Managed to kill a hippogryph, but nobody in town seems to care much. Spent the last precious hours of daylight redistributing the runeys. I can’t see why he needs it since he raises crops too. I think the carpenter is putting the stumps there, trying to drum up some business. Rocks, weeds, strange grass, and tree stumps that appear overnight. Does nobody farm around here or is Turnip-lover causing a boom in the market? Is she hinting at something? More importantly, how does that effeminate merchant lug around forges and kitchens wherever he goes? Somehow I can get either for 5 turnips. If I could at least make some armor I could go farther, but the book-loving lady won’t sell me recipes for anything but pendants and fuzzy hats. I’m not going to worry too much about how. At least the cute nurse-nun somehow saved me.

I made a sword to help me plumb the depths of the dungeons, but I still collapse after a few hits. Maybe I should be worrying what’s wrong with me. What the hell is wrong with this town? I find myself enjoying taking care of the fields and occasionally mining iron in the Whale. When I cut it I found a green labyrinth filled with rabid but oh-so-cuddly monsters. Turnip-lover wanted me to take care of some grass in front of her house. He’s willing to go to Whale Island with me, but these things go down in two hoe-whacks so he’s not gonna help much. My new goblin friend looks like he’ll at least help me harvest vegetables. I just have to keep them well-tended with a vacuum another of these lunatics gave me. At least the glowing smiley-face runeys are here to keep me company. I’ve got to get out of here, but they bolted the gate and the whale won’t move either. Why would I want a goblin for a friend? Why does a blob enjoy being brushed? One girl is obsessed with turnips and wants me to grow nothing else. The people in this town are crazy! One of them gave me a brush and told me to brush the monsters in the whale to make them my friends. And now the crops were unhappy again since the whale hadn’t moved any. I fended off some goblins, but then I got tired because I’d spent most of the day watering my crops. What the hell am I supposed to do? I don’t know the first thing about whales. Climbing a convenient beanstalk, I reached the whale and it spoke to me! It told me to explore it and find out why it’s slowly dying. My crops demanded retribution, so I shouldered my hoe and readied my hammer. Some giant stone whale-shaped island in the sky is blocking the sun. Now I just need to get some seeds, plow some spaces of earth, and water ’em. How kind of them to take me in for a while. I found myself in a town I had never heard of with only a half-dozen denizens.

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