Kazemitsu

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

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I think tendons would've been eaten with the rest of the meat but the organs were discarded for everyone except Grunthor I think? Lazash might've eaten some of them too? @Crusader Lord@Kazemitsu ???

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Grunt5hor ate everything he knew was edible without having much prep. So....the only thing he didn't eat was bones and intestines. Everything else is edible...just....different tastes for different people I guess

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

@Zeroth Is fine, stress is making brain not work well

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Go for the balls!

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Is short post, got no brain juices runnin x.x

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Grunthor's examination led to what was pretty much plastic feathering commonly seen in modern day arrows, even he knew of that, and thew scales became...metallic? But they weren't sharp. They could possibly be sharpened though, but they didn't need to be. They just needed to be strong, so he tried bending the hardened scales. Given their size he'd need a whole gaggle of of Eswir just to potentially get a shirt of scale, not that he had the first clue how to go about that. He was thinking about embedding them somehow into wood to make a crude flanged club of some sort. Sure his fists were his main weapon, as a human. But he was small, scrawny, and weak. He needed equalizers to level the survival field.

While the four were doing their own thing another two runts showed up, probably following the smoke trail and smell of cooking food. It seemed they snagged a Tatzelwurm and one of them had a better weapon than just a sharp rock and a thumpin stick. The one with the hatchet spoke, talking about going hunting with them. He didn't remembering hearing anything about Camazots, so why were they about to go bumbling into a cave to hunt them? Assuming it wasn't like a bear they could probably pig pile on it. Hell if they had a torch could probably blind it...possibly. He'd follow along with the others when they went.

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Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Grunthor watched the bird as the fire took it. The smells weren't pleasant, he wasn't expecting it to. The feathers took a while to catch fire, merely smoldering and falling out. The scales puffed up like a pinecone and clinked before popping off with ease. What he could salvage he did, and a message appeared making him blink. "Fire hardened scales and feathers?" He questioned aloud. Picking up the good scales he ran a finger along the edge to see if they were sharp or not. He didn't apply to much pressure, no need to wound himself.

Putting it back in the pile he watched the bird, poking it and shifting it as it cooked. After a bit more waiting he began to eat it. It didn't taste good, it was very gamey, and that chewiness meant it was undercooked. Which was dangerous on Earth. This world probably didn't have salmonella, and orcs were probably robust enough to not get really sick from eating things. Speaking of, he was capable of eating the whole damn thing. Minus the actual bones of the bird.

The system popped up telling him he got a buff from being well fed, but due to the bird being undercooked a random chance of the pepto bismol commercial. "Eating over one hundred percent doesn't net anything extra. I'm going to have a random chance of sickness, or I might magically discharge, which is explosive....do I even have magic? He stated as he thought about the skills. He didn't really like the options...but Murderous Intent would fit best. It might cause enemies to freeze up to let him land extra free hits.

The others were talking, and Esfir mentioned caves to fight some of Camazots. Sure, his scalp was scabbed over, his knuckles were a bit sore but he wouldn't be punching much yet. This body didn't have the oomph for it. Looking down he thought for a moment before taking off his loincloth to use the cloth as a small bag for his fire hardened stuff. His body was too young to warrant worrying about nudity, but he was modest enough to turn so the others only saw his green cheeks. He was clearly ready to get going to the cave.

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Grunthor listened to the others while he massaged his hands. Everyone had entirely different skills, and orcs got skills from eating things, could he get their skills by eating bits of them? Also what couldn't an orc eat? Lazash was chewing on scales and feathers, probably from boredom, but she didn't look to be struggling. Drinking the blood hadn't done anything to her, could orcs just eat things raw? Could they eat bones and such as well without issue?

While he thought about it he laid his Elwet out next to the flames before nudging it in a bit. The others had prepared the other two, but he didn't know how to do that. So he'd roast the whole thing as is. It'd take a bit considering these birds were likely to have higher resistance to flames. Although...was that a skill or just biology? Was it everything or just the feathers and scales? There were a lot of questions floating around in his head now.

Lazash explained a portion of the fire-chickens. The stone could be used for fire starters, so like flint? Did that mean there was a chemical in them to start a fire like the Assblasters of Tremors 3? Or did they need a spark to work with to do those fireballs? Unfortunately none of them were capable of making armor, or clothing. They were from modern times, but there were hobbyists out there. But none of them were that lucky today.

The other two chickens were split among them, but he waved it off. He was experimenting now with his own to see what the best cooking method for them would be. Sure he was no chef, and he knew nothing about butchery, but he knew his way around cooking meat. He had vast protein intake when he was human. The only part he wouldn't even attempt to eat would be the birds intestines. No poop-chute for him thank you!

