I wake up the next day and go over to the adventurer’s guild to wait for Tytus. After a few moments of waiting, He arrives and says hi. I say hello back and ask if we should head over to the scene of the crime. He agrees and we both start heading over to the house. As I see the house, I realize that it is the same house that I went into a couple of days ago. Trying to ignore it, we walk up to the door and knock.

  A man and a woman answer the door, presumably the two who own the house. For some reason, they look at me weirdly. I have no idea why. They ask “Hi, what are you here for?” I respond with “We’re here from the adventurer’s guild about a quest for a break in that happened recently?” “Oh yeah, I forgot about that quest. They broke in last night through the basement door. We aren't sure if they stole anything because it is really messy down there, especially more since that maniac muddied up the whole carpet.

  “Are you two ok?” My partner Tytus asked. “Yes, the second we heard them, we locked the door. They didn’t make it up here.” “You heard them?” “Yes, we were up late that night playing poker with some friends.” “Alright, thank you for your time.” We then leave the house and I tell Tytus I had to meet up with someone. I left the area, then went to a nearby alley looking for people to pin the break in on.

  I found a homeless guy who looked kind of mean, and offered him my boots. He gratefully accepted. That's when I arrested him for the break in, and brought him to the adventurer’s guild. They took him and gave me 100$ for helping out.

  That night, I bought some new shoes for 30$, and spent another 20$ on an inn room for the night.

  The next morning, I went over to the blacksmith and purchased a dagger for 35$. I then go into the woods and sneak around the wildlife to try to level up my stealth skill. I spend 3 entire days in the woods doing this, sleeping in the mud, as per usual. I had also decided to kill any monsters I saw that I thought I could one-shot with sneak attack. I killed a few monsters, and when I did, I saw something in the corner of my vision.

  Rabbit: level 0.3 defeated!

  +1 hp

  I ended up gaining 5 entire health from killing the rabbits. At some point during the hunt, there was a lot of smoke in the direction I had come from, which was concerning, but I soon forgot about it. After the three days had ended, I checked my status sheet:

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  Name: Harry

  Race: Human

  Class: Rogue

  Sub-Class: N/A

  Hp: 15/15

  Inventory: Wild Card, Map, 10$ bill, 5$ bill (4/6)

  Equipment: dagger

  Status Effects: N/A

  Skills: 3

  Recently Gained Skills:

  N/A

  Unlike before, the skill wasn’t under recently gained skills, which i supposed makes sense because I had already had it. I use inspect on my skills and get a list of my skills, without descriptions. I then inspected stealth, and got this description;

  Advanced Stealth: Prevents anyone from perceiving you unless actively looking for you or if you are touching them. Does not work against people over 20 levels ahead of you.

  This is incredibly useful, and I immediately activated it and decided to keep it on essentially always.

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  I woke up the next morning determined to create something. I spent a few minutes collecting the mud bricks I had prepared the night before. I then started laying them out in a small circle and created a kiln. That most of the day, and the rest of the day I spent collecting some sticks for fuel in the future.

  The next day I spent looking for a cave to find some kind of iron-based mineral. After quite a few hours of searching, I find it, and I look through the entrance and quickly find some pyrite, which does have some iron in it. I tried to break it off with my bare hands, which clearly didn't work because it is a rock connected to more rock.

  I left the cave and went back to my kiln and fell asleep.

  The next day, I realized that I didn’t like that weird dead forest that was near my kiln, and I decided to chuck a torch at it. I throw some fire from my kiln at the forest and watch as it goes up in flames. Suddenly, however, a thick gray smoke comes out of the trees. Concerned, I dive into the river and hold my breath, letting the current take me away.

  I wake up on the shore coughing and wheezing, and I spot a small shack made out of mud and logs. I quickly ran upstream to get away from it, because ugh people. After a few hours of walking, I arrived back at my kiln and found that the fire had gone out. After looking at the wreckage, I found that about a third of the forest was burned down. I go to sleep, and then wake up the next morning and burn it again, avoiding the smoke. After another day,

  The dead forest was finally completely burned down.

  The next day, I opened my eyes and immediately got to work. If I wanted to get that pyrite from earlier, I needed a tool. I went to the river and started harvesting some clay, then I moulded it into just the right shape for a pickaxe head. I chucked it into my kiln and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, it was done, I pulled it out of the kiln and fell asleep.

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  I woke up and cut down trees the entire day. The next day, I started building a second house like my first one, and, after a few days, had a second house. I did this for literally no reason, other than that I felt like it. I decided that I would try to make an entire town by myself, for no reason other than I have a lot of free time due to the lack of need for food or water. After I finished the 2nd house, I chopped down more trees and started on a third. I won’t bore you with the details. After another day, I finished the third house at last.