Before the snowFalls
Year 0001, The Imperium
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After a few days of scouting, I managed to gather some tools from the other houses. I opened their cellars too.
Viola some food for me. It was all preserved too! For a while I wouldn't be worrying about food.
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After a few days of walking around the entire village, August could no longer keep on closing his eyes or pretend that they were not there while walking over the corpses of his fellow villagers.
And suffice to say that after a while of looking at all the dead villagers, his conscience, well mostly his stomach couldn't take it anymore (puke).
I was planning on burying the bodies or what was left of it, but there's a lot of them to say the least.
I only managed to, with much puking and sobbing of course. To bury my parents and my dear sister, rest their soul.
I could now walk, although rather slow without much wincing from pain most of my injuries have healed. I gained some of my strength back.
As for the rest of the villagers, I dragged them out of the village entrance.
I piled some of them, but..*erhggh* (puke again)
as I stepped on Uncle Thomas's rotten corps (it was soft and has a putrid smell) to get up the pile.
After I dragged the last one to the pile I think it was Aunt Mary, I think...?
I got some of the wood from the nearby houses to burn the pile of bodies and it took me a while to get the fire going. Until it burst into flames engulfing the entire pile.
I made a silent prayer for them. Though I cut it short because of the putrid smell of burning rotting bodies.
Thankfully it hadn't rained for days now. Or it would've spilled their body parts all over the village. That would have increased my problems.
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After the pile burned to ashes. I returned outside to see what I could do next. I looked at my panel still very cold.
[ S Y S T E M : MISSION SECURE THE ENTIRE MAYA VILLAGE FROM PREDATORY BEAST ]
[ REWARDS: Minor Reward - SLIGHT INCREASE ON BODY CONSTITUTION AND MENTAL STATE, +1 ]
[ Major Reward - UNLOCK YOUR PERSONAL PANEL ]
[ TIME LIMIT : INDEFINITE ]
" Hmmm personal panel huh? what could that be? I wish it explained it to me more."
[ S Y S T E M : A PERSONAL PANEL IS YOUR OVERALL VIEW OF YOUR CURRENT SELF, IT HAS GAME LIKE FEATURES THAT WE HAVE ACQUIRED AND TWEAKED IT TO THIS SYSTEMS FUNCTIONS AFTER ASKING YOUR PREVIOUS SELF WHAT HE WOULD LIKE FOR THE NEW HIM TO HAVE AS A GIFT. ]
" OHHH YOUR BACK???!"
In surprise of the voice that echoed through his head.
*Grinning like an idiot*
[ . . . . ]
" Oh come on don't be like that now "
[ . . . I . . . NEVER LEFT ]
"..."
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August looked at the panel, " so is this like a good thing? "
[ YES ]
Cold as ever huh?
"I guess I'll start doing this mission of yours that you gave me."
[ . . . . ]
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I started laying out my plan on the dirt, I drew the overall layout of the village and its current state of problems I have to solve by myself.
I planned to dismantle some of the houses for now and use them as kindle wood for fire. I grabbed all the miscellaneous items to one of the house near me.
Wish someone could help me though this would have been a lot easier then.
"Because someone is ignoring me...."
[ . . . . ]
In the Chiefs house August found a rather simple bow that the Chief always brings with him whenever they went hunting outside the village, it wasn't the best but that would do for now, for self protection or he could use it to hunt himself.
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August also started hauling some twigs as firewood from outside the village but not too far from the gate so he could run inside quickly if a beast would appear.
Although he had the bow he still could pull it with his current strength he needed to train with it for a while.
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After a few days of doing his current routine, eat, sleep, shit, scout, practice with bow, scour for food and repeat.
August could now feel the cold embrace of the planet it is almost upon him. The planet is beginning its winter season soon.
August barricaded their house for now with some pre-cut wood that his father planned to mend their house. Using the villages tools August made the house some improvements, probably.
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As it was now late for farming, but he wished he could have planted some of the seeds he found while scouring the village houses.
Of course August was taught by his father to farm, since they were a farming village obviously.
Although most of the produce the village produces would be for the entire village. Bcause they never bothered to trade with the outside, except for a few people who sometimes stumbles upon their village.
*Sigh*
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August stocked his cellar as much as he could before the first of the winter snow would fall. You name it anything that was edible was preserved by him just like how his mother taught him to do.
He also made some rationing with his current food pile as to not exhaust it this coming days.
August made small game traps that his father taught him to do, mostly some wild rabit like creatures who forage the forest floor. He made three traps and would pass by them everyday to see if he made a catch.
Since there was an abudance of beasts in the forests he made three catches a day. He would skin them and preserve their meat for winter.
Naturally he wanted to go to the river to build some fish traps but he decided against it.
Because the river was far away from the village he couldn't go there willy-nilly, else he would be the outside worlds unfortunate victim.
As for now August stayed near the village premise. And a bit further from the forest where he deemed safe from the predatory beasts.
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August repeates such activities until the first of the snow fell on his nose.