I. The sister that followed me first yesterday is a lot less wobbly than yesterday. The she-gob which I¡¯m mental naming Coral, dumb as rock and painful. Coral leads us back to the grub room I notice a few more goblins of both sexes. They seem to have crudely made spears and clubs. All of the are wearing loin cloths and various other items like belts or bandoleers or simple packs made from animal pelts. ¡° Eat.¡± Coral points to the wall. ¡° ¡®llowed two.¡± The others look at her perplexed. She looks around the room purposely ignoring their gazes. *sigh* I walk to the wall reach into two different holes and draw out some grubs, the others look at me. Holding up one of them ¡° One.¡± Then the other ¡° Two.¡± Then I take a bite, while eating I mumble out ¡°Eat.¡± So the others then approach the wall they all do as I have. The smarter of the sisters, I think I¡¯m going to call her Lily. As she pulls them out goes ¡° one¡­two.*Giggle*¡± *¡­¡­¡­¡­* ¡° When finished backroom¡­¡­.freak.¡± Coral growls, then wanders off. We all sit down and begin to eat. Status screen I call out in my head, I need to check that out as I¡¯ve gained things in the last couple of days.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.
Status Screen
NAME Gray
Level1(locked)
RaceEldrin Goblin
BlessingsBlessing of what came before
Titles
Youngling All physical stats locked at below 5. LV lock at 1.
Strength:4Agility:4
Vitality: 5 Charisma 4
Intelligence:16Wisdom:11
Leadership:10Luck:4
Unblocked Stats
Awareness50%
I notice that all of my stats bar luck has risen by one apart from leadership which has risen by three, I¡¯m guessing that¡¯s due to getting my sibling to copy me. I also noticed that the Awareness stat is in a percentage. Help Window Awareness stat.
Awareness: This is a contextual stat it goes between 1-99%. There can never be 100% due never knowing everything in any given situation or location there will always be unknown variables
Ok that¡¯s different but makes sense. Ok I also learnt Instinctual sense. Help Window Instinctual sense.
To access skills say or think Open skill window.
Open Skill window.
Skill Name: Instinctual Senses
Skill Rank:UncommonSkill Level: N/A
The ability to sense when someone is directing intent towards you, or in a situation or location may cause harm. It also may help to detect hidden objects. This ability is linked to the Awareness stat, and due to being so is also a contextual based upon known information and state of mind
Skill Name:Goblin Language
Skill Rank:UncommonSkill Level: Basic
The goblin language
Skill Name:World System Interface
Skill Rank:Rare/Unique* Skill Level: N/A
Access LevelRudimentary
The W.S.I gives access to a person''s status screen and management screen for areas under a person''s influence, such as a village, town, city, country/kingdom or a continent, if they have been given access. World access is restricted to Gods or ¡°^¡ê%$¡ê^¡±^ only. *unique rank due the W.S.I is not accessible to monster races.
Ummmm. Instinctual Senses makes a lot of sense to me. I had this for many years in my old life, every living being has this to some degree, mine has been quite advanced for along while before I came here. You need it the way I lived before. Goblin language is obvious, and the W.S.I information is quite helpful as well
Help Window nearing limit usage. Usage limit left 3.
WHAT!! The help window has a usage limit wha....
Help window has a usage limit to prevent abuse of the W.S.I
NOOOOOOOO!!!!
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Shit I cant say help wind....Shhhit cant say that. Damn stupid system, bloody safeguards.*sighs* I look around the room the others have finished eating now and are watching me. ¡° Follow .¡± I tell them. Lily smiles at me. As we head back to the room I look into the rooms in one of them has a scraps of materials and pelts dumped in a corner. I take the others back to our room. They sit down and start to fall asleep. I sit down. The floor is cold on my ass, I getting fed up of being naked and looking at my naked sibling. I get up and head back to the room with scraps in and grab a armful I taking them back to our room, I drop them near the edge of the bedding while sitting on it. I sort through them finding a few larger bits that could easily wrap around us. Ummmm they could still easily fall down or come off though. I tap my leg in thought. I need something sharp. Looking around the room I see a small sharp rock by the door. I go and get it. It''s the same material as the walls, probably came of it. Going back to the material I cut holes at intervals along one edge on all the bigger bits. *phew* This is getting hard. I cut and rip long strips off another bit of cloth to make a belt and thread that through the holes. I get up and wrap the makeshift loin cloth and the tie the belt. Ummm. It¡¯s a bit restricting when I do a few squats.*huff* I¡¯m getting a bit tired now. I cut slits in the lower edges up either side of the leg and do a few more squats, that¡¯s better. I sit down and have a bit of a breather. Then make the same cuts in the others. I have a few bits left of the pelts, looking at the stone I decide to keep it. Using the stone to put holes all along the edge of a piece of pelt and threading a very slim piece of material to make a drawstring pouch and tie it on the belt. *Yawn* I lay down with the others, and drift off. Chapter 6 I awake earlier than yesterday by telling my body clock how long to sleep as I sleep, though a common technique from my old world, I still wake up quite groggily. I tidy up the mess I made last night by pushing it under the bedding. I then nudge awake Lily and the others. When Lily she can see my loincloth. ¡°Hehehehehehehehe, me?¡± hopping from foot to foot she asks. I pass her one off the floor, then take off mine and redo it to show her. She does it first time. ¡°Good Lily.¡± I tell her while smiling, she beams back at me. Umm she¡¯s quite smart. The other three come over and I pass them theirs , after a few false starts I go to take off mine again to show them. ¡°NO. I show.¡± Lily states. I just nod at her smiling. After a few more attempts they get the hang of it. Lily Is quite smart I think. During this time I¡¯ve started a work routine I used to do, I need to get used to this body and increase its limitations from an early age, that way I will be able to do more in the long run. Looking up from one of the stretches, I see the others trying to copy me.Lily has her tongue poking out of her teeth in concentration. Seeing me watching her she smiles at me again. ¡° What do, show.¡± The others nod in agreement. Trying no to use so many words as not to confuse them. ¡° I work. Move body¡­ to get¡­..big faster¡± at that point I make a walking motion with my fingers and at faster I move them faster. Lily seems to understand the other nod but I¡¯m not sure. ¡° And not to tire to fast.¡± I think it¡¯s best if i try and train them, the more assets I have in this world the easier it will become¡­.. I hope. Coral tries to sneak into the room but upon seeing us stops, looking to the bed and then to me, she glares at me. *¡­* I think she was planning to kick me again the bloody bitch. She then realizes that all of us are wearing loin cloths. Growling. ¡° Where you get?¡± Pointing wildly at the cloths. ¡° Brother..... give.¡± She proclaims while smirking. I don¡¯t think she likes Coral after seeing me in pain because of her. Growling again. ¡° How? Where? Tell now freak.¡± She demands. ¡° I made them from the bedding, last night Coral.¡± I tell her while revealing the scraps I hide under the bed. I then give her a smile I knew scared people from my life before. I think it will work even better here as I have a mouthful of sharp teeth. HAA. I see her visibly startle and take a step back. *giggle* I see Lily raise her hand in front of her face.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. ¡° WHO Coral?¡± Coral half shouts in a bid to gain the upper hand again. Pointing at her ¡° You.¡± She looks confused. ¡° No. I Tonka.¡± She declares, puffing out her chest proudly. Huh so that¡¯s her name. She shakes herself as she realized why she here. Glaring at me she leaves the room. ¡° Follow.¡± The others start heading out of the room. * ¡­¡­..* I dodge to the other side of the door as I leave it away from the direction grub room, a foot barely misses me. ¡° ARRRGHHH.¡± Car.. no Tonka rages. ¡° How, how you do that, me no kick you, you no learn.¡± ¡° Instincts.¡± I tell her. ¡° Have I not learned without you kicking me.¡± ¡° ¡­Yes. And you talk like elder, you no learn that, yet do.¡± She frowns to herself thinking that over. ¡° You freak, not gob like¡­.. don¡¯t like.¡± Tonka proclaims as she heads toward the grub room. ¡°¡­and no kick I like kick, kick teach gobs¡­how gobs learn.¡± She looks over her shoulder. ¡° ¡­but freak not right, not learn like gob, no kick to learn, not right, not right.¡± She mutters as we walk. Lily does not look happy, she¡¯s glaring daggers into Tonka¡¯s back. When we¡¯re in the room Tonka tells us ¡° Three.¡± As she¡¯s leaving the room ¡° Stay, I back soon.¡± "Freak." Floats back as she disappears round the corner The others look at me expectantly. *sigh* I reaching in to the crevasses and pull out two and wave them at the others ¡° How many.¡± The all chime in ¡° Two.¡± ¡° Good.¡± I reach into another one a pull out the third one. ¡° And three.¡± In unison they nod, then they retrieve their food. While munching on my grubs I get another one and put it into my pouch, for after my workout. I take a better look around the room. I¡¯ve been noticing a lot of web around the place and the walls give off a feeling of being underground, with the torches around the place, there is also luminescent fungus in some rooms like this one. There¡¯s also an under current to the whole place which I haven¡¯t felt before.. how come I¡¯ve never noticed that before. It kind of permeates the air, actually it feels like it''s everywhere, I put my hand on the wall, closing my eyes to concentrate my senses, to feel around me and into the wall. WHAT. The wall contains even more energy. I get the feeling of being watched, I pull away and open my eyes. No , no ones watching me the others are eating their grubs still. I still get the feeling but not as strong, but nothing is setting off my instinctual sense, so whatever it is means no harm. While the feeling is diminishing it still lingers. It¡¯s like and air current around the place. I don¡¯t understand how I never noticed this before.
