Futuristic ARK: Survival of the Fittest (Closed)

[Silverwings]

Roan nodded, "Andy's, but we need something for berries. We have Meatloaf for now. She collects berries too."

"Maybe you can try something we didn't have before?" Vera suggested.

 

[Darkling0096]

"Maybe ankies can harvest berries," Jack shrugged, "I dunno, but the saddle's gonna take metal." He patted Nike's side, "Nike's got pretty good carry weight, if we need it." He ran his thyla up the cliff to get a better look at the island from the top. Lots of resources. Stone, wood, he could see metal. Berry plants. Herbivores. That meant no shortage of meat. "This place is awesome!"

 

[Silverwings]

"Great find, Anna," Roan called as he lead raptors and meatloaf off the raft and onto the beach, "You know, with thst little cliff there, we could probably tame that Bronto.."

 

[Darkling0096]

"You got a saddle?", Jack called down. Bronto saddles were so far out of their range of ability. But perhaps they could improvise one, the same way they'd improvised flyer saddles?

"Oh, I didn't find it!", Anna laughed, "A dolphin pulled me onto it."

 

[Silverwings]

"No, but we will eventually," Roan said before looking at Anna, "still your find."

 

[Darkling0096]

Anna shook her head, "Let's just get another hut up so we've got somewhere to sleep!"

Jack did some exploring, running around the top of the cliff on Nike to get a better idea of where resources were and how to best work around them. "Hey, guys, I found something!", he called when he almost tripped on a green metal box, near perfectly camouflaged amongst the foliage.

 

[Silverwings]

Roan climbed onto his raptor, followed by Vera on hers, and raced up the side hills to where Jack was, "What is it?"

 

[Darkling0096]

Jack pulled the plants back to show them as Vera landed on her pteranodon. "It' some kind of box."

"Waste of metal," Anna knocked on it, "Who do you thing put it there?" It was clearly made by humans, animals didn't do stuff like this.

 

[Silverwings]

"Open it," Vera suggested, "maybe its something useful."

"She has a point," Roan nodded.

 

[Darkling0096]

Jack nodded, trying to open the box. It took a bit to find the latch, it was much different from the storage crates they built. But when it was finally opened, inside was just... a notebook? It looked like the books their maps were in, leatherbound and filled with paper like the notes engram, but instead of a map it was occupied by a dossier of something called a Hyaenodon. Their implants buzzed and flashed purple, the words "XP Boost" flashing across them briefly.

"I think this is important," Jack decided, handing it to Roan, "Animals are your thing, maybe you can make sense of it."

 

[Silverwings]

Roan looked it over, "I'll look into it once we are settled in."

"Good idea. Let's focus on shelter first." Vera agreed.

 

[Darkling0096]

"I've got a hut already that Roan and I can stay in," Anna nodded, "So you two need one." She looked at Jack and Vera, "You guys need help?"

"If you'll make a couple beds, I can whip up a one-by-two real quick," Jack nodded.

 

[Silverwings]

"Sure, we can do that," Roan nodded, "anyone know what time it is?"

"Not without knowing where north is," Vera shook her head.

 

[Darkling0096]

"Look at the sun," Anna pointed straight up, "It rises in the east and sets in the west. When it's moving right to left, forward is north." She looked up to confirm that, "It's late afternoon." Without an actual clock, it was hard to be more precise than that.

 

[Silverwings]

"Oh, yea, you were hear before. You know where the sun rises," Vera commented, "Makes it easier."

 

[Darkling0096]

Anna rolled her eyes, "It doesn't change," she smiled, "Maybe you can build a clock, not just a sundial?" Sundials took up space.

"I thought the sundial was cool," Jack shook his head, "We just need the right place to build it."

 

[Silverwings]

"It doesn't change but our location does. Which meant figuring out if you're facing the right way," Vera said, "I can try to figure out a clock but for now a sundial is all I can do."

 

[Darkling0096]

"We can work on that later," Jack shrugged before going down to the boat to get some structures to build a hut on the side of the bowl they'd found the box on, looking down into the bowl inside the ring of cliff, "What kind of ground do you think is down there?" There were rocks and trees obscuring the view, so it was hard to tell. It might be good for building when cleared out.

 

[Silverwings]

"Not a clue," Vera commented, "But there's plenty of resources."

 

[Darkling0096]

"Hmm," Jack nodded, "Guess that's next on the list, then." It would probably be good for building and farming, at least. "We'll take a look once we've got an anky." They'd also need a mammoth and a doedicurus again, or some other creatures good for gathering wood and stone.

"I wonder if stegos can do the trees," Anna offered, handing over beds, "Maybe we could use one of those?" They were on the island, they were probably useful.

"Maybe, what do you- is that a robot stego?", Jack peered over the cliff to see a Tek Stego wandering around below.

 

[Silverwings]

"That is.. its a robot stego," Vera verified only to be followed by Roans comment, "I want it."

"Of course you want it. You want every animal we find," Vera laughed.

"Big shiny dino!" Roan shouted excitedly, "Its cool!"

He wondered silently if the beast would give meat or something else if killed. It wasn't a normal dinosaur so he couldn't imagine it gave meat and hide. But what else could it give?

 

[Darkling0096]

Jack looked at the robot, all the flashing lights and shining metal, and then at the other stegos, "I wonder how we'd even tame it?" Did it eat berries like other stegos? How do you knock out a robot?

"I wonder how we'd kill it," Anna said in turn. "Maybe we can use the pieces for something?"

 

[Silverwings]

Roan watched as the dinosaur stopped and seemed to graze, "I think it eats berries. And my guess would be its no stronger than a normal stego, so killing it would be about the same."

 

[Darkling0096]

"Hmm," Jack looked at the thing and the crazy colors it was, "That gives me an idea," he looked back at the cooking pot on Anna's side of the cliff, "I wonder if we could make paints and dyes?"

"Well," Anna raised her crossbow and loaded a tranquilizer bolt, "The only way we're gonna find out is to shoot it. Do we want it or not?"

 

[Silverwings]

"Lets go tame it," Roan shrugged, getting out his bow. He hopped onto his raptor and lead the way down, "Shouldnt take long."

"Well, lets finish building then, huh?" Vera suggested.