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Glencola Reef Mod Account ([personal profile] glencolans) wrote 2023-09-22 06:38 pm (UTC)

cashing in that promise I made when I accepted Rust's application

Day 024 ➜ Night 024
Starting Square: VII.S.7
Ending Square: VII.O.9
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:
  • a single tooth
  • plastic food wrapper
  • three taro roots
  • cleaned animal pelt - reptilian, but with weird patches of fur-like material around the edges
  • length of fishing line
  • a water chestnut
  • five handfuls of watermint
  • squirrel tail
  • two beer cans
  • five handfuls of wild rice
  • seven cattails
  • broken propeller blade

Rust's keen eyes don't see anything amiss as he travels along the river back to square VII.O.9. This section of the river further west is easily crossable; he should have no trouble doing so after he's done searching the old campsite. He has a little more trouble finding a suitable tree to climb in, since most of the ones in this square are trying to grow in waterlogged soil and seem kind of precarious in how they all lean towards the river, but he's easily able to find one that has an exposed, slightly uprooted base to bury Lalo's things. They disappear, unseen, while he's working on his art project in the side of the tree.

When Rust next turns around, he's met by a hulking creature - easily six and a half feet tall, biped, mostly long legs and bulky muscle, covered loosely in hide and leather clothes over rust-red, jagged scales. Its face, by comparison, is surprisingly smooth and flat, and is dominated by two sets of pitch black eyes. It's been standing behind him in complete silence for an indeterminant amount of time, maybe a foot away from his back.

This is all the detail Rust is able to take in before the creature lunges at him.

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