[2/3] Koror 2016/10/22(Sat)16:44 No. 754740 ID: 395c02
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>"Let's see, we went over controls, you said you guys had something figured out for fuel already, maintenance is straightforward and I told you how to pull up the instructions if you needed them... Well, uh, like I said, this thing should be able to handle itself. The navigation AI is a little... antiquated, but for just getting from point A to point B you shouldn't have any trouble. You said you guys cleared out a landing space, right?"
"Yeah, we did."
>"Remember, you'll have to land manually, but it'll walk you through it. Real easy. ... Well. Uh. Any questions for me?"
"Not that I can think of."
>"Right. Uh. Good luck, kid."
"... Thanks, I guess?"

Kid??

... I have already forgotten that guy's name. Oops.

[3/3] Koror 2016/10/22(Sat)16:45 No. 754741 ID: 395c02
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Oh well.

Man.

This is so cool. I never thought I'd actually get to fly anything.

... I mean, even if I am pretty much just sitting here making sure the autopilot doesn't quit on me. I'm still up in the air!

If autopilot's on, do a little dance to celebrate!

Well, hello, little red tourist dude! How are you doing?

Also, do you happen to know where we are or where we are going?

>>754741
Where are you going?

>>754741
You're totally crashing in the wilderness surrounded by horror monsters, aren't you.

So, before the inevitable happens: what are you supposed to be doing with this thing? Your hive bought an aircraft and you're flying it home?

Hello, we are your navigation AI. How are you today?

(unless we're not, in which case...)

look around the ship.

Hey this seems like it might be a nice trip, maybe somewhere Tropical or Jungle-y?

Well might as well run some flight checks. See if the cargo has shifted and double check all the systems.

Then sit back and enjoy the view for awhile.

When we scheduled to land anyway?

And now to bust out the most overused line that has ever been spoken on any kind of trip: "Are we there yet?"

Listen here Koror, and remember well, this is very important. No matter what anyone ever tell you, your hat is a perfectly normal size, it is NOT too small for your head and it looks great on you. Plus, it keeps the sun out of your eyes. Never take it off.

Whip it out and jack off the side into the ocean.

Find Map.

Koror 2016/10/23(Sun)18:12 No. 754960 ID: 395c02
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>You're totally crashing in the wilderness surrounded by horror monsters, aren't you.
I sure hope not! I don't think horror monsters live on small volcanic islands, though.

>Never take your hat off.
Of course not! Besides, I don't like how bigger hats pin my ears down.

>See if the cargo has shifted and double check all the systems.
I mean... I guess I really did forget his name already... but he walked me through all that stuff when I actually took off. So it's taken care of!

There's nothing in the cargo hold right now, anyway.

>Where are you going?
That's a silly question to be asking myself! My hive just bought this thing, and I'm the closest we have to a pilot, so I'm heading back to the island we live on.

>Are we there yet?
This thing is not super fast so it'll probably be another hour and a half. I think. A while, anyway.

How do you pronounce your name? Core-er? Ko-Roar?

set up a bucket trap above the door for the inspection crew.

So whats the plan for the ship once you get back? Going to use it to transfer good your hive makes to market? Shuttle people around?

Do you have a spot to park it back home? Might be a good idea to make sure you have a good landing spot beforehand.

>>754962
Personally, I assumed it rhymes with "horror".

>I'm the closest we have to a pilot, so I'm heading back to the island we live on
If your hive doesn't have anyone trained as a pilot, what are you doing buying a plane?

If you're not a pilot, what's close to one? I mean, what are you / what do you do?

How big is your hive, anyways? Do you focus or specialize in anything?

Take a look at the dials and gauges. Everything coming up green?

An hour huh? maybe check out the instructions to pass the time since we have nothing better to do.

Well, it looks we are in for a long while of nothing. Not even clouds in the sky; just the sun and waves for [distance units].

Did you have something you planned to do during this hour and a half? Maybe you should just set an alarm and nod off for a bit.

What could possibly go wrong?

>>754960
Ah! There's an evil looking face on the steering wheel! Punch it to honk the horn!

Dance giddily and tell us about your hive.

>>754960
>I don't think horror monsters live on small volcanic islands, though.
I got bad news for you mate: they're called Isla Nublar and Monster Island.

Put on the radio!

Koror 2016/10/25(Tue)17:10 No. 755374 ID: 395c02
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>How do you pronounce your name? Core-er? Ko-Roar?
It's the second one.

>they're called Isla Nublar and Monster Island
Those do not sound like real places. Well, maybe that second one could be a theme park or something.

>set up a bucket trap above the door for the inspection crew.
The "inspection crew" is probably going to just be me and one other person, and knowing me, I'd forget I'd done it and then brain myself with the bucket or something.

>If you're not a pilot, what's close to one? I mean, what are you / what do you do?
I'm mostly the computers guy, but I've also sunk like four thousand hours into a reasonably accurate flight simulator, which is around four thousand more than anyone else on the island.

I mean, yes, it would have made more sense to get someone with flying experience and then buy a ship, but that's not how the actual opportunities to do either of those things worked out, and we have to take what we can get!

>So whats the plan for the ship once you get back?
Well, some of us are going to practice flying it, of course. But mostly it's just to reduce travel time to the other island that we can actually buy things from, which has been a pretty desperate problem for a while now since we don't really have that many good boats. And this was cheaper.

>Do you have a spot to park it back home? Might be a good idea to make sure you have a good landing spot beforehand.
That other guy specifically asked me about that already! We cleared some space. Plus, this thing can land vertically so we don't exactly need a lot of it.

>How big is your hive, anyways? Do you focus or specialize in anything?
There are several dozen of us right now! And I guess if we specialize in anything it's "being able to survive on a volcanic island in the middle of the ocean with minimal outside contact", so mostly we're good at fishing? I think we used to be some kind of logistics hive back before we fled here, but that's way before I was born. I've heard things were bad for a long time, really, but as long as I can remember we've been doing pretty much okay.

>Maybe you should just set an alarm and nod off for a bit.
But I'm actually in the sky, though. Why would I want to sleep through that?!

>Put on the radio!
I'm probably not gonna pick up too much out here! Wish I'd brought my own music, now.

Maybe I'll just look out the window for a while...

Watch out for the giant bird out there. Also for giant underwater kraken monsters.

Oh why did your hive flee to a island? Some sort of hive fight before uplift?

What's that in the distance? Is it a bird or something?

>>755374
Hey dude, what's that other thing in the sky, over there? Another plane? One of those giant moton birds? (I hope you shelled out for the acid resistant paint extra)!

Is flying not a normal thing for you? The vehicle you are in doesn't seem the most aerodynamic. Surely with technology like this flight is a simple thing?

So, what is your plan for fuel?
Also yeah birb.

Work out to pass the time. You can never have too much muscle.

>>755374
well it's a lovely cloudless day for looking out over the horizon, oh hey what's that?

This is exiting.
You are exited.
Jack off.

>>755374
There's something off in the distance coming straight for you! Quickly, activate the weapons in case it happens to be hostile! But don't shoot at it unless it attacks you first, it wouldn't feel right to shoot something that isn't hostile!

[1/2] Koror 2016/10/26(Wed)17:22 No. 755545 ID: 395c02
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>Oh why did your hive flee to a island? Some sort of hive fight before uplift?
No, after that, during the big ultrahive wars. We were pretty much a cog in the machine for... I forget the name of it but it's not around anymore. Anyway, my understanding is that, as the ultrahive's position got worse and worse, we started exploring different ways to get out before we ended up too directly involved in fighting. We went with the islands mostly because we happened to get ahold of a big oceangoing boat right around the time things got bad enough that we needed to make a quick decision.

In retrospect, it might have worked out better to try to line up with one of the other ultrahives instead, but we didn't think that would work out well at the time. Or something. I was born after we got to the island so it's not like I was actually there for any of this.

>Surely with technology like this flight is a simple thing?
Flight is a simple thing if you have consistent access to this level of technology, but we've been running mostly on whatever we managed to bring here, which is all decades old now, plus whatever we could trade for when our island actually did get visited, which wasn't often. I mean, that was kind of the point of hiding on a remote island.

And yeah, this is just an unimpressive little shuttle, but we haven't had a working air vehicle since before we got here, so we'll take what we can get.

>So, what is your plan for fuel?
We, uh, have some fuel already, because we have other vehicles that use the same kind of fuel as this thing. It's not a complicated "plan."

>Watch out for the giant bird out there.
>What's that in the distance? Is it a bird or something?
>One of those giant moton birds?
>oh hey what's that?
>Also yeah birb.
>There's something off in the distance coming straight for you!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, where is this paranoia coming from out of nowhere? That is a flock of small birds, not one giant bird.

>Quickly, activate the weapons in case it happens to be hostile!
I am not actually totally sure this thing is even armed. What's-his-name didn't mention anything about weapons. There's probably a place to put some, though.

But I really don't think I'm going to need—

[2/2] Koror 2016/10/26(Wed)17:23 No. 755546 ID: 395c02
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Incoming missile detected.

"What—"

Um. That's not good?

>>755546
Scramble to activate the shields or make evasive maneuvers or SOMETHING.

Do a barrel roll! No, not an aileron roll, a barrel roll! Geez!

Somebody does not like you.

Ok you had better find out if this thing has any anti air defense and fast.

If not you are probably going down. How far are you from your island? Also do you want to keep going there and possibly lead your attackers to your people?

Anyways for now figure out how to get this ship to defend itself or escape. Can it go under water?

Countermeasure flares!

That is why there's paranoia. Can this ship go underwater and get out again without sinking? That might shield it from the blast or confuse detection systems.

jump into the ocean then swim to shore.

Try to not panic and see if this ship can either A Take a beating Or
B Do something to either mislead or divert the missile.

Check where it's coming from, deploy chaff, check if you can go underwater or glide along for a while with the power off. Should fox it if it's locked on to your visually, thermally, or through some other way to detect your systems.

Oh, and at least take evasive measures. You've logged thousands of hours, you can do that, right?

>That is a flock of small birds, not one giant bird.
>Incoming missile detected.
>Um. That's not good?
I sure hope you were wrong in your earlier assessment, because otherwise that's a flock of missiles, not one. Which is very not good.

>what do
Ask yourself the important question: when they offered to sell you insurance, did you take them up on it, or pass on the offer? Because otherwise you may have lost an expensive investment.

If you have anti-air defenses, you want to activate them, now.

Hit the radio, put out a general mayday / distress call. Whoever is shooting at you already knows you're here- but I'm assuming the ultrahive wars have shaken out already? Whoever passes for a government now probably doesn't take kindly to people firing missiles at civilian aircraft. You might get a military response sent this way, or at least search and rescue if you go down.

