Acewak steps carefully through the mud...
See toadie, but no can catch toadie. Covered in mud from his wild dive at the toad, but more determined, he presses on.
"Gotta be better way..." Acewak mutters as his gears start turning. He lays out his bedroll, weaves some bog weeds together into a crude rope, ties them to the bedroll, covers it in mud, puts the grasshoppers he was saving on top of the mud-covered bedroll as bait, and waits until a toad appears.
Enraged at his own ineptitude, Acewak loads & fires his crossbow at the toad.
If he drops the toad below 0 hp without killing it, he takes 10 on a Heal check (resulting in a 17) to provide first aid and stop the bleeding before licking it.
...can't kill what you can't hit.
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Dack smiles toothily at his toad and then remembers something: since he caught his toad first, he got the first choice of names! "Me name you: Toady!" Ha! Now dem others need think for hours to name dere toadies!
Dackelbark quickly gets bored and decides to check out Pumpkin to see if she's got that wonderful Bouncy trait. Then he makes his move.
"Um, Pumpkin de Orange One: You want some help? Me help you! Me be very shiverous! Shiver me breeches, avast! Me look fer toady-bubbles, you grab."
Eyeing Dack for being almost too eager to help her, she shrugged and accepted his help after concluding he was accepting her superiority to the other whelps.
When a mass of mud squirmed,she pounced and scooped out a squirming toad easily the size of a fat apple. It puffed up impressively and squealed at her indignantly at being pried free of the muck.
Ha! Pumpkin get biggest,loudest toad.she declared with pride,holding it above her head for all to see. It squirmed and pawed at her hands to free itself. She name...Buff!!
Stuffing her new fat toad safely into her crotch-mounted purse and pinching it shut so it couldn't leave,Pumpkin beamed at her success. Then she smacked Dack in the back of the head affectionately,avoiding hitting him with the muddy ax knuckle.
Good Dack help Pumpkin. She no forget. He now Pumpkin favorites henchgob-- she no stab or bites. For nows.she assured him.
Turning to the frustrated Acewak,she sucked her teeth and bobbled her head.No goods. Pumpkin helps. You no embarass her or tribe. We whelps all returnings with toads or nones.
Hm, even great chief not chief without other gobs. Acewak accepts Pumpkin's help. He tries to find another toad, the two corner and tackle it...
...but it was just a rock and Acewak hits his over-sized head on it.
Disgusted with Acewak's inability to catch and hold onto a toad even with her help,Pumpkin slung mud at his head to hit him in the face.Acewak suck at toad catching. Pumpkin helpings last times then hims on owns!
Although she couldn't see anything amid the bubbling muck distinguished,she thrust her arms deep into the squishy mud and grasped....something. She hauled it out to see what she had.
Eh? What dis?
Turning to the frustrated Acewak,she sucked her teeth and bobbled her head.No goods. Pumpkin helps. You no embarass her or tribe. We whelps all returnings with toads or nones.
Dackelbark instinctively squeezed Toady tight against his chest as Pumpkin thanked him for his help, nearly causing the poor creature's eyes to pop out. Once his brain had stopped rattling inside its skull, Dack turned to Groglurk. "What her said! Me help you find toad fer yer own. Me look, you leap, OK?"
Dackelbark scans the bog for some telltale bubbling and maybe a pair of beady, googly eyeballs protruding from the morass. "Uh...me got nuthin'."
Dackelbark's struck with a sudden revelation: "Hey! Me can look some more! Toady--you look fer more like you, got it?"
"DERE!! Groglurk, lurk dere! No--look dere! No--DERE! Me confusing self!"
Acewak mashes some bugs together into a paste, and Dackelbark's toad to get a bit of it's secretions. He's hoping to attract a toad with the mixture.
The mixtures does indeed attract a toad, and along with Dackelbark's aid, Acewak makes his dive.
But the toad proves too elusive.
Acewak is having a bad day, and takes 20, not caring if the rest leave him behind. When he finally catches a toad, it is the smallest, most sickly looking toad ever. Acewak says, "I name you 'Fluster'; you flustered me." He throws the toad in his sack with disgust.