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Rhino Dung and Bee Hives: Far Cry Primal

Hey, everyone. Back with you at the Author's Green Retreat. Carley and I have been playing Far Cry Primal on the PS4. We are really enjoying it. Currently we are playing a quest entitled Urki's New Stink. Urki is a stone age inventor. He wanted to fly and landed with a resounding thump after attaching a few feathers to his arms and jumping off a cliff.
     But today, he sought our help again. He had invented a concoction to anoint his body with. In theory, it was supposed to repel bears. Alas, it did not work, so he sent me in search of things to mix a new stink elixir. Here's where he and I disagreed. He wanted 5 piles of rhino dung. Yes, you heard right. I have a picture here somewhere...
     The second ingredient is 3 honey combs or bee hives. I find the thought of mixing honey with rhino dung nauseating. By the way, the pics show these materials as being red and steamy. I certainly am aware that dung, at an early age, can steam. In this case, however, I am using my "hunter vision". By the use of this we can follow clues such as scent or wraith-like senses which enable the happy dung seeker to "feel" the surroundings more astutely. It does, however, take the color out of the lovely landscapes rendered by Ubisoft.
     At any rate, the third ingredient required by the deranged inventor was a tamed brown bear. I am known as the Beastmaster of Oros, being able to bend sabertooths and their ilk to my will. So I was not 'a-skeered' ( as my associates would term it) of this task.
     Setting forth into the wild, I found a herd of rhinos. I suspected that, in such a locale, I might find some rhino dung. Moreover, I reasoned that any self respecting rhino would be willing to share such a common and odorous substance. But nooooooo. Rhinos actually attacked me while I helped myself to their excrement. I guess it was precious in their sight. I suppose that some enterprising rhino was selling the stuff for fertilizer.
     As if things weren't bad enough, I saw a rhino stop and sniff the air as I hid in the weeds. This caused me no end of self-reproach. Thoughts assailed me. "Do I smell so badly that this brute can smell me over the reeking mass just behind him?" I resolved to have a shower under a nearby waterfall.
    I found the bee hives, the poopy and the brown bear. I tamed the bear and took it back to my friend. He was thrilled and applied the mixture to his body. Then he ordered me to instruct my newly trained bear to attack him. I did so, knowing full-well that the creature would maul his skanky rear. This immediately came to pass and I departed for my shower, my pet bear walking at a little  safe distance to my side. From the green retreat, I'm CE Wills.





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