Well, I sort of...died, the other day.
I was exploring another planet around our solar system, not too far from our new home, and when I was exploring a large cavern I slipped off a ledge and...fell. I should have been more careful, I promised Tifa I'd come home safe. I mean I did, but that's because the spaceship can clone my body down to my chest scars, and what a pleasant surprise that was. The machine even copied my clothing. Or did it transport it with my...essence? I went back to the place I fell and saw no corpse, just items I'd gathered that day flung about the ground. I was missing some pixels, too. Maybe that's the price for being reborn in a fresh body. I'm still in awe over the technology this universe has developed.
Tifa was so upset when she found out that night, though. Relieved but upset. Crying, beating my chest as I held her. Wondering if it's 'really me' or just some clone thinking I'm me. But there wasn't a body, and the ship AI said it teleports our remains and whatever makes us, us, with it for the new body it produces. I guess it's more like being recycled, in that case. Isn't that how it is on Gaia? Only we have to be reincarnated there, memories and ego gone. Here I assume death doesn't have to be permanent in all cases. Still, I'm going to be more careful in the future, I don't want to have to make trips back to where I got myself killed to pick stuff up.
You'd think the tech that Apex scientist gave us a few days ago would have helped, but I used it too soon. Oh well, that's my fault for having an itchy trigger finger, not her's. Anyway, the reefpod seedlings are growing well and I've begun work on the brick wall replacement of the lower level of the house. I did the kitchen first so I could surprise Tifa before she came home, the toad man finally had a kitchen set I could purchase. Still need to find a fridge, though.
She really loved the set, too. Makes the house look so much more like a home, warm and inviting. The kids seemed to like it, too. Tifa made carrot bread to celebrate her new kitchen, and the scent of it brought me back to Nibelheim before all the bad memories...my mother used to make something like this. It's a good thing, really.
I purchased some hay and feed for the barn animals yesterday, our Mooshi produces a lot of milk. Wonder if there's a way to make a quick cheese with all the surplus? Guess I'll ask around again, it can't be that hard.
I also found a teleporter core on that planet I visited, and now we have a teleporter right outside the fence in a brick enclosure to keep the rain off of it. The space ship orbits that other planet now, and we go back and forth between the three as we see fit. The AI said there's settlements scattered about to look out for, and I'll probably try and find one tomorrow. I wonder what species made their homes here? I hear humans are a lot rarer than they used to be out in the cosmos because their home planet was destroyed years ago, and they're still recovering. Guess our arrival bolstered their numbers a little bit.
It's raining gently right now and I'm writing this by the fireplace, and I'm about to go to bed. Tifa's probably waiting on me to finish up. Until next time...