Now I need to add some life to my little maze, to allow for some conflict and growth. So I need to create some kind of ecosystem. Some part of me derives satisfaction from that idea.

I know on an instinctual level how to get started. First I need I need some kind of plant, the more varieties the better, of which I have a rather large number to choose from. Unfortunately most of them are useless for what I need as they require light to survive, an issue I feel like I could solve given enough time. So instead I gathered what plants I have that don’t require light, most of them are mushrooms, and got to work spreading them around my maze.

The next thing I needed to do was to create creatures that would eat these plants and creatures that would eat those creatures. Unfortunately I don’t have access to very many creatures that I could make, just one, and it isn’t exactly good at what I would need it to do. The most glaring issue is that it is way to large, I need to start with much smaller creatures.

That one creature I do have access to does inspire me a bit though, I can create creatures out of the plants that I have. I wouldn’t have to worry about light so much as eating will help with that a lot, so I am able to use plants other than mushrooms. I still can’t use any of the magically inclined plants though, too much upkeep.

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The first thing I made was a small mushroom based creature that moves around by hoping from wall to wall to nibble on a particular type of mushroom. I then designed a bunch of other, similar creatures using other plants and modes of transport. Some of them eat mushrooms, some of them eat other creatures, some eat both.

Flight was pretty difficult to figure out, but I did manage to figure it out.

At one point i realized that I could make creatures out of pure mana, it was nowhere near as easy and cost much more mana to create though. I only made a couple varieties of them.

After designing them all I created a bunch of every variety and released them into my maze, making sure they wouldn’t attack each other for a little while. In a couple days I will check back on them to see which ones all died out, which ones thrived, and which ones just barely got by. From there I’m not sure what I will do.

One last thing before I go. I realized I have access to something called a terminal, or at least that is what it called itself. I didn’t get much of a chance to do anything with it as it popped up in the middle of me trying to figure out flight, and I was much more interested in flight. But it seems to be some method of communication, with others like myself I hope. I tried just now to open it up, something I understand how to do on an instinctual level, but I didn’t have the mana to do it.

I’ll try again in a little while.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.