/builders/ - Hero and Nation Builders!

>>37393

re: fantasticality

Magic is the stuff of life, life cannot exist without it, however, USING magic (without blowing yourself to bits or flying off to another dimension called "Sydney Australia" or turning into a kangaroo for no apparent reason) requires training and focus.

>>37393

There's magic, but it turns you more and more gay as you use it

>>37393

There are fantasy races, but the only way to obtain magic is to make a deal with an extra planar being.

The races are innumerable, and the magic is difficult. There are two main ways to gain access to its use, hard training and extraplanar assistance. A third, less common way is to place once self in an optimistic (oft refered to as "gay") mood, however, this method is extremely dangerous, as it is almost certain to lead into a joy spiral that ends in one's death.

>>37394

no

>>37395

no

>>37396

yes

>>37402

no

>>37396

I agree with this

>>37394

>>37393

Okay, I'll vote for this as long as the others don't win

>>37393

Magic exists but only in specific cases when granted by the Voting entities aka the Players

It cannot be obtained independently by NPC parties and its power and content will be determined on a case to case basis

If NPC interact with 'extra dimensional' forces this will be considered as a delusion adressed to a fictional entity with the Players being able to listen in at their lesure as omnipotent and omnipresent beings

>>37411

Potential caveat: A very, very few individuals in any given population (somewhere between 0.1 and 0.9 of a percent) are born already "in tune" with the voting powers.

Creatures great and small cover this world but some stand taller than others. Elves and gnomes run wild through the forests, Dwarves scavenge for mountain berries and Man travels the great grass plains.

Magic, while undiscovered by any mortals may be granted to individuals if voted upon by players.

Now what happens upon this world? Where do mortals settle and practice agriculture? Which race will progress first?

(Note, rather than voting for a suggestion, you can instead vote against one)

>>37453

Dwarves entered the Paleolithic era 1 year ago as of this post. If this gets the votes, I mean.

>>37453

The gnomes shall discover agriculture first. The humans shall discover animal domestication at a similar point in time by accident.

>>37453

The first dwarf who dared to dig from the top of the mountain to the heart of the world forged the magic of fire into a red gemstone he found at the heart of the earth.

A leaf torn by the wind fell from a magical tree and formed into an elf before touching the ground. The elf would grow to dance in the winds from sun to moon, and the winds would dance with him. Their harmony became so attached that the wind would follow the elf and the elf had complete control of it.

Or in short:

Magic of the fire forged into a gem held by dwarves.

Magic of wind bestowed on an elven hero.

>>37469

Building on this; after the removal of the gem, volcanos and earthquakes began to randomly happen in the world, underground, under sea, and at surface level.

>>37484

In the sense that natural volcanos and earthquakes happen, occasionally and randomly, not in the sense of the world is dying.

While Dwarves have only just reached paleolithic, hundreds of thousands of years after most other races, Gnomes have already begun creating semi-permanent settlements. They move all around the worlds forests still but stay in a single place just long enough to reap the crops they plant. Humans have begun to be known as the wandering shepherds to other races as they master animal husbandry before any other race.

An Elf by the name of Iantumaros is the first creature to demonstrate magical abilities. He is able to cast magic that twists the power of the winds

A dwarf, more intelligent than his underdeveloped brethren, claims to have snatched a flaming gem from the deepest tunnel. He is named chief for his ability to cast pyromancy. Chief Adils

>>37490

The dwarves learn how to sharpen rocks, and which rocks make the best sharp things to trade with the gnomes for food.

Yetis to the south south-west of the world begin to worship Great Old Ones.

>>37500

Trade happens where the forests and the mountains meet, where the last tree resides.

>>37569

South West

>>37580

The leader of a prominent human tribe is gifted powerful life magic and given a vision of an oasis within the desert of the northern part of the western continent

Due to a power outage, today's update has been delayed

A young elf boy befriends a giant beast monster on the Eastern continent.

>>37773

The Humans of the Oasis take to worshipping the God of the Desert and the Goddess of the Oasis. They are Husband and Wife. While the Husband is a harsh master to the people the Goddess of the Oasis is caring and merciful. Men and women behave strongly according to their patron diety.

Large (about large dog sized) Slugs begin to inhabit oasis grounds. Their sludgy meat is a delicacy and their sludgeness is used as glue for constructions.

