@rickyrck:
I climb a tree, stalemate
I climb a tree and use my advantage of opposable thumbs to throw rocks and branches down at it.
Eventually it stalks away, but as it leaves, I make a gesture to start climbing down the tree to keep it's interest, continuing to throw rocks at it all the while.
Eventually, tired and wounded, the lion doesn't even care if I'm coming down the tree and starts stalking away. I follow it carefully at a distance with a large sturdy branch ahead if me like i spear, to ward off it's approach and to prevent it from regaining interest in me. As I follow it, I continue to throw rocks, while maintaining a safe distance where I can sprint up a tree if the Lion turns on me.
Eventually the Lion decides to just run away, but running as a lion leaves a trail I can follow through the jungle. I continue to hound him, and eventually catch up thanks to the Endurance Running Hypothesis, where I will continue to throw rock at him passive aggressively until he once again flees. The cheetos help me maintain energy. I also won't worry about the repercussions of drinking swamp water, since the repercussions likely won't effect me until later.
Finally, after maybe 16 hours of this, the lion will be too exhausted to move just because I'm trowing rocks. I'll throw bigger rocks with more buildup time, and either he continues to move away, or he gets seriously injured as I lob 100 pounds of rock at his head. Eventually it degenerates to hitting him with a stick. Of course he'll try to fight back at this point, but he'll be critically exhausted and seriously wounded by now, and I'll still be out of immediate reach with my long stick, so it will be futile.
Finally, I find a good angle, hold his limbs down with a stick in one hand, and with the other hand I quickly and viciously stab into it's neck. I have no illusions about not being mauled at this part, but by now he'll be struggling weakly and dying from a bleeding artery, so I likely won't be dead at the end, yet he will.
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