Making the Best, continued
Nov. 7th, 2005 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencerThe rain's stopped. I didn't expect that.
I can see a possible reason for it, of course...with the geothermal energy not being tapped, maybe the heat spread back across the ocean bed, heating the water and causing it to evaporate faster and form clouds, and so on. I just wouldn't have expected it to happen this quickly. Not that I'm complaining, of course. My gods, the feeling of not being rained on...
Of course, this is probably going to knock my food supply on the head. As the sea cools, the fish-beasties will either die off or head further out. Not that that matters. I can't eat another one of those things anyway. I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I'm going to starve to death. It's a good thing I was fairly well-covered when I arrived. The cramps have gone off a bit now, and as long as I don't try and do too much or move too fast I can still get around.
Oh, the surviving journals turned up as well: Stoneship and the others. They were in a cupboard in what I can only assume was Atrus's workroom. There was another one there, about an Age he called Rime, that I hadn't encountered in my reading before I set off. The back page has instructions (in graphic form) for opening the arch under the path to the spaceship, and a four-figure number which I bet you're supposed to put into that control panel I keep banging my head on. If I felt a bit better I'd go and have a look...but I'm very much afraid it's all a bit too late for that. I don't think I'll be visiting any more of the Ages.
Maybe if I'd been a bit quicker...solved the puzzles earlier...I don't know. What's done is done, anyway. I did my best, and it wasn't good enough. Barring a miracle, I'm pretty much done.
I can see a possible reason for it, of course...with the geothermal energy not being tapped, maybe the heat spread back across the ocean bed, heating the water and causing it to evaporate faster and form clouds, and so on. I just wouldn't have expected it to happen this quickly. Not that I'm complaining, of course. My gods, the feeling of not being rained on...
Of course, this is probably going to knock my food supply on the head. As the sea cools, the fish-beasties will either die off or head further out. Not that that matters. I can't eat another one of those things anyway. I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I'm going to starve to death. It's a good thing I was fairly well-covered when I arrived. The cramps have gone off a bit now, and as long as I don't try and do too much or move too fast I can still get around.
Oh, the surviving journals turned up as well: Stoneship and the others. They were in a cupboard in what I can only assume was Atrus's workroom. There was another one there, about an Age he called Rime, that I hadn't encountered in my reading before I set off. The back page has instructions (in graphic form) for opening the arch under the path to the spaceship, and a four-figure number which I bet you're supposed to put into that control panel I keep banging my head on. If I felt a bit better I'd go and have a look...but I'm very much afraid it's all a bit too late for that. I don't think I'll be visiting any more of the Ages.
Maybe if I'd been a bit quicker...solved the puzzles earlier...I don't know. What's done is done, anyway. I did my best, and it wasn't good enough. Barring a miracle, I'm pretty much done.