11-15-2021, 02:09:19 AM
(11-13-2021, 19:38:02 PM)Kennifer Wrote: The snowstorm and the concern over hurting the animals has broken Holly's spirit even more now. She takes a while to compose herself and bundle up against the weather, then...
Holly's Plan
'Get the bears away from the cabin, something tells me they've come here for whatever food's inside.
Oh no, bears? Okay. Avoiding getting mauled is good. Is there some food that is close enough to spoiling that none of the group will miss it? Yeah. Get that and YEET it as far the fuck away from the cabin as possible to try to lure the bears away. Then put any garbage that's outside in a more secure place so it doesn't draw any more bears. Secure the food and stuff inside the cabin, too. And get any bright lights going on to help repel them.
...Oh goddammit. We've got some Golden Eagles straight-up unloading all of their crap everywhere. Shoo them off!
Holly will pick up some rocks; she'll throw these into the air or trees near the eagles to shoo them and scare them, hopefully not actually hitting them in the process. Cleaning the bird poo can wait until after everything else.
The mountain goats are freaking...licking the walls of the buildings! Shoo them off, I don't think there's anything appealing for them to lick off of!
She will construct some salt licks, and hang them in the trees away from the building. She hopes this will lure the goats away with something more pleasant to lick.
Mountain foxes have...oh god what're they doing grouping over the frozen lake! What if the ice breaks and they drown!? Someone get them away from there.
She'll throw snowballs at them. Just... straight up regular snowballs, hopefully it'll startle them into running before they fall into the lake without hurting them.
Snow leopards!? Oh great, the scent of those damn mountain goats must've been what brought them here. Find a way to get them away from here without getting attacked by them.
She'll construct some sort of barricade between herself and the snow leopards, then try to shoo them peacefully from there. Will this work? She's got no idea, how straight she's thinking at this point remains to be seen. But just... throw something in the distance away from them to startle them into running. Whatever the first noisy thing she grabs that won't be missed, she will YEET.
Holly rolls a 6, 2, 10, 8, and 5, which adds up to an initial 31 points!
Huh, turns out most fare in the cold mountains is preferably imperishable. Nonetheless, the more unsavory canned goods look bad enough to open and toss out. The bears seemed attracted by the sloppy throw, and quickly backed out of the Christmas lights Holly put out. Hey, wait—it's not even Thanksgiving yet!
One: don't piss off eagles. Two: DON'T piss off eagles. Holly pissed off all the eagles and proceeded to discover just how sharp their talons are. Given her stern stance on sanity, she remained pooped out and pooped on for the rest of the challenge.
Hey, look at that! Salt! Goats love salt, and now they love her too! Holly gets stuck in a licking party many feet away from any warmth besides the goats'. At least they seem happy.
Holly misses, thankfully, and the foxes growl before running off. Hmm, there's not a lot of satisfaction to tossing one snowball, but it went according to plan.
It turns out that barriers aren't great during snowstorms. Well, at least it serves at great ammunition to toss at starving snow leopards. Another day, kitties, another day.
Containing food and gently coaxing the bears away was cool (+4), but tossing rocks at eagles? Seriously? That's just asking for pain and frustration (-3). Some nice salt makes perfect sense, and keeps the goats alive (+2), but a snowball isn't very fair play (-1). Shooing doesn't really work well against big cats, and a barricade isn't going to help when they can just... run around. And yeeting stuff at them? n o (-2). This is a total of 31 points, again, for Holly.