A Test of Nature

Two shadow warriors-in-training are tasked with surviving atop a tree for a month.

Transcript

4. KUMI: So we have to survive on this tree for a month, huh?
5. KUMI: What's your plan, Taru?
6. TARU: Why am I doing all the planning?
7. TARU: This is YOUR exam too, Kumi!
8. KUMI: Yeah, but planning is more of your thingg.
9. KKUMI: I just crush anything that gets in our way.
10. TARU: This isn't a combat exam! We have to build shelter, find food, harvest a reliable water source....
11. KUMI: Ugh, sounds boring..
12. KUMI: I'm gonna go look at the geysers..
15. TARU: Be careful! We have to stay on the tree, remember?
16. KKUMI: Yeah, yeah. It's not like I'll fall off.
17. TARU: I just wish they let us bring a tent or something...
18. TARU: Huh?
19. TARU: Whoa!
20. TARU: Kumi! Get away from the edge!
21. KUMI: What the....
22. KUMI: Whoa whoa whoa!
24. TARU: Come over here!
25. TARU: ... Slowly.
29. KUMI: HA!
30. KUMI: We did it!
32. BOTH: Whoa!
34. BOTH: OOF!
36. TARU: Checkmark for finding shelter...
37. *Stomach rumbles*
38. KUMI: Uh... The next item was food, right?
39. TARU: Lucky you, I planned for that..
41. KUMI: We have to SPROUTCAST our own food?
42. KUMI: Ugh, fine..
43. TARU: Concentrate on what you want the bulb to grow into...
52. TARU: Mmm!
56. TARU: Your Sproutcasting is a bit rusty, I see.
59. TARU: We could have let that grow!
60. KUMI: But I was hungry!
61. *Cracking noises from outside*
63. *SNAP!*
64. TARU: Not again...
69. - ........ 0 -_o *Rustling noises*
70. *Hissing noises*
71. KUMI: If we don't move, maybe it won't attack us.
74. KUMI: Guess not!
110. *Loud, pained hissing*
111. *Hissing slowly fades*
123. TARU: Aaugh!
129. KUMI: Gotcha!
130. KUMI: Urgh, I'm kind of slipping though...
131. TARU: If we BOTH fall off the tree, we BOTH fail the exam-
132. TARU: Ouch!
133. KUMI: Forget the exam! I'm not letting you get boiled alive like that Mantis Crab over there!
134. TARU: But it's only the first day and we're already about to fail!
135. KUMI: Don't think about that! Just do the first thing that comes to mind! That's what I always do.
136. TARU: The first thing that comes to mind?
142. KUMI: Wait, aren't those our food-
143. TARU: Concentrate on what you want the bulbs to grow into...
155. KUMI: *Straining*
156. KUMI: OOF!
157. BOTH: Phew...
158. KUMI: Guess it's a good thing you were the one dangling, huh?
159. TARU: Yeah, if it was down to YOUR Sproutcasting abilities, we'd be cooked.
160. *Sounds of boiling water*
161. TARU: That actually smells pretty good.
165. KUMI: How long do we have to stay in this tree again?
166. TARU: A month, so one down, thirty days to go.
167. KUMI: Wha- 30?! You're joking... TARU: I'm not.