Author: kirabug

Day 149:

Spent the day fishing and digging up sand. I got caught in an undercurrent a couple of times during the latter, so I lost a little time and a lot of energy to swimming harder than I wanted to swim. But I did catch enough that the space around my fire looks like a fishmonger’s as I dry the meat.

(It’s also stifling hot in there, stinks of fish, and smoky as hell, so it’s a good reason to go elsewhere.)

This batch of glass seems to be melting more consistently, though, so the sand mining seems to be effective even if the fishing is stinky.

Day 148:

I’ve been having a lot of quality problems with my glass lately. I’m not sure if it’s the temperature or the cooling time or the trace minerals or what, but probably half the glass I make breaks almost immediately.

Considering how much work goes into fetching sand and melting it down, it’s got me kind of bummed.

But I’m low on food and don’t feel like killing a ton of duckens for a while, so I’m going to be in the water fishing anyway… we’ll see how it goes. Maybe I’ll try a new source of sand.

Day 147:

I fought one of the land horror squid today. It beat me with a block of stone because apparently “hit people with things” is within its comprehension but “build tools to hit things” is not.

Fortunately, I am not just a tool user but a tool builder, and I hit it with a sword. My sword proved to be the more effective weapon and I won out.

It dropped a blue-green object at my feet that resembled a pearl, if pearls could be the size of basketballs. Opalescent, maybe? That’s a word, right? It was opalescent, doesn’t show me my reflection, seems deep. Might be valuable to one of those museum types who think such things are valuable based on a formula of color x size x difficulty to fetch.

But damn, man, these things take a lot of room to store. I hope it’s worth a decent amount.

Day 146:

Here’s a typical routine:

• Eat breakfast
• Walk out to the current mine site
• Dig out the area where I want to put up walls to keep the monsters from invading while I mine
• Every 45 minutes or so, kill somewhere between 1 and 5 monsters as they swarm over the edges of my floor.
• Stop for a snack about midday
• Continue digging
• When it looks like it’s getting dark outside (based on the skylights I dig every few hundred meters), head back home
• Eat dinner
• Feed the animals
• Sharpen and clean my weapons
• Go to bed

I still get an adrenaline rush every time some skeleton or zombie comes into view, but not nearly like the first week. I guess people can adjust to anything.

Day 145:

I’ve mentioned that the East Entrance emptied out into a chasm.

I didn’t even know the meaning of the word, comparatively.

I mined out the ores and stone in that chasm only to find that I was looking into an even bigger chasm. Like much bigger. Perhaps kilometers.

There are two challenges to exploring it. The first is that I’ve once again dug out into the middle of it. I’m at least 30 meters above its base.

The second is that it’s filled with giraffe-corgis. I lit a torch and could see them huddled together in an opening across from where I’m standing, a little further south of me. I could see five. I don’t know how many more there are.

If I could have remote detonated them, I might have exploded the entire cavern, if not set off an earthquake.

It’s an odd feeling, seeing semi-sentient bombs salivating over the sight of you.