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Post by Kristofor on Apr 10, 2021 9:51:06 GMT -6
Encounters: OnMy ResumeGeology Rank 2 Mason Rank 3 Swimming Wild Speak Tracking ((Note: Kristofor has 'wild speak' as a skill! Bold is a headline or wild speak body language. 'talking' is Kristofor's Laiyan speech. "Talking" is Common, if in conversation. Non-canon, Kristofor can see in the dark. Think of a dungeons and dragons type of night vision; he can see a bit, but not very far and not stat-wise. Just canon. Because what kind of fox can't see in the dark? Right? right.)) - Sirius Adult Saharah Whiptail Jackaroo, implied male Level 23 (5 levels bought with qp) Loyalty 16 Stamina: 2 Strength: 3 Resistance: 5 Dexterity: 5 Mentality: 0 Special Abilities: Hardy, Stone Skin, Nightvision (8) Moves: Jump, Burrow, Kick Tricks: Accept Darkness (2), Hold (1), Drop (1) NOTE: Creatures are attached to Kristofor with the nylon rope with rudimentary leash/harnessesGoal: 25 post long 'walk', perhaps teach a trick in a month Inside: Food: Supplies: Finds:
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 13, 2023 3:11:57 GMT -6
Kristofor knows he's screwed up when his 'tallest' pet that isn't keen on knocking him flat on his back to lick his face in greeting, gives him an annoyed glower. The pouch on their belly has several pieces of shiny silverware in it. He'd caught the jackaroo with their paw in the silver drawer. Convincing him to part (share) with his bounty of shinies required sitting here for what feels like hours, offering a single treat to share for each piece of cutlery. He's a fox and doesn't need many, but the creature nearly had cleaned him out of spoons. Sirius' minty colored eyes glower at him as he passes treat over treat, and the food overrides his thievery and slowly fills his pouch with capsle treats. Doesnt' quite recall if the animal is an omnivore or not, so he does give him just one treat that was spiced meat, the rest were 'veggie friendly'. So much for keeping notes. He knows, why not go let Sirius find and take his own shiny for himself. Wasn't there a 'public mine' nearby? Perhaps he could even dig it up himself. Part of how he ends up in front of the mineshaft network, with Sirius on a r udimentary lead, holding onto the shiny shovel which his double his height. But its shiny and he won't part with it. THis one will be double the snacks. Trip 1 - 1 Begin Dig
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 13, 2023 3:19:06 GMT -6
It was worth it for teaching him to hold and drop items alongside Mira, because it made parting with the spoons a whole lot easier in the long run. The fox doesn't want to imagine having to hold the jackaroo in a bear hug in one arm, pin their big feet somehow and take back all his spoons by 'force'. No, an animals pouch, like their food bowl, is 'theirs'. Only an idiot or a deathwish thieves from those. He's a wise fox, not the smartest all the time. His rucksack is filled with tools and not going to lay open his paw pads doing this a second time, is only going for a short period of time. Even the jackaroo has better vision in the dark then he does now, and that's saying something, as foxes are naturally nocturnal. His hearing and smell are better though, just to pat himself on the back. 'Lets dig here.' he puts his tools down just on the inside of the well-picked over tunnel, running a rough padded hand over the rocks. Granite, it looks to be. The clattering dragging noise of dragging the shovel along stops, Sirius examining where he wants to dig. 'Do you know how to dig?' he asks the creature, well aware that it won't answer back. Exprimentally scraping his claws against the floor of the mine to pick up a handful of dirt. "Dig" he points out again. 2
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 13, 2023 3:30:30 GMT -6
He'd found a stick on the side of the road while hopping down the long hard place to follow fox to this place of dirt and rock. Although what he's barking and tipping doesn't make one bit of sense for the jackaroo, he's no idiot either. The scraping pawful of dirt. What, does he not know how to make his own burrow? Does he want to dig there to make one? Sirius' head angles upward briefly, far enough that his long ears drape almost to the ground. Tall place, tough dirt. He could dig through this. Wheek! Making a similar, deeper sort of Mira-noise like panilla friend, the jackaroo stops hauling the shovel along, which taking it fro his spoons was a rough on his paws decision. He's barking, t hen scooping up dirt. It doesn't take a genius animal to figure out something about dirt. Cautiously hopping forward, giving the shiny thing thief back a suspicious look, then scooping up a bit of dirt, just a tad. He makes happy yip sound, and a treat comes for it. He'll be eating well all day.... Smugly, the jackaroo finds his chewing stick in his pouch, sticking it in his mouth and taking the treat to add to his hoard in his pouch. The motion is repeated and barked again. Wait, where is it that a burrow should be made. 3
