Where did the watch go?

Dunno but it was in a chest on the top floor of the outpost but that was two play through s ago. Check afti's lab and amary's chests.

Who watches the watchmen?

aah

I just realized I probably left that in my tomb

All right, break in to get the watch but seal it up again on your way out.

Finished!

I will get to work... tomorrow.

Its cool. Hydrall your timer starts tomorrow then :P

Who watches the watchmen?

Wow, this is such a great idea... I'm really liking the journals too. Good luck you guys!

If you see "..." it just means I'm watching. More polite, I figured.

I am actually interested in reading the journals and getting a chance to watch the world as it changes. Honestly though your guys in game journals and Continuity Nod are highly amusing.

edited 11th Nov '10 8:58:05 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

Hydrall I hope you haven't forgotten the game and journal entries :P

Who watches the watchmen?

Well, that would be unfortunate, although I'm in no hurry since alot of stuffs are happening at home.

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Shit. I don't think I'm gonna be able to find the time to complete this, at least this time... I've only gotten through one day so far, because various problems and distractions keep cropping up.

You still have another day Hydrall get as far as you can write up the journal and shoot me the save. If you guys need to pass your turn for a bit let me know and we can bump it to the next guy and put you at the end of the line on the rotation.

Who watches the watchmen?

When's the new journal coming?!

Doodles

So on my schedule, I will be severed from the internet on Saturdays and Sundays.

Are you sure you aren't forgetting something? Are you sure you shouldn't be somewhere else?

Hydrall missed his mark real life creepered him. :P

It is Aviatus turn at the moment.

Who watches the watchmen?

Journal of Aviatus: Redstone engineer.

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Prologue

I have travelled to these blighted lands upon the orders of my king and the opportunity to further my research of a mysterious and versatile substance known as Redstone. While this substance is very rare within the kingdom it’s also apparently quite abundant in the nether reaches of this cursed soil.

The drawback, as the situation stands, mainly consist of a major monster infestation and a lack of resources to work with. Excluding the efforts of my predecessors, I will have to start from scratch.

Day 1

I arrive in the early morning by the shore and can spot the safe-house fairly easily, the structure is a slight bit chaotic but there is a fair amount of resources inside.

A little bit of scouting around the area reveals to me that there are plenty of animals, quite surprising with the abnormal levels of undead here. I will try to gather some meat later, but for now I will start constructing a mine so I can have a reliable income of resources.

At this point I have also come to the following conclusions:

• Even though this house has walls they’re fairly thin, as punctuated by the wailings of the monsters.
• The food I brought on this travel is running low already; I will try to remedy this tomorrow, erecting a farmhouse for a more reliable source of sustenance.

The rest of the day goes by fast, all the while collecting trunks, sand and stone for future constructions. I have heard the sun can set quite fast here, and when it does it’s best to get to safety in a hurry. Abandoning my work collecting sand for a greenhouse to another day, I head home where I put some to be melted and converted to glass. Then start properly on mining, creating an entrance and a few more furnaces for more effective melting.

While this goes on I start to hear sounds emanating from around me, it is hard to pinpoint but it might come from above or, dare I say it... below. Gathering what can pass as courage I peek outside. The first glance around reveals to me nothing, and neither does the second, eventually though I spot the shambling forms of the monsters. At this point my internal sense of curiosity took the lead in the election of my next action, and in the dawning light of the sun I sneaked out armed with nothing but a sword someone had left there and a single iron chestplate.

Day 2

Surprisingly fast the sun rises, and with it the undead come alive with fire. The only thing that remains by the time I reach them is a slightly aged pile of arrows.

With my curiosity sated and new goals in mind I start planning for the new greenhouse, I also start scouting for a fitting place to place the foundations. The final location is down by the sea close to water so the future crops will grow properly, starting on the groundwork I lay down some stone that will serve as a foundation, and make it easier to visualize the final result.◊

While working away the day I suddenly come to the realization that I might not reach back to the Safe-house in time, finishing up the foundations I then grab my trusty sword and begin on the way back.

Just as I’m nearly almost back a zombie notices and makes a bee-line towards me, grabbing the handle tight I slash the beast, three times, and it dies (again). I remain slightly shaken, but the rest of the way goes smooth. Still, I prepare to journey out in the night and hopefully clear the immediate area of monsters.

I spend the night cruising through the zombies, barely taking any damage. That is, until I meet my deadliest foe yet, a skeleton. Sniping me in the back as a crude form of introduction, I am gravely wounded, but decide to take on it's challenge nonetheless. Throughout the night I continue to improve my skill, even find a bow and some arrows which helped greatly.

