Goddamn Bug Hunt

Cleaned ichor off my boots today. Fuck, that shit smells.
 
Went back to the cave we found the little bitch in to clear out the kruthiks. It wa'nt hard to find our way back. We headed down in to the cave and got pretty deep in before the first bug showed up. Sprig tiger snapped its neck an we got jumped by some bigger ones. I blew a little one's head off, but the damn armor was too tough on the big ones to shoot through. By the way, the big fuckers spit acid, so that's neat. I almost got shredded by the biggest one. The others actually didn't hit that hard, but they were damn tough to crack open. Sprig turned into a big wolf (fuckin hot), but the armor on that shit was so thick. I didn't figure out the right way to attack until way too late; gotta get my head back in the game. We prolly would have had to fall back, but it turns out Crestin's big sword ain't just for show. Dude hits hard. Sprig 'n me had one kill each, I'm pretty sure Crestin killed every single other bug in that place.
 
What'd I learn today? Well, Crest's a beast, I need to pay better attention to the damn wildlife out here, bugs like to skewer people an taxidermy em, Franklin can do a flip (honest, I'm almost more impressed by that than Crest), Ostra talks to herself when she's fightin. An something something friendship. Fuck I need a drink.
 
We set up as the rest of the damn things came looking for us, but once you kill the big one the little ones get spooked and don't fight very well. Our ambush prolly coulda gone better, but the bugs didn't run in like we expected. Sprig an Franklin charged em, to limited effect, an then Crest dropped on em and cut em to bits. I finally figured out that they're not too keen mentally. Toll the Dead worked real well. Shoulda been doing that insteada trying to shoot em.
 
Once we cleared em out, we found some eggs. Frankin got the bright idea to raise one up, just when I was starting to think something positive about him. Keph blasted the egg out of his hand and I stomped the rest of em, hence the chore. Frank's got some weird ideas about morality, but so does Sprig, weirdly. As if a dumb bug was making a choice to be bad. Ain't no such thing as a bad bug, just bad for us. Dunno. Both of em annoyed me. Specially since Sprig n Ostra woke us up to tell us the puddle jumpers were showing up to thank us for finding their kids corpse or whatever. Rest of em made nice with the pond rats and I didn't get to go back to sleep til they left.
 
Anyway, got paid decent. Put down the last coin I needed to have Frank (Goliath Frank, not Tortle Frank) finish up Persuasion. Looking forward to trying that out.
 
Not getting laid tonight. I'm fucking sick of everyone. Gonna get dolled up an deck the first asshat to try to chat me up. Don't give a shit if I win or lose. Just want hit something.