"That would be a great help, thanks Shiv." Tanrial finished up on Rione's legs, sighing afterwards and shaking her hands out a moment later. She picked up a vile from her bag, placing it in the water, letting some of the liquid fill it up. She took the other two coloured potions, pouring both into the other vile filled with water, placing her hand over the top and shaking it up so all three liquids mixed. it formed a weird, muddy brown liquid, a similar consistency to thickened cream, "This should help with the chest pains and helping clear out infection. This is all I've got so use it wisely."
Rione nodded gratefully. "Thank-you so much, Tanrial. How much should I take, and how often? And is there any way we can make more of this if it runs out?"
Tanrial rubbed at her chin, "Aloe Vera, ginger and turmeric crushed up and mixed with water into a paste will help with the pains. Unfortunately there isn't much to help the chest pain although licorice and peppermint might help but it might not work as well as the drink."
Rezzi tugged a very battered notebook and pencil from his pocket, quickly scribbling down all the ingredients. "We'll take what we can get at this point. There's trading posts around here that we can probably steal some of this stuff from."
Rione glanced over worriedly. "Don't go off to a trading post alone, okay? Those places are heavily guarded, and it's not worth it if you get caught."
"I know. I'll be careful." Rezzi put the notebook back in his pocket and turned to Tanrial. "Thanks again. If you've done everything you needed to do, I can take you and Shiv back to camp now."
"Yeah, I think I'm done here," She stood, "If it's no trouble I want to come back tomorrow morning just to check in and see how everything is going, if that's okay with the both of you?"
"Sure," Rione replied. "We'd appreciate it. Take care, Tanrial."
"You too, rest up and I'll see you soon." Tanrial gave him a nod, looking to Rezzi before heading back out the tunnel.
Rezzi escorted her and Shiv away from the thicket and back to camp, taking a slightly different route than before. Once they were back in the main clearing, he peeled off on other errands. Shiv led Tanrial over to the medicine shed and started assessing the structure, looking for weak points. "We can use rags and moss and stuff to fill the holes in the walls, and I think we have another tarp lying around somewhere. We tried to use mud for a while, but we forgot that the rain will make it melt again." She walked to the side of the shed that was on higher ground and pointed to a wedge-shaped line of raised earth that surrounded the wall, pointing up the slope. "This is to make the rainwater run around the shed instead of into it. We did that for all the shelters last year. And we have a little ditch on the lower side to keep the water moving." She seemed quite proud of this feat of engineering. "Make sense?"
(Happy new year! Sorry I had a busy few days oof, hope your new years was (or is going to be) amazing :) <3 )
Tanrial nodded, "On the inside corners you could always pack a bunch of dirt to give it an extra barrier so the rain doesn't get in. And the tarp will go over the top of the shed, yeah?"
"Yep! Hang on, I'll go get it." Shiv trotted off, heading towards a large pile of junk across camp.
She was about halfway there when, without any warning whatsoever, there was a flash of white that overpowered the dim sun, flooding the forest with light and painting stark black shadows on the ground beneath the trees. Less than a second later, a massive explosion of thunder followed, sending bandits staggering and dogs sprinting for shelter. Tranquility returned just as quickly, but the air was thick with electricity and the whole camp was in an uproar.
Shiv whipped around, trying to scrub the spots out of her eyes. "That was CLOSE! Tanrial, you okay!?"
(happy new year to you too! No worries, I've been pretty busy too ^^; Also I have been looking forward to this part of the rp for a long time lol XD)
(OoO dRaMa)
Tanrial jumped three feet out of her skin with the flash of lightening and thunder. She blinked a couple times, turning to Shiv, "Bit spooked but I'm okay. What the hell was that? No way that was just the beginning of a normal thunder storm."
"I dunno….." Shiv looked spooked as well, glancing at the sky as if afraid of another lightning strike.
As the echoes of the thunder began to fade, there was a shout from the trees and a small group of bandits raced into camp, their clothes singed and their eyes wide with terror. They dashed straight to Boar-back's tent, not even bothering to ask before hurrying inside.
Shiv grabbed Tanrial's arm. "Let's go see what they're up to, it looks like they might know something!"
Tanrial nodded, immediately heading off to the tent and dragging Shiv with her. She pretty much barged into the tent, looking around for Boar-back, spotting him and raising a brow, "Uh, please explain what just happened."
Boar-back returned the look from across the tent. "That's what I'm about to request of these young gentlemen." He glanced pointedly at the lightly toasted bandits. "Go on?"
"There's something out there, boss," one of them gasped. "A monster. We were just huntin' for berries 'n stuff, but all of a sudden we heard this crazy loud roar, and there was a big crash, and…." He turned shakily to his companions. "Did any of you guys see it?"
"It was huuuuge," a second bandit piped up. "And enormous, too. It had fur and crazy teeth, and that's all I saw. Then it made the lightning appear, out of nowhere! And then we ran."
