COMBAT: Stab it with the spear and keep stabbing until it's dead! Run if I'm outmatched and climb a tree.

With the adrenaline rush of a potentially lethal situation, you decide that simple is better. You're glad you took a point in melee, it seems you gained some basic training with the spear along with it.

Protagonist used STAB.

Gripping the shaft, you stab the boar's snout to enrage it, then pull back.

Wild boar used CHARGE. It is super effective!

Protagonist used STAB. Wild boar is dead!

Generalising from fiction, boars are usually hunted by using massive-ass spears that the boars run into, but I don't know if our spear is strong enough to handle that.

As it prepares to charge you, you stab the non-pointy end of the spear into the ground for leverage, and point the point just below the boar's head. As it charges, it runs onto the spear and is impaled, but the momentum from the charge allows it to reach you. It's tusk hits you in the left arm, but doesn't cripple you. Hurts like a bitch, though.

[You are bleeding.]

AFTER-COMBAT: If the boar dies, obtain one of it's tusks for use as a potential backup weapon. Have boar for lunch, and smoke some boar steaks to take with me if I know how: A generous, but not ridiculous amount. There appears to be no encumberance system in this game, or I'm not carrying enough to gain penalties, but I'm sure the admins will retcon one in by claiming the lack of one counts as a glitch in the system if I try to take 20 kilos of boar meat with no penalties. Two or three kilos though will probably be permitted.

You break off one of the boar's tusks (noting that the other has already been damaged - perhaps a previous incarnation of yourself died trying?), putting it in a pocket for now. You notice there's a boar head impaled on a stick a bit away from you. Getting out your hatchet, you chop off the boar's head, get a branch, and impale the head Vlad III style, placing it next to the first one. With that done with to scare away any local animals while you work, you start skinning the boar. You got lucky, and you have a reasonably thick hide. It would probably be good for making simple armor.

[The blood on your wound has coagulated. You are no longer bleeding.]

You start a small fire with butane, bark, and some branches. You also construct a simple frame for cooking the meat antikristo (cooking it a bit away from the fire). While that's cooking, you look around. You see "713" carved into a tree. You deduce that one of your predecessors was killed by the boar, but another survived.

Heading back to the fire, you turn the meat, and put a meal-sized piece closer to the flame to cook faster. You then take time to observe your surroundings. There are some plants you can use for potions, and you see some spices (you pick some and add it to the meat). You also pick some flowers you know how to use for potions, before you stop. How did you know the recipes for those potions, anyway? Going through your memory, you realize you retroactively read some of the books Zecora had on potions. That explains it.

The meal is done, while the rest of the meat you got is still cooking. It will be done by the time you've eaten. So, with no further delays, you eat your lunch. It tastes pretty good with the spices. You suddenly realize something and go back to the boar corpse. Yes, you've struck gold! Metaphorically speaking, that is. Taking your knife, you cut a large amount of strips from the stomach.

[You have gained item: Bacon.]

You put the bacon up to cook while you wrap the cooked meat in some large (and safe) leaves. When that is done, you prepare to head out. You put out the fire, you pack away your items (except for the spear).

Continue heading towards the castle.

You have a sip of water, and start heading out, munching happily on your bacon while you walk.

[You have gained status effect: Bacon!]

You query your head while you're at it.

Bacon!

You have made bacon. This effect persists until the bacon is fully digested, and increases the rate at which you generate skill points. Check the skill bar to see how far along you are.

Skill bar: 45%

You keep walking towards the castle, seeing nothing noteworthy on the way.

Upon reaching the castle ruins, find the southwest corner of the ruins, navigating by the sun. Facing southwest, I'll carve "123" on the next non-skill tree I come across if I intend to enter the castle. I also make up my mind to carve "246" on the same tree after I leave the castle. Usual stipulations about carving below existing numbers apply, but this time "246" will be carved to the right of the "123" my present body created.

As you reach the castle ruins, you consult the map and find that you are on the southeastern corner. You head directly west to the southwestern corner and face exactly southwest. You walk up to the closest tree in a straight line heading southwest, and inspect it. On it is carved a "123", and to the right of it is a "246" and a "2^8-10" directly below it. Strange.

What do you do?