I woke up in the woods this morning, at first I though I was just dreaming but I tried a trick I use for lucid dreaming and couldn't fly, so then I began to observe myself and my surroundings.

I am in my underware, in the middle of a forest, and there don't appear to be any people nearby. Well that wasn't helpful.

I don't have any enemies, and if I did I don't think they would have a reason to be this roundabout in their revenge on me. I also don't have any friends who would go this far for a prank considering I was in a locked building before.

With this many unkowns just staying in the same spot for whoever sent me here sounds like a bad plan, so I begin to move around and look for a stick to use as an emergency weapon.

About an hour or so later there is no sign of civilization, I found a decent sized stick to be used like a pole, but it is uneven and cumbersome compared to a proper staff, but useable all things considered.

The lack of any trails or a road are a bad sign, and I need to find water if I will be stuck here for a long time, I have also started to get a bit hungry so securing food is a close second.

The trees all seem climable, a tree bed is far from ideal as I could get bit by bugs, but it is a quick shelter that will keep most predators from eating me in my sleep.

And then I spot a goblin. Well that changes everything, assuming this isn't a robot then I may be in an isekai! This is either amazing or terrible depending on the type of world, but as I spotted the goblin it too spotted me so further thinking should be delayed.

"Hi I'm Xiquey, I don't suppose you understand what I am saying?" (Xiquey)

Instead of responding with words, the goblin charges at me and opens its mouth presumably to bite at me.

So I smack a green runt with my stick and slam it into the ground.

I try to press down on it to assert dominance, if I can properly gesture then maybe it can help me find resources like berries or water, but the goblin is resisting nonstop and doesnt seem to understand the concept of surrender.

The goblin is beggining to get loose from the pin, so I grab the little bugger and drop kick it to quiet in down a bit. Unfortunately that drop kick was enough to kill it, I didn't think I hit it in any vitals, nor should a single dropkick be able to kill a creature 1/3 of my height that easily. If non-lethal injuries are fatal as long as you run out of HP, then I need to be careful.

Speaking of HP, open menu, status check, class change, backslash open menu, run menu.exe, start tutorial, status page, status update, none of this is workin, fuck the developer and call the GM I would like to file a complaint. I begin to examine the goblin corpse while I continue trying different ways to access a menu of some kind to check my stats.

The goblin had nothing on it but a dirty rag, this one turned out to be female but the rag smells bad enough that I'd be better off using the rag as string to tie leaves together than as is, it is too small for me to wear anyways. I also begin to carry the corpse with me as cooked goblin is better than nothing as a food source. Hopefully that isn't considered demi-human cannibalism by the locals or anything.

I am already starting to get tired after another hour, I really didn't get out much and superhuman endurance is definately not one of my abilities. I try punching a tree, and superhuman strength is out too, but now I have a hurt hand so at least I have something. I gather dome wood and use shavings as tinder to start a fire, I also shave my sick into a spear while watching the fire grow.

Now I don't have a convienient rock or setup to hold the goblin over the flame, so I just hold it upside down over the fire until it seems cooked enough, I have no butchery experience so I am probably doing this wrong somehow.

It tastes absolutely terrible, but at the same time I have had worse like when food has expired and you don't notice until you taste it. It also doesn't taste as bad as a lot of things that smell bad do, so hopefully it is fine.

I force myself to eat an arm through so that I have some food in my stomach, but I feel quite quesy now.

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I was going to dissect the goblin corse next, but now I don't think I can stomach that until my stomach settles down some first, so I rest a bit more before exploring again.

The fire doesn't seem to have attracted any attention, human or monster, I was somewhat worried about being discovered by an angry goblin camp with one of their dead, but that didn't happen.

I spot a few creatures like a horned rabbit, chipmunks with fangs, and birds that look like they have metal beaks, but none of them seem to want to fight me as I pass through and they are too quick to catch with luggage.

I am concerned that I haven't found any berries, cooked goblin blood that isn't fresh is a bad water source to rely on.

I get real tired after another few hours, so I climb a tree and start to file down an arm bone from the goblin.

