"So tell me," Froggy asked, spotting a vacant chair in the small cabin of this person and sat down, examining the man's house with a curious intent.
From the outside, the cabin looked like a box. Everything was made out of wood except the windows. It had only one floor, and it looked like it couldn't house more than one person. The inside was rather spacious for a house like this; a table and 3 chairs, the table was near the window, most likely for the view. A few meters away from the table and the chairs was a bed, also made out of wood except the pillows and the blankets. A meter away from that stood a bookcase, filled with colorful books to no end. And finally, there was a sofa that looked more comfortable than the bed.
Keep in mind, all this was in one big room.
"Tell you what exactly?"
"Hey, do you sleep on the couch or the bed?" Froggy asked again, now more interested in where he slept.
"Oh... I sleep on the couch." The man was shocked at first at his sudden change in topic, but then answered the question with a more relaxed face.
"Damnit, I was gonna call dibs on the couch." Froggy sighed with disappointment.
"Oh, you're not gonna stay here." Froggy became curious and a little bit shocked.
"Here? As in this house?" Froggy's nostrils flared, scared that the man was gonna throw him out.
"Since these lands are quite dangerous, as you saw with that slime earlier, I'm gonna have to train you from the first day (assuming it's your first day) we're gonna start by building you your own house, near mine." The man announced.
"Why can't I just stay here?"
"Look, I've seen you fight. You can't handle yourself for 5 minutes before getting into trouble. If you don't learn how to build your own house, you're gonna be inexperienced and probably die very quick." The blonde explained, a little bit frustrated.
"First, you've only seen me fight a slime, and I had a broken leg. Second, how is building a house gonna even help me? Uh... Logan."
By the time Froggy finished his speech, Logan was already trying to find something in his chest. After a few seconds, he pulled out a copper pickaxe, a copper shortsword, and a copper axe.
He also pulled out a spare backpack from the chest, putting all the copper tools into it, and tossing it over to Froggy.
Froggy immediately opened the backpack, taking out the axe and examining it.
"What am I supposed to do with this, chop down trees?" Froggy inquired.
"Precisely." He frowned and took out the shortsword this time. It looked like a regular sword except it had a sharp tip. The designers also went extreme and made the edges flat so you couldn't use it as a normal sword.
"This to protect me from hostile monsters?" Logan nodded.
He pulled out the copper pickaxe, examining it for a little bit then raising an eyebrow at Logan.
"The pickaxe is to let you mine for better ores than copper. This way you can survive."
"Why the need for survival though? Why can't I just make a boat and sail out of this island?" Froggy inquired, remembering the original question he was distracted off of.
"Because there is a barrier that prevents you from leaving this island, you understand? The only way for you to break this barrier is to defeat The Wall of Flesh. That is why I want you to build your own house, why I want you to mine ores so you can prepare against it and free us." The blonde explained rather dramatically.
"Why didn't you defeat it yourself though? I assume you were here long before me, did it never cross your mind to try your luck?"
"It did. But I'm too much of a coward. I also like this island more than you so I have no reason to risk my life, but I would leave if someone broke the barrier. I hope that someone is you."
Froggy left without saying a word. He looked around, immediately spotting a tree suitable to cut down. He pulled out his axe and prepared himself.
"What are you doing?" Logan asked, running towards him.
"Cutting down a tree, like you said," Froggy replied, beginning to swing the axe into the tree.
"So you will do what I say?"
"Yes. But I'm just gonna agree with your ore mining and house building plan. I'll think about the monster later." The tree was half cut now.
"Yeah, sure. Shout at me if you need anything." Logan turned back, shocked at the easy- LOOGAAANN
"What?" He turned back, spotting a giggling Froggy.
"Oh, I was gonna ask, is there somewhere I can store wood?"
"Yeah, just leave it beside the house, I'll build a storage room later." With that, he bolted off, presumably to do something... Froggy had no idea what he would do.
After 5 more swings, the tree cut off from its root, falling over the opposite way Froggy was. Now it was all a matter of making the wood carriable by cutting it into little pieces.
Froggy quickly rushed over to Logan to ask him how many he was gonna need to build a cabin.
"Around 140 pieces. You just make the outer region of the house, I'll handle the interior." With that, Froggy rushed back to the tree and began to work.