In the Mountains creatures are born from rock. Trolls, blessed with harsh skin and regenerative abilities are of little intellect but calm temper. Physcially strong they are able to smell out precious metals and stones up to several meters under the Mountains rocky surface, which they then dig up and eat.

A sheer enormous Serpent like creature now inhabits the worlds oceans.

Idk how many I can throw into a single update.

>>37776

My bad. Just do the Humans worshipping God of Desert and Goddess of Oasis then.

An elf boy befriends a creature known as the lumbering hulk in the Eastern Continent.

Oasinism becomes the dominant religion in the Oasis town. Their numbers begin increasing again with the large amount of fruits

Stories of the Old Gods spread to the Gnome town and becomes their dominant religion

>>37774

Support, but the monster looks like a wolf the size of a horse with bull horns and the fur is speckled like granite.

>>37773

A group of lizard people emerge from primitive states as they learn to build boats and fish in the islands.

Formorians, a half-way race between giant, orc, and troll, begin to worship a god of torture and black magic.

This religious belief causes them to practice kidnapping, sacrifice of sentient beings, and cannibalism.

>>37881

So they're ogres

>>37856

Ruling Gnomes see their position of power eroded by the emergence of a new faith. They meet in secret to undermine the spread of the Dwarvish faith and invent their own religion to replace the Old Gods with.

>>37882

Much worse than ogres. Imagine a chaotic evil ogre with very numerous, severe deformities in every body part and a culture based on evil hate and treachery.

>>37884

Large bug bears then

>>37885

More similar to gothmog the orc (lord of the rings), though they can be hairy too.

>>37881

>>37882

>>37884

>>37885

>>37886

Ok but where?

>>37887

An underground place in the northeast of the world.

>>37887

In the most tranquil place on the map

>>37890

The mountains the formorians call home erupts, covering large swaths of lands, and filling most tunnels, with lava and ash.

>>37892

Agree except replace Lava and ash with flowers and candies.

>>37892

Can't control the world, so some fomorians start worshiping a volcano and believe that it's hunger can only be sated through the blood of heretic fomorians.

A human attempts to make the first phylactery. It doesn't work. Instead, the Obsidian Cylinder, a hollow amulet shaped like a scroll-case is made.

When the Obsidian Cylinder is filled with enough blood and tears, it opens, releasing a demon who offers the current owner a deal, eternal life as a demon in exchange for sacrifice of everything and everyone in that person's life, this includes dreams hopes aspirations memories, friends, family, and anyone nearby.

The magical item is riddled with malfunctions and bends probability so that it is always stolen, lost or forsaken by its owner eventually.

>>37890

Lizard folk commune with the water spirits, bending the ocean to their will.

>>37895

The obsidian cylinder's magic causes it to gain blood and tears at the rate of 1 drop at a time of each, these drops forming inside it slowly over the course of weeks/months of ownership, the item only gaining this during time it is owned by someone or something, but retaining it during time spent unowned or lost.

The Drog'dha, a night moving humanoid, begins to hunt gnomes, skinning and butchering gnomes, primarily drinking their blood, but also eating their brain, heart, and spinal fluid.

Drog'dhas resemble a heavily robed wizard because they had very voluminous 'bat-wing' like skin between both their legs and arms, with 2 giant fangs and eight large sensitive eyes.

The oldest are additionally capable of a few very simple spells.

>>37960

>>37959

Seeing these rumors as a true threat the gnomes assemble a top force of monster hunters to take out the beast.

>>37961

They find out that it isn't 1 beast, it is a race of beasts, though they are fairly uncommon. They hunt alone and only come out at night. Each Drog'dha grows to be about 12 ft tall, changing in color from bright red (youngest) gradually to sepia-tone (oldest), moving through several colors between.

>>38014

The gnomes would not have this, they would not be dominated by these brute beasts! Various crafty gnomes attempt to find a way to make their flint weapons stronger by laminating them with resin upon sharpening and hardening the handles with fire. Likewise, attempts are made to make the process at which these weapons are produced more efficient by having different groups of gnomes assemble the handles and the blades, and a third group tasked with joining the two together and laminating them.

>>38014

The formorians figure out that throwing captives in volcanos is better than throwing themselves, and begin to raid other civilizations for sacrifice victims.

Elder things inhabit the south polar sea, in addition to a very small area of land, the southernmost bit of land on the left-most big continent.

Goblins begin the pyramid building phase of their culture.

