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Tip's face lit up happily when Allayna said she recognized the disease. Good! Very good! He was glad to hear that he had come to the right place! But wait, 'planties'? "Are plants causing this?" He asked. If so, he felt bad for not realizing it and not removing the plants! Which plant was the culprit? This news certainly explained a lot!

The girl seemed to calm down, and almost assumed a different personality. Some people were like that when they took their jobs seriously. He watched as she got some herbs out of a pot, and then obtained water. She glanced at him, and asked about the herd. "Oh, I'm not sure on the exact size of the herd. It's not mine, it belongs to the forest and I just look after them and help them to migrate around. Deer are constantly joining and leaving. But um, it was around thirty at last count? There are eleven sick, to varying degrees. Two of them are recovering already. Five of the sick are fawns and I fear they're too young to recover on their own. Ah, and one is an elderly doe. She is the sickest." He frowned, hoping the old deer would still be alive when he got back. He knew that it would probably be her time to go soon anyway, but did it have to be like this? No, he would make sure she died peacefully of old age! Or at least was taken by a predator. But curable illness, that was unacceptable!

His frown was quickly replaced by another smile as he looked up at Allayna, seeing that she was going to come with him. This was not ideal, for the presence of an unknown being might stress the deer, but if it was the only way then it was the only way. "Are you all ready?" He asked.


(OOC: Okie dokie!)

"Oh my! I had no idea!" Tip felt awful for being unable to have identified the plants as the cause. He was very good with plants. He knew just about every plant in the forest, just as he knew all of the animals. This must be a new, invasive species that he had not come across yet. Where had the deer found it? Hopefully Allayna could give him some insight into this. The girl was ready to go, and had the treatment. She said she would treat the herd and remove the plants. "Good news! Good news indeed! I'm glad I found this place in time!"

They were walking out the door, and Allayna called back to the elusive 'Mags' person to inform them that they were leaving. Tip wondered if Mags was always so quiet. Perhaps they were really busy with something. Anyhow, they left the shop and Allayna turned the sign to 'closed'. Tip hoped no one else would require the services in the meantime, or he would feel bad to have denied them such. Allayna said to lead the way. "Of course! Right this way!" 'Right this way' would actually be quite a ways. Tip skipped on down the street, trusting that Allayna would easily be able to keep up with him even if he were to sprint. His short legs would not allow him to go very fast at all. He kept looking back over his shoulder to make sure that Allayna was still there, and that she was not tired.

They got to the forest not long afterwards. Tip had to take a roundabout path. He had come almost straight through the forest on the way to the town, but his diminutive height enabled him to duck through thick parts of the forest that would stop most anyone else. He did not want Allayna to get tangled up in the nastiness, and so he took her on a detour path that went through pleasant, more open parts of the forest. It still required them to scale a large hill, which was made up of series of rocky ridges and straight-drop cliffs. At the top, the hill opened up and became more flat. Lean-tos had been set up, covered in leaves. Many brown bodies could be seen lying beneath the lean-tos. The deer's sides heaved as they struggled to draw breath. Tip ran over to them and knelt down, stroking two of the nearest deer. "Shhh shhh, it's okay my little ones, help has arrived! Please let Miss Allayna treat you. She won't harm you, trust me. Now behave, and I'll bring you lots of tasty treats when you recover." He spoke to them. He stood and went down the line of lean-tos, checking up on all of the deer and speaking soothingly to them.


(OOC: No problem ^^)

The excitable girl spoke out rather loudly, causing a couple of the deer to startle and try to get up. Tip went to them, speaking soothingly. "Shhh shhh my darlings, it's going to be all right. Just relax and let Miss Allayna help you." He petted them on the necks and backs, slowly settling them back down. They laid down, one of the deer heaving a deep sigh. Tip turned toward Allayna now. "If you could keep your voice down just a tad, it would be much appreciated," he said with a smile.

He watched the girl go to work. She mixed up some of the paste and applied it to the infected areas of the deer. The deer tensed up and seemed unsure, but soon relaxed as relief washed over them. Tip saw the paste change color. It must be working then, right? He wondered what the paste was made from. Then Allayna suggested that he help so the work would be done faster. "Of course!" he said. He would need a bowl. He did not have one handy. There were bowls and things of that nature back at his village, but his village was far enough away that Allayna would be finished with her task before he returned, so there was no point to that. Perhaps he could find or make one. "I'll go find one!" he told her, and he ran off into the forest.

