Ch8

DOING SOMETHING STUPID - A GLORIOUS DEATH

Let’s go back underground.

I’m climbing down the giant shafts. Whenever I can't directly build a stick ladder down, I use my rope to climb down a level, then use sticks to climb back up and get the rope. Repeat. The risk of falling is high, and it is slow. But if successful I will have a secure path deep into the city from which I can safely explore. Hopefully I will only need to use it once ...

I'm hoping to build a transporter.

This complicated, slightly dangerous device will teleport me from surface to deep.

A pad with the needed components next to it can be linked via a key to a second pad. The power cells can be recharged by heating.

Building two of these (one in the deep, one at my farmstead) is my goal ... I will never achieve it.

I've fallen.

I'm lucky to be alive. But I can't get back up that way.

This is the curse of the City. I might never make it out of this place alive.

On the upside, I've reached a decent depth. I'm more likely to find the treasures which will help me get out.

Thanks to cave mushrooms I now have glow paint. This makes it much easier to find my way. Seeing as I'm stuck anyway, I'm going to explore, hoping to find something good. I mark my trails with glow paint.

I find my first artifacts. They are not much use, but it's a hint that strange things are to be found here. I slowly accumulate more items, growing ever more greedy ...

until one wrong step ...

One year after being exiled, Klo plunges to his death in a mysterious temple, his bags laden with golden treasures. All he has built is left to others.