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Everfree Survival (Comment driven story)

by Hrafn

Chapter 4: Day two

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Day two

Clop furiously

You consider masturbating, before deciding that now really isn't the time for that. The rating demands you do this in privacy and don't mention it at all.

Prepare, cook, and eat the rabbit for breakfast.

You skin the rabbit with your knife. You don't have much experience with such, and ruin the fur to the point where you can't use it for anything noteworthy. Despite that, you don't seem to have wasted much meat. Remembering that rabbits have very little fat and so lack the fat-soluble nutrients you'll need, you cut out the intestines, leaving the heart, liver, and contents of the stomach in the makeshift bowl made by the absence of internal organs.

You relight the fire with the remaining coals and some more branches, in preparation of cooking the rabbit. When the fire is properly burning, you get a few sticks and produce a sort of stand on which you can place it while it cooks.

A while later, the food is done and you dig in. You notice that it doesn't taste as well as you would have liked, lacking the spices you would normally use for cooking. Nonetheless, it's filling and provides much-needed sustenance. You drink some water to go with it, knowing that the metabolism of proteins is dependent on hydrolysis. You learned basic chemistry and biology in school.

Climb a tree, and look for Zecora's hut.

You walk up to the tallest tree in the vicinity. Having done a lot of tree climbing in your childhood, you scale the tree easily, and reach the top quickly. Scanning your surroundings, you take a moment to be amazed by the beauty of this morning. The sunrise is red on the horizon, just to the side of the mountain you came from. The forest stretches far, but you can see a small hut in the distance, perhaps half an hour away. You are relieved by the fact that you didn't miss your target too bad. Taking note of it's direction relative to that of the sun, you climb down.

If we can see it, break camp and head towards it until we lose direction again, then climb another tree. Repeat until we get to the hut.

You gather up your stuff, dismantle the snares, and get ready to head out. Making sure the sun is to the right of- and slightly behind you, you start walking. Hitting some rocky terrain on the way, you're glad you have your walking stick. Some of it is somewhat difficult to traverse. As you take a break from walking, a problem comes up. Heavy clouds have obscured the sun, and it's starting to rain. You now have two problems. The first is that you can't navigate using the sun. The second is that the rain has made the terrain more difficult to traverse.

You sit down under a big tree, staying mostly dry with it as cover. Seeing as there isn't much to do, you roll a cigarette and light up, pondering what you know.

The forest is huge. There's a castle in it, which indicates major habitation in the past. Given it's apparent state of disrepair, you'd estimate at least three hundred years since it was inhabited. The forest, which was probably small at that time, probably grew with nobody to keep it in check.

There's a hut in here, with obvious signs of habitation. This is either a hermit living in isolation, or someone with connections outside the forest. Either way, it would be a useful source of information, be it on how to get out or on the local wildlife. If you're really lucky, both.

From the hint you got earlier, you deduce that getting out will include a puzzle or test. What this might be, you don't know.

You know that if you die, you will have to start over. You know the noob protection will not be replenished, so if you have to start again from scratch, you'll have to get some sort of weapon early on. You have a hatchet, but that will hardly help if there are wolves or bears in the forest.

While thinking, you wonder how you were able to see so far in detail. A hut shouldn't normally be visible from that distance.

[Glitch detected. Thank you for reporting the glitch. Fixing... Fixed.]

[You have gained a reward for reporting a glitch: Binoculars.]

Learn to use fire as a weapon

(If we need to provide more detail for Razor's idea to work, we can simply use a torch as a weapon.)

[Error: No such skill. You have (1) remaining skill point(s).]

[You have discovered: Skill tree.]

[Currently available skills: Physical (1/5), Mental (1/5), Arcane(0/5), Melee (0/5), Unarmed (0/5), Survival (1/5), Knowledge (0/5).]

You are wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt, sturdy shoes, and a black leather jacket with many pockets. On your back is the backpack you found with you when you woke up. You are not tired. You are not hungry. You are not thirsty. It is raining.

What do you do?

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