It just seems to be sleeping quietly, and somewhat bloated from all the corpses it ate. I watch for what seems like forever, but in actuality was likely only around ten minutes before deg I'll have to do something. Either I give up on my cave for a while, or attempt to sneak bato my room. There are a lot of risks either way. The biggest threat for sneaking ba is that if the lizard has made the cavern its perma , then I'm trapped with no way out. The risks of giving up the cavern though is that I'll be starting over from almost square one, losing everything I worked on so far, and I'm already really hungry.
My hunger wins out the day, and I decide that I'll try to sneak bato my room. Before I do that though, I go back to grab some of my lion root I gathered before. I don't want to try to carry all of it, si is a little encumbering, but some should be fine. When I return to the caverion, the lizard still hasn't moved, and thankfully, the corpse pile was on the further side of the cavern from my room.
I slowly inch my way towards my room, being careful not to make any noise while I go. When I get to my room entrance, I put the lion roots down to stone shape open the door before slowly entering with the lion root and closing it back up behind me. I let out my breath, and sit down for a moment and just breathe. The break only sts a mihough, as I hurry into my room, and check my fire.
Yup, it's out. There are some slightly warm embers, but it's mostly extinguished now. Well, I had made a pretty big pit for the firepce so that ash buildup wouldn't be an issue before, so I might as well take this opportunity to it out. I'll have to make another bucket for it though, because the only buckets I have in the rht now are my water-filled ones. I'll also want to make a small shovel for ing the firepce out with. I decide the best pce to actually get these materials is frht o the firepce itself, making a space to rest the shovel afterwards.
I sna some dried imp as I work, but decide to until I'm full. Even if I have plenty of fht now, who knows how long that lizard will stay here, and I doubt that even at level 100 with a bunch of tools I could hahat thing. I do have one idea that would maybe work, namely, colpsing a huge k of ceiling on it, but that invites all sorts of questions from the goblins, so I'd like to avoid it if I . Maybe the goblins will kill it ter? Either way, I feel like I'll be in a holding pattern for quite a long time, so starting rationing now seems like a good idea.
By the time the firepce is all ed out, I'm already ready to sleep, so I climb into my bed. It feels good to sleep somewhere familiar again.
It took around half a day to finally get my fire going again, but it's finally up and going again, which means I cook the lion root to eat. Sihe lion root doesn't st as long as the dried imp, I'll be eating it first. It's a shame too, because I went out to get lion root so that I could have more full meals, but instead I'm sitting here rationing food again.
After eating, I go and make a small hole to peek into the cavern. The lizard is still where it was yesterday. Satisfied, I close the hole up again. I'm really quite gd that I refilled all my crystals before the gobliurned. I wasn't anticipating this situation, but it worked out that I have a ockpile of goods. The only thing that is a bit of a pain is that I don't have extra wood in here. I have a few weeks worth, but most of it is in bins ie room, which would require me making multiple trips out into the cavern to move back over in order to remain quiet. I suppose once I've cooked all the lion root, I should ration wood. If I'm spending all my time in the room anyway, I suppose I keep the fire smaller, only feeding a little wood in at a time. It'll require more stant maintenance, but it should make the wood st longer.
Ahing I could sider doing is spreading my drained smaller crystals out so that they gather mana a little bit. I normally wouldn't care that much, but it's something to do that doesn't require mana to aplish, so I'm ined to give it a go. What I have in mind is ing the sughterhouse area, and then ying some of the crystals spread out on the floor in there, since I o it anyway. Other than that, I suppose it's teise practice, and more stone refining until I get ed with the remaining mana crystals.
It's been just over three weeks that I've been holed up in my room. The lizard hasn't moved at all from its spot. At first I thought maybe it died, but I watched really closely, and I could see it slowly breathe. At this point my only guess is it is some form of hibernation. It has now been 30 days sihe goblin st arrived, and although I'm still doing alright on food rations, I've deemed it necessary to try to make a trip to the ste room. o get more wood, but also to transport over there more dark stone. I've filled quite a few buckets with the stuff, and although I fashioned a few more teise training cubes, I still have a lot of leftovers. I also started taking stone from the edges of the hallway to the cavern instead of just expanding my room. I've started to think that it might be worth having it rger, if only to store things that I io move at a ter time against the wall. In this case, buckets of dark stone. As for the light stone I've refined, I have quite the det amount now. sidering how long I've been refining stone, I've amassed nearly 10 cubic feet of the stuff, which is enough that I'm starting to actually sider making some teic training cubes after all.
With a bucket in hand, I slowly sneak out to the cavern, and then into the ste area. I'm thankful that it seems that the lizard is a heavy sleeper. Ohere, I leave the bucket, and then go gather wood from my plentiful stockpile here. I'm takira long pig and s the wood here, so that I carry as much wood as quietly as possible. Regardless of how heavy of a sleeper the lizard appears to be, I want to be as quiet as possible. I also want to limit myself to only orip a day or less into the cavern.
I feel like an abundance of caution is warranted here. I have no idea when it will wake up, so beira careful seems wise. With that in mind, I pick up all the wood that I safely carry back, and make my way bay room. The new wood should st me another five days at least, and I still have an abundance of dried imp meat from before. It should be only fifteen days until the goblin es back, so I'm ied to see what happeween it and the lizard.
For the few days, I think I'll tinue making a once a day trip to the ste room to move things about. I'm a little more than halfway through my crystal supplies, so taking this extra time doing something that doesn't require mana should help limit my ption of them. Something else I could sider doing, although it is a little risky, is going out to a new sub cave with a bucket and gathering se crystals from there if push es to shove.
For now though, I'm exhausted, so I mark down my current status befoing to bed.