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 13, 2023 3:36:35 GMT -6
Just picking up a small clod of dirt was a bit of improvement in Kristofor's opinion, though he doubts the creature understood anything he just said. Which is 'fine'. Some animals are prompted by mimicry. Rewarding for the clod of dirt, he starts gently making his own diggy hole. He's kind of a natural at digging holes, so digging one like its a new mineshaft should be fine, right? Cricket sounds. Right? He's not dug through solid rock before. Gravel yes, clay and sediment, yes. Dirt? Does one need to ask. If he gets started, he may not stop for a while. Beside him, the jackaroo finds a stick to chew on, with a smug look for probably stealing all of Kristofor's treats as well. He watches for several minutes before making a noise and shuffling forward. Dragging a paw down the rock face as far as he can reach up... was he feeling out the vibe or something? Nope, because the jackaroo starts tearing into the edge between the rock wall and the floor with little prompting. Were jackaroo natural diggers? 'Good job Sirius, nice digging.' A treat rolls 'by itself, hint hint' into the hole he's digging. THe sound of cracking shell of the creature eating his prize can be heard over the paw over paw of dirt being flung. Might as well join him. Two burrowing animals digging into the wall. 4
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 13, 2023 3:44:54 GMT -6
What an idea, digging a new tunnel into the mountain. Before Sirius does, the fox encounters solid rock, something his own claws can't carve into like butter, unlike dirt. Because a fox's best skill is digging. Personally he thinks his attention to detail is a better skill then digging; being kind of a one of a kind of his species around here; to his own knowledge. The rapid scraping of dirt and gravel beside him is the Jackaroo going to town. An experienced digger, it appears. He'd started a little burrow in the garden, after all. Under the thorny brush. Probably keeping some spoons in his burrow too, but that would be a future Kris problem. Today was a digging day. Hm... well this is why he brought tools to work with. Backing out his frankly quite shallow hole in the floor, the fox takes his rucksack off and looks for his hammer and chisel. That would help start break up chunks of rock. The pickaxe was an unusual model to grip in his paws, maybe because the pressure points of pawpads dont' work quite the same for human hands; as all equipment is built for them, not him. Maybe he could make something for it to be easier to hold it. Beside him, the jackaroo seems unperturbed by the switch to solid rock, but isn't carving it away. If anything, kind of avoiding it, realizing he can't break it immediately. 'Dig this way?' he hears the fox yip and start changing direction on the tunnel, but there's unusual things in his paws now. He's not digging, but breaking. Huh? 5
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Post by Fiera Ferella on Aug 13, 2023 12:23:59 GMT -6
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 14, 2023 22:03:22 GMT -6
The rock is more delicate then he remembers from the first time of coming into the tunnels. A chunk of rock drops and lands nearly on his foot, if he hadn't backed off before it landed with a sharp cry of surprise. The noise of his own cry chose a bit in the entrance. Sirius pauses in his digging of a tunnel,poking himself out of the entrance to look at weird fox who gave sticks and food. "Dig here" he taps the rocks before him instead. The jackaroo looks as the burrow he's started, then at the fox who seems to favor a leg. Break rock is bad. "Dig here" another jab at the rocky space. Before he starts rubbing some sort of treat on the rock to attract a scent. Does he 'have' to mark the rock like that? Really. The jackaroo makes a point to come out of his hole, and swipe at the treat in the fox's fingers before he can start ruining the food on the rocks. Supid fox. Scraping the rock once with his paw, and the fox makes a happy, weird sound. OH where was fluffy share-sticks friend when he needs her to translate stupid fox sounds. But he dug out another treat. 6
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 14, 2023 22:11:31 GMT -6