And while you're at it, put out an offer to surrender on a general channel to your unknown attacker. Please, call off the missiles, you yield!

If you have a life vest, put it on, now. You're a neumono, if you get hit, you might survive the crash and explosion. You don't want to drown. ...although you don't want to exsanguinate either. Or get eaten by murder fishes.

If you have a parachute or a life raft, you probably want those too. If you're not going to be able to avoid the hit, you probably want to bail out rather than be inside when things explode.

Disengage autopilot, and take the wheel. You need evasion action and random walking now, not a predicable, easy to intercept path.

If they're tracking you by heat, you might be able to ditch them by cutting your engine and gliding. (Assuming this thing has wings that can glide and you're not dependent on anti-grav for lift).

If they're tracking you by radar, you can evade them by diving and flying as low as possible.

If this ship has anything like a competent AI than can fly it and deal with threats (and may have been turned off for safety) turn it on now.

Wait before you completely loose your shit check to make sure its not just the flock of birds setting off this old ships missile evasion alarms because they are badly calibrated.

You said this is a basic shuttle, so I don't know what it has in the way of countermeasures. Can you drop chaff? Does it maybe have ECMs? Last ditch effort might be flying close to the waves, but I honestly don't have any idea of how effective that is against the current technology.

People have suggested evasive maneuvers but given your lack of experience I doubt you could successfully evade a missile.

Oh, I just thought: if you are going to get shot down, you will probably lose any ability to send an SOS. Probably a good idea to do that immediately.

Run around in circles, screaming like an idiot! That usually works, right?

If it doesn't work, then go sit in the pilot seat and look at your controls for a button or a switch or something that looks like it'll help.

Bring the ship down to land on the surface of the ocean.
- If it's a dedicated anti-air missile, it's not going to be able to track an object floating on the surface of a sea (a surprisingly difficult problem)
- If it is good enough to do so, it's good enough to hit you despite any manoeuvres you might be able to make, so better to have it hit you when stationary rather than hit you then have the wreckage fall into the sea from height.
- If the shuttle is intended to work in space, then it is proof to at least 1ATM pressure, which means you may be able to submerge it up to 10m below the surface. That would be sufficient to minimise any damage a missile could do, even if it could track oyu underwater.

Getting back up again afterwards would depend on the capabilities of the shuttle, but better to be intact and floating than in bits and falling.

[1/5] Koror 2016/10/27(Thu)16:05 No. 755705 ID: 395c02
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What do I do?!

>so many things all at once
"Agh!"

Okay. Okay, I just need to take a second and try to clear my head, then go through this carefully.

[2/5] Koror 2016/10/27(Thu)16:05 No. 755706 ID: 395c02
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>Try to not panic.
Doing my best, given the circumstances, but I'm kind of amazed I can think straight at all!

>Did you take them up on insurance?
I hope someone back at home did but I didn't negotiate the contract or anything.

... Why am I thinking about insurance when there's a missile coming at me? Focus!

>Anti-air defenses!
>Activate the shields!
>Drop chaff!
>ECMs?
I really wish this ship had any of those right about now, but this is a civilian vehicle!

>Countermeasure flares!
It does have those. Not sure what good it'll do, but I guess I can just hit this button!

... And off they go into the ocean.

>Can this ship go underwater?
I was specifically told that that would be a very bad idea!

>Hit the radio!
That... actually, that's probably a good idea. The regular transmitter on this thing is... not great, apparently... but there's an emergency signaller that has a much better range, if I just find the switch...

"Emergency broadcast activated."

"There!" I have no idea if that'll do me any good, but I feel better for having done it!

>Where is the missile coming from?
>Make sure it's not just the birds.
If this blinking red dot on the screen is accurate, it's coming from almost directly behind me.

... Uh, alarmingly fast, actually. Crap.

>Life vest!
>Parachute!
They're over on the left by the door. This is so many things to try and do at once! Agh!

>Does this ship have a competent AI?
The guy didn't think very highly of it, but that could just be because he's used to more advanced stuff. Plus, I'm not sure how evasive this thing can really be, but I guess we'll find out?

Let's see if I can, uh...

"Switching to evasion mode..."
"ERROR: Evasion routines not installed. Returning to autopilot mode."

"You're kidding, right?" ... Well, that's not what I wanted to hear!

>Manual control!
I guess that's my only real option left! ... Oh boy.

Okay. I... I can do this. My hive sent me because I was the only one with any shot of being able to manually fly anything. If any of us could handle this situation, it's me. ZSim skills, don't fail me now!

The button is right here; I just have... to...

"Autopilot disabled. Manual controls engaged."

... This is way more terrifying in real life. I really hope I don't just drop this thing in—

"Incoming missile range critical."

>Dive!
Okay, uh, here goes nothing...

[3/5] Koror 2016/10/27(Thu)16:05 No. 755707 ID: 395c02
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"Aaaaaaagh!!"

[4/5] Koror 2016/10/27(Thu)16:06 No. 755708 ID: 395c02
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Level off, level off...

Wow that is a bit touchier than I was expecting it to be. But... I actually did it, I think! It looks like the missile sailed just over the shuttle.

[5/5] Koror 2016/10/27(Thu)16:06 No. 755709 ID: 395c02
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... wait, what's it—

"Incoming missile detected."
"Incoming missile range critical."

"Why?!"

It... turned around? Completely??

"Incoming missile detected."

"Oh, come on!" Another one?!

Well, keep going I guess. We have no real countermeasure and anything we can reasonably do gets shot down.

How bad an idea would going underwater be, specifically, and can it be any worse than getting blown up by a couple of mysterious missiles?

Any chance the missiles are your own hive's?

Failing anything else, keep evading or die, I guess.

>>755709
Do a barrel roll! Also head towards the nearest landmass. You're probably gonna get shot down eventually so you want to swim the least distance. Alternatively, jump ship immediately because you don't how how powerful those missiles are and they might just blow you up with the ship.

I hope you have a waterproof phone or something that can call for help once you get to land.

>>755709
think you can dodge these ones ace?

If not, I think however bad the water is, tanking one or two missiles is probably worse.

Right behind you, huh. And the missile is heading towards you? See if you can VERY abruptly drop down really really fast, maybe you can get them to smash into each other, and if not, maybe you can get the one going backwards to hit the bastard behind you!

>>755715
I think we'll have to veer up, first. Or to the side. But up is probably good because it lets us do more down, where we have gravity on our side.

But yeah against stupid random homing missiles your best bet is probably smashing them into each other.

>>755717
No, you're right, we need to go up first because we're right next to the water and we'll hit the water if we try to dodge under the missile again.

But yeah, let's smash the into each other.

No, no, this is good! Fly directly between the two missiles, then launch another flare and shut off the engine. You'll drop along with the flare, and get ignored as chaff or debris by the missile's guidance systems, while they lock on to each other.

>>755719

the fact that the first missile managed to stay locked and turn around makes me skeptical that turning the engines off would break lock. They are probably radar guided or some equivalent and not some dumb IR or heat-guided system. Plus, your engines won't cool down enough to compensate...

I think entering the water might be the best choice if skimming it doesn't seem to break the lock.

>enter the water
Depending on the speed we're going, the profile of the ship, and the angle we hit it, attempting to submerge the ship at speed could be just as fatal as diving into the ground.

Also, depending on our drive tech, submerging it way also be fatal. Possibly causing it to fail or explode. Not every mode of propulsion that works in atmosphere (or in space) functions reliably underwater.

>what do
Turn on the radio and put out a general mayday. Call for help from anyone who can offer it, beg whoever's shooting at you to call off the missile.

Probably won't help you right now, but you can talk and fly at the same time. And if you survive being shot down, you want search and rescue coming after you.

>what else do
Continue evasive action. Be prepared to abandon ship. If it's looking like you can't avoid this thing, you want to eject preemptively.

Can we radio whoever is attacking us? plead for mercy?

[1/4] Koror 2016/10/29(Sat)17:07 No. 756039 ID: 395c02
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Okay, I should really get this stuff on before I run out of time.

>Any chance the missiles are your own hive's?
Not even a little bit.

>Nearest landmass?
According to this little screen, it's actually right in front of me. All of the islands in this chain between my hive's and the one I'm flying from are uninhabited and unexplored beyond satellite photos, though, so I have no idea what to expect there.

>What happens if you submerge the shuttle?
I am not really an expert on the drive of a ship I've been in for all of two hours, but the guy made it sound like something or other inside of it had a good chance of exploding violently if it got totally submerged while it was running. We're probably going to have to replace that with something a little more water-tolerant when we get the chance, obviously.

Uh, but I should probably be focusing on the present!

>Do you think you can dodge two missiles?
Not really! I'm almost positive I got really lucky in being able to dodge one!

>Try the radio, again!
I'm not getting my hopes up here, but...

"Uh..." What are you supposed to say on these things, again? "Mayday, mayday! ... Uh, help, please! ... Whoever's shooting missiles at me please stop??"

... At least I can say I tried.

[2/4] Koror 2016/10/29(Sat)17:07 No. 756041 ID: 395c02
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"Incoming missile range critical."
"Estimated time to impact: 15 seconds."

"Shit!"

I don't think I have time to try anything else and I don't really want to explode!

I slam open the door as quickly as I can.

... Kind of wishing I'd ever actually parachuted bef—

[3/4] Koror 2016/10/29(Sat)17:08 No. 756042 ID: 395c02
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BLAM

... I...

...

... it's kind of sinking in that I just almost died there I think

[4/4] Koror 2016/10/29(Sat)17:09 No. 756043 ID: 395c02
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SPLASH

...

My hive's future just literally turned into a fireball and I'm floating in the middle of the ocean with not much other than a life vest. I'm not sure this could have gone worse.

>I hope you have a waterproof phone or something that can call for help once you get to land.
That would be a really nice thing to have had.

...

Well, at least I still have my hat. And I guess I can at least see an island.

...

This water is a lot colder than I thought it would be.

I hope whoever shot down your ship doesn't be a dick and start shooting you as you swim towards that island.

Well get swimming.

But first gather the parachute and stuff it back into a small ball to take with you. You will need all those rope lines and the fabric for surviving in the jungle.

It does suck the ship was lost but at least you got out ok.

Keep moving, it'll help keep you warm. Also do what >>756045 says regarding the chute.

Have you had any sort of outdoors or survival experience? Ever had to deal with wildlife, hunt or have any sort of combat training?

>>756045

As nice we've it would be, messing around with ropes in the ocean is liable to getting you tangled up and drowning. If you don't have a rest assured way of quickly gathering it, you are better off dumping it.

Try to retrieve your chute but if you can't so be it. At least save a rope or two if you can by cutting them with a claw.

Well we know there is someone hostile hiding in the area. So consider the following while you swim to shore.

