you're in the jungle, baby / you gonna die

[lucetimods]

Who: All draftees
What: Fighting the Third Party... and perhaps the wildlife.
When: June 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th. (Characters will be pulled out at 11:59 of the 6th.)
Where: An as-yet unmapped by the Malnosso tropical rainforest.
Summary: Here are your details. Try to stay alive, won't you?
Rating: Anywhere from PG to R.

No cut for you. Most of you will know how this works by now; if you don't, follow the lead of the others, or perhaps look to the last draft's fighting post for ideas. Don't forget to use your handy dandy character tags. Go forth and conquer thine enemies!

Comments

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

I heard it was dangerous though, even without the war going on.

[godbent]

Well duh, there's plenty of dangers, but it's not all the animals.

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

I just said all the animals would be neat to see, not that they'd all try to eat us. Maybe just some.

[godbent]

If this is anything like Earth's rainforests the things most dangerous to people aren't the ones that eat you anyway.

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the mosquitoes?

[godbent]

Or leeches, or fire ants, or tree frogs... [She starts to list them off on her fingers] Or that one fish which swims up your urine.

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

There's a - what?!

[godbent]

What?

[What is she reacting to??]

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

Why would a fish do that?

[godbent]

I forget why, but they swim up currents- like carp or salmon.

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

That's really, really weird.

[godbent]

It's just the animal's instinct. [She sighs and shakes her head. But this is a weird discussion question]

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

Smack me if I try to pee near a water source.

[godbent]

Same here! Don't need to tell me twice.

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

Frogs are dangerous here, though?

[godbent]

Yeah, certain tree-frogs - [She tuts her finger here - and important lesson!] as a rule of thumb with small animals, the more colorful it is, the more poisonous it is.

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

How poisonous are we talking?

[godbent]

Ranging anywhere from "get sick" to "die in an hour or two"

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

No touching colorful animals. Got it.

[godbent]

Yeah, exactly! [...And now she thinks about it. What else has she heard/does she know? Nothing that real experts didn't already cover... sigh]

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

Too bad they won't come down. I would have liked to see one.

[godbent]

[She glances up too, grinning a bit]

It is, but they might as be in another world. Dozens of meters off our ground is their ground floor.

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

That's a strange thought. I wonder if it's nice up there.

[godbent]

It must be, if the birds like it, right?

["different world." ...No let's not dwell on that.]

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I bet it's bright, and warm - but not suffocating like down here.