"Oh my, that is quite the lizard."
Cloony aims his finger for a ray of frost.
If he'd be in movement range of the lizard, he'd move back.
Both of Mosi's arrows miss while Cloony's ray of cold chilled the lizard, but he still alive and attacks Aerys.
The lizard takes a bite out of Aerys. She manages to avoid getting trap in it's jaws, but not without some heavy damage.
Aerys, Cloony, Mosi
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Lizard
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Baelir, Lormo, Albawar, Kasia
"Hey, this is an interesting and poisoned creature as well", said Lormo taking his sap and moving to lizard. "Too bad, I haven't finished cage yet, but I think I can keep him on leash for a while".
Kasia casts Bless and readies her trident.
The half-orc stirs awake at the sound of lizard.
"Wha... lizard? I'll get my morningstar, but then it's back to bed."
Baelir stands up and grabs his morningstar from nearby.
No armor, no shield, might as well act like the barbarian my race is known for.
He grasps the morningstar in two hands waiting for a chance to attack.
Aerys moves back from comeback though still keeping in front.
Aerys, Cloony, Mosi
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Lizard
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Baelir, Lormo, Albawar, Kasia
"Here, have another."
The lizard does not like getting hit by blasts of ice and goes for the gnome.
"HEY! That is highly inappropriate behavior! Shoo, shoo!"
Lormo swinged wide against running lizard and landed a solid blow with sap on creatures head.
Probably that distracted creature and it missed small gnome.
"Carefully, don't kill him", said elf, moved close and hit animal again, "he will take place in my poisonous zoo.".
Aerys, Cloony, Mosi
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Lizard
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Baelir, Lormo, Albawar, Kasia
They want a zoo? Well, I might as well try.
The half orc aims his next blow carefully trying not to hurt the beast.
"The second it actually bites someone I will not be using such a light touch."
nonlethal.
Disturbed by the sudden attack, Kasia moves in to poke the lizard in the side.
Aerys will be keeping her distance and stands between Mosi and the lizard.
Aerys, Cloony, Mosi
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Lizard
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Baelir, Lormo, Albawar, Kasia
"I have no intent to become lizard lunch. Pardon me..."
Cloony uses withdraw to make maximum space between him and the lizard.
Mosi's shots dowsns the lizard. It goes limp after the last arrow struck it.
"Hooray", announces Lormo, "this one will be easier to bind and he definitely won't die without me looking."
For a moment, elf inspected his new friend and than took one of the ropes and tree branch and made a sliding knot around lizards mouth. He was so deep into doing all stuff so switched into teacher mode and started to speak with invisible audience:
"- So, as you can see, I put branch here, and this rope does not allow lizard to move it out of his mouth. Being unable close his mouth, he is unable to chew the rope and eventually become free."
That way tree branch He tied another knot one other piece of rope and used that as a collar around lizard's neck. He paid attention to measure, how big is lizard's throat and took some precautions, so his new inhabitant does not kill himself.
"- Look at those knots, both look ugly, but this one is specially to protect creature's breathing. I think, as soon as I make a second cage, I will untie him, but for a while, it will be living on short leash."
Than professor Lormo walked to tree a tree nearby, bringing unconcious lizard with him and tied lizard to tree.
"- Now comes a beauty time," announce elf, walking back to his equipment.
This done, he brought whetstone out of his bag and took someone's dagger. It took him sometime, but now this lizard was definitely less dangerous - his short nails were cut and trimmed and polished, so he was unable to use them for damaging someone.
After that done, he returned to breakfast preparation.
Kasia goes back to her bed and yawns. Then she tries to fall asleep with her weapon in-hand
Baelir wanders back to his hammock.
"Keep your zoo away from those of us sleeping and I think the lizards will be very helpful. I'm going to catch some more sleep before my shift."
Resting his morningstar against a tree the half orc nimbly rolls into his hammock and begins to snore softly.
"Oh, thank you, Mosi", Lormo accepts help, "wanna see, how I plan to get poison from lizard?"
"As fascinating a specimen it might be, i'm going to sleep, i would like to know more later Lormo."
Cloony goes to sleep again, if nothing pops up again.
Asssuming a fairly uneventful early morning, Kasia will wake up and then try to collect dew from nearby plants. She stoops with a clay mug, draining water from the leaves into the receptacle while murmuring sweetly to the plants.
whispered, "Good morning ficus. Good morning moss."
Cloony rubs the sleep from his eyes.
"Good....good morning all. So good no other animal decided to attack us. But miss Mosi, should we not eat first before venturing out?"
The half-orc rolls out of his hammock, still half asleep Baelir does not look his best. It takes more than charm to make his appearance match his personality.
"Is everyone still here? Is everyone alright?"
A few moments later after rubbing the sand out of his eyes and donning his coat and hat he looks a little more awake. Stretching his long arms he looks around and scratches his back.
"Any chance anybody has coffee or tea aside from myself?"
"I'd like to have some wine," laughed Lormo, "but we don't have such opportunity my friends. If anyone have knowledge of geography, I'd like to gather us all and combine our facts about this place. Miss Mosi, you mentioned being on ship as part of crew, might be you have chance to see captain's maps? Does anyone know, where the major ship routes go?"
Lormo opened his map and started draw part of it, including island, it in bigger scale on sand land.
