Monstrous Island

You are on a beach. The sand stretches to both sides as far as the eye can see, with the only noteworthy thing to see being the few odd pieces of driftwood at the tide line, maybe 20 meters away from the current water level. Further up inland, maybe 300 meters or so away you see the start of a forest. The forest itself isn't very thick, but it goes along the beach almost uninterrupted. The only thing that stands out is a small rock formation that you can see amongst the trees. If you were to estimate, it would be maybe 2 or so kilometers to the left, if you were facing the forest. Finally, straight ahead, far beyond the forest, you can make out what you think might be a mountain. You have no way of knowing its size or distance, but it seems to reach the odd cloud floating through the sky, so it might be a ways of.

As you ponder what to do, your mind drifts back to your home, that a part of you fears you might never see again. You live alone in a flat. Most of your family has already died out, apart from the odd second cousin that you can't be bothered to so much as remember the names of. The few friends you have are mostly former classmates or roommates, that have already started their own families and have been drifting away. In university you studied as an engineer. In the years after you graduated you were...

>Mostly jobless. You didn't really do much apart from sitting around all day, playing games or browsing the internet. You managed to get a few odd jobs, but never kept them for long. You might have learned a few useful things in various fields, but you have next to no practical experience, nor can you be certain that all the things you learned are actually true since some of them you learned online. You can also play guitar.
>Engineer assistant. After graduation you decided to actually make your degree useful. You snagged a job as an engineering assistant. You're pretty good making projects and somewhat competent at managing employees. You can usually tell if a given construction will stand or fall over.
>Construction worker. Not exactly an expert, though you do know how to paint a wall or mix cement. You mostly just helped out one crew or another when they were short on hands. You somewhat know what you're doing when it comes to construction and you're pretty good at following orders. All the physical labor made you a bit more /fit/.
>McDonald's. Bills gotta get paid and a shitty job that you hate helps do that. You can flip burgers with the best of them and can somewhat deal with annoyed people, though all that anger has to go somewhere so you have a bit of a short fuse when getting angry doesn't run the risk of getting fired. You are pretty confident that you won't burn any meat while cooking.
>Write in. The world is a big place and many roads are open even for someone young and inexperienced.

Trying my hand at the whole QM thing. Will see how it goes. Tips are appreciated. Calling out my bullshite, even more so.

>>987225
>Construction worker. Not exactly an expert, though you do know how to paint a wall or mix cement. You mostly just helped out one crew or another when they were short on hands. You somewhat know what you're doing when it comes to construction and you're pretty good at following orders. All the physical labor made you a bit more /fit/.
Good if we know a bit of no how to build something.

>Engineer assistant. After graduation you decided to actually make your degree useful. You snagged a job as an engineering assistant. You're pretty good making projects and somewhat competent at managing employees. You can usually tell if a given construction will stand or fall over.

Go big or go home

>>987225
>>Construction worker. Not exactly an expert, though you do know how to paint a wall or mix cement. You mostly just helped out one crew or another when they were short on hands. You somewhat know what you're doing when it comes to construction and you're pretty good at following orders. All the physical labor made you a bit more /fit/.

>>987225
>>Engineer assistant. After graduation you decided to actually make your degree useful. You snagged a job as an engineering assistant. You're pretty good making projects and somewhat competent at managing employees. You can usually tell if a given construction will stand or fall over.

>>987252
>>987265
>>987272
>>987337
Need a tie breaker.

>>987225
>Construction worker. Not exactly an expert, though you do know how to paint a wall or mix cement. You mostly just helped out one crew or another when they were short on hands. You somewhat know what you're doing when it comes to construction and you're pretty good at following orders. All the physical labor made you a bit more /fit/.

>>987252
>>987272
>>987359
Construction worker locked in.

A construction worker. Hard work, but you didn't mind. At first you just helped out where an extra pair of hands were needed. When the foreman told you to go help out the guys laying bricks, you mixed cement and handed them tools, materials and generally made yourself useful. When the foreman told you to give a hand to the guys painting the walls, you mixed paint and painted the hard to reach places while they painted the bulk of the walls. You've been working there for a couple of years now and learned a thing or two. Still no expert, but you're learning. At least you're no longer the errand boy. Well in a way you are, since the foreman usually sends you if something needs to be measured or checked on the sketches, seeing as you are technically a qualified engineer. Guess this is what moving up in the world feels like, huh?

