"Oh just the nicest, fluffiest critters you will ever meet." Her voice dripping with sarcasm.
An angry buzzing emits from Manteca's mouth. "Oh, most definitely," the shirren says, holding his laser pistol in a significant manner.
The kaukarikis are still around.
"Probably not," the shirren says with determination, raising his pistol anyways.
The shot goes predictably wide, surprising no one.
The shot into the foliage sends the kaukarikis running in circles and screaming again. But they don't leave.
Manteca growls under his breath and tries again.
Manteca is far from being successful at shooting into the trees. If he didn't want to hit the trees themself. It looks like he could use some help, or the needler will be gone for good.
No, We never accept defeat.
"This really isn't getting us anywhere."
The kaukarikis are not as amused as Jazzming. But with all of the party shooting that lousy, they become less jumpy with every try.
"One more shot mom"
The kaukarikis gets its fur singed and drops the needler, fleeing to somewhere in the tree, where it is no longer seen.
"Ha"
He will try to go over there and check it out
Manteca runs over to the needler, carefully dusting it off and checking it for damage. "This is an important tool!," he says to Boreal, after her disdain of the retrieval attempts. "What if you were on death's door on the other side of a pitched firefight, and I had to deliver a life-saving serum from the other side of battle?"
"If the Kaurkarikis are going to leave us alone it does seem like a wise decision, though watch might be prudent as well
"These things are far too interested in us. They will either attract something bigger that is not afraid of that plant, or their curiosity will get the better of them eventually..."
Would we be able to safely camp by the plant?
Eric checks his datapad, checks it again, holds up a map.
Humanoids: I am having a difficult time establishing complete analysis. Eric almost sounds despondent.
Manteca keeps staring into the trees, antenna twitching angrily. "We could just burn down the forest," the shirren says testily, then catches his own tone. "Or umm... at least just open fire on this stand of trees," he backtracks, as though that sounds any more reasonable.
"Despite hoe much I like pyrotechnics, I don't think that is a great idea." Boreal says intrigued by this new violent streak
+15 with notes right?
The group moves on following the markings on the map and the suggested landmarks. After half a day or so the kaukarikis finally lose interest and return to their territory.
After a typical night in the wilderness with suspicious noises everywhere and not too much sleep due to taking turns on the watch duty, the group moves on.
"That's probably not a good thing"
Now that the creature is pointed out to him. Eric finds he has detailed files on it. Perhaps one of his previous iterations dealt with the creature.
It attacks with its tentacles and copies the abilities of its enemy while doing so.
A ksarik can fire one of its thorns as a ranged attack. The dart has a range of 100 feet, deals piercing damage, and exposes the target to carrion spores.
It also spits acid. It heals very fast.
As it is noticed the creature hides away.
Manteca is unable to find the thing himself either, but as soon as he has it pointed out, his laser pistol is in his hand. "That's it - I am officially unimpressed with these jungles. Even the plants hunt?? Why can't we meet one of those nice skittermanders that Boreal was talking about??"
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Humanoids: The Plant based creature that was following is attempting to hide. There is a high probability that it may be targeting the weakest among us for ambush predation. I suggest feeding the Shirren to it. Eric deadpans, its hard to tell if this is humor or seriousness with the android. A few seconds of no laughter later Eric says
Humanoids: Of course that was not serious. Plants don't eat Shirren.
Manteca doesn't say anything in response to EH-RK's joke, but does move to keep Boreal in between him and EH-RK.
"Make a noise and keep moving. I hope plants are not good at math." Boreal says, waiting for a large tree to duck behind. As soon as she finds one she will wait till she thinks the plant won't notice and crouches at the roots of the tree, hoping to let the plant pass her, or atleast close distance before it notices her.
The plant is indeed not very clever. But it notices the vesk.
"Shit" Boreal says as the plant rounds the tree at her.
It is quickly followed by her bring her doshko to bear.
Boreal misses with her doshko. The plant attacks with it's tentacles the vesk.
The plant misses as widely as Boreal did
The monster plant continues to tentacle at Boreal.
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"Great, a plant with a sense humor," Jazzming said wryly before sighing. "Also, it seems to really want to eat you, Manteca." The sound of fighting, though, brought forth a bigger sigh. "I thought I was the pilot... Faraday, make a reminder to get better armaments when possible if this is the new normal."
Boreal draws first plant sap. Reynotto shoots the local flora again, but the wrong one, while Jazzming lands a solid hit.
Manteca runs back towards the fight, pistol drawn. "Boreal! Hold strong!" the shirren yells. "We should cut it's excape routes off! Can someone flank with Boreal?"