1. How did you get to the mainland/wherever to buy the ship? And how did you pay for it? If you sailed over with a bunch of trade goods and used them to buy the ship that might explain why no one shot at you on the trip out.

2. Who knew about the transaction? If someone saw a unknown hive trading for a ship the info could have spread and someone with bad intentions could have followed you.

3. Does your island have anything valuable? Like worth enough so that someone would kill for it?

4. What sort of horrible predators lurk in this area you should watch out for?

Awwww. That was a brand new ship! No fair! :'-(

When you find who did this, you're going to kick their ass and make them give you their ship! D-:<

Also, I know of a great way to get you to that island really fast. Just ask yourself this question: Are there any giant Neumono eating sea creatures in these waters?

>so I have no idea what to expect there
Monsters. You live on goddamn monsterworld; any land not claimed by civilization is claimed by monsters, and even some that is.

You might also come across the base or facility the missiles came from. Which, if anything, will be more dangerous than the monsters, since they're people who want you dead, not animals.

>What are you supposed to say on these things, again?
Would have helped if you'd given a callsign, your name, your hive's name, your flight number, or your coordinates. You know, things whoever hears that could use to help find you.

>what do
You need to get your chute off, so it doesn't drag you down. If you can salvage part of it easily, fine, but otherwise getting to shore before hypothermia sets in or a sea creature finds you is your first priority.

Get swimming.

Getting to shore is the first priority. If you can't retrieve the chute or parts of it within... say 10 seconds, abandon it.

>>756043
You're a neumono. You can make it to shore. Swim.

Might want to see if there's any noticeable things on the beach, like Caves, Small Structures or anything like that, also get to that island before something devours you.

This is the Neumono homeworld, right? Where everything eats everything else? Swim faster.

>>756043
man that sucks, really hope that insurance thing was indeed sorted beforehand.

Anyway you're alive! which is good, and the island is better than open ocean so along with having your hat that's 3 good things so far.

Welp so much for your fancy new ship. Hope you can swim well enough to get to the island.

[1/3] Koror 2016/10/31(Mon)15:49 No. 756336 ID: 395c02
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>Would have helped if you'd given a callsign, your name, your hive's name, your flight number, or your coordinates.
... Ugh, I'm an idiot.

Then again, the automatic broadcaster I turned on before that should have at least sent out the coordinates, so hopefully someone got that part at least.

>Try to gather the parachute! You might need the supplies.
>But maybe abandon it if that's too hard.
That sounds like a reasonably good idea!

>I hope whoever shot down your ship doesn't be a dick and start shooting you as you swim towards that island.
Look, I don't even want to think about that right now.

>How did you get to the mainland/wherever to buy the ship? And how did you pay for it?
I hitched a ride on one of the trader boats that regularly stops at our island. One-way trip, though, and then I had to wait a few days on the other island while they got everything ready, which is the longest I've ever spent there.

Jammers are weird.

And I'm pretty sure we just did a contract with the other hive and paid them in currency. We're not stuck bartering for everything anymore.

... Man, this thing is just everywhere. I don't think I'm getting it back in this backpack.

>Does your island have anything valuable?
We have jungle, fish, and outdated technology, so... not really.

... I'll just see if I can... tear off... what is this made of? Even the thinner ropes are a lot tougher than I thought they'd be. I wish I'd brought a knife. ... I bet there was one on the shuttle and I just didn't know or couldn't remember where it was...

>You live on goddamn monsterworld; any land not claimed by civilization is claimed by monsters, and even some that is.
These islands don't have any monsters!

... Okay, I mean, it would probably be a bad idea to go into the jungle by myself, for a lot of reasons, that might be wildlife-related. But there are no monsters, at least.

... Uh, nothing bigger than a neumono, anyway.

Okay, I'm giving up on this parachute.

[2/3] Koror 2016/10/31(Mon)15:49 No. 756337 ID: 395c02
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>Get swimming!
Right, I probably shouldn't hang out here any longer than absolutely necessary.

>Are there any giant Neumono eating sea creatures in these waters?
...

... ... ...

Iiiii should really get out of the water.

[3/3] Koror 2016/10/31(Mon)15:50 No. 756338 ID: 395c02
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Shortly...

"Urghhh."

I manage to drag myself onto the beach. I don't really want to move for a little while.

... Before all this, if you'd asked me if I was a decent swimmer, I probably would have said yes. Now, I'm wondering how someone who grew up on an island can get completely exhausted by swimming for fifteen minutes.

... And the actual island is still another couple hundred meters away.

>>756338
You live on a remote island with jungle, fish, and outdated technology. I hope this means you know how to survive in a jungle or on a shore, yes? Time to start making tools.

Ok, you'd probably want to get dry, so strip and er- oscillate. There's no one around to see and there's no other way to dry off. Then wring out your clothes or otherwise get them dry, they may be needed for bandages or to make stuff.

Aside from that, do you have anything on you aside from the life-jacket and your clothes?

Well, if you aren't quite to the main island yet I would just scour this small patch of land for wreckage since we probably won't be back. Anything we don't have to make is one less thing to worry about. Don't be stingy even if it's just scrap metal... ... though maybe be careful when picking it up.

>>756341
Ah, correction, if you're not at the main island yet and have to swim some more, hold off on the drying until then.

>>756338
Catch your breath, scope out the island from this distance, and then get there.

>>Does your island have anything valuable?
>We have jungle, fish, and outdated technology, so... not really.
Your island might be strategically valuable, depending on where it is in relation to shifting powers you probably haven't paid attention to. There might also be valuable resources you're not exploiting someone else might want (although I don't think drilling for offshore oil is so much of a concern anymore).

>Now, I'm wondering how someone who grew up on an island can get completely exhausted by swimming for fifteen minutes.
When was the last time you swam for more than 15 minutes?

>what do
Okay, your first concern is that this is likely a wild island. If there's no one to clear out agressive wildlife, it's going to be there. Piranha analogues, jungle snakes, shark toothed seagulls, razor crabs, spineballs. You don't want to run afoul of these things, let alone the really nasty critters out there.

Your hive would have had to take preventative measures to keep your beaches nice and not infested with nasty critters, and hopefully you've participated in critter control at some point and will recognize the signs of aggressive wildlife. This is one of the few advantages you've got- you crashed in the same environment you were raised.

(You other advantage is you have a hat. So you can avoid sunstroke. Congrats).

Your next problem is you have no food or fresh water. And neumono have a demanding metabolism. You're going to need to catch or kill something you can eat, and you need to find a source of fresh water.

Once your immediate survival issues are filled, you can worry about establishing some kind of shelter. And then we can worry about the competing priorities of signalling your position to rescuers and hiding yourself from the crazy people who shot you down.

It's possible there's a hidden facility on this island that fired the missile. Also possible their are tribal neumono here. Both of which would be 'fun' problems to deal with.

And lingering over everything is you're on a deadline. If you don't get home in a few months, you're going to be a separation rogue if and when you get back.

See if you could see those jerks who shot you down in the sky.

>>756348
He's covered with fur and has a non-centralized nervous system. I'm not sure sunstroke is a concern or that a hat would prevent it if it were.

As for water, he can look for some edible fruit. Even if he can find fresh water, it's not necessarily safe. After all, if it's safe to drink it probably has other things living in it, like parasites, and if nothing's living in it then it's not safe to drink.

Until he can set up a water filtration system using fabric and some sand, I'd recommend sticking to fruit for fresh water, sugars, and some trace nutrients.

>>756338
catch your breath and take a look around, no need to rush now that you're out of the water

>As for water, he can look for some edible fruit.

>Neumono facts! Random neumono fact: Recently uplifted neumono take extreme caution around a grocery food's fruit section due to the amount of dangerous creatures that mimic fruit.

Irc silliness from Lago. Goddamn monsterworld, man.

>>756353
Wait, so there's plenty of free food that spends its time staying still and looking like food? Awesome, all you have to do is kill the fruit before you pick it just in case and then you can get easy protein while you shop.

>>756348
>It's possible there's a hidden facility on this island that fired the missile. Also possible their are tribal neumono here. Both of which would be 'fun' problems to deal with.
The former is likely considering the missiles had to be fired from somewhere, and how common hidden facilities seem to be in the asteroidverse :V, while the latter is something we'll have to assume isn't the case, because if it is then we're basically fucked. Alone without a jammer or any weapons on a small island covered in hostile neumono is not a nice place for a psychic space bunny to be. We'd be eaten within a day or two.

Now shuffle your posterior on to the mainland, you've got fruit (or the neumono homeworld equivalent of fruit) to forage for.

Take a little rest then, maybe sit under a tree or something also any visible food sources?

[1/3] Koror 2016/11/02(Wed)18:31 No. 756731 ID: 395c02
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>Catch your breath and scope out the main island.
I could really use a rest, so I think I'll do that.

>When was the last time you swam for fifteen minutes?
Fair point.

>Dry yourself off.
I'm going to end up back in the water if I want to get to the main island, so I'll just wait a bit on that.

>Scour this small patch of land for wreckage!
Wherever the remnants of the shuttle ended up, they're not here. It would really be nice to at least have a knife or something.

Actually, there's not really anything here. This is probably just a sandbank or something, and I doubt it'll still be here once the tides start acting up.

>You know how to survive in a jungle or on a shore, yes?
Uh, my experience with jungles is mostly "staying out of the jungle," so that's not so helpful. The shore is a bit more familiar, but...

>Do you have anything on you aside from the life-jacket and your clothes?
It's funny. I usually have something in my pockets, but I took everything out and it's all probably incinerated now. Not that a pen or a card would do me a whole lot of good at the moment, but it'd probably be better than nothing.

>Your island might be strategically valuable, or have resources you don't know about.
I mean, we fled here in part because the islands were considered useless. But I guess back then they hadn't really been surveyed, and the political situation has changed a lot since then. Still, if there's any value to our island no one's mentioned it to us.

... Which would be the point, wouldn't it.

[2/3] Koror 2016/11/02(Wed)18:31 No. 756733 ID: 395c02
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... I guess I better stop waiting.

>Hidden facility
If there is some kind of hidden facility on this island, I'm not really going to be able to deal with that very well, am I... ? ... I should probably stop thinking about this.

>Tribal neumono
>You'd be eaten within a day or two.
Or this, either. Eurrgh.

>Separation rogue
I definitely don't want to think about that. Or being stuck here for several months at all.

... When did I start getting so paranoid?

I guess it's not every day someone tries to kill me. Or, honestly, any day before today.

>Wild island
Man, I hadn't even thought about that. But... yeah, back home we have a jury-rigged electrified fence around the parts of the island we live on to deter wildlife. Also a barrier system so we can pretend to have a functional harbor at least sometimes.

