The meeting was about how we were going to hunt for food and how to expand the village it was fairly boring for the most part but the main strategy we would employ went as follows two soliders had bags and a sled they would transport any prey back to the town as for the main fighting force there were six soliders three archers and one mage to a hunting party the other topic of discussion wer of mine and bellator's evolutions i would evolve after tor so i could help guide him if he needed help with coming to a decision then vene chimed in with her two cents on a slightly different matter
"I. for. one. think. that. it. would. be. beneficial. if. we. were. to. have. a. written. record. of. the. evolutions. for. the . future. generations."
"That's a great idea vene i'll alocate some of the hides from the hints to be turned to parchment scrolls as well as feathers as scarce as they are for quills and some water dyed with blood to use as ink"
We could only get feathers from one of two sources the screech owls witch were hard enough to find and also mostly ran from any of our hunters or any humans that came and tried to kill us witch were even scarcer than the owls and we only got them if they had them with them only archers on the wall got arrows with feather fletchings anyone else got ones with grass skirts
"Thank. you. father. you. are. truely. to. kind. to. all. of. your. children."
"It's no problem vene i love all of my children and i would gladly give my life to save them"
"FATHER DON'T SAY THAT"
"Tor calm down i was just stating a fact and you know it"
"I know father and i wish you weren't we all care about you and would be devestated if anything happened to you"
After a talking to from tor i left the top most room of the saloon as that was were we chose to have any and all future meetings it was nice to have council to rely on for the more brain draining decisions that i used to heve to make on the daily for the good of the town but now i have others to rely on witch feels pretty good to do i was walking to the new and improve workshop with not only a spot for me but for bellator vene dio bris and several others for anyone that needed them be it for making arrows some spears or just to sharpen a sword all but the executive workspaces were constantly in use by somebody for some reason
The reason i was at the workshop was so i could make some armour for my self from some lightly scorched hides left over from a long passed project and some scraps of metal from a failed experiment from the not so distant past after a little while i managed to scrape together a decent chest piece for myself it was mainly hide with some splints of metal to reinforce it all i put it on and it fit perfect and felt snug but not too tight
after that i grabed a basket filled with willow branches and started to weave baskets for ease of transporting flint to make points for spears and arrows and other small things i did that for quite a while three hours at least and i had made around thirty baskets with shoulder straps and a waist strap so that the transporters could carry more things than just with the hide bags that they wear most of the time
When i was done with that i walked to the gate to talk to tor about going hunting he had to go get a replacement for his guard post when he got back i saw he was walking with dio he was the only other one strong enough to use tors ballista so it made sense to go and find him
today we were hunting for a new monster we had discovered it was an elk with steel blades for antlers at this point in time this was our only source of steel some had bigger antlers than others we obviously liked the ones with bigger antlers better as they gave more steel to work with the higher the level also meant that the steel was better quality
we looked around for a while but nothing turned up except for a screech owl witch i shot dead befor it knew i was there it was large about as big as my torso and it's feathers were clearly mutated to be bigger and create more lift mutations weren't all that useful i could make my teeth stronger or sharper or maybe i even make them larger all useless thing the only mutation that was useful for me was to make six bullets for the price of one and by looking at the other options it was a fluke
We got back to the town after another hour of fruitless hunting attempts i went over to the workshop to begin plucking the owl we had found the feathers came out easily enough with a stiff tug i put them in a small stone bowl with a lid over top to keep them safe from the wind once the bird was plucked i ate half and and gave the other half to bellator for him to eat that is the rule for hunting parties you split what you kill amoungst your group and put the excess in the community food storage for others like the ones on the wall to eat
The stores of metal were low as always but when i was checking them a huntung party came through the gate with a basket full of metal antlers and large high quality ones at that i asked the leader of the hunting party and all of them were ready to evolve they had been for a day and were waiting to be told that the scribes were ready to document all of the options for thier evolutions
This is great news my children are getting stronger