With a secondary food source from the hunter/gatherer Yetis, the Dwarves can protest the price of crops and begin getting more crops for their flint and stone. Their population slowly begins to increase again.

Some Gnomes begin tempering the weapons they create however the government cannot pay for it because it is entirely funded by the donations to the church. Instead the weapons are sold to private buyers, mostly land owners that produce a large amount of crops. Those buyers then build their own militia and soon there are a few very small armies that work independently from one another.

The Formorians are no longer weakening their own numbers but instead take sacrififces from other tribes.

A Goblin chief is honored in death with a pyramid. His life story is inscribed at the top in pictograms and his death at the bottom with his life in between. While they don't create permanent settlements, this monument is probably first of many and they will dot the lands showing the men of the future where the Goblins have been.

>>38094

Oasians moving West form new settlements on the grand river along the forest. They export wood to Oasia in exchange for glass which the Oasians begin to produce with their now ample supply of burning material.

Anger and fighting sparks among the Formorians over a discussion whether the God of Death should be Male or Female.

Dwarven resentment of Gnomes over the whole food price issue grows. Though not forming open hostility just yet it shapes the image of Gnomes in Dwarven society for decades to come.

>>38094

A dwarf finds an adamantine axe that was accidentally left in the world a long time previous, it is the weapon of a deity, and was made by deities, though it is nonmagical, simply made of adamantine and very powerful.

Elves figure out cultivation enough that they begin to grow industrial-farm fields of marijuana plants.

>>38098

Correction: "It is nonmagical, simply made of adamantine and very strong"

A group of Hobits have decided to set up a farming commune. Tired of the food prices and distribution of dwarves and gnomes, they seek to seize their own means of production.

>>38105

Orc slavemasters force all male formorians to become rapists after they enslave the entire race of formorians at the devastating and devastated end of the formorian tribe war.

Trolls begin their stonehenge building phase of culture.

The ice tombs of the winter elves thaw, the (not undead) winter elves awakening from 10,000 years of sleep.

>>38105

The people of Oasia and the Riverlands enjoy an incredible friendship. Even though Riverlander faith begins to deviate as the Father's heavy hand is much less powerful in the green plains. Oasians and Riverlanders consider themselves as one who could not be without the other. Many draw a comparison to how Mother Oasis and Father Desert oppose each other, yet belong together.

Some Oasians make a living out of guiding Caravans through the desert. They become experts of navigation and survival, being commonly referred to as priests of the Desert God. When somebody 'needs a priest' they are usually seeking someone to guide them through the desert.

As life is easier in the Riverlands forms of philosophy and poetry begin to become more common place.

Elven scouts begin to roam the nearby lands in search of resources.

Born from indecisiveness over who should lead the Dwarves and resentment for outside forces the Dwarves take to a new form of leadership. Each Family would select a Patriarch, a representative of the Family who would determine the course of the Dwarves together with the other Family Patriarchs. As a very basic concept with no real rules to draw on the meetings are usually a mess on all things which are not fully supported by anyone.

>>38108

everyone*. (the last word)

>>38105

Some other orcs believe that the formorians are weak, stupid things prone to suicide and should be wiped out instead of enslaved.

>>38105

The elves begin to discover strange plants in thir home.

>>38121

Oasian scouts return, mostly influenced by Dwarven stories they tell tales of the Oligarchy, Monogamy and the rotten Gnomes. This view is reinforced by the fact that Oasian Scouts who entered Gnomish territory did not return. The only other people the Oasians came into contact with (the Hobbits) tell almoss negative stories, making Oasian society very cautious towards gnomes. Sparked by these tales the first foundations of Milita Bands among human settlements begin.

The idea of irrigation quickly spreads from Oasia to the Riverlands.

Hunting becomes prominent in the Riverlands where much game can be found in the forests.

Relations between Dwarves and Hobbits begin to improve over shared resentment of the Gnomes. Hobbit trade begins to replace Dwarven-Gnomish trade relations.

Gnomes are unsettled at the prospect of Hobbits replacing their trade, the ruling caste begins to spread nasty rumors about Hobbits among their own population.

>>38121

The dwarves are gifted a new type of magic, one to control stone and metals around them.

>>38121

Dragons enter the Palace Building Phase of their culture.

