Getting used to moving with my leg in this stone support cast is going to be a real pain. It's exceptionally heavy to start with, and I really need some kind of crutake this work properly. Thankfully, I do have some spare wood, so I should be able to make a crutch that is light enough to use. Wood permitting, I'd like to also make a lighter cast to wear, but for now, this one will have to do. With that in mind, I use the wall of the entrao slowly maneuver myself back up to my room.

  I pass by the sughterhouse room as I arrive. It's quite the se. The goblin is still dead where I killed it, and the other imps are drained as well along the wall. As soon as I get a crutch made, I'm going to o ihe corpses, and see if any of the meat is still good. I 't imagine all of it has gone bad this quickly, although from looking at the goblin, it might have, since I didn't properly ha after it died.

  For now I hobble over to some of the st of my dried imp meat, a it. I was quite hungry after not havien for a few days, so I ended up eating a lot. Then I gather as many good pieces of wood as I and begin piling them up on the desk. Unfortunately, the buckets are too heavy for me to move given my current state, so instead I'm forced to carry a few pieces of wood at a time.

  I o make two things. One, a new bde for carving wood, and two, the crutch. I am by no means a skilled wood crafter, so I io supplement my ck of skill with stone shaping to attach pieces together. First though, I need a small bde for shaving wood away, so I begin shaping some of the stone marbles from before into a bde.

  Thankfully, a bde is a fairly small object, so it doesn't actually take me all that long to make. I'm not certain that this is the best possible shape, but it should do. If not, I always modify it further with stone shaping. With the knife made, I begin whittling at the wood I brought over. I begin by shaving off the bark to get a good idea of the structure underh.

  By the time I'm tired and ready to sleep, I've fully removed the bark from the pieces, aed the handful that I io use for the project. Tomorrow, I'll get to work on shaving them down, and shaping the joints where I'll use stoo secure them.

  I wake up and check my status first thing in the m.

  Level: 37HP: 82/378MP: 112/112Traits: Mana Affinity, Earth Manipution, Mighty ImpMagic: Stone Shaping

  Well, I'm healing slowly. Which I guess is at least better than not healing at all. This brings up more questions than ao me though. What exactly is HP? Last time I was somewhat close to death, I actually healed retively quickly. This time though, it's much slower. I suppose more research will be necessary on this subje the future. I'll also o re-evaluate my position on fighting. I only was as aggressive as I was because I assumed that as long as I won, I'd heal in a day or two, but obviously that was a bad assumption.

  Today, I really o finish my crutch early, so I butcher those imps before they spoil pletely. I basically want to make holes in the ends of the wooden pieces, then I'll just form stohrough and around the joint to make it immobile. It's not perfect, but it'll be funal. To do this I'll make a hand drill so that I easily make holes through the wood.

  The hand drill, drilling, and making of the crutch took lohan I would have liked, as most of the day has passed, but I finally have a w crutch, so I at least get started ochery. I definitely won't have enough time to do all of it today, so instead, I'll just fooving the dead goblin body out of the room, which when you factor in the crutch, and that I still haven't opehe entrao my sub-cave up, will take the rest of the day.

  I briefly ihe dead goblin before beginning t it out of the sub-cave. I'd have liked to autopsy it, but it's pretty disfigured, and its digestive juices spilled i during ht, and it's already begun rotting and smells pretty bad, so I'll just dispose of it asap. When I finally drag it to the cavern, and look out into it, it's the same view I've seen twice before now. Dead imps strewn about, and no dead goblins to be seen. Well, other than the one I'm putting out here.

  For today though, this is the extent of what I do. I'm definitely not a fan of this cast, as it is slowing me down signifitly, so I hope that it'll heal enough that I won't at some point, or that when I prestige or evolve, the problem goes away. For today though, all I do is rest and hope for a better tomorrow.

  Today, I finally get to butchering the imps that I have in the sughterhouse room. The buckets of blood have bee quite disgusting, but in my current state, I 't do much with that except to seal them, which I promptly do using stone shaping.

  The first imp that I begin the process of butchering is iy det dition all things sidered. The entire abdominal region is basically ruined due to how long it's been here, but the limb meat is still good. I generally don't harvest much from the abdomen anyway, so I didn't lose much from this one. As I repeat the process through each imp, I find a simir result in each of the imps, and by the end I've got a nice amount of meat again, which is good, because until I'm healed a little more, I have no iions to leave the cavern. It's already hard to navigate the cave, and I feel like the crutch plus heavy cast would make it impossible.

  Given my current state, I have very few things I actually do while I heal. Anything that requires rge amounts of physical bor is basically out the window. I also o be somewhat careful with my wood. I have gathered quite a bit in the past, and have enough for a few weeks, but I should sider trying to keep my fire as small as possible, since I won't be cooking anyway.

  There are three things I'd like to make. A wooden brace to repce my cast when it has healed more, a backpack style holder for a bucket, and a weave basket if I make ohe only one of these that I really even work on at all right now is the wooden brace, so that's what I'll do. I'll still use stone for some parts of it, but it'll be a lot lighter than my current cast. I just need some long straight pieces of wood, and then I form sts around them to hold it all in py leg. Fht now, the cast helps keep me from being able to move my leg at all, which is vital for healing.

  I get to work seleg pieces of wood that work for this project, and e up with 5 pieces that are the right size and shape. I was really hoping that there would be at least 6, but I'll have to make do with what I have. For today though, that's all I have time for.

  I got to work bright and early w oicks for my leg brace, and by noon, they're pretty much done. I've shaved the bark off them, and fashioned a spa both ends of each to grip the stone I'll mold around it. Which means I'm basically waiting around until I heal more before I try to do anything too radical. I suppose until my HP reaches a much higher point, I should just stay around in here, and use my leg as little as I .

  I still have more of the refining of rock I do, and if need be, I expand my current room a little to get more stone. With my p, I begin the b process of hand refining the stone as I wait for my leg to heal more. My biggest right now is my leg healing properly, so if that means I'm going to be bored just refining stone all day, it's the price I'll have to pay.