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What the hell was that. It was like the interface system. ¡° Brother, what wrong.¡± Lily asks as she can see me looking around frantically. Stopping. ¡° Nothing Lily nothing.¡± I tell her. ¡° Who Lil...Lily.¡± she asks smiling. Ahh shit I said her name out loud. ¡° It¡¯s what I call you in my head.¡± *giggle* ¡° Brother name me... hehehehe. Lily me like.¡± She nods her head to herself. She then runs over and hugs me. ¡° what you name.¡± She inquires. ¡° I..I was named Gray.¡± She leans back looking up at me. ¡° Me like Gray, good name, like you skin, yes?¡± I nod at her answer. She lets go and wonders over to the other three. ¡° Me call Lily now, brother name Gray.¡± The other nod. I wonder where she has picked these words as i know i haven¡¯t said some of them. I wonder if she has any blessings or if it¡¯s me that is affecting her and the others with being an eldrin goblin. I am also curious as to what was that window was. It gave off a vibe like my instinctual sense....like something noticed being noticed. This place isn''t as simple as it looks. *..................* I dodge to the side, It''s Coral...No,Tonka. I don''t think she going to quit in trying to kick me. Tonka glares at me as she enters further into the room. ¡° Teach time, follow.¡± She growls clearly upset at not getting me again. Chapter 7 Following Tonka we end up in a room, well more of a cavern. There are fires around the perimeter of the place and the glowing fungus on the ceiling. Right in the centre of the room there is a hole in the roof with weak sunlight drifting through the smoke from the fire as it rises out the hole, on the ground under the smoke hole is another with a small stick and string fence. Dotted around the fires are more goblins doing various activities and towards the end we are heading the fires have goblins of different sizes being supervised by older goblins of both sexes. I¡¯m guessing the younger generations of gobs. Tonka leads us to a fire with a few other younger gobs and a male gob. ¡° Sit.¡± She tells us. There are piles of material with the other gobs sat in front of. All the other young ones are naked like we are. I sit in front of a pile and gesture for the others to do so as well. ¡° That the freak that not need kicking.¡± Tonka tells the male gob. ¡° Why they have cloth.¡± He inquires. ¡° The freak made. He not right he talk like elder. And need no kick to learn, not right, not right.¡± She replies. *growl* ¡° Strange.¡± He turn to us. ¡° You all here learn to make loincloth.¡± He glares at my group. ¡° To make prop, you stay here till done. After we tell ¡®bout tribe.¡± He instructs us. He sits in front of a pile and proceeds to show us how to make a loincloth. As the others start including my sibling as they want to learn. I decide to make myself a bandoleer. I pull out my stone, and get the bigger piece and then cut roughly the shape and then carefully rip it apart. I make it wider at the shoulder so it sit more comfortably. The I put holes in it like the cloth. I get another piece of material and treadle it through. There are a lot more holes this time, I¡¯m making it like a molle system. I then make around 8 more drawstring pouches, I add 6 to the bandoleer and the other 2 to my belt. On the bandoleer I put 4 on the front and two on the lower back portion. After putting it on I tie the lowest point on to the belt to secure it better. I notice a few bones lying on the floor and the I see the perfect one it looks like a small rib bone. I pick it up and add it to a pouch. *¡­¡­..* I throw myself to the side, a foot flies past where my head was. ¡° See, see he freak, he know kick come.¡± Tonka shouts. *growl* ¡° How do young one know, huh.¡± The male gobs asks me. ¡° I can sense it. Instincts.¡± I tell him. *growl* ¡° what you do, what you make.¡± He asks. ¡° I¡¯ve made myself what Tonka has but I have made it with extras to hold stuff.¡± I reply. ¡° Why.¡± He questions. ¡° Because I have a loin cloth and it would be a waste of material just to make another so I made these instead.¡± I respond. *growl* With that he stalks off with Tonka in tow. With them leaving I search around for a few more rib bones to practice on before I make the final product. Using the ground and my stone a practice on the few bones I just picked up. After a while it looks like the others will be finished soon, I¡¯m happy with my practice attempts, but I start grinding the edge of my stone to give it a better sharp edge for carving, after doing it on all four sides my stone looks like a spear head. I hear shuffling and see an elder female goblin leaning on a staff making her way over. Tonka and the male gob also headed this way. ¡° Old Mag here to teach ¡®bout tribe.¡± Tonka tells us. She and the gob then wonder off. ¡° Make room around the fire young ones. Mush mush.¡± *sigh* And she sits down. Making use off this time I start to grind the final rib bone on the floor to make a leather style needle, I¡¯ll use the stone to make the eye hole.This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. ¡° Now listen young ones.¡± Old Mag starts. ¡° We have been residents in this cave for hundreds of years now. Our old tribe was all but wiped out by rival tribes, we were forced out into the wilds and eventual found this cave. We did not know at the time but it was infested with spiders." *Cough cough* "Fearsome spiders that where the size of us gobs. We fought for many days and drove them deeper into the caves. We found out after driving them deeper and deeper there was even more bigger and fearsome spiders that dwelt below, because of this and the presence of the light stones that the ancestors came to the knowledge, that this is a dungeon that we now inhabit.¡± WAIT, WHAT. A dungeon like in the old fantasy novels and games from before the wars, they exist. Humm maybe that¡¯s where the stories come from for them from other worlds from the otherworlders. Hummm, mind you I¡¯m an otherworlders now as well. I should continue to listen, I¡¯ve nearly finished the needle I¡¯ve just got to do the eye now. ¡° When the elders of the ancestors found this information they rejoiced, and had the gobs sealed the tunnels to the lower levels, and live in the dwellings made above that had long been abandoned for many years. The elder knew that with in the dungeon that they could grow stronger, and we took the name spider tribe." She pauses to let that sink in... I think. She continues. "These are what the histories tell us they may have some truth with all the cobwebs here and the stones that light places and the rooms that us elders live in made from stone not the rough rocks of these caves.¡± On quiet nights you can hear.¡± She points with the end of her staff towards the hole in the centre of the room. ¡° strange noises, chirps and hiss the sound of spiders from below. And in the lower caves you can on occasion find spiders that come up to the knees, so the stories may be true but we do not know.¡± Hummm maybe it''s true, actually that could explain the presence I felt and the energy that I still feel in the air. ¡± We gobs only live 20 years if we don¡¯t evolve and rank up in to hobgoblins or other creature once we do we leave or move to other caves around the so called dungeon, as we are only one part of the spider tribe as cave ins and disputes have splintered us over the years, but all under theses cave are still the spider tribe.¡± As she is finishing Tonka comes back over with a bowl and cup and gives it Old Mag. ¡° Thank you.¡± She tell her. *grunt* How rude. I really don¡¯t like Tonka. ¡° All follow eat time.¡± She growls at us. ¡° You.¡± Old Mag says, all of us freeze. ¡° The grey one come here.¡± Tonka smirks. ¡° It food time.¡± Tonka spouts. ¡° You know the way young one, yes.¡± Old Mag responds. I nod my accent. Tonka scowls again. ¡° Then take the others.¡± Mag tells. Lily looks conflicted I shoo her on, as I can see she is hungry. They all head off. ¡° So young one, what was you doing during my teaching.¡± She asks. ¡° I was making a sewing needle¡­.Elder.¡± I tell her I think a bit of modesty and placating is in order. ¡° Show me.¡± With her hand held out. I reach into the pouch I had store it in after I finished it and place it in the outstretched palm. She inspects the bone needle. ¡° Umm, not bad work, not bad.¡± She muses to herself, looking up. ¡° how did you learn this.¡± I debate what I should tell her. ¡° I didn¡¯t learn it anywhere elder.¡± She raises her eyebrow. ¡° I just knew how to make it. I have knowledge in my head that appears when I do things, or I learn faster, I have found than the others.¡± I tell her. ¡° I¡­I think it''s something to do with me not being green like everybody else.¡± ¡° I understand young one, the older gobs do not like or trust you as you go about things much unlike other goblin even you siblings are advancing faster, the other elders find this interesting but are untrusting of you still.¡± She hands me back my needle. ¡° I myself like you, you interest me like no other, but I was always a curious gob as a youngster.¡± She starts rummaging around in a bag she has. ¡° Here.¡± She passes me a pouch, then continues to rummage. I open the pouch and contains 5 reels made from bone that have thread on them. ¡° It¡¯s spider silk made into a thread, I made them myself quite a while ago but I can¡¯t use them any more as my hands are hard to move. None of the other gobs bother with the finer points of making things, but I can see you do we the needle making. Ahhhh here.¡± She hands me another package it''s wrapped in a piece of cloth. I unwrap it it¡¯s a small shard of metal with bit of leather thong wrapped at one end to make a handle. There also a little leather sheath for it clearly hand made. The blade is no longer than an inch and a half. ¡° I manly used it in crafting and sewing, its very sharp so be careful.¡± Mag¡¯s informs. ¡° They are now yours young one. Now go and eat.¡± She makes the same shooing motions I did to Lily. I turn and head towards the grub room placing the knife in one of the larger pouches at my waist and tie the other to my belt. ¡° You¡¯ll need them soon young one¡­¡­.such a waste, stupid elders.¡± I barely make out what she says, I¡¯m not liking that not one bit. I better check my status. Status Screen.
Status Screen
NAME Gray
Level1(locked)
RaceEldrin Goblin
BlessingsBlessing of what came before
Titles
Young one All physical stats locked at below 8. LV lock at 1.
Strength:5Agility:6
Vitality: 8 Charisma 7
Intelligence:20Wisdom:15
Leadership:19Luck:6
Unlocked Stats
Awareness79%
HUH my title changed it still locking stats and level. Now to get food and stock up a bit. Chapter 8 Back in the grub room I eat two of the grubs then stuff two of my bandoleers pouches with them, I have about 5 in each, just to be sure I fill one of my belt pouches as well. Heading back to the room in which I was born in, stopping to grab some more material from the room down the corridor first. Once back I see the others are asleep. Putting the stuff near where I sleep, I start doing some stretches to help keep me awake longer and improve my body. Once I finished I sit near the pile of materials. Using my new tools I make myself a crude pair of underwear, it¡¯s basically just a strip of cloth a couple of inches, with cord I made by plaiting strips of material and sewed on to act like elastic. It''s in essence a bikini bottom, but it will stop my junk from flopping about under the loincloth. My little knife I got I add a loop to it so I can wear it on my belt. The new needle and thread are working wonders. The knife, is a god send it makes shaping and cutting the fabric so much easier than the stone, but I keep the stone I should be able to create a crude spear with it eventually. Finally I make enough pouches for the other of my brood. Then I lay down to sleep telling my body to wake up early again. As I wake up and stretch I see Tonka sneaking in, once she she¡¯s me she stops. ¡° AHHH, why wake gain, want to kick you. Arggg.¡± She stomps her feet as she can''t get what she wants. ¡° UP ALL NOW.¡± The others all startle awake, glaring around once their eyes fall on Tonka then stop apart from Lily as she really doesn¡¯t like her. ¡° Follow.¡± Then she whips around stomping out of the door. ¡° FREAK!¡± As we start to follow I hand out the pouches to the others. Their eyes sparkle with happiness, I quickly show the how to tie them on as I undo and re-tie one of mine. We reach the room. ¡° Only one.¡± We all frown. ¡° Have hunt teach ¡®day.¡± All of are eyes light up. We all grab a grub stuffing our mouths and then follow Tonka back to the cavern room. She leads us over to a different fire today. By it is a pile of sticks all different sizes, sitting by the fire is a female gob, she looks slimmer than Tonka more lithe and a few other gob children. The female gob stand up. ¡° You go now Tonka. I teach.¡± A look of displeasure spreads across Tonka¡¯s face, she then stalks off. ¡° I name Thesa. I show how make spear for fishing. Later we hunt fish in underground lake.¡± I feel a little disappointed at this I was hoping to see the outside world. ¡° All pick up sticks two or three for practice.¡± Everyone picks up a couple, myself I pick up three, one long, one about a third of the size as the first and the last barely more than a twig. Thesa looks at all our selections frowning at some replacing others with longer ones, when she gets to mine she looks at mine with pity as all the longer sticks have now gone. ¡° I speak to Old Mag and Elder, say you smart. Why them sticks. No no. Surprise me.¡± She grins. She then picks up a sharpened stick. ¡° This basic spear, crude but do for young like you.¡± She smiles while looking at me. She then picks up another stick unsharpened. ¡° Watch.¡± She instructs. Taking a sharpened rock starts to cut one end roughly, after that she starts to grind the staked end on the floor to help make all the sides into a point. ¡° Now you do.¡± She tells us. We all go and grab a rock each, even though my knife is better I do not want to let on too much that I have one, I pick the sharpest rock I can find it looks like a piece of flint so the edge is rather fine. Sitting with my sticks. I sharpen the longest one, then I cut the sharpened tip in to quarters down the shaft, so now I have 4 tines. Using the twig I break it in two, I lodge each part between the tines forming a cross shape stopping the tines from coming back together. I reach into my pouch and pull out a reel of thread and then trapping a piece to the shaft with a finger, I loop it over one of the twigs sticking out, turning the spear 90 degrees then under the next, turn 90 degrees again and over the next, repeating this a few times making sure the thread stays tight, I then wrap it around the shaft a few time then cut and tie it off, putting the thread away, then I sharpen the tines. I now have a 4 tined spear, much better for pining fish and smaller prey down, laying that down I pick up the last stick I plan to make an atlatl* out of it. ¡° FREAK not do what told.