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Tanya wasted no time in scrambling up the tree. She and Whisper began hacking at the vines with their hatchets and letting them fall to the ground. They tried to make them as long as they could manage, without falling out of the trees trying to reach something that was too far away.

"Good idea," Catherine agreed. She picked up the first vine that Whisper threw down and got ready to get the one that was currently falling. "I can take care of that." She waited for a few more vines before taking them over to a slightly larger part of the small clearing and laying them out into a grid. She went to work tying knots in the places where they crossed, careful to leave enough pace that they could be handled easily.

Even Damion helped, brining Catherine more vines, so she wouldn't have to run back and forth.

The vines themselves were of varying widths, sometimes only half an inch thick, and occasionally wider than the wrists of the largest of the group. They were actually quite strong, and with the hatchet, the larger ones took several blows to break them completely.

Catherine tried to keep the widths used in her net close to one and a half inches thick. She made a few nooses and left a few choice vines to be used as 'trip wires'--or just plain rope--just in case. Damion helped her pull knots tight when asked to, and continued to supply her with vines.

Under the gravity of the situation, Catherine was actually quite pleased that she could be of help in this way and glad that Damion was working to help them all stay alive. But she worried about him, because he hadn't spoken since their last mission.

"That's a wonderful idea," Catherine said. She was quite relieved that everyone was working together. She had been a little worried beforehand, since there were so many here who were not of Japi. But it was turning out well.

Whisper slid down a vine that had only been partially cut and walked to Ganren. She nodded in agreement and motioned that he follow her.

She took him past a slightly thicker bit of shrubbery. It had a few thorns, so it scraped the two of them. Whisper hardly noticed, her skin already so tough from the forest terrain she was used to.

On the other side, there were slightly thinner bushes, and she grabbed Ganren's arm and pulled him down behind them. She crouched and pointed a large cave mouth. There was an open patch about twenty feet in distance between them and the entrance. The shape of the clearing made a sort of half-oval. Their position was about the center of the base. There wouldn't be that much to use for cover during the fight.

"It looks like it's gone back inside," she said. Her limbs were tensed up as though she was ready to bolt any moment.

Whisper took one last look into the clearing before following Ganren, but she stopped suddenly and gasped. She lurched forward after him and grabbed his arm, pointing back into the clearing.

"It has young," she whispered.

At one side of the mouth of the cave was a small pink fluff, exactly as they had seen it before in the room. Could this one be our actual target? Whisper thought to herself.

Whisper nodded and laid down on her stomach. She waited and watched the entrance. The little creature toddled around for a bit, then went back inside. She waited patiently for it or another to emerge, but they were there for quite some time before Tanya crept up behind them.

"We're nearly ready," she said.

Catherine looked up a moment from her work. "I'm nearly finished with the net," she said as she tightened another knot. It was a crude thing, but it would serve the purpose. There were also five noose ropes as well. Damion held them up to indicate that they were complete.

((OOC: I'll let Sekenre say how much stuff he made.))

Tanya looked over everything, then turned to Whisper. "Take me to see," she said. Whisper obeyed.

Ganren looked over the equipment before him and squatted down. "So we got a net and a set of spears. If the beast is caught in the net it should be easy to attack from all sides to spear it. The question is how should we do that if we decide to. All we know so far is that there is a large beast and a small one who is most likely our target. We do know that the large beast comes out occasionally, for what we have not determined yet. The smaller beast seems to stay in the cave. We might have to observe one more day to confirm this. We don't want to be caught in the cave without an escape route. Only if we can lure out the small one, when the larger one is away... What do you all think?"