Voraci saw the group coming down the path, presumably before they had seen her. Voraci crawled out of the way as soon as she saw them coming, and already had a plan.
This was a large group, and Voraci could tell that they were armored well with something, along with the high speed projectile launchers, guns. However, that wouldn’t matter if she was able to lure them into a trap. Voraci ran away as fast and far as she could, to a place where they wouldn’t hear the tree she cut exploding.
Yes, Voraci had finally decided to cut down a tree, hoping to get more copies of explosive summoning
OOH, GETTING EDXPLOSINS TO GETTING TRAP TO KILL??? WOW!!!!
‘Yes, I am.’ Voraci affirmed crick, ‘I don’t need much else to kill them, but I’m planning on luring them in with a human’s scream,’
VERY SMART, WHY NOT JUST KILL NOW?
‘Well, ah um, erm, g- good point, crick, but.. It’s uh, you know…’
NO I DON”T NO.
‘...’
Voraci stopped running and picked a decent tree. She braced herself for the blast using mainly the barrier projection and chopped it. The tree exploded again, with fire and everything. Voraci shrunk her barrier back down and scraped some various soot and ashes off of herself, she ate them.
OK, NOTHING YOU GET FOR ASH, BUT MORE GERMSES FINALLY GIVE YOU A ASPECT, HOORAY!
Voraci didn’t have much of a response for the words, so she just decided to get one more acid resistance, moving quickly onto the tree. She ate the tree’s charred remains and checked in with Crick on how many aspects she would get
Three ASPECTS OF TREE, COOSE!
Voraci put all of the aspects into the explosion trait. After a quick test she decided to get at least one more tree.
A large tree presented itself to her, perfect to eat. She braced herself again and slowly approached the tree. Voraci opened her mandibles and snipped at the tree. The tree exploded much harder than Voraci had expected, though. Voraci was sent flying across the forest. She skidded to a stop and looked back at the tree.
‘That was… more than I expected.’ she considered, ‘was it because this is a large tree? Whatever it is, I am still going to eat this tree.’
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Voraci strode back to the tree. Clamping her mandibles against the tree. To her surprise, the tree exploded again.
Voraci was sent flying further back than before and looked around in surprise. Voraci tried to get up, but when she did, a huge jolt of pain rocked her.
AAAAAAH! !!!! CARAREFUUUL! YOU LOOK OUT! CArApaCE IS HURT!!
Warning: you are in critical condition. It is recommended to find a way to heal or lay low.
…
PLEAEAAASSEE! DO WHAT ITT SSAAAAYSSS!!!!
This was not part of the plan. If she was hurt before fighting the humans, the battle would be out of her favor… but there was no way it exploded a third time, right?
Voraci started off by backing off this time, minding her broken carapace. With a few quick acidic shots, the tree’s base separated from it’s roots. A more careful approach that she would have to incorperate from now on.
The tree fell onto another tree, but it didn’t explode. Very interesting. Voraci scarfed down the tree as quickly as she could. Which was fairly quick. She checked how much she had.
(Summon explosive 13)
“Huh, should I get 2 more to get the upgrade?” the pondered out loud in a gurgled voice, but then she had an idea. ‘I think I will,’ she thought, partially unrelated to the plan.
Voraci spat some acid at another, smaller tree. It didn’t explode, but Voraci picked up a nearby rock and threw it at the rock, prompting no explosion. After biting it, she concluded that trees would not respond after uprooting, Thankfully.
She consumed the small tree even quicker than the large tree, but in the end she only gained one point. That was fine though, she picked an even smaller tree and ate it in the same fashion.
When she put her mind to it, Voraci could gain aspects incredibly quickly.
After gaining 2 more copies of summon explosive, Voraci searched for the mental notification.
Due to having 15 {Summon explosive} you have gained a reward, {Compacted explosives}
IT SssssMALL AND SsssTRONG UNTILLLll YOU WANT iT BIG AND WEAK!
Voraci noted the similarities between the upgrade and the one to acid, but largely ignored it. But then she thought about how it was similar to some of the other nodes she had gotten, like project barrier and weight imbuement, and even dash! It was a much more interesting thought, all of them being about concentrating things, but she decided that that was for later.
Speaking of nodes, she decided to activate dash.
At full speed (including the buff from dash), Voraci could fell a tree with a thrown rock. She didn’t know how fast it was, but it was fast. Very fast. So, she emptied her weight mostly and dashed towards the wooden structure she had seen before.
If she predicted it correctly, she would intercept the path of the humans. Why they wanted to walk in the dirtles area, she didn’t know. However, they were walking there, and she knew where it led. ‘Are they going to the barn specifically?’ she pondered, if they were, that might be worse or better.
Voraci didn’t know much about humans, or their culture, but she knew they cared about each other. Something she could exploit.