Anyway, this is Blacknail's first chance to see Ibrahim's teaching style, which involves a lot of demonstrating the smallest possible step of a task, telling Blacknail to do it, correcting Blacknail, and repeating demonstrations and attempts as needed. He'll also physically move Blacknail's hands through the motions of a task during this if it seems necessary, which for some reason he's able to do without applying excessive force.

Blacknail will get praise for small bits of incremental progress, and remarks about the importance of being useful if he slacks.

Blacknail does his best, but he has a lot of trouble focusing on one thing for very long. He gets bored quickly and even with a big strong scary ork nearby he gets distracted easily. He does get better at it when he finds out failure is not met by being kicked, like would be the usual consequence. It’s easier to focus without having to spend time worrying about if you'll get hit.

Working bone is something Blacknail is used to, even if not exactly in this way. He tends to abandon tools and use his teeth or claws when that seems easier, gnawing away parts of bone instead of grinding them down.

Adding notches to bone needles is not that hard to figure out, or slowly grinding a eye hole into a bone needle using a slightly tougher tooth or sharp rock.

Once the bag squigs become dry you can just pull open the dried animals mouth and you have a container ready to go, but Blacknail understands hating to wait for things to happen. Waiting is almost as bad as getting punted! 

Ibrahim is a weird ork, doesn’t yell at him or hit him, but that makes being his minion a pretty great deal, even if fiddly bone working was boring.

Failure is normal. Failure is not met by being kicked. If he tries something with Ibrahim's materials without his permission, that will get him kicked, but failure will not.

Lapses in focus, however, will get remarks about how useless people have short lifespans and if he's not useful he won't have anyone to protect him and then he'll get eaten. Ibrahim won't eat him if he follows Ibrahim's instructions, if he follows Ibrahim's instructions but turns out to be useless Ibrahim will just send him away, but if he isn't useful to someone he's probably going to die. These remarks can get escalatingly graphic if necessary, Ibrahim's heard a lot of them.

Once Blacknail gets the hang of things, Ibrahim is going to do some exercises while he waits, though he has to stop himself from optimizing for suffering and mana-building.

And eventually they have some needles, and they're going to look for a mekboy with a drill. …also, what's Blacknail's sleep cycle normally like?

Blacknail shrugs. He can stay awake for a really long time if he has to. He has a while before he feels like he would want to nap, and he doubts he will be allowed to nap as much as he wants to. Theres no sun to keep time here. He usually naps every 6 hours-ish?*

Ibrahims instincts feel like he also would probably want to nap in another 4 or 5 hours? Not sleep for long though, just a nap. This body has tons of time left before it needs a long sleep.

A Mek boy would probably be found in the big sheet metal buildings with smoke coming out of the seams between the metal sheets.

*(Time units given in orkish, wich is very imprecise about time, 6 hours is just roughly what Ibrahim’s instincts tell him that means)

Eventually he's going to discreetly ask the gretchin-training specialist how much sleep they need. And then be stuck discounting that, because it probably isn't actually optimal for long-term productivity and capacity to respond to emergencies.

Ooh, metal buildings with smoke! Technology! Technology is great. What metal do the sheets look like? If they've got modern-looking steel that's a good sign. But that's tangential, he'll look for an entryway and head in. Unless there's some kind of stupid "you have to be strong enough to bend the metal to let yourself in" thing going on, which he can't rule out and will be stuck going along with if it's the case.

It looks like old timey steel used for rail lines or old rebar, not the stainless kind, it has a lot of discoloured streaks going through it though. The sheets are visibly hammered flat rather than casted or pressed that way. Theres a gate! But there is a suspicious power coil looking thing above the gate that glows blue sometimes. A few feet away from the gate is a big copper metal sheet hanging off a post by some hinges, its covered in dents. Looks like its been banged on.

Blacknail points at it. “Gotta bang it so he knows youz here.”

Ooh, electricity. Electricity is good. Electrified gates, which seem to be the implication here, are not the most convenient, but still.

He'll bang on the gong.