brotherly love / tolerance same thing

Azure

Azure gave a polite nod at his answer, accepting the art of navigation to be at least miles better than some of the healing or crafting careers other wolves flocked toward. He knew it could be used to improve a wolf's abilities in combat, having watched his agile mother win many a fight due to her speed and manoeuvrability. "Yes, I remember Tamsyn." He mused. "She put her skills to good use for us." Until she left, like everyone seemed to.

Frowning, he returned to his branch. With a hefty push of his paw assisted by strong jaws, he snapped it as close to the trunk as he could manage and brought it down. Artorias returned with an appropriately sized boulder and Azure turned his head over his shoulder to give it a passing glance as he was asked if it would work. "Yep, that's fine." It would rule out the ability to go for anything overly large, but there was only so much the men could do to heft a boulder high and heavy enough to crush something like a mountain goat.

Artorias asked about the trigger and Azure tossed his head toward the trees once more. "Another stick will do, though we will need to carve it thin at the end." He brought the branch he'd procured between them and with a claw, traced a line shaped like a lopsided L through the center of the wood. "This needs to be fractured carefully. The trigger needs to go between the two halves, so if the halves are split clean horizontally it won't balance properly and will fall before the prey approaches. Diagonally, and they will slide past each other and not hold the weight of the boulder. We need a bit of a mix of vertical and horizontal, to give the halves some support to keep them fitting together. We will also need to notch out a spot for the trigger to sit at the top of the two components. Hold this, please." Holding out the stick toward Artorias, he waited until the other man had a grip on the one end and tilted it so he could access the middle. With his claw he scored the wood, digging furrows into it to ensure that a snap would fracture the branch the way they needed it.

With the branch more or less ready, he set the one half aside near the boulder Artorias had rolled toward them, and began to work on carving out a notch for the trigger. "If you can grab another branch and carve it for the trigger, I'll find some bait and we can set it up." He would need to be smart about what sort of bait he gathered - not knowing what creatures lived on this land made things a bit more difficult, though the biome itself lended some hints. The mountain was steep, goats were a given. The trees were thick and old, likely home to all sorts of woodland critters like squirrels, rabbits and the like. He peered through the trees toward the sides of the sunken bowl, hoping to see a water feature or something else distinctive, but unable to catch sight of anything of much interest through the low-hanging mist that seemed to cover every inch of the isle. Whatever lived here, he assumed they'd have to find that out the hard way. Nuts and berries would likely be a safe bet, regardless.

OOC: [As Artorias' turn ends the 3/3 for crafting the trap, feel free to have him set the sticks and PP Azure helping hold the boulder up while he does so! I've linked an image of the trap i'm following for your reference above <3]

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brotherly love / tolerance same thing

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Azure