Ok, yes, Olme, I imagining that you are upset. Yes the [Serpent] is scary, almost as scary as the big scary [Unending] thing. But hear me out.

It's fighting the [Unended], it hasn't attacked or eaten us, and it has textiles in it's home. Think about that.

To start with the [Unending] are clearly known by [General Knowledge 1] as something we can eat. A dumb creature wouldn't consider them as a target. If a dumb creature could, it would probably avoid the [Unending] because they are all aggressive, and are not food. Yet we saw the [Serpent] attack them, and in fact had gone to rest right before that. This means the Serpent is probably not dumb. It probably isn't as smart as me, but might even be smarter than you.

Considering it was ignoring us, and possibly even only attacked the [Unended] because we cause it to notice them nearby. It might be the only creature or bug in the area that doesn't see us as food. [Arachnids Knowledge] is warning us about most other spiders, and everything else either eats bugs our size, or is eaten by bugs our size. The only possibly exception are the two [Lagomorphs] we saw earlier, and they are farther away likely very dumb, and also possibly hurt.

I know, your still scared of... the giant [Serpent] that could eat us and end us in an instant. This is where the third thing comes in. Did you see the large [Blanket]? The blue boxes said it was important... what was it exactly that it said.

Utility- Survival Blanket [Cotton Muslin Swaddling Blanket] Craft: Skilled, +1 rank from [Lovingly Crafted] [Small] [Durable] [Soft] [Cotton Muslin] [Relic] This Survival Blanket is made of a durable Cotton weave,

-It is worn, and heavily damaged from age and use 4/12 Toughness

-It was crafted by a parent to wrap around their child-The blanket is very soft, and is great at keeping something warm

-It is enchanted, but the enchantment is frayed and unidentifiable

-It is a [Divine] [Relic] of the minor rank

Great, thank you Blue Box. So see Olme, it is heavily damaged as we saw. But, what I was thinking about is that it is apparently [Lovingly Crafted] which sounds important, and that it clearly notes that this [Blanket] was made for a creature. Considering that it was once enchanted, and currently has whatever this [Divine] [Relic] property added to it, it has to be important to the [Serpent].

So what I suggest, is that we go, and use all these new skills of ours, to repair the [Blanket]. My guess is that doing something will give us a bonus to our social interactions. Considering that right now the [Serpent] is not trying to eat us, making it happy should convince it to help us.

Once we have it as a friend, we can either see about making the [Lagomorphs] friendly, or just focusing on getting rid of the [Unending] it's not that much larger than the [Serpent] if it is actually larger at all. I think if we made a good trap, and got [Serpent] to attack it, we might just be able to re-end it. Yes I know, it's so much bigger than us, but did you see how our [Stabilimentum] reinforced web dealt with the [Goldfinch]? If we play to our strengths, and got [Serpent] to hit it as hard as those beetles... we might be able to deal with it.

The alternative is to climb up the cliff again and go live with the huge number of [Swatters] you saw how one of them froze us in place with social stuff... I think it's more dangerous.

Do you agree?

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I agree [Serpent] is not eating us, and that [Blanket] being fixed would help with social. We could avoid Swatters though, they don't cover the top of the Cliff.

Olme knows you probably say smart thing to convince Olme. Maybe that anywhere we go will have danger that needs fixing. We do know this Danger.

Can we really web it? It's sooo big. Our really good web wasn't big enough... could maybe have webbed [Serpent] or [Lagomorph].

I say yes to social [Serpent] but maybe plan more before try to end scary [Unending] perhaps use [Construct] if figuring out is yes.

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Thank you Olme, I can certainly plan more. Focus now on socializing the [Serpent] so here are some thoughts.

First off, we need to be careful, we are much larger now, and while the [Serpent] ignored us when we were last at our web, we need to be aware that we are probably large enough to cause a response if we do something that the [Serpent] doesn't like. Don't do anything that could alarm or worry it. In fact, don't even eat any of the bugs in the cave. We don't know for certain that the [Serpent] is not protective of them, so don't risk it. Think about everything twice, it's better to be slow than offend a creature that strong.

Next make sure not to repair it while the [Serpent] can see you. Not at first at least, sneak in while it's off hunting and do some [Blanket] repairs, at least until it is very clear what we are doing. The [Serpent] probably don't even understand what a repair is, so we will have to teach it. After a few repairs you can test if the [Serpent] is upset, just make sure you have a way to run away if it turns out that we are wrong. If it watches you that is ok, even if it is terrifying, and if it ignore you than still continue. I am sure that the [Blanket] is important, so it might be a tricky subject, remain careful and you should be ok.

The [Blanket] appeared to be made of [Cotton] so we probably need that to enact proper repairs. We know [Silk] quite well and got to play with a little [Canvas] when putting together our new home... we didn't get any from the swatters, we could go back. Nooo no, that is foolish, they know way more about everything, I cannot risk it. Though the namer did... did let me go. So, will any of my skills help me acquire some [Cotton]? First off, what is [Cotton] ah, perfect, both [Craft Textile 5] and [General Knowledge 1] seem to be capable of supplying that information.

Cotton A soft material that is wrapped around the seed of the Gossypium family of shrubs. The material is commonly gathered and spun into yarn.

When ready to harvest the plant has small white tufts from the boils atop it. The plant is most commonly found in warm and wet locations.

Ah, this is promising. If someone made the [Blanket] presumably some of this [Cotton] is around. We saw [Yarn] in the Swatters house so one of those was probably [Cotton]. Down here it seems like most of the plants are across the marshes water, but I did see several on-top of the cliffs... right above the [Lagomorphs]... also a few smaller ones against the base, but I hadn't really looked at them too much. I think with our skills we would recognize the [Cotton] plant, perhaps even if it wasn't ready to harvest... I think we can do that first, and if we can find some we will gather it up and... and... yes [Craft Textiles 5] know how to make [Cotton Yarn].

Ok, that will be our plan then, but we don't want to wait too long, so if we can't find any [Cotton] then that's ok, we can instead try to [Repair] with silk. It won't be perfect, but we just need it to make the [Serpent] more favorable to us.

Alright Olme start at the base of the cliff, then if you find nothing go up, and then head to the [Serpent]'s nest.

Keep an eye out for the [Unending], they are on the move, but you'll be going quite far, you might see something.