what in the longdark spitting-pit is that

[inourhead]

This was a bad idea this was a bad idea this was a bad idea.

Holly runs as fast as she can but the demon's faster. She has no idea where Lightning's gotten to; maybe he found a tree to climb. She on the other hand has been diverted into a treeless hill and she's careening down a slope, trying very hard not to trip.

And the demon's gaining on her.

She's never seen anything like it and neither has Crystal; maybe Book knows what it is but Book's asleep. It's mostly mouth - it looks like a cross between a floorlength mirror of a mouth and a snake to propel the mouth along.

And Holly's not fast enough.

The mouth catches her.





But it doesn't hurt.

Where are we?

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with Minus (kappa)

with Mark (kappa)

with Max (Benedict)

in Terraria (kappa)

with Emma (Marri)

with Erin (Rockeye)

Comments

[aestrix]

It does not hop alarmingly fast. It's actually pretty predictable, it sort of scrunches up before hopping. Scrunch scrunch, hop! Scrunch scrunch, hop!

[inourhead]

Right then.

She runs up to it while it's mid-scrunch and then stabs it firmly with her sword.

[aestrix]

It is stabbed! And knocked back a little. And now it is an angry slime! .... Scrunch scrunch scrunch, it's going to hop at you!

[inourhead]

She doesn't really want to touch it, so she sticks with the wooden sword method. Stab stab stab stab!

[aestrix]

Well, it's really not very smart. It dies.

It turns out that things explode when they die here. There it goes. Slime everywhere.

[inourhead]

Eugh! Euuuuugh.

Well, now she knows that it's not going to dissolve her skin or anything, right?

Is there... gel? In collectible Platonic solids?

[aestrix]

There is gel in collectible Platonic semi-solids! It is mostly solid, but also sort of squashy. There are also two copper coins.

[inourhead]

...Coins. The fuck?

She collects the coins and the gelationous Platonic solids and goes back to her house to see if she can make a torch or two.

[aestrix]

Yep! She can.

(The slime from the slime and the gore from the bunny cube slowly and unobtrusively fade away, like their clothes were never yucked in the first place.)

The torches are not actually hot, but they do look like they're on fire.

[inourhead]

The missing gore is nice.

The fact that apparently she can't cook their bunny chunks is less nice.

Well, she's recently pulled this trick.

She goes out to a tree she hasn't cubed yet. She touches it with her pinky finger, and holds a cubed but not Cubed piece of wood in her other hand, and moves all the tree's warmth into the tiny little chunk of wood, ready to toss it at a little heap of the other non-Cube cubes for kindling.

[aestrix]

That burns properly. And now there is fire!

[inourhead]

Yay. Ouch. She visits the bunny pen and puts the sting on her hands into a bunny, then collects her bunny chunks. She's got a skewer in her bag for just this sort of situation. Roast, bunny chunks, roast.

[aestrix]

The bunny chunks roast just fine! Mmm, delicious warped bunny cube.

[inourhead]

Okay. So that's food, and she can't live exclusively on rabbit but at least it's not troported food, she's sick of troported food.

She feeds her living mice and tosses the others on the fire to burn.

She pulls up some grass that is not inside her bunny pen and tries hitting the heap of it with her axe.

[aestrix]

It does not become cubed! It just gets shredded and disappears neatly, sort of like the yuck from earlier.

[inourhead]

How irritating. She pulls up more grass and gets a wood cube and tries to cube some grass.

[aestrix]

That works. There is now one magic cube of grass that can be placed!

[inourhead]

Ha. Excellent. Now the grass is one thing. She touches a tree and swaps their sizes.

[aestrix]

And now it is a large cube of grass!

[inourhead]

And she places it in with the rabbits so that they may nibble it.

[aestrix]

The rabbits are very grateful! Nibble nibble. Nibble.

[inourhead]

Good, that's them taken care of.

Okay, besides her backpacking food, which is already very tiresome, and rabbits, which will soon get tiresome: anything to eat around here?

[aestrix]

There's a blueberry bush, right over there.

[inourhead]

She picks some blueberries.

Then she finds Jeff. "Is there a faster way to pick blueberries?"

[aestrix]

"Blueberries can be turned into blue dye at a dye vat," he says conversationally.