Day 1

  I stared at the air where Daddy had disappeared from for a few seconds before refocusing myself. Something told me it would be bad to continue standing in the middle of the cavern now that he was gone so I started clumsily making my way towards one of the walls. I tripped and fell a few times but I made it without resorting to crawling! Legs it turns out are not very easy to use, but I’m sure they’ll be worth getting the hang off. Maybe it’ll be easier if I get more? No, maybe I got to get used to my current body first? Yeah.

  I looked down at my body, it was all weird not being spherical anymore, but I still had a spherical core so it wasn’t all bad. The core was in the middle of me, making up the majority of my torso with the rest being a ‘skeleton’ made of some metal, maybe copper? I’ll find out later. I had two legs and two arms – one of them ending in a drill-head made of some other metal I didn’t just ‘know’. But it looked sturdier at least. On the other hand, I had three digits that were pretty flexible with 4 joints each. Handy. Heh. I also had a head with two vertical slits I could see out off – they gave off a soft silvery glow as well making me able to see a few feet out in the darkness, but I figured it also made me easy to spot… That made me uneasy, but I couldn’t do anything about it right now if I wanted to see in any case.

  At the edge of my vision, there was a small blue blinking dot that tried to get my attention and now that I was done with my self-inspection, I turned my attention to it which rapidly brought up multiple blue screens:

  Oh my that's really so-

  Uuuuuuh... With a series of dings, the blue boxes continued.

  ...Finally, the blue boxes stopped. I waited a few seconds more just to be sure. When no more popped up I read them through, trying to get a hold of what I'd gotten. The skills were what I was most happy about but the rest seemed good too... Maybe not the... pain ability though, that I could've lived without. Whatever. I couldn’t be sitting here all day, so I willed the blue boxes to go away and I was once more back in the cavern. It was still empty and I didn’t know where I was, so I decided just to start walking while stabilizing myself against the wall so I didn’t fall as much.

  As I walked through the dark cavern, I sometimes saw things scuttle away from me as I got near. It unnerved me a bit the first time I actually got a glimpse of one of the things, a spider I knew. It had… too many legs. 16 to be exact. A bit overkill maybe? I thought so, but I couldn’t really know I was pretty new to the whole “legs thing”, so maybe it was just showing off. Through my World Knowledge skill I knew that that wasn’t the case, but it still felt slightly mocking to me. I glared at the spider, maybe 10 wobbly steps away and the light I emitted turned a dimmer red. It just looked back at me for a while before scuttling off. Yeah, I thought so you bastard. With that out of the way, I continued on till I found an opening in the wall, maybe a tunnel of some sort. I wonder what’s on the other side? I kind of wanted to know, even though my survival instincts told me that if might be a bad idea to waltz in there. On the other hand, everything had run away from me so far, so I took the chance and stepped in. The tunnel had a slight fall to it which made it surprisingly hard to go down, but I took my time and managed to go the 20 or so meters without falling more than twice. That’s a win in my book. Anyway, the tunnel opened up to a smaller cavern, maybe only 2 meters to the ceiling most places, and it was filled with stalagmites and stalactites. The place was dimly lit up by small glowing rocks that were embedded into the walls and pillars of the place. Most had a brown/grey-ish glow to them but a few had shades of green and there even were a few blue ones in some of the pillars. That was SO interesting! As I stood there and took in the prettiness of the place, I noticed I wasn’t alone anymore, not at all actually. The cavern was filled with life. Small bugs hid under rocks or tittered here and there, a few mice munched on a dead spider and in the other end of the cavern was a long snakey-thing with… hold up… one, two, three, four…. Twenty... maybe 90 legs?! THAT is way too many! The centipede was curled up in a corner and eating a mouse while holding it between some of its too many legs, just to show off, and I decided, right then, that I’d make it pay. Not right now though it’s kinda too big for me, maybe four times longer than me and as wide as I was as well. My spindly golem body isn’t that big. Well, whatever I’ll be back. I slowly began to inch myself into the cave close to a small cluster of glow stones further to the left.