Before we continue the sequel of
"Goddess, drunk, kids, and old fisherman", there is a prequel, we need to find out. In order to compare our little island world with DF world, we have to make an observation of what's it like in our island with a economic system in DF. Prequel 1 is about the Weoldgen process create uneven starting ground, and the basic landscape of the story take place, the resourced it has and the techs and terms it used.
"Goddess, Drunk, Kids, and Old Fisherman" Prequel 1 : "The Island - Beach and Forest, Beauty and the Beast."Before everyone on this island started the long chain of exchange bargaining, You, a young dwarf came to this seemly wonderful island, with nothing but 10 ales, and 10 mushrooms, and your shovel. You first landed on the west shore of the island, and found a beautiful giant beach stretching towards all directions, with a few scattered sea shells sparkling on it. You loved this place, and wanted to live here. But there is not enough time for you to build a cave farm and draining the underground water before running out of food. Despite there are rivers, running from both north-east and south-east joining together then flowing out to the sea, thus create this beach, to provide something to drink. You'd prefer ales more. You are not a good hunter nor fisherman, and the number you catch a week can't even fed yourself. Even if you are, the natural fish population isn't big enough to sustain you anyway. Hence you said goodbye to the beach and collected some beautiful shells then left.
As you traveled south-east upward the river, trying to find it's source and a better place. You climbed higher and higher, until you reach the source of the river. It's a weirdly shaped round small lake, sitting on top of a high hill. The land scape is rough, and you didn't seem to find any trees or plants growing around here. You know you will eventually need some wood to build furniture for your home, or tools, if you planned on living here for long. So you climbed down the hill in a different route, hoping to find something else. But you just came across another shore line, which is much rocky and shorter. It has higher altitude beside the hill, so there are some ocean cliffs along the coast. Although, some spots between those cliffs are good natural harbors for fishing. You know you can catch enough fish to feed yourself on these fishing spots, but sadly you just aren't good enough. You know you can find a better place than here, so you traveled back to the giant beach north, and followed the other branch of the river north-east into the heart of the island.
You moved along the right side of the river bank, it's a bigger branch than the southern one. As you were wandering around, you thought you saw some trees on your right hand side toward south-east, so you start heading that way. You came across a series of hills and some cave openings on the side, there are bushes growing on these hills, but not much, so you keep walking. And you finally reaching a forests. It's dense like a jungle. The altitude is high like a plateau, but beside from the heavy raining, you didn't see any sign of surface water. There heard roars coming from the forests, but you didn't know what they are You thought you must be careful, before you have some good weapons other than your tiny shovel. So you head back towards the river and hopefully to find somewhere less dangerous. When you took a last glimpse of that forest, you saw some familiar shape on the corner of your eyes, and you recognized that odd shape as the high hills with a weird lake on top. Thus, you realized that you've traveled to the other far side of that high hills, and now on the east side of the island. And those hills you pass by are all part of a massive mouth system.
You came back to the river side, and now you want to explore the right left hand of the river towards north and west. You find many animals roaming around on a much flat plane. Some of them looks massive in size and you wonder why did they grow so big? And since there are bushes and small forest scattering all over the place, and source of water from the river. Some small hills only, you thought it's a good place to start. But before you can put down the tools, you suddenly saw a giant shadow running towards you like a lightning. You looked up in shivers, and found a creature looks like fresh out of nightmare with wings, flying and heading your way. It didn't look nice, and seems like it wanted meat more than grass. You turned and tried to run away, but before you can scream you are tripped by bushes, and fell on the ground. You closed your eyes and hope for some miracles.
You DID heard a scream, not from your mouth, but from the winged beast. It fell off the sky and hit hard on the ground, and there was a giant axe on its head. You looked around, and saw a small figure running close, and pulled out that axe with the strength disproportional with the delicate feature. It hacks the body a couple more time, with the speed a lot faster than the diseased beast. And then it carried the chopped corpse easily like it was nothing, turned around, slowly walked toward your direction with the bloody big axe on one hand. You barely saw its figure as the shape of a female body, then fainted.
You didn't know how long you were out, but when you woke up, you are in a cave, laying on a bed, and some unknown ales on the table across the room, with a chair made out of stone. You checked yourself and find you were ok. And the small wound from falling and a possible struggle are healed. You are hungry and thirsty, so you drank the ales, which you think it will be better using your secret recipes and ingredients. Your nose is back to normal and smelt something from outside. As you walked out the cave and saw sunlight, you found the sources of the smell. It's a mixed of good and bad. The bad coming from a butchering stand, pills with corpses, animal body parts, and blood cluttering on the floor. The good smell coming from the a cooking stand just next to it, and the girl you assumed she is the one who saved you, seems very busy, was BBQing something. Then you recognized its the wings from the beast that attempted to attack you, but appalled by that little girl.
When she turned around after done cooking, you are stun by her beauty, and you instantly decided she will be
your personal goddess forever. While you are still staring her
unequivalent beauty, she walked toward you with the same giant axe used to kill the flying beast, but you hardly notice it this time. She has the
most astonishing smile on her face, and said something. You are too focus to realized the grim on the edge of her smile, thus you didn't understand and heard anything she said at first. Then she pouted and take out something shiny on her hand from a bag, and say something again. This time you paid attention, since that bag looked very much like your backpack, and the shiny little thing looked just like those sparkling shells you collected from the beach.
Then you realized she is asking you where did you get the shiny shell, and asked if you have more. You said you've collected all of them from the beach down stream across the river. And she told you she never went across the river, and near the ocean, then started taking out things from your backpack. She take out the few mushrooms, smelt them and throw it back. She then take out 1 of the remain bucket of ales, shaken it, and shook her head. You felt disappointed and hurt, since you thought your ales is the best in the world. She takes out all your belonging and throw them all back in except the shiny shells. Then she threw the backpack toward you, took those shells with her, and went down a tunnel behind the cooking stand and disappeared.
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