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Alla's Journal: Entry 2

January 23rd

Alla put a lot of thought into what she should do next. But ultimately, she decided to go spelunking for more loot. The iron veins close to the entrance of her usual cave were going to run dry eventually, so she thought it best to get iron from deeper into the cave, and save the ones near the the entrance for later. When she needed them.

She arrives at the cave, and looks around. It was dark the deeper she looked, so she grabbed some torches, and started her exploration. She placed down extra torches to keep track of the exit.

As she went deeper, she heard noises further in. Zombies. And a lot of them. She could go in and try to fight them. But she had already been in there an hour and gathered enough iron and coal to last a few weeks. Alla chose to turn back and deal with them another time.

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When she ascended from the cave, she quickly realized it dusk. The sun was setting, and her home is still a good ten minutes away. Alla starts sprinting toward her home, sword in hand and ready to swing at anything that tried to attack her.

She arrived without much issue, just a few Zombies and Spiders chasing her. She leaned against the outside of her house, panting. The rest was short lived, however, as an arrow whizzed by behind her, making her run into her house, and shut the door.

"Okay... That was too close..." She panted as she sat on her newly crafted bed. She lays down, and catches some z's. Tomorrow, she planned on starting a farm. And maybe expand her house a bit to make it more homey. There was so much to do.

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January 24th

Alla woke from sleep, and gets out of bed. She stretches her arms out, then her legs. She lets out a loud yawn, and exits her house with her sword. Before she started her farm, she needed to make sure there were no lurking monsters that would attack her. She spotted a skeleton readying an arrow on its bow, so she prepared to evade, and charged forward. The skeleton shot it arrow, and Alla jumped to the left to not hit the tree truck to it right. She swung her sword, then again, then again. The bag of bones toppled over, and dropped a single bone. Alla sighs, and looks around a bit more. No more monsters in sight, so she plopped some iron ore into her furnace, and grabbed her iron hoe.

She looked down, and saw the river near her house. It was sloped, but that wasn't much of a problem. It was only going to be a small farm until she figured out how to transport water from one spot to another.

She hopped down the slope to the riverbed, and used her hoe to till the soil. Grabbing the seeds she picked up, she placed them into the tilled soil, and went back up to the house.

"Okay, next...how should I expand...?" She wondered. "I could widen it, but that would take up too much land. I could widen it a bit, then start building up. And the levels above the ground floor could be storage rooms for various items!" She smiles at her idea. "Yes, I think I'll do just that!"

Alla started working right away. First, she started by expanding her house. She expanded her box house from 4x5 to 9x9, then built upward. The first level would be wood storage, the next level would be stones of all kinds. Later, she'll have a storage room for valuables and ore, like iron, coal, diamonds, and other things. Coincidentally, while Alla was moving her ores and valuables to the top level of her house, she found three random diamonds there. It was strange, as she never mined diamonds at all. Her biggest find was gold, which she learned wasn't very useful for much.

After her hard work, she let out a sigh, and looked up at her new home. "Perfect." She smiles, and walks in. "Maybe tomorrow, I'll change the floor from dirt to wood." She said as she prepared for bed before the monsters started spawning.

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January 25th

Instead of finishing her floor, Alla decided to explore the surrounding area. She read that villages could generate. There could be one nearby, so she built herself a bridge over the river and her farm, and started her way. She left a trail of torches behind her so she could find her way back home later.

The river seemed to loop around a lot, so she had to build more bridges to get across them. Soon, she found herself in a desert, and in the distance, she spotted it. To her left, there were buildings. Houses made of sandstone, so she went over as fast as she could. To her right, there was an ocean. She would check that out at a different time. For now, she only cared about the village.

Alla approaches slowly, two large...things...made of iron. She didn't know if they were hostile yet, so she kept a distance from them, and looked at the Villagers. "Hello there." She waves with a smile.

"Huh." The Villager responded to her.

"Huh?" She tilted her.

The villager held up a shiny green gem, an emerald. She had something he wanted. She dug through her inventory, and showed him the extra sticks she was carrying. The villager nodded, and offered her an emerald for 32 of her sticks. She accepted, and traded her sticks for his emerald.

Then, she looked at the sky. It was getting late. "Excuse me, but is there someplace I could stay here?" She asked.

"Huh." Was the only response she got. He started walking, showing her the way to the village inn for her to stay in.

"Thank you very much." She says, and enters the inn. There were tons of bed for her to sleep in, so she went over to one near the window. She lays in bed, and looks up at the wood ceiling. "I hope Alaster is okay..." She mutters as she drifts to sleep.