starter for @fueled-by-knowledge — Warly hadn't established a permanent base camp on the mainland yet, though he'd decided he wanted to. He was still too unfamiliar with the terrain to settle anywhere. Everything was so different from the islands he was used to. At least there he had some idea of what resources should be available and how to use them properly. Here, everything was different, from the soil to the taste of the air. It wasn't bad, not by any means; Warly just wished he had a better sense for roughing it than he did. Cooking was all he'd ever really been good at, and out here it wouldn't get him far at all. He had a good head on his shoulders, that much was certain, but he wasn't exactly cut out for this– not in his opinion. Still, the chef did his best, just as always, and soldiered on through the pine groves he'd built his campfire near the night prior. Evergreens were largely foreign to him, but he'd decided he liked them. They looked considerably easier to climb than palm trees, and part of him wanted to try it, but he'd managed to refrain. Perhaps another time, Warly told himself. For now he had a more important goal: mapping out more of the area and hopefully finding somewhere that was suitable for a secondary camp. After what had happened to him during last dry season, he wasn't eager to spend another there, and would gladly accept whatever the mainland offered in its place. Warly didn't expect it to be much easier, but any change was welcome– and from what he'd seen, the mainland was more inhabited than the islands, both by creatures and other humans, scarce as the latter was.