Ziphora takes a bite out if the smoked meat Mo is loading up. "Hmm, not bad, not bad..."She comments. "Pity there's no one alive to teach us the recipe." She then gobbles up all the smoked meat.
"DAMN RIGHT I WILL!" Hungry goes to the leader's corpse and bites off the hand with the ring, swallowing it, and also ripping out his throat to swallow the amulet in a similar fashion. Then he proceeds to dig into the remaining flesh of the corpse.
Ziphora winces and looks away from the ravening beast that is the Hungry One.
Watching Hungry devour the treasure, Beachhead says, "Someone is going to have to sift and find those when they pass through.
"Not it!"
Mo, wisely, waits until you're done eating before gathering together what's left. With Hungry ravenously devouring the bugbear leader's corpse, Ziphora finds that there's more smoked meats than she wants to eat all at once. The hill giant ends up dumping out a couple of the crates of nails and other boring stuff and cramming them full of smoked meat and horse meat, then using a tarp to bundle them up into something he could carry.
By the time all of this is done, the sun is already sinking below the horizon. Your belly is full (though Hungry, expert as he is at such things, could probably cram some more in if you let him), your mission is complete, and the day is almost over.
I bet these nails and ropes would be useful for the humans, since they're building a bridge. These other valuables from the chest must be worth lots as well. Let's see if we can't stockpile them and sell them for a chance to see someone whose got more that's worth buying. Tomorbataar says, wincing when Mo pours them on the dirt.
Tomorbataar takes a few bites of horse, eventually stripping a piece of chewy flesh and gnawing on it for a while, which keeps him quiet. As the sun goes down, Tomorbataar looks around for a moment before remembering the bed. Can you use that magic cleaning spell to fix the bed? Tomorbataar says, eyeing the smelly bugbear corpses. I don't want to sleep in the same bed a corpse slept in unless it's been thoroughly cleaned.
Tomorbataar votes to sleep before returning to the lizards.
Poke,
Poke,
Tomorbataar lets out a sigh of relief each time he is healed, wow...maybe you casters have a place after all. Between this and the cleaning spell, it's like there's nothing you can't do.
"Can they do this?"
Beachhead makes a noise that sounds uncannily like a starling.
Ziphora curiously looks at him."Could you sound like a flute?" Then we could all dance to the music!"
"No..." Beachhead says with disappointment in his voice before brightening up, "Oooh! Maybe we can teach Mo!"
Beachhead envisions a scenario where they find Mo a flute, and then spend a few hours in a sun-kissed glade telling Mo to "Okay, now make a sound like this!"
Beachhead votes to sleep here, within necksreach of the horsemeat.
Hungry continues to gnaw at the bugbear leader's corpse and gets Mo to bring other corpses into his, and regrettably, the others' reach.
[ooc]I'm fine sleeping here but...[/oob]
You guys...can someone please clean this bed for me? Tomorbataar looks around, increasingly distressed.
Ziphora helpfully goes over to the bed and gives it a few blows of her breath, depositing some hydra saliva on it.
[ooc]I'm fine sleeping here but...[/oob]
You guys...can someone please clean this bed for me? Tomorbataar looks around, increasingly distressed.
"How 'bout you clean it yourself?" Hothead mumbles half-asleep.
Hungry tiredly and quickly casts through all of his cantrips. With an air of condescention, "Nope. Looks like I can't help you, Tom.
Tomorbataar looks closely at the bed again, then back and forth from the bed at each and every one of the heads. He begins to look quite desperate, and as Hungry begins cycling through his spells Tomorbataar looks downright frantic. When he gets to the last one Tomorbataar looks at him for a long moment, then suddenly starts shaking his head back and forth very quickly, which he does for a moment, until suddenly he vomits all over the ground.
Oh dear...we need to find a river...a river...we need water.
"Come on, Tom, you can just bunk in with us, you don't need no fancy bed!" Ziphora chimes in.
"But if we drink water right before bed, we might have to pee!" Beachhead whines.
Eventually, you manage to get your sleeping accommodations to be to everyhead's satisfaction (Mo helps), and you settle down to sleep. In spite of Hungry's constant gnawing on more of the bugbear corpses in the middle of the night--it's not clear if he wakes up to do this or if he's actually literally eating in his sleep--you get a pretty good night's rest.
You do feel even more full in the morning than you did when you went to sleep, though.
Mo is still asleep when you start waking up in the morning. He's propped up against a corner of the stockade, snoozing away as the sun rises in the sky.
"Oh god...Hungry, that is disgusting. Do you ever stop eating?" Ziphora remarks as she sees Hungry sleepeating.
"Mo, wake up!"
Vote to move hydra body over so that Zip can tickle Mo
Tomorbataar spends a substantial amount of time rinsing the sheets in the stream, long enough that the moon has risen when he withdraws them. He shivers at the silt which has collected in the sheet before rinsing it out more, this time rinsing his head as well.
After a long while Tomorbataar ends up lying in a soaking wet bed, shivering, and listening to Hungry eat all night. He doesn't sleep much.
Come on, time to wake up.
Tomorbataar votes to move toward Mo.
Beachhead votes to move to Mo.
"Hngh... Just five more minutes..."
Hothead votes to press snooze.
Hungry keeps gnawing on the bugbear chunck he has in his mouth. "hnghgnghnghng... "
"Oi! Lazy bums, WAKE UP!"
Ziphora summons gale force winds around her and moves near all the Sleepyheads.
Breezy... sleepy...
Dru-head votes snooze.
Beachhead decides to try a tactic of annoyance, repeatedly yelling "WAAAKE UUUUUUUUUUP!" in a flat, nasally tone of voice until all of the heads wake up.
Hothead mutters something rather obscene, casts silence on himself, and resumes sleeping.
*nose poke*
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*nose poke*
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Votes to walk to the stream so I can suck up water and dump it on the sleepyheads. Failing that, we dump the sleepyheads in the stream.
Mo starts awake at the commotion just before it's silenced. He looks over at you in confusion, and says something... but thanks to Hothead you can't hear it.
Hungry angrily rises and 'shouts', "___ ___ ____ __ ______! ____, ___ __ __ ___ _____?!?!" Hungry looks angrily at Hothead and 'shouts', "____ __ ______ _____________, _______!!!!" Then bites Hothead as hard as he can.
Voting to sleep:
• Dru-Head
• Hothead
• Hungry (he's awake now, but he hasn't updated his vote)
Voting to wake up and move to Mo:
• Beachhead
• Tomorbataar
Voting to wake up and move to the stream:
• Ziphora
Beachhead will switch his vote to move to the stream, if that will get us moving somewhere.
This snooze *grumpble* five more minutes...
Dru-head votes to get up in a Mo-ward direction.
Hothead is finally woken up by Hungry's clumsy attempt at biting. "___... _____ __________? ___ ___ ___ ___ __________ __ ____? __ ____, _____ ____ ________ _____ _____ __ ______ _______ ____, _____ __ ____ ___ __,"
Vote to go wake Mo up.
You start making your way over to Mo, who looks a bit confused as he stands up. He speaks again, pointing at you, but you still can't hear him.
Ziphora bonks Hothead on his head, with her head.