I've got enough wood and still plenty of food in my room to st for a few weeks yet, so I think I'll just wait until the goblin arrives soon to see what happens.
Well, it's day 47 now, and I haven't seen the goblin. It's never been two days te like this. The lizard tio just sleep. If nothing happens by day 50, I think I might try to sneak outside for a bit to gather some new food.
It's day 50 since I saw the goblin st, aing past the sleeping lizard was easy. The unfortuhing is that I now see why I haven't seen the goblin. I'm snowed in. Not just a little sher. It's practically filling the cave entranbsp; I see a very small openihe top where I spot some sky, but that is about it. This really ges my pns a lot. I have no idea how long this will st, but I now at least uand why the lizard came into the cave to sleep.
I didn't want to have to try to kill the lizard before, but if this weather goes on for too long, I very well might have to. Actually, thinking about it that way, if I'm going to do it, I should do it soohan ter. The longer I wait, the riskier the whole thing bees. I'll really o do some experimentation though to see how feasible it will actually be to kill it.
I sneak back down into the cavern and bato my room to start pnning. I'll only get one shot at killing the lizard. If I fail to do so, I think I'm probably dead. Even injured, I'm pretty sure given its size it'll easily kill me. So I have to kill it while it sleeps. So, like I said before, I'll try to drop as big of a ro it as I from the ceiling. The first thing I'll o test is how far I actually do stone shaping from. To do so, I think it's safest to go into a new sub-cave and begiing.
I sneak back out into the cavern and begiering new sub-caves until I find one long enough to make testing worth it. It's fairly cramped through the cave, but it's exceptionally long, so it should do for testing. The first thing I attempt is to activate stone shaping and use it on a target a few feet away.
No response, and no mana used. At least it didn't drain any mana. The hing I attempt is to start shaping from where I touch the wall, and keep shaping a straight li in the wall for as far as I . Surprisingly, this works, and I keep shaping until I run out of mana. I decide to ihe cut line along its length, which actually isn't that long. At 10 mana per sed, it only goes around 10 feet given how little stone I actually manipute at a time. The sed issue is that although I felt like I was making a straight li actually turns somewhat where the wall turns. From my perspective while making it, it was straight, but it isn't from the front. I drain a few crystals from the wall io recharge my mana, and try to tinue from where I left off, but am disappoihat I actually have to restart shaping from the start every time. I 't just pick up where I left off.
This is valuable information though. It means that if I e up with a good stockpile of crystals, I should actually be able to pull this off. I will need a lot of crystals though. I want to drop a very, very rge ro the lizard. My , obviously, is a cave-in as a result of colpsing part of the ceiling, or the crash down afterwards. I'm not sure that there is much I do for that except maybe to do some teise pings for pockets of unstable material. The unfortunate part of that is that I 't actually ping far enough for that to really matter. With my current mana I 't even ping to 20 feet, and it's much further than that from my room to the top of the cavern.
Which leaves me with just risking it. Holy though, I 't imagi is so unstable ihat a plete cave-in is likely. With that in mind, I suppose my step is gathering enough crystals to be able to stone shape enough material to actually kill the lizard in one go. That should be easy enough, but food measure, I'll spread it out over a few days. I'll take a bucket into a different sub cave each day and gather as many big crystals as I before returning. A few buckets worth should be plenty.
The very st thing I'll o do will be the riskiest part. I want to make sure that what I drop is actually going to kill the lizard, so I want to get as close to the lizard's head as possible, and look up to the ceiling from there to know where to drop the stone from. Thankfully, the ceiling is also covered in crystals, so I should be able to distinguish the exact spot fairly easily by pattern.
I spent 3 days getting ready, so the only thing I have left to do today is sneak up to the lizard, figure out what I'm gonna drop, then actually do it. Which holy, I've been really dreading having to do that for a while now. I'm holy just scared to get close to the lizard. However, just guessing is far more dangerous. If I drop a giant rod miss, I definitely would wake the lizard up.
I inch closer and closer to the lizard. I don't want to get too close and wake it up, so I o go very slowly and keep an eye on its breathing. Eventually, I make it to just a few feet from the lizard's head. Which, by the way, is taller than I am. I look directly up from where I'm standing, and memorize the crystal pattern on the ceiling. Then I begin the slow move away from the lizard. I'm very thankful for its hiberate keeping it pacified.
I get bay room's tunnel, a my buckets of crystals set up o a wall, along with some buckets to drop them ihey're used. Then, I start eling stone shaping. I spread a line up the wall of the cavern, pig up a new crystal with my free hand every time my mana starts to deplete, aually, the depressed line ione reaches all the to the area above the lizard. It's a long process, and I'm less than halfway done. Now, I cut a rge circle to mark where I'll begin cutting into the ceiling. The final step will be a process I'm very familiar with, simply cutting into the ceiling to cut a rge k out. I've dohat hundreds if not thousands of times now for all my various projects, so even though it's over a hundred feet away, I don't struggle too much with the process.
What does e as a surprise, is that the free k of rock falls before I finish severing it. I hear a faint crack as I'm about 80% through cutting it free, and a rge mass of rock begins its freefall dest towards the lizard. It accelerates towards the ground, and within a mere moment, there is a very loud crashing sound of ro robsp; For a moment, my braiers that I might have missed the lizard, given the sound, but my eyes verify, more than half of the lizard is eviscerated, including it's head. Rubble and viscera fill the nearby area.
I hold my breath, and listen for any further sounds of colpse or rockfall, but it seems like the cavern is holding up. I make my way down to the lizard, or at least what remains of it. Yeah, this is going to be a long up process... There is viscera spttered everywhere, and crumbled rock scattered about. Before I do any of that though, I o butcher as much of the lizard as I . It's massive, so I fashion myself a rge ko start cutting into the less spttered parts.
As I make the knife, I double check my stats, and find that I've gained quite a healthy amount of levels from the lizard. I wondered if that would happen or not, and am pleased to see that it has.