¡± A childish voice shouts out. Looking up one of the other gobs that was sitting here when we arrived. Thesa looks over. ¡° That ¡®cause he has stuff as he try, he collect, he not stupid.¡± She responds while grinning. ¡° H..H..HUH.¡± The little gob stutters. Thesa walks over to him. ¡° You work bad, sloppy.¡± She picks up and snaps his first attempt. ¡° do ¡®gain.¡± She then approaches me looks at what I¡¯m doing, picking up my spear. ¡° What this?¡± She asks.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. ¡° It¡¯s to pin down fish and small things easier, the extra tips mean it has more chances to pierce and gives it a wider area to do so.¡± I tell her, she frowns. ¡° And that?¡± Nodding to what¡¯s in my hand. ¡° This will help to throw the spear faster and with more power. Well once I have finished it.¡± I respond. ¡° Show.¡± She asks. ¡° I will when we go fishing.¡± I tell her. She nods. ¡° It work you make me one, yes? ¡± ¡° Ok. It will work though.¡± I proclaim. She looks a bit dubious. I continue to whittle using the flint, I¡¯m finished by the time the others have finished I also cut the bottom of the spear a tiny bit so it fits better onto the atlatl. Using a larger splinter I trim it so it looks more needle like and add a small hook like notch, pulling out a length of cordage I made I push it through the plaiting making sure to catch the hook into it. Now once I catch the fish I can string them to carry. Adding it to a pouch and the new rock to my rock pouch. ¡° All follow.¡± Thesa tells us. We head to the far side of the room and into a corridor I can hear running water from it, the air smells damper as well. It¡¯s a sight to behold the lake is about the half the size of a football pitch and it¡¯s fed by a waterfall. There is a few places around the room the water leaves from. The entire room is lit by small glowing rocks strewn across the walls and ceiling. In places underwater there is clumps of the rocks that glow lighting the water, the whole place has an ethereal look about it. Taking us to the edge. ¡° Watch.¡± She heads to the edge quietly almost stalking, raising her spear, and then throws it. With a splash in the water it turns pink around the spear. ¡° Spread out. If no catch you no eat.¡± She grins. We all spread out, I notice that Lily and my sibling all have tried to copy my spear to varying degrees, they have used strips off the bottom of their loin cloths to tie the splinters in place of my twigs together. Lily had made a 4 tined spear but had broken one of the tips due to not making the cuts even. The next best was on of the boys he had made a three tined one the tips all looking roughly a third of it, more than likely an accident but he went with it. It looks much better made than Lily¡¯s attempt, he looks quite happy with it. I head over to one of the streams that leave the lake. Fish like shallows that have deep places near to hide, and places like these have both. I can hear lots of splashing and random cusses from around the room, with all this noise and movement it will drive the fish to hide. Perfect I see a few juicy looking fish dart into a hollow near the entrance to the stream. Thesa is following me over. Ignoring her I hook the spear onto the atlatl and slowly creep to the edge making sure to keep back while peering over the edge. One thing most don¡¯t know is that when fishing like this you actually need to aim bellow and behind the target as water refracts light, bending it slightly. I rip a handful of moss off the ground and grind in my hand so it''s only light fluffy stuff remaining. I throw a small amount into the air out over the hollow. It lightly lands on the surface not really breaking the surface tension. This lets the fish think that small insects and such are on the surface. One of the bigger and braver fish heads toward and lightly nips at the floating moss. I let the spear fly. FUCK YES. Dropping the atlatl I jump in running my hand down the spear and grab the fish and then pull both the spear and fish out together. This way I don¡¯t accidently loose the fish. Striding out smiling. ¡° See Thesa, it works.¡± I happily tell her. I pull out the line I made to carry the fish, tie one end to my belt and then pierce through the gills and out the other side of the fish with the other end, catching the needle end a bit of the bandoleer to keep it in place. ¡° HUH.¡± Thesa peers at what I just did. Then nods her head in approval. ¡° You make me all later, show me to do yes.¡± I nod in reply. ¡° Why you throw moss for.¡± She asks. ¡° It make fish think that their food is on surface as they eat small bugs and things, and the little bits floating resemble it.¡± I inform her. ¡° They right you freak.¡± I frown at that. ¡° I like.¡± She carries on while smiling. Ok that¡¯s better I suppose. She then wanders off to watch the others smiling at my brothers and sisters using there version of my spear. Repeating what I did I catch another, it''s smaller but hey better than nothing. Stinging it on I notice a few larger bones riddled around the place. I see what looks like a thigh bone. Smiling I pick it up. It¡¯s broken in half, perfect for what I have in mind. Using the floor and some of the rocks around the place I craft myself a bone dagger. It looks like a fatter, flatter spear head, so the edges are sharpened giving it a sharp edge not metal knife sharp. But enough to cause damage, and gut a fish. Using the flint I make three notches around the bone under the blade, and again near the pommel . Pulling out the last of my cordage, I lay a piece in the groove and then wrap it around making a better handle, finally tying it off near the pommel. The head of the bone is perfect for placing my thumb when wielding in a reverse grip. As I finish this and begin gutting the fish, something catches my notice in the corner of my eye. It¡¯s a bright green snake. It kinda looks like a water snake from back home. Keeping still I let get closer reversing the grip on the new bone dagger slowly. Then BANG, I lash out ramming the blade though the head and neck of it killing it instantly. Lifting it up I look in its mouth, no fangs means no venom, pity. I go back to finish the gutting and descaling. Once it¡¯s done I cut the head off the snake and throw it into the stream, then I pull the skin back around the neck and then pull all the skin off in one. I rinse it off in the water, turning it back the right way. I gut the snake I pop its heart straight into my mouth. UMMMMMMMM. Fuck that¡¯s nice, it tastes much better than before. Must be a monster thing. Stringing the snake on with the fish. I tie a knot at the tail end a couple of inches up. Then I fill it with water from the lake. I suspect that I¡¯ll be needing water soon as I think the grubs up to this point has been supplying everything. Using the tail end I tie the opening closed, it now looks like an inner tube I throw it over my shoulder like a bandoleer. I sit down a mull over my time here. Learning that this is a dungeon or at least part of one, it could mean that the presence that I felt was the dungeon. That''s if it''s anything like the novels i read in my spare time before...everything happened. I can still feel a vague feeling of being watched, nothings that directed towards me, but a sort of overwatch of everything. ¡°EVERYONE COME HERE.¡± Thesa shouts. Looking over everyone she nods once her eyes fall on me the widen in surprise, I think it¡¯s the snake, she licks her lips, yep it¡¯s the snake. Everyone has caught something, some of the gobs that were sitting before us look thoroughly soaked and knackered. We head back to the cavern. Chapter 9 Once back in the cavern Thesa leads us over to a big fire along the wall that we just came from. ¡° You now cook food. I show.¡± She picks up a long thin stick much like a skewer, and just impales the fish along the entire length, then sits near the fire and pokes the skewered fish in the flames. The others do the same. Once I skewer one of mine I look around, I head over to Lily. ¡° Do you mind holding mine I want to grab some stuff quickly.¡± I ask her. ¡° Ok brother.¡± She smiles at me. With that I run back into the lake room I rummage around the shore and find a couple of flat rocks I rinse them off in the water then run back, it¡¯s tiring but hey and my nut sack keeps falling out of my pants. Back at the fire I place the rock in front of the fire I grab a larger stick and push the rocks into the edge of the fire. I get my fish back off Lily. I sit next to her to finish cooking it. When it¡¯s finished I take a bit, ummm fuck yes that¡¯s nice. Heading back to my rocks I realize I will need to grab another rock to cut the fish and snake so not to get dirt into the meat. While chomping on the fish I head back to the lake and find a third rock. I sit down near the rocks in the fire. Unstringing the fish and snake I place them next to the rock. I then cut the snake into strips and the same with the fish. Get the stick I used to push them in, I pull them out an I place the meat on them I push the one with the snake closer to the fire right on the edge, I plan to make jerky with snake meat. Using the bone knife I flip the fish to cook the other side. Leaving it a few minutes, the eyes of everyone else are shining and all the mouths are drooling. Flipping the fish once more to make sure, I pick one a have a taste, umm delicious. ¡° Everyone, take a piece, and I mean A piece.¡± Everyone dashes over salivating. While everyone is eating I pull the snake out. It¡¯s not perfect jerky but it will do for now, stashing most of the pieces into a pouch. I take the remainder over to Thesa. ¡° Here, I saw you eyeing it up earlier.¡± Handing her the last of the snake. ¡° UMMMM, snake *Slurp*. Sorry, to much drool.¡± She answers.¡± Thank you.¡± Quickly snatching up the meat she shoves half in a pouch and the other into her free flowing mouth. ¡° Whhaat * chomp chomp* Zhat.¡± She asks around mouth full of food, while pointing to the snakeskin flask. ¡° OH, it¡¯s the snake skin, I filled it with water.¡± I inform her. Finishing swallowing she responds. ¡° Um, ok.¡± Tonka stomps back over. ¡° Time to go back, now.¡± She instructs. All of our group get up and all of them look tired. As we lazily follow Tonka. Thesa waves goodbye. Once back in the room the others go straight to bed. Using the last of the material from last night I make a quick sheath for the bone dagger tucked into my belt , I make it so it can attach to the front of the bandoleer, with the handle pointing to my shoulder. I modify my underwear making them more comfortable and fitting. Now they look like a mans G-string. It keeps everything tucked in and unswinging. I shift the pouches about moving one to my belt and one to the back of the bandoleer, and the rest further down the front. I do my usual stretch routine and I add some push up sets and squats sets to start building the condition of my body up, despite it¡¯s locked stats, hopefully I have a good base for my body will give a boast of stats once the cap goes. Laying down next to Lily I start my nightly routine but telling my body to rise an hour earlier than usual. Waking up I feel refreshed, stretching I get up. ¡° URRRGGG.¡± Shit I woke Lily, rubbing her eyes. ¡° WHAT doing brother.¡± I feel myself blush I turn around, damn she got a quite rack overnight. Fuck, why am I embarrassed. ¡° UM..UM..UM. Wait a second I¡¯ll be back.¡± I tell her as I have an idea, dashing to the room I keep stealing the fabric from. I search around for what I¡¯m looking for, aha that will work, it¡¯s about a foot wide and about 7 foot long, it¡¯s brilliant. Walking back into the room. ¡° AHHH.¡± I turn around again Lily is groping her breasts. ¡° Look brother I¡¯m bigger than Tonka hehhehe.¡± Wow that laugh is quite lecherous. ¡° UMMm AHHH, here use this wrap it around them.¡± I tell her. ¡° Why.¡± She asks with a quizzical look. ¡° AH..Ahh..ummmm. AH so they won''t get in the way and bounce around when..when training, yes training.¡± Wooooh quick thinking, I¡¯m not sure why I¡¯m getting embarrassed about this. I feel her taking it from me. After a minute, I ask. ¡° Are you done.¡± ¡° UMmmmm¡­..No. I don¡¯t know how, show me.¡± She pleads, her speech has improved quite a bit. She is almost better than the other goblins I¡¯ve meet apart from the eldest goblins.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. ¡° You¡¯re sure???¡± I ask. ¡° Yes.¡± She pleads. ¡° Ok¡­.¡± I turn around. I slap my head she¡¯s tried tying the cloth around one of her boobs. ¡° Not like that.¡± I walk over and take the fabric off her ¡° Like this.¡± I show her on myself, holding one edge in my left hand and grabbing the top in my right, I pull it behind me the pressing the edge to my side I run my hand along the top pulling it to my front. I grab the top edge with my left forefinger pressing it to edge of the fabric held against my body, and fling the rest of the fabric around my back and grab it again in my right I repeat this once more, each time making sure to tighten it then tuck the loose end under the fabric to secure it. Even though it''s quite bumpy due the bandoleer it show the results. ¡° Like this.¡± I tell here. Quickly undoing it I hand her it. After a few false starts she does it. ¡° I¡¯ll make you something better later for you so it¡¯s easier.¡± I state. ¡° YAY, I done it and yaaay brother make me things.¡± She expresses, then looks at her chest and bounces up and down. ¡° Hehehehe.¡± Looking up at me. ¡° You said train.¡± Grinning from ear to ear while making little nodding movements. Damn she¡¯s excited about training. ¡° Ok, yes. Ummm. Right.. follow what I do a well as you can.¡± I instruct her. I start my morning stretches, she keeps up relatively well only slipping a few times but I correct her footing and we carry on. Then I start with the sit and push up reps. Lily does admirably on these while not doing as many still pulls of quite a few. And finally alternating between running on the spot and burpees, to help endurance and explosive muscle power. She gets a bit confused during the burpee, but after showing her slowly a few times she picks it up quite quickly. Just as we finish Tonka tries to sneak in, upon seeing us she stops, I think it¡¯s even earlier than yesterday.
