Today: put the points on my fem quetz into stam (few, it was pretty good to begin with), health (most, I need her to be able to handle some rocks being hurled at her), and weight.
Put a platform saddle on her.
Made a cannon and installed it on the saddle. Cannonballs, too. Enough to knock out even a max level, plus some more in case I miss a few times.
Gathered a lot of deinon eggs (unpopular nests are the worst! The eggs stay there for so long, that they insta-spoil when picked up), but lost almost all because I forgot that I had a deinon egg recipe in my cooker for some reason. Threw the recipe out, got more eggs, made some kibble. Should be enough, but I'll still wait for my bee to make, like, 10 more honey and make more kibble. Having too much is better than too little, after all!
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Made more kibble. Took kibble. Loaded Thunderstorm with cannonballs. Found a 140 elemental. Turned out, the cliff I chose to fire from was a crappy one, only got the angle right once (and yes, it's the cliff that was the problem. I have already tamed an elem once with no problem, also from a dino (paracer) standing on a cliff.). Two shots missed, three hit the body. Also, forgot about the protection, so the cannon was destroyed. Which caused me to fall off the quetz and die. Luckily, my ember wyvern Wildfire is fast as hell (like all crystal wyverns) and got plenty of stam, so I got back there in time to call Thunderstorm AND retrieve my deathbag which contained a good crossbow, really good chitin armor, two cannonballs and 31 piece of Extra kibble - all very important things (why was I wearing nice armor and weapon to a likely suicidal mission? The answer is simple: I don't own any worse and was too eager for a hunt to waste time on making some). Had to kill 3 allos for it (easy) and lure away the elem (hard. The damn thing insisted on returning to my deathbag and only then calming down).
Preparations for the next attempt: a metal foundation with two ceilings are installed on Thunderstorm's back with some walls attached, hopefully that'll protect the cannon and maybe even Thunder herself to some extent when I try to tame an elem again. Serious metal run will be required to build a new cannon and enough cannonballs. I will also scout the territory on a wyvern first to search for any good-level elems under or close to suitable (low enough, non-climbable, with some rock formations nearby to prevent the elem from going too close) cliffs. Should an elemental be close but not quite enough to such a cliff, I'll lure it there first and then come with Thunderstorm to tame it.
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Made a new cannon. Made more cannonballs. Found an elemental in an okay area. Tried to tame. The "defenses" made it hard to aim. Realized I'm too low on cannonballs, plus the cannon still got damaged and wouldn't have lasted another hit. Went for a level 25 instead. Shot, shot, shot, certainly hit once on the head, then a diplo came and started trying to befriend me. Can't waste ammo on it, can't kill with quetz. Tried to shoot the elem again. Ran out of cannonballs. Quetz below 50% health. Gave up. Returned to the base. Demolished the cannon. Kibble will go into taming something easier. I'm done with elementals.