So that ends it for me. Went through 4 mini-sections. Pretty good story I might say.
Is it slow, yes. But also entertaining as hell. She is basically in minecraft world where she is dropped in the middle of somewhere and trying to figure out how to go from here.
She managed to find food, water, and fucking destroyed those goblins. She fought a group and won. And now just kicks their ass like it is nothing. With every goblin she beats, she levels up higher and higher. I can’t wait to see what happens when she is level 20.
I would still like her to be such a badass she becomes the goblin leader, but that might be a long long time before anything like that could happen.
Back to food. We can’t have nice things all the time.
She woke up to the pain of her hand. I can’t tell if this is morning or the middle of the night.
How deep did she cut her hand? Or was there something to that fish that seeped into her blood?
Eventually, nature calls. And she decides to just go in a place that will not stink up her new home.
I do it all the time in minecraft. As a just in case.
And here we go. I guess instead of the Inn jumping to a new area/new town, it just slowly glacier crawls in the middle of the night. My door is now 2ft further to the left.
She then tries to treat her hand. Or at least remove that bandage. But….yeah blood scabbed over, so it hurts like hell to pull if off. She also found more kitchen stuff in the kitchen. I don’t know if it was already there, or if it was because she leveled up she got new stuff.
Never mind. Reward for Level 4. She has flour now. It couldn’t have been missed from her last walk through.
Yeah, that cements it. Flour is one thing, that shit lasts a long time. But butter? A giant ass block? With how ancient this place is, butter wouldn’t last that long.
This is her reward for leveling up.
Or the Inn really likes her and is giving her shit.
Hey look, there is magic. I guess the Inn really is giving her shit.
Until she broke it. Well….that sucks. redo them yourself?
Hey, I actually don’t remember that part/forgot about it. So I guess the Inn has a ghost that likes her for taking care of her house. Or it possess the Inn like Monster House style.
In d&d skeletons are monsters too. Just a reminder.
Oh hey look, the thing that I had forgotten was there turns out to not be there anymore.
Looks like Erin just took over as new Innkeeper.
So she tries to convince herself that, you know, the skeleton is gone for good, and not haunting her and waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Like you do. When there is a noise upstairs. She does on the attack, then changes her plan to run away. Can’t be too careful.
Don’t you hate it when your imagination makes you imagine things worse than a skeleton?
She matured really fast if she got over her goblin fear with a day.
GOOD FOR HER!
You know, I would actually like it if Erin just, defeated them so hard they decided to live in the Inn with her to help protect the place.
That or their scout being launched out the window.
I am so proud of her. Way to take control!
And we end with the seasoned warrior goblin raid party just taking one look at their friend, and be like “yeah, fuck this, let’s go.”
Level in dreams? You mean you only level up when she is asleep. That, somehow oddly makes sense.
Well, after resting she went to get some more food.
I guess she forgot about the stream nest to her Inn. But given how she doesn’t have a way to purify it yet, getting water from fruits is probably the safer option.
I hope you guys realize that this is making me want to read survival manuals for in case shit like this happens. Because that is what this is making me think of.
I can’t believe that there is a minecraft reference here. I was making shit up.
So the trees don’t have fallen branches or bark to strip or anything, which is really weird. I guess she has to burn the fruit for fire. At least when she figures out how to cut that tree, she has instant knives and spears.
The best way to process everything that has happened? She cleans, cleans and thinks of what has happened while she was here. How she won her fight, how she found the fruit, how she survived.
Looks like leveling up means that the dust just….disappears. Which is weird, but I like it. The higher she climbs, the easier and longer things stay clean.
Again, you literally jumped over a stream from before. There is water.
So poetic really.
She’s a pepsi person. I prefer coke, but to each their own.
Uh, hey, actually, this is bad. To be hot and not sweating, yeah there is something really medically bad. Better find some more food other than those blue fruits.
She finally remembers the stream and refreshes herself. It actually reminded me of a scene in Gerald’s Game, how you can try to remember that moment of survival but it will soon be forgotten because of time. Not really relevant to this story, but a bit nostalgic for me.
Remember kids: don’t do that.
So she manages to finally get herself clean. And maybe want to explore, but the inn is her best protection that she has.
Too bad there is now a new monster coming up on her.
Now at least she has meat. And can use the teeth as a weapon.
You didn’t do anything. The fish jump jumped and suffocated on air. I’m actually not sure if the fish is dead.
Figures. The world just hates her.
Eventually the fish does die. And is hard as steel. Everything is just more harmful in this world.
Time to cook. With the Inn’s only tools in the entire place: knives.
I don’t know why I like this line, but I do. A lot.
So she starts cooking, or more like hacking away and struggling, but then she cuts herself and
Looks like her leveling up also adds in to her defense and health points. Either that or she can’t injure herself with her own weapon.
You know what? I should really stop saying things like “oh her leveling up does x y and z for her” because, no. No it does not. She just cut herself on her hand, it’s gonna hurt!
And so she spend the rest of the night in pain, trying to fall asleep, trying to distract herself from her bandaged hand. I want to think that if she just falls asleep she will be healed like that, but I don’t know anymore. This is becoming real.
