Once daybreak had hit, Brian woke up and had already begun his mining operation. Fortunately for him, he still had yet to solidify what was still in accordance to the game, and what was not. In other words, while the sword bent on him against the Eater, mining felt like he had a massive scoop, and just eating away the ground he was mining at, which made it ridiculously easy to plow through the top layer of dirt, and already heading towards the rock part of the world. This much was still the same as the game.
Of course, this was after Brian had no luck with finding any cave openings in the immediate proximity of the house's location. Brian thought it best otherwise to just mine until he hit a cave below, or maybe until he hit enough iron or lead to call it for the day. Just prior to his mining operation, he had already gather an immeasurable amount of wood, made a work bench, and had slaughtered a fair amount of slimes to make torches. In truth, he only needed to kill maybe two or three slimes, as unlike the game, he could just utilize all of the slime that was, well, "killed". Eventually, he had enough torches to feel comfortable leaving a trail for him to follow back if he ever found a cavern on this expedition, like a breadcrumb trail.
Brian sighed as he made it far enough down that when he looked back at the entrance of the mine, he could barely see a dot of light that was sunlight filtering in. He glanced over the materials he had gather thus far, coming across what could be about 60 "blocks" of stone, maybe even more; he had also gathered more than a dozen "ores" of copper and tin. But in terms of iron, he gathered less than a dozen, and for lead, even less. Brian slumped his shoulders in a minor defeat in this bout, but straightened himself again in an effort to find more metals to smelt and create tools to better his position here.
As he mined, he thought to himself the situation he was now placed in. The last thing he remembered was going to sleep in his old apartment after a relatively average day of work. The next thing he knew, he felt whiskers on his face, and opened his eyes in a completely new world with the first sight being a bunny. The first thing he felt was what bewildered him however, not the environment around him. What bewildered him was that the moment he opened his eyes, he had already accepted everything that was happening. It was almost like inside his mind somewhere, he knew he wasn't insane, or that this was dream. Everything right here and right now was real, even though it resembled the beloved game of his.
And then going past that, is he the only one in this world that came from his? He was firmly aware that the NPCs would be at the very least, as vibrant as Andrew is, and thus, he can consider them actually humans. So being the only "human" wasn't a concern anymore, just if there were others like him in that they came from his world.
And how would he come back to his original world? It's not that he wanted to leave right this moment, but he honestly wanted to at least be prepared on his terms in coming back to this world, if he absolutely had to. Then this brought back up the "hard mode" of Terraria. How far will he go? Will he summon the Wall of Flesh and defeat it so as to progress further into the rest of the world, and eventually stand against the Moon Lord?
The very thought sent shudders down Brian's spine, enough for him to have to momentarily stop mining.
Did he have to beat the Moon Lord in order to actually get back home? It's been years since he's played the game, was this… reality, the same "version" that he last played or would there be more things that he wouldn't be able to even do anything about except feel powerless against?
Brian stopped mining and thought about that last question. Wasn't that the fun of Terraria?
Suddenly, he felt a sensation of thrill engulf his entire body. He felt like he was about to be set ablaze, his heart thundered in his chest. He broke a smile onto his face. Wondering if his heart was about to burst asunder, he quickly started to mine with a quickened pace; bits and pieces of knowledge he embedded into his memory surfacing slowly back up, re-piecing together the archive he built in his mind so he didn't have to keep tabbing out of the game to look up on the wiki. What he needed to know now, he probably could get from himself. Although this time around, his Guide was actually pleasant, and he didn't even open the door to a single zombie through the night!
At this, Brian started to chuckle to himself, a sense of arrