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To live in shadows, a dungeon story Start of a new day

Author:Bork Category:Unreal Update time:2022-09-25 07:37:13

Now during the day I can´t hear any wolves howling. But outside I can clearly see tracks from them, non up to my home made door though. Deciding to leave everything unnecessary in the cave I fill the backpack with the provisions, one set of clothing and everything from the cooking set except the cauldron. The axe I fasten with a strap on the side of the backpack. The whole backpack looks well used, its made out of some kind of leather with straps for the cover and on its sides. The shoulder straps are padded and comfortable and fits well without me having to do anything. My guess is that this is my backpack that was used to keep the food away from animals. I don´t feel anything special about it or get any memories wen touchning or using it. I take a strap in my hand and carefully feel every little knot and flaw in it.

"Nothing, did i make this?"

Still no memories, but I know exactly how to tie the strap to my axe for it to be secure and still easy to grab. I know I can fast draw it with move with my hand that feels like I done it hundreds if not thousands of times.

After some thinking I decide to bring a weapon with me. During the night I just threw them all into a pile without taking a closer look at any of them being to tired. The small pile is made out of 6 weapons, most of them are in bad condition, broken or bad in some way. Two of them seems to be in a better condition when looking closer at them. One broken spear with a metal point and barbs on it. made to be held in two hands and supported against the ground with your foot. Not a very good weapon for attacking but good as defense against big animals. unwieldy and nothing you bring with you into the mountains without a specific use in mind. I know its made for big animals that use their hole body mass to attack, like bears or boars. The damage on the spear looks like someone has been hacking at it more than once. The second weapon is a small bow, light and easy to carry. Small enough to have strapped to a backpack and it has 8 arrows that´s still usable, no quiver to be found. What ever happened to the bodies and everything unusable most happened to that to. The bowstring ib broken and I don not have any extra, so none of the two weapons work for me now without some kind of repairing. I can bring them for barter, but i do´t know what dangers I will find or how long time it will take I should bring something to defend myself with too or at least threaten with if I meet bandits in the forest.

Whats left is the rusty sword, a sharper sword without rust but no tip, a wooden club with leather wrapped handle and little bigger knife in good condition but it´s dull. The knife seems to be in good steel and the spear point in iron. The club is the weapon in best condition but probably worth nothing in barter so I end up taking the knife and try to use some fling from the tinderbox to sharpen it. Not good, but better than nothing.

I start by going to the stream to clean my clothing and my self. Will not leave a good impression in any settlement looking like this. The stream is just a couple of hundred steps from the cave entrance and comes from higher up the mountain. I can se something of a animal path following the stream downwards. When looking around I can see more small streams like this one. The top of the mountain is covered i clouds high above me and the tree line is just below me. All the trees this high up is small and lumpy from all the wind, but a thick forest takes over not far down. Somewhere down there the streams should gather into a river that ends up at the lake down in the valley. I undress down to my undergarments and start clean my clothes with a stone as good as can be done in the situation. At the same time I let the water wash over me and even drink some of it up stream from were I cleaned my self. It is cold and refreshing, but I better be careful. In this wind it can be dangerous to be wet and naked even if it feels warm. you will get chilled fast if your not careful.

My clothes seems to be leather pants in good condition but a lot of repairs over the knees, but and the crotch. The upper part is a shirt in some kind of linen fabric. But the arms has been completely destroyed and it is impossible to see what kind of color it once was, after the wash its only some kind of brown. With the knife i cut of the arms at the elbow, I cant fix it without a needle and and some thread, but it should hold until I find something else. Over the shirt I had a short sleeved tunic in a different kind of leather than the pants, it´s hard and immobile, but gotten a little easier to move with the years. the tunic must have been chafing something horrible once. its easy too clean and seems to be weather proof and water resistant. My undergarment is a pair of linen braies (think loose linen shorts) On my feet I have a pair of well solid leather boots thats very well worn, with a hole almost right through the sole. On top of all this I have a leather belt with a iron ring to tie it through. the belt goes around the waist twice and hold a couple of straps that should once been holding something.

The cold helps me with the pain and I take the time to change the bandages and clean my broken hands. Both of them are swollen and i can clearly feel the broken bones in them, but everything seems to be working fine, just a bit of pain. My right palm has a big jagged cut over it that have stopped bleeding. Its red and I can see my tendons of my hand. after looking at it for a moment I put both my hands in the cold water and close and open my hands a couple of times. It hurts like hell but my movement works just surprisingly fine. After cleaning the bandages and reusing them I let my clothes dry while i sit on a stone and drying my feet with a blanket. its important to take care of your feet. Why? No **ing clue.

Time to start walking down by the stream. With my knife at my waist and shewing at some dry meat the walk down the mountain can begin. From what I saw before the trees obscured the view the lake should be in the middle of the valley so it should just be to follow the stream the hole way down. I just need to keep my speed down so i don´t get tired to fast. And moving will help my muscles let loose and hold my thoughts away form the pain. with that in my mind I start the walk down to the valley.

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