>Piranha analogues, jungle snakes, shark toothed seagulls, razor crabs, spineballs
... So, yeah, it's a little distressing to realize that I could plausibly run into any or all of those things.

[3/3] Koror 2016/11/02(Wed)18:31 No. 756735 ID: 395c02
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Well, that was comparatively painless, at least.

>Food - fruit?
>Fresh water
... If this island even has fresh water, both of these things are gonna be in the jungle, somewhere.

With all of the things that will try to hurt or kill me for existing, and all of the plants that I can't tell which ones are safe to eat.

... Do I really not have a better plan than "stumble around and try not to die"?

>>756735
Well first off you need to find a source of drinkable water. Wait, can neumono process saltwater? How long can a neumono go without water? Maybe finding food would be more important considering neumono metabolism. So shake yourself dry then head into the forest to find some sturdy sticks with which to make spears so you can hunt and/or fish.

>>Tribal neumono
>>You'd be eaten within a day or two.
>Or this, either. Eurrgh.
First option would probably be avoidance. Second option would be submission / acquiescence / showing proper respect to get them to try and spare you (maybe only getting roughed up a little bit. You probably aren't going to impress them enough they'd want to take advantage of you). If that fails, your last resort is to run.

You really aren't prepared to fight tribal neumono, and setting traps would take time and training you don't have, not to mention a way to keep your empathy from giving it away.

>If there is some kind of hidden facility on this island, I'm not really going to be able to deal with that very well, am I... ?
If you see anything that looks like a hidden base, again, your best first option is to avoid it.

>... If this island even has fresh water
It's probably large enough to. There are mountains over there, and there will be rainfall, and some of it must get caught somewhere before the ocean. And even if it doesn't, it has to follow a path downhill.

If there's enough fruit near the shore, or we can find what we need to make a good condensation trap, you might not need to venture deeper for water, immediately.

>... Do I really not have a better plan than "stumble around and try not to die"?
>It would really be nice to at least have a knife or something.
Right. First step: let's get a basic tool. You're on a beach, let's find some seashells. Many shells have a sharp edge (or can be trivially sharpened against a rock) giving you a crude knife. Not impressive, but it's something.

For an actual weapon, you'll probably want to upgrade to a spear before heading into the jungle.

You're not going to like it, but you're probably going to have to cut your ears (or part of your ears) off reasonably soon. We'll need cloth to tie things together, for tool making, and other stuff, and you can skin your ears for that. You could sacrifice strips of your clothes, but your ears will grow back. Plus you can eat the meat. You could kill animals for their hide, but we're probably going to need the material before your first successful jungle hunt.

Any easy food on the beach? Sea turtle eggs or something similar buried in the sand? Non-poisonous shellfish? The neumonoworld equivalent of a coconut tree? Besides fish, this is the kind of thing your own hive lives on, you're likely to recognize them better than the stuff in the jungle.

Also, instead of immediately going into the jungle, you might try following the beach. Try to find the mouth of a river or stream where it meets the sea. Then you at least have something to follow to fresh water and to stop you getting lost.

kanelel 2016/11/02(Wed)19:06 No. 756759 ID: db0da2
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How salty is the water on this planet? And how sick will drinking it make you? Unless you know of an edible food source which you could feasibly acquire without significant risk to yourself, I think our best bet is to either start chomping on fruit and see if we die, or to set up a snare trap and see if we can catch any animals. Don't eat any brightly colored small animals. Try not to touch anything without checking to see if it will kill you first.

Before you go too deep into the forest, get yourself some camouflage, you kinda stick out like a sore thumb to anything that can distinguish red and green.

>>756735
short answer: no
long answer: don't worry too much about things you can't do anything about; just work on finding food and water, get a hefty stick or something for a potential weapon and tool

It's ok, just keep calm and consider your needs, shelter, Fire, Water, Food in that order. This place seems fairly tropical, so shelter is probably not going to be too difficult, failing everything else you can simply cover yourself in a pile of leaf debris and that will keep you safe in the night. I would recommend taking off your clothes and squeezing out the water, but on the off chance that the person who tried to kill you is going to search for you, don't leave them to dry on the shore. ...actually, on that note, try to cover up your footprints as you move further towards the jungle if you can. Fire is a bit more difficult, but you can do it, look for something fibrous and you'll have string in no time that you can turn into a bowdrill. For now though, head up into the jungle and pick up a nice big stick and do the footprint clearing thing. Nobody needs to know you didn't drown.

Ok, you'll probably want to get dry, so strip and er- oscillate. There's no one around to see and there's no other way to dry off. Then wring out your clothes or otherwise get them dry, they may be needed for bandages or to make stuff.

Normally you would want to make a big sign/fire for your hive to notice you and save you.

But in this case you should work on hiding for a few days/week. Just in case whoever shot at you is serious about finishing the job. How many miles are you from your island? Rough guess from the speed the ship flew and the time left on the trip. A raft would be a long term project.

For now shelter and food and a weapon should be your only concern.

[1/5] Koror 2016/11/04(Fri)19:25 No. 756969 ID: 395c02
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>More tribal neumono thoughts
Yeah, yeah, I don't want to go anywhere near them. But I already knew that. Going back to not thinking about it.

>Drinking saltwater?
I'm reasonably sure I shouldn't be drinking ocean water to stave off thirst.

>There are mountains over there, and there will be rainfall, and some of it must get caught somewhere before the ocean.
>Try to find the mouth of a stream?
That makes sense. I should probably try not to completely despair. I'm already half-expecting to just end up curled up in a ball crying once my brain catches up to what's going on...

>You'll probably want to get dry.
Yep. Sure is only one way I can think of to do that.

... Well, as long as there's nobody around, I guess it's fine?

[2/5] Koror 2016/11/04(Fri)19:26 No. 756970 ID: 395c02
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... That was actually kind of fun.

Now I need to dry these, I guess.

>Snare traps?
I don't have anything to make one with, just yet, but I'll keep that in mind!

>you should work on hiding for a few days/week
I... don't feel great about that plan. Maybe if I can actually find some food or water...

>How many miles are you from your island?
Maybe... two hundred? Maybe less? I lost track of where exactly I was when the missiles started coming in. I'm not overly familiar with the uninhabited islands between ours and the one I came from, either, so I have no idea which one I'm on right now.

[3/5] Koror 2016/11/04(Fri)19:27 No. 756971 ID: 395c02
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>Any easy food on the beach?
There are some... I mean, I wouldn't usually think of them as food, but there are little invertebrate... things... that would probably be edible. Not really seeing any around, though. I could... probably... eat a mollusk if I found one of the kinds I know are edible, but there aren't many shells on this beach and the ones I'm seeing don't have anything in them.

On our island, we have some trees on the beach that have... some kind of fruit I forget the name of. Vaguely like a coconut, I guess. But we planted those there on purpose after importing them from some other tropical place, and the fruit is really bitter and sour and not really pleasant to eat at all. I think they were planted for looks, mostly.

Anyway, it doesn't look like there are any trees until you actually hit the jungle, which seems a little strange to me. But maybe I'm just used to us having altered the look of our island a little.

>Seashell tool?
Like I said, there aren't many shells on this beach, and most of the one I've seen have been too fragile to be of much use. I mean, I'm no expert, but if it crumbles just because I tried to pick it up, I don't think it's going to make a good tool.

... Well, hang on. Maybe this one—

[4/5] Koror 2016/11/04(Fri)19:27 No. 756972 ID: 395c02
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Uh, wait—

[5/5] Koror 2016/11/04(Fri)19:27 No. 756973 ID: 395c02
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"Fuck!"

Aaaahraugh fuck. It stings so bad!

>>756973
Okay, good news is that an escape measure probably won't kill you. And now you know not to mess around with intact seashells. Only use the ones that've been broken into pieces.

Wash that off in the water quick. Then get revenge on the little guy by breaking his shell and cleaning him out before eating him.

Next time kill stuff faster before it can hurt you.

That isn't poisonous... right?

Wash it off before it kills you.

Don't kill it. Grab it so that it faces away from you with your left hand, then go wash off your right, try to collect some of the substance if you can. Keep the little bugger around, you now have makeshift bear spray.

>>757035
I'm not sure if Koror could make it fire stuff when he wants to.

This is why you point acid spitting snails away from you when you pick them up.

Also a snail shell isn't good for trying to use as a blade. You don't want a helical shell, you want something in two pieces like a clam shell. Those come to an actual edge that can be used.

The snail might be eatable if you cracked it open, but we don't know how much more of that vile substance is in there, and getting it in your mouth seems like a bad idea.

You probably want to wash that stuff off your hand.

Might be nice to have some of that acid stuff. Keep it in mind for the future? Might make a useful tool against whatever we inevitably find that wants to kill us.

[1/2] Koror 2016/11/07(Mon)19:27 No. 757352 ID: 395c02
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>Wash it off!
Not waiting!

Ugh, it still hurts.

>That isn't poisonous, right?
I... when I was a little kid, I ran into one of these once. I just wasn't expecting it to be in a seashell...

I forget what exactly they're called. Sandstalkers, or something? They look kind of like worms, and they hide under rocks, or buried in the sand, or, apparently, in seashells. Then they wait for something like those small invertebrates I mentioned to approach and spray them with... whatever this stuff is. Which is also their defense mechanism, obviously. It stings for a while and then whatever got sprayed goes limp until it wears off.

The one I found when I was a kid got me in the face, which was a lot worse. Still, my hand is probably going to be kind of useless for half an hour or so.

>Might be edible?
And, while I've never tried eating one myself, I've heard doing so is mostly a good way to induce vomiting. So probably not a good idea.

... Really, I'm surprised that's the only living thing I've seen on this beach.

[2/2] Koror 2016/11/07(Mon)19:28 No. 757354 ID: 395c02
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>Keep the acid somehow?
I'm not sure I have a good way to carry it, since it seems to just soak into my fur and skin, but that would probably be reasonably effective against anything I ran into.

Of course, I also have no idea where it got off to, now.

>You want a shell in two pieces like a clam shell.
Oh. Yeah, that makes more sense.

... Oh, hey, good timing. I guess enough bad things have happened to me today that I get a good thing now?

Fuck that. Get a poking stick before you try and grab whatever that is. At this rate its going to drag you under the sand and eat your arm off.

Play it safe with any unknown animals until you know what is dangerous and what is not. Assume every simple thing is out to eat or harm you for now.

>>757354
Good luck getting that open with one hand, now. Bring it further inland and find a stick to pry it open with.

Are you sure you want to try your luck? Try poking it with a stick first.

>I guess enough bad things have happened to me today that I get a good thing now?
Careful. You don't want to get bit by whatever might be living in that shell, now.

...this might be paranoia talking, but I swear that thing looks like it has teeth.

>>757354
today's kind of took a turn for the worst, err on the side of caution and treat everything as dangerous until proven otherwise. Obtain a poking stick.

