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Day 62: Ghost bird

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 62:

Still can’t find the bird in the cave house, but I can hear its clucking echoing off the walls of the cavern.

Digging faster drowns out the noise, but wears out my body.

At least it’s not in my bathtub this time?

Line sketch of a chamber, with another chamber to the left through a doorway, with a chamber behind that through another door. Random "cluck cluck" sound effects are drawn all over, indicating the author has no idea where the damn bird is.
Somewhere there’s a ducken.
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Day 61: Chicken in my bed

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 61:

Couldn’t find the chickduckling that slipped into my house last night. After I shooed it out of my bath it disappeared into the caverns below the cave house’s main floor.

Got up this morning, went down a few levels and south to continue digging toward the mountain. Dug all day. Came home to find one perfect egg laid in the middle of my bed.

Still no sign of the bird.

Sketch of the author's sheepskin bed very similar to day 32, except this time it has a white egg in the middle. Labeled "the bird laid an egg on my sheepskin. Coddammit."
Stupid bird
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Day 60: No house chicken-ducks!

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 60:

Spent all the time I planned to use writing this entry chasing a chicken duck baby (chickduckling?) around my living quarters. It got in while I was trying to go out to check on the cows, and when I came in, it had taken residence of my bathtub.

Oh hey, spent the rest of the day building my bathtub. I carved out enough stone around that spring in the middle of the cave that I can bathe in it now, and still get fresh water from the upper area where the spring actually comes out. So it’s almost like a sink/tub thing. Or something.

Anyway, did not plan to share it with birds.

Line sketch with some blue watercolor highlights. A tall cylindrical basin about probably 1.5 meters high with a water fountain in its center. Off of it is an oval tub about half the height but the full length and width of a human body. A wooden spigot and cork are in the side of the fountain basin and used to fill the tub. Labelled "Not to scale. Still needs hot coals to heat." The water is colored blue with watercolors and a door and wall are seen in the background.
Seen sans bird
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Day 59: Carrots

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 59:

The thing about carrots is that supermarket carrots are short and bright orange and sweet, and the rest aren’t.

Not all carrots are orange. Not all carrots are sweet. Not all orange carrots are sweet. Not all carrots are tiny things. My grandmother told me the carrots we call carrots today were called “baby carrots” in her childhood, and they were the smallest sweetest ones, or in some places, the sweetest part of the carrot carved out of the middle of a bigger not-as-sweet carrot.

Since I’m not a botanist, I’m not even sure that the things I’m eating and calling carrots are carrots. Scratch that — I’m on a foreign world that to my knowledge, while populated by humanoids, didn’t necessarily get populated by Earth humans, so these are almost definitely exactly not biologically like carrots.

On the other hand, they’re orange (or white or red or yellow, I’ve found a bunch of varieties) and can grow as long as half my forearm, and pack a pretty good calorie punch when you’re really hungry. They don’t go moldy in the cave, in fact they sort of like the humid muddiness in here. And they haven’t killed me yet, though if I eat too many in one day they do strange things to the color of my… output.

Still, they’re not sweet. They’re ruddy or dirty or russety and I have to cook the hell out of them to get rid of the bitterness They make a decent bread, but not a decent cake.

I miss sugar.

Watercolor of six stacked carrots, two orange, two reddish orange, one purplish red and one yellow. Labelled "carrots".
These are waiting to be thrown in the pot.m
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Day 58: More on ranching

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 58:

I fed the cows… I think i’m up to about 16 of them. Bessie is still my favorite to hug.

I fed the duckens too, and I’ve lost track of how many there are. There’s enough that they die of old age and natural causes and I occasionally get a ducken dinner out of the affair. Feels a little odd to eat something that I’ve lived with, but it beats another carrot salad by A LOT.

What I’d give for a handful of mixed nuts right now.

Other than that, digging toward  the mountain.

Bad line drawing of a horse that frankly looks like it's had half its head caved in by a brick. The author needs practice. Labelled "my horse, Stupid."
I need to practice drawing Stupid.