RE: Aluudon [DF]
05-14-2013, 03:14 AM
Thriggle's Log: 1st Hematite, 251, Early Summer
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Dear Diary,
Progress continues on the sewer tunnel. All that's left is to clear the rocks and gems out of it, then we'll start digging for the spring beneath the oasis.
![[Image: layer3-4_zps828f5b07.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/layer3-4_zps828f5b07.png)
I hope there actually is an aquifer under that green patch.
Dear Diary,
Progress continues on the sewer tunnel. All that's left is to clear the rocks and gems out of it, then we'll start digging for the spring beneath the oasis.
![[Image: layer3-4_zps828f5b07.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/layer3-4_zps828f5b07.png)
I hope there actually is an aquifer under that green patch.
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Guess what, Diary?
We finally saw something worth shooting at in the desert today!
![[Image: giantdeserttortoise_zpsbd6e824d.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/giantdeserttortoise_zpsbd6e824d.png)
![[Image: giantdeserttortoise2_zps5a324900.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/giantdeserttortoise2_zps5a324900.png)
An enormous tortoise! It would feed us for months!
I watched from the top of the stairs as Schazer grabbed her crossbow and ran into the desert. Schazer pursued the beast for a little ways--it was surprisingly fast, for a tortoise. She took aim with her crossbow and fired:
![[Image: shotsfired_zpscfc87582.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/shotsfired_zpscfc87582.png)
A glancing blow, but I was sure the next shot would ring true.
Alas… she…
Guess what, Diary?
We finally saw something worth shooting at in the desert today!
![[Image: giantdeserttortoise_zpsbd6e824d.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/giantdeserttortoise_zpsbd6e824d.png)
![[Image: giantdeserttortoise2_zps5a324900.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/giantdeserttortoise2_zps5a324900.png)
An enormous tortoise! It would feed us for months!
I watched from the top of the stairs as Schazer grabbed her crossbow and ran into the desert. Schazer pursued the beast for a little ways--it was surprisingly fast, for a tortoise. She took aim with her crossbow and fired:
![[Image: shotsfired_zpscfc87582.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/shotsfired_zpscfc87582.png)
A glancing blow, but I was sure the next shot would ring true.
Alas… she…
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Spoiler![[Image: thirsty_zps37807e0c.gif]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/thirsty_zps37807e0c.gif)
She got thirsty and gave up.
Fine.
FINE.
If she can't keep pace with a tortoise, of all things, I guess she was serious about needing those cage traps.
Since we have enough beds now, I've asked Tripps to make some cactus-rib cages for our esteemed hunter. I suppose I could let her use those seven copper bolts we have too, though we still haven't found any metals with which to replace them.
I shouldn't be too hard on Schazer… I can't expect any of us to stay in that desert heat for long.
But what can we do? Build some sort of a hunting shack with barrels of booze in the middle of the desert?
…Hmm.
![[Image: thirsty_zps37807e0c.gif]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/thirsty_zps37807e0c.gif)
She got thirsty and gave up.
Fine.
FINE.
If she can't keep pace with a tortoise, of all things, I guess she was serious about needing those cage traps.
Since we have enough beds now, I've asked Tripps to make some cactus-rib cages for our esteemed hunter. I suppose I could let her use those seven copper bolts we have too, though we still haven't found any metals with which to replace them.
I shouldn't be too hard on Schazer… I can't expect any of us to stay in that desert heat for long.
But what can we do? Build some sort of a hunting shack with barrels of booze in the middle of the desert?
…Hmm.
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Dear Diary,
Operation Outsmart-A-Tortoise is underway.
I'm having the miners scrape away the slopes of the northwest sand dune so that any critters that want to come down from it will have to go through one of a number of bottlenecks. With wooden cages by Tripps and some obsidian mechanisms that Doctor Palamedes built in his spare time, we'll trap that wily tortoise next time she comes around.
![[Image: cagetraps_zps6e1316a7.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/cagetraps_zps6e1316a7.png)
In other news, the farm is now in operation. Nobody really wants to plant or till it, but I think it's a good safeguard in case the supply caravan gets delayed. Tripps, Schazer, and Palamedes planted when they had free time, which, for Schazer, has been ever since the tortoise ran away.
![[Image: layer1-2_zpscc57495d.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/layer1-2_zpscc57495d.png)
She and Tripps have also taken up fishing pond turtles from the small murky pond to the north of our entrance. Perhaps by murdering her smaller, aquatic cousins, we'll provoke the giant desert tortoise to return, seeking vengeance.
I also gave orders for a depot to be built to receive the supply caravan, but everyone seems too busy to handle it. Guess I'll have to get out of my chair and do it myself.
Dear Diary,
Operation Outsmart-A-Tortoise is underway.
I'm having the miners scrape away the slopes of the northwest sand dune so that any critters that want to come down from it will have to go through one of a number of bottlenecks. With wooden cages by Tripps and some obsidian mechanisms that Doctor Palamedes built in his spare time, we'll trap that wily tortoise next time she comes around.
![[Image: cagetraps_zps6e1316a7.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/cagetraps_zps6e1316a7.png)
In other news, the farm is now in operation. Nobody really wants to plant or till it, but I think it's a good safeguard in case the supply caravan gets delayed. Tripps, Schazer, and Palamedes planted when they had free time, which, for Schazer, has been ever since the tortoise ran away.
![[Image: layer1-2_zpscc57495d.png]](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/thriggle/Aluudon/layer1-2_zpscc57495d.png)
She and Tripps have also taken up fishing pond turtles from the small murky pond to the north of our entrance. Perhaps by murdering her smaller, aquatic cousins, we'll provoke the giant desert tortoise to return, seeking vengeance.
I also gave orders for a depot to be built to receive the supply caravan, but everyone seems too busy to handle it. Guess I'll have to get out of my chair and do it myself.