Even if it turns out to have been unnecessary, looking silly is better than getting hurt.

>... Oh, hey, good timing. I guess enough bad things have happened to me today that I get a good thing now?

I'd be more inclined to think that because so many bad things have happened to you so far you must on a streak of bad luck. I doubt it'll let up until you're safely back with your hive, until then, be paranoid!

But yeah, stick, poke, etc. You know how this works.

>>757354
No. That shell is closed. Whatever's in it is likely still alive. Odd for it to have washed up, but find a good dead stick, as long as you can, and poke it from far away.

Looks like the Sandstalker vacated it's shell, even if it's not the best shape to use as a tool a it still could be useful as a digging or scraping tool, so I'd pick it up after carefully checking the clam-shell.

[1/3] Koror 2016/11/10(Thu)22:24 No. 757811 ID: 395c02
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>Careful
>Err on the side of caution
>Assume everything is out to harm you
>Be paranoid!
Gah!

... Alright, I guess it's probably... unwise... to assume things are fine.

>Poke it with a stick
The only ones I can find seem pretty flimsy, but I guess they'll have to do.

[2/3] Koror 2016/11/10(Thu)22:24 No. 757812 ID: 395c02
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... Ha!

Everything was fine! Take that, paranoid thoughts!

... Did I just "take that" at my own brain? Eugh, I need to figure out what I'm doing and hopefully get back home before I lose it.

[3/3] Koror 2016/11/10(Thu)22:25 No. 757813 ID: 395c02
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Well, I have two halves of a clam shell now. These are... actually surprisingly solid, even!

So, I guess I'm... going into the jungle now? I don't feel a whole lot better about my odds...


... is it starting to cloud up?

Well, now it looks like we're looking for SHELTER in the jungle. But if you stuff some big leaves in your hat, maybe you'll at least be able to catch water?

>>757813
Okay, your new first priority is to set up some leaves to collect water, since it's about to rain. You want to get at least a day's worth. Then find something to eat, then find a dry place.

>>757815
No, you're doing it wrong! Let me show you how to do it!

>>757813
It looks like we're looking for SHELL-TER in the jungle!

As a neumono, you should probably concentrate on finding food first. And being on the carnivorous side, you shouldn't have that much trouble just straight-up chugging the blood of your prey to sate your thirst.

There's probably a source of fresh water between those two hills, anyway, that valley between them looked like river erosion.

Worse comes to worst, you could always just nibble on an ear.

Also don't forget, as a neumono your ears are stored fat reserves and are to be cut off and eaten when you're unable to find food. Think of them as emergency rations.

Don't worry too much about it. Just give it a few days and your natural neumono regeneration will have gotten your ears to be fully regrown!

>>757812
We're actually not your own thoughts at all, but discrete entities speaking to you mentally. If you want proof, we know things that you could not actually know. Like, for example, how to survive innajungle.

Try to find some young, fairly straight saplings that you can use for rods in various projects we'll explain later, and some plant whose bark/fibers you can use for twine. Those come after finding actual food/water, though. Rain should be drinkable if you can find something to catch it. The shells might not be much, but they beat nothing.

Also, in an emergency you can get material to clothe yourself with or whatever else by ripping the skin off your ears repeatedly. You'll probably want a change of clothes eventually, after all.

I'm honestly not sure where "don't tear your own ears off" Ranks in the survival hierarchy, but it has to be up there.

Open wounds+ nothing sterile=bad news.

>>757831
Nah, neumono have crazy immune systems. Their regeneration absorbs/rejects all foreign material including microbes, so they typically don't have to worry about infection. It's come up before, and Biles himself was the one who first introduced the ears technique. So it's legit.

>>757836
I stand corrected. Neumono are clearly outside the realm of my education.

Still, ears are emergency for a reason. Though being a neumono maybe there has been a little bit too much worrying about the basics, so just try to pick up a big stick and head inside.

>>757813
Well rain's probably on the way, get ye to shelter

I'll second getting to shelter, but roll in some mud or something before going into the jungle to make it harder for predators to find you. If you find a big enough leaf you could use it to collect rain water.

How long do storms usually last around here?

A storm is kind of half-fortunate at this time. We won't have much time, so we need to construct or find a temporary shelter.

Big leaves will make a decent tarp and we can maybe hastily cobble together a lean-to against a tree or two with some vines or bark strips.

Water collection will also be handy. Luckily, we just found some shell halves that will hold a little bit of water. A bowl-like structure of leaves will help collect water too.

You don't want to get stuck in the jungle in the darkness of the storm. Stick to the edge of the trees and collect some large leaves and sticks for collecting water and shelter building.

Let's not jump right to ear eating- they are the emergency rations for a reason, after all.

And if we can afford not using them for food, we can use them as an easily renewable source of cloth / fur / leather for tool making / construction. (Granted, you can use animal parts for this as well, but if you use your ears to make a weapon or traps to catch the first animal, you've nicely bootstrapped yourself up a bit).

(Also, it's kinda hard to tell how "full" Koror's ears are. They vary from Polo-style flaps with no meat on them to Rokoa / Pilon style funbags that could feed a family. His seem closer to the former than the later).


>>757831
>>757836
Yeah, if no one in canon has gotten an infection from all the gunshots, knife wounds, and extensive field surgery in dank caves while diving in and out of rivers, I think Koror will be fine.

(My hypothesis is that infectious agents effectively lost the arms races against immune systems and regeneration on this planet).

>got shells
Cool, not you just need to sharpen the edge and you can a crude knife. Later.

>storm
Well, if the missile launcher is looking for you, that's good, because it will disrupt their search. If search and rescue is responding to your mayday, that's bad, because that will disrupt their search.

Being exposed on an open beach in a storm in the tropics can be rather dangerous. You need to find shelter quickly, without stumbling across something else that can kill you in your haste.

After the storm, you want to head back to the beach. Useful stuff might wash up on shore. Food, maybe remains of your ship.

Head for the jungle, but be careful. Eyes and ears open.

>>757924
>sharpen the edge
Not generally necessary at first. For durability you want more of a wedge shape, especially considering how brittle shell is and how Koror probably doesn't have the greatest manual dexterity when it comes to cutting things up. Plus correctly sharpening a blade from scratch isn't easy.

[1/3] Koror 2016/11/12(Sat)19:41 No. 758094 ID: 395c02
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>EAT YOUR EARS
Gah! Again!

I'm not nearly that desperate for food, yet!

>Shells
I'm not entirely sure I know how to sharpen these. Or, at least, not while the only other tools I have are flimsy sticks and my hands.

>Storm
Out here, storms can blow by really quickly, or they can hover for days. Usually the first one. Honestly, though, I didn't check the weather closely before leaving, so I don't know what to expect.

>Shelter
Yeah, I don't think it'd be a good idea to hang out on the beach in the rain.

... But the only plausible shelter is the jungle I've been trying to come up with excuses to not journey into. Because, uh, I don't think I'm gonna do very well in there.

[2/3] Koror 2016/11/12(Sat)19:42 No. 758095 ID: 395c02
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Well.

I'll just... go just far enough in that I won't get soaked, I guess.

>Leaves to collect water
Oh, right, that's definitely a good idea. That way I don't have to probably get attacked trying to find if there's a fresh water source deep in here somewhere!

I wish I had a better idea of how big—

[3/3] Koror 2016/11/12(Sat)19:42 No. 758096 ID: 395c02
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THOOM

—oh.

>>758096
Well, you'll be the tallest thing on shore, so stay in the jungle. Looks like there's still water dripping down, so keep collecting and drinking. Unless you know these trees have some edible portion, doesn't look like there's anything to eat around yet.

>>758096
Just set up some leaves then head further inland. Also drag that log out to the beach to serve as a landmark so you can FIND the leaves again.

Oh hey a log, that'll come in handy for as raw material or firewood.

Keep a eye out for a tree with solid (as in not flexing) wood, then snap off a branch and remove the twigs, then you have a club, which if you have time to whittle the end to a point, becomes a spear.

>>758099
Poke log first.

>>758097
You don't want to be the tallest thing or NEXT TO the tallest thing. Stay near the trees, but like... medium-size trees, ideally. If the biggest tree gets struck by lightning and you're right there it'd still be a hazard.

Just remember to keep an eye out for movement. Most critters around here have probably hunkered down for the storm, but if you stumble across something it might still lash out at you.

Setting up some water traps that aren't just gonna get immediately blown away is still what you should be doing at first.

Remember that you can use your shell as a knife to cut leaf and vine if you need to (and claw and tooth will work as well). The shells themselves also work as little bowls to collect water in, even if not very much.

You probably won't find dry wood now that the storm has blown in. You need to get that shelter up ASAP. It's hard enough to start a fire with just wood and rocks without it being sopping wet.


You might not be able to start a fire tonight.

Collect rain, try to stay dry as you can. Does it get cold enough during storms that getting wet and hypothermic is a concern? If not then it is just a risk of burning excess calories to stay warm and personal comfort.
Remember the priorities of survival: Air, safety, shelter, water, food. You can breathe just fine so safety is the primary concern. Nothing has attacked you, yet, so if you aren't at risk of the cold/rain and lightning drinkable water and food are your priority. For shelter possibly make a simple lean-to? There is a lot of large fronds and presumably branches around you. It is simple, effective, and a pile of leafs won't draw undo attention at a glance.

[1/4] Koror 2016/11/16(Wed)17:40 No. 759167 ID: 395c02
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>Set up some leaves!
These have been reasonably easy to find, thankfully, and one upside of how hard it's raining is it doesn't take long, either.

Not that I was especially thirsty, but I probably shouldn't pass this up while I have the chance.

...

Even under this tree cover, though, I'm still going to get soaked if I just hang around here. I guess I'll... have to go further in...

[2/4] Koror 2016/11/16(Wed)17:41 No. 759168 ID: 395c02
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Wow, I don't think I'd ever realized how dense these get before.

>Make a shelter!
I just want to get a little further into the jungle first.

... Never thought I'd be thinking that, but here we are.

>Just remember to keep an eye out for movement.
This is ... honestly really stressful. To be completely honest, outside of paths that my hive had mostly cleared out, I've never been more than five feet into the jungle on our island before! I'm not sure what to expect, beyond that if I run into anything it's probably bad news.

I feel kind of like an idiot swiping this shell around but it's probably better than doing the same thing with my hands...

"... Huh?" I don't think I've ever seen—

[3/4] Koror 2016/11/16(Wed)17:41 No. 759169 ID: 395c02
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"SKRAWWK"

"AUGH ... Ggghhhhahaaahgh aaghh hghghh."

[4/4] Koror 2016/11/16(Wed)17:42 No. 759170 ID: 395c02
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O... kay... well... fuck.