He searched around the immediate area. He had an idea of how to acquire a bowl, and was looking for the right object. He looked in the shadows of trees and kicked aside leaf litter. He found many types of fungus doing this, but not the kind he had in mind. Then he came across a hole in the ground, an animal den of some sort. The entrance was plugged up with fallen leaves and there were no signs of habitation. He scooped the leaves out of the entrance. "Hullo? Anyone in there?" he called into the hole just to be sure. He heard no response, and so he crawled inside. The tunnel went at a downward slope for a few feet before opening up into a small room. A hole in the roof brought a beam of light into the den. In one corner of the room loomed the shapes of large mushrooms. "Aha! There you are!" Tip exclaimed. He crawled over to the mushrooms. The stalks were a couple of feet tall, topped by a large cap as hard as wood. He felt the caps to find the most suitable one, and then used his knife to cut it away from the stalk.

He crawled back out of the hole now. He sat up and used his knife to clean out the insides of the cap, until he was left with just the hard outer shell. Finding a stick to stir with was much easier, and he located one in no time. He brought these items back to where Allayna was treating the deer. "I'm back, with a bowl and a stirring stick."

Tip watched as Allayna grabbed the powder and some water. He came closer and sat on his knees, listening carefully as she gave instructions. So put a tiny amount of powder in the bowl, enough to cover the deer's rash, and then add water once close to the deer. Tip figured that the substance must react quickly, which would be why one needed to be close to the patient before completing it. He nodded. Then mix it up and apply it by hand. It would change color to indicate that it was working, and whatever was in the powder would bind with the toxins or whatever was causing the reaction. Now she invited him to try it, and pointed to one of the deer. It was one of the more timid fawns, whose eyes were rolling in fear as she tried to get up and flee, only to fall down again and again.

Tip went to the fawn. "Calm down, sweet girl, everything will be just fine," he soothed, slowly approaching the deer with his hand held out. The fawn recognized his scent but was still fearful, quivering as she tried to get up. He put his hand on her neck and began to stroke her, continuing to whisper to her. She laid back down and stopped trying to get up. Now Tip retrieved the makeshift bowl and stirring stick that he had obtained. He eyed the rash, and poured in the amount of powder that he thought would be necessary. He set the bowl next to the deer and added water, stirring up the paste. Then he grabbed a handful of the paste and rubbed it over the fawn's underbelly. The paste changed color. The fawn seemed to panic at first, trying to kick around, but then she felt relief from the medicine and stopped squirming. Her eyes fluttered shut as she got sleepy now.

"Did I do it right?" asked Tip, keeping his voice down, and he looked back at Allayna. "What is this powder stuff, anyway?"

(OOC: I LOL'd at Allayna's imaginings of what was in the hole XD)

The deer had calmed down considerably with Tip's presence, and even allowed Allayna to touch her now with only minimal twitching at the unfamiliar hand. Allayna said that the medicine was actually made from the bad plants. How intriguing! So just like an antivenom from a snake or spider. Before he could ask about that, Allayna asked if he wanted help with the other deer that had not yet been attended to. Tip nodded. "Please do! I'm sure I'm nowhere near as capable as you are, and we'll get it done faster together!" Indeed, Allayna would probably finish most of them while he did only two. Plus he would need her to double-check his work.

He went to work with the deer that he had tasked himself with. From his pockets he pulled out little treats, made of apples and oat and honey, and he would slip the deer the treats as a reward and a distraction while he applied the medication to their afflicted undersides. Once this was finished, he went around and double-checked on all of the deer to make sure they were still doing well. A couple of the younger ones were trying to get to their feet and wander off. After some consideration, he decided it would be best to keep them around. He found some vines and wrapped them around the deers' heads in a makeshift halter, fastening them to trees. "So sorry my dears, but I need to keep an eye on you for just a little longer to make sure you heal up right!" he told them, rewarding them additional treats.

There were some bowls laying around with a bit of water, and some stacks of food for the deer. These supplies were getting low, and had lasted as long as they had only because the deers' appetites had not been what they should be. He would have to take care of gathering more resources later. Now he turned toward Allayna. "What next? Are there more steps, or are we ready to find the bad plants now?" he asked eagerly.

(OOC: I'm afraid I have no ideas on how to keep this going. Right now it's pointless with just the two of us, and to be honest, it feels like a chore thinking of what to post.

Actually, I think I'm going to leave the guild. It looked promising, but there aren't any other roleplays here that I'm interested in right now and I don't have the time to make one myself. Sorry. I might return at some point in the future, but I can't bring myself to be too active right now and I know you don't want inactive people holding it back, so it would be best if I just quit for a while.)