After I wake up, I head back out into the cavern. No longer do I o sneak about due to fear. Unfortunately, I also have to now up the mess I've made. I'll have to get rid of the rubble and burn the smashed bits of corpse. In addition I'd like to close up the bit of the ceiling I colpsed. It's not open to anything, but it looks very spicuous so I'd like to hide it as best I .
I wish I could say the rubble will be easy, but it's so mixed and covered in blood that I think I'll actually o pile it with wood and burn it before I'm fortable saving it for separation into dark and light stone. Now I'm gd that I gathered extra wood earlier because between the gore and rocks, I have a lot I o burn.
It takes two days to pile everything and start burning it, and I suspect it'll take a day at least until the stone is cooled again. Which, as I think about it, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the cave didn't have a cave in before, with all the bonfires I had, whi tured and cooled the surrounding rock, if it was going to cave in, it probably would have already. I'll also take the opportunity with the light from the boo use stone shape on the ceiling thly close up the hole I made. Yup, this is going to be a long process.
Well, it took five days, and I haven't fully ed up yet, but I moved all the rubble into buckets, then also collected most of the ashes into separate buckets, and closed the hole in the ceiling. All of the buckets are iorehouse, save a few of the rubble buckets which are in my room for separation and refining. I've got a handful of tasks ahead of me, which should end up taking a few days at the least. I've got lots of the rubble that I'd like to separate and refine, all the new crystals I gathered o be sorted and then put into crystal trays for charging, and I'd like to go recharge my existing crystal trays as well.
As for the crystals that I had previously scattered on the floor of the sughterhouse area, well, they're not showing much promise. Right now I don't he room though, so I'll just leave them there. It shouldn't take to long to them up when I he room again anyway.
After another five days, I've got the new crystal trays done, including a sed rack for them to sit in, all the trays are fully charged again, and a few of the rubble buckets refined down. There is still at least 2 times the amount I've doill sitting in the warehouse, but I'll get to it when I get to it. The more important discovery is that the cave is now fully snowed off from the outside. While finishing the crystal tray charging for the day, I wandered up to the entrao check how the weather was faring, and the obvious ao that was not good.
I've made some good and some bad assumptions in the past, but I think that I probably won't be visited by the goblin again this cycle. He'd normally arrive in another 24 days. If I've got 24 days at least, plus approximately 45 days, if I assume that the goblin will actually stick to that schedule, I think that maybe I should try to pn a longer project to work on. I have a proje mind, but it'll likely tax me mentally.
I'm fairly fident that I need some additional practical experieh teise at this point. The cubes have been a big help, and training on them every day has definitely helped me get more used to the sensation, and have made me more able to notice small details. The issue is that the cubes are very uniform. I made them that way on purpose finner level practice, and to get used to the sixth sense. So now, what I'd like to do, is map the cavern. Not a physical map though. Specifically, a survey map. What I'd like to do, is gh about every 10 feet, and do a 15 foot radius ping at each point, and take some notes on any points of i. The first step to pn that will obviously be actually trying a 15 foot radius ping on a real surfabsp; For the past many weeks I haven't actually tried teise on a real surface, so I'm not sure how it will go, but I decide to give it a go where I know the bubble behind the wall is.
Initially it overwhelms me a little since I've gotten so used to the test cubes, but I fidently say I do have a more detailed view than I used to, and spot differences more readily. The first hint at this, is that I notice there are a few crystals embedded in the walls of the bubble. The sed is my ability to make out the shape of the bubble. It's shaped a bit like a gourd, with one part being rge and round, and then a tube extending out from behind it which is smaller in diameter, but reaches backwards a little more than twice the size of the initial bubble. Since I'm in my room anyway, I etto the wall some small details about the bubble in this spot.
Ahing I've decided is that the goblins and imps here aren't actually all that perceptive. So I think as long as I don't put markings by the entrance where they're obvious, I actually just mark up the walls in the cavern and no one will notibsp; I mean, the imps definitely won't, they only just came ienbsp; Uhey're like me, and have some memories from before they were an imp, then even markings on the walls are just normal to them. The old goblins really don't seem to pay too much attentioher. Guessing from how they e here like clockwork, I'm assuming at this point it's so routio them that they just don't notice small detail ges.
What I have in mind is keeping master information records of each point, then just etg a small number in the wall where I used teise. I'll probably need multiple shelves to hold all the tablets of etched information as well, so I'll o make that as well. Ultimately, it's a rge project that will require me to spend a lot of time in the main cavern, so having this time where I'm snowed in should provide the perfect opportunity without any fear of a random intruder suddenly spotting me. The downside being that I'd really have liked rope to help with the project, but I don't really have the option to go out and collect things for it, so I'll have to make do with making some measuring sticks instead.
Ahing I do is move my training cubes to the ste room. I could dismahem, but they be dismantled iure if I o. For now they just be piled into a back er of the ste room, and that'll be just fine. Although if the ste room gets much more full, I'll probably o design a new project to deal with the uping ste issue.
For now though, I have a few days worth of preparation work before I begiual survey. I o make tools, get the shelving ready, and prepare plenty of bnk tablets to etformation onto.
It took a solid three days of work, but the ools are done, as well as the shelving with plenty of bnk tablets. I had a few epiphanies while I worked as well. First of which is a folding ruler. It stacks up side to side, and each ruler is attached with a rotating joint that rotate 360 degrees, for a total of 11 feet of length in 11 segments. Initially I just pnned on making 10 footlong rulers, but then I thought that being able to ehat the rulers all stayed in a straight line would be useful. The only slight downsides are that each is offset by the width of a ruler from the previous ruler so that when closed they all sta each other, and that the rotating joints are somewhat rigid because they are stone on stone joints.
The sed epiphany is pretty . I started embedding the smallest crystals into the four ers of these tablets. They don't provide much ambient light, but it's enough that it helps me see easier oablet. Which given there are some darker patches in the cavern, especially towards the back, I think that it'll be useful. The only thi for me to do is actually go out there, and start marking things and doing the survey. Which I'll start tomorrow first thing when I wake up.