So, before I go get roots, I begin hauling the bucket down into the cave. It's heavy enough that I o take breaks every so often as I carry it down, but not too much that I 't handle. As I round the final er, I see the crystalline light begin to light the walls and floor. I'm pretty tired from hauling this, but it's just a little further, so I'll just power through it.
Suddenly, one of my legs slips. I fall forwards with the weight of the bucket. Fuck. I hear a crag noise, and I lose grip on the bucket, and the water begins running deeper into the cave. Shit. Although I'm startled, I'm not that badly harmed, just a little bruised up. What did I slip on though? I roll over and look down at my feet.
Fuck. I was worried about this, but I put it off. With the bucket c my lower field of view, I didn't really notice, but I'd walked into where a bunch of the soot and charcoal dust was settled from the bonfire I used to crack those rocks.
Suddenly I hear a hissing sound from further down in the cave. I look towards it, and I see my campfire flickering. Oh no. I made the campfire where the goblins had made it. Which was tral to the cave. The rounded cave. It's literally the lowest point ih down. Which means the entire bucket's water is rushing towards it.
I get up and try to make it to the fire before it's pletely out. Half of it is already out by the time I'm on my feet fully. I make a mad dash for the campfire, but when I reach it, it's too te. What was left burning has colpsed down, into a mix of wet ash, and the fire is out. Goddamnit. It took so long to start that fire. I've been so careful to make sure it doesn't go out actally, then I cause an act, and it goes out.
I toss a half burick as hard as I deeper into the cave. I'm pissed off. I khat there were spots that might be slick. I got careless. I spent so long making my room into a modern style pce that I pletely fot that I'm still surviving out here and was careless. As much as I'd like to sit and mope, I'm out of mana, almost out of wood, and almost out of food. I o go get food. Although I'm now even less looking forward to eating those roots than before, sihey're going to be raw now.
As pissed off as I am, harvesting these pnts is at least therapeutic. Having gathered what I needed, I go ba the cave, this time beira careful where I step. After all, now there are probably even more slick spots after where the water spilled. I take all my roots to my room, and store them. Then I go a my broken bucket, and take it back to the surface. Ohere, I fix where it broke using some of my mana which recharged while I ig the roots, a ba its hidden aot.
I make a mental o either build the fire somewhere else, or properly raise a stone wall around it so water won't put it out like it did. Maybe I should look int to figure out where exactly my room is retive to this mountain. If I could build a ey of sorts, then that could work. I suppose I could also just open the ey up into the cave proper, and just run a slightly diagonal tunnel alongside the entrao my room. Well, I'll try to figure out retive dire while carrying wood bato the cave over the few loads.
Unfortunately, the darkness mixed with the uneven nature of the cave has left me pletely fused as to where exactly this cavern is retive to the outside. Despite the multiple trips of hauling wood back down here, I 't quite figure out where I am. All I know is that it's downhill inside pretty much the whole way.
Given that I have no idea where this cavern is, I guess I'll try to make the fire via a ey going bato the cavern from my sub cave. I do have a pn for it though. I'll first start by making a tu an angle just low enough I crawl through to tunnel bato the main cavern, trying to keep it going as vertical as I while still making it out into the cavern, so that hopefully smoke will go that way. Once I've got the tunnel done, I'll build the area for the fire in the room where the tunnel is.
As I start tunneling, I realize that it's going to take a while. I only reasonably carry a few crystals with me at a time, so I have to stantly retreat out of the tuo do so. As for the process of tunneling itself, I turn a rge portion of the roto small spheres that roll back through the tuo the room, and then press the gaps in the roake the edges of the tunnel out of the less porous rock. I debated leaving it porous so the smoke might dissipate into it, but if I do that, it'll end up saturated anyway, and ing the tunnel out would be much harder. When I finally make it to the other side, I'm going to smooth everything on my way back down to try to disce smoke deposition as much as I .
That said, I haven't even made it to the point where I'm fully iuoday, I spent most of the day outside carrying things bato the cave, so I'll get a fresh start on this tomorrow.
I start today off by eating some raw roots, which I'm not happy about. I already got used to eating them cooked, so going back to the uncooked way of eating frustrates me, but it also motivates me to keep w on the ey tunnel. It's not the most enjoyable work, but at the very least I see the progress happening. One issue I've run into is all the little marbles of stohat I've been making have started to scatter on the floor of the room. When I'm doh the project, I should really make an effort to remove them. I don't want to trip again. While I work though, it shouldn't be much of a problem, since I'm not really carrying anything of . I'll be the only oing hurt if I fall.
While tunneling, I actually e across a small bubble in the wall that has some crystals embedded in it. I had wondered if I'd run into any more crystals buried in the rock, but it seems like they maybe only form in these gaps in the roaybe part of the gap f process forms the crystals? Well, it's way beyond my current capabilities to figure that out, so for now I'll just keep tunneling. Although I'll be taking these few crystals with me, and be reshaping this bubble in the rock to tihe tunnel.
When I finish up for the day, I'm probably a little over halfway plete, if I had to guess. If I'm lucky, I'll finish tomorrow. For tonight though, I just y ba bed, and check my stats before I fall asleep.