As I get my stuff ready to go hunting, the three goblins from before seem excited to go hunt with me again, and are making their way over to my house, when the leader goblin stops them. He gives the set of stones back to the goblin that he borrowed them from, and then also gives them the spear that he worked on. Before they leave, he also calls a foblin over from a different group, and before long, the group of three now fobli out with a spear in hand. The leader goblin then goes over to the two goblins that are left alohout their patriot, and after some unication, seems to vihem of something, before rushing off to anroup of three gobliing ready to go hunt. Whes up to them, he points to me, hands them something, and then the new group starts walking towards me.
The leader goblin then rushes back over to the two lone goblins, and all three of them head off into the woods, leavih a new group of goblins. One of them opens their palm, revealing they've been hahe sed set of numbered stohat I made. My guess is that the leader goblin wants me to try to teach them how we hunted yesterday. Which holy, isn't a bad idea. If the goblins all get good at hunting, then I probably just mooch food off them in exge for making ons.
I gh the whole expnation on how to drive game, like I did with the first set of goblins. These ones are a little slower oake than the first group was, but eventually they figure out what I'm asking for, and we go out into the woods, and put it into practibsp; I wish I could say we were as successful as the first group was yesterday, but sadly, we didn't get any ground birds this time. I did get a few small lizards though as the first gobliurned, so we wereirely empty handed.
Thankfully wheurn, the roup that was given a spear seems to have killed a ground bird, and the leader's group caught a bunall birds and lizards, so we have a det meal tonight again. Not as much of a feast as the night before, but still a pretty good meal.
With a bit of sunlight left, I tinue w on my house for a while, and holy, it's ing along pretty well. I've gotten the walls up to the point where I've started to make windows in them. Whiitially, I wasn't going to do, but I decided it would be good to let in natural light. They're basically just going to be an open hole with cross bars, and then I'll make some shutters that I swing shut oside for when it rains. I'm also waiting until I have the roof and door done before I make any furniture for the pbsp; Which means tonight I'm once again sleeping on the hard rock floor in the basement.
After I wake up, I cut some new blocks in the basement before I head outside, and when I actually leave my basement, I'm greeted by the chief with what seems to be a pleted spear handle, just waiting for me to attach a spearhead to. I'm currently out of mana, so I'm not sure how exactly to let him know that I'm uo make this right now, but I take it, and lean it against one of the walls, and after I start moving blocks from the basement, he seems satisfied to wait for a little bit for me to finish what I'm doing. Which hopefully will give me enough time to recharge the mana to make the spearhead.
I'm starting to get annoyed by how much rain there is here as well. Maybe it's because I was fortable in the cave where I didn't have to deal with weather almost ever. In fact, this weather is making me look forward to returning to the cave even more. That said, I've grown fond of some of the goblins here, so I wouldn't want to cut ties pletely either.
Either way, when I've finished hauling up the stone blocks from the basement, I use one of the blocks to make the spearhead out of. I just barely have enough mana to make it, but the goblin seems pleased and heads back to his hut. I'm left with no mana again though, and nothing to do while it rains, so I decide to go look for sticks to make spears with for a while. I imagihat the goblins probably want to arm everyoh spears, so using this down time to get the jump on that will probably help me long term.
After an hour or so of searg, I've gotten two more sticks that will make good spears, and I store them in my basement to dry out before making another wo knife. I still have quite a bit of ma after making the knife, so I resume w on my house afterwards.
When my mana runs out this time, I'm almost at the point where I'll o start sidering how I want the roof to be shaped, which means I should start deg how I want to cut the blocks for it. I'll also o cut out some blocks to stand on while I work, since I'm already reag just to slide the blocks into pbsp; As I'm sidering my options, the rais up again, and for o seems like the cloud cover is going to clear as well.
As I'm appreciating the weather, some goblins leave their huts ao be gathering into groups, most likely to go hunting again. It seems once again, I'm going to be shipped off with a new group of goblins as well, and the new spear goes with one of the two groups who have been taught so far how to drive game.
The new group has even more trouble unig than the first two did when it es to expining how to drive game towards the person with a spear, so we're still in the vilge nearly thirty minutes after the first groups have left, and we're the only ones here right now. It is also getting unnaturally dark. I look up, and notice that from behind the clearing clouds, it looks like an eclipse is starting, with one sun pletely obscured, and the rger one partially obscured. I don't even have very long notice the eclipse before a goblin wielding a spear dashes out from the forest in a frantic sprint.
Before I have time to fully process what I'm seeing, right behind him stampedes out a rge lizard simir to the one I crushed in the cave. This one seems angry, and has blood smeared all around its mouth. I have a bad feeling about this one. The goblin turns towards us, and runs over in our dire, with the lizard in close pursuit. The oblins near me turn tail and start running as well. I barely have any mana to work with as well, so I won't be able to use earth spike. At least not for a little while.
sidering the lizard hasn't actually caught the gobli, it seems like they actually aren't that fast, although all it takes is one wrong move, and it's game over. The goblin has almost arrived at me now, so I o decide what to do. Do I run, or do I fight? I at least try to fight I suppose. If the spear breaks, I'm fident that I at outrun the lizard, because I'm fident I outrun a goblin. The biggest will be initially seeing how easily it maself, but I'm hoping that given its size, it won't be that dexterous.
As the goblin approaches, I begin to run sideways, gripping my spear. The goblin runs past, and I run towards the side of the lizard. Last mi seems to take notie, and starts to turn, but its momentum carries it too far for its mouth to reach me as I stab into its side onbsp; I draw some blood, and have to yank my spear out and dive to the left as it tries to side swipe me with its tail as it tinues running past me.
The lizard slows to a stop and faces me, before letting out a low, rumbling hiss and goes to charge at me again, but runs slower this time. sidering that it is still bleeding, I run away from it, trying to get some space between it and me. I want it to know that I'm faster than it, so it will have to run all out if it wants to try to catch me. All the while letting blood loss tio weaken it.
After I've put some distaween us, I turn to face it again. It's still charging towards me, which means I only have a few seds to think. I o get some more wounds in it, otherwise I very well might be the oo tire before it does. I have ao try, but it will probably only work once.
I dash over to one of the goblin huts. I see over the top of the brush pile, and the lizard see me over it as well. Holy, this will be pretty useful. It's practically a premade pitfall trap. I'll have to apologize to whatever poblin's home is going to be crushed like this ter. The lizard tinues charging at me as I move behind the pile. As the lizard gets to the other side of the pile, it opens its mouth as if to go for a bite. Until its right leg goes straight through the "roof" of the goblin hut.
It's not enough to bury the lizard, but it's enough that the lizard falls in, and is momentarily stunned as its head rams partially into the dirt of the far wall of the hut. Not to let the opportunity go to waste, I make a few quick stabs in the lizards neck before retreating backwards again. The lizard lets out another hissing roar, but the tail end of the roar sounds a bit weaker than before. The lizard cmbers out of the hole, and begins violently thrashing the nearby area, smashing all the foliage of the goblin's roof before charging me full speed.
It seems to know its time is limited now, and it's in its death throes. I hastily retreat again. A hero from old folklore would sy the beast at a time like this, but that is too dangerous for my liking. I just as easily tire it out ahe wounds I've inflicted make it too weak to fight, and finish it. I kite it for a few minutes, resulting in a few goblin roofs being demolished, but the lizard finally seems to tire too much to fight, and stumbles and falls, uo lift its ow.
I approach it cautiously, and give it a hard stab in its torso to e is dead.