I'm going to die.

>>759170
Don't be a baby. Has the bird flown off? If it hasn't, grab the tail and bite its head off.

>>759170
Not if you gouge out your own eye before the poison spreads too far. You even have a tool that would be good to use! The clamshell.

Everybody dies someday Koror.

Can you grab that bird and beat it to death on a rock? Might make a nice meal to give you the energy to regen that eye.

So the shell is a cutting tool but not meant as a machete. Just push your way slowly and carefully through the bushes. Your thrashing will just attract all sorts of beasts to the area.

Good news: if you weren't a neumono you'd probably be dead right now.

Giving that thing went right for you eye like that, I suspect it hunts prey by stabbing them in the brain through the eye and/or dumping a pile of poison in the brain.

Lucky you, you don't have a centralized nervous system behind your eye socket, so you aren't dead. Just in horrible pain. And probably more, once all the nerve ending not going anywhere light up.

Retreat. Fall back from your aggressor, raise your arm to defend your remaining eye. If it blinds you you're dead. For now this is survivable.

>later
Regrowing an eye is gonna itch like hell. Hard part is you'll need to clean out the site of injury, and then improvise an eye-patch to cover it while the new one grows in to protect from anything getting in there, or anything damaging the immature eye. And it'll probably take a day or two to do, assuming you're properly fed.

Guys. That was a SCORPION TAIL. He's poisoned.

>>759179
That really assumes we're going off the same guidelines as Earth biology and that the poison is strong enough to affect Koror. Since Astreneus V is fond of monsters, it probably is, so Koror's going to need to gouge out his eye.

>>759178
It can fly, pursue us at eye level, and keep stinging. That's not survivable. We have to kill it now. Grab the tail, bite the bird's head off. Then use the shell or claws to get the damaged eye out.

>>759179
Granted, that's a bigger tail than most, and scorpion parts aren't attached to birds where we're from.

But scorpion venom is more of a deeply unpleasant burning and hallucinogen than instant death.

>>759170
you're not going to die, you've been dropped into a bullshit situation you weren't prepared for and that sucks but you're still alive and working on getting it together

>>759180
Grabbing at it pretty much guarantees getting stung again in the arm.

Look at long long the tail is compared to the wingspan. And it's a thick tail, not made of feathers, with muscle in order to coil and strike. And the fluid weight of whatever poison it stores in the tail. That makes the tail heavy for a bird that size- I suspect it can't fly and sting effectively at the same time. And that it's not very nimble in the air. I'm guessing it's an ambush predator, especially since it's coloring works as canopy camouflage, instead of going to usual tropical bird route.

>>759183
If you grab the base, sure. If you grab the bottom without jabbing yourself on the pointy part, it works fine. Also I think an ambush predator would actually have tried to ambush Koror instead of sitting out in the open on a branch.

Hold clamshell outward, when it stings the shell, grab tail and swing it into a treetrunk, hard.

You've only got about 20 seconds or so to get this right.

This is the worst death world ever.

>I'm going to die.
Most likely, but probably not from this, and hopefully not before you get back to your hive.

Don't be a bitch, you'll be a cyclops for a few days, but after that you'll be fine. Maybe next time you'll pay attention to where you're walking.

Grab the bird if it's still there, you can eat that. Otherwise keep doing what you were doing.

If nothing else you are already poisoned tackle the bird to the ground and bite its head to kill it, save it for tonight dinner.

Beware the Green Cock-tailed Eyestinger.

You're not going to die Koror. You got stung in the eye. Notice the bird screamed and screeched as it stung you. That is not the behavior of an ambush predator. This was a self defense tactic. If it was poisonous (we don't know but assuming it was) it most likely won't kill you. Maybe make you feel sick, maybe some temporary paralysis. Either way the bird is an asshole and it's going to help you out now. You got stung once, if you can see well enough still grab it by the tail and bash it against whatever is convenient until it is dead. Then leave that area because you both just made a hell of a racket.
After you have left the immediate area go ahead and cut the stinger off. Congratulations, you now have food. Decide how you want to prepare it.

Oh. It's this kind of story. Let's maybe wrap that up and hope you didn't do any permanent damage because then you'd have to explain this nonsense to everyone you met when they ask about the eyepatch.

It'll grow back. Pull out what's left of your eyeball so you don't get poisoned and go on your way. Carefully.

... Keep an eye out, eh?

>>759199
>permanent damage
No such thing for neumono, thankfully.

>>759185
That'd ruin the clamshell.

retreat

>>759216
Swinging a bird into a tree would not ruin the shell.
And shell is harder than stinger.

[1/3] Koror 2016/11/19(Sat)17:30 No. 760216 ID: 395c02
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>Catch the bird
"Raagh!"

[2/3] Koror 2016/11/19(Sat)17:31 No. 760217 ID: 395c02
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>No, wait, don't
"Oof."

Well, it's not like it mattered much anyway. All I managed to do was take a wild swipe and then fall on my face.

Fuck, I don't think I've ever been in this much pain before.

>Poison
I sure hope not.

... But the way things have been going I'm probably poisoned now, too, yeah. Not like I have any idea—

>Gouge the eye out
...

... ... ... ... ...

[3/3] Koror 2016/11/19(Sat)17:37 No. 760220 ID: 395c02
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Look, there are neumono out there who can do that, but I don't think there's any way I could possibly get myself to. I'm a softie from a softie hive. They didn't say that to me directly when I went to pick up the shuttle, but they were thinking it.

I'm just going to lay here until I stop hurting so much. ... Or maybe until I'm dead, if it really was poison.

I guess I wouldn't have to worry about pain any more if I died, at least.

You're a neumono Koror, you're tougher than you think. Get up, if you're still in too much pain , lie against a tree so you can keep watch. It'd be a shame if something got you because you had your face in the dirt.

Regarding poison, I wouldn't worry about that, it punctured your eye so most of the poison would have drained out with the vitreous humor / eyeball gel, so any dosage would have been limited. The downside that you're down a eye, and it's going to sting like all hell; you'll also need to try and protect that eye because it's just the remnants of your eye between the air and part of your brain.

Look on the bright side: If you're still alive, then you're not poisoned! And your eye will just regenerate in a day or two.

I've noticed something, your hands are unusually small for a Neumono. Why is it that you don't have giant oven mitt hands like other Neumono do?

>>760220
Stop complaining, cuddle hiver. You're not dead yet.

For now, at least you're out of the rain.

In the meantime, you should really at least clean / rinse out your eye to try and reduce the risk of it getting worse. That will probably hurt, but all you have to do is stand under some drain water, maybe use the leaf trick you used before to collect drinking water? Might as well take advnatage of the rain while it's here.

Then improvise an eye patch to keep it covered while it heals.

Then you can rest.

I don't know what to do. The other suggestions seem confident in your ability to live through this and I am going to believe them.

I already suggested what you need to do to set up your own shelter but I am not confident in your ability at this point... Maybe instead we need to focus on finding help. Shelter and living arrangements are important but if you can't get anything done without getting injured you aren't going to last long.

Maybe give up long term planning and just try to be found. Even if you are captured, being stuck in a cell would probably be preferable to dying to the elements in a jungle.

I'm sorry, but the ineptitude you've displayed leaves a lot to be desired.

You got claws?

Poke yourself somewhere sensitive, just enough to draw blood. It will hurt. It will also keep you awake long enough to do what>>760231 suggested.

We will cut you some slack eventually, but these first 24 hours are critical.

Have you ever lost an eye before? How will you know if it's going to hurt so bad, then? Your species specifically evolved to tank gruesome injuries, so your body doesn't need to be persuaded to avoid damage so much. Your pain response should be much lower and easier to handle than what other species experience.

And for all you know, that poison will cause a lot MORE pain once it moves from your eye to whatever organs it targets to cause real damage. And think of your hive! How devastated are they going to be to lose you and never find out what happened? If you die here, your body will probably get eaten and no-one will know for sure. Imagine all your loved ones spending their time and resources searching and hoping, clinging to the chance you might still be alive. At the very least you should try your hardest to live long enough to leave a mark.

>>760220
Well I guess it's possible the venom was paralytic or disabling. You might not die!

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and harden up. Soft you may be but you can change. Move as soon as you can stand the pain.

You're not going to die Koror. And all those tough people that thought you were soft? They were all soft too at some point. But they got hard by living through hard situations. Unfortunately for you your situation is damn hard so far. But you are tough enough you've made it this far. You're going to be tough enough to make it all the way. But you don't want to rest there. It's hard, but get up and walk just a short ways even. Fifty feet if that's all you can manage. Just don't be where the bird sounded the alarm. Get away from there and then you can rest until the pain dies down. Remember, you're not going to die, and the pain will suck, but you will be alive at the end. Think of all the awesome stories you'll have to tell your hive when you go home. Focus on that. Feel free to exaggerate them. You can be a hero in your hive once you get back, and you will get back. The first step to that is getting up, and fighting shelter to sleep off the eye wound. Do it Koror.

>>760220
hey look if there doesn't seem to be anything dangerous around you can totally lie down and be wounded for a bit, everything kinda sucks right now.

But don't give up! how many of those 'non-softie' neumono have been shot at with 2 really manoeuvrable you-seeking murder missiles while flying an outdated box and lived?

You're alive and you have your hat, you can get through this.

>>760256
If it is, then it may be hunting with a partner.

>>760220
No, it wasn't poison. You eat poison. Venom is injected into you. Remember: If it bites you and you die, it's venomous. If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous.

Anyway no stop being a huge pussy, get up because lying on the ground like fresh meat is a great way to attract more predators. At the very least do that on shore if you really have to.

Get up, stop feelin sorry for yourself, and get to work. You need shelter and sustainable water now and food soon.

Also stop worrying so much about stuff eating you, it's unlikely that a small islands ecosystem is robust enough to support any sustained population of large predators. Still, venomous creatures could be the norm, and physically removing the afflicted body part could save your life. You don't got the luxury to be a softie right now. Gouge out that fuckin eye. You need the practice, and it'll only hurt for a minute.

Weaker people than you have lived through worse and taken more drastic measures to survive, so stop laying down and waiting to die and start getting up and fighting to live.

[1/2] Koror 2016/11/22(Tue)15:29 No. 760796 ID: 395c02
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>Lie against a tree so you can keep watch. It'd be a shame if something got you because you had your face in the dirt.
...

Okay, yes, that's a lot more reasonable than lying face-down.

>Don't give up!
>Your species specifically evolved to tank gruesome injuries.
Yeah, yeah, I know this probably isn't going to kill me. Unless it was ... uh, venomous, in which case I'm probably screwed anyway.

I've still never been in anything like this kind of pain, though!

