You are a primitive human (Forum game)

[Cruzaeus]

Whats a "Deadfall" never hear that term befor?

Since you're being lazy, so will I. Here is an excerpt taken directly from a wikipedia entry on animal traps. "A deadfall is a heavy rock or log that is tilted on an angle and held up with sections of branches (sticks), with one of them that serves as a trigger. When the animal moves the trigger which may have bait on or near it, the rock or log falls, crushing the animal."

[MrPillow]

Before going to bed I make a sketch in my head of the type of trap I want to make. I know that I could get larger animals by setting up a system of triggering a rock to crush a passing animal. I figure that in order to catch smaller animals I would need to create a snare that could trap the animal in a vine, although I'm not sure how effective a vine would be. I will have to observe the dimensions of my materials at hand and of the vines in the nearby trees in order to continue. This all seems very complicated and I hope I don't accidentally walk into one of my own traps.

[YetiChow]

I consider both kinds of traps, and decide to make both as there is plenty of light left. I then try to make a sling using a piece of vine and some bark, but don't spend very much time on it as it's likely to fail. I check to see if the mushroom appears to have grown overnight, and then stealtihly check that the rabbit is still around.

OOC: Thanks for backing me up on the mushroom Cruzaeus - although when you say around 4% of mushrooms are lethal, only one of those grows in caves in temperate areas - in fact, very few cave mushrooms are dangerous at all; some will make you quite sick, but that passes quickly. The only place where mushrooms growing in caves tend to be dangerously toxic is in tropical areas - but then most thing in tropical areas are toxic anyway . But yeah, lichen is probably a better move for now. Oh, and Chicken of the Forest mushrooms have lookalikes in some areas, which make you so ill you vomit blood for days - I'm sure you could tell the difference in real-life, but i would still reccommend that we be cautious with every new food - it doesn't matter how good you are in real life when your fate is decided by a dice roll.

Plus, I don't think you sound condescending. I think you sound like you know what you're talking about, and have actually thought your moves through before posting them - nothing wrong with that in my opinion (although I realise this might make me sound a little condescending )

Also, the first rule of setting snares or traps is that more is always better. The more you set, the higher your chances are of one working; though deadfalls tend to be a lot more hit and miss than snares

[Aduvash]

You consider following the rabbit but you're too impatient for that so you fling your spear at it and it hits! Yay! You bring the rabbit back to your cave and gather up the tinder in a pile ready to be lit. You also consider checking a piece of the mushroom for any characteristics, but you don't know anything about mushrooms! So you just nom it, not bad... Or maybe it is... Oh well, you can see if you feel ill later. You decide to hit the hay and see if you can build a trap tomorrow. When you wake up you see fire.

Items:
1 Loincloth: Equipped
1 Basket: Alright
1 Hatchet: Poor
1 Wooden Spear: Normal

Health:
Hunger: Hungry
Thirst: Thirsty
Drowsiness: Well rested
Wounds: None

House:
Bed: Thatch
Mushroom: Growing
1 Unit of Tinder
4 Stones: Rough
2 Units of Nuts: Round
3 Small Branches
1 Flint
1 Rabbit: Raw

Notes:I'm having some problems with my computer so it's laggy and sometimes it freezes; so I'll have to update at most once a day, but my new hard drive should arrive soon. I also really don't know why you people went mushroom crazy the moment I mentioned there was a mushroom in the cave.

[Flaming_Donut]

[b] although when you say around 4% of mushrooms are lethal

OOC:OOOOo sorry mate what confused me was the 92% likely we die from the first one and 92% of mushrooms are toxic enough to make you sick. sorry for me mixing up words
Also "When you wake up you see fire." spiderite i forgot to put out the fire didnt i im sad now (DON'T DIE ON ME DAMIT)

When you see a fire you try and look for an opening through the cave you push all your stuff to the back wall and head to the pound with your bucket to try and get a bit of water to put it out. even if your bucket can't hold water you decide to risk the quality and get as much water to the fire as possible.

OOC:i decided to risk the bucket to save the home and nearby trees and who knows maybe it will uncover something.

