Well, tomorrow I want to pull off this cast that I'll have had on for almost 10 days, and look at my leg, to determine if I need another heavy cast, or if the brace will do.
When I wake up in the m, I first eat a quick meal, theo carefully removing my cast. I wasn't sure what to expeder the cast, but the fur seems a little thicker than before. I carefully begin cheg my leg for pain or tenderness. After a little testing, it's still quite tender, especially where the bone broke before. I think food measure, I should put the full cast ba for now. As much as I'd like to be able to start doing other things again, healing es first.
I still have plenty of food so the only real I have is making sure that I heal enough that I don't just slowly waste away in here. Which means it's back to separating stone.
After three more full days of separating stone, I had an idea of something to break up the monotony. I o repair my buckler and gau. I also want to make a spear if I . Preferably one I wield while using the gauhe additional range would definitely e in handy iure. The only real downside I have with making a spear is that all the pieces of wood I have that will be useful for it are already set aside and sculpted for making my brace.
So until I get some more wood, I'll just fix up the gau and buckler. While the buckler held up through the fight, at some point ter oher when I removed it, or when I was crawling across the floor, it ended up breaking. A rge portion of it had a break, and separated from the rest of it. The gau is in even worse dition. Both the spikes are pletely broken, and there are chips and ks missing from entire parts of the hand portion. While I 't say that it was amazing, it almost certainly made the differeween winning and losing there. The amount of blood the goblin lost through the fight from the puncture wounds are the only reason I'm here today.
That said, I do have some better material now, I rebuild it even stronger. My pn is to repce the spikes and the ective material around them with the more durable light stone, while rebuilding the rest of the gau as normal. I also want to add a support structure throughout the buckler with the light stone if I have enough of it. I want to make a wheel and spokes pattern out of the lighter stone, and fill in the differeh normal stone.
Thanks to already having a framework for both, I finish both by the end of the day, and I still have a small amount of the light sto. I suppose all the days of refining the stone down paid off, even if it was incredibly dull work. I'm even less excited that I'll be going back to refining stone again for about six more days, until I pn to check my cast again. As ht now, the healing rate has slowed even more, and I'm starting to worry that I might not eve baax HP before the gobliurime. Although, my current HP is actually above my HP from when I fought the goblin before, so maybe it's a wash overall?
Another five full days of stone refining while I wait to heal have passed by. I'm holy starting to get pretty good at it, if I say so myself. I'm going at about twice the pace I was when I started now. I've also made a det sized cubby in the wall nearby the desk. If I keep this pace up, I'll have a full closet within a week.
With that in mind though, If I actually get a little variety in life by getting rid of this thick cast, that would be great. I carefully orient myself in my bed, and remove the cast for a sed time. I once again begin probing my leg. It's still somewhat tender near where the break occurred, but not nearly as bad as before. I move my leg very slightly, and it feels a little weird. I suppose I haven't really used it in about three weeks though, so that much is to be expected.
Given my current hp is now at 438/492, I think I'm willing to switch to the lighter braow. It still prevents most of the movement of my leg, but I should be able to do a little bit more activities on it, and it should work as a middle grouween being fully immobile, and therapeutic motion to help healing. If I notiything wrong, I'm going right back to the heavy cast though.
I get the new bra, a used to using it. I'm still using the crutch along side it though, so I'm not fully mobile. Givera motion though, I decide I should take the opportunity to start ing the sughterhouse room. Until now, I've kept my room sealed off, so I'm a little worried about the smell. The floor had a lot of viscera on it that I couldn't easily with my heavy cast before.
When I open my room up, I get a whiff of the smell, and it's pretty bad, and I begin the process of up. The first step is moving any rge ks of viscera out. Which I either o move o a time, or just seal them into new buckets, and deal with the problem ter. sidering it will be much faster when I'm able to carry buckets again, I opt for bucketing and sealing the viscera off. I go bato my room, and use the darker part of the separated stoo make some new buckets, and begin filling them with viscera.
It takes a few hours, but I finally get all the fleshy bits picked up. The step I've done before, but it always feels weird, si's only possible thanks to magic. I begin stone shaping the stoo basically mix the blood stains uhe surface of the stone, ahe top back off. How ve.
With this room ed, I'm hoping the smell will go away after a while as long as I leave it open to the cavern to some degree. As long as entropy still works the same way here, diffusion will eventually dissipate the smell for me.
As much as I'd like to go to the surface for a little bit, I want to get used to the new brace before I attempt to traverse the cavern to the outside. Whifortunately means I'm going to be stuck around here for a while longer. I'm going to try to slowly increase the amount of walking I do each day until I feel fortable with it before I try to leave.
Since I don't have any vines or any way to make something that would actually resemble a backpack or shoulder sling right now, I basically have to carry everything in one hand, or push it with my back using one leg, which means the actually productive activities that I perform while still injured are small.
The only ohat es to mind is moving all the corpses into a pile to burn iure. So I suppose for the few days that's what I'll work on, and iween short bouts of that, I'll just keep separating stone.
It took six more days, but I feel like I'm finally getting the hang of moving in the brace. I haven't noticed any new pains other than muscle soreness, which I attribute to getting used to using my leg some amount again. I finished piling the corpses up in the cavern this m meaning I'm out of exercise work to do. I also have a det amount of lighter stone again as well, probably a little less than a cubic foot of it. Tomorrow I pn on going out to get some wood. It won't be much, since I only haul what I grip in one hand, but I'm running dangerously low for my personal fire, and I want wood to make a spear.
With tomorrow pnned out, I y down in bed, and check my status before I go to sleep.