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Trap Boogaloo

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In camp, well after leaving the area of the chaos magic storms, and after his conversations with Gus and Alexis, Telosh approaches Ethelred while the others are busy elsewhere.

“The ballista is coming along well eh, Red? Looks wicked!”

He looks truly excited about the project, his Westlander accent is showing..

“Do ya think it’ll take the giant out in one shot or should we prepper some follow up measures? More traps maybe?”

“I’ve been tryna figure out how to.. embiggen the deadfall traps that the Gus uses to catch small animals like squirrels, maybe have it set up for a tree or two to fall on the giant?”

“Digging a deep pit might be tough, but a shallow pit with spikes in it could trip the giant up pretty bad… Based on it’s behavior before, I bet it will want to charge at the ballista if it survives the hit…”

“Oh, I should let you talk… I’m getting excited about taking on the giant!”

Trap Hows

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In a moment with Gustav:

“If you had to take down a really big animal, like an elk or a bear, say to feed a big hungry group right as fast as possible, and your bow was broken, and you didn’t have any bow-making tools, how would you do it Gus? What kind of traps would you use?”

Multifaceted Approach: Giant Attack

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In a moment with Alexis, when Ethelred is busy elsewhere.

“Alexis, we need more than just the ballista. We were successful with both the dragon and The… Pit because we worked together and because we used more than one…tool.

“we need need to do more that just one thing. Immobilizing it, or at least slowing it down would be good. Spike traps, deadfall, and giant-sized snares too, I bet there are other things we could to do too that I’m not thinking of, but

I’m getting ahead of us though, what do we already know about the giant?

It ignores us if we play dead? At least as long as there are other things for it to worry about. It stinks. It has three arms. It has a lair. What else do we need to know? It’s movement pattern? Where along it’s path is best to set our ambush?

To bait a trap

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“Gustav, Alexis has allowed me to indulge in some good old sleuthing to see if we can unearth that ax buried in the nasty mold.

I need to run a few experiments. For this I will need some tasty bits of meat from you next hunt.

As well I will require your help in reviewing and placing some traps to gather some field mice, or really any small furry things. The traps will be little cages that we can move around and keep the specimens alive, for now.

Also please keep any hide and sinew you get from your hunts. I will require building some glove and possible a very inventive mask.”