Futuristic ARK: Survival of the Fittest (Closed)

[Silverwings]

"Right. We will have to decide on what is important for both of us to have." Roan agreed, leading the way back to their shelter, "You already have the stuff for clothes and shelter..."

 

[Darkling0096]

"I can keep going in that direction," Jack agreed, "Your engrams so far are geared towards taming more than mine, if you can focus on the stuff we need to make the items the implants can't, weapons and ammo, I can focus on the building aspect." He opened his menu and looked at the building thing, "I've only got fifty-four points, if nothing else I can make something that's hard to get to for dinos." As he said that, a pegomastax ran up and snatched mejoberries out of Jack's pocket and ran off with them. "Hey!" That thing was fast!

 

[Silverwings]

"So like narcotics, and such.. I think that's a good idea." Roan nodded. As the pego snatched the mejoberries, "Should we bother? We can easily get more. I meanits just berries. Right?"

 

[Darkling0096]

"Yeah, but...", Jack lowered his spear, "Those things are gonna be a pain in the ass, I know it." He grumbled and sat down to start spending points on something sturdier than thatch. Before long, the pegomastax returned, sntaching more berries while Jack was retrieving materials from the parasaurs to start building. "Are you-" He threw a spear and missed entirely, the thing stanging up in the sand like a flagpole.

 

[Silverwings]

Roan grumbled, seeing it take off again. pulling out a bola, He threw it at the creature, "Now we can deal with it."

 

[Darkling0096]

The pegomastax yipped in surprise when its legs were taken out from under it. "Wild Male Pegomastax" were the letters above its head.

"If it's wild, that must mean it's tameable," Jack offered, "The coelacanths aren't tameable, and they don't have the 'wild' prefix, but everything we've been able to tame so far did."

 

[Silverwings]

"How do you tame it though? " Roan asked, approaching the creature. He kneeled down, offering it some berries.

 

[Darkling0096]

"I don't know," jack shook his head, kneeling down next to it. There was a brown bar that seemed to indicate a level of taming progress, but it was refusing to take the berries offered to it. "Hmm..."

 

[Silverwings]

"Does it have to steal?" Roan wondered when it wouldn't take the offered berries., "So kill it or tame it?"

 

[Darkling0096]

They might be able to use its theft abilities to their advantage, but Jack couldn't think how. "If we tame it, at least it won't be bothering us." After some consideration, he reached down to untangle the bola from the pego's legs, giving it back to Roan as the thing ran off. "If we don't figure out how to tame it by nightfall, we'll kill it," he decided with a nod, "In the meantime, do you have any fiber on you?"

 

[Silverwings]

"Yea, and Figaro should have plenty on him too," Roan replied and gave the man a stack of fiber. He made his way to the shelter, "I'll put a bunch of stuff in a stoage in here."

 

[Darkling0096]

"Thanks," Jack couldn't move very fast while his implant was crafting, so he parked it near the parasaurs so he could get to their inventories for materials so he could keep making things. Annoyingly, the pegomastax kept coming back, snatching berries or other random items from one of them and then running off with it's pilfered prize.

Around midday, Jack had enough building materials that he could start building, starting with putting up some pillars to hold their new home off of the ground, so they could keep safe from ground predators high off of it.

 

[Silverwings]

"How's it coming along?" Roan asked as he watched the other build, "As soon as you have a floor done, I'm going to move the sleeping bags in."

 

[Darkling0096]

"I'm just about done with getting the foundation set," Jack shrugged, "Gonna put us a few levels off the ground so nothing can reach us, you know." He put a platform up at the top of one of the pillars and went around putting that around the pillars, before attaching a ladder so they could climb up to it. About that time, the pegomastax ran up for another snack and the words above its head turned green. "Huh, I guess that is how that works." He took his berries back from the creature and gave Roan back the random items it had stolen from him in lieu of food.

 

[Silverwings]

"Finally" Roan said taking his items back. He picked up the pego, letting it sit on his shoulder, "Look. It sits on my shoulder,"

 

[Darkling0096]

"Just like a compy," Jack noted, then frowned. That experience was still sore, and he had the bruise to prove it. He started placing spiked walls down in a ring around the new structure to make a painful deterrent for things trying to get close, with a gap that they could pass through easily. The parasaurs could be moved inside the ring, easily, but moving them out to explore or gather more materials required demolishing one of the spikes to open a space wide enough. It was cheaper than building a fence and arguablly more effective at protecting the mounts, anyway.

 

[Silverwings]

Roan began leading the parasaurs into the pen. It was a tricky test to get them in, but once they were there, the two dinosaurs were at ease, paying no mind to anything around. After, Roan took some of their belongings into the new shelter, "This should keep us safe."

 

[Darkling0096]

"For now," Jack agreed, climbing the ladder up to the top platform, "I'm about halfway done, but the bottom level's pretty much danger-proof as long as you don't lean on the spikes."

 

[Silverwings]

"Or fall. That may hurt." Roan commented, "I think we've done enough falling."

 

[Darkling0096]

Jack shrugged, "Like I said, nowhere near done." He smiled, if this worked out like he was planning, they'd be all but impervious to dinosaur attacks while inside the structure, a mostly safe place from which they could travel to explore and find a safer place. Jack would have honestly preferred to find such a safer place, but they needed somewhere safe to recover, gather materials, and prepare for the dangers of the outside world first.

 

[Silverwings]

"Well, It's still safer than is was." Roan said with a sigh as he set things up. It wasn't much but the could get by.

 

[Darkling0096]

Really anything was safer than on the ground, as far as Jack was concerned. He got about haflway through putting railings down around the top platform before he realized he was out of materials. Unlike thatch, wooden building items took a lot of wood. "I'm out of wood," He said as he grabbed his axe to go chop down some trees.

 

[Silverwings]

Roan stretched and got up, deciding to tag along, "Lets be careful. We don't need a repeat of last night."

He followed along, gathering wood and making trip after trip back to their shelter. After a while, Roan took a break, "I think we have a good bit built up."

 

[Darkling0096]

Jack agreed, takign a swig from his waterskin, "This project is definitely gonna take a few days before it's fully completed." He intended for there to be a fenced in paddock for their mounts that could easily be accessed, as well as room for more tames if they got any, but there was only so much work that could be done in a day, and by the time night was falling they at least had a roof over their heads before it started raining, causing the parasaurs below to take shelter under the platform.

 

[Silverwings]

"If you need help, I'll take some of those items and help out," Roan offered, "We might be able to make a permanent base here if need be."