Once it is reasonably sharp, I cut open the goblin in a pretty nasty process, but nothing but blood, guts, and bone are found inside, no monster cores here. Thigh bones are usually the biggest and strongest ones so I begin to make a dagger out of one of them as the arm bone is too flimsy to be used in combat.

I also try to meditate or sense magic somehow, but none of my efforts bear any fruit. I set the goblin hide out to tan, and then I rest in the tree until nightfall and then sleep because my muscles are sore since I don't usually use them this much,

I wake up the next day, and I am still in a tree. I am not disappointed, a world with monsters has great ptential, but I know it will be a pain to get to that point as I still desperately need fresh water. I encounter a group of 3 goblins this time, I also didn't find them first as the literal ankle biters latched on to me can attest.

It really fucking hurts, and I stomp one of their skulls, drop the hide and spear I was carrying and slash another with my thigh knife through its neck.

As for the third one, I stab the knife into its eye. Suprisingly the one I stomped on is still alive, I try to intimidate it and gesture for it to sit, but it jumos at me again so I finish it off.

Seems like the goblins don't negotiate, and even injured all the other nearby creatures seem to keep their distance while the goblins are outright hostile.

I rip the hide that I don't think finished tanning and use the pieces to cover my bleeding wounds. Even a minor injury is very bad for a survival situation, and bleeding legs makes finding a river a much more difficult task.

Ignoring the pain I stash my corpses up a tree that I will be resting in and only coming down to cook and eat/drink goblin until I recover, this is a terrible plan and yet somehow still my best option. I keep myself occupied and preoductive by trying magic sensing, chants, trying to open a menu, and even solving math problems in my head in case it provides a skill or stat boost.

I was prepared for the worst, but was plesantly suprised. My wounds healed, in less than an hour to boot. in fact it only took like 10 minutes until the bleeding stopped, and fully healed shortly after without even scarring. Clearly I heal much faster in this world, the only question is if my healing rate is abnormal or not.

I carry 3 hides, the wood spear, a thigh bone knife, and a goblin corpse as I continue to travel, and I eventually come across a stream. I carefully look at the surrounding area before approaching the stream, and I observe the stream carefully and even throw the goblin corse on its edge before approaching in case a predator is waiting their.

My paranoia proves to be unfounded, and I manage to get a clean drink of fresh water, it is so refreshing to have something even as simple as freshwater after living off goblin blood even if it was only for a day or two, the fact I haven't gotten sick yet is enough for me to think this world might not even have disease. Even better I manage to find fish in the water, they are rather small but infinately better then goblin flesh so I try to spear a few.

I fail miserably even knowing that water refracts light and taking it into consideration I am just too poor a spearmen to catch a fish. I thus gather some firewood and begin making rope to make a net and string some leather for basic clothing and catching fish.

I manage to catch some fish with my completed net and have the most satisfying meal since coming here, I set up the goblin skins to tan and rest up in a tree.

I wake up to a arrow in my chest, it seems to have been blocked by my ribcage but it still hurts enough for me to scream bloody murder. Luckily the 7 goblins around my tree didn't coordinate the attack so most are still climbing while 2 archers shoot very inaccurately at me, at the end of this incidant the numbers of arrows on the ground indicate that they shot at me for a while before one finally hit me and woke me up.

I pull out the arrow which I normally wouldn't do because I jump down the tree quickly and jostling an arrow within me is a bad plan, I rush the archers and stab they're next while they flail about instead of continuing to shoot at me. The other goblins scrambled off the tree to chase me, but their allies are dead before they arrive, and I glare at them as they approach.

For the first time since being attacked by goblins, they are actually smart enough to run this time, I can't chase them all but I do manage to outrun and kill 2 of them before the other 3 are out of sight.

I patch up my wound a bit with a scrap of hide and a lot of rope, and check out my campsite. The goblins didn't steal anything, my goblin hides seem usable by now so I star to make a basic shirt and pants out of many shabby rope connected parts, my clothes are a mess but I am no longer practically naked.

The goblins are smart enough to make bows and organize, but they are bad at coordination and gauging whether they can win a fight or not. I am distracted by my inner thoughts when I see something float down the river. It is clearly trash, rotten fruit and apple cores and the like, but this significance is clear to me.

Civilization is upstream.