>Stop complaining, cuddle hiver.
>Stop feeling sorry for yourself!
There's a bleeding hole where my eye is supposed to be! I'm pretty sure I've earned the right to complain in my own head.

>I already suggested what you need to do to set up your own shelter but I am not confident in your ability at this point.
Well, that makes two of us. ... uh, wait. What?

Am I really this self-critical and paranoid under stress?

>Think of your hive! How devastated are they going to be to lose you and never find out what happened?
...

They would... probably miss me a lot, I guess...

>You should really at least clean / rinse out your eye to try and reduce the risk of it getting worse.
I guess it's pretty easy to get ... reasonably ... clean water right now, if I just—

>it's just the remnants of your eye between the air and part of your brain.
—okay no I'm too spooked to do anything like that just yet.

I'll just... hang out under this tree until I feel at least a little better, then regroup.

[2/2] Koror 2016/11/22(Tue)15:29 No. 760797 ID: 395c02
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...

I think I must have nodded off at some point. It can't have been too long, though.

It seems like either the bird thing wasn't venomous or the venom wasn't aimed at something my size. This island might not have any large predators after all.

It stopped raining, from the sounds of it...?

Wait.

...

I think... I think someone's here?

Do they feel friendly? Or is it a "quick find that red guy we shot down so we can finish him off" sort of empathy?

Or is it tribal empathy? In which case you might want to run before you get ate.

>>760797
Well, you're not going to be able to fight or run worth a shit. With your empathy you can't hide from neumono either. If you're feeling other neumono, just try to be likable. If you're hearing something move, hide.

>I think... I think someone's here?
You hear something, or you picking up on empathy?

In either case, what do you hear or feel? If it's empathy, can you tell the emotion, or if it clashes with your own?

If you've come across a tribe of natives, an island is probably the best place to do it. Ironically, the most isolated neumono are statistically more likely to have a friendly disposition to outsiders. A hive living on a small island by itself for generations doesn't have the same prolonged history of fighting neighboring hives tooth and nail for resources and territory.

>Are you expecting a cave [an island] full of exotic native women just wanting to lay you?

>>760797
Doesn't matter who they are. If they're hostile you're dead already because you sure can't survive on your own *while being hunted*. If they're not hostile you're saved.

So call out to them, ask for help.

What if it is the people who shot you down, and they are looking to finish you off? might want to find a place to hide and safely check on who is coming.

>>760801
>Are you expecting a cave [an island] full of exotic native women just wanting to lay you?
Well.....that could still happen. There's not a very good chance of it happening, but there is still a chance that could happen and this will end up not being the worst thing to ever happen Koror's life.

>>760805
>find a place to hide
If it's more Neumono, then hiding is impossible to do becuse of empathy. Unless Koror gets extremely lucky and this island is a secret military base and the hiding spot he chooses just happens to be in range of a jammer. But that doesn't seem likely.

>>760797
Look up. Check that isn't a monster standing between you and the rain.

>I'm pretty sure I've earned the right to complain in my own head.
You're low on food, and thinking uses a lot of energy. You simply don't have the calories to waste on feeling sorry for yourself.

>someone else
Well, this is either GG or you've found someone who can help you. You simply don't have the skills to survive being hunted by your own kind. Approach as friendlyly as you can.

>>it's just the remnants of your eye between the air and part of your brain.
>—okay no I'm too spooked to do anything like that just yet.
To be fair, that would be true no matter where you got hit.

[1/2] Koror 2016/11/28(Mon)17:32 No. 762124 ID: 395c02
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>Look up. Check that isn't a monster standing between you and the rain.
Gah!

... No, not that I can see.

>You hear something, or you picking up on empathy?
Just the second one, right now. None of these islands were supposed to have neumono on them, but I guess we were wrong?

>If it's empathy, can you tell the emotion, or if it clashes with your own?
>Do they feel friendly? Or is it a "quick find that red guy we shot down so we can finish him off" sort of empathy?
If... if I'm being totally honest here, I can probably count the number of times I've actually even been around neumono who weren't in my hive on just my hands.

So, uh. That said, it... uh, they, actually, mostly seem startled and curious? Uh, not hostile. I think. I hope. Probably not whoever shot me down.

And... concerned? I have no idea what to make of that.

>You might want to run before you get ate.
I—

>Well, you're not going to be able to fight or run worth a shit. With your empathy you can't hide from neumono either.
—yeah, that.

They're getting closer, but I'm not sure—

[2/2] Koror 2016/11/28(Mon)17:32 No. 762126 ID: 395c02
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"Ah!"

—oh that was faster than I was expecting. Shit.

... this is the smallest neumono I've ever seen. I mean, she's still got a spear, which she's kind of pointing at me, and which I assume she knows how to use, and I'm still injured and exhausted and hungry, so I'm pretty sure all she's sensing from me is terror anyway, but—

>"Rukol ke ahe!"

I have no idea what that means. All I'm getting through empathy is still just that vague maybe-concerned feeling.

>"Rukol ke ahe. Kaho nuki..."

>>762126
"Rorrosi? Mosi? Liria?"

:^)

No sudden movements.

Slowly point to yourself and say Koror.

Then hope she does not try to spear you.

>>762126
Put your hands up. Demonstrating that you are unarmed is a pretty universal gesture of submission / non-hostility, and with empathy she's not likely to misinterpret is.

And hey, she's got you at spear point, so she's clearly in charge.

Don't be afraid to talk to her, even if you don't share a language. If you're thinking about saying something as you say it, empathy may still carry basic intent across, in a broad manner.

Say hello. Try to be friendly. Gesture to yourself as say "Koror" as an introduction, see if you can get her to return the gesture.

>>762126
Is that spearhead stone or metal? This is probably important later on.

Clearly, there is a misunderstanding. You can't speak to her so you'll have to communicate with her some other way.

She has a spear which is a long reaching weapon. You could possibly push close and angle it away from you. She would have to draw it back to use it.

You could use that opportunity to hug her; to show her you mean no harm, of course.

>>762134
>You could use that opportunity to hug her; to show her you mean no harm, of course.
Doing that suddenly, out of nowhere is a good way to get scratched up by claws and teeth. No hugging. No matter how adorably tiny she is, no hugging.

>>762126
>What do?
I suggest backing up against the tree and then curling up into a ball while covering your head with your arms. Sure, it's a humiliating thing to do, but it's probably the best way to let her know how harmless and scared you are. Don't forget to project your pain of losing an eye and fear of dying through your empathy. Hopefully that'll get her to lower the spear.

>>762126
Interesting. A group of tribal neumono that isn't hostile to outsiders? Unheard of! Especially unheard of is pygmy neumono. Which they obviously are.

Try to look harmless and assert via empathy that you are in fact harmless. Try to calm down, and perhaps gradually put some hopeful thoughts in your head? They might help you out with food and shelter, in exchange for manual labor or whatever. You are much larger than them, so you'd be able to do stuff they can't. Even if you're not physically fit.

>>762151
Just because this one tribal is tiny, that doesn't mean everyone in her hive is tiny.

>>762156
Yes it does. Hives are homogeneous with regards to general attributes like height, with few exceptions.

...wait a minute Koror is a redgrass neumono. Those tend to be big. The height difference doesn't necessarily imply pygmy, she's just a Jungle or Archipelago neumono.

>Yes it does. Hives are homogeneous with regards to general attributes like height, with few exceptions.
That's not even close to true.

Look at the current Unse thread with the science hive in it's heyday and there's a 2-3 head height divergence between the shortest person and the tallest person we've seen (and that's a fraction of the hive).

Look at the hunter hive in Polo Quest, where they fielded everyone from Polo-tiny scouts to Snow-big style heavies.

Look at Sealock, where we have Polo on the small end, with more medium people like Rakae in the middle, to again, to snow sized bigguns ( >>/draw/26820 ).

Heck, the whole concept of neumono gender roles and stereotypes comes from having multiple sized people working towards different ends in one group. Females are on average bigger and got the warrior role, males are on average smaller and got the sneaky scout role. (Although of course that's just averages over large populations, we don't lack for examples of individuals who buck the average).

If a tribe of small population happens to be homogeneous, that's due to a small sample size. Hives have trends, obviously, based on family genetics, and often weighted unfairly by successful / prominent individuals having lots of kids (did you notice how the science queen was the one blue in a hive of pinks? They would have been redgrass without her disproportionate weighting the genepool) but trends aren't absolutes.

>>762161
That actually was worked out somewhere, based on Koror being slightly shorter than the average redgrass, and she's a foot or so shorter than Polo, who was already near the lower limit of height for her subrace. So she's definitely abnormally small.

And what >>762180 said.

How tall are you, exactly, Koror?

Anyway, slowly sit down and put your hands up. Don't do anything that could be taken as threatening.

Sit down on the ground right where you are, keep your hands visible, no sudden movements.

Prospects of finding a common language seem remote, so use empathy. Talk slow, simple words, and concentrate as hard as you can on the corresponding concepts. "I do not know what you are saying. I will do what you say, as soon as I understand what you say. I mean you no harm. I am here by accident. My plane crashed. Do you have any food?"

>>762126
Geez, your arms are as long as that spear. So much for reach.

Anyway, fight and flight are both out (you *might* be able to beat this one but against a whole hive you're screwed), so there's no point trying to do anything except impose on their mercy.

I would suggest NOT moving your arms in any way that could be construed as poising to strike. So, claws AWAY from her, and don't raise them too high.

>>762243
Sitting also sounds like a good idea.

[1/2] Koror 2016/11/30(Wed)18:25 No. 762798 ID: 395c02
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>"Rorrosi? Mosi? Liria?"
Okay, there is no chance of me randomly correctly guessing the name of a neumono whose language I don't even understand.

... And, the way things have been going, every chance that I say something insulting and get stuck with a spear. So I'll pass.

>Try to hug her.
I am double passing on that.

>Is the entire hive tiny?
Without seeing any other neumono from the hive I can't say for sure! I'd be pretty surprised if any of them were taller than me given how short this one is, but she could just be an outlier.

I can definitely sense some other neumono nearby besides her, but they're keeping their distance, for whatever reason.

>Stone or metal spearhead?
Looks like stone. I'm trying to look at her and not at the spear but it's hard not to think about getting stabbed again.

>Raise your hands carefully and try to signal harmlessness through empathy.
Hopefully whatever culture this neumono has recognizes hands-up non-threatening. I put them in the air.

>"Rukol ke ana. Malok kaho nuki a... Ko lokka he! Lokka he, e." She waves the end of the spear a little bit. Her empathy still isn't reading as overtly hostile, but...
"I-I don't understand what you're saying, but I don't want to fight you or anything!" I'm pretty sure my voice just squeaked. She's probably still just getting me being frightened.

She tilts her head.

>"Taho rolleki... taho rolleki e!"
...
Her empathy shifts a little, like she's... embarrassed, almost... ?

