All the colors of fire and water | Glowfic Constellation

She’ll… uh.

How does one cook a bird.

She pushes a stick through it and holds it over the fire, for lack of better ideas.

This works for certain very generous definitions of working.

Ffffantastic. This was all very deliberate and definitely intended. She totally knows what she’s doing.

Right then, Plan B - burn it from the inside out until it’s mostly “cinders with some meat on them” and eat that.

This doesn't seem likely to yield much nutritional value.

Well it’s at least not going to be raw!

Why did it have to be outside… Right, just think of the untold riches. This is all fine. It will be fine. She’ll… eat her very burnt bird and look for promising plants, or maybe something to set on fire, because that would be cathartic.

She doesn't have to go too far before finding slimes they are flammable. She also finds some strange yellow flowers that seem more vibrant than the other types scattered around. And with a bit more searching, pumpkins.

Wait, what?

Okay, those do not exactly look like they have internal organs per say. Boiling them, does that kill them?

Fruit! It looks similar to some kinds at home, but it’s probably worthwhile to ask the friendly natives if it’ll kill her. She picks one up, remembers she has a pocket dimension, and puts it in there.

It does indeed kill them. They seem to evaporate and they leave behind some rope, a few small balls of gel and some coins.

Where did those come from?!

Whatever. Fine. They’re magic. Everything’s magic. Why not. Save the internal screaming for later, grab the stuff, put it in the pocket dimension, maybe the coins are valid currency, seems pretty unlikely though - shit did she just accidentally counterfeit money. Right. That. Right.

The Andrew and Calius are both easy to find.

“Ah, I killed a slime and it dropped coins? Are these valid currency? Did I accidentally counterfeit?”

"They're valid currency here. I can't speak for any other world you might visit."

“And they normally appear when slimes are killed? Er- sort of jelly-esque texture, colorful?”

"They'll typically appear when you kill any hostile creature. Stronger creatures will drop more."

“Huh. How does the economy function?”

"What economy? Those of us you meet will accept your money. If you have more than you can use that way then I guess you can shoot it at enemies with a coin gun eventually."

“Wha-“

”…Why do they want the money?”

"... I don't sell anything personally but I don't think desire is really the best way of understanding things. We all have our roles to play and accepting money for goods or services is part of the role for some of us."

“Do they…”

She trails off for a moment, seeming to contemplate something, before shaking her head.

”Right. I also found this fruit, do you know if it’s poisonous, and how to eat it?”

She holds out the pumpkin.

"If you make a furnace you can use your crafting interface to turn that into a pie. That'll be quite filling. A furnace will need some stone though I don't think you have any yet."

“Huh, alright. How do I make a furnace?”

"You'll need twenty stone, five wood, one gel as ingredients and a workbench in a crafting talisman slot in your crafting interface."

“How do I make a workbench? And what is gel?”