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Day 691:

From the outside, at swamp level, a sheer cliff.

An hour or so later I discover I’m in a chamber.  A very tall chamber, on which I am standing on a ledge. There’s no roof to the chamber. The floor is bubbling lava.

I mined my way into the caldera of an active volcano.

An active volcano filled with ore, rock, AND ZOMBIES.

And then I mined my way right the duck out of there and went home and thought about my life choices.

Tomorrow, I think it’s back to building the road. Up and over the edge of the volcano and then south to places that I hope are less lava-filled.

Day 690

As predicted, the cliff is full of ore, which is fantastic! I’m going to be so rich if I ever get off this rock. And if I don’t get off this rock I’m going to be so secure, because granite takes a blast from an exploding giraffe-corgi like nobody’s business.

So it’s a win-win except for the part where I’ve been abandoned by the human race to a rock full of monsters and murderers, had to reinvent all my own technology (and have reached about the bronze age, and not well. I still fail at pancakes.), and have been shot at more times than I can count.

Yeah. Win-win.

At least there are no taxes?

And lots of ore.

Day 689:

Looks like I’d better start carrying a pickaxe again, because this cliff is a sheer side of rock with a little topsoil on it to satisfy the sheep.

(Also, there are sheep. And pigs. But I have sheep back at the ranch now so they’re not quite as exciting as they used to be.)

One of my worries out here is that I’m a good distance from my nearest cave entrance. I’m losing a lot of time just getting here every morning. I should probably expand the cave structure, because it’ll keep me from being shot… but so will getting this detritus out of here so I can get some clean lines of sight.

They’re hard decisions, is what I’m saying.

But where there’s  a sheer rock cliff I’m betting there’s ore, so that will cheer me up.

Day 688:

If wet zombie is the worst smell on this rock, then swamp is second worst.

(Anywhere else in the universe a swamp full of rotting plants and algae would be the clear on winner, but not here.)

The good news is that it’s not a boot-sucking swamp. The bad news is it’s still very wet. So even with all the work I did to build a bridge down the river, now that I’m in the swamp lands I’m still soaking wet.

There was a cliff ahead of me when I finished working tonight, though, so I’ll be out of the water soon.

If there weren’t so many monsters here I bet I’d be really good at making wet suits instead of armor by now.

Day 687:

It appears the big wide river has a variety of zombie we don’t get on land. Wet zombies. They look sort of like the regular type, only it’s clear the fish have been “helping” them get rid of all that extra flesh.

It’s really disgusting.

Of benefit, however, is the fact that the sopping wet zombies that walk on the bottom of the river also move very slowly (most likely because water is more dense than air and thus it’s harder, though in this place only the ducken know if that’s the way it really works) so I’ve been able to avoid them so far.

And my arrows (which I’ve been improving the design on slowly) are pretty good through water as long as I aim at the right kind of angle, so I’ve taken more than one of them down while standing on my bridge construction.

Which also sums up how construction is going.