"So, this is our island... It looks like a lock and here is a keyhole. The inner sea means less interest for us. And we are on the northern part of island. So, if we move west, we should end here..."
"If the rest is prepared, sure."
He looks up at a small figure above.
"That includes you.", he says to the canary staring at the group.
Stroking the stubbles on his chin Baelir nods.
"We should get going then. Until we meet again ladies."
He bows while removing his hat in large sweeping gestures before grabbing his pack and sack.
"I am prepared to go."
Before leaving Lormo spend some time tendering his pets and talked to guys in camp.
Just as leaving, he got a word for other castaways:
"My dear friends, we are here on this island, but this is not the end of the world. I'm not a best in oratory, but I can just summarise what we have achieved. We have build a camp, we have some food, and water, and limited medical supplies. We have tools to work and weapons to fight. This island is full of different animals and they are not afraid to come close. So we can hunt and gather. We are going to do some recon. We need to discover what territories lie nearby and may be it will be beneficial for us to move our camp there. We need to look for other survivors, that might need our help"
He had a sip from his flask and continued:
"You've seen. We have fights and then return. We are determined for our small camp to grow. And you are very important part of all it. I have two hands and one head, and I determined to put all my inspiration into building us a better future. I'm more a mentor, than you captain, leading by example, so I have several small tasks I would like you to complete, while we are away.".
He looked at red-haired girl:
"Sasha, i'd like to ask you to checkout for food nearby. Don't go far, but I've seen some synsepalum dulcificum, sometimes they are called miracle fruit. As well, if you see some cucumis metuliferus, called as horned melon, because it is yellow and horned, please grab couple, but I'm not sure if it is season for those."
Than he looked at gnome:
"Gelik, I would like you to organise a healthy rest here for others, you are good with your stories, so it will keep team spirit up. Of course, don't forget to store some fresh water, since day might be hot"
Elf noded to half-elf:
"Aerys, I admire your fighting skills. You were very brave in fight with that lizard, so you probably can look stay on watch and fight if wild animals attack. Keep an eye on my zoo, please, I do not expect them to be awake soon, but while I am away just look that they are ok. If you like to use it, here is my long sword; this might be better than just punching and kicking against wild things. As well, I can leave 5 bolts, if someone has a crossbow. If not, you can use them in melee as well, but it is not the best weapon"
And to Ishirou:
"As I heard, you set some traps around camp last night, so, I think it would be nice if you could guide us throughout them, so we don't ruin your work. It was great idea, but we need to arrange some kind of secret symbols, so when we return, we do not fell in one of pits. I think we can discuss it in evening, might be some ideas, will come as we settle"
Jask was only, who wash't assign on specific duty.
"My friend, we have brought some stuff from ship, which has not been sorted yet. I'd like you to look through and put aside anything we could use for healing: bandages, clean sheets, any herbs or alcohol. Please, keep an eye on everyone around, I expect that sun might be harsh and they might need to get in shade. If someone get sunstroke, he need to be put in shade and drink lots of water."
After that, he looked at his friend and took a crossbow in his hands:
-I'm ready to go!
Cloony steps closer to Lormo as they walk.
"Have you always been such a smooth speaker, sort to speak?"
Lormo hesitated and blushed slightly.
"No, I have not", he answered, "I'm OK talking about things I know about: I have read or tried once. Talking smoothly is important in audience, with lots of students.. But today, I felt those people need to have something to hold on... and I was talking about our success as a sure thing, even if it is not... And since I forgot it is not sure, I was talking something.." his speech was more a collection of statements, than normal. Elf realized, he did something unknown to him before.
"Probably, I should ask someone to teach me basics of oratory and conversation dynamics", he resumed, "I always been sceptical about this social thing, but now I see it works. Probably, I need a lesson or two of theory to improve it."
"And intercultural interracial gender differences as well would be nice", he blinked to gnome, "or Baelir will win all the ladies"
"The basics on oratory and conversation....you are at the wrong gnome for that i must say. Now if it would be joking with people, then yes."
Being rather quiet for someone his size, Baelir wanders up behind Lormo and wraps one arm around his shoulder.
"I hear a lot of talking about theory but nothing about doing. Lormo it's decided. I am going to teach you how to live."
Looking back at the camp he smiles, even though the elf is still under his wing.
"You did a good thing, reassuring them of our success. That's a smart move, if you were the villainous type, which I hope you aren't, you would use that to gain leverage upon our success. Now then, as for us? We will use that to garner favor not favors. Any questions?"
The castaways are glad to have leader like you around. They find your speech encouraging and are willing to follow whatever to tell them to do.
"Ah, not for a while.. I haven't summarize them all in my head yet", Lormo nodded to Baelir, while walking through sunlit jungle.
You move through the jungle with little difficulty, you see a few of the fauna, but they generally keep their distance. You been walking for two hours when you hear the waves coming louder in the west.
"Lormo, quite a variety of animals and plants here, most colorful."
"It looks like Mobola Plum actually.. As I heard, some Mwangi witches prepare a healing brew of these, but I don't know a full process"
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Mosi follows along, hopping someone can find their way back to camp.
Now I think of how to get back. I guess I should have been thinking about that earlier. Its to late now. Next time I will have to leave a trail to follow.
She appears to be thinking about everything but what is in the forest around her.