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Who: Mitsuru, Syaoran, Lizard McDeadcarcass, anyone
Where: Outside the cave entrance
When: Day 145, late morning
What: science experiments and meat! a winning combo!

[Two (slightly bloodied up) boys coming out of the caves after having snuck off at ridiculous o'clock in the morning today -- victorious! They've got themselves a nice little fatty lizard which is floating on home behind them courtesy of some wind magic. Which creates a mini hurricane of wind for anyone nearby when it's released. WHHHOOOOOSH.]

How many strips will we need?

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[Considers. :|a]

Go ahead. I don't know anyone from Pavo, anyway.

Thank you. I'll head over once we are done here.

Mm.

[Considering the meat. :|b]

How much do we want to try preserving each way?

This time just a little, I think. We don't want to waste it. We can eat and trade the rest before it goes bad, and then we will know for next time.

That makes sense.

Five or ten thin strips for each method? That should be enough to tell for certain, even if one or two do something not strictly usual.

That sounds fine.

...ah. Red knows another method.

He knows? Then we can save all of it, we don't need to try testing.

He says that the salt will work.

And that we can smoke it, but smoking requires a special house.

Then let's salt it. We can smoke it another time, the important thing now is to have food available.

In the future, when it's not as important to have it ready, I'd like to try the other methods. The only team I've seen with salt is Lacerta, so we can't rely on it too heavily.

You should be able to trade them for it. We both have a supply for now, since Allen brought some around.

Mm. There should be enough for now. Red says the meat has to be compeltely covered, though.

There should be enough between our two teams. And we can get more if we need to.

There will be enough to start, at least.

Which we should be doing. Do you need a knife?

No, I'm fine. Red said that he would show us how to cut it up properly.

Ah, good. I watched him do it last time, but it wasn't hands on. I'm not sure I remember exactly the right way.

We are going to get cleaned up and take care of any injuries first.

...we should hurry, though If we leave it out too long, we'll get squidrats. Or more lizards.

It should not take long enough for it to be a problem.

Let's get started, then.

[Still talking to Red over here.]

...he says that ice will keep it, too.

I think it would be better to preserve it. Ice melts too quickly, you would constantly need to come back to the dorm to refreeze it.

If we ever find ourselves without salt, it's a possibility.

He said that drying with the aid of magic might work, as well.

Since we have the salt, we should use it. We're more certain that doing it that way will work.

Mm. And we should start.

Let me get a few things from inside the dorm- I'll be right back.