Why the decimal point? How is this like one-hundredth of the story?
It is nice to discover new things while running for your life, isn’t it?
You know that Goblin wanted to show off his cleaving skills.
I am loving the yodeling goblins more and more.
I call bullshit. How dare these goblins use hunting tactics used by humans. That is cheating.
So she enters the Inn and is locking all the doors and windows before the goblins get there. A smart move, but I’m pretty sure that the Inn wouldn’t have allowed the goblins in in the first place. Not sure why, but with the way they write it, it makes the place sound alive.
Well fuck my idea. Goblins can and will ignore Vampire Rules
So they start to attack her, and cut her, but then comes a change
And this, this I get. This I understand. But there is always just that one small moment that reminds you.
And that changes everything. Because adrenaline still kicks in whether in fear or in anger.
You know, I expected her to fight back. But damn, that was a literal knee-jerk reaction to the nuts.
Remember kids, the “chair breaking away” only happens with break-away chairs (pre-broken). Otherwise, you still have your improv weapon.
So she decides to kick ass with all the chairs and tables in the inn against those 6 little bastards. Pretty good fight for someone who doesn’t fight.
Now, when can we get a villain or minion or someone who doesn’t laugh evilly?
“ha ha!” oh shit she big
“HA HA!” retorts
Sounds like she is going to be a pretty good barbarian. That or athletic bard.
So she beats them back where they are now bloody, injured, and actually rethinking about attacking the human.
The best way to scare off the tiny menaces.
So she laughs herself to exhaustion, which when you think about it, it is pretty absurd situation.
At least she levels up pretty fast.
They blasted past when you kicked that goblin in the nuts.
I forgot how matter-of-fact the writing is. It is actually pretty refreshing.
K, so this is like Right After she got her notification that she leveled up. Was it a mental thing, like a mind blip, or if she has an access screen is unknown at the moment. But her freaking out over it is a realistic reaction.
Oh look, it was a mind blip. Question solved
You know, I am not sure why she is freaking out so much about this though. Like, wouldn’t this just be super helpful that you know the general idea of this world? Leveling up like video games, monsters like rpgs and d&d, you got the basics down more/less.
So next day, she needs food. There is nothing in the Inn to eat that isn’t old, dust, or moving. So she is forced to go back outside to the world of monsters that she just escaped from.
God that is such a good line.
The idea of a different planet makes sense. But, to go to another dimension of Earth, it is the small things that jump out. Like, the idea that the clouds are just…too big. That, that makes it feel , I’m not sure. More real? More lonely?
So Erin is looking around the vast landscape of Mountains, Hills, and Valleys. Somehow high enough to look down on trees like it’s in Minecraft. With just some random old building just sitting there.
After yesterday, don’t trust anything just yet.
So she decides to leave to the trees to get from fruit. Sounds like a plan right? Well….
Don’t you hate it when giant rocks change your plans?
At least it isn’t goblins. New Goal: Get some Armor.
I will run away from giant crabs. I will run away from guns. I will run away from giant crabs with guns.
So she made it to the trees. The weirdly shot trees. I can’t even process a whole forest for just 10ft tall trees. You just need a ladder then you have basically a high platform.
Agreed.
She’s having problems with the tree. And the tree is stupidly hard to push down (like, any normal tree). So, spear the fruit?
Or I guess let it shimmy like a cartoon. How can it vibrate if it can’t be pushed? What logic is that??
Well she got the fruit, and got slightly upset that there isn’t a game announcement for getting said fruit. She was over thinking it.
Listen, this is the best way you test out food you don’t know. 1st: let it touch your skin to see for a reaction. 2nd: nibble a little bit to see for a reaction. 3rd: eat it and see for a reaction. If you feel fine after step 3, you good. But make sure to wait in-between tests.
But she opened the fruit, saw a giant ass pit which I thought had water, but turned out to be like cleaner-fluid smelling chemical. Can probably hide your sent from the rock crab.
Hey, just thought of something. Do inns have toilets? Glad the fruit turned out to be non-death. But fantasy toilets, do they exist?
Back to crab. She is trying to go around dumb crab again.
These things are goddamn terrifying if they can run 10ft per second.
Glad her aim is right, but it sounds like it isn’t affecting the crab as Erin/me thought it would. Like, with pain, confusion, acid, anger, etc. What, does it make it high?
Oh, so it is deadly afraid of that. Maybe it smells like the dead-ant pheromone ants would do. It didn’t do any damage other than smell, so that is the only thing I can think of.
Wait, Smurfs exist here?
Nevermind, they be evil Smurfs
I like how this implies that because Erin comes from another world, she is also faster that the average human here.
Fuck Yeah Michigan. Home Girl Represents!
Good way to end the chapter, just saying that she is from my home state while running away from goblins.
Time for some more of the written word. I mean, I only went through 2 …chapters?sections? I’m still unsure. So hopefully I can go through more this time around.
Our girl Erin is currently squatting in an abandoned inn where she is now getting class skills. I am just waiting for when she is going to adopt the place as her own.
