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To live in shadows, a dungeon story Preparations

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

So I spend another night in the cave. In the morning i String up one of the broken metal weapons with a leather strap between what I want to call the door and notch in the stone wall. If anyone comes in that will hopefully give of a loud clang and warn me, even if I am sleeping. Whoever wants me dead will not give up when they figure out that I am still alive, if then not already know that. I live on the belief of that they do not. If they did know they should have gotten the job done when I was out cold outside the cave for hours from my wounds. So I draw the conclusion they went down in the valley and wait there for someone to come back. From What i Saw and my walk it should take two days down if you are in a good condition, three if you don´t know the terrain and are really bad at walking through the terrain. So the perpetrator should get down by now and wait up to three more days to see if anyone comes back. If no one comes back in that time they should start walking back here to check what happened. They seem to be good in a forest if you think about the boys death and the plan in its whole, so they should only need two days. So that should give me 4 or 5 days of prepping.

They will not come alone if they think the first planed failed. They will look for new henchmen to do their dirty work or hunt me or my killers through the forest if needed. For that robbers or bandits should work best. they do not care what the work is that much. they will also be more than last time, so they can take care of the old team if needed, or at least not fail where they did. Last group was 5 excluding me and they boy from what I can see. So at least 10 people this time. Harder to take care of the afterwork then but they have poison and if that don´t work they can let the law take care of them, bandits and robbers will hang.

All this is just speculations and risky to go after. So I should start easy with just a little prepp in case of they come alone before that. I do not have much food left so that will become a problem. but in either they come alone or in a big group they should have some food with them. So I decide to use the resources I have, the wolves. I put some of my meat on a stick outside the cave during the day and will do the same the next day. that will hopefully teach them that they can get food here, they have been here before. A flock of wolves should be a good distraction when they come for me. If I am lucky they can take care of them for me.

Inside the cave I am save and short outings for wood and water lowers the dangers for me, especially if I only go out in daylight. A danger is that the wolves have no reason to view me any different from the dry meat, for them I should only be more food. It´s a desperate measure and not a garanty that it will do anything. But I think it should be worth the risk and food.

Next step will be to craft some kind of trap. Every fight is a risk of death, traps is safer. I wonder if I can use the stone spikes in some way? No idea how they came to be, but they seems to be solid stone and sturdy enough and they did kill my attackers in the first place. But no matter how I try I can´t break of or figure out how they came to be. It seems to be connected to the smoth gap in the middle of the room, the same as my health and energy. That place has to do with me being alive somehow. So the resources I have to available for use is wood, water, gravel and some not so good weapons and armors, not exactly something to throw a party about.

The first trap will be the most important with the most effect. After that they will be more on alert, so every trap needs to be new and different so they keep getting surprised.

So time to start working. I start by cut down some more trees and cut them up with the axe. Then I sharpen them and start digging a shallow pit in front of the cave entrance with the broken sword. I get it almost half a arms deep and a little over a meter in both directions. The front of the cave seems to be a lot of dirt and humus so that´s good for digging. Then my stakes get put down in it with the pointy tip just below the top of the pit. Atop of that one of the blankets gets sacrificed as a cover with dirt, gras and some gravel on it. Its not hard to see if you look for it, but running in a hurry will make it a very painful surprise. this should take care of one or two people, no fighting after stepping on that. And that takes me one day with some rest in between.

Next day is for the second trap. They will be ready for spikes now and looking down. The corridor is a tight fit, should be a good placement for the second trap. With my broken sword I start hacking at the roof. It is surprisingly easy and the gravel starts falling down on top of me. I cut up the gambisons and trie it to some wood to make frames to put on the roof to keep it up with a thick wooden pole in the end of the corridor to help keep it all up. It looks safe but when I keep hacking i can see how that pole is holding it all up alone. The hole corridor has a light slope down. Soon if feels like the whole corridor with fall down if I keep digging so I stop there.

I end the day with building a rudimental barricade in the end of the corridor, right in the opening to the main room. The barricade is made of gravel and large stones i slowly carry in, it have wooden support to make it more stable. This should help me in defense and the roof in here looks much moor stable so should be no danger when the corridor breaks.

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