Enhanced Physique Gained
Racial Trait gained Passing The Knowledge
WHAT! I¡¯m going to hav¡­ ¡° ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG. STUPID STUPID FREAK FREAK FREAAAAAK, WHY YOU NOT SLEEP. STUPID FREAK GOB SHOULD BE SLEEP SO I KICK WAKE.*¡­¡­¡­..* AHHHHHHH, WHY NOT FREAK SLEEP. STUPID GREY FREAK AAHHHHHHHHHRRRRG. IT NOT RIGHT NOT NOT NOT RIGHT. SHOULD BE HURT, LEARN NOT BE FREAK.¡± Tonka starts ranting and stamping in circles waking the others up, they all look mystified and slightly scared. So that¡¯s how she truly feels. Lily on the other and is fuming and starts to take a step towards her, I think to strike her, I put a hand on arm. She looks at me and I shake my head. With a look of puzzlement. Fuck, new gains and now the stupid bitch is going off on one, I¡¯ll have to check them later. I can¡¯t let my guard down with her like that. ¡° ARRGG, follow now all!!!!¡± She screeches. ¡° Heheheheheheheehehe, he learn hehhehe yeah learn, yes yes.¡± She mutters to herself, I¡¯m not liking that at all. Once in the cavern we head down a corridor along another wall, after a hundred feet or so we can start to hear grunting and slapping of flesh against flesh. That sound I know to well. We enter another cave about half the size of the cavern, it¡¯s lit by glowing rock in the ceiling. It¡¯s brighter than all the other rooms by a margin. In the centre of the room is a couple of young gobs brawling. In a ring around the two are about 20 young gobs and 6 adults gobs. The young ones are all silent watching, the older gobs are shouting randomly, all different ring side jabber, one would hear at a boxing match. ¡° You gobs learn fight today. Heheheh.¡± Tonka chants cheerily. ¡° Go sit in circle.¡± We all head over, the circle opens up and everyone shuffles a bit letting us all sit. We watch a couple of more fights between different gobs a pair of the older gobs get up and spar in the ring to help show us how, not that I need that help. I smile to myself I¡¯m going to dominate. Nothing I¡¯ve seen so far even comes close to what was taught even at the junior level in my world. My world, my thoughts turn sour and I sober up a little. Yes, I¡¯m here for a reason though it may be far off, I need to get stronger, faster, smarter. I need to get better in every aspect. I¡¯ll need to use my knowledge to get an edge. I look at Lily and my siblings, and make others better, stronger. Lily¡¯s noticing that my mood has changed speaks to me. ¡° Gray don¡¯t worry, you won¡¯t lose, you smarter than rest.¡± Smiling she gives me a hug. The other are looking at me and Lily. ¡° Yes. Yes I am.*sigh* I¡¯ve decided I¡¯m going to teach you all.¡± I tell my brothers and sisters. ¡° How to fight, how to plan and how to craft. To make you stronger, superior in every way.¡± They¡¯re all nodding looking eager. ¡° YAY, time with brother.¡± All the girls chime, looking happy. And the boys to determined to become stronger. They all sneak a glance at Lily, with her having spent the most time with me they can see she is more advanced than them already. The girls then sneak a glance at her bust then their own then both are smaller than her, their glances shift to her top, then to me. Catching me watching them they blush, I can barely tell they both darken slightly in the cheeks. ¡°FREAK NEXT.¡± Tonka shouts out. As the last fight finishes. ¡° I fight him, to teach hehehe.¡± What. ¡°NO. Young gobs fight young gobs to learn, not fight big gobs.¡± A bigger darker male gob shouts, he has a boxers face, and many scars on his body. Heh a fighter then. ¡° YES I FIGHT FREAK¡± She shrieks. ¡° HE NOT RIGHT, HE THINK HE BETTER, SPEAK BETTER. MAKE THING NOT TAUGHT TO AND AND THING WE NEVER MAKE BEFORE. SO I FIGHT. KNOCK HIM DOWN. MAKE. HIM. LEARN. NOT. BETTER. JUST.FREAK.FREAK. NEED. BEATING. HE. LEARN.¡± All the goblins are shocked to hear her tirade. Some are nodding in agreement with smug looks on their faces, and others with looks of confusion. Lily has a look of shock, then stares at me when I stand, she looks scared and grabs my leg. ¡° NO, you¡¯ll get hurt.¡± She pleads. Barely at an audible level just enough for her to hear. ¡° No I won¡¯t, she will.¡± She has a shocked look again, licks her lip, nods and lets go. ¡° Look after my stuff please.¡± I ask. I undo my belt and shrug off the bandoleer and start to unwrap the loin cloth from around me. The other gobs are looking at me in disgust. Until it¡¯s removed and the see my underwear. They all looked amazed and confused at the same time. ¡°SEE.SEE. HE FREAK FREAAAAAAAK.¡± Tonka shrieks again. Walking out into the arena I stand just off centre. Raising my hand I beckon her. I then shut of all my emotions, a emptiness overcoming my entire being. A emptiness that shows nothing, betrays nothing, as if even the dead shun me. A shiver runs through every person there, and it horrifies them without even knowing the reason, all you the young whimper and shy back from the circle, a few even piss themselves. Tonka squeaks in surprise at the sudden change. This. This is one of the reasons the monsters feared me. Even before hearing my name, knowing it''s.... MY reputation. AVATAR OF THE ABYSS. ONIDSUN* ¡° Come then, show ME.¡± Chapter 10 ¡° AGGGGGGGGGGG.¡± Tonka screams and runs at me. I take a step forward and to the left as she¡¯s about to reach me, ducking down I swing my right elbow up smashing into her ribs * Crack* She flips to the side from the force of the collision, sprawling on to the ground. ¡°AHHHrgggg.¡± She screams in agony. Scrambling up holding her side, I know I broke some of her ribs. ¡° FREAKK * cough * YOU HURT ME.¡± She charges me again, arm outstretched to claw me, the other holding her side. Sidestepping I grab her arm in my left hand and pass it front of her turning her on the spot opening up her right side again as she loses her balance. I elbow strike her ribs again. * crack, squelch * she falls to her knees, coughing up blood. Her breathing is labored. She staggers to her feet, the pain evident on her face. Instead of charging at me she watches me with hatred in her gaze. She¡¯s much more cautious now. ¡° How * cough* How you hurt me,* cough cough *, you ..you young.¡± She is perplexed at how I¡¯ve managed to hurt. I walk towards her, my gaze is causing her to shiver in fear. She throws a punch at me, I catch her arm, and put her into a arm bar lock then I bring my elbow smashing down breaking her arm. ¡° AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.¡± She falls to the floor, she tries to struggle to her knees but is having quite a bit of trouble with multiple broken ribs, a broken arm and a possible punctured lung. Once she rises to her knees, I knife edge my hand, this is going to be much more effective than my old body as my hands have claw like nails. Raising my arm across my body so I can slash across her carotid artery, the term going for the jugular is a misnomer, as it has lower pressure due to the blood is returning to the heart. The carotid artery on the other hand has just left the heart so retain the high pressure, causing it to leave the body faster, and is powered by the heart beating, it is one of the quickest ways to kill without severing the spine. ¡° STOP.¡± My hand freezes millimetres from the neck, I crane my neck. The gob that challenged Tonka¡¯s right to fight me is on his feet running to stop me. Seeing me not moving he slows down. Removing my hand from her neck, she collapses to the floor again. I let the emptiness recede. Some of the other gobs rush to her side glaring at me. The older gob is standing in front of me, his eyes scrutinising me. ¡° How did you know what to do....to become so,so,so terrifying and fight like that.¡± He asks gently. ¡° I don¡¯t know. I just do. It¡¯s like my making, I¡¯m holding the materials then I just start. The knowledge is just there.¡± I tell him this is much along the lines of what I¡¯ve told the others that has asked. ¡°Ummmm. That is strange.¡± He mutters to himself. Turning round. ¡° Fighting end now go back to big room and go eat or hunt by water. Go now.¡± He looks at me then walks off shaking his head. Lily and the others gather around me. ¡° Brother scared me and others, not nice brother.¡± Lily berates me. Shaking my head. ¡° I¡¯m sorry. Come on then let''s go get our stuff, and I¡¯ll show you how to make my spear and other things. Come now.¡± I tell them. With us heading off through the cavern, I see Thesa, I approach her. ¡° I was wondering if I can get some more sticks to teach the others to make what I¡¯ve made.¡± I ask her. ¡° Ummm, ok but you make me ones too, yes.¡± She nods happily. ¡° That¡¯s fine we¡¯re going hunting so can you meet us there as we have to get our stuff first. Oh can you make sure there¡¯s some twigs as well please.¡± I instruct her, with her nodding happily she trots off. As we head back to our room I grab an armful of cloth and bits from the room I¡¯ve been stealing the other stuff from I get the two boys to do the same and we dump it near where I sleep. We grab our gear. Just before leaving the room I grab a length of fabric and quickly make some cord thick lengths of it, six should be enough. Back at the lake room Thesa is over where I fished yesterday. We head to her, by her feet is a sizable pile of sticks and twigs. ¡° Thesa do you want me to make yours or would you like me to teach you.¡± I ask her. She scratches her head in thought.¡° Teach.¡± She replies. ¡° Ok. We need to make rudimental blades for all of you.¡± I tell them I noticed a few rocks which is suitable once broken to make blades with.¡± I walk over to some and show them it. ¡° This type of rock once broken the right way will have a very sharp edge, enough to cut to the bone so you will need to be careful.¡± I show them how to break the rock to get good edge. Then I send them to find their own rocks. While doing this I do a bit of fishing and get two reasonable size fish. The others are now all back, one each of the boys and the girls have a few cuts on them but nothing major. ¡° Everyone get a stick at least as tall as you.¡± I inform them. ¡° And another about third of the length of the stick you just picked.¡± I carry on. One of the other girls then asks. ¡° Brother what third.¡± Her voice is more sing songy than Lily¡¯s, she is also slightly lighter in colour than her as well. ¡° I¡¯m going to call you Peony from now on. Ok.¡± She claps her hand in excitement. ¡°And a third is, something that will fit 3 times onto something.¡± I show them my spear and atlatl, using my finger as a mark to show where one length ends and the next begins. Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work! With that they all get another stick. My last sister is pouting a bit, I think it¡¯s because I haven¡¯t named her as well. No actual the boys are as well, damn. I¡¯m going to have to name them all. Looking at the last sister she seems to be the smallest of all of us and is quite petite. Her colouring is darker than Lily. I reckon Lavender will do nicely. I motion her to come closer. ¡° I¡¯m giving you the name Lavender.¡± She jumps up and down dropping her sticks and rushes to give me a hug. The to brothers look at each other. The bigger of the two and the one that made the three tined spear then asks. ¡° What ¡® bout us.¡± Lavender let''s go then heads over to Lily and Peony and they start chatting to each other about their names, Actually that¡¯s kinda weird as I haven¡¯t seen any other Goblins acting like girls or children for that matter from my old world. My influence again.. Turning back to the boys. ¡° Let me think a moment.¡± The one t hat asked is quite dark skinned despite being green not as dark as his brother though, and is probably the smartest after Lily. The other one is quite short and stocky he was also the one that was the most wet yesterday and is also the darkest of my kin. Ok I know what to call them. Pointing to the smart one ¡° You shall be called Onyx and you shall be Basalt.¡± They seem happy with their names. Ok let''s get back to teaching then. Thesa is giving me odd looks at the moment. ¡° Now everyone grab a twig.¡± I tell them after picking up one myself. Now every has everything I go though how to make both the spear and the atlatl. I give them all a 20cm length of the cordage I made so I still have plenty left from this morning. The atlatl was the hardest bit to make for all of them. It takes all of them even Thesa a couple of sticks to get it right. It seems that all my sibling seem to be smarter in general that other goblins even Basalt. I caught him at one point chewing on a stick. So I threw everyone a bit of snake jerky. Thankfully that stopped his puppy like behaviour. Now that everyone''s finished, I show them all how to use the atlatl. All pick it up extremely quickly. I tell the all to hunt 2 fish each. With them all off hunting I hunt 2 more fish, after cleaning and gutting all 4 fish, I gather some rocks to make a fire pit and some to act as frying plates. Thanks to Thesa bringing plenty of sticks we have enough for firewood and to make some racks so I can make jerky from the fish. Luckily while not know what fish theses are called they are not that oily so they will make good fish to make jerky with. Using to of thicker sticks I put them into the ground either side of the pit, using my knife I split some length off another that reaches across the width of it. I then split down the middle of the sticks either side of the pit and wedge the lengths I just cut, using some more of the cord I tie them in place and the tops as well. Now it''s all secure I make myself a primitive fire board and hand drill *1, there thankfully was varying degree of hardness among the wood Thesa brought with her. And with all the mistakes they made I have enough kindling to get a fire started. After a couple of minutes and false starts I have an ember, using the kindling I get a fire started and then stack the fire to life, I also place some of the larger flatter stones almost in the fire. While keeping an eye on the fire I make some skewers for the fish. I skewer one of my fish then using a rock as a cutting board I slice the rest of the fish into strips to hang on the rack I made above the fire to dry them into jerky, but I need to wait until the fire becomes more coal like first. So while waiting for this I make some toggles out of he remained of the wood left but instead two holes I make one long one. The fire is ready now I pull the hot stones out of the fire and lay some fish on them, using a couple of the other stones I wedge my skewed fish to cook over the fire and finally I hang the strips of fish on the racks to dry. All the others come back about the same time. They look quite surprised to see a fire going here. ¡° How there fire here.¡± Thesa askes. ¡° And what that.¡± Pointing to my rack. ¡° I made the fire.¡± Her eyes light up. ¡° Yes I¡¯ll teach you but tomorrow.¡± She looks a bit let out but still happy. ¡° and that is a rack used to dry the fish put so you can keep and have some in reserve.¡± She her stumped look. ¡° In case you can''t catch any one day but catch more on another. You can dry it so it last longer so when you can''t get food caught you have something to eat.¡± ¡° OHHHH. Ok.¡± She finally understands I think. ¡° Ok. Now everyone go grab yourself a flat rock I¡¯m going to show you how to prepare fish in the right way.¡± Even Thesa looks a bit perplexed at this. ¡° It¡¯ll make it taste better.¡± They all nod at this and head off to get the rocks. Over the next quarter of an hour I get them to use their rocks to carefully to descale and gut the fish, I have them slice the first one and place on the racks as well and skewer the second to cook to eat now. ¡°Now I¡¯m going to start training your bodies. You don¡¯t have to do this Thesa.¡± I tell them all. ¡° No , I do.. seem fun.¡± She replies. I start taking them all through my stretch routine, and them through my circuit. All of them complete it after a few corrections, Lily helps the girls a bit cause you know breasts. Because we''re here I¡¯m going to get everyone to bathe quickly. ¡°Ok everyone strip we are going to wash ourselves off in one of the streams, and before the looks it will make you feel better.