Darkness Named (dARkness: Online Book 1) by Riley S. Keene

Author:Riley S. Keene [Keene, Riley S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

There was just one problem.

Tanisha didn’t know exactly how stability was recovered. In the mobile version of dARkness, the simplest way was to sleep. Crafting a special sleep item, such as a bed or a sleeping bag, and using it would restore stability over time while logged off. As long as the durability held out.

But she couldn’t do that here. She wasn’t even sure if she’d be able to sleep. Not to mention she didn’t have the materials to craft anything like that.

There were a few other ways to restore stability in the game, including a lot of consumed items and rare food, but the only thing that came to her mind at the moment was the purple mushroom from the tutorial.

The details were fuzzy, though. Maybe it was walking all day. Or the terror. Perhaps the mad dash through what still felt like an eternity of darkness. Or maybe the low stability was actively impairing her memory.

She knew she cooked one mushroom, and had eaten the other raw.

But which was which? And where had she found them?

Tanisha put aside her other concerns. She actively tried to ignore her aching stomach, and the imposing shadow figures that still circled her but were unmoving. Instead, she focused her attention on the ground, and started to explore the forest around where she’d stopped. The mushrooms had been on the ground. But where?

She came across the red ones, first. Just in case she’d need it, Tanisha snatched up one as soon as she found a single stalk that wasn’t protected by a guardian Stick Folk. They followed her like a cloud, never getting closer but also never dropping behind. But all she found were the red mushrooms. No other colors. They’d all been at the bases of trees, as well, and so Tanisha knew the others wouldn’t grow there. She decided to look elsewhere.

After a few agonizing minutes—where her hunger pains grew tighter and more insistent as her bar continued to plummet towards empty—she came across a large boulder jutting out of the ground.

At the base of it was a single purple mushroom.

And there were no shadowy figures protecting it.

She snatched it up quickly, holding the previously disgusting fungus to her chest like it was a precious bounty to be protected. As she looked across the short distance to the gathered Stick Folk, Tanisha decided it wasn’t untrue. Their ominous presence was enough of a reason to treat this like a true prize.

“Alright.” She looked down at the purple mushroom in her hands. Bane of her taste buds as it was, it would also be her salvation. “Either you need to be cooked, or you need to be raw.” Tanisha looked back at the big rock she’d found the purple mushroom under, and directed her chair back to it. No other tiny purple caps lurked there. “And I guess I have one shot at this. So, if I pick wrong, I’ll definitely die.”

She struggled to find a clear memory. Something that wasn’t distorted by fear.

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