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Glencola Reef Mod Account ([personal profile] glencolans) wrote 2023-10-23 05:02 pm (UTC)

Night 033 ➜ Morning 034
Starting Square: VII.I.6
Ending Square: VII.K.8
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:
  • lighter (empty)
  • bear trap, already sprung
  • partial bottle of lighter fluid
  • hand grinder
  • snapped bowstring
  • metal shiv
  • small bottle of lighter fluid
  • eight morel mushrooms
  • small paring knife
  • belt buckle
  • a caocao pod
  • two broken arrows
  • six cloves
  • candy bar wrapper
  • coconut waterskin

Rust does not hear anything during his nighttime watches; the forest is awash with various animal noises, mostly bugs and the occasional hooting owl, but otherwise nothing suspicious.

His search to the northeast of the cabin doesn't reveal much in the way of subtle clues, but he does get a few overt ones. The already sprung bear trap is conspicuously left out in the open, and the two broken arrows are close to it, still embedded in a nearby tree. A trail of blood spatter leads from this square (VII.K.7) to VII.K.8, and then further west, directly through the field of trees towards square VII.J.8. The smell of smoke has mostly stopped at this point, fading gradually over the course of the morning rather than getting stronger or weaker by proximity, and Rust does spot what looks like a suitable observation tree in square VII.K.7.

With his injury, it takes Rust the entire morning to thoroughly search these squares and make it to the meetup point.

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