Nyaa I was thinking about making bear Nya but it will take a while Nya can you wait that long Nya?

Alice smirks.
No need to worry, I have my ways!

After the meat is harvested and in the pot, Alice inspects the bugbears.
Can't let them go to waste, they're already Well Done! Now for a Bugbear Appetizer before the Bear main course!

Alice spreads out in the room with the beds, resting and absorbing charred bugbear flesh until she is called. Various lice, fleas and ticks abandoning the cold corpses are also digested before they can infest the furniture.

Cat prepares: Pulled Bear in flatbread (essentially Kebap)
When the meat is almost done, Cat instructs Alice to shred it to pieces while she bakes thin flatbread in her pan with cooking oil. The bread is used as wrapping for the pulled bear meat, pickles are served as a side dish.

Alice claps her hands
This is marvelous! Well done! Even better than I had anticipated!



After dinner it's cleanup time. After Alice has cleaned Cat's cooking utensils, Alice proceeds tidying up the mine.
Cat, help me drag the corpses outside of the palisades! Otherwise we'll have their parasites everywhere! If only I could spawn my Artificial Trees, we'd pile the corpses up and have a capable Guard Tree at the entrance in a couple of hours...

Hey, let's pile them up in front of the gate as a warning!

As the mecha goddess is gone, I guess we can forget setting up a poison trap. Can you make at least a simple mechanical one, Cat, maybe with the net? We should boobie trap that South tunnel.

Cat downplays her praised Bear Kebap
Nyaa I do what I can with the few things we have here Nya!

Cat, help me drag the corpses outside of the palisades! Otherwise we'll have their parasites everywhere! If only I could spawn my Artificial Trees, we'd pile the corpses up and have a capable Guard Tree at the entrance in a couple of hours...

Nyaa is this something like the World Tree? I really wanna see your trees some day Nya!

Hey, let's pile them up in front of the gate as a warning!

Nyo, this would cost us the element of urprise Nya!

Cat helps Alice drag the corpses outside and deposit them a bit left away from the palisades so that they are not too obvious and soon covered by snow. Cat is glad the bugbears have ben deloused by Alice first so no pests can hop over onto her fur.

As the mecha goddess is gone, I guess we can forget setting up a poison trap. Can you make at least a simple mechanical one, Cat, maybe with the net? We should boobie trap that South tunnel.

Hmm, not a bad idea Nya! Let's give it a look Nya!

Cat enters Rage and investigates the tunnel wiith Primal Knowledge to see if her Survival Skills help her setting up a trap with the available materials.
Nyaa they had a trap with the rope Nya we can reactivate and modify this Nya! I assume they'll know where it is supposed to be but if we move it to the south tunnel Nya someone might fall for it Nya!

Nyaa is this something like the World Tree? I really wanna see your trees some day Nya!

Alice raises an eyebrow.
World Tree? What's that? Something magical I guess.
No, my Artificial Trees are much like I am now. An organic construct infused with a tiny bit of Living Metal. They can take all sorts of shapes and sizes depending on the environment and thrive on sunlight or anything even remotely edible Like corpses of enemies. Here in the mine they'd resemble more like that ooze in form and behavior. Much less mobile though. The neat thing is that they are also factories that can produce all sorts of simple items, mostly food. Oh, end they excel at healing people. At least humans. Providing you have the time. It's not magic so they need days to grow into something useful and weeks to produce more complex stuff or regenerate people. Well, you'll see sooner or later when I get my ship back!



Alice assists Cat at making a trap, then rests.