I eat my seeal for the day, more roots and a small amount of dried imp. While chewing the food, I check my stats.
Although I'm gd I'm leveling up, at this pace, it's still going to be quite a while before I prestige again. After eating, I'm feeling rather sleepy, so I crawl up to my crystal pile and sleep, the warmth radiating off the crystals quickly soothing my sore muscles.
I decide now is a good time to retake stoy food given my new rate of eating, and supplementing with the edible roots. I divvy up the dried imp into smaller portions, and pn for two meals a day, with the extra roots. At the rate I'm going, I'll run out of imp meat in about 30 days. Until I know how long the roots st, I'll also o go out a new ones every 4 or 5 days. I don't want to pick all the vely located ones right away, only to find out they go bad after only 5 days, and have to find new ones again.
I start eating my food for the day while sidering just how long I want to dedicate to getting a fire going. I've been at it for quite a while now. I don't currently for anything other than potentially cooking the roots, so it's not like it's an absolute must, that said, I'd really like to stop eating barely edible foods. What else would I want to maybe do?
I start going through options of things I should do. Hunt for some food? I didn't see any wildlife outside the st few times I was out there, but sidering how easily the goblin killed all those other imps, I'm a little worried that I might be too weak. So I'd have to make a trap of some kind probably. Even then, with so little info, I think I'll have to wait until I know more about wildlife, if there is any. It'd likely take more than a day to reach the water too, so finding fish is off the table as well for the time being.
option, build some furniture. That isn't as bad of an idea, but build it from what? The trees are super hard outside, and the only wood I pick up is loose things from the ground. Plus I'm ly a skilled carpehe option would be to make it from stone. Worth a shot I suppose.
I try to ram my cws into the rock floor. OUCH. Damn. Ok, that was a bad idea. I just thought maybe with Earth Manipution, I could at least chip the rock.
Well, I suppose I deserve to lose some HP. I did just ram my cws against the stone floor as hard as I could.
Then maybe making a tool is the better idea? I could search around for some loose stohat I could use as a pickaxe or an axe head, or even just a loose stohat I could use to hit against aoo try to sharpen it. My uanding is that stoools are pretty bor inteo make, and require a bit of dexterity to make correctly, but it's not a bad idea. I go over to my wall todo list, and scrat: 3. Make stoools.
Fire would help with that. Some stones have trapped water in them, and by heating them, they'll fracture and make sharp edges, which I could refine from there if I had a sed stone. Which means again, I'm brought baaking fire. At least with this, I have more reason to make fire.
I spend the 3 days attempting to start a fire. The exhaustive effort spent day after day is really getting to me. Today I o go out a more roots. The batch of test roots on the room side are still i shape, but that's to be expected. I decide today, I won't just get more meal roots, but I'll get their broad leaves to dry out, and I'll actually make ara trip to gather even more wood. I would hate at this point to get a fire going, only to run out of firewood before I go get more.
I verify my stats before I head outside.
When I finally get outside, I'm greeted by a new discovery. I finally know what the giant dark object overhead was before. It appears to be the moon... or maybe we're the moon. It's teically night time right now, but it's not that dark. Overhead, filling a rge part of the sky is a gigantiet. With green and blue, with white caps. I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say there is probably life there.
For now though, my focus is oing more food and wood, and to keep a for any good stones, sticks, or vihat might be useful for making a stoool with.
After gathering the edible root pnts and bundling their leaves to carry back, I find a ick with a V shape at the top that is just hefty enough to be a handle for a tool if I want to use it, and not rotted in any pces. I add it to my pile of things to carry back to the cave, and drop my first load of things off inside before repeating the process to gather a bundle of wood, while fog my efforts on gathering the biggest pieces I , so that I hopefully have coals left if the fire goes out while I sleep.
Two more days pass before I finally get a fire going. I nearly messed up I was so excited to see the ders heat up that I almost failed to tra over into the campfire, but I somehow mao dodge catastrophe, and got the fire going. Now that I have it, I want to try to cook some of those roots.
I take a moment to find a straight stick, and sharpen one end enough that I jam it through some of the roots, and begin carefully trying to roast it over the fire, pulling it back every few mio che the sistency. After the 5th check I start to notice the root getting a little softer, and decide to set it aside to cool to try to eat.
Once cooled, while not fvorful, at least the root was a lot less chy, and was slightly easier to eat. I resolve myself to try different cooking durations to find if any taste good or not. For now I'm just happy to have the fire going, so I decide to just spend the rest of my evening watg the fire, and attempting a sed root cooking before I go to sleep.
Thankfully, while watg the fire, I notice that the smoke seems to trail up towards the exit. I assumed as much from when the goblins had a fire here, but it's good to see that the whole pce won't fill with smoke.
Tomorrow, I resolve to start looking for rocks and binding for stoools, preferably a stone axe. I don't know for sure if it'll wainst those trees, but I'd like to try at least. If not, it might be useful as a on at least.
The search for rocks and binding isn't going great, partly because I keep gathering wood while I search, aually ing back after a little while with a whole pile of sticks, which I set in the cave entrance befoing to search again. After getting 3 piles of sticks, I tell myself that this time, I'm either ing back empty handed, or I'll have one or both of the items I'm actually looking for.
Just as I'm about to turn back again for the day, I find something that might work as a binding. There is a particurly rge tree I stumbled upon, which has ivy growing up it in many pces. I'm cautious though, so I carefully plue leaves, and some vine, and very carefully rub a leaf on the back of one hand, and a bit of the vine on the back of the other. I'm not pnning oing it, but I'd hate for the binding of a tool to be something like poison ivy, and end up itg and in pain any time I o use a tool.
I resolve to e baorrow if the experiment goes well to gather vine, but the rest of my day today will be filled with hauling firewood into the cave.