A human beggar, dying of thirst in the desert, drinks the blood and tears in the obsidian case, which he finds in an old saddle-bag laying half buried in the sand. The human beggar becomes the first vampire, though the obsidian case is stolen from him by a gnome thief a short time after this.

Oluscani, jelly/ooze like creatures with flabby & blubbery bluish-gray to purple-blue semi-gelatinous see through tissues & visible organs, begin to prey on orcs, coming out of bodies of water at night, each oluscani about 7 feet long, and usually with between four and ten 5 foot long tentacles with non-poisonous but painful stingers, the creatures diet organs, bone marrow, and brain matter.

Giants enter their monolith building phase of culture.

>>38134

The elves begin to experiment with altering life to their needs with magic. Weaving trees into homes and making berry bushes be more fruitful.

>>38134

Large Sentient Spiders who communicate by screeching sounds who inhabit the Riverlander forest repeatedly become prey to Riverlander hunting parties. They retreat further into the forests to avoid contact. They mainly live off tree sap, leaving trees with a mangled look after consumption.

Dryads begin to flee from the displaced Giant Spiders, with them spreading the Riverlander forest to unseen size towards the North West.

The first Library of the world is built in Oasia, a rather unimpressive building meant to preserve the history of humanity.

A Snow Elf family manages to slay an exceptionally large mammoth. They build a big tent within its corpse. Soon other families settle nearby.

>>38134

A dwarf discovers the foundations of astronomy, and the science of astrology is born.

Orcs begin to experiment with necromancy.

>>38173

The high priest of Stellarism is gifted the power to read the stars and divine the future, as well as the power to call upon the blessings and cold fury of the void.

The elf with life magic begins to experiment with creating protectors for his people.

A gnome peasant receives a vision, and power. A vision that all are equal under the heavens, even non-gnomes. This gnome is gifted power over storms and wind as long as he believes this.

>>38173

The first "Librarian" is named in Oasia. This Keeper of Knoweldge protects the First Library. As through Miracle both Creatures of the Desert and the Sand itself obey his word. "Librarian" is a title carried until Death. Once the title has been ceremonially received the Powers of the Desert are granted upon the new Librarian within the coming Seven Days.

Dryads begin to fertilize and settle the new lands to the North West as Giant Spiders settle the former Dryad lands.

The settled Snow Elf tribe begins to trade with other passing tribes. Some of the passing tribes remain to settle down with the other Elfs growing the settlement.

The Elves begin scouting and meeting the other races. Especially the concept of religion seems to strongly resonate with them as they lack a concept of their own. After rather civil debates many begin to worship a Pantheon of Gods which is pretty much a melting pot of everyone else's religions.

>>38173

The dryads find willing protectors and lovers in the races of fauns, yeti, and giants. Very seldom do the dryads settle with 1 specific faun, yeti, or giant however, though a few here and a few there do at times settle with 1 specific faun yeti or giant.

Winter elves begin to systematically inhabit far northern caves.

>>38207

Amongst the transports between the Riverlands and Oasia are Philosophical writings of the Riverlanders. They too are stored within the First Library. To make room for this influx of writings the Library is expanded down into the sand much due to the Librarian's help.

Faced with the threat of false prophets the Gnomes begin to form a Militia to serve the Theocracy, it is granted near limitless power as it acts on direct orders of the church. The Church retains the right to conscript whomever they please, services are paid for however by the percentage contribution.

Giant Spiders begin to tell tales of their Great Escape from the East where their Ancestral Homelands lie. Imagery weaved into large webs spanning between trees commemorate the events.

Mass Starvation taking hold among the Snow Elfs Cannibalism becomes a more frequent occurrence. The tribe who have tasted their fellow Elfs experience periods of powerful frenzies which make them stronger, faster and highly erratic, though their Elfanity seems to erode as their skin becomes even paler up to a point where black veins become clearly visible. Due to its new found strength this violent Black Blood Clan begins to dominate the surrounding Snow Elfs.

The new disease spreads among the Dwarves. Some claim this is the Snow Elfs fault, however others claim that it is a punishment by the Old Gods, as the Dwarves set idly by when the Gnomes enslaved, slaughtered and drove out their Dwarven kin.

>>38207

Being cannibalistic is the natural state of snow elves and winter elves, the change in appearance harms their elfanity, but it is considered socially desirable, rather than repulsive, and the whitest most cannibalistic get the best lady-friends.

