Bethel Ways

Murder of Crows

12/19/2024 10:33pm

You get into a groove, climbing the 20 trees for @Master Willi.

They've gotta be tall trees. Which is most of the trees in the forest around Sugar Pine Temple.

There's no time limit on how long you can take to climb the 20 trees, but you have do them all together, one after another, and you don't want to be late for dinner or other duties because then you get in trouble for that.

So you start up the first tree and just keep on going. After a few, they all get to looking like the same tree, over and over. Same pine smell, same sticky pine sap on your hands, same blue sky and clouds peeking through the same pine branches.

After you really get into the groove, you don't even have to climb down between trees. You just keep going up and up till you've climbed 20. It's just one big tree.

That's how you master climbing the 20 trees.

Murder of Crows

1/11/2024 11:08pm

"Hey! What are those? Nuts? Gimme some!"

"You can have the rest. I'm done," I said.

"Wow thanks. Haven't had nuts like these sense before I came here. Not allowed, you know."

"Yeah I snuck them in with with me. Somehow they don't taste the same."

"That's the Sugar Pine magic working its way into you already. Starts with the tongue."

"Well, I can't get kicked out on my first day. What a disappointment I'd be."

"People at home counting on you? Came to learn the Seven Skills? Go back and defend the village?"

"How did you know that?"

"Same reason most everybody's here. Same reason I'm here. Get all trained up, fight the good fight and all that."

"And those nuts won't mess up your... tree flow?"

"Oh Master Willi will probably smell 'em on me, make me climb 20. But it's worth it. Even if they don't taste like anything anymore."