It’s night time now and I managed to waste two wooden matches. Early mornings, served with equal portions of freezing chill and breathtaking views. More on that after I get some sleep, though. Oh, I also found another deer and carved its stomach out earlier today. So, I guess it’s time for a quick snack consisting of purified water, stale beef jerky and nasty cat tail plants, followed by a chilly afternoon nap next to the furnace’s dying fire. However, the game tells me I’m exhausted, hungry and thirsty. I would happily continue to look for stuff outside, with the weather being so nice and warm, sitting at 0 degrees. Considering this place looks like it’s been abandoned for a while, I can only hope the corpse ended up here a long time ago… It looked quite frozen, if that’s anything to go by.
Turned out the source was a dead body with a hacksaw next to it. Usually I don’t go running around and chasing crows, but a few seemed to be circling near the hut I’m miserably living in. The so called “homestead”, in all of it’s glory. Being all alone in the cold wilderness does things to you, eh. Doing so reminded me that I also found a can opener, so I reckoned I should write that down as well. I just boiled some water and ate a can of peaches. It looks like I’ve been writing this for about 4 in-game hours… Oh my.
Right now though, I really need to sleep.
The long dark how to sleep full#
The good news is that it has a bed and a furnace, along with lots of wooden boxes and drawers full with handy stuff like hammers, a hunting knife, lots of coal, some wood and warm clothes. In reality, it’s more of a wreckage situated next to some burned down bunkhouses. Apparently it’s an old homestead owned by some “Old Spence”. It still looks horrid, though.Īfter a few minutes of boring walking, stick seeking and nearly freezing to death, I finally found a decent place to stay throughout the night! In fact, that’s where I’m writing from right now. It’s a nasty looking plant that is also supposedly edible, on top of usable for starting fires. I also managed to snatch a bunch of cat tail plant closer to the shore. If I remember correctly from the last time I played, you can brew tea with those. (You realize that’s a bad idea once you stay on top of thin ice for too long, breaking the surface and bathing in ice-cold hell.)Ĭhilly death aside, I made sure to keep stopping by every mushroom of magical powers I could find. As I saw a gigantic lake immediately in front of me, I also made sure to stick to the shore and not step on the water’s icy surface. After stumbling around, seeing my coldness meter reduce to 50% in the matter of seconds and realizing I’m wasting valuable time, I began collecting branches for a potential fire. So, the initial bit of panic immediately set in when I realized I’ve spawned with only 3 hours’ worth of daylight left. As you’ll surely see, I’m also quite bad at the game. All entries were written in game time using nothing but the built-in journal. The following notes describe one dreadfully fun surviving session I had in the game’s latest map – Forlorn Muskeg. Then I remembered that you can do so in The Long Dark. At that moment I had the sudden urge to see if i can do the same inside a game, without pausing time. Every encounter with deadly skeletons, drunken jarls and menacing dragons, written down in painstakingly clear detail inside a physical notepad. Recently, a friend of mine told me he’s spent more than 100 hours documenting his adventures in Skyrim.
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