text: My eyes opened slowly, fluttering at the harsh sunlight. I sat up in my makeshift bed and groaned. My lower back was sore. Maybe sleeping on logs was a bad idea. I gathered the materials that I had used to make last night’s bed and stored them in my backpack. While doing so, I realized that I had some iron from mining yesterday. I melted the iron ingots into a sword and attached them using twine to a stick I had found in the forest. I did the same with the rocks I had collected and made a stone pickaxe. I ventured outside and found that there were tons of monsters terrorizing the village. I recognized a few that looked like the one I had encountered in the cave yesterday but the rest were unfamiliar to me. I took my newly-made sword and swung it at the creature closest to me. The sword hit the green-skinned monster in the abdomen. The attack from my sword hit him into the sun’s intense rays. The green-skinned monster, which I would call a zombie, burst into flames as soon as the sunlight hit him. I was so terrified that I ran away to the other side of the village, wondering how that just happened. After calming down, I went back to my home base and organized a few things. I realized that I still hadn’t explored the entire village yet. I explored the rest of the village, both avoiding the terrifying creatures, finding a list written on a dirty piece of paper that seemed to be a to-do list of sorts, and books with topics ranging from transportation using something called a ‘waystone’ and enchanting items with special powers. I read the list I had found. It seemed that the writer’s handwriting got messier as you read on. Almost as if they had written it in a high-stress situation. I spaced out for a bit, thinking of explanations for this. While doing so, I had to attack one of the unknown beasts in self-defense. The monster flashed white and exploded after I swung at it with my sword. Once I got back to my home base, I thought over the different explanations for the weird list. I came up with the conclusion that the list was written right before the writer’s death and that the tasks on the list were never finished. I didn’t really have a guide on how to survive in this world and I couldn’t help but feel that this list would guide me. I soon went venturing out of the village. I found a wide hole in the ground. I saw some more iron and went to mine it. But, there was another one of the monsters I had encountered earlier. I fought the monster off with my blade which was slowly getting duller. After almost being scared to death, I continued to mine in the open cave. I collected more iron and some coal. Once I was done with mining, I realized that the Sun had almost set and I needed to get back to my home base. I quickly ran back. I made a bed the same way I had the night before. I put the items I had gathered in a chest and made sure that the door was secure and slipped under the covers. Even though it took a while, I eventually fell asleep.