Snide gets back to the side of the mountain, he places everything near the cave and quickly gathers small twigs, leaves and rocks. He rearranges the rocks into a small circle in front of the cave, he looks for some big branches in the trees and walks towards a small tree, starts to climb it and bend branches to break them off the tree. After throwing down the branches he gets down from the tree and looks through all the wood and takes 3 of the straightest sticks. He takes his spear and made slits on the end of 2 of the sticks and put the sticks in the ground with the slits above, then he jams the third stick into the slits. He looks for a stick that was bend and made a slit at the ends of it and attach the vine to it at each end, he gets a large stick and makes a hole in the stick with the spear. afterwards he places the stick in the middle on the rocks and start to place twigs all over it. He went to the dead animal and starts to cut out 2 pieces of meat with the spear, cutting meat off from it, he moves it into the cave. He gets the small stick with the vine attached to it and the other stick. he warps the vine around the stick and places the end of the stick into the hole and starts to rotate the stick to make faction to start a fire. After time, the heat starts a fire and Snide quickly place leaves to get the fire roaring faster, after the fire start to get bigger, he starts to place the sticks into the fire. He puts the sticks into the ground and places above the fire and places the 2 meat pieces above the fire, cooking the meat. he moves everything closer to the cave, after he does it. He sits down in the cave with the spear, cleaning and sharping it while watching the fire cook the meat.
When the meat looks cooked, he pokes the meat the spear, seeing that the meat is done, he gets up and takes a piece of meat off the stick and takes a bite from it, it is juicy with some parts dried out. While he is eating, he notices that the sun is busy setting. He leaves the cave taking his spear with him and starts to get more sticks, he leans the spear on to a tree. While he is gathering sticks he notice movement near the cave, he drops all the sticks and grabs the spear with his left hand, while he ran towards the cave, he notices it is a small humanoid creature. The closer he gets the more details he gets of the creature it was a goblin that is coloured dark green, 0.9 meters tall. Snide gets into a fight ready stance with the point of spear pointed at the goblin. The goblin has a stone sword in his hands and wearing loincloths with a small pot. While Snide gets closer to the goblin, the goblin notices Snide and charging at Snide by rising the sword above his head, Snide reactant by spinning the spear and smacking the chin of the goblin with the back end of the spear. As the goblin head was up, Snide rotates the spear point towards the goblin and thrush the spear into the chest of the goblin. impaling and pulling out fast. the goblin gives out a loud scream and falls forward on their knees then to their stomach. Snide walks closer and stabs the goblin in the back of its neck to make sure it was dead. Snide cut off its head with the sword and takes off the loincloth and places inside of the cave. Snide grabs the body and drags it into the forest. "Predators will eat it, but what was that scream." Thinks Snide while he walk towards the sticks that he dropped. Snide looks for a long straight stick in the pile, He finds 1 that is 0.9 meter tall, He moves all the sticks to cave and takes the long stick and jams it in front of cave, He takes the head and impales it on the stick. It is night now, Snide is having trouble sleeping, there is nothing comfortable about stone or keeping the fire lit, to keep wildlife away. "Forgot to get comfortable stuff to sleep," Thinks Snide as he gets up. he collects the stone sword and start to make it flat on 1 side by rubbing a big stone against it. Snide keeps it up until he falls asleep from exhaustion.
Snide wakes up, he notices that he falls asleep while sitting, slouched over and crossed-legged, with the stone sword ahead of him. While Snide gets up he grabs the sword and pot, he looks out of the cave and sees that the sun is busy rising. He walks towards the forest and went to looking for the marks. He finds the marks and follows them to the pond. Snide places the spear against a tree and move towards the pond and places the pot in it to collect water in it.
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Snide starts to carry the pot and the sword back to the cave.
"I got to clean a walkway to pond and cave." Thinks Snide.
Snide gets to the cave, he places down the pot and sword, He went to the firepit and starts up the fire again. When the fire is big enough, he gets 2 big rocks and place them on opposite sides of the fire, Snide get the pot and place it on the rocks, boiling the water to make it safe to drink. Snide went and start to cut 2 slices of meat from the animal. He places them over the stick. He walks to the fire and sat down facing away from the cave.
As Snide is waiting for the water to boil, he notices movement, 3 heads pop up, goblins, 1 blue, 1 green and 1 red, each with different heights 0.7 to 1 meters tall. Snide grabs the sword and spear. Spear in his left and sword in his right. The goblins have 2 spears and 1 sword and wearing all loincloths, Snide throws the spear, impaling 0.9 meter tall green goblin holding a spear. Snide gets into a ready stance with the sword, the 1 meter tall red goblin holding the sword comes charging, Snide blocks the attack, the blue goblin attacks while Snide is still lock in place with the swords, Snide dodges the attack and grabs the spear with his left hand and pulls hard, unarming the 0.7 meter tall blue goblin, he adjusts his hold on the spear and stabs the red goblin in the eye with the spear. The goblin recoils, as the goblin busy trying to cover his eye with his hand, Snide increases his force on the lock and breaks it, sending goblin's sword backwards. While Snide did he circles the sword and slices the goblin's neck open. Snide looks around for the blue goblin. He sees the goblin running away to the forest, Snide readies the spear and throws it, hitting the goblin at the back of the left shoulder, the goblin did a full 360 landing face first on the ground. Snide runs up to the goblin and pulls the spear out. He grabs the goblin by the ankle and pulls it back to the cave. The goblin tries to claw the ground to get away from Snide. Snide places down the weapons and grabs the vines, he ties up the goblin with it, binding its hands and feet behinds its back. When they get the cave, Snide looks at the wound, it is not too deep and did not worry about it and sees that the goblin is a female
"Where is your cave" Growls Snide grabbing the sword again. The goblin is too scared to answer.
"Answer me" Growls Snide Louder, still nothing.
Snide hits the ground next to the goblin with the sword. Still nothing.
"Answer me or I will start breaking your fingers" Threatens Snide, still nothing. he slowly turns the goblins fingers backwards.
The goblin screams, "So you can speak, answer me now or more force will be applied" Threatens Snide.
The goblin starts to turn her head and tries to point in a direction. Snide sees this and unties 1 hand. "Point" Commands Snide, she points in the direction going left of the cave when facing it. Snide reties her hand and gets more vines, taking the goblin and vines to a nearby tree, he circles the tree with the vine and ties the goblin to it. He is not sure if she is telling the truth. So, he will keep her alive until he knows. He collects all the weapons. He counts 3 spears and 2 swords. 1 stone spear, 2 metal tipped spears, 1 stone sword and 1 metal sword. He want to get more vines and ties all the spears together. Snide places them behind his back in his collar and into the rim of his pants. He grabs the swords in 1 hand. Snide start to walk left of the cave, he keeps the mountain on his right.