[Aduvash]

You go to put out the fire but then you realize that you didn't lit one last night and also that the forest outside is on fire.

Items:
1 Loincloth: Equipped
1 Basket: Alright
1 Hatchet: Poor
1 Wooden Spear: Normal

Health:
Hunger: Hungry
Thirst: Thirsty
Drowsiness: Well rested
Wounds: None

House:
Bed: Thatch
Mushroom: Growing
1 Unit of Tinder
4 Stones: Rough
2 Units of Nuts: Round
3 Small Branches
1 Flint
1 Rabbit: Raw

Notes:I decided to check the forum and saw that someone posted and I clicked on it and then my computer froze... Oh well, I restarted it to give you a quick update.

[Sharpscope]

I just noticed my problom with my post my bad.

Get away from the forest fire looking for a gap inbetween the forest fire.

EDIT: ^^ Edited my command sence the owner hasent actually looked at it yet ;P

May i suggest adding a new stat? I'm thinking of a sort of moral/Will to move on kind of stat. It starts off at 50 meaning your not immoral nor as your very moral. your just inbetween meaning you do things and normal speed. The more bad things that hapen the lower your moral goes. The more good things that happen the higher your moral goes. If your moral goes to 0 the person will suicide or do things INSANELY SLOW. aka chopping a tree with a axe is not really an option because it takes fairly long with an hatchet normally imagine if you were immoral.

So if your moral is low you do things slower. if its high you do things faster. But how would you increase/decrease your moral?

EXAMPLE OF GOOD THING HAPPENING:

Crafted an Good + Quallity Item. (+10 Moral)
Having stock piles of stuff (food water) so you know you have a safety net for that specific issue, (+15 Moral)


EXAMPLE OF BAD THING HAPPENING;
Crafting a Bad - Quallity Item. (-5 moral)
Getting poisoned/Starving/Dehydrated/injured badly. (-10 Moral)

And so on.

Hopefully this was a good thing suggestion also my first one on the forums so if its out of wack useless just tell me

[Flaming_Donut]

You go to put out the fire but then you realize that you didn't lit one last night

"While mulling over the problem I also arrange my tinder into a small campfire" yeah we did or some one said we did

[doom101]

You go to put out the fire but then you realize that you didn't lit one last night

"While mulling over the problem I also arrange my tinder into a small campfire" yeah we did or some one said we did

ooc:yes but in the turn we didn't actually light it we just put it in a pile. im not sure how we should handle a forest fire, theoretically our cave is made of stone so we should be safe to just hide in there i mean i doubt we can stop a forest fire with a wooden spear and a stone hatchet the only problem i could see is our cave filling with smoke and suffocating us. regardless i say we as the players take a small vote on how to handle this before we proceed we don't need to die now.

[YetiChow]

OOC: Nooo, never hide in a cave during a forest fire - the smoke will rush in due to the low pressure (the fire heats the air outside, making it high pressure. The cave air is cooler, so it's lower pressure - the sun creates the same effect which is why we get weather) and you will die horribly from suffocation Staying near the fire is suicide at the moment, but soon it could turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Hundreds of small animals will be racing away from the fire - they won't care about you because they're too busy fleeing, so they are easy to catch (Australian Aboriginies set forest fires regularly to burn of overgrown bushland, so they use this technique all the time and it works well). Also, water is just as dangerous as the fire is - most of the toxic gasses are hydrophillic (attracted to water), and the water is probably boiling anyway; or at least hot enough to scald. I am a Dinky-Di Aussie, and any Aussie (even city-slickers like myself) who doesn't know basic bushfire safety will have a tough time come bushfire season (i.e. most of the year)

Here's my move suggestion:

I quickly assess where the wind is blowing from, then go to the mouth of the cave. I look for a gap in the fire, and If I find one I run through it and run like spiderite in the opposite direction to the wind. When the fire has moved on I come back to check if anything surived, in the meantime I keep an eye out for fleeing animals I can easily catch because they are terrified and distracted. All the time I search for water, but if I find some I don't stop or go anywhere near it. If I find any I remember its location so I can come back later. I find an area where the fire has been burned out for a long time and stay there until it's safe to go back to the cave.