But none of that helps your current situation. Namely, being stuck on some beach in the middle who knows where, butt naked and with the midday sun beating down on your head. And speaking of the sun, why is it so bright? It was the middle of winter before the earthquake. Granted it was a relatively warm winter, but there was still some snow here and there. Now you're standing here completely naked and sweating. You're far from home, that's for sure.

You need to get out of the sun. You'll get a heat stroke if you stay like this. The question is, where do you go?

>Right. The beach goes on as far as the eye can see, but it can't go on forever can it?

>Left. The rock formation. It's the only inconsistency as far as you can see, so it's only logical to explore it right?

>Forest. The sooner you get of this sun the better.

>Write in.

>>987403

>Left. The rock formation. It's the only inconsistency as far as you can see, so it's only logical to explore it right?

>>987403
>>>Left. The rock formation. It's the only inconsistency as far as you can see, so it's only logical to explore it right?

>>987403
>Forest. The sooner you get of this sun the better.

>>987403
>Forest. The sooner you get of this sun the better.

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>>987414
>>987417
>>987418
>>987427
Need a tie breaker. Again

>>987508
Roll after a certain time if you want.

>>987403
>Forest. The sooner you get of this sun the better.

>>987418
>>987427
>>987546
Forest it is then.

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The forest. It's the nearest shade. You start making your way to it. It's not far, so it doesn't take you long to get to it. You step on a few pointy sticks buried at the tide line, but it doesn't really do much more than slightly inconvenience and annoy you. Like stepping on a lego. As you get nearer you notice that a few of the trees have coconuts on them. Might be good to keep that in mind, as you are getting slightly thirty. Entering the forest makes you feel slightly better. The sand starts giving way to grass and fallen leaves the further you go in. You keep your feet on the sand for now. If you decide to go further inland you'll need to keep an eye out for snakes in the grass. You don't really know what to expect from this place yet. Can't be too careful.

As you look around for any sign of civilization, something catches your eye. Just a bit into the forest you see something white near a tree. The ground is still mostly sand, so without a big risk of snakes your curiosity gets the better of you. You start slowly making your way closer. The closer you get, the harder your breathing becomes. Even before you can fully comprehend what it is your legs start shaking. You stop about 5 meters away from it as the realization hits you.

What you're looking at is a humanoid skeleton. The skull is strange, and it must have been very tall, but it's a skeleton. Your legs freeze up and for a moment you can't move a muscle. A few moments pass, but to you it feels like hours. You've seen a human skeleton before. In school. An educational one. This is different though. The bones are bleached from the sun. It's on its stomach, head facing the beach. You can't help but take in every detail of it. And just as it started, the moment passes.

You want to run, but the logical part of your mind points out that you have nowhere to run. So instead you timidly walk closer. As you walk around it a few things catch your eye. The jaw is elongated. The fangs are enormous. The skeleton itself is at least 2 meters tall. Finally you see a hole in the back of the skull. Nothing else catches your eye.

You are naked and alone in a beach forest. You have no food or water. There is a skeleton of something humanoid with a hole in the back of its skull not far from you.

>What do you do?

>>987676
>Stay calm and find some leaves and vines or something make some clothes
Anything really to cover ourselves.

>>987676
Grab them bones. Bones are hard. We can use it as a club/hammer.

Also wear the skull as a helmet.

>>987676
Find a clean source of water

>>987676
Examine the hole in the skull; it could indicate that someone killed this being.
Also see if a femur or other bone is long and hard enough to use as a club until we find something better.

>>987703
We can just drink the coconuts for that though, right?

>>987728
That would be highly inefficient way to get water

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You inch closer. Slowly. Gingerly. You get within arms reach and with a shaking hand grab at a bone in its leg and scurry back. You raise it to eye level and examine it. It's a nice solid bone. You swing it around like a baseball bat a bit. If worst comes to worst and whatever killed this one comes after you, at least you'll have something to defend yourself with. And looking closer you are sure that this one was killed. The hole is pretty weird though. Probably not by a bullet. If you didn't know any better you'd say it was killed by an arrow.

