You don't need to feel intimidating - you just need to LOOK intimidating. Glare and growl at the quillbeasts! Fluff out your fur to look bigger! Show your teeth and claws! (You do have teeth and claws, right?) If that rock is as big as it looks, you're probably bigger and stronger than the beasts are. Let them see that.

If that doesn't make them reconsider, see if you can hit one of them with the rock. They look like pack animals, so if you can incapacitate one of them - even temporarily - the other one might be reluctant to attack you alone.

If you can convince them that fighting you is not worth the trouble, you might not have to fight them at all.

As an alternate plan, if you're tall enough to reach the whelp, you could just grab it out of the tree and run. How fast are you?

He asked if you are going to eat him. He will probably understand if you shake your head in response.

>>470776
See >>470271

>>470775
Do this.

Raise the rock above your head threateningly and roar as loud as you can while advancing at the quillbacks

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/12(Mon)15:35 No. 471211 ID: 1fcf1d
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>>470776
I recently fell off a mountain and had my back cut open. Not very fast. It's amazing I can even still move as well as I am now.

>Throw the rock
>Be intimidating

I'm being scary! Raaaugh!

>>471211
...and?

Well, lacking much information here, continue the attack. Run up and give it a swift kick. Grab that branch that broke off on the ground, it looked pretty big. Use it to club the other one if it gets near you.

Make sure the other one isn't sneaking behind you, than keep doing what you are doing.

Advance, slowly and steadily, giving them plenty of time to run away, as you continue being scary?

>_> Please hold.

Twyggdrasil (2/2) Kaed 2012/11/12(Mon)17:08 No. 471242 ID: 06f13f
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Wow, that was easy! They're both running away! I guess I'm pretty scary after all.

>Though you'd probably scare the prey too

Errr... yeah. Getting some... terror fallout here. Proxy terror.

He's gibbering at me about something. Probably pleading to not have a rock thrown it him too.

I'm not enjoying being scary so much anymore.

Yeah, he's afraid, and begging you don't eat him.

Since you don't speak his language, try reassuring non-verbal communication. Smile and wave. Maybe offer him a hand, or a flower.

Once you've calmed him down, help him out of the tree.

>>471242
Walk up slowly and just offer him a hand to help him down.

I like the flower offering plan.

You might want to wait until the quillbeasts are out of sight before you drop the whole intimidating act.

After that, the flower is probably a good idea. That's a pretty widespread gesture of non-violent intentions.

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/15(Thu)15:41 No. 471972 ID: 1fcf1d
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>wait until the quillbeasts are out of sight before you drop the whole intimidating act
>Make sure the other one isn't sneaking behind you

Hey yeah that's probably a good ideaaaauuugh!

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/15(Thu)15:42 No. 471973 ID: 1fcf1d
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AUUUGH IT'S ON MY ARM WHAT DO I DO?!

Grab it by the neck then start smashing it against the tree.

Hit or bite it on the nose! HARD! That's usually a sensitive spot. If the nose doesn't work, go for the eyes!

Blunt force trauma that thing!

>>471973
Man what the hell is it doing attacking you solo? This is not natural pack hunting behavior!

Grab a limb and pin it to the ground. You're much bigger than it and due to how their limbs are set up they can't wrestle. You should be able to easily manhandle it, making it give up and run off, especially if you break a limb or two.

Alternatively if you don't want to do any harm to it, grab its hind leg and keep it suspended in the air so it can't put its body weight into shaking around and tearing your wound. It should let go eventually, and then you can toss it away, at which point it should give up and run off.

punch in snout to establish dominance.

>>471984
Yesssss

>>471982
Good advice. Try not to break anything, though--poor thing would starve to death for lack of hunting ability.

Grab the quillbeast and swing it against the tree so it gets stuck on it by its back spines. Alternatively spin it around so it gets stuck on the ground by its spines.

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/18(Sun)18:08 No. 472805 ID: 13b04f
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>>471976

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/18(Sun)18:12 No. 472807 ID: 06f13f
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>>472126

Ugh, get off!

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/18(Sun)18:19 No. 472810 ID: 83821f
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It won't let go! I think it's actually trying to eat my arm! It's gone mad...

>>471978

I have an idea on that note... but it's kind of violent. I can make it let go, or I can try something else.

I'm losing quite a lot of blood though... I can't feel my arm anymore.

I don't think there is any viable option other than making it let go.

yes elbow drop it into the rock.

>>472810
Losing quite a lot of blood? It's a bite wound. Small puncture wounds seal quick. Why are you bleeding profusely from a bite wound? Are you a balloon? There is no way he'd normally be able to rip your flesh without any leverage. That giant sawblade should've done more damage to you than a bite anyway! What happened to being made out of wood, huh? Why is blood loss making you lose feeling in your arm anyway? Normally you lose blood from your entire body, not just from where you're bleeding from.

Anyway if you don't want to like, keep him from actually damaging you further like I suggested before, grab his jaw at the joint and press in to force his jaws apart. Dislocate the jaw if you can manage it, considering the damn thing's gone so crazy it won't let go.

>>472905
Its called not thinking about it too hard and enjoying the story.