An Orc named Gorth the crusher survives eating a poisonous and hallucinogenic mushroom, coming out of the poisoned state in a kind of stroke, but able to use necromancy.

The obsidian case opens for the first time, a demon enters the world by switching places with the obsidian case's gnome owner. This gnome happens to be one of the persecuted new believers.

The Library becomes an underground labrynth and one that requires the Librarian to guide you to your desired section.

The Gnome law enforcement system grows exponentially and becomes incredibly powerful. Being recruited often becomes a dream for young Gnomes.

The Grand River Forest is divided into three areas by the sentient inhabitents. While not settled or owned by Riverlish, the Eastern section is known as the Riverland Forest. Central Grand River Forest is known as the Webbed Forest and is covered in tapestries made from Giant Spider silk as they pass on the stories of how they were driven from their land by the Riverlish. The North Western area is known as New Forest for obvious reasons.

The Blackbloods hunt and outbreed the other Snow Elves into extinction and soon cannabalism becomes the social norm. While this doesn't allow the population to grow, it does sustain the currently living Blackbloods and so a period of constant population begins. The settlement is named by the locals Blackhill.

The idea of war stirs in the Dwarves. The gods are angry at the Dwarves for not punishing the evil Gnomes.

Theobartism begins spreading amongst some Dwarves. While there is quite a large difference between Stellarism and this new religion, they don't teach contrasting views and are able to peacfully co-exist.

An orc discovers necromantic powers after eating a mushroom that would kill most others. The other orcs banish him as they naturally see reanimated corpses as diseased and dangerous.

A demon lives his new life as a Gnome in the underground society of Theobartism

A hobbit discovers how to extract rubber from trees the natural "cut a small slice open and then let a cup gradually fill" way.

Giants choose an adult male to be their chief, he is one of the few who is steady married with a dryad.

Goblins figure out how to tame wyverns, but it is a risky, difficult process that takes years.

Giant spiders suffer predation at the hands of the Raku bird, a giGANTic bird with nearly 50 ft long wings and a 300 pound beak. Fortunately the birds are so large they can't do much but prey on spiders in the canopy, and can't really enter the forest because the trees are so close together, so their actual impact on the population of spiders is fairly small.

Gorth begins to steadily reanimate things, and tiny populations of wondering zombies, skeletons, and ghouls form. These beings are created without any specific orders, so they are wandering random encounters, not controlled slaves of Gorth.

>>38214

Small populations of Snow Elfs who had not yet tasted their fellow Elfs flesh flee to Dwarven and Yeti lands. Among them are some half breeds, children of those with the Black Blood and without. It will take generations for this influence to fade entirely while a single consumption remains sufficient to turn a Snow Elf into a Black Blood.

Snow Elfs realize that more Cannibalism seems to grow power, if not exponentially but the less the more have already been consumed. For obvious reasons not wanting to eat their own people tribes begin to raid each other, some feeding Champions of incredible power, others spreading their new powers more equally, all of them becoming increasingly mad. Usually Snow Elf children will receive their first piece of Snow Elf when they Come of Age.

War for the Dwarves becomes a matter of the Patriarchs. Families depending on their size are required to supply adult men to defend Dwarvenkind. Having more family members able to fight and wage war is a matter of Pride and Prestige.

Sparked by the creation of other Military forces the humans too create seperate Militia's. Most of the fighting Riverlander men are also farmers, a large part of Oasian fighters are Priests of the Desert God who travel the desert as guides and occasionally hunt the various creatures that inhabit it. Riverlander Hunters and Oasian Priests appreciate their similarities and some of them even hunt together.

The Elves hear tales of another type of Elf, feasting on its own kind and growing powerful. Disdain for the Snow Elfs is quick to gain a hold among the other Elves, they are considered as impure and to some extend flatout evil, still there is little interaction to begin with as what little Snow Elfs exist outside of their homelands live in Dwarven and Yeti lands. Some Elves however seek the power of the Black Bloods and a small group forms within Elven society that seeks to empower themselves as the Black Bloods did. Early attempts show that this does not work.

>>38228

Yeti discover systematized rice terrace farming, and grow rice in mountain terraces.

Dwarves who live near the sea begin to practice mercy whaling, slaying beached whales with a deathblow and then eating them.

Giant spiders find an unexpected ally in the Drog'dha.

Humans discover that a certain kind of fairly common cactus is edible.

Stellarism begins to produce astrologer druids.