Again you move closer. Bit more bravely this time. Your hand still shakes as you pick up the skull. You look it over and as you do you hear something rattling inside. After some effort you shake out a few pieces of some stone through the hole in the skull. Looking over them you can only assume that these are pieces of flint. You start putting it together. This one was shot in the head by an arrow with a flint head. The flint shattered on impact. But if it was an arrow, then where's the shaft? Whoever killed this one must have tried pulling the arrow out, but only got the shaft since the head was in pieces. Yea that's probably it.

You briefly consider putting the skull on your head as a helmet, but quickly dismiss it. You couldn't really get it over your head. The best you could do is probably place it on top of your head, but then it would fall of at the slightest movement. You need to either find some way of securing it in place, or, better yet, find something else to wear on your head, because just the thought of walking around with that thing on your head sends a shiver down your spine. You put the skull back for now.

You look around trying to find something to cover yourself with. You find some dry tall grass and large fallen leaves. The job is made difficult as you can't really find any vines to tie everything together, but eventually you manage to make something that resembles a grass skirt. It's barely held together and doesn't do much more than preserve your modesty, but you made it. You try not to think about the fact that so far the only one you might need to preserve your modesty from is some homicidal killer with a bow.

>You have a bone that you can use as a club and a grass skirt. What do you do?

Searching for water would be a roll. Getting coconuts would either be a roll to climb the tree or a write in on how to get them. Rolls are made AFTER an action is locked in. Minor actions like the ones we just had can be made several a turn, but doing a more substantial action would take a whole turn itself.

Also probably 1 more update before I'm done until tomorow. Should probably stop now, but I'm having to much fun.

>>987913
Find suitable wood to make a shelter.

>>987913
Find water.
We need fresh water if we're going to survive.

>>987913

Look for water, keep an eye out for natural shelters that we can utilize with out much effort.

Also need to take the flint for starting fires

>>987960
The pieces of flint are very small, with the largest being about the size of the nail of a pinky finger. Also you have no steel to stirke the flint with.

>>987970

Yet

Leaving a possible resource is always a bad idea

Roll d100 for searching for water. Best of 3.

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>988037

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>988037

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>988037

>>988047
Writing for 81.

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Water. You don't know how long you'll be stuck here or even where "here" is, but the beating sun has already made you somewhat thirsty. If you're going to be staying here for any significant amount of time you're going to need water. You even recall hearing somewhere that finding water is the number 1 priority when in a survival situation. And you are slowly beginning to accept that that's what this might be.

You think for a moment on how to go about looking for it. Rivers usually end up flowing into the sea right? Wait, no. They also sometimes end up flowing into ponds or lakes. Well for now you'll try going along the tree line. Will probably help keeping a sense of direction. If that doesn't work, then you'll try going further inland.

And so you start making your way. You decide to take the small pieces of flint with you. They're very small, so you find some large leaves that you wrap them in so you don't accidentally loose them. You make your way in the general direction of the rock formation, going along the tree line. You're not really sure what you're supposed to be looking for.

As you're walking your mind has time to wander and you feel doubt and fear grip you again. How did you get here? Who killed that thing? What if you're stuck here? What if you can't make it? And so with a heavy mind you keep going.

The journey is fairly slow going, since your feet sink into the sand a bit and you have to pull them out for every step, but after maybe half an hour of this you start coming near the rock formation and notice that the sandy beach starts giving way to rock and through the rocky terrain, there runs a small stream into the ocean. The joy you feel at this is more than you thought you would. You start giggling as you run to it. The rocky terrain is a bit harder on the feet than the sand so you go a bit deeper into the forest so you're running on leaves, rather than rocks.

You finally reach the stream and fall to your knees. You place the bone and leaves with flint by your side and lower your hands into the water. Bringing them up you give the water a taste and fining nothing wrong with it, lower your head and drink until you're full. You lift your head back up with a smile and look around. A hundred or so meters ahead is the rock formation. The beach has almost fully transitioned from sand to stone.

>What do you do?

And that's that for tonight. If this interested you, come back tomorow and we can continue. Until then vote for what you want to do.

>>988221
Find wood to build a shelter
>>988231
Thank you for running.

>>988221

Search upstream for a natural shelter or a good place to make a small shelter for the time being that is near the stream. Also keep an eye out for food.

>>988221
Look for shelter.

>>990200
Seconded

Rolled 9 (1d10)

Ok. I think I'm back for the most part. If anyone is still interested, I'll need some rolls. d100 best of 3.

Also I don't think I've mentioned, but crits take priority over other rolls.