Also just because you're made of wood doesn't mean you're a friend to nature.
Crush that quill dog bitch.

>>473011

Nature isn't a friend to nature. That's kind of how the whole system works.

One more thing you could try is to hold the beast's nose shut, so that it can't breathe unless it opens its mouth. If that doesn't work, it looks like hitting it with a rock might be your last option.

Hit it with a rock.

>>472905
Probably hit an artery or something.

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/19(Mon)15:58 No. 473076 ID: 3f2f3e
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>>472832
>>472835

Yes... you're probably right. I just don't feel like it's the best thing to-

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/19(Mon)16:01 No. 473077 ID: 3f2f3e
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Hold on.

>>471982
>>472905

You. Yes, you. The voice complaining that the everything isn't isn't behaving like it's supposed to. Do you think I'm lying to you? Are you perhaps saying I'm... delusional?

I am just saying what I know about what I experience. Do I look like I'm omniscient?

My arm is bleeding so much because it is tearing open. I've got a heavy quillback dangling from it by it's teeth, that I have punched and slammed into a tree, and it still hasn't let go. Does that help you some?

I never said I was made of wood, and obviously I am not. Where are you voices even coming from? Why are you attacking me?! I have no idea how my body works, and I'm pretty sure you don't either! Or why this stupid thing is latched onto me with a death grip!

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/19(Mon)16:03 No. 473079 ID: 3f2f3e
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>>473011
>>473037
>>473043

Just shut up! Especially you!

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/19(Mon)16:05 No. 473080 ID: 3f2f3e
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There! The whelp is rescued, congratulations, mission success! Oh, wait! It's still got it's eyes closed, I guess it missed my stupendous heroism - must I do it over?

>>473080
uhm... sorry...
We are just some headvoices trying to guid and assist people that might need it... And most of them are often very delusional.
So sorry for suspecting you overreacting.
We are often a little contradicting...

However, if you still like to have some internal company and give a thought about my opinion, I would advice you to calm a bit down before approaching the little guy. You still need to prove to him that you are not some dangerous beast wanting to eat him.

Sorry. We're trying to help you, but we get easily distracted.

The problem is that we don't know anything about you or your world except what you tell us. If we don't know something, we can't even investigate it unless we get you to do it first. That means that we're always a couple of steps behind you for information, and... well, sometimes our curiosity gets the best of us.

As for what we are or why you can hear us... We know just as little as you do. But we are trying to help you, as much as we can. I'm sorry that we have nothing to give you but advice and questions.

Incidentally, you seem to be capable of a pretty good murderous rage. Keep that in mind if you have to fight anything else.

For the moment, you should probably focus on taking care of that wound. It's probably just as well that the whelp didn't see you killing the quillbeast. No reason to make it any more frightened of you. Try to look non-threatening and let it see that you're hurt. Take some time to calm down if necessary. If it sees that you saved it, and that you're not going to eat it yourself, it might help you. (It's got a shirt that could be used for improvised bandages, for one thing.)

If you're not already growing snowbells, this might be a good time to do so. Some antiseptic paste could be useful right now.

I'm still in favor of the flower offering plan, can you grow some skyblossoms on your branches?

Also to get the whelps attention try whistling or humming or just making any sound with rhythm.

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/20(Tue)15:55 No. 473306 ID: c3e31b
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>calm down!
I'm calm now... feeling a little ill, but calm.


>murderous rage

Yeah... great. I'm good at brutally smashing heads in. I feel so proud. Thanks.

>>473193

They've been budding on my back since the mountain... but they haven't even grown a vine yet. I can try to bloom them, though...

... nope. It opened a little, but that's it.

I'm so useless.

Whelp is talking again.

He wants to know if it's safe. Smile (without showing teeth!) and nod. Give him the flower anyway; he'll understand the gesture even if it's not as beautiful as it might be fully bloomed.

Hey, that was necessary! don't get down because you had to do that.

And about your powers, what do you expect? to be at full power after walking around a day? you even managed to survive the trap and the fall, you are already developing flowers on your back and saves an innocent little... something.

We may not know much about you leading us to asking to much from time to time, but maybe the pup knows something! And even when you don't understand it (it's currently asking whether they are gone) we can translate it to you and you could communicate back with gestures!

So, don't feel down, you're valuable!

>Yeah... great. I'm good at brutally smashing heads in.
Hey, headsmashing is a highly desirable skillset and can solve a surprisingly large number of problems.

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/22(Thu)17:06 No. 473795 ID: 0f7f16
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>just give him the flower

.... Okay.

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/22(Thu)18:02 No. 473812 ID: c971d5
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Uhm.

It's crawling all over me now. I'm not sure if I should be worried.

>I'm not sure if I should be worried.
Only if you dislike children, or you have a fear of commitment or something.

He just introduced himself, and wants to be friends. Not an unusual response, when someone saves your life.

First things first: how bad is that wound of yours? Do we need to treat it?

>It's crawling all over me now. I'm not sure if I should be worried.
They usually don't bite, and this one looks friendly enough.

Twyggdrasil Kaed 2012/11/22(Thu)19:08 No. 473834 ID: 7ba7bb
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>>473823

Wait... usually?