After what felt like a millennia, but was probably around ten minutes, I finally found the source of the water! However…
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
It was just the light dripping of water coming from the stalactites. Not even enough to drink from. But, if I strain my ears I can barely make out the sounds of flowing water. If I keep walking down the same path I should be able to eventually reach it. During the tutorial, it mentioned that I would need to eat and drink at least once every in game day or else I’ll receive a negative status. so I need to find a source before my twenty four hours is up. “I wonder if skeletons need to eat” thinking this, I look back at my skeleton who has been following me... where is my skeleton? Shoot! I was so focused on the water I completely forgot I have too keep the link connected!
Right when I was thinking that, I heard the sounds of bones clattering in the darkness from the path I’d been walking to see that he has gained back control and had his rusty spear pointed at me. his legs strangely coordinated on the wet and rocky ground. I had just barely enough time to dodge the thrust of his spear that was aimed at my head. Well, more like slipping than dodging. But it gave me enough time to recast the
“Phew... don’t scare me like that.” i mutter under my breathe as I slowly stand up and this time I have him walk in front of me so I can keep the connection more stable. Now that we are getting closer to the river, I can hear the rushing of water more clearly, thankfully it doesn’t sound like a rampaging river, but I can’t be certain without actually seeing it for myself. We got to the river sooner than I expected, it was literally right around the corner. We finally found the river! ...or more like a stream. It’s so thin that I can easily step over it, and its so shallow I cant even dip my hand into it to drink from. But this is still good! because this stream has to be flowing somewhere! and it’s probably going to lead to outside the cave if I followed it... in that case, I should probably go upstream to go deeper into the cave. Eventually I’ll leave and search for an actual town, but since it’ll most likely be still be daytime outside if I left now, there’s no reason for me to look for the exit yet.
“Hey... you don’t have a name... uh, Skelly, come here and dig a small hole in the stream with your spear” I said, as I wanted to learn two things. first and most important is how detailed of commands I can give him, or if he only responds to simple commands, and the second thing is that while I had heard that this game is something called a world sim, I don’t know how in depth that is, like can I change the world around me like in sandbox games? or is the world hard coded to be like most games? while it looks like dirt and sounds like dirt, its just a flat texture.
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After I gave him the command, Skelly pulled up his spear and dug it into the ground below the stream, or more accurately, tried to. He wasn’t strong enough to break the solid rock and I could see from here that his spear was bending... okay so question one of: Can I give complex commands? Was a resounding yes, but question two is still unclear as it could simply be that Skelly isn’t strong enough to break solid rock, but I could see a light scrape on the ground where his spear was, so their is still a chance. for now though, I’ll head upstream to hopefully find where this water is coming from and maybe get a source of water that is drinkable. “Skelly, lead” I commanded as he walked in front of me upstream.
rattle rattle rattle
More skeletons up ahead, I’ll stay back here with the ball of light and send Skelly up ahead, Their eyes glow an eerie blue, so I can somewhat see them far away, there should be three of them. “Skelly, go to that group up ahead and lure them back to me” I say, planning on seeing how many skeletons I can control at a time, With just one skeleton, I don’t feel safe enough to move around, and I’m realizing just now that I don’t have any way of attacking by myself
Skelly ran head first into the group and stabbed the closest one before running back to me, and now all three are chasing him. realizing my mistake, I raise my hand and cast
The blue chains wrapped around him and I could see him struggle to break free, so much so that I had to drop my concentration on Skelly just so I can put full focus on capturing him. and after a few seconds of struggling he finally stopped shaking and I could feel the connection solidify, and this time the connection was a little more solid, I could sense that I don’t need to concentrate as much... did my
As the original Skelly was released from my control, he stopped running and seemed to look around in confusion, giving the other two skeletons enough time to launch their attacks, shattering his skull. My eyes widened as I watched my only companion up to this point fall to the ground in a pile of bones, his spear making a loud clacking sound before rolling at my feet. Strange, even though I only met him less than an hour ago, and he tried killing me twice... I’m a little sad, angry even “Skelly 2, kill them” I say as I pick up Skelly’s rusty spear and point it at one of the skeletons. Originally I had hoped to
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...Well that kinda ruined the mood, whatever, I don’t want to lose the strong skeleton while trying to get a weaker one anyways so I’ll just settle for the EXP and loot, plus I think there’s a timer before I can use