The Hermit - 31 Year, Autumn.
6th Limestone, 31.Spent first days of autumn moving things between stockpiles. Got annoyed by niths several times. Decided to catch them first, and only than get to jewelry. Used bull’s bones to create some mechanisms and cages. Will install it on lower floors of the cave. Somewhere near the lowest hatch.
4th Limestone, 31.One of my cats have given birth to 3 kittens. Hope they’ll be useful. I had enough remains all over the house even before them.
12th Limestone, 31.Two traps are properly set up. One at the entrance. One at the lowest hatch. Now all I have to do is wait. So I’ll cut some gems, after I craft a bin to store them.
14th Limestone, 31.One of the niths have given birth to a new one. Right near The Dice. In front of the door to my room. That was disgusting. Hope they’ll get caught soon.
16th Limestone, 31.One more nith have born a baby. This time in my stone stockpile. I hate these little buggers. How much I hate them. I’ll torture them to the death. One at a time. Then I’ll butcher every severed piece of them, cook meat and eat in front of those who are still alive. Why do cats ignore them!?
17th Limestone, 31.I feel myself tired. Perhaps, I should take a break to make my mind clear again. Lying in by bed, I’ve heard a strange loud noise. I hope that’s my cage trap. Even more I hope that it was nith who activated it, not one of the kittens.
19th Limestone, 31.Now I definitely feel better. I suspect that was The Dice, what made me so angry couple of days ago. Having a walk to my food storage to take a refreshing dip of strawberry wine, I took a look on my trap. The nith inside have been in there for two days. Without food. Without water. It is still alive. Still alive.
It drives me crazy. While drinking I’ve noticed two more creatures running one after another along the storage rooms. Now I remember why I hate them so much. Have to catch them all. Need more cages. Jewelry can wait.
23rd Limestone, 31.Now I have 5 niths and one baby in cages. Transferred them in one installed in my room. That’s so great to see them all in one small cage, where they can barely move. Never imagined I’ll be so happy to look at them. Now, to more important things. Tonight I had a dream. I’ve seen a construction. A building of some kind. I should try to build it today.
24th Limestone, 31.The process of constructing took more time than I expected, but now the building is finished. I call it the sundial. I tried to use it, but it seems that nothing have changed.
25th Limestone, 31.Finally got to gem cutting. It turned out to be easier than it seemed. I’ve managed to create a large gem from the first piece of jade. But then everything went worse. Only small, ugly crystals. I am upset now. Should go kick a nith or two in the cage, perhaps.
While I was busy working with gems, one of those disgusting abominations have born a baby. Right in the overcrowded cage. Still, I am not very upset with this. The worse they feel – the better I feel.
26th Limestone, 31.One more birth by a caged nith. Like rabbits. Hate them.
1st Sandstone, 31.I am done with gems. The most fun part was encrusting large jade gem with a small rock crystal. Now I am planning to carve a bone statue. And then do a bit more archaeology. I seem to have found a relic of some kind in the cave. And only then I’ll get to metallurgy.
Statue is ready. It is really great. I’ve cut an image of Usen, my favorite god and me. Though, I am not sure how I look like, so nobody will ever guess who is on this statue with Usen.
Now I need a chair and a table to make one more workbench to make work with gems easier.
3rd Sandstone, 31.Today my entrance trap caught somebody. I was sure that was one more nith. But much to my surprise it wasn’t there. A kakapo got caged. I do like this green parrot. He looks much better than the pile of niths in my cage.
6th Sandstone, 31.I’ve decided to try myself in taming. I’ve given that parrot a piece of meat. It liked food a lot and now seems to like me too. Though I am not sure, whether it likes me, or my flesh. Now I should go collect some fossils.
9th Sandstone, 31.While walking downstairs to take fossil to my workbench I’ve discovered that a giant fat drowspider got caged in my lower trap. It is red and about four times bigger than me. Probably, I should try to tame it as well as a parrot, but I am afraid I am not skilled enough now. So I should wait a bit and deal with that fossil already.
11th Sandstone, 31.I’ve spent two days restoring fossils. I managed to obtain several ancient weapons, all made of deep bronze. Zweihander, superior halberd and well-preserved legendary long sword. I think those weapons could be used to build several traps. But that is later. For now, I am finally getting to metallurgy.
12th Sandstone, 31.While mining cassiterite, I’ve discovered a great mossy cavern under my cave. Should investigate later. But now it is too risky. Maybe after I tame drowspider, I’ll take it with me to the caverns. But later. Much later.
18th Sandstone, 31.During the past six days I’ve built myself a forge, a smelter and carved a bone mechanism for an ore processor. Now I am planning to burn some wood to coal, smelt some ore and try to encase The Dice into metal. I hope it will lower its influence on my mind.
22nd Sandstone, 31.I’ve built a wood oven on top of the hill, right next to my butcher’s shop and sundial.
24th Sandstone, 31.Six trees cut. Will burn them to coal tomorrow.
1st Timber, 31.Today something rot in the storage rooms. Miasma is all over the cave now. Despite that I’ve finished processing cassiterite. More and more often I think of building a metallurgist’s workshop.
3rd Timber, 31.Now I have three tin bars and two copper bars. Seems like time to encase The Dice.
While moving bars to storage i've noticed that one of my kittens has tattoes. Think it is The Dice playing jokes with my mind. Again.
4th Timber, 31.I was walking to get The Dice, but suddenly spotted a reptile woman in my storage. How the hell she got past my cage?! Well, I’ve found it out later. Luckily, I take my sword wherever I go. I quickly sliced intruder in two equal parts and moved down to check the cage trap. And I found another reptile man in a cage. I’ll think what to do with him later. Turned out that my victim slaughtered three of my five cats before I put her to rest. Butchered her corpse and cats’ remains. Nothing should be wasted.
8th Timber, 31.While I was butchering and hauling, somebody emptied the cage with my kakapo. It turned out to be a cave swallow man. Another one got caged by the entrance trap. Doesn’t really matter.
12th Timber, 31.I put my kakapo into a newly installed cage in the dining room.
22nd Timber, 31.I studded The Dice with tin. Can’t remember anything after I brought it to my forge. I regained consciousness on the floor. The Dice was lying nearby. I was terrified. It damaged my mind more than I thought. It made me make a tin picture on it instead of isolating its warpstone surface. Had to return it back to its old place.
23rd Timber, 31.I think I’d better have a rest until end of the month. Need to clear my mind after the last contact with The Dice.
