One step for man

Teyo turned around after killing the bat, Reilly had just finished off the other that Valora deeply wounded. While doing so she had another attack her and cling to her back slashing, biting, and clawing at her from just behind her head. Using a goblin dagger from when teyo saved her she began stabbing at her assailant in over head stabs. Hearing his sister Valora scream as another swooped in on her, who could hardly hold up the mace with one arm. Courage turned around and used an ability.

" Psychic Cage!"

Teyo saw the bar swooping in and just a mere moment before reaching Valora a cage appeared around the creature forming it's intricate weavings until a square cage just large enough to fit the beast formed. Unable to truly flap it's wings the beast fell to the floor in it's new confined space.

Courage held his hand outstretched staring at the creature a purple haze from his eyes as he stare at the Psychic Cage around the beast. Teyo stepped forward to help Reilly who a second later grabbed a hold of the bat and stabbed it in the head, then threw it on the ground, ripping out some of her hair. Teyo stopped in his tracks at that point and turned to the cage. He raised his axe over it and nodded at Courage. The bat in the cage began to flutter and flap angrily before it grabbed a side hissing and shaking the cage. Courage staired for a few seconds longer and then winced and fell to his knees as the cage became a wisp of purple like smoke. Teyo leaned into his axe swing hard chopping deep into the beasts spine and after a quick spasm it fell over dead.

Reilly stepped forward a bit bloody and with a back full of deep gashes. She moved to check on Teyo who immediately waved her off pointing to Valora. Teyo quickly then grabbed all of the bat corpses into a pile.

" Hey so what kind of ability was that? Pyschic cage was it? It was rather impressive, you both have stunning abilities?" Teyo asked as he cut into the bats grabbing the experience gems. Reilly then cast bless twice healing up Valora fully leaving herself wounded a bit but able to continue fighting while conserving mana.

Courage who had been out of breath for a whole minute watching them gather and heal finally broke though his panting. " It's not a stun. The beast could have gotten out if it really tried.. I just tried to hold on and make it calm but I still don't know how it work completely.."

Valora then gave Reilly a quick hug and spoke. " Reilly you.. You're so brave. You killed two by yourself. Thank you. And also my ability is a stun but anything that harms it in that moment also happen to me. It's a quick justice I suppose."

Teyo had to admit that Reilly had sure stepped up her aggressive side. She also seemed to be quite calm from what he remembered, that sniffling crying girl had almost disappeared. At least that's what he thought until he noticed she was trying to hide her trembling hands.

Pulling the last stone out of the bats Courage leaned forward and asked Teyo

" Hey what are those you're pulling out of them? Jewels?"

Teyo was surprised but he had been in the same boat. He sighed because he understood how important this was yet it was almost like anyone who skipped the tutorial was blind. That sounded so obvious to hear himself say in his head yet the excitement many feel to just hop in to play seemed like an obvious winner for most mindsets. He decided he would just explain the best he could. " There are a few ways to get rewards from killing, one way is the mental and menu side, while the other is what's left. These are the most important parts. Not to mention materials and ingredients. If you were in the woods fending for yourself you would just leave behind meat and hide would you? Same thing. You can get lucky sometimes. Check your combat log and mailbox. If you want to find out more in depth make sure you talk to your bar...Space keeper. Whoever's there when you log in. They are smarter than they look." Teyo at this point continued to cut into the bats eventually cutting much more than he could carry from them and far more than they would need. But leaving behind bones and stripping them of their wings and lightly furred skins they left behind a gruesome sight. Valora and Reilly both couldn't look without gagging but Courage seemed to stare and try to decipher the beasts and learn from Teyo how to get them.

When he was done instead of being selfish Teyo handed Reilly and Valora a gem and Courage two, who then asked Teyo why to which he responded. " Reilly got the better of the bat on the ground due to Valora's sacrificial maiming, She only singlehandedly killed one. As I also only killed two due to your great help."

Courage held them in his hand he stayed quiet but then took one and gave the other back to Teyo. " We're a team, that's how this should work. No pity this, reason that. I appreciate the gesture though thank you."

Teyo waves his hands eagerly in protest.

" Trust me when I say this is fine with me. Look at all this bat meat and bat hide, who's gonna cook that me or you? So long as I get the leftovers this should be fine with me. If you wanna pay me for the food you're gonna need it." When he said that he looked over at Reilly and gave her a wink. Her eyes grew surprised but then she just smiled. Teyo put his hands down and where only she could see he waved his hand in a "iffy" like gesture.

