Chapter 7: Chapter 7

After nearly getting eaten by a freaky monster, Alice had to re-evaluate her priorities. She had a hard time keeping track of how long she had been in this dimension for, but she was sure that it had been a little under a week. In other words, within less than seven days of arriving on this world, she had nearly been eaten by a monster.

Obviously, this did not bode well for her future prospects if she remained as weak and squishy as she was now.

She ran over her options, trying to figure out what the best way to achieve at least some level of combat proficiency was.

Bow and arrow? I have no experience at all with shooting, so even if I made a bow and arrow I wouldn’t be able to use it. Perhaps a Skill would make up for that – I don’t know how fast skills level up. Still, it feels somewhat unreliable. Also, I have no idea how to build a bow either. I think it has something to do with how much the wood is able to bend? Woodworking would probably help with that, but I would probably need to level it more first. It doesn’t seem like a solution that would be useful in the near future, even if it’s something to think about later.

Spear? It at least helped against Spidercrab, although admittedly circumstances were also quite favorable. However, if {Sprinting} gets high enough, I might be able to set up future scenarios to also be favorable, making this potentially my best option.

Knives? I can’t make anything that refined with stone yet – I think I have some ideas for setting up somewhat refined stone products, but they’ll take time and effort to get right, and don’t give me the range I would want. Getting my hand near Spidercrab’s mouth just seems to be asking to lose a finger, or my whole hand. Not exactly on my to-do list.

After a quick evaluation, a spear seemed like her best option – primitive, but it would get her some distance from whatever else wanted to eat her and even if she had no clue what she was doing she could probably still use it at least somewhat effectively. ‘Put the pointy end in whatever was trying to eat her’ wasn’t exactly rocket science.

She went back to the tree branch she had used as her makeshift weapon during the fight with Spidercrab and grabbed it. Afterwards, she moved back to her cave, scanning her surroundings carefully as she walked to avoid getting ambushed by a second monster, before she finally arrived.

She began by finding a stone with a somewhat sharp surface, and then began awkwardly carving away the edges of the stick, trying to refine it into a somewhat sharp wooden spearpoint. However, in a flash of inspiration, she grabbed two more rocks – one that she was going to try to make into a spear tip, and then one to use as a carving tool. She placed the first rock down on a particularly large stone near the entrance to her cave, then placed the rock with a sharp edge against it.

Then, she began using the third rock as a sort of pseud-hammer, banging it against the second rock over and over again to chip away at the edges of the rock.

Through training, you have increased a skill!

Stoneworking +1

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