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[dendarii]

Who: Miles Naismith (dendarii), the Dendarii, and YOU!
When: Forward-dated to late Day 4
Where: The Boneyard
What: ICly prepping for adventures, Dendarii recruitment, and poking at trilobites for fun and/or food??

[ Somehow, despite everything, Miles has gotten quite bored very quickly. Being unable to do much with shelter or searching thus far - curse his fragile body - Miles finds himself wanting to do absolutely anything except sit still another day. He's already paced himself a visible trough in the sand next to his corner of that massive skull.

When the trilobites start showing up in greater numbers, Miles is pretty much ecstatic. Finally, he can do something that involves staying still while also getting to do something moderately dangerous. Low against the sand as he is, he finds it a worthy pastime to belly crawl after some of the solo critters. Trying to ply them with a bit of rations or coral meat - or a scrap of his suit ...

When not doing that, in the interests of making himself useful, Miles turns to planning. When anyone gets near his spot, he brightens and turns to them regardless of their interest level. (He also may or may not be continuing to try taming one of these little wiggly bastards.) He grins brightly and draws himself up to his full (if short) height. ]

For all that we've made a lovely home for ourselves here, I'm getting antsy. Wouldn't it be worthwhile to see where all these things are coming from? I personally intend taking my mercenaries to investigate, but ...

[ A coy pause.]

Well. The more the merrier. The Dendarii Mercenaries are always looking for new recruits.

Comments

[dateme]

Aren't there footsteps all over the place by now though? How're you gonna tell which way they came from? They sorta appeared out of nowhere.

[ceruleo]

[ W O W no comment on that Inui!! ]

If they're diggers, they probably have burrows. Considering the size of these guys, a bunch of holes should be visible...right?

[ Right??? ]

[dendarii]

[ Miles brightens a bit. ]

And if they're large enough, I might be able to fit down one. Potentially.

[dateme]

You're definitely short enough, haha!

[ex_bossily211]

[Clara frowns over in his direction.]

There's nothing wrong with being short!

[anewhope]

[ Clark wisely does not comment on that either. ]

It's an option, though I wouldn't recommend it.

[ceruleo]

Uh, yeah, let's not go into any bug burrows? What if they bite you? [ A beat. ] Do they bite?

[ You're gonna regret asking that, Lance. ]

[anewhope]

They might, though they don't have evolved jaws for them to be dangerous.

[ He pauses. ] At least I assume.

[dateme]

Then why don't catch one first and then worry about all of that later? [ Inui holds up his hands in suggestion. ] They dig into the sand if you startle them so we're gonna need to lure them in somehow.

[ceruleo]

They probably think we're gonna eat them or something.

[ Gently, he reaches out a hand, making soft kissy noises, as if he were trying to attract cats. ]

[dendarii]

I have eaten one, actually. Bel and I killed one earlier. They're rather a lot like crab.

[dateme]

Wait, are you serious?? [ Crab is a gd delicacy where Inui's from. Hell yes sign him up for space-crab. ] And you didn't get sick?

[dendarii]

Not so far. And Taura didn't smell any poison, so ...

[ Miles shrugs. He's eaten worse. ]

[ceruleo]

Awesome! Seafood!

[ Is it seafood if it's in a desert? Asking the real questions here tbh. ]

Now we gotta catch them. [ At least his enthusiasm is up. ] Too bad there's no way to make garlic butter out here.