Courage smirked at his response and then put the gems in his pocket. Teyo then took out the piece of wood he received from his axe's dupe log ability earlier and began to chop it into sticks. He then pulled out the goblin stone and sharpened the axe. A few wacks and shimmy's of the axe head later left them with makeshift skewer stick. He then took some bat meat and put it into the sticks. Opening the box he had and grabbing out the three spiders he had he took the knife he had and ground them into crusty flakes and rolled the bat meat in it. Teyo then told them to wait a moment. Scouring the close proximity with his Discern ingredients he looked around for the cave weeds he saw last time. After a good look he ended up finding one small bundle. He looked over at Reilly who's mouth began to drool a bit from the anticipated spice and chuckled. Teyo ground the weed with the pommel of the knife in the same fashion as the spiders and then rolled the three skewers in them.

" Well shall we then? Cook!" Teyo held the kabob's over the fire much in same fashion that he did his first time cooking in the game. Slowly and at a good distance over the torch like marshmallows. He secretly held his vacant hand behind his back with his finger's crossed. A moment later his eyes beamed in glee with a mouth drooling smile he looked on at his new favorite recipe.

" Cave Crawling Kabats" recipe created

Cave Crawling Kabats

Dishwasher tier

+4 health and 4 hours of Dark vision.

"Yes! Exactly I knew it!" Teyo yelled out.

The rest of the party looked at his reaction to taking the meat off the torch in confusion. Teyo however on the inside has been hoping for one simple effect dark vision. It was to good a boon to not narrow focus on, he had been waiting to figure out if it were specific to the bats meat or the spider's, and rather than making things into to large a concoction he settled for simply both. The weed he had figured was some kind of a enhancement like ingredient, as well as a good flavor boost. It was to strong to not see it as a forefront power to the meal in the Goblinalco taco's. By combining these ingredients Teyo had cracked into the formula of the cave style of cooking, at minimum this cave man level cooking introduction fueled Teyo's spur for wonder. Ingredients and combinations could make somethings so simple and even similar but vastly different, potencies varying.

Teyo bit into a kabobs taking half the chunks off and handed the other half of it to Reilly. She immediately took the two remaining pieces off like delicious takoyaki and quickly swallowed them. Teyo then handed the other two their sticks and chewed in ecstasy Reilly and him full cheeked and staring at each other nodding and letting out a couple grunts.

The siblings looked at each other and then back at them confused and a little worried about the food. Courage went first.

Immediately after hitting his tongue the meat fell apart as if the nature of the beast was to be tender and weak, the strands of it's chunk flayed apart like a slow cooked roast that had a crusted char like exterior. The naturally juicy medium rare meat combined with the spice of the cave weed and the crunchy bits of spider that seemed to salt and pepper the outside in a season of spice that glittered the inside of your mouth with speckles of stingy low roaring heat. Continuing to chew only slowly washed away that spice leaving you with a gamey wild meat like that of a venison. After a second pause of experiencing the flavor Courage shoved as much meat off the stick into his mouth and looked at his sister nodding yes and squeeling yes under his breath.

A minute later the excitement was replaced by a notification that Teyo had been waiting for. The siblings both stood up and looked at each other and then around and back to Teyo who was standing now helping Reilly up off the ground. They both looked at him with almost nothing to say there was almost to much to say their minds ran to fast, they were speechless. Teyo simply gave them a thumbs up, and put out the torch. He and Reilly opted for only half of the buff but two hours was more than enough and a good portion of meat was left.

Teyo finally broke the silence. " So how was your first meal? Exciting right!"

Courage cleared his throat. " Well considering what it was that it was made out of I simply couldn't expect anything close to what I tasted. To be honest that plus the buff was completely out of the realm of outcome had I ever needed guess it. Thank you for sharing this with us, I won't forget it. How did you find out about this?"

Teyo just laughed, " It's my class, when I cook it makes things, better. I remember I cooked once in the beginning and it had no effect really just a single point of healing per stick. But having creativity, and a little bit of wild ingredients, I made a few understandings about what it is my class does. And this is just an appetizer."

Valora stepped forward. She had hardly spoken much to Teyo since the start of the cave, which had only been an hour beforehand. But for the first time she really looked at Teyo and Reilly and smiled. Genuinely happy. She then asked the " Do you guys wanna add us? We can play most weekends. You guys make me feel like I can take on the Hard mode."

Reilly chuckled and Teyo looked at her. Strangely he agreed he felt the strength in Courage as a counterpart, and knew that it took resolve to use a self sacrifice type move that Valora did. Not only that but he had tested Courage on sharing the spoils, he couldn't see a problem arising so long as thing we're fair, and that's how he wanted them. Reilly then said " I'm RainbowButterfly"

" And I'm Sammich. And well yes we can take on the hard mode together in the future, but first let's get some spoils here. This is good way to practice and learn"

" Oh okay cool Our names are actually FraidNot and Valora. Luckily her name was not taken haha." Courage said.