Day 3

I spend most of the day on the greenhouse, and it’s finally starting to look like something I can use.◊ Using the glass I recently melted makes me realize I still don’t have enough to finish it and that I must make more later.

The sun is however setting and that means I need to get back, and fast! Running home I spot a zombie and decide to take a chance. Charging towards it I try to at least get a couple of hits, however what I didn’t notice was the skeleton in the background, now trying to take me down with a barrage of arrows. I do the smartest thing I can do given the situation, and decide to run away. Only to be stopped by another monster, this one a giant spider. Taking blows left and right I manage to get to the doors safely, although the skeleton situates itself outside, it knows I’m here.

All attempts to kill it end in failure as it manages to shoot me through the door, several times. In the end I decide to wait for dawn to burn those undead to the ground.

I was surprised to notice the skeleton had disappeared again, and although suspicious, I still take the chance at looking around the perimeter of my door, only to be assaulted from the inside of my compound! Fleeing again I manage to survive, if only by a hair's breadth.’ The sun is coming, and the skeleton seems to be gone again, but I’m wiser now. And I will not repea- WHAT! It... It came INSIDE?◊

What should I do what should I do?

Day 4

While I think about what I should do with the skeleton in the attic I continue to mine some more, and although it’s day now I can still hear the faint sounds of undead things moving beneath the earth. Unfortunately I do not have time enough today to reach whatever is hiding in the depths, this is the halfway mark after all, and today I will (hopefully) make the greenhouse workable.

But first I decide to check on the skeleton, lo and behold! It fell for my clever trick,◊ and I finally manage to dispose of it, sending the undead to wherever they go when they die.

Relieved of that burden I decide to gather the final amount if sand I will need to complete the greenhouse. This task is much more difficult than it seems and by a momentary bout of stupidity I almost choke to death a couple of times. I realize I may have gone overboard with the harvesting, as I can see by the state of the place, it is starting to get empty.◊

Travelling the little distance to the greenhouse I begin planting some seeds I collected earlier and start planting them, I realize that it would be much better if the crops get some light at night too, speeding the growth considerably so I create a few spots where I can put up some torches.

This work goes on until a little before midnight, at which point I spot a shadow lurking just within my perimeter of vision. Naturally this cannot go unexplored so I rig myself up, pull out my trusty sword and begin exploring the night. And at last I can see the creature for what it is,◊ a thing if I remember correctly was named Creeper. I must say the name fits, for unless I do not spot it in time, this could very well be my bane.◊

I manage to slay it before any damage can be done; apparently they are very easily agitated and explode violently if they come too close. A moment later I spot another one◊ and easily manage to beat it down, this time knowing most of their strength stems from surprise.

Spotting a third one I can’t help but start to feel that this is going too easy, unfortunately whatever wicked deity governs this land has decided to answer my prayers. It spots me long before I can reach it, and I only manage to hit it once escaping into the greenhouse foundations revealing it can’t spot me through the glass.◊ I wonder if they may be tracking victims by other means than sight...

With the sun coming up it’s time to head back and make more glass so I will finally be able to finish the greenhouse. On the way back I see something a bit peculiar however, and decide...◊

This will be the last one.

Day 5

After engaging the last Creeper in combat, I marvel at how used I have got to daily near-death experiences, certainly that can’t be good for the heart... I also remember one of the notes of the people previously in my situation; the powder-like substance Creepers sometimes drops can be used to create powerful explosives, that knowledge will certainly prove useful in my future research.

I spend some time loading the furnaces with sand and go out to collect a bit more wood while it melts. Gathering takes a while, mostly I have to strip the trees of leaves to be able to use them properly, and at least I gain a few saplings healthy enough to be planted.

Coming back I gather the finished glass and head back to the greenhouse where I finish the main section.◊ I also start on a small back section where I plan to grow reeds and cactuses if I manage to get ahold of some.

With that finished and night falling I return to my mine◊ deciding to go deeper and see if I can find any caves that hold valuable resources. This goes fine and I finally break through a cave ceiling,◊ all the while being very careful of monsters that supposedly lurk down here.

It is not until I very carefully peek around the corner that I notice I am not alone, or more specifically, it’s another skeleton that lusts after my blood. Of course having at least a minimal amount of experience with such I block the path off and manage to kill it by hitting it’s legs. With all this noise it’s also not very strange that I get more visitors.◊

Killing those two and another one that had hid itself deeper in the darkness gives me access to this cave;◊ I can’t help but think that the cave down to the right has some very unnatural angles.

