>>5273418You sprinkle just a tiny pinch of fertilizer over one of the mushrooms. It flashes brilliantly for just a second, but it’s enough to leave you blinking away the afterimage. It also looks a little bigger.
You ask Scite about hot areas. He tells you there’ll be plenty of heat to go around once the two of you get to the lava layer.
>>5273441>>5273446You apply one dose of fertilizer to the unfertilized egg. As can be expected, this somehow works.
A cute little baby chick hatches underneath the warmth of your hat, and immediately bonds to you. It chirps brightly. Loretta licks her chops, but you rebuke her with a quick swat to the snout.
>>5273355With your new pet, you take a quick peek into each of the rooms before you follow Scite.
The room marked “Pulverization” contains holes in the ceiling with metal containers beneath. Every few seconds, massive weights plummet from above and reduce the coal in the containers into fine powder.
The “Spawning Annex” is quite dark, even with the aid of your light orb, but you can just make out silhouettes of… arms? And legs? Peculiarly, you get the sense that one of them is looking back at you…
The space marked for “Maceral Divination”, on the other hand, is well-lit by a multitude of glowing runes. You hear deep, rumbling incantations from within, followed by a muffled gunshot – then, the room is illuminated with shimmering shapes in the air, almost looking like a map.
“Carbonic Runescrafting”, whatever that is, apparently involves quite a lot of coal-filled minecarts. A lone workbench sits in the middle of the room, surrounded by shelves full of odd objects with intricate symbols. This room is unoccupied.
Through the door labeled “Residence Chambers” is a hallway with more doors. You see a miner open one and enter, which is strange, because that door just seems to lead right into the dirt.
The Egress points to the ladder from which you came.
From your little avian buddy’s reactions, you discern that firedamp is present in the Spawning Annex, Carbonic Runescrafting, and Residence Chambers.
(1/2)
