Dalos

of course, here i sit a the cannery, wolves on my trail. One night down and no aurora. i have some food but don't want to stay more than a night or two and eat up my food reserves. didn't consider that the aurora would play games with me.

alright, spent more than 2 weeks eating bear meat, mending clothes and failing at fishing. it gets kind of nervy sleeping in the bear cave. I figure by the respawn rules on Interloper i have another week or so before i'd have to worry about the bear again, but wasn't going to chance it. made my way to the cannery. didn't mess around trying to sprint either. just blue flared it and hoped for the best.

the stash

bones.

ok, here's me after frying up 35 kgs of bear meat, and after stumbling through the dark to sleep off my cabin fever in the bear cave.

!!!!!!

and now cabin fever risk. what the hell. i've stayed in caves for the better part of 100 days.

got him but i have no wood to cook him up. seriously, not one stick to my name.

got a second chance.

did not work. he charged me and i ran to the little cabin. shot my shot and it hit the post instead of mr. bear.

tried some night hunting because my day was shot with a super blizzard down by the fishing spots.

so a bow and arrow are pretty much useless against the damn timberwolves. here's me sprinting for dear life.

got gunsmithing 2, for whatever good that will do me.

and i had a feeling this would happen. I lug an extra climbing rope all the way from Coastal about 50 days ago, climbed it down the ravine. and i find this one waiting for me. still i couldn't be 100% that it would be there so i couldn't risk it.

stupid direwolves. loading up the flare gun for this because my max sprint time is about 3 seconds with all my equipment.

just passed 150 days. Decided to head through FM on top of the map, staying a night in the cave there. Then on to ML where i fished somewhat successfully for a day or two while my bear skin cured. I used that to fix up my one coat and some old skins to fix up my other stuff. Cold weather bonus is +29 now which isn't bad. i was able to find not one, but two wool toques in broken railroad so i will make sure not to harvest either of them. in ML i found the hacksaw that i left there, which was stupid. got it back and repaired it. unfortunately, i had to use my hatchet for everything on BR and FM so instead of using my whetstones to repair it, i will just use the s out of it until i need a new one. went through ML on to the ravine where i will stay before heading down and around to bleak inlet. picked up some dinner, breakfast and lunch first. Ravine works really well when you need a breather from bear and wolf attacks. I also stopped at the dam where i was storing my one marine flare. will need that at the inlet i think. Also, between BR and FM i got my stash of cattails to about 180 which equates to around 8 KG of weight, which is far too much. I stored some at the camp office and then more at the dam, so only carrying about 50 now. I know i will pick up more on the inlet transition.

killed another bear at Broken Railroad with my magic arrow. there was a moose up at the lodge too but the bear was easier bc of the hunting blind. can i get 20 KG of meat back to the maintenance yard without wolf interference? probably not.

ok, fast forward a couple weeks. obviously plenty of food at trappers but not much to do other than make up a new bow which was fine. i took a day trip on to the abandoned lookout and didn't get anything good. then another trip to the 3 trailers where i got a candy bar and another cooking pot. i grabbed a bunch of bear meat and 1 hide and made it back to the camp office without incident. the plan is to stay at Mystery lake till this hide cures and then get all my stuff to 100% before heading through the muskeg and on the broken railroad. the elusive second wool ear wrap my be there. hopefully not ruined. got archery 5 innocuously...just killing a little rabbit. anti climactic.

took forever to find this guy. and i have lost some nice catches before. he was hidden up the hill between the little cabin and the other side where the broken lookout is. at least it wasn't on the side of a hill so i could make a fire.

he wasn't as heavy as i thought. only like 30 KG and over half of it is gone now. i am not a fan of overkilling bc it takes so long for these guys to respawn. but if i am in this for the long haul, i need more sustenance. no one shot this time though.

got him pretty good. good landing spot too. ended up chopping him to pieces and not even a wolf howl. going to snow shelter it, eat my bear meat and craft a new bow (currently 20% condition) and arrows up the wazzoo before i head out to FM and then the Railroad.

trappers again....this MF is sleeping....

day 123 - well that was stupid. stayed a night in grey mothers and was harvesting clothing and i didn't realize that instead of repairing my wool toque i harvested it. shit. i have a wool scarf but that is -1 degree for not good reason. i know i have another one somewhere. maybe the dam? sh*t.

need a plan now. can't keep farting around this cave forever. I would like to get my one bear skin coat repaired, but it's not in terrible shape. i also only have one sewing kit left so i've been repairing with fishing tackle which works pretty well at sewing 4. i could either head down to FM and get back to the camp office that way, or i could head back through Milton, which i have not really looted yet. i think i will do milton. i'll be carrying a uncured moose hide though.