Even though the snow is still c the entrao the cavern, I'm going to hedge my bets and avoid spending the few days in the cavern, just in case the goblins somehow show up. I mean, I know one has fire magic, so it wouldn't be impossible for them to clear a path here in theory. I still highly doubt they will though.
The first thing I'm going to work on is to begin categorically listing points of i from the survey so far. Many of the points have basically nothing, but for pleteness sake, I've marked them as empty on their respective tablets. Which has led to a lot of informational tablets beiively empty, just listing off 'nothing of i' for each point.
In the 18 days I've been w on this, I've covered 144 points. Of those, about 15% have anything of i, and of those 22 iing points, 18 are air bubbles. Of those 18 with air bubbles, 13 have crystals embedded in them. The 4 points of i which aren't bubbles fall into two categories. One of the categories seems to be some form of yer ge. These two spots are o each other, and are closer to the entrance of the cavern than any other spots, and are against a wall. The sed category are amorphous shapes generally f long spindles. They're also clearly not rock or crystal, or at least don't give off the same sort of signal as either.
I don't want to get my hopes up too much, but I suspect it might be metal. Exactly what metal though is hard to say. Oh, it'd likely be native copper, but I'm not oh right now, so I should be ready for anything. Each of those deposits aren't actually that rge either. There might be a few cubic feet of material betweewo of them. So whatever it is, it's not a massive deposit.
Regardless of what it is, ohe survey is plete, that is my highest priority of excavation. My level tio very slowly increase as well.
After I give the goblin a few days to potentially show up, I'll get back to the survey. In the meantime, I'll be refining some of the rubble from before.
Well, after the goblin failed to show I tinued my survey... all the way to pletion. It took me 37 days including the goblin waiting time, which by the end of the survey, I was very tired of usionise and writing. That said, I'm very satisfied by the pletion. Although I say pletion, this only covers the main cavern, and only goes into a handful of the side tunnels. Of the side tunnels I only actually did my ste area, my room, and the tunnel where I did my test to kill the giant lizard. There are plenty more tunnels here that I could survey and potentially find things.
Ohing I've bee aware of though, is that the snow has beeing rapidly. About 10 days ago, I made a routine check of the entryway and could see a small bit of sky he top of the cave entranbsp; A few days ter I went up to check again, and not only was the snow quite a bit shorter, but it was raining onto the snow, and when I came back two hours ter to check, half the remaining snow was gone. I suspe about 11 days, the goblin will arrive again. Which means I'll o be ready.
As ht now, though, I'm almost at level cap, so by either tonight or tomorrow m, I'll hit it again, and be faced with another choibsp; So, for today, I'm going to hold off on starting any excavation, and instead finish anizing all the remaining survey findings. I covered an additional 230 points in the survey since I anized before. The breakdown this time was a little different. A det k of the new points were all ed up in the yer ge I noticed before. That yer ge now prises a total of 21 points that I detected in my survey. There were an additional 30 bubbles spotted, of which 16 had embedded crystals that I detected. The rgest of which actually overpped three points. An additional 3 high i points were marked as well. Two were simir to the previous two which I suspect are native metals. The remaining one seems to be a new yer ge. Simir to the other, it presents itself as a semi-ft surface biseg my teise ping. The differeween this one and the other is that this one is smaller, and it's signature is much less noisy, so I'm intrigued by its different presentation.
When all of the bookkeeping has been handled, I'm ready to go to sleep, so I y down io go to sleep, ahe level cap sensation which I've started to bee quite familiar with at this point.
Avaible Traits:Improved Dexterity: Increases dexterity and manipution beyond what your form would normally allow.
Avaible Species:Hobgoblin, Lesser Earth Demon
Well, two iing things this time. First, I seem to have lost some of my trait options that I had before. Which is just another mystery to ta to the many mysteries I have piling up around me. The sed one, is an iing new option for species for evolution. A Lesser Earth Demon. I'm not eveirely sure what that is, but I get a gut feeling that it's at least humanoid in shape. As nice as Improved Dexterity would be, and I've said that a few times now, I think this time I'm going to actually evolve. After having the lizard invade my cavern, I've realized that just staying an imp over and over is probably really dangerous. Holy, if I didn't have the option for Lesser Earth Demon, I'd have just picked Hobgoblin and been doh it, but instead, I got a ra option. As I make my choice, I feel way more tired than any of the previous times, and my sciousness rapidly fades.
When I e to, I've got a few problems. First, before I even open my eyes, I'm ravenously hungry. The sed issue is that I feel my legs hanging off the end of the bed, and a tail now hanging off a side of the bed. It appears I've grown substantially... Which is a big problem. I get up and do a check over my new body. I'm much bigger than I used to be. If I stand tall, I'm probably a little more than double my previous height. My natural posture isn't to stand tall though, it's hunched forward, with my ail f a terbanbsp;
Gone is the fur I used to have as well. Now I'm covered in hard ptes on my bad outarts of my arms, and the inside portion is covered in a bristly short fur. Jesus, what exactly am I now even? My posture is something closer to something like a dinosaur, with a wide tail dragging on the ground. I seem to have gained ara digit on my hands, if you call them that. The nails are simir to before, where I've got fttened long talons on the end, that I press together to form a scoop, just with ora finger now. My color has drastically ged as well. My underfur is now a muddy brown, and my pting is a dark gray, b on bbsp; My face seems to have elongated a little as well. This is all very disturbing to me. I suppose though, it's about as disturbing as being an imp was. The only difference being that back then, I thought I was in a dream.
Just to leave the room, I have to hunch further than I already naturally do to fit out the door. Yeah, this will be a problem. I grab a bunch of the lizard meat, and ge myself. I'm hoping the goblin es back soon now. I've only got a few days worth of meat left at the new rate I eat at. After I'm satisfied from eating, I realize I haven't checked my stats.
Well, I was worried about that, but it looks like Mighty Imp is gone now. I also seem to have gained a new magibsp; I'm a little fused by this, and focus on it.
Earth Spike: Spell. Forcibly erupt a 3 foot long spike of earth or stone from the ground at some point within 5 feet of you. Costs 200 mana.
Jesus, that's a lot of mana, and obviously, is very useful for bat as well. I just assumed that when evolved I only got to keep my stats. I wonder if gobli anything iing? A sudden thought pops into my head. I knorestiging basically happens ht, but how long does evolution take? I squeeze down my tuo che the cavern. Nothing. No dead imps or anythiher. I'll have to be careful I suppose though. Who knows when the goblins might arrive now.