The roll I'm making is for a random encounter. I might do these every now and then, but for now the encounter table is almost empty. This will change. Some encounters are good, some are bad. The ratio of good vs bad events is going to decided by your actions. This does not mean karma. It means consequences to the actions you make.

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>990675

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>990675
Let's see if I remember how to do this right

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>990675

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You decide to start making your way further up the stream. You have a source of water. What you need now is shelter. A cave would do nicely. A city would be even nicer, but you're not holding your breath for tat one. And so, keeping your eyes peeled, you start making your way, but almost instantly start regretting your decision, as not 5 minutes pass and you're already surrounded by bugs.

You try to focus, but the constant bites and stings keep distracting you. Flailing wildly, cursing under your breath are the norm here. There are a few moments when the bugs relent their attacks and you can look around for more than just things that glaringly stand out. It's during one of these moments that you notice fish swimming in the stream. It swims away before you can even consider trying to catch it, nor to you have anything but your bare hands to try that at this point. Also no fire, so the fish would be raw for now, but you are starting to get hungry so it's good to know that there despite its small size, the stream still has some fish.

Still you push on. You try to always keep the stream in sight. Getting lost would probably be bad. You have no way to tell, but you would guess that it's already been a couple of hours since you started walking inland. The forest is slowly getting denser. You haven't seen any snakes yet so you are a bit less careful with where you put your feet, though still keep a healthy amount of caution. You also no longer jump every time the leaves at the tree tops move. The first time you nearly screamed out loud. The second you got only slightly startled. From what you saw it was just birds, but at one point you're sure you saw some sort of monkey.

After maybe half an hour more you suddenly stop. There's to your right. A few dozen meters away. Through the trees you see what looks like a big pile of stones. Thinking on it for a few moments and deciding that the risk is worth it, you make your way towards it. As you get a good look at it you realize what it is. It's a stone hut. You're both exited and scared that someone may be living in it, but walking towards the entry dismisses that notion before you can even mentally explore its possibilities. It's obviously abandoned. Nothing inside but leaves and some rotted wood that looks to be positioned in a way that indicates it was once a door.

It's a simple stone hut. Cylindrical in shape with no window holes and 1 entry that you have to duck and walk sideways to fit through. The inside seems to be empty save for a piece of rotted wood that was perhaps once a door. The floor is covered in rotted leaves that the elements have forced inside when the door no longer protected the interior. The roof is in a cone shape, made of stones with the only thing keeping them together is some dirt and their own weight. The only space within the hut where you can't stand at full height is near the walls.

>You have fond shelter. The sun will soon start setting. What do you do?

>>990842
We need something to use as a door. Can we find some fallen logs we can drag back here?

>>990842
Prop up the rotten wood for a make to door. Use the leaves as a noise trap so that anything that anything that might try to come in while we sleep makes a noise to (hopefully) wake us up.

>>990842
Clean the place up as best we can and try to make something that functions like a door would.

First things first. The leaves have to go. You start slowly clearing them away and find that there was in fact more inside this hut. Once. What you find now is a few more rotted pieces of wood, leg of a chair or a table perhaps? You don't really know. It's too far gone to even recognise, breaking away the moment you try to lift it. You also find a few scatered rocks that you place to the side. The leaves themselves get spread around the outside of the hut with the hope that if someone or something geting near the hut will rustle the leaves and wake you. It's far from perfect, but it's something.

Now for the door. Trying to lift the old one up results in nothing more than pieces of it breaking away, so you are forced to get rid of it. You'll have to think of something else. To make a new one you'll need either tools to make it out of 1 solid log or rope to tie several small ones together. For now you go around gathering broken trees. You can't really handle the large ones without somehow cuting them to length first, so instead you gather the ones you can break with your bare hands. It takes you maybe an hour, but you end up with something that will hopefuly do the job for now. What you did is break the small trees to the length where you can prop them against the top of the doorway. You placed several like that next to each other until you got something that covered most of the door way. The sides are a bit open and you doubt it will hold if the wind picks up, but considering the circumstances it's acceptable for now.

>The sun has started setting. You have a bit more time before it gets dark.

>>990952
Examine the rocks from inside the hut. See if there's any with relatively sharp edges we can use as a crude knife.

>>990952
>Find some dry wood for a fire

>Tough crowd.

