12-10-2018, 09:03 AM
2018-10-12
"I decided to return to the dense woods by the coast. Candy’s interruption of my exploration might have thrown me off at the time but it won’t stop me from picking up where I left.
I decided to have a closer look at the giant mushrooms. This time getting proper close to them to inspect. They’re very curious things, I realized, as they’re evidently not in any way related to the Aether garden. If you strip away their glow and their enormous size, they appear to be just normal mushrooms. As I’ve found after resting my hand on one of the stems and found it’s just as sticky and foul as normal mushrooms. They even smell the same.
This has me wonder, why are they growing out here? Like I told Adreanna, I haven’t seen their likes since I lived in Nympha. Where they grew in the swamp outside the town’s borders. They’re giant, yet don’t grow in the Aether garden. Nor do I feel the familiar sensation of Aether in the area and the surrounding trees are dense and short in contrast to the giant ones in and near the garden. Come to think of it, does there even grow a single fucking mushroom in the garden? I will have to investigate this. And I wonder, could these mushrooms also be used as medicine? Perhaps Roe would know?
This will be my first camping for quite some time. I still can’t believe it’s been so many years since I did this. Now that I’m at it again, it feels so familiar and so relaxing. I found a small cave by the coast just East of town. There appears to be a larger cave system just around the corner, but I haven’t attempted to have a closer look yet. I’m in doubt regarding it, it’s even longer since I went spelunking and I’m no spring chicken anymore. But perhaps now that my knee has been mended, it would be easier to climb if needed? I don’t know, I’m still not used to being able to walk without any pain at all. I can do much more than before, I was more disabled than I realized. It’s strange to think of how much I might’ve missed over the decades I was younger but had a bad knee. I’ve had a cane at the ready for probably almost half my life.
*There’s a quick scribble at the bottom of the page:*
NOTE TO SELF:
Zarkaylia, you’re a giant fucking idiot to not realize you’re too fucking old to be sleeping directly on the stone floor of a cave."
"I decided to return to the dense woods by the coast. Candy’s interruption of my exploration might have thrown me off at the time but it won’t stop me from picking up where I left.
I decided to have a closer look at the giant mushrooms. This time getting proper close to them to inspect. They’re very curious things, I realized, as they’re evidently not in any way related to the Aether garden. If you strip away their glow and their enormous size, they appear to be just normal mushrooms. As I’ve found after resting my hand on one of the stems and found it’s just as sticky and foul as normal mushrooms. They even smell the same.
This has me wonder, why are they growing out here? Like I told Adreanna, I haven’t seen their likes since I lived in Nympha. Where they grew in the swamp outside the town’s borders. They’re giant, yet don’t grow in the Aether garden. Nor do I feel the familiar sensation of Aether in the area and the surrounding trees are dense and short in contrast to the giant ones in and near the garden. Come to think of it, does there even grow a single fucking mushroom in the garden? I will have to investigate this. And I wonder, could these mushrooms also be used as medicine? Perhaps Roe would know?
This will be my first camping for quite some time. I still can’t believe it’s been so many years since I did this. Now that I’m at it again, it feels so familiar and so relaxing. I found a small cave by the coast just East of town. There appears to be a larger cave system just around the corner, but I haven’t attempted to have a closer look yet. I’m in doubt regarding it, it’s even longer since I went spelunking and I’m no spring chicken anymore. But perhaps now that my knee has been mended, it would be easier to climb if needed? I don’t know, I’m still not used to being able to walk without any pain at all. I can do much more than before, I was more disabled than I realized. It’s strange to think of how much I might’ve missed over the decades I was younger but had a bad knee. I’ve had a cane at the ready for probably almost half my life.
*There’s a quick scribble at the bottom of the page:*
NOTE TO SELF:
Zarkaylia, you’re a giant fucking idiot to not realize you’re too fucking old to be sleeping directly on the stone floor of a cave."
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