Chapter 14

A barrel of babies

According to their status details Orla was now 23 and Nitis was 20, Orla was surprised after looking at the screen details that she was now 23 years old and Nitis was 20. Orla always thought that Nitis was older not younger, Then she realised there was another villager back in her old village called Nitis that was his cousin that he was 25 Isola years old, aright they both looked identical an easy mistake to make, but she did not want to let on she thought he was older.

A few days later as she was fishing as the sea was still clean to carry on fishing for a bit, she noticed a barrel floating on the waves, she informed Nitis and they both waded out to sea and found a 4 year old toddler with a note attached to him. It said his name is Wabu please look after him. Wabu was very hungry and Orla give him some food, there was not much food but she could not refuse to give him less only been age 4. Wabu had black hair and liked surprises.

Mucha had just turned 14 and wanted to start work and Orla been the oldest of the tribe said we need food, so how about fishing. Mucha taking the advice took to fishing and failed the first time but was very determined to catch a fish and her determination paid off as she caught a fish giving her a farming skill. The two females had to work very hard in catching the fish to feed 8 hungry mouths as the food kept getting eaten by the 4 hungry children. As every time they got 200 food it was eaten and it fell back to 100. After the two of them had caught so many fish and the children kept finding the mushrooms they had at least cumulated 400 to feed the tribe.

The children managed to find enough butterflies and shell collectables with the help of Balun making the tech points as he was now Adept Scientist. They now had 1518 tech points and Balun told Nitis Orla and Mucha who were now trainee farmers that the coconuts were ready to harvest with the help of the new technology found. Orla was the first to try out the Tools and was able to climb the tree and got a lovely round fresh coconut which was worth 2 of food each The coconut source for the villagers to harvest was 1500. Orla was pleased they had found how to harvest the coconuts and she said that these should keep us in food for a long time until we can find another food source.

In the meantime Orla wondered what the island had to cure different diseases and looked round the island at the different herbs and she studied them and leant what each one of them was for. Orla made a list of each one and soon had a complete list of what herbal remedy could cure. She then told the others on her finds and ,they thought this was a course for a celebration and they all came to the centre of the village to give a small celebration and had a blend of juicy berries made into a sweet drink that was suitable for all. Then all back to their jobs.

After the 2 females had harvest so many coconuts, Orla decided to have a look at the dry field and she wondered that maybe they could grow crops here, but how to water the field was the next problem to solve and she asked Nitis who was a Adept Builder already about it, 'How will we get water to this field?' and Nitis said We could build a dam, the only thing we don't have the tools yet.'
'So we need to do more research?' Orla asked.
'I believe so, yes,'
'Okay' her old saying, 'first things first.'


Orla decided to go on to do researching and after a few unsuccessful finely made her first experiment that earned her 1 tech points and she thought Oh well every little helps. And tried another experiment hoping to gain more points for her affects. As Orla was researching, she decided to go one better by using fire in her next experiment which was not a very good idea as she injures her hand that lost her some health and she felt a bit sick with the pain. Balun told her to put something on the burn and she found some herbs and mixed them into a past and rubbed it into the burn. That eases the pain a lot.

Later Orla noticed a very large wooden box washed up on the beach and she told Nitis about it been a builder. He examined the box but had no idea how to open it and said 'we need some one with more expertise to open this box . I just have to do more researching on this and it looks like it would take at least three Master builders to open this.'

'Right' said Orla wondering what it might contain, must be something valuable for it to be hard to open.'

Orla in spite of her sore arm went back on researching as the villagers needed the tech points to buy stuff for survival in the coming months

To be continued