4 Chapter 4
Last night was tough.
Corven hardly got any sleep thanks to the storm nearly blowing away his shelter entrance, and the hard ground.
"Ouuch...Aargh..." groans Corven as he rubs his neck, which has a bad creek in it.
While rubbing his neck and yawning, he moves some bushes slightly to see how it is outside.
What he sees is the beauty of the forest, with raindrops still falling down, and the morning dew after a cold night.
Seeing the coast is clear, Corven moves his tree bark door and crawls out, putting it back after hes out.
After admiring the forest for a moment, Corven brings out the metal fishing line and his sharp rock,
"Lets get'er done" says Corven, faking a country accent.
He wonders around the area searching for tracks of smaller critters, using the line to set up traps.
By the time he's done he's set up 28 traps, with 5 surrounding his cave entrance incase they get to close to his cave.
"That should do for now, once I get some bait they should give me a steady stream of EXP."
"Now time to eat" Says Corven as he puts the rest of the metal line and his sharp rock back in his inventory, pulling out his spear.
Before leaving for the pond, he takes a quick bath in the shallow river, and searches for more sticks and moss he can use for another fire to cook the fish meat.
As Corven gets to the river, he has enough stuff for a fire, he found a berry bush as well, but left it be until he knows its safe to eat.
As he gets to the pond he sees that the turtle-boars
have left, probably due to the storm, though they did leave their mark before they left.
Around the area are piles of feces, hoof marks, leftover fish and fruits, and scratch marks on the nearby trees.
"Gross..They better not have contaminated the water."Says Corven as he steps over a pile of shit.
Looking around and in the water, he sees that its fine, so he heads into the water slowly to not scare any too much, and readies his spear, and waits....
3 hours later--------
Corven makes a fire using the torch he kept in his inventory, it took a long time, and hes probably decreased the amount of fish in the pond by a big margin, but he managed to collect 27 fish of different sizes, earning himself 13.5 more EXP to use.
As hes processing the fish, hell pit 3 big ones on the campfire to eat, and save the rest for later in his inventory.
"What the hell is this?...." says Corven as he slowly pulls out what seems like a tapeworm out of one of the fish he's cutting up.
Realizing what it is, he throws it in the fire and starts gagging.
"OH GOD T-*GAGS* THATS DISGUSTING" Yells Corven as he runs to wash his hands off in the pond.
Scrubbing his hands in the water for a minute, he feels satisfied and relatively clean, and heads back to his cooking fish.
"System" he says as he sits down.
__________Status__________
Name: Corven Cain
EXP Points: 13.5
Health: 100/100
Mana: 100/100
STR: 10
AGI: 10
CON: 10
VIT: 10
INT: 10
WIS: 10
LUK: 10
Tabs- Inventory, Drawing Panel
Tapping the drawing panel tab, Corven brings up his saved knife drawing, and sharpens it again, with a boost to the amount of points he has, he'd rather have it at the ready rather than have to spend time sharpening it to an edge incase of an emergency.
So with the knife sharpened, he accepts the price of 1 EXP, and the knife appears in his hand.
"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be." says Corven with a smile, as he handles the knife.
With more points to use at the moment, he needs something useful, building wise and combat wise, like machete, so he extends the length of the blade to 18 inches, and the handle to 5 inches, increases the width of the blade slightly to help make it heavier and more durable, as well as curving it upwards slightly, finished with the blade, he adds 2 shealths and a strap to wear it, for his machete and knife.
"Hahaha, now all I need is a hockey mask and ill be Jason." says Corven as he laughs slightly.
The machete he made will cost him a wopping 3.5 points, which may not seem like much, but thats worth 7 fish.
Sad about the price, Corven accepts it and the machete appears in his hand, gripping the machete, he does a few practice swings with it.
"It feels okay, with the weight and durability of it, itll help me out while I'm stuck here."
Accepting the new machete, Corven puts on the strap and sheaths his weapons, preferring to use them for utility, unless combat is needed.
"Oo theyre ready", he says as he takes the fish meat off the fire, storing them in his inventory so he can hurry and clean up the fire and get away before predators come.
When he finishes, he starts walking back to his shelter slowly while eating his cooked fish, placing piece of fish in his traps.
But when he gets to his cave he sees that...the entrance has been partially smashed in.
Corven seeing this, he readies his spear and walks closer to it carefully and quietly.
When he gets close, he manages to hear quiet grunting.
Managing to peak in through the opening of leftover sticks and leaves, he sees a sleeping injured Turtle-Boar, all alone.
Corven is elated, if he can kill the lone turtle-Boar, he could get more EXP than from the fish.
Not wanting to miss the opportunity, he slowly creeps into the cave, and when he gets close enough, he aims his spear, and aims it straight into the Turtle- Boars eye.
As the spear tip is heading into its eye, the Turtle-Boar wakes up and sees it heading towards him, but with it being too close to do anything, and it being injured, it can only sigh in defeat as it is quickly stabbed and killed due the tip managing to reach its brain.
{+10 EXP}
Quickly storing the corpse before it can spill any blood, along with his now bloody spear.
Corven celebrates his first kill and a massive boost to his EXP.
"Hopefully soon ill be able to get the rest of them.." Says corven as he thinks about the rest of the Turtle-boars yesterday.
"I'll just have to forget about them for now.."
"...I have things i need to get done first" he says as he looks towards the half destroyed entrance door he made.