Bor-back's eyes narrowed. "Sounds like a forest beast. We haven't had one of those around here in years."
Tanrial frowned slightly, "There was a forest beast of that description not too far from here. Still a little ways away but… sounds similar. Mike and I and some of our other friends had a little trouble with it a small while back, if it's the same one, that is."
"Really? Well that's just our luck." Boar-back massaged his forehead. "You four, did it follow you back?"
"Don't think so," the first bandit responded anxiously. "What are we gonna do, chief?"
"We're going to keep quiet and not do anything for the moment," their leader responded evenly. "You think you can do anything about this, Tanrial? If not, we'll figure something else out."
(Mum dragged me out, sorry! Seeya soon)
"It might be worth sending a scouting group out there, just to see of it is what we think it is but… Can I ask Mike 'bout it?" She asked, "He was there the last time this happened and it might be worth getting his opinion.
"I guess it might be a good idea to make your friend useful for once." Boar-back straightened and walked out of the tent, waving for everyone to follow. "You four boys, go get the soot cleaned off and tell Rezzi to double the guard. Nobody comes in or out of camp right now. Tanrial, go talk to your friend and then report back to me with whatever he says. Make it snappy–forest beasts are nothing to drag your feet around."
Tanrial nodded, quickly hurrying off towards Mike. She weaves her way through the cap fairly quickly, nearly running into a few bandits before she came across Mike, “Mike!”
Mike looked up, already tense from the recent lightning but immediately noticing her urgency. "What? What's going on out there?"
“We think there’s a forest beast out there. Specifically, the one you, Rick, myself and some of the others back at the village fought a little while back,” She breathed, “Did we kill it? I’m pretty sure we killed it but I can’t remember. Anyway, there is also someone with it, dunno who, the bandits just saw a figure of sorts and I wanted to get your opinion on the whole thing.”
Shiv caught up to them in time to hear the last few sentences. "I don't think they saw anybody, just the monster. I guess if there was anybody with the forest beast, they're dead meat by now." She shivered. "I hope you guys can figure out how to drive it away, and fast."
Mike paused for a minute to absorb all this information, glancing around camp at the sudden rush of nervous activity. His mind was clearly racing. "We killed the forest beast you're talking about," he said to Tanrial slowly. "But I've dealt with plenty of them and I think I know what to do." He gave Tanrial a pointed look. "Can you give your friend here a job or something?" he asked so Shiv wouldn't hear. "I need to talk to you for a second."
Tanrial eyed him for a moment before nodded, “Hey, Shiv, can you go back to the hut and see if my bag is safe? I want tin make sure none of the stuff inside got you know, hit by the lightening.”
"Okay," Shiv said dubiously, slowly retreating and heading off to the medical shed.
The instant she was out of earshot, Mike continued speaking quietly and urgently. "Tanrial, this is it. This is our chance to get out of here. All we have to do is convince most of the the bandits to go after the forest beast, and while they're gone, we escape. They should be able to drive it off by themselves, it's clearly an ice or water type, so if they use fire then it'll probably just leave. You're the medic, so that gives you the perfect excuse to stay behind and prep your potions or something. And then, when the leader's finally got his eyes off us, we call in some favors with your friends and slip out. We'll be miles away by the time they realize what happened."
Tanrial ran a hand through her hair, "Mike we can't just leave them here to deal with that thing. It might be worse then we originally thought. Besides, like you said, I've got friends here, if we stay and help them we still might be able to help us escape. As much as we do need to leave…"
Mike fell silent and stared at her with the beginnings of disbelief. "Hold on. What?" He stood up, ignoring the fact that the roof of his wooden cage brushed the top of his head. "Are you saying that you want to stay here, helping out people you've only known for a few days–people who are also murderous criminals–instead of taking this chance to leave and get on with our lives?" He didn't raise his voice at all, but his words were still forceful. "Listen. You've been getting some pretty good treatment, haven't you? They've given you a home with a roof, three full meals a day, and the freedom to go wherever you want. Even their leader's been getting chummy with you, because you're valuable and he wants you to stick around. Me? I'm just another bruiser on the battlefield, if they even need me at all. You might notice this cage isn't exactly a five-star hotel." Mike glared at her. "Who's side are you on, Tanrial? We have a real friend out there in the woods somewhere, and I intend to go find him. We won't get a chance like this again. Are you coming or not?"
Tanrial narrowed her eyes. She knew he was right, just didn't want to admit it, "Alright. Fine. We'll leave then."
Mike watched her for another moment, then nodded shortly. "Okay. You go get the tribe to head out after the forest beast, then, and I'll start getting ready as well. I'll see you back here when they're gone."
He cut himself off as Shiv returned, and the two of them eyed each other distrustfully. "Your stuff is all safe, Tanrial," Shiv said, fidgeting. "What are we gonna do now?"
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