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You decide to dedicate some time to fashioning yourself an axe. You've seen others in the village work on such crafts before, though never actually attempted it yourself. First, you gather the necessary materials. Wood for the handle is easy enough to find, but finding a good sized stone to knap into the head takes a bit of roaming. All this walking around does nothing to alleviate the pain of your wound, but by noontime you've collected more than you need (+2 Stone, +2 Wood).
You then give your leg a bit of rest and set to knapping the head into shape. Sitting by the pond, you strike a large stone with a smaller one until it cracks into, leaving behind a sharp piece that tapers to a rough edge. The remainder of the time is spent grinding the head down, pouring water over it, and grinding it some more until the edge is smooth and sharp. You return to the foot of the cave to eat and to feed Dozer, dismayed at how quickly your provisions have depleted (there's hardly any meat left now). Rather than risking the climb on your injured leg, you decide to sleep out at the base of the cliff. You manage to get lucky: it does not rain after all and the clouds are gone by morning.
You spend the rest of the morning carving the handle of the axe with your knife. First stripping away the layers of rough bark, then using water and the smaller stone to polish it into a smooth pole, about the length of your extended arm. You then carefully puncture a hole at the top using your knife and a bit of heat from the fire and hammer the back of your axehead through until it is firmly fixed. Giving it a few test swings, you find the weapon to be a bit imbalanced--possibly something having to do with the head, you don't have enough knowledge of knapping to know what--but more thann sufficient for cutting down wood--or scalemen, should appear before you.
In any case, the lesser level of activity and a full night's rest did wonder's for your leg. It appears now to be fully healed.
Day 4 - Midsummer [o:lit], Clear, Forest
Stress: [-----]
Inventory: -Food (meager), +1 Stone, +1 Wood, +1 Stone Axe
Action for this Quarter:
>Chop down a tree for lumber
>Hike to high ground
>Start gathering materials for a rope
>Write-in