¡± I tell them shaking my head. After we all strip I take us over to the stream near where we are I make sure to keep an eye on our stuff. Showing them all what I mean they follow my example. All their faces look blissful with the cold water soothing their muscles. Throughout the entire time we¡¯ve been here with me teaching the others I¡¯ve noticed a few others watching us and one of the watchers is sneaking over to our stuff. I pick up a small pebble, waiting for it to get closer...closer....closer. Now, fling the rock straight at its head and strike. ¡° LEAVE OUR STUFF ALONE.¡± I yell at the little sneak thief. I startle the others, I get out and head over to our stuff. I drag an unconscious goblin a few dozen feet away and leave it there. Once back at the fire I get dressed and see a few goblins surrounding the unconscious one, all of them are glaring at me. ¡° IF HE DIDN''T WANT TO GET CAUGHT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER THEN!¡± I shout at them. The looks on their faces are a mixture of disbelief and realization. Shit am I teaching them as well, well fuck can''t be helped. The others are back and now getting dressed, all the girls including Thesa are looking at Lily in envy. With her top. ¡°Don¡¯t worry I¡¯ll make you all better ones later, and you to Thesa.¡± They all look happy. The skewed fish are done now so we eat. After food I let them all sit for awhile so the fish still need more drying. ¡° Now listen we are going to do some more stretches but these are designed to help improve your flexibility, how well you bend. This will help you dodge better amongst other things.¡± I inform them. Even though it¡¯s some basic yoga, they struggle a bit so do I to be fair but it¡¯s just getting this body to my old standard. I¡¯m kinda worried about when I rank up if I will need to redo this every time or will things like this stay with the body I get afterwards. By the time we are all finished the fish is finally done. I divide all of the fish between the seven of us. ¡° All of you put this in your pouches and you will have to carry the stuff in them for now, but I will show you how to make pouches when in our room.¡± The all follow my instructions, even Thesa. Packing up we head back to our room. As we leave the lake room, I see some of the other gobs looking over the fire I made. Some of them are pointing to various bits on it. As we walk through the corridor I can feel the presence from before again more acutely, I think it¡¯s actively watching me, maybe the legend of the dungeons are true. As we go through the cavern I pick up as many thigh bones as I can see, I¡¯m getting a lot of funny looks. And finally back in our room Thesa sits down with us as well. ¡° Basalt, Onyx can you grab an armful of cloth from the other room please.¡± They both nod their accent. ¡° Once they come back we can start the crafting lesson.¡± I tell all of them. Chapter 11 ¡°AHHHH, so that why stuff gone missing in scrap room.¡± Thesa says aloud. ¡° Other gobs think Dungeon taking stuff ¡®gain.¡± She continues. ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s been me. I¡¯ve told Tonka I¡¯ve using scraps of bedding.¡± I tell Thesa. ¡°That what most get used for any way.¡± She replies. The boys walk back in. ¡° Thanks brothers. Just put with the other stuff. Alright we gonna start with making cord to use as string. Ok get some of the longer scraps and I then want you to cut them using your rocks about as thick as you thumb nails.¡± With this done I show them how to braid it, we do this till everyone has 6 lengths of 1m cord. ¡° What ¡®bout the thing on chest do we make.¡± Basalt asks. I¡¯m quite surprised at that. ¡°Sure.¡± I say. I then show them how to make the bandoleers. While they are doing this I make tops for the girls. I cut rectangles out of the fabric and I tie a piece of cord around one of the toggles and sew it onto a corner and so the same to the bottom corner. And on the other end of the fabric I make two loops out of the cord with holes big enough for the toggle to go through sideways I then sew them on. Umm I need to allow for growth. I remove the loop and then take a piece of the cord and fold it in half making sure there is a loop on the end I tie it off. And then every few centimeters tie it off again, so now if you push two tied bits together you get a hole. I make 10 of these altogether. I then sew them onto the opposite ends to the toggles I call over Lily. Here try this, I show her how to put it. She starts to unwrap the material I quickly turn around. Why the fuck is this embarrassing me, Thesa is over there topless so are Peony and Lavender, and I haven¡¯t batted an eyelid. ¡° There are a lot of holes for the toggle to go through so you can adjust the size.¡± I tell her. ¡° Done Gray.¡± I turn around it looks pretty good. Looking at the toggles it is only one from the end, if she another growth spurt again I might have to put longer loops on it. ¡° Good they work.¡± I see the girls all eyeing the top. ¡° Don¡¯t worry I have enough to make you each one.¡± Again their eyes light up. I finish making the remainder of the tops. ¡° Come on girls, here are your tops. Lily could you show them.¡± It looks like the all finished their bandoleers anyway. ¡° Under the bandoleers Lily.¡± I quickly shout. ¡° Oh yeah.¡± She yelps. I feel like face palming. The boys are yawning a bit by the looks of it, looking over at the girls I see Lavender yawning as well. ¡° We¡¯re going to bed soon.¡± I tell everyone and they nod. Now that I have quite a bit of jerky made I better get rid of some of the grubs I¡¯ve got stashed in my pouches. So I take out 7 of the 10 I have and give everyone one, even Thesa. ¡° Eat these then get ready to go sleep. We¡¯re getting up early tomorrow to start training.¡± I tell them all. ¡° I go now, I see you in morning.¡± Thesa tells me, the others wave bye then the all lay down, they all fall asleep nearly instantly. Before going to sleep I¡¯m planning on making a backpack. In the largest piece of material I can find, it¡¯s about a 1.2m long and .5m wide. I cut out a open cuboid shape, I sew the edges together leaving the top as a flap, I add the remaining to loop lengths to the bottom half of the pack and then add some toggles to the flap. I then make some straps for the back of the pack, after attaching them I do a few light stretches and then go to sleep. -=-=-==-=- When I wake I nudge the other awake. Once they¡¯re up we go through a series of light stretches. After I have them all make a few pouches each for their bandoleers. As we are finishing Thesa Walks in with a smile on her face. She looks a bit different she¡¯s taller and slightly darker than before. ¡°I ranked up. It¡¯s strange though, never heard of this rank up before though. I¡¯m now Goblin Huntress. I feel smarter and stronger, I think this due to you.¡± She tells me. ¡°Congratulations. What do you mean never heard of this rank up.¡± I question. ¡° No one else has this rank up before and the elders have never heard of it before. Mags said there are legends of great hunters of the tribes from before we came here, but we can never be sure. But the only thing different is you are here and the knowledge you taught me about the new spears and hunting fish.¡± She informs me. ¡° And now I know more stuff about hunting. I also speak more like you and elders now.¡± She¡¯s grinning the entire time. ¡° Also heard what you did to Tonka as well hehehe, her friends aren¡¯t liking you, but they too scared to do anything.¡± She¡¯s grinning even wider now. ¡°Hehehehe.¡± I turn around and Lily is chuckling to herself over the news of Tonka. ¡° I¡¯m in charge of your group now.¡± Thesa instructs us. ¡° But I¡¯ll let you decide stuff to do.¡± ¡° What would we normally do today.¡± I ask her. ¡° Well. You should be taught how to hunt for rabbits today.¡± She tells us. ¡° Does this mean we¡¯ll be going out side.¡± I ask jubilantly. ¡° Yes.¡± She replies. ¡° Fuck yes. Alright.¡± I turn to the others. ¡° We going to make spears for hunting game.¡± We head to the cavern and have everyone grab a long straight stick and have them carve the end into a point. Then have them all fire harden the tips in the fire like a marshmallow until golden brown, then have them use the side of their rocks to sand and polish the edges to make a better point, we do this a few times. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. By doing this it removes excess moisture in the wood making, and sanding and polishing extra carbon from the light burn giving it a harder stronger edge. This will make the point better than copper tipped weapons. Thesa does this as well. Picking up a piece of bone and taking out my bone dagger. ¡° You can also do what we have just done to bone as well to make a better bone dagger than the one I have already.¡± I tell the others. ¡° But before we go I just want to pop back to the lake area to grab something I left there yesterday.¡± I tell the others. I realized that I left the fire board and hand drill there. Now that I have my backpack I can store it in there. After the detour Thesa takes lead and heads to the side of the cavern we have yet to go to we get quite a few looks by the other gobs not all pleasant. I do notice quite a few racks over fires all built like the one I made yesterday. So that¡¯s why the gobs were looking over the rack and fire when we left. We travel down a few corridors, I can feel a breeze flowing down to us. As we leave it¡¯s only a few hours past dawn by the look of the light. The ground around the entrance is flat but then in front of us starts to travel downhill into some woods. And behind us it rises steeper and steeper into a massive mountain I can¡¯t even see the curvature of it. Thesa take us down to some trails and deeper into the forest. After a few minutes of travel we stop. ¡° This is normally the area where everyone goes off and hunts from.¡± Thesa informs us. ¡° Ok to use your new spears to hunt things it much like using the other spear but you need to aim for the torso area, more importantly the upper torso so the spear will penetrate organs, like the heart and lungs. This will take the creature down a lot faster, if you can get a clear shot at the head either through the eyes or under the jaw up into the head this will take the target out the quickest but unless you are below and in front of it this will not work.¡± Seeing a few birds flying around. ¡° Later I¡¯ll show you how to make slingshots to takes out smaller targets and stun larger ones.¡± I tell them all. ¡° Oh oh. I know how to make that now.¡± Thesa jumps in. ¡° I learned how to make that when I ranked up.¡± She tells us smiling. Ok so ranking up can give you knowledge as well as enhancing your body and skill already given. We split up into to groups Thesa takes the girls, much to their dismay. And I take the boys. This spot we will all meet back at in a few hours. Heading off in different directions I show the boys how to look for and follow trails left behind by our prey. We find some trails and I show them how determine wind direction, by throwing some crushed leaves from the ground in the air. As we see signs of life we use the wind direction to circle down wind of the area, we see three bunnies, and when I say bunnies I mean bunnies the size of Alsatians. They are fucking huge I can see one chewing on a tree branch the size of my thigh like a twizzle stick. Basalt goes to throw his spear but I stop before he can. Motioning with my hand we back up a bit and I a low voice. ¡° We will need to throw at the same time so I will signs off with my hand 1,2,3, and when my hand makes a fist we will throw. Understand.¡± Both of them nod. Before we head back I pick up three thick sticks and quickly cut them into stakes. ¡° Once you¡¯ve hit them and there down, run to them as quick as you can and jam this into their eye socket or up under there soft palate.¡± I point to the point under the jaw. ¡° so it goes into the brain.¡± I pass them each a stake. Hopefully this will work as I have noticed we are all bigger and stronger than the other gobs of our ages. We slowly creep back to the bunnies, I make sure we are down wind the entire way. Once we get with in range. I start the countdown. And release. We all throwh at the same time and they all pierce the rib cages, we all dash in reading our stakes. The bunnies are on the floor trying to get up you can see blood running down their chins and not all of their own. Fuck. As we reach them they try to go for us, Basalt punches his in the face and stabs the stake through the ear cavity, wow smart. Onyx dodges to the side then roll under the second swing and jams the stick up into the soft palate. And I jump forward before the swing gets to me bringing me closer to its body and I pierce the brain through the optical nerve. Looking over Basalt is kicking the rabbit he killed. Shrugging I wiggle my stake to make sure. ¡° Guys wiggle the stakes a bit just to make sure they¡¯re dead.¡± I inform them. ¡° Take your spears out of the then bring them over.¡± Once we¡¯re together I take out my knife and I show them how to gut them by being very careful as I do not their anatomy. Ok pretty much the same as a rabbit. Once they watch me do this, I have them do it using my knife but very slowly. Basalt nicks the stomach as he¡¯s removing it, luckily nothing spills inside to ruin the meat. I have them dig a hole to bury the guts, after we all remove the intestines. We squeeze the remains out of them and use the water from the snake skin to rinse them through and our hands. And we then fill in our holes. ¡° Doing this helps stop other predators from finding your kills as quickly and we¡¯re keeping the intestines as the have other uses from using as sutures for sewing injuries back together or using as thread. Or even braiding some together to use as bow string.¡± We skewer the rabbits on our spears to help carry them and head back to the meet site. We prop the rabbits against some trees and I then have them go find wood to make a fire. I look around and see a tree that looks similar to a silver birch from home, taking out my knife I cut some of the bark off. UMMM. The sap kinda smells like cinnamon. Odd. The bark is pretty close to the birch but smells faintly like cinnamon as well. Using the stake, I dig a hole for a fire pit. After that I shred the bark to use as kindling placing that near the fire. I go cut some more off the tree and add it to a pouch. The other two come back now I show them the bark and tell them what it¡¯s for. I have them a some to their own pouches as well. I start up the fire using the hand drill to get an ember and use the birch-like tinder, I build up the fire and I then start to skin the rabbits. I show the other two how to do this using their sharp stones. The Girls are taking a while, mind you we did get ours quite quickly. By the time we have finished and I used my knife to cut the heads off the rabbits, took some doing but I worked. I have the boys cut some stakes to cook with and I make some skewers for the hearts, livers and kidneys. After we put the rabbit on the makeshift spits I build something to hold the spits on using some tree branches. On one end of the spit I tie on another stick to make it easier to turn. We put the a rabbit on to cook. After a while the girls return they all sound happy. Once they get to us they all stare flabbergasted. I see in their hands what look like normal rabbits. I¡¯m a bit confused if there rabbits what the fuck did we get, Basalt and Onyx look confused as well. ¡° HOW.HOW did you get them?¡± Thesa exclaims. ¡°UMM. We thought they were rabbits they kinda look like rabbits.¡± I say. ¡° They kinda do, hang on I didn¡¯t even show you what a rabbit looks like.¡± Thesa realizes. FUCK SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK. ¡° UUUUU. You described it to me I¡¯m pretty sure, yeah you told me what they look like.¡± I lie quickly. ¡° OH yeah I must of, silly me. I must not have said that rabbits where small.¡± She chimes. *Sigh* Thank fuck goblins are still more stupid than regular people otherwise that might not have worked. ¡°So what are these then.¡± Nodding to the heads we put on the stakes we used to kill them. ¡° They¡¯re called Bastard Hares. They¡¯re really nasty and hunt rabbits and other thing to eat, they don¡¯t like grass like the rabbits. How did you lot kill three of them.¡± She informs and asks. ¡° We used spear first and charged in while they were impaled and used the stakes their heads are on to jam into their brains. Then we gutted and cleaned up a bit and brought them back here where we skinned them. And put it over the fire.