Sirius actually has a pouchful of treats already, with the successful 'trade share' scam of giving the stupid feeding creature back his shinies. He's really attached to those shinies. Sweeping away the offered treat with a tail, the jackaroo examines the new diggy space, and claws at the dirt... its rockier here but root, rock or not, he can make a spot. Now that he was in the way, the fox doesn't seem tow ant to dig there anymore, and starts over across from his original hole. Just breaking rock, not digging. Something heavy lands before him. And its leafy looking. Hmmm? Chitter. What is this. Its partially embedded in the stone and he is surprised the fox didn't pick up on the new thing. Just breaking rocks instead. It would take him several minutes or times to get through the rock. Cracking his armored fingers, the jackaroo likes a challenge. He starts scraping at the rock. Its quite hard. Kristofor does notice that the jackaroo did start in the hole he wanted, but now he's after a stone? "Thats good Sirius. We want to dig out the stone. Dig there." he says awkwardly. A flick of the tail; he's heard but busy. 7
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 14, 2023 22:16:29 GMT -6
The green stone does look pretty but it doesn't entice his attention whatsoever. Green isn't his color anyway. Let Sirius work at digging out that stone. So he goes back to chipping away chunks of stone at the wall, seeing if he can find anything worth selling at the trader for some good choices of color work for the hounds. Its still a goal of his, to show that off in a contest of Dawson's very good nose. Better then his own. As more rock chips away with help of plunging the chisel into the granite, he can see bronze ore vein around where he was breaking up the area. Goood, everyone can use ore. By its color and lack of oxidizing, that must be iron or something; because copper oxidised in the air. Though why iron ore is brown when raw and usually silver when cooked, he doesn't know. That part of ironworks he didn't learn in school. The stone is hypnotic almost to the jackaroo. He wants it. 8
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 14, 2023 22:22:31 GMT -6
The bronze colored ore vein comes out in a series of chunks; it might make something small if there was a blacksmithery or something; Like a cobbler, but with metals.. Right? He knows what a cobbler is; they fix his sneakers when the soles wear out. Because he never bought new ones. Though he did ask once when he was young on why they were a cobbler and not a shoe fixer. Earning a belly laugh and the craft of shoe making is cobbling. THough he understood the term to be for rocks instead, but doesn't ask further. He can sell that. Putting it away into the bag in which he hauled along. It wouldn't do to come back with too much, because he does hold that satchel over his shoulder. And has to carry back the shovel if Sirius doesn't take it back. A blue stone shows itself as he goes along, and THIS ONE catches his attention. Its a lovely cobalt shade. Setting to work, he weedles the stone out of the granite with careful strikes. If he's lucky, it might come out whole. Sirius's dedication to breaking this green stone out of the rock is paying off, slowly but surely. bits of rock and grit scratch away with each methodical clawing. Finally, the rock splits, and it brings forth a most hypnotically colored green stone. 9
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Post by Kristofor on Aug 14, 2023 22:26:45 GMT -6
By the time KRistofor finishes excavating his blue stone to put away in the bag, the rock the jackaroo has been breaking apart splits, and hes' got the green stone in his paws. Staring at it, like he likes his reflection or something. If he starts grooming his ears in his own reflection, that's just weird. But in the meantime, there's a smidge of pink sticking out of the corner of the beginning oft the hole, and the fox goes after that chunk. Its almost cubic and crystalline. WHat even is this. Even salt is considered a crystal. 'Good work Sirius.' he praises the jackaroo, but doesn't seek to take the prize away. Giving him a gentle pat on the head and going back to his own digging. The jackaroo hears the hum of pleased. He... he did break through that rock, didn't he. Maybe it was just doing the turtle way; slow and steady breaks the rock apart. He can do that. Going back to his original hole, the fox makes no qualms as he's moved again, picking out rocks from the walls. What was he, a rock seeker. 10 -end dig
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Post by Fiera Ferella on Aug 15, 2023 8:57:01 GMT -6
You find a strangely light stone on your way out, pitted with holes.
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