With the hut now a bit more livable, you can focus on other things. First you examine the rocks you found in the hut. You think they may have been used to surround a fire inside the hut. Some of them look like they might have been covered in soot, but they've been too weathered since the last time any fire touched them to tell. Doesn't matter. Shuffling through the pile you find a few that are cracked. Hitting them with another stone easily splits them. One of them splits fairly nicely. You won't be cutting much with it, but it's still a somewhat sharp edge, no matter how jagged.

That done you set the remaining stones in a circle in the middle of the hut and go out to find some dry wood. Fire might be hard to do with what you have, but you're willing to at least gather what you think you might need if you ever decide to give it a shot. There's already some wood lying about from when you were breaking the pieces of wood to length for the door (if you can call it that). You gather some dry grass and leaves as well. By the time you finish, it's already getting dark.

>You have a bone club, grass skirt, a few very small pieces of flint and a stone with a rough edge.
>You have found a stone hut that you plan to use as a shelter. You have a very basic warning system in place. Inside it has a place for a fire, some firewood, and dry kindling stockpiled at the side. There is a source of clear water a few dozen meters away.

>What do you do?

>>991293
It's night, right?
>Find some soft stuff to use as a pillow and go to sleep.

>>991308

Get our bucket out and line all our things up in the corner (We are autistic after all) arranging them carefully.

Then make a bed and pillow so we can sleep.

>>991293
Try to start a fire by using two sticks (cut an indentation into one and sharpen an end on the other using our jagged rock).

Try for an hour or two before going to sleep.

>>991324
>Get our bucket out
What do you mean by that?

>>991353

Just grabbing it from where ever it is. I meant getting the things out of the bucket, it was pour wording.

>>991351
Going for this.

>>991358
You don't own a bucket. When looking for shelter you caried the bone in one hand and the pieces of flint in the other. When you got to the hut you left them in a corner while going to gather firewood.

>>991363

Ha, my bad. I was replying to the wrong thread. Carry on

Well then, please roll d100 for starting a fire. Best of 3.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>991415

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>991415

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>991415

Rolled 7 (1d10)

Don't mind me.

You take your jagged rock and a piece of wood and start carving an indentation. You've seen a few survival shows. You're not sure how reliable the information from them is, but you have nothing else to go on. So you start carving an indentation into the first piece. A job that would take a couple of minutes with a proper knife, takes much longer than you would have expected. It gets to a point where you decide that it's going to have to be good enough. Trying to get it to where you would like would probably take half a day itself, so you turn your atention to making the spindle.
You get a stick and try to make one end of it a bit pointier, to better sit in the indentation of the other piece, but again cut the job short. It's already getting dark. You can no longer clearly see what you are doing. You grab some dry grass and leaves for kindling and get to work.

Turns out it's a lot harder than one would think from watching it on TV. To be honest you don't even know if the type of wood you're using is the right kind. You try several times, but can't seem to get anywhere. It's getting to the point where it's so dark you can barely see. You think you have enough energy for one more go before you're too exhausted.

Taking a few deep breaths you try to pump yourself up. You start spining the stick again and you spin it until your arms feel like they're burning even without the fire. It's dark. It's the reason why you smell the smoke instead of seeing it.

You stop instantly and pull the stick away fast, which in hindsight may have been a bad idea. You're not sure how this goes. Are you suposed to keep going? Well it doesn't matter, as what you see when you pull the stick away is a small red dot. You're out of breath from all the effort you put into making it. Your hands are shaking as you gingerly transport the little red ember into the kindling you've prepared. With a somewhat shaky breath you start slowly blowing on it. It takes a moment, but the ember seems to spread its heat and before long the kindling catches fire.

You actually scream out in joy and start slowly piling small sticks on top of the flame that you now placed in the midle of the rock circle. Moving up to bigger and bigger pieces of wood eventually leads to a nice, warm, bright fire that you are looking at while grining like a mad man.

After pilling the fire enough that it should at least be still smoldering in the morning you lie down, using your own arm as a pillow and pass out the moment you close your eyes.

And I am done for today. Probably for this year as well since I'm very busy tomorow. Not sure how well I did, but if there's still some interest in this after new years I'll be happy to continue

>>991715
Thank you for running. Have a Happy New Year's. You did great.

>>987960
This

>>991715

Here's hoping we get violently made aware of the local food chain