Hello everyone! More changes to the past. No longer do we get to see the damage done to enemies. It didn’t feel right for how I want the game world to work. It is supposed to seem in most ways realistic. As it is I am keeping Hp and the display of our hero’s damage taken. *rawr*

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Okay, this is getting annoying. I have been wandering for an hour since the rabliz. There is nothing here. With this I have to head further in. I haven’t even filled a tenth of my pack. I need to fill it will good quality goods. If I do then I be able to get out of here. Well, further and farther in I guess.

*As I head farther into the forest the trees are spread thinner while their trunks get thicker. Ahead I see my first signs of creatures. The bark of the tree ahead is scratche.*

Something must have been marking its territory here. The scratches only being at around knee height whatever caused this shouldn’t be too big. Sadly, I am not a hunter or scout of any sort so I can’t track it. Meh, guess I can just trudge around the area.

*As I go around the tree in widening circles I hear something off farther into the forest. Sneaking towards it the closer I get the more noise there is. It sounds like a battle is taking place. Soon I see two creatures going at each other.*

One of them seems to be a wolf at least as big as a cow. On the creature's front paws it has claws like that of a velociraptor and its tail appears to be made of spikes like it was a porcupine. Fighting it is what seems to be a giant spider except not. The back 4 legs are normal enough but the front ones are bad news. The middle legs have a trio of giant spikes. They seem to be less for fighting and more for stability. Those legs in the front though are like a death god’s scythe and I am mostly certain legs don’t have that many joints.

*While I watch the fight gets even more heated. The scythe spider just stands in one place, whipping its front legs around fast enough to sound like a pair of whips. The wolf on the other hand was dashing around so fast it left afterimages as it nimbly avoided the attacks.*

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Well, this isn’t a fight I can join. Nice to watch but I suspect if I stay around till it is over then I would be as well. Not that I need to guess much as the wolf keeps glancing at me and I have to assume the spider knows I am here. Anyway time to leave.

*With that I turn around to go.*

Yeah it would not be that easy. Behind me there was a nice little horde of spiders. Mind you these would only fit in the palm of my hand. The battlefield seems to be surrounded except for the direction I don’t want to go. Guess it is time to go farther into the forest. As I am running the spiders only threaten me if I get close to them so I should be able to get away.

--- A few minutes of running later ---

There doesn’t seem to be any creatures following me anymore. Though I am lost now. If anything to get out I just have to go toward smaller trees. I should look around for now. The complete lack of creatures is creeping me out. All the people said it was a populated place. Something has gone wrong since people stopped coming here. Well time to explore.

--- ~30 minutes later ---

Nothing

Nothing

Nothing

Trees

Nothing

Goodness gracious, just a bunch of nothing. With keeping to this area I have found nothing of interest. A bit deeper I saw webs I think. At this rate I could be stuck on the planet for much longer than I would care to be. Farther in it is I guess.

As I head towards the webbed area I can almost hear something. On approach the webs seem to sway in the wind. Noting the lack of wind this worries me. There doesn’t seem to be any spiders here but as my experience at the edge shows that means nothing.

*I enter the webbed area slowly. Nothing seems to happen then a sound behind me*

--- And fade to black ---

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Short chapter for today. Sorry about that. Squeezed on time right now.