¡± Nodding to the rabbits. ¡° Have you shown the girls how to gut and skin them.¡± I ask. ¡° No I was going to do it now.¡± She replies smiling. While the girls do that me and the boys carefully flesh the skins, we all do it quite poorly but hey, better than nothing. I then instruct them all how to tan stuff so we can use the pelts later. As we can¡¯t use the brains as we don¡¯t have a pot yet.*1 Using the knife I cut in to the bastard hare and it looks cooked. Yum it smells great. Chapter 12 I carve every one a portion of the bastard hare and prop the done one up against a tree and put another over the fire. ¡° Thesa once every on is done can you show me what plant life around here you can eat.¡± I ask her. ¡° Eat plants, what do you mean.¡± She replies. ¡° Doesn¡¯t matter.¡± I tell her in turn. So that cuts down the opening I have at the moment. I roll up the pelts we have and add them to my backpack. While chewing on some more hare, I find the straightest stick I can find, and cut it into strip like planks. I¡¯m going to use them and make a spear holder to go on the side of the backpack. I need to set up an individual plan for each of the siblings. Basalt is easy strength based sets with blocking based techniques. Onyx I¡¯m thinking Agi\Str mix and spear or lance style weapons. And now the girls, Lavender should be a pure Agi build unless alternatives arrive after rank up with ranged weapons. Peony Agi/Dex I¡¯m not sure what weapons yet I need to see more of her style before I decide and finally Lily. Lily I¡¯m not sure on either while being the smartest of the siblings, I haven¡¯t seen her fight or really get into anything yet, unlike Onyx with the spear making. We sit and eat for a while longer. ¡° Thesa should we take the extra bastard hares back with us, as we have one spare cooked and the other still by the tree.¡± I ask. ¡° Yeah. It will be good for the other gobs, to help you fit in more, more liked.¡± She tells me. I¡¯m not really bothered with being like for now, but I guess I should plan for the future as I¡¯m going to have to train them all eventually if I¡¯m going to have a chance to stop what¡¯s to come. ¡° Ok. When should we head back.¡± I inquire. Thesa looks at the sky. ¡° Soon. Yes soon.¡± She answers. I pack the planks into my backpack. I cut a few more skewers and slice off some more of the meat and make some shish kebabs and place them over the fire using the earth to hold them in place. I have the boys hoist the uncooked hare, me and Thesa grab the cooked one. The girls carry the rabbits, we all head back to the cave. There is a couple of goblins outside as we near the cave, once they see what we have their eyes go wide. ¡° Go get some help, food for tribe feast tonight.¡± Thesa shouts at them and they shoot off. As we get to the entrance of the cave there are a few goblins waiting outside. They take the hare¡¯s and rabbits off us and dash back inside with them. ¡° Is there any where inside where stuff is dumped, stuff deemed useless.¡± I ask Thesa. ¡° Yes, it not far from entrance.¡± She answers smiling. I think she know I¡¯m going to do some new stuff. ¡° I¡¯ll take you there.¡± Thesa takes us to a room about a dozen meters into the cave. It¡¯s about 10 x 8 meters big and 4 meter in height It¡¯s full of rubbish. ¡° Ok. Find anything that is metal or looks like it can hold stuff in or you think it looks might be useful.¡± I tell them all. ¡°Put everything by the door.¡± We all head off in different directions to start searching, even Thesa. Something I notice while searching is that there is no metal in here, not even a spoon, pot or pan. Lots of scraps of material, and ruined clothes a few scraps of leather armor, everything to big for me. I find a couple of packs too damaged to be salvaged. I finally find a nice small pack made from leather only one of the straps is hanging by a thread, having a quick look into the pack in one of the outer pockets is a complete sewing kit. It has a few metal needles, even a leather needle. Which is brilliant because it will make it easier to fix the actual pack. Packing it away I continue to scavenge. Finding a few more packs no where near the quality of the one I found earlier, one even had another sewing kit which was better than the one I had the needles where of better quality and even had a few little bobbins of thread, I add the kit to my bag while slinging the other pack over a shoulder. After a while I find a single leather vambrace, it''s quite small must have been for a female, while covered in mud it looks in very good condition. I search around for the other but to no avail. After some more packs of varying quality I now have enough for all of us after a few repairs, I place them over by the entrance. There is quite a few piles of stuff over here now, but I won''t look till after where finished. While continuing to search around I find a small metal container under a load of crap cloths and tarps. After finding no metal apart from overlooked needles in sewing kits, which are a lot easier to miss. I unscrew the top and take a whiff. *coughing fit* FUCK. I wave the others off telling them I¡¯m ok, I can see Lily sneaking glances still. I found bloody moonshine, screwing the top back on in put in my pack. I start searching around where I found it and find one more and an empty one missing the cap. The gobs must have tried to drink it and didn¡¯t like it and threw it and the rest in here. Haha my good luck at that. I search around for another quarter of an hour, and find nothing of use. I head back over to the entrance. ¡° ALRIGHT EVERYONE, back over here now.¡± I shout. I have a quick look at everything, there¡¯s two packs better than the spares I found so I switch them out with the ones I found and hand them out to the others. ¡° We¡¯ll need to repair them a bit but these are good packs.¡± I tell them. Searching through the piles I find the other one to the vambrace, it¡¯s good that one of the others found it. I sort the piles into good, ok and bad quality piles. While a put to throw a pack into the bad pile it swings oddly in my grip. Looking inside there is a tightly wrapped bundle with a red cross on it. Holy Shit a med kit. They even use the same marking from my world. I¡¯ll check this out later, shoving it in my pack. I look at the others they don¡¯t even look annoyed that I¡¯m taking stuff first, they just have eager faces.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. Ok, ok. That med kit will have stuff that will prove beyond helpful hopefully. While searching though everything I take the best of the stuff for myself. Once the piles of stuff get a reasonable size. I start separating everything into six piles trying to give everyone even quality stuff. I think one of the boys found two small crates of candles, and by the smell beeswax. I can use that to make things waterproof and a few other things. I now have a decent leather bandolier with built in pouches, a nice leather belt, a cloth vest meant for a child, a wooden spoon, now two sewing kits of equal quality, a metal canteen and a wooden tonfa. I also grab a few packs and stuff them with leather from various things as I plan on making everyone a few things along with stuff for myself. After everyone equips themselves with their new stuff. Everyone has a belt, backpack, sewing kit, spoon and a wooden canteen. ¡°Thesa do you know of any plants that help in healing.¡± I ask her once every one is finished. ¡° Yes, a few not many.¡± She answers. ¡°Good mind showing me tomorrow.¡± I ask. ¡°Ok.¡± She replies while looking at her new stuff with a smile on her face. The others look equally as happy. I plan on making some poultice bandages. ¡° Can everyone quickly go find some of the best linen here and shove it in this pack.¡± I show them a piece of linen I picked up just now. ¡° Ahhhhhhhhh.¡± Lavender shouts and runs off to where she was searching. ¡° Basalt come help.¡± She squeals. He trundles off to help and they actually bring back a bolt of linen. What the fuck. It¡¯s a bit dirty on the outside but inside it will be great I¡¯m sure, I¡¯m planning to boil the stuff I use first though anyway. ¡°THESA, THESA!! Food ready.¡± A goblin come flying down the corridor and slide to a stop outside the room once he sees Thesa. ¡° Food ready now.¡± Then he stands there gobsmacked, jaw hanging down. I don¡¯t think he¡¯s ever seen such well equipped goblins before. ¡° Yo..yo..You look like Hobs¡­..?¡± He stutters out. ¡° Go now we¡¯ll be ¡®long soon.¡± She tells him, and he dashes off after giving us one last look and glancing at the piles of rubbish around the room. I think this room will be picked clean of anything useful before the end of tomorrow. ¡° What¡¯s a Hob.¡± I ask. ¡° Hob is hobgoblin they rank up when gob gets big and strong. It strange that I didn¡¯t rank into one. But most hob stupid. I not as strong as hob but I¡¯m near and I a lot smarter and I hunt lot better now and have new knowledge when look at different thing like what stuff ed..edib.. stuff you can eat. And stuff that help. Like how you know things..¡± She looks at me in a peculiar manner like she is near to realizing something. Shit. She just shakes her head like the idea is ridiculous. Thank fuck. ¡° Where are all the Hobs then.¡± I ask. ¡° They out hunting adventures that where this stuff comes from. They take nearly all metal things and make weapons and armour. Not as madewell like your stuff. They get best stuff and they strongest, and have swords and axes and stuff.¡± She informs me. That explains a lot. ¡° Ok we¡¯ll drop our stuff off in our room.¡± As we are about to leave I see what looks like a barrel lid, picking it up it has a makeshift handle on the back of it.Even though it¡¯s a barrel lid it¡¯s half the size of a gob, giving it a thump on the wall it¡¯s pretty solid. ¡° Here Basalt this is yours now. It will help you in the way I want to train you to go. Slide your arm in here and you use it to shield yourself and other when you can OK.¡± I tell him as I give him the barrel lid shield. He is all bright smiles. As we walk away I can see him showing Lavender and Peony. As we walk back through the cavern we are getting stared at by nearly every one, some are staring between us and the hares and the others are staring at our new gear. I can see the gob that came and told Thesa that food was ready is busily chatting with some others and point to the entrance of the cave. At one of the bigger the uncooked hare is being cut up and passed out. Once we get to the corridor that leads to our room I look back and see the gob that got us a few of his friend sneak out of the cavern where we just came from. Yep it will be picked clean by tomorrow night. Once back in the room we drop our stuff and all the spare stuff over near where I bed down. Taking out the empty metal container and my canteen. ¡° Can one of you fill these for me please. I¡¯m going to start work on the stuff I want to make then you can go off and eat more if you want.¡± I ask. ¡° Ok.¡± Both Lily and Onyx chime in. ¡° Would you fill every ones if both of you are going.¡± I ask again. Both of them nod and they collect them all and place them in their packs. ¡° The metal one you¡¯ll have to carry back in you hand as it has no lid yet.¡± I tell them. They both nod then head off. ¡° I¡¯ll bring you back some meat brother Gray.¡± Peony informs me. I give her a smile. ¡°I¡¯ll go with her.¡± Thesa pipes in. As they walk out Basalt trundles out after them licking his lips. ¡°Ok.¡± I reply. I look at Lavender. ¡° What are you going to do then Lavender.¡± I ask her. ¡° I..I wanna help you, ma..make stuff and do thing to hel..help others.¡± She shyly replies. ¡° Haha ok then. I think tomorrow I¡¯ll show you how to make poultices and some other things to help heal the others when they get injured.¡± I tell her she looks positively ecstatic at this information. ¡° For now though can you roll out the linen bolt you found and then using my knife, be careful it''s very sharp and cut it at about as tall as you. Then cut it in strips about as wide as your hand please.¡± I hand her my knife. ¡° As we will use them tomorrow to make something called bandages that you can wrap around wounds to stop them bleeding.¡± The look in her eyes is one of amazement and wanting. Wow she may actually make a good nurse or doctor type. Well that¡¯s what I¡¯m going to train her in then. It¡¯s always good to have a dedicated medic in large groups though but I¡¯m going have to teach her some rather nasty trick to help protect herself though as she is still one of the smallest goblins I¡¯ve seen. Maybe some poison. I¡¯m no doctor myself but once you know enough about hurting people you come to the realization that is if you use a small amount of what harms it can be used to treat instead, and I¡¯m very good at harming others in many a way. While she¡¯s doing that I decide to go through the med kit that was found. It¡¯s wrapped much like a painter roll but on a larger scale. Inside it is a bloody jackpot. AHAHAHAAHHAHAH. Bloody brilliant. I lay everything out on it. There is a pair of what looks like old style manual trauma shear*1. How did they even make these things from what I¡¯ve seen of equipment it¡¯s pretty much medieval tech level. Could it be from otherworlders. The handles are made from wood, but it¡¯s very doubtful they have plastic in this world. Two suture kits, goddamned suture kits*2. There is even scalpels crudely made one piece things but fucking scalpels. The thread looks like catgut and silk. I should be able to use the thread off Mags to bolster this after I have sterilized everything. And some bandage scraps, the thing must have been used before the gobs got hold of it. In the scraps of bandages are about half a dozen glass vials. With a cursory sniff it smells like moonshine. So a disinfectant then. There is also a couple of small glass jars with nothing, they smell faintly of herbs. Maybe what I¡¯m looking for tomorrow. This isn¡¯t a med kit like I thought it was it¡¯s a bloody trauma kit. I¡¯ll quickly make Lavender a pack for half of these supplies. Actually I have a better idea. ¡° Lavender pass me your bandoleer and belt please.¡± I ask her, she undoes it all and passes them to me. The others all come back in at this point, my water is placed near me and the rest is handed back to their owners, my food is placed with my water. ¡° Can someone take the pelts from the hares and place them fur down over in the corner so they can dry abit please. Then you can do what you want to.¡± I tell them. Using the trauma shears I cut some of the leather to the shapes I want, fuuuuck these are a godsend. By using the belt and the bandoleer I sew some leather in what would be a gap between them so now looks like a one shoulder vest. I cut down the front of it and add toggle buttons I had left over. And finally add what looks like a little half skirt on one side. After this I add pockets and pouches to the thing to place half of all the trauma kits supplies and room for plenty more that we are going to make. I pack everything in it. But I¡¯ll keep the scissor for now. ¡°Lavender come here and try this on.¡± I ask her. Upon seeing what I¡¯ve made her she bursts into tears and rushes to hug me. ¡° Fhank*sniff* Wou*sniff* Brober.* Sniff Sniff.*¡± She strangles out between breaths and tears. After a while and everyone looking embarrassed and with envy, Lavender gets it on and looks incredibly proud. ¡° Brother gonna teach me how to help heal you when hurt.¡± She proclaims. ¡° And I¡¯ll teach you all something that best suits you all.¡± I tell the rest as they all pout a bit. For the rest of the evening I finish my food. Clean my equipment up and fix it all. Also guide the others how to do the same with their own stuff as well. I fill the vials up with the moonshine from the metal container splitting them between me and Lavender. Using some of the bandages that Lavender made I have her and myself clean all the Trauma stuff with the moonshine. It makes everyone''s eyes water a bit but it¡¯s needed. I even have her clean out the pockets with it. Tomorrow when we¡¯re outside I¡¯ll have her use the wax and a some hot rocks trapped in homemade tongs to make it waterproof and then disinfect it again. The final thing we all do is the exercise routine, before we sleep. This time Thesa stays with us. And as I finally drift off.