Elderism begins to produce undead destroyers.

The undead continue to steadily-slowly multiply.

Oluscani hate the undead and always seek to avoid any area they are in.

>>38228

A descendant of Adils, assuming the same name of his forefather gains strong support within the Dwarven population. Though not an Elder, he is a member of one of the largest families, advocating that the Patriarchal Militias allow the other races to join their ranks. Furthermore he demands a large expansion of Farms in Adilia, relying on the Yeti terrace rice farming to feed the ever increasing population and that the newly arrived Snow Elfs may work these farms.

To hide from the large birds preying on them Spiders begin burrowing into the ground, starting to create underground caverns.

Many Undead walking the world begin to wither and die, whether it be to the large distance between them and Gorth or his lack of Power to hold such vast numbers of Undead in this world. Their numbers drop and finally stagnate.

One of the Undead groups moves through a camp of Goblins, as interaction with the Undead yields no result the Goblins hang flowers around the Undead's necks and send them on their way.

After the slaying of a large desert Scorpio the Priest who killed it begins wearing its carapace as a trophy. Soon more hunters adapt this idea and the concept of armor is born.

Riverlander caravans begin traveling to Adilia to offer up their wares. Some merchants establish warehouses from which they sell food to the local population while other relatives transport the goods from the Riverlands to Adilia.

In the large Volcano South West of the Desert and South East of the Riverlands the Magmite lives. A creature seemingly made of molten Rock it commands fire and lava. Having spent ages in seclusion the Magmite rules over the Burning Court, an assembly of Fire and Lava Elementals who are little more than puppets the Magmite itself controls but has deluded itself into believing are other people. As people generally avoid going into Volcanos, nobody knows about this.

>>38272

Groups of Riverlander Hunters and Oasian Priests band together in Hunting Parties and set up joint hunting lodges. Some of these groups gain reknown for slaying dangerous beasts. The first Monster Hunter Guilds are created, practically unregulated they mostly consist of likeminded individuals who often teach their children how to hunt and introduce them to the Guilds. Some friendly rivalries between various groups exist, though they are limited to boasting.

The Magmite's many courtiers are continuously busy plotting against each other. From an outside perspective it would appear that the Magmite is the only sane presence, bringing justice with patience and wise decisions, meanwhile his courtiers descended into madness further and further, paranoia and insanity are commonplace among them.

The Goblins refer to the Undead as Seekers, creatures in search of something. Possibly an artifact of great power. What exactly it is remains up for debate and though none of their stories are founded on anything one Goblin tries to top the story of the other by describing the artifact as all the more outrageously powerful. Mostly children actually believe that such an artifact exists.

Goblins riding Wyverns claim dominion over the Heavens, hunting the Raku that roam their skies. Many Chiefs and other Wyvern Riders wear Raku feathers to represent their status and built their Thrones from Raku bones. As a result of this Goblin Thrones have somewhat of a Uniform look, with the large Skull and Beak as imposing headpiece.

The religious Pantheon advocated by the Elves matches well with the ideas of Theobartism. Theobart as Protector of Justice and Equality is added to the Elven Pantheon. Many believers find refuge in Elven lands, however those who possess too much to abandon remain in Gnomish lands, continuing to further their Sects in Secret.

>>38234

Gorth reanimates a troll chief, successfully creating the first intelligent undead, a troll wight. It isn't a genius creature by any stretch, but it isn't a mindless soulless entity either. More importantly, it is the first undead who can reproduce itself, without gorth. The constant use and study of necromancy is warping Gorth's body and mind. The Troll wight begins to reproduce, it's victims becoming wights.

Gorth was one of it's first victims, he is no longer steadily reanimating beings, though he has retained necromantic power. Gorth became a wight.

Elder things fight Oluscani in the seas, but they (the elder things) don't venture to land. The contest is prolonged and inconclusive.

The far northern elf races begin to systematically hunt the gargantuan (30+ ft. long) elephantine seal. This is a difficult, dangerous hunt, but basically it involves spearing the seal until dead and using torches or small fires to keep the creature from returning to the water, where it usually easily escapes, IF, it makes its way back to the water successfully.

A member of the elderish family that discovered rubber, invents the first practical use for it, the rubber band.

>>38292

Idk about the invention of the rubber bands which were apparently invented somewhere in the 1800s if most people from the looks of it don't even possess a written language.