If Eric is going to escape from his hunters, he's going to have to act now.

He is not actually excited to lose his crafting recipe records, but he'd rather not leave them for the hunters to find, so he wipes the signs clean. He can't put everything in his house into his limited inventory, either, so he'll only take his essential gear, plus anything that he doesn't know how to easily find or how to easily craft.

He pauses and takes a last look at his house as he leaves. It's strange, that after having spent at most a dozen hours here, it already feels like a sort of a home. Maybe his brain is fooled, somehow, by how quickly the sun rises and sets.

His primary objective here, as fun as it is to explore the world, is really just to survive as long as he can. It's not like any of this is real (right?), but the pain of being shot with arrows feels pretty real, and he's not anxious to find out what happens if he "dies". He's already on the brink of death in one universe, and that felt pretty damn bad. His subconscious would probably make a death in a dream feel just as bad - and it might not stop feeling that way until he wakes up, if that ever happens.

Eric tries one last time to wake himself up. Nothing happens. He didn't really think it would.

And then he leaves.