Three days left of childhood.
Chapter 13 Once we wake we go through the same routine as yesterday. We pack up everything that we collected yesterday. With only three days left till we are adults I need to get everything ready for us as I have a feeling that everything will hit the fan once we are not children. We all eat a bit of jerky and head out. We check in the rubbish room as we pass the levels in there have dropped considerately but I do spy a few things that will help two buckets and a small beer barrel sadly empty and about a dozen wooden bowls I shove these into my pack. We are getting a lot of looks today as we are far better geared than all the other goblins. I did notice a few gobs better dressed today. I have Basalt and Onyx carry the barrel and Lily and Peony grab the buckets off me. We all head off to a place near running water a bit further round the mountain that Thesa knows. I have Thesa show me the herbs and such that can aid in healing. ¡° This one we call green leaf. It make cuts heal faster makes you feel better to.¡± She tells me. It looks a bit like a nettle. ¡° This one we call blue leaf. If feel hot and sick or cuts go bad this helps.¡± So an antibiotic of some sort. It looks a bit like ivy but blue. ¡° And this one we call red leaf, when chew it or rub leafs to much you go numb so avoid it.¡± HAHA this will work as a numbing agent. Maybe as a nasty trick for Lavender. Maybe. ¡° This plant we call stink plant. Only if you break the center of leaf make nasty smell like¡­like lots of pee.¡± Ummmmmm. Maybe like ammonia smelling salts or as a deterrent. By the looks of it the center vein of the leaf is much thicker than most leaves it must have an outer casing to act as a defense mechanism which encases an ammonia like smell. I break a leaf off from the stem of plant very slowly just in case it will cause a smell, but luckily it doesn¡¯t. Odd but workable. I notice that the gob from yesterday and his friends are following us. I stop and yell.¡°What do you want.¡± Once they catch up the gob that got us yesterday replies. ¡° We want to learn from Thesa.¡± ¡° Why me.¡± She replies. ¡° ¡®cause you have new stuff from rubbish and hunt better.¡± The gob answers. ¡° It¡¯s not me that has done all this it him.¡± Thesa tells him while nodding towards me. ¡° WHAT, the freak!?¡± He exclaims. Thesa lets out a low growling sound. ¡°Yes me, so do you want to learn then?¡± I ask the gobs. All of them nod after looking warily at Thesa. ¡° Follow then. And remember to do as I say and listen.¡± I tell carefully. Once we get to the spot that Thesa has picked out. We set up camp. I send the others out to get some fire wood and rocks to build a fire with, another one fills the buckets and after I remove the top of the barrel and we wash it out, the others then fill it using the buckets. Once the camp is set up and the fire is going I put a dozen rocks from then stream into the fire. I¡¯m going to use the rocks to boil the water as we have no containers that are able to withstand the heat to boil the water. Normally you would have to boil the water in any outdoor conditions to kill off any bacteria and pathogens, but I¡¯ve noticed that either goblins and or the monster races in general have a better immune system or that there is less pollutants in the native environments. While myself, Thesa, Basalt and the gob that got us yesterday go off to hunt I have the others go and carefully pick as many of the leaves as they can as carefully as they can. ¡°What¡¯s your name.¡± I ask the new one. ¡°Norm. Name Norm.¡± Norm answers. ¡° Ok, Norm. I¡¯m Gray. This is Basalt, my other brother is called Onyx. My sisters are Lily, Peony and Lavender. Lily is the biggest sister of the three she has¡­.has¡± I motion around the chest area to indicate breasts. Still not sure why this embarrasses me so much. ¡°Lavender is the smallest with the medical stuff her.¡± He looks confused at that. ¡° The healer stuff from the adventures, I¡¯m teaching her how to become a healer to help the others. And Peony is the middle one.¡± I tell him. He looks at Thesa. ¡° How come they have name. They still young not been through passage of age.¡± He asks. ¡° Elder named Gray. And Gray gave names to the others. He smarter than all gobs, I think. Others not happy but his siblings accepted the names so they their names now.¡± She tells him. I look at Thesa. ¡° What¡¯s this passage of age thing.¡± I ask her. ¡° It what goblins go on to prove that they not useless and can¡¯t look after themselves. We take them out in wilds, a day away ,they must survive 2 nights out then make way home. But Tonka not train you properly and started your training later so you not have enough time. I think she was hoping to get you killed. But you have proved better than most gobs and are better than older gobs as well. You ask for knowledge when you don¡¯t know but you know better stuff than we could teach so I never said anything, as it didn¡¯t matter.¡± She explains. After mulling this over as we continue deeper into the forest. ¡° That¡¯s ok. But we have three days before we become adults and go through the passage, so I need you to teach me and the others everything you can about outside.¡± She looks surprised at this news. ¡° How you know when grown up. You should have more time than that.¡± She exclaims. ¡° It¡¯s part of the knowledge in my head. It let me know last night. If you hadn¡¯t noticed but me and my siblings are advancing at a much faster pace the other youngling. The others might have longer I do not.¡± I tell her. Both Thesa and Norm look astounded at this news. ¡° How you learn so fast then.¡± Norm asks. I decide if I should lie, if it was just Norm I may of but with Thesa there, I decide on a half lie. ¡° I thinks it¡¯s to do with my skin. I learn faster and those around me learn faster as well, but not as fast as me. So if you want to learn you will need to listen as I don¡¯t think I will have it as easy as the others in my passage.¡± I tell them. Thesa know most of this or has guessed most of it, so she only looks slightly shocked at this. And Norm is just standing there with his jaw hanging down. Basalt is just looking nonplussed. I don¡¯t think he knows we¡¯re any different from the other goblins but he hasn¡¯t had many interactions with other gobs apart from us so I don¡¯t think he has noticed, after a few moments he just nods. I noticed he doesn¡¯t really talk much. If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Without giving them much time to deal with this I continue on the hunt. We follow more animal trails and Thesa points out a few new plants that her rank up gave her knowledge of, I think there are all vegetables and fruits most of them look like leafy greens and what looks like potatoes. She doesn¡¯t have names for them but she knows that they are edible. It¡¯s like when she sees something she should know as a huntress the knowledge springs to her mind. Which explains why she didn¡¯t know yesterday. We come across a single bastard hare a bit disappointing but better than nothing. ¡° We need to leave.¡± Norm says with a scared look when he sees the hare. ¡° Shhhhhhhhh.¡± I continue in a low voice. ¡° You do remember we brought back two yesterday and we ate the third one ourselves.¡± I tell him. ¡° W..we thought you found two dead ones as they fight each other at times.¡± Thesa nods to this. ¡° No him and the other boys killed one each.¡± Thesa tells him and Basalt just grins and licks his lips looking at the hare. He is looking at us in awe now. I kinda feel a bit dirty with how he¡¯s looking at me. ¡° Ready brother?¡± I ask Basalt. He nods and answers. ¡° Yeah.¡± His voice is quiet raspy and deep. ¡° Ok we are going to do this differently than yesterday, as part of your training. We are going to face it directly.¡± I whisper the rest of the plan into his ear so the other two can¡¯t hear it. It¡¯s going to be a surprise. The more I tell him The bigger and more excited his eyes looks. I take a quick look at them and they look a bit fearful. We ready our gear. Basalt makes sure his shield is on properly and readies his spear. And I check the edge on the bone dagger and ready my tonfa. I show him how to place his feet to help when he gets hit and to try to push the hits to his sides past him using the shield. ¡° Give me to the count of 10 then start.¡± He looks confused, shit we only got to three or four. ¡° Ok count to 3 3 times.¡± At this he nods. I sneak off to circle the hare and as I get into position. ¡° ARRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHH¡± I hear Basalt roar. Good it¡¯s started. Through the bushes I watch. The hare charges to him it¡¯s going to ram him head first. And as it hits he slides aback under the force I see him shift his body to the side and the hare stumbles past his side, he gives it a jab in the ass as it passes. Haha. He starts to walk backwards towards me keeping his shield up. Good boy Basalt. This happens a few more times the hare getting even more enraged at each pass. He is nearly at the point¡­. ¡° HUUOOOWL¡± What the fuck another hare enter from the other side and it looks decidedly pissed. FUCK. Basalt looks behind to me as he see the new hare, with a look of determination he steps to the side as the hare he is in combat with charges and he uses his body to slam his shield into its face as it starts to pass towards me. Smart boy and then steps towards the new hare. I dash out and whack the hare on the nose with the tonfa as it rises and screeches out in pain I shove the dagger up into up under the soft palate into the brain and twist, it¡¯s eyes roll up and drops to the floor. Letting go of the dagger and dropping the tonfa, I draw my fire hardened spear and dash to wards Basalt, he is just knocking the hare away for the second time. Now the hare is between me and him. It charges again ¡° DO WHAT YOU DID TO THE OTHER THEN DROP TO A KNEE WITH YOUR SHIELD ABOVE YOUR HEAD.¡± I yell. I can see him nod as the gets to him. As it stumbles past him dazed he hits it in the ass. It screeches in anger and pain as it spins itself around to face Basalt¡­ ¡° STAND AND THRUST UP.¡± It sees me being launched up off Basalts shield with the spear held in my hand point down. Like deer in headlights it startles where it stands. And I come down the spear piercing its head from above and pins it¡¯s head to the ground the spears snaps causing me to land on my ass. Thesa is at the edge of the area with her dagger drawn about to helps us, just stares in shock at the hare in its death throes. ¡° Wha..wha¡­whaaaaaaaaaaa.¡± Norm is stuttering. ¡° HO¡­.ho..how?¡± Wasn¡¯t he watching us the entire time. ¡° It¡¯s because we go for the weak points. And because we¡¯re not strong enough to kill using strength in the weak points like the neck, we have to aim for things like the brains and the heart but in this case the brain is easier.¡± I tell him. ¡° Bu..but, he was stopping the attack and..and you in air wahhh¡± He whines. ¡° And like I told you we advance faster than others.¡± I tell him. ¡° But.But.¡± He continues. ¡° No buts. If you want to learn faster and better you¡¯ll do and copy me as much as can to get better faster.¡± I inform. ¡° You clean this one and I¡¯ll do the other.¡± I say to Basalt. He nods then gets to work. Twenty minutes later we¡¯re heading back to our camp. Norms group are gob smacked at the two hares. ¡° You found more dead hares.¡± One of them utters. ¡° NO..NO..no they killed them.¡± Norm stutters out pointing at me and Basalt. ¡° WHHAAAAAAA¡­..¡± His group yells, I think one of them just fainted as well. ¡°Ok, Norm you and your group can you go collect as many of the plants that Thesa showed us earlier the one that you can eat please.¡± In a four neat piles where I sat earlier,are the leaves there are about a foot2 each. ¡°OK.¡± Norm replies as he wonders over to his group they begin chatting in hushed tones as they drag their unconscious companion away. It looks like the piles are sorted then Lavender walks back into the clearing with an armful of green leafs. ¡° I sorted them as the other group to stupid to think to do that.¡± She tells me full of smiles. I potter around the clearing and cut a couple of saplings and bend the ends over and tie the ends together the I tie them together to make a pair of tongs. Heading back to the fire get the bowls out and have a better look at them they seem to be fire hardened and waterproof. So that¡¯s good enough. Basalt and Onyx are skinning the hares now I decide to set up slanted roasting spit so the fats will drip down to one end so we can collect to make poultices. Once the hare is on the spit I¡¯ll set up the metal container, I might have to carve the carcass a little to get the fats to collect where I want them to, so as much goes into the container. ¡° Lavender come here please.¡± I ask her. I take some candles from the packs and hand them to her. ¡° Use these and rub into the inside the pockets of your gear. Take it off first after you¡¯ve done that, use the tongs and take a stone near the outer edges and put it near where you¡¯ve rubbed the wax. Once it¡¯s melted in use some cloth and give it a wipe down and the use the disinfectant to clean it all again.¡± She nods at me and starts. I get some of the spare leather we have and cut out a couple of dozen sets of shapes, I¡¯m planning to make a load of painter roll style pouches to hold poultice bandages they will only be about 5x5 inches each once packed. I¡¯ll clean them with the moonshine and seal with the wax and clean them again. Over the next day or so I plan to make a mixture of the three leaves in a ratio to get the best effect out of them. I¡¯ll take amounts and crush them in a bowl, after I make a pestle and add a small amount of moonshine to draw the effects from the leaves then soak a wad of the bandages on the water and the place the herbs onto the wad and fold it to make a type of compress and then sew it to a longer bandages in it¡¯s center. The stink leaves I¡¯m planning to carefully cut out the center vein and have them wrapped together with a twig to keep it straight and less likely to break and release the smell. And we can use them to wake people and for scent distractions. Norm and his group return with armfuls of the edible plants and places them over by the fire. And the boys have finished skinning the hares. I have them spit it then place over the fire. ¡°Everyone come here.¡± Once everyone gathers I continue. ¡° For the next two nights we will be staying out in the woods, we are doing this to prepare for the passage of age.¡± My siblings look confused apart from Basalt who was there for the conversation. ¡° Thesa can you explain to them please.¡± While Thesa is explaining to them I go to the down to the water''s edge and find suitable rocks to break and make stone axes, once I have the rocks I need. I go and find a branch, to make the first one so I can make the rest. Thesa has finished the explanation. I have them wait while I make the first couple of axes and then hand them out to go cut the branches I need to make the rest. Once everyone has an axe. I have everyone go cut bigger branches to we can make a shelter to sleep in for a few nights. This will be good strength and endurance training for them all. While they go out and get the branches I need, I cut up some of the stuff that Norm and his group brought back. I take out all of the rock in the fire and place them into the small barrel to boil the water. I place more into the coals of the fire. I throw in the veg and then slice off loads of the meat placing it in the water as I do so. By the time everything is cooked they should have finished the branches. I finish up making the pouches. I eat some of the meat is I work. Once everyone is back we have enough branches to make a enough lean-tos for everyone. I give everyone a bowl of stew and tell them to eat it and they all love it. I get them all to help make the shelters for the night, after we finished and have gone through a work out and stretch routine everyone including myself is knackered and after building up the fire to help scare off predators we all head to bed. Chapter 14
Two days till adulthood.
