When I wake up, I go and check the cavern again today. Still nothing so far. I munore of the dried imp that I have while I mark aally mark on the wall to track days sihe goblin arrived here. If he doesn't show up in the week or so, I'm going to run out of food. Well, yesterday I decided that I'd actually do some analysis on stat blocks. I go over to my shelf, and pull the p sb down.

  I had only written what I remembered of my level 0 and level 100 stats down. Thankfully the math right now is easy. I gained 200 hp and 20 mp over those 100 levels. I take this info down. I also divide it out and put it into a per level stat. 2hp/lvl and 0.2mp/lvl. As far as I remember on any check, it's seemed to be linear. Just in case though, I get aablet out, and make o check this hypothesis iure if I ever get the ce. I'd est subjects though... and they'd o be able to unicate as well. Well, it's a good thing I'm writing this down somewhere then, sihat'll likely be a long time iure.

  I already did a lot of simple arithmetic for estimating how much hp I keep when I prestige, and as I pour through all the data I've collected, it seems to hold that I keep 5% of my gained hp. I still am having issues with evaluation of mana. Basically, whatever mana affinity is, it makes it hard to evaluate how much I'm keepiweeige. I get the gist of how much mana I've been gaining per level, and I hat down, but the actual value is obscured through the extra gains from mana affinity. Well, as long as I note all these values down in my notes, if I get the the future to pare the data with a regur imp, that should shed light on it.

  I'm only about halfway through my day so far, and I've done all the evaluation and aking I pn to for now with my data. I've noted all the hp and mp gains per level, and taken some notes on hypothesis for how prestige works overall. After cheg the cavern and seeing it empty again, I've got to decide what to do to pass the time until the goblin shows up again.

  I sit for a while and think about things I could try to do. Most of the things I e up with are a little too risky given the likelihood of the goblin arriving at any time. I ultimately settle on experimentation with rock. Right now, I know that I press the rock by removing space within it, but I wonder if I do anything else, like removal of impurities.

  I take a small amount of stone from a wall iryway to test with. The stone in its current form is mostly a bck igneous rock with speg. Before I reformed the rock without any air pockets in it, making it more solid overall. This time though, my goal is to separate out the different speg of colors. Unfortunately, the initial try to only focus on the particur different colors and pull them out doesn't work very well. In short, since all of it is sidered stone, I only really specify location as a format for removal, not different materials within it. I think the reason I could remove the gas and press the stone before was because I 't manipute the gas, so by just pressing all the stone, I removed the gas.

  That is okay though, I've got some time on hand until the goblin shows up, so a bor intensive process doesn't bother me that much. So I start going piece by piece, removing little bits of different inerals from the stone, and putting them in a pile on one side of my desk, and then carving off bigger sheets of the baselierial, f a sed pile.

  It's very slow going though. I took a 1 foot cube, and by the time I am ready to go to sleep, I've only gotten through a quarter of it. With a very small pile of a lighter aterial and a rger pile of the bckish material. I once agaihe cavern for any signs of the goblin before I go to sleep.

  When I wake up, I once agaihe cavern. Spotting nothing, I eat some food, then tinue manual separation of the rock sample. Every couple of hours, I stop to check the cavern, and find nothing. I'm starting to wonder if the goblin won't be ing bay time soon. In a few days I'll run out of imp meat if he doesn't, and I'll o go out a more food. For now though, I'll just sit in here and shave away at rock.

  By the end of the day today, I'm almost three quarters of the way through the separation process. Tomorrow I'll attempt to reform all the small bits of rock bato a solid rock of a more pure material. Tonight though, I need sleep.

  Nothing in the m again today, so I tinue my separation process, and by halfway through the day, I'm finally done. I have a small pile of lighter material, and a rger pile of the darker material. I use stone shaping to form eato a solid cube of their own. The rger one is quite a bit smaller than the inal cube thanks to me removing all the air, and I still notie small impurities within it, but overall it's much more uniform than before. The small cube is about an in each side, and is a very light color, but it too has some small dark spots within it.

  The step is paring the material properties of each cube. The darker cube is pretty simir to the inal material when in its pressed form. I 't really notiy initial differences betweewo. I'd have to do exteailed tests on it to see if it has better tensile or pressive strengths. Setting that cube aside, I begin iigating the lighter colored cube. It's actually a little lighter i than I'd expected. It also seems to be somehysically harder than the darker material, as its ers are capable of scratg the desk when I attempt to scratch the desk. So it's both lighter weight, and harder.

  I take a portion from the bigger cube, of equal size to the small cube, and then form it into a somewhat thin rod, a for the light colored material. Then, I attempt to snap each. The darker colored rod is quite a bit easier to snap than the light colored one. I also hat when the dark colored rod breaks, some dust actually settles out betweewo halves, but the light colored rod seems to have formed a break.

  These results annoy me slightly. After all, I basically have found out that I make a reasonably better stoerial than I currently have. Being both lighter, and more durable, but it is pretty bor intensive for me to make currently. A cubich of the material took me two days to filter from a cubic foot of rock. I guess I'll have to reserve its use for things that . At some point maybe my on and buckler would be good to have made out of it. Each would be weeks of work to make though. I'll put separations on the backburner as an activity for the time being. If I ever need a dowivity, then I work on it, si really doesn't take much brain power to actually do.

  I'm only a little past halfway doh today, so I decide to go to my storeroom, and haul some buckets. First, buckets to put in the sughterhouse area. I fot to actually pce the buckets in the floor for blood colleg. , I get two more empty buckets and put them in my room, and then grab a bucket with the presses marbles from digging. Until the goblin shows up, I'm just going to manually separate off any of the light colored material from the marble surface, and put it in oy bucket, and throw the marred marble iher empty bucket. While I know I'm not getting all the light colored material from the marble, it's a bit faster than doing a full separation.

  By the end of the day, I'm only about a fifth of the way through the marble bucket, and I only have a small pile of the light material itom of the bucket fht material, but that's fine by me, since I know this is going to be a long process. For today though, I've done enough. Verifying that the cavern is still empty, I go to bed.