Category: One Among the Dead

Day 348:

I’ve found more of that electric red stone, some of that weird blue stone that makes my books glow purple, lots of granite, some andesite, and a bunch of duckens that followed me down here, but no diamonds yet.

Feeling a lot better so I’m pretty sure I don’ have a parasite as my understanding is parasites make you feel increasingly worse, not better. I guess those immune system stimulants they gave us were long term? Or the microbes down here are gentle? Heck, for all  I know my body just couldn’t break down the protein in the ducken meat raw.

Anyway, no diamonds, but no food poisoning. I’ll count it as a win.

Day 347: I’m still looking for diamonds but after yesterday’s digestive fiasco I’m kind of taking it slow.

Which is to say I’m hauling some of what I’ve collected the past few weeks back to my main headquarters so I’m in safe areas should there be more digestive malfunctions.

One does not want to have the green-apple two-step when one is surrounded by zombies is what I’m saying.

Now I’m just hoping I don’t have parasites.

Day 346: Under absolutely no circumstances eat raw ducken.

Bad decisions were made, much washing of pants followed.

Excrement is difficult to remove from armor.

Day 345:

One of the forms of stone down here is this red ore-like substance that shatters into a powder when I hit it.

And then it tries to electrocute me.

No seriously, it’s like the whole rock is filled with static electricity. Like it’s some kind of naturally-occurring battery. The shocks aren’t big but they’re definitely there.

The only reason I haven’t gotten electrocuted on a regular basis is because I’m wearing leather gloves and using wooden handles on my tools.

(I probably have enough iron ore at this point to make pickaxes out of solid iron, but since I go through pickaxes pretty quickly to begin with, so my iron stores are always in jeopardy,  and now the rocks are trying to electrocute me, I’m sticking with wood.)

I might be able to do something useful with this stuff though, even if it’s a small engine that takes a long time to turn. Or maybe just see if it zaps the zombies for me. More to come when I’m out of the lava lake sauna.

Day 344:

I’ve carved as much around the lava lake as I dare. I’ve harvested granite, diorite, andesite, and obsidian (which is really really hard and takes a long time to mine correctly unless you like breathing shards of volcanic glass) but no diamonds.

Not a single one.

I’m down to the core bedrock here, so it’s not like they’re deeper. At this point I’m just assuming there aren’t any diamonds near this lake and I’m moving on.