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Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

While he was practicing, Grunthor was listening to the others talk amongst themselves. Well, less practice and more drilling the movements into his new body while toughening the knuckles. Akeno asked what they all got for skills from the god who brought them to this world. Esfir, who was the older sounding orc, mentioned cold magic. A blizzard specifically, but he had serious doubts on such weather changing magic given outright. They were to young and inexperienced to have something like that.

"To you two returning, I'm Grunthor. I have Rapid Strikes." He stated as he blitzed his three strikes. The effect was immediate once it was over, a tiredness set in that he hadn't felt in ages. So it did take something to activate, and judging by how tired he was he might be able to do it twice more. Good to know, so wear down the enemy first then blitz them with Rapid Strikes. But still he kept swinging away, his hands were aching, the pain growing sharp on his skin. His head burned a bit from sweat stinging his wounds from the Elwet pecks.

Giving the tree a final thump he stepped back, shaking his hands out. "Does anyone know how to make stuff? We could use a bit more...armor I guess, than these rags we have." He asked, he was just a fighter. He didn't know how to do any of this stuff, but he could trade protection for stuff. Or just help about wherever he could like with the kindling for the fire.

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Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Grunthor nodded in response to Lazash giving her name before she went about making fire. He watched her for a bit, so that's how it was done huh? Not like in cartoons where they just furiously rubbed sticks together. She mentioned draining the blood of the Elwets, which made sense. Blood had a coppery and irony taste and that probably tainted the meats flavor. So while she had the fire going he used the sharp stone he had to cut off the Elwets head.

Blood never bothered him and he had handled raw meat quite a lot given his previous life's bulked body. He had never beheaded a chicken though, so he was going in blind. Cutting meat, sinew, hey there was a spine in here! Cutting through between two vertebrae had the head off and to the side. Going to a sapling he wedged the feet in to let the blood drain with gravity while Lazash mentioned drinking it. "Nah, I've tasted enough blood in my past life. Not thirsty enough to go for it yet. He replied before the previous companions returned empty handed.

The old sounding one got to work with one Elwet, given her practiced movements he'd let her do the butchery. He decided a little training was in order. He had seen Akeno practice martial arts, but his own thing was much simpler and it had been ingrained heavily into his mind. Instead of practicing movements he went to a young tree, a tree with smoother bark than the older ones, and got into a classic boxing stance. His hands up, nearly tucked to his chin, before his right came out in a light jab. Having such smol baby hands sucked, the punch hurt, but he needed to deaden the nerves, toughen the skin, and harden the bones.

His jaw clenched as he struck the tree with another jab before his left came in with a straight. He was keeping the blows light so he didn't bust his knuckles, but hard enough to hurt his hands a little to begin the process of hardening his hands. "If you need a hand with something just lemme know. Assuming I even can help..." He said to the others while his fists impacted the tree. He'd work like he did in the old world, boxing first then kick boxing. If he fucked up his legs alongside his fists he'd be useless and he wouldn't even be able to run if he had to flee!

A thought and he tried to do Rapid Strikes to the tree. It was rank one, which meant there was a rank two and more. Did he have to use it on an enemy or could he use it on anything? His fists came faster in a three hit combo on the wood. Could he spam it or did it cost anything beyond a normal set of punches? The other skills he could have picked said they took stamina specifically, but what about this one?

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Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Grunthor persevered and had continued hammering the sharp stone into the Elwet's head until it finally gave and died. It had gotten its own attacks in, but they looked far worse than they actually were. Head wounds bled like a son of a bitch. With a grunt he shoved himself to his feet, the rest had taken care of the other fire chickens, minus the one that had immediately fled. It didn't take long for everyone to start delegating things, the two wounded left behind to deal with the Elwet's while the others would go for the final one. Wouldn't it have been better for everyone to work on the birds?

Sighing he tilted his head back slightly so the blood wouldn't drip down his face, he didn't need to be blood blind. "I can see fine, I'm Grunthor by the way. So we don't go hey you." He said before following Lazash. Kindling and firewood he could do, you just needed dry stuff. Like branches and dry leaves or grass, maybe some bark. He wasn't entirely clueless about survival, he had camped before. But beyond that he knew fuck all.

The girl orc mentioned attempting to help with his head, which got a shrug. "That's fine, no pain no gain. I've been through worse." He commented while gathering what he figured would make for good burnable stuff. He was trying to focus on what the job was currently instead of watching the other two female orc runts run off after the fourth bird. Staying as a group and conserving energy felt like a better thing to do, but we'd see how it all played out.

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