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And she... sets the spear on the ground?

I'm still leaving my hands up for now.

>"Mirrat te a. Ko ukui lokka he!"
"What?" I'm still not getting a word of this, and empathy isn't giving me anything overly specific, either. She's definitely concerned about me in some way.
>"Ko... ko ukui lokka he!" And definitely frustrated, which is coming through way clearer than whatever she's trying to actually say to me.

>Gesture to yourself as say "Koror" as an introduction, see if you can get her to return the gesture.
I guess this is a good of a time as any to try this! I slowly lower one hand and point at my chest, then say my name very carefully.

She just tilts her head again.

>"Lokka na. Ko ukui lokka he!"

Well, I'm lost.

>>762799
The men of her island have been wiped out in a strangely specific plague. She wants you to father sons with all the members of her village so they can recover.

I think she's feeling bad about... having to challenge you, maybe? Move to take the spear and see what happens.

>>762800
No, clearly their men were stolen in raids by other tribes and he needs the spear to defend himself.

>>762799
Concerned about you... the spear was pointed at your messed-up eye. Point at your eye and see if that's what she's worried about.

Maybe draw in the dirt to indicate what stabbed you?

Male pygmy are the ones with boobs. So it wants to breed you for the future of its clan.
>>762804
since she put the spear down she likely has to do something maybe try sitting down to allow her easier access to your body.

Maybe have a seat. The drawing idea might be good, since words aren't working. Maybe a bit of the emotion woulld get through if you did talk, though.

Don't worry if you suck at drawing. You just need enough to get the idea across. That doesn't need some art master, right?

>Well, I'm lost.
Well it would appear she isn't interested in driving you off as an intruder, or hunting you for food. That's good!

Setting down the spear is a gesture of non-violent intent. That's good. Crouching to make herself smaller is a gesture of submission, or making herself appear less threatening. Submission is kind of odd (you're clearly injured, unarmed, and your empathy would have been broadcasting distress and confusion, not confidence, so your height by itself can't be impressive enough for a native to give up at the sight of you) if that's what it is, but trying to put you at ease is positive.

>what do
You could try crouching down too? Maybe it's a peace gesture, sitting around and negotiating instead of fighting.

Pictograms drawn in the dirt might work. You could draw stick neumono, and one with a hat (you and your hive) and then draw an island around them, and an arrow showing you moving to a different island, to her. (The feeling of separation or anxiety over your hive must be pretty primal emphatically. If you try to communicate "I'm away from my hive" like that, it should get across).

Could also try pointing to your eye, or drawing the Green Cock-Tailed Eyestinger, as mentioned.

You could try offering her your hand? A handshake isn't necessarily native to neumono culture, but the intent should carry, and hands are intimate / emphatically significant.

Oooh! You could mimic her. Make a show of setting your crude shell knife to the side, the same way she did her spear.

>language
Looks like the verb might usually come first, followed by object pronouns that modify it?

>ko ukui lokka he
She's been repeating this phrase a lot.

Try to figure out what "lokka he" means, maybe you can get her to show you?

I wonder if Lokka is her name and her culture always speaks in third person?

>>762818
I'm thinking "Lokka" is a verb, so "Lokka na" and "Lokka he" would be modifying it with different object pronouns. (Like, lokka is being done to (or done by) her and them him?

By the same pattern, "Rukol" would be another verb. And "Ko ukui" might be some kind of emphasis? A subject that can't be implied by verb conjugation?

>>762813

Maybe repeat "Lokka he" back with a questioning cadence? It might be enough for her to understand you need more help understanding.

Oh while you're drawing in the dirt try explaining how you got here. Like, you could draw your ship in the sky over water with the island nearby, indicate that you are on the ship by pointing to yourself, then rub out your ship and draw a line from where it was to the water, indicate you again. Then draw a line from that location to the island.

>I can definitely sense some other neumono nearby besides her, but they're keeping their distance, for whatever reason.
They're probably nearby watching because they don't want to spook you and/or if you try to attack her, they'll leap out at you.

Try pointing at your injured eye to see if she reacts in some way to let you know that's what she's talking about.

If it is, you might want to consider letting her look at it, since she lives here and she probably knows how to treat that injury because chances are either her or someone else in her hive have also been jabbed in the eye by one of those birds.

Wait, I just had a terrible thought. What if that bird laid eggs into your eye and she's trying to remove them before they hatch and the baby birds kill you by eating their way out of your head? If that's the case, then you better let her look at your eye! If she has to cut out your eye, you better let her do it! Just, uh, think happy thoughts.

My take is that she's embarrassed for someone twice the size of her being so scared of her. And, the concern... I don't suppose you can distinguish whether it's concern for you or about you? Any case my first guess would be they're worried about you discovering them leading to more troublesome visitors.

But uh I guess it could be something about the eye so I guess do the thing everyone's saying where you try to gesture at it.

Go over in your head the events of today. Try to at least convey your feelings about the things that happened. There's a language barrier, but you have empathy and hopefully you can use that to tell your story.

>>762843

These Neumono are clearly tribal. I would refrain from describing technology too much in detail. Keep things simple. Maybe just draw yourself adrift and washing up on shore.

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>Move to take the spear.
I, uh, am not going to do that unless I can think of a better reason than a guess! I'm pretty sure trying to take the weapon she just set down would be a great way to convince the other neumono that are around that I'm a threat, which would be bad. I don't know what she was embarrassed about exactly but it's not coming across in her empathy anymore.

>Crouch/sit down.
She actually started standing back up as soon as she put the spear down, but I go ahead and sit down anyway, which... actually puts us at about eye level. Geez, she's short.

She does relax a bit when I do this, though. Is... she actually a little intimidated by me?

>Well it would appear she isn't interested in driving you off as an intruder, or hunting you for food. That's good!
Yeah, this could be going a lot worse right now.

... Okay please don't have just jinxed yourself, Koror.

>Maybe repeat "Lokka he" back with a questioning cadence?
"Lokka he?"
>"Lokka. Ko... ko ukui lokka he." She just says that again, but with a lot less conviction than before, and then sighs I think she's starting to get that I don't understand any of what she's saying at all.

>Point at your eye and see if that's what she's worried about.
"Is... is it my eye? Are you worried about my eye?" I point at it while saying this, since I'm guessing she's figured out about as many words of what I'm saying as I have of what she's saying
>"A, kaho nuki a!" I think I got it right, though, because she gets a little excited. "Kaho nuku ukui lokka he!"
She takes a step toward me and then hesitates. I still don't know what "lokka he" means.

>Try drawing in the dirt.
That's actually a really good idea and I don't know why I wasn't trying to do that before!

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I only get as far as clearing away some of the leaves before she loudly clears her throat at me. I look up.

... What is she doing with her hands?

>"Kakarrauk! Kakarraaaaauuuuk!" She lowers her hands and looks at me expectantly, then points at my eye again. ... Oh! The bird!
"Yeah, that's what... Yes." She might not know what I'm saying, and I don't know if nodding will mean anything to her, but hopefully "yes" is a straightforward enough concept that it won't matter as long as I can focus on it enough.

She takes a couple of steps back.

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Two even smaller neumono suddenly come out of the foliage, one from behind me. The first one says something to them, but her speech to her hivemates is rather quieter and a lot faster than when she was talking to me and I don't really catch whatever it was.

One of the newcomers is carrying a crude pack, which she sets on the ground. The three of them fish around in it for something while continuing to occasionally make comments to each other, still way too fast for me to parse.

Eventually, they seem to find whatever it was they were looking for, and the two other neumono collect their pack and spear. Meanwhile, the one I first met turns around and slowly approaches me, carrying a strip of cloth and... what looks like a small water skin?

... I guess she really is a little afraid of me without the spear. The last two steps she takes are very deliberate and her hivemates both tense up a little as she gets close to me. She holds up the skin first.

>"Ko... ko lokka la. Sekka ke ala." There's "lokka" again. She seems worried about something, for sure, but I'm not sure what.

She holds the skin over one hand and squeezes it. ... Whatever's in it isn't water, that's for sure. Something pale green and viscous and it smells awful.

>"Sekka... sekka ke ala," she says again. She reaches toward my face, and—

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"Gaaahh!" It's not as painful as getting my eye stabbed, but it stings so bad!

When I stop flailing around, I notice that she's put some distance between us, standing about as far back as her hivemates. Readying the cloth, she starts to slowly approach me again. I assume she's going to wrap it over my eye, now.

"It's... it's okay." She seems to understand that well enough. By the time she gets my eye covered, the stinging has faded into numbness. I have no idea what she just rubbed in there, but it's definitely an improvement. She backs away again, and seems like she's going to say something for a moment before just shrugging and sighing.

... So what was I going to draw in the dirt, exactly?

Try the missile. Pantomime an explosion and make sound effects, see if they recognize anything like it. If they don't, you should be safe here for the short term. If they do, they might have other information to keep asking about.

draw yourself, one of them, and then a third figure for their queen.

>>763395
Congratulations, you're getting a cruise on towards the Harem Route, by the looks of it!

Think you can draw a raft, a sea, a beach, and yourself? Give them an idea of your story? Might be easier for them to swallow than you arriving by MAGIC FLYING METAL BIRD.

And no sudden movements.

Draw yourself happy and flying on a big bird back to your family.

Then draw a scary spear killing your bird thrown from nowhere.

Then draw yourself swimming to this island.

Try not to think about the fact that all three of them are female. You most likely haven't fallen into a dangerous tropical paradise with the world's only all-female hive.

Draw an image to indicate you washed up on shore, maybe something to indicate you're alone so they don't worry about your hive mates showing up to attack them.

We probably shouldn't mention Koror is alone just yet. If the only reason they're not attacking him is that they think he has friends, we shouldn't give that up.

Basically don't tell them you're alone until they're actually confirmed friendly and you can communicate better via empathy.

Well, from context, I think "lokka" has something to do with pain or injury. It might be the verb for feeling pain, for being injured, for treating an injury?

"Sekka" seems like another verb. It ends the same way as "lokka" and gets used at the same point in sentences.

>>763395
Some kind of antivenom? A disinfectant? Maybe just something they can gather that's cleaner than the local water and is therefore better for cleaning wounds out with.

>So what was I going to draw in the dirt, exactly?
I would try and convey the concept that you're separated from your hive, and on the wrong island. This means they won't have to be concerned about fighting off a territorial incursion by invading giant newcomers, and hopefully nets you some sympathy.

Like, draw a stick you (in a hat) with hivemates, and then draw an island around it, an arrow off to another island, and then you standing with the three of them (shorter, with a spear).

Maybe if you get that across you can see if they recognize a plane or a missile.

You could try names again. Point to yourself "Koror." point at her and try to make it a question.