The first thing I did as I woke up was to scrape off what was left of the medical paste. Then, to think up a couple of ideas on how I will be able to add a grip to the urchin shell. I couldn't just use some sturdy vines to bind around it and hoist it up with my left arm all the time when I use it. It wouldn't be as secure as when it is strapped to it.
But the inside is hollow now, with me removing all of the flesh from it. So maybe I will simply need to just insert my pincher in it since it is the right size for it. But there is still the problem with it being a bit too wobbly since there are no handholds inside of it.
So that is what I will do first: insert either a handle or make it so that I can grip the inside of it. Or I could just make it into a mace if it weren't for the flat part, making it impossible. So, I opted for a shield instead. Plus, it would give my strikes an extra advantage.
After a few plucking of those coconut things and simply throwing them out into the sea, I searched for anything I could think of to create the handle.
I gathered quite a lot from trunks, vines, and even tree sap, which was hard to get since I had to use a tree trunk to gather it all up. I even had to wait for it to fill up my woodland bucket. Couldn't even leave the place since the monkeys seemed to love this stuff.
The more I watched, the more I realized that these monkeys take advantage of anything just so they would be able to eat. That's life here in this place, I guess, with how dangerous some of the plants and animals are. I would not be surprised if these monkeys are at the bottom of the food chain. But I am not heartless to simply catch them and eat them; I abhor such a thing since I do not want to eat something I am not used to. Aside from what I have already eaten, though, that does not count.
So, I simply make a few trees run with sap, scare them off, and herd them towards where those tapped trees are and leave them there.
I know for sure that they would fight one another once I was gone, with what had happened a few days ago. As such, I expected them to do the same.
But for now, the excited holler of monkeys greeted my ears as it grew silent as I left the area. I know for sure there is still a possibility that there would be a bloodbath.
With that done, I then went ahead and filled up my woodland bucket, which was again a boring task to do. But now, though there aren't any monkeys that would annoy me. So, of course, there would be another thing that would annoy me, which was the fact that I should have expected with my tool of choice.
The bucket was leaking, of course, it was leaking since I used this wooden bucket. But the situation did fix itself with how the sap hardened.
That is another thing I had to worry about since the whole thing actually hardened, so I will have to heat it. Why is it that things like this always happen to me? If it's not one thing, then it's another. I hate this so much.
I do remember how to make fire, but that is the problem, as that is way harder to do. It would take time and effort for me to create fire, so maybe by just lying out in the sun and letting it melt it. But then some sort of creature might get attracted towards it, so maybe the fire one is the best solution while I store it in my lair for the time being.
Or perhaps I wouldn't have to do that, as a sudden surge of innovation struck me.
I'll just store this in my lair for future use, and then I will just carry the urchin shell towards the sap tap and just do the gluing there.
So, I did just that and brought what I had gathered up and stored it in my lair. Then I grabbed the urchin shell and the stuff I needed. Once I had them, I then proceeded towards the area where I tapped a few trees.
I arrived there and saw that a few of the taps I made were now flowing weaker than they were, so I simply did it to another tree as I laid what I was carrying down.
With my pincher, I then proceeded to do what I did again, and once it was now flowing with sap again, I then brought in the urchin shell and the log that I was making into the handle for it. Carefully, I inserted the log into the urchin shell, which was a bit hard since I had to align it horizontally for it to be the handle for the urchin shell shield.
Once I was done with that, I then proceeded to let us use a stick to dip in some of the sap and apply it to the sides of the log to secure it to the shell.
After that was done, I then proceeded to make sure nothing was not aligned. As I was doing this, I then remembered that I should have done this for my club as well. So, once I deemed that the shell was okay, I then went ahead and got my club.
I then covered the base of the club and waited for it to harden. With that done, I then grabbed the shield, not at the handle since it was still settling in and my club, and went back to my lair to test out my weapons.