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Chapter 7 by halfperv halfperv

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Run, find a weapon and food.

You keep running for a while. After all you need to have a safe distance from the others before you can start doing anything.

It is getting dark, but your goblin eyes see better in the darkness than they do in daylight. Running between the trees is a challenge, but you know the area around the camp and you expect it to be relatively safe. Your small size also helps you.

While you are running you decide to eat the coin. It will be gross to get it back, but it will help you lie to the others if they somehow meet you. Also you have no pockets to keep it.

Unsurprisingly, it tastes like metal and sweat.

After what feels an eternity or so of running, you stop for a rest. Goblins are fast, but they lack endurance. Luckily you won't be running all the time in the forest, as you will have to walk carefully.

You first decide to find yourself a weapon, so that you can fight if something small attacks you.

You decide to go for a spear. Mostly by luck you find an appropriate stick. By human standards it would be 'a kinda flat stick' but for your size it is perfect.

You try to find a pointy stone to fix it on the tip, but you soon give up. You can break a stone and make it pointy, but that would create an unacceptable amount of noise in the silent forest, so you decide to do that later.

You are also lacking rope for fixing the stone on the tip, and it would take hours to make some.

You were planning to grab some stones and keep them close for using them as thrown weapons, but sadly you have nothing to carry them with, so you abandon the motion. Anyway you won't have trouble finding rocks when you want to.

After you have rested your legs enough, you start walking again. As you go, you are searching for fruits and you pick any suitable plants you can find.

You have walked for hours, and it will be dawn soon. You have found enough food for two days. You can't really carry it, so you eat as much as you can. You also have the stick for the spear, and enough suitable plants for making the rope you need. Your hands are full.

You hear the rustling of water, and you realize that you probably reached the river. It is not uncommon to find animals near the river, so you approach stealthily.

Everything looks clear, so you close in for a drink.

After you are done, you notice that something smells bad.

You follow the smell, and you find a body of a male human lying at the riverside, half of his body still in the water. You easily understand that he is dead, as he is half rotten.

He wears what used to be a nice looking set of cloths - nothing like those peasants usually wear - but he is unarmored, and sadly unarmed. He has no obvious wounds, and you find weird that no animal ate him yet.

For the current you who is naked without even a bag to hold anything inside, his clothes are good enough. You strip him naked, and you abandon him there.

As the sun rises, you decide it will be a good time to finish your spear.

You find a good location for watching around, and you start making some rope. After a few hours of work, you have enough rope.

You smash some rocks and you finally manage to make a pointy one. You switch locations, just in case, and then you finish your spear.

It looks good enough to kill small animal, or to wound a larger one, but if the tip was better it would be many times more deadly.

On the positive side you have some rope left.

Inventory:
Collar (worn)
Ancient coin (eaten)
Spear (held)
a dirty but fancy set of human clothes
a pair of human boots
10ft thin rope
You can carry those things, but if you have to run you will have to leave most of them behind.

__You aren't hungry or thirsty.

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What will you do next?
1 Go for the first coin (Devil Wolf Den)
2 Go for the second coin (Spider Gorge)
3 Go for the third coin (Bloody-Madbear)
4 Go for the fourth coin (Keep of Regret)
5 Go for the fifth coin (Harpy Queen)
6 Go for the sixth coin (Human Village Mayor, probably)
7 Try to find supplies/rest/etc
8 Try to run further away
9 Other

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