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RE: Scouting Adventure - Game 48 - Day 39 (May 12, 2020)
I sent you the carcass of the deer (hide and bones/guts) @erikaflynn, so your inventory is full. You need to choose if you wish to keep the deer carcass or the aluminum tubes you just found. If you don't want the deer carcass, please send it back to me.
I was just about to ask you what does that carcass consist of, but you beat me to it with your answer:)
I like an idea of making a tunic or maybe something else of the deer's hide. That's why the carcass will stay in my inventory when the tubes will be left behind.
For now, I have no clue what to do with the bones, so I gonna leave them in the bunk-house. If you need it for your crafts I can give you some for free.
Thanks for the response and offer. I was thinking we could make tools from the bones and antlers, or perhaps even some armor, but anything I can think of would be harder to make than if using wood or materials we already have. I can't think of anything I would use the carcass for but that doesn't mean someone else can't come up with a good idea. I did some research on using guts to make string but it requires a lot of work, time and some chemicals. Apparently, violin strings are made from animal guts, but the string is rather stiff and probably affected by moisture.
I was also thinking to cut the deer hide into strips to use as a replacement for string, but I believe deer hide is not very strong so would be a poor substitute. Cow hide or bear hide would be stronger. Since we don't have any cows here, I think I may have to kill a bear because even with 2 chances out of 6 to find string, it is still a rare commodity.
With 30 life, a bear is not going to be easy to kill.
I was also thinking about a bear, the deer guts and horns, and how can all this be applied... and the only thing that came to my mind is to make a trapping pit. It seems to me that defeating a bear will be much easier and safer for us when it is localized and limited in its actions. For example, when it falls into a pit.
According to my plan, the horns together with a few pointed wooden stakes could be placed at the bottom of the pit with a sharp edge up. The guts could serve as a bait. But making a trap requires a lot of work, I mean digging and searching for branches to cover the pit. Here I came to the point that it have to be a team work, not a one person. But we have a competitive game...
Wow! That's actually a good plan for catching a bear. You are correct in the fact that it would take considerable work to collect enough branches to cover a pit that first had to be dug without a shovel. It would definitely be safer than attacking a bear. However, if we can convince others to help build a pit/trap for a portion of the reward then it should be just as easy to recruit others to help kill the bear by attacking it. I was hoping others would be making armor so that several of us can go after a bear together. Although it is a competitive game, there is no reason we can't help each other out for mutual gains.
If 6 people attack the bear all using spears and strength potions, each of us only needs to average 1 hit to kill the bear before it can attack us.
5 damage x 6 hits = 30 damage!
Each person could then get 3 food and 1/6 of the hide, 3 claws and a few teeth plus some bones and guts. Perhaps the incentive to kill a bear would be to make an amulet from 3 teeth/claws, some string and an enchantment to give -1 to hit for the wearer. Better yet, Another could give +1 to hit so that with 2 amulets, the wearer gets protection in being harder to hit and also accuracy in removing 1 point of to-hit from the target!