The night was relatively quiet apart for the occasional howling, and some snuffling at the edge of the camp. We go through the morning routine. I notice that all of us siblings have grown again, nothing amazing but definite growth. Mainly muscle mass and definition, with the most muscle going to Basalt. All the girls breasts grow as well, but Lily¡¯s are now massive, not enough to become a problem but for a goblin they are like 2-3 times bigger than most. Even Thesa looks quite jealous, it¡¯s quite good I made the all the clothes adjustable. The others have grown about an inch each, and I have grown about 2 inches, I¡¯m now the same height as Thesa. Today I¡¯m having Thesa and myself show the others how to track properly. I split us into two groups me and Norm¡¯s group in one and Thesa and my siblings in another. Having an idea before we leave, I show all of them how to make snares. Using the bolt of cloth I have the others cut and make a good two dozen 2 meter length braids more than enough for traps. While they are doing this, using the brains of the hares we caught yesterday, I tan the hides from all that we have caught to date. Then I show them how to make the triggers, using two small sticks one bigger than the other. The bigger one I carve a defined notch into and make the other end into a point, the peg. And the other I carve so it resembles a crooked finger and can catch on the other, the trigger. You tie the braids on to the smaller bit the end that doesn¡¯t have the notch, I carve a small grove onto this end to hold the braid better. And nearer the notch I add a slipknot loop and firmly tie it, the noose. With everything prepared, I walk over to a sapling and bend it over and tie the braid near the top about 6¡± below. Using the back of my axe as a hammer I tap the spiked peg into the ground and the bending the sapling and place the trigger on the notch of the peg and slowly raise the sapling till the cord is taut and the trigger is holding it all together. I then carefully arrange the noose so it can be caught and disturb the trigger, letting the taut sapling snap it up off the ground*1. Using a stick I catch the lop and BAM. The others look shocked. ¡° Ok. While we are tracking if you come across any well used small trails that rabbit sized critters use set a few of these along it. If you can''t find a sapling but there are big branches near tie a sizeable rock to the cord throw that over the branch and use that as the counter weight, but tie an extra bit around the rock and tie it to the tree branch but it has to be about half as long and the main cord. This will stop the prey from going up and over the branch if the rock is to heavy.¡± I instruct them. Thesa looks ecstatic at the new hunting method, the others still look shocked l. ¡° And rub some mud or dirt and leaves into everything to help hide your scent, if you place a bit of the veg which I think that the smaller critters eat it will increase the effect.¡± Thesa¡¯s eyes shine even wider at this. We now split into the groups after I have every one carve some pegs and triggers and make sure that they are good enough. My group take the track nearest to where i heard the snuffling, as these guys are going to be harder than the others to teach, my siblings picked up this type of stuff faster than Thesa before her rank up. So these guys should learn quicker from me with my racial skill. I have them take notice of the tracks and what they look like, and we start from there, following the tracks. Once we get to a bush that whatever we are follow went though. I have us stop. ¡°What can you tell about what we are hunting from what we have seen so far.¡± I ask norm and his group. ¡° It went that way¡± One of them reply pointing through the bush. ¡° Apart from that.¡± I want to facepalm. They all look around dumbly. ¡° It¡¯s not to big.¡± Norm replies. ¡° And how did you come to that.¡± I counter. ¡° The footprints are smallish.¡± He answers. ¡° Good. Anything else.¡± I Ask the group. ¡° It¡¯s not to big.¡± Another answers as he smiles. ¡° How do you know that.¡± I inquire. ¡° The hole small.¡± He points at it. ¡° Ok. How do you not know that¡¯s it''s a bigger creature that crouch a bit.¡± I question. They look a bit scared at that thought. ¡° Come I¡¯ll show you more. You are both right it isn¡¯t too big, the size of the paw prints do show that it¡¯s a smaller animal, look at the distance between the tracks they show that it doesn¡¯t have a long leg length which shows it¡¯s smaller. And if you look near the bush that tracks do not get closer together which indicates that it didn¡¯t crouch as nearly all creatures get closer when they crouch. Secondly if you look at the prints themselves they are deeper in the ground and mud than some of the others we have came across meaning what?¡± I ask. ¡° That it bigger.¡± One of the females ask. ¡° Ummmmm. Yes and no. Normally deeper can mean bigger, but it actually means heavier.¡± I tell them. ¡° So what does all this tell you so far?¡± I question them. ¡° That it small, not big, but heavy.¡± Norm answers. ¡° And it went that way.¡± The other male pointed again. *sigh*This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. ¡° That was all correct. Now look at the hole again. You can see that it went straight through, but there is no hair on any of the branches, this means that it either has no hair or it¡¯s very short and/or tough.¡± We continue following the trail, when we come to harder ground I show them to look for broken or trodden things down to show the way it went. After I while I can hear a sound I have us all slow down and start to follow the sound. I sounds like something is shredding bark. I peek through a bush. What the fuck. It looks like a porcupine but with the facial structure of a pig. It¡¯s rubbing a tree with the quills, they must be hard for them to do that without breaking. It turns around then starts eating the bark. Having a look around the area I see a low reaching branch, an idea forms. It¡¯s going to be harder to kill then the hare, because of all the quills. I make a proper noose from the stuff we have, I tell the others to climb trees in the area. I take out the cinnamon smelling bark we use for tinder, and scatter small amounts of it and lead a trail to the branch I saw earlier, I place the pouch open under it. Then clamber up the tree. I lower the noose just in front of the bark. After a few minutes I hear excited snuffling coming this way and the pigupine yeah that¡¯s what I¡¯ll call it for now. It bursts through the bushes sniffing the ground and air as it goes then it¡¯s eyes fall on the prize. It tries to dash over but it¡¯s not that fast. Just as it get to the bark its head goes through the noose and I jump off the branch with the other end of the noose in hand. And it works the animal is caught. ¡° Get down here and grab the rope.¡± I shout. The thing is heavy and is now struggling to escape. Once they grab hold of the makeshift rope and dash over and whip out a fire hardened spear and jam it straight into the brain via the soft palate. Once it¡¯s death throes are finished I have them let it down. I have a look at the quills, the larger ones are hollow and the smaller ones are solid, much like the porcupine back on my world. I¡¯m going to harvest the quills and we¡¯ll take the carcass and offal as well. After skinning, gutting and the harvesting, I have the others lug the carcass and we make our way back to the campsite, having the others take turns in setting up snares and using the pigupine skin to try and remove our scent from the traps. Once back at the site I inspect the quills the smallest ones are solid, while the bigger they get the more hollow they become. I plan to make some poultices soon, I plan out and give the others that have returned a exercise routine. Now I go get a rock that I can use as a pestle. Once I find a suitable one, I start up a fire and place the metal container back near it to soften the fats inside now that¡¯s done I place a load of the green leaves into a wooden bowl and grind them up, I add a small amount of the moon shine to help the process a bit and I do this until it becomes a thick paste. I realize that I have no containers to put the poultice in once I make it. Fuck. Hang on I can just make some drawstring pouches give it a wax coating and the place more green leaves inside for a lining to place the poultice on. Once I have done this I add the fats from the container to the bowl and stir it till it thickens and I divide it into three and place it into the pouches. With that used up I make a couple of dozen pouches for the next batches. I then proceed to mix the blue and green leaf together and then do the same process as the last lot. The others have now finished their exercise I have them careful cut out the centre vein of the stink leaves. Thesa and the siblings return they have more leaves and a couple of rabbits. I give them a routine to do. But I have Lavender come over and sit with me, I have her find a rock to make a suitable pestle with and then come back, I show her what I¡¯ve been doing and have her finish it, while I go onto the next project. I place the moon shine container near the fire, and set up the last hare to cook with the fat container in place to catch more. With the moon shine heating I take the red leaves and place them into the bowl and give it a quick grind, then I take some of the quill and the wax candles out. I cut the tip off of one of the larger quills and then take a smaller one that fits down the centre of it. I rub it into the candle and then place it back inside and get a bucket of water. I test out my new toy. And it works basically it leaks a bit but I just made a very crude syringe. Not good enough to use on people but good enough to transfer liquids short distances, and by short I mean feet not meters or more. Now I take another quill and use one of the smaller harder one to pierce a hole near the tip of a larger one, I give I a quick blow to clean out the inside and make sure there is a hole in it. Taking another but slightly smaller one again I make another plunger making sure that¡¯s it¡¯s tighter than the last one. I also carve a small wooden disc with a nub that will go into the quill to make the end of the plunger for the thumb. I then draw the plunger once the tip is in the water it sucks up the water then quickly waving a candle through the flames to soften it I drag it past the hole it the tip and then around the plunger and syringe base to make a watertight seal. I take it over to one of the rabbits and then jam it into the neck area and press the plunger, with a bit of resistance it discharges its load into the rabbit. Good it works. By this point everyone is watching me. I make enough so that each group has about 3 of these. With that done I take the moonshine out using the tongs and tip some into the red leaves and then continue to grind them. I make a smaller pair of tongs and quickly grab another bowl and tip in some moonshine then take the red leaves out using the new tongs then place them into it. I then add some blue and green leaves to the mix as well and give it a quick grind and take a hot rock out from the fire and place it in the bowl. Going back to the other bowl I take the quill needles I just make and fill them all and then seal them as I go. ¡° What you doing there.¡± Thesa and Lavender ask at the same time. ¡° I made a more concentrated form of the red leaves i made these so you can stab them into something to make it go numb quickly so it can''t move. After some tweaking I might even be able to make arrows from them.¡± I tell them actually I¡¯ll give everyone 2 each and the rest to Lavender, so me, Thesa and the siblings that was 3 each so now lily will have 9 I¡¯ll make things like this here main weapons and a quarterstaff with a hollow at one end and a cap so she can place the needles in to attack at longer range. I cut a candle into pieces and then use them as bungs for the ends and hand the out explaining what they are. Norms group look a bit annoyed to be left out. ¡° If you want things I¡¯m happy to show you how to do things, but if you want them you have to make them yourselves.¡± I tell them. For the amount Lavender has I¡¯m going to have to make a rig for them. Calling her over I show her how to make one by taking a candle and leather and sewing it around the candle leaving it barely exposed to act as a bung. Then taking a strip of leather and sewing it down leaving opening like the elastic you have in a pencil case to hold things down. And then I place the needles in with the tips in the candle to stop any accidents. And then I add it to her nurse coat. ¡° Now you know how to make all of this you can do it and in the future you can add more when we have better stuff.¡± I tell her. ¡° Take out you vials and tip the contents back into the container please.¡± I grab a smaller twig and some bandage material and make what looks like a surgical sponge, the ones I used to spread iodine. I dip it into the bowl with the three leaves in, and then rub it on my skin. After a few moments it starts to go numb. Good it will work. Using the crude syringe I made first I fill all of the vials including my own with this and make a few stick sponges as well for both of use. Most of the day has gone now so I have the others go and check on the snares they placed. They come back with a couple of rabbits and norms lot come back with a pigupine and some more leaves which they plan to use themselves I give them a couple of bowls. But I have them put 6 stink leaf veins onto some cloth and then roll and cut and tie them into small bundles first. These are all divided equally amongst us all. So all of us have about a dozen or so of the stink bundles to use now. We all eat. I have my group make pouches to put the leaves into for easier transport. I have every one break a stink bundle and throw it around the perimeter of the camp to hide our sent and deter predators. For the rest of the evening I let them all do what they want. Most make weapons or improve what they already have. For myself with all the sewing stuff I have I make myself some basic trousers using the leather, with enough room for me to grow again . I also make a sleeved jacket . And using the bolt of cloth I make myself a couple of t-shirts. I can''t really make shoes yet so I don¡¯t. This is the last night out here I hope the others have gotten enough to be able to survive the passage. I have a bad feeling that thing may go out of control soon that even I won''t be able to change. We all settle down for the night.
1 day left till adulthood