All In all I gather around 10 iron and 30 coal units.

Day 6

This might be the most uneventful day so far, not that I’m complaining, but I remain on guard.

I dedicate part of the day to killing some pigs and manage to gather quite a bit of meat which I will cook later. After that I gather the last of my glass and finish the extra room in the back of the greenhouse, which can be used to grow reeds and cacti, maybe I will try to gather some later.

After various escapades involving a couple of chickens and a fishing rod, I start preparing for nightfall again. I also realize I need to gather more wood later.

Going out killing a final couple of pigs I am suddenly ambushed by another skeleton,◊ this time from the top of the tree, since I do not have the necessary equipment to deal with such a foe right now I run back and equip my sword and bow, finally killing it in The Battle of My Door. Maybe it would be a good idea to create a wall around the safe-house sometime in the future?

I spend the rest of the night resting some and planning for the final day.

Day 7

I can feel it in my bone like never before; I have confined myself to this spot for far too long, it is time for some adventure.

My hopes for this journey will be this

• Return by nightfall if possible, and by all means do not miss the transport back to the kingdom.
• Hopefully find some cactus to grow in my greenhouse.
• Have some fun.

I set out in the early morning, judging by the clouds the direction should be roughly south of the safe house. Just a little bit further out it seems the landscape is slightly smopther and there are alot more trees, I also pass a cave where there is planted a single torch. Closer inspection rewards me with another skeleton. I, of course, choose to run and leave it to burn in the daylight.◊

Walking a little farther brings something interesting within eyesight,◊ what could this structure be? I will have to investigate at a later time. For now I can spot something more important to me at the moment,◊ a cactus!

Now that I have reached most of my goals I will begin the trip back. Passing the small forest, being ambushed yet again at the cave with a torch and hurting myself slightly jumping off a cliff brings me to safety yet again. Although I should mention I took a slight detour, and the view are magnificent!◊

I decide to plant the cacti I found◊ And harvest some of the crops. While waiting for the night to fall. And when I try to exit I am fired at again, Thos damned skeletons, I’ll show them...

Going on a killing spree can be quite freeing, quite freeing indeed. Walking up to the north side of the house I slashed all the creepers there to pieces, a total of 4, walking a little further I notice one of those spiders that bested me last time, and I manage to trick it to attack me from the bottom of a slope. Killing the zombies that came in my way was quite easy too, only about three of them were properly disposed of though. Even on the way back I managed to get a second spider.

Although I almost were killed again when entering the front door, BAM! In my face, an arrow! There was a skeleton inside my coumpound... My... home... AGAIN?

This was my main project, the greenhouse.

Night◊

Day◊

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Day 1-7 difficulty: Normal

Personal death count: 0

Kill count: Zombies: 12 Skeletons: 7 Creepers: 11 Spiders: 2

Total kill count; 32

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Oh, and one more thing, how is my english writing skills?

edited 17th Nov '10 11:19:24 AM by Aviatus

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Uhh, guys, I kinda forgot this thread existed until Tuef PM'ed me.

I'm gonna bow out, sorry. I'm playing Minecraft way too much as is already.

Aviatus your play through looks great so far. your English is pretty good, although there are a few things—i can PM them if you want since this isn't really an edit work thread. :)

Doodles

Please, do tell. :3

edited 16th Nov '10 2:55:28 PM by Aviatus

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Oh crap, this is going to be good!

Our current kill count total as of the day 3 journal update for Aviatus 61 Monsters dispatched of mixed varieties.

Let me rephrase this. Most commonly killed monster Creepers Followed by Skeletons, Spiders, then Zombies.

Only reason I got so many on my first go was I spent a good night and half just hunting monsters including my final fight night.

The garden of glory is going to be a big sucker.

edited 16th Nov '10 4:31:29 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

Man Doodlechef is gonna have a field day with this greenhouse idea—provided it isn't creepered by the time it's my turn. :)

Doodles

I hope you survive and do not become the first monster casualty :P

Who watches the watchmen?

Are we allowed to give suggestions to the person currently playing the game?

I'll probably end up the first monster casualty, I tend to have a problem with them, skellies or mobs mostly. of course the fact I tend to run around with no armor or food on normal MAY have something to do with it...

When all else fails, hit it with a shovel!