Re: (TFT) Solo 1

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

day 2
    When Eva wakes you it is not yet light, and it is to these words.  
"Everyone in my village was eaten by rats."  She gives you a look like you 
aren't going to beleive her.  ?It was horrible.  They would attack in these 
little swarms.  Running right up a man and eating pieces out of his face.  
The men would stomp and slap like they were on fire, but it didn?t kill the 
rats.  They just kept eating and ripping."
    She looks down into the small campfire.  "Women were freaking out.  
Babies were screaming.  John Elliot was trying to stab the ones on his 
wife?s back.?  She chokes back a sniffle.  ?Old Miss May was swatting them 
with a flaming log in each hand.  They just got back up and tried to get in 
the crib again.?
    Tears are streaming down here cheeks now.  ?Miss May!  They?re eating 
your neck.  Miss May!?  She drops here head to her hands and cries.  You can 
see her holy symbol gleaming in the fire light and the pre-dawn darkness.
    [get five experience points for listening.]

    After dawn the two of you quitely put the pirogue into the bayou and 
set off.  The water is a muddy brown.  There is not much of a current.  With 
the steady rythem of dipping paddles ya'll move out.  They bayou is scenic 
and peacefull.  Things go smothly until noon.
    A strange plant grows on top of the bayou waters.  Drifting with the 
current, and bunching up around fallen trees and stumps.  It is called 
Hyacinth.  It is a flowering type of Lilly that floats, roots and all.  
Sometimes crawfish (they look like mini lobsters) crawl up on top of them.
    Lady Eva is laying in the front of the pirogue scooping crawfish.  As 
you are rowing down the bayou lady Eva kneels down in the front.  She leans 
forward so the upper half of her body extends out over the water.  It 
reminds you oddly of the figure heads you sometimes see on large ships.  She 
is holding her right hand up.  As the pirogue approaches a cluster of 
Hyacinth she strikes with her hand a scoops a crawfish off the plant and 
over her shoulder in one graceful stoke.  The crawfish lands in the pirogue. 
 After an hour of this there are about thirty of the little bugs crawling 
around in the bottom of the pirogue.  ?They make good eatin'.?  She says 
over her shoulder.
    The splash and strike of an alligator gar.
    One of the times you see lady Eva raise her right hand to strike,  
there is a loud splash and she sits straight up and pulls her hand in close. 
 She didn?t get a crawfish this time.  She slides back into the pirogue and 
turns around.  ?Almost lost a hand.  An alligator gar beat me to that one.?  
She picks up her oar and starts to row.  "We've got enough to eat anyway."
    [get five experience points for learning a new way to catch lunch, and 
another five for finding out the hazard involved.]

    An hour before sunset ya'll pull up to the bank, set up camp, and she 
starts dinner.  She quickly gets a fire going and a pot of water boiling.  
Then she drags the Pirogue closer and climbs in.  Deftly she picks up a 
crawfish by its tail and throws it into the pot of boiling water.  Within 
two minutes they are all in.  With the addition of some spices it really 
starts to smell good.
    Half an hour and they are ready.  She takes the pot off the fire with a 
forked stick, walks to the bayou?s edge, and strains off all the water.  She 
comes back and puts down a pot full of bright red cooked crawfish.
    She picks one up and says ?Only eat the ones who?s tails have curled 
up.  Those died when they hit the water.  She grabs one what a straight 
tail.  ?I think you stepped on this one when getting out of the pirogue, but 
no point in taking a chance.?  She flings it away into the bayou.  She picks 
up another one.  With both hands she grabs the upper body and the tail where 
they join.  With a twist the tail comes right off in her right hand.  She 
throws the upper body into the bayou.  ?I don?t think your ready to learn 
how to suck the brains yet.?  She shows you how to widen the tail shell with 
your thumbs then pinch the very tip and pull the meat out.  In two quick 
moves she has a clean piece of mini lobster meat.  It disappears in her 
mouth.  ?Try one.?  You do, but the meat breaks into pieces.  You have to 
peal the rest of the shell of plate by plate.  Reluctantly you taste the 
meat.  It is spicy and surprisingly good.
    [get five experience for eating your first crawfish dinner.]

    Nothing happens that evening, but in the morning you wake up to sounds 
of something scuffling around in camp.  You are laying there and open your 
eyes to see a baby black bear sitting with the pot in its lap.  It is 
holding the pot in both its paws and licking it.  Uh, oh.  She forgot to 
wash it out.  The mother can?t be far away.  It is pre-dawn and dark as the 
fire must have died out during the night.  You put your hand on your spear 
which is laying right beside you.  You wait patiently.  Ten minutes later 
the baby bear is done and ambles off into the woods.  By playing dead, you 
didn't scare the bear.  It didn't howl, and Its mother didn't come rampagin 
over in a protective fit.
   [Get 45 experience for sparing the life of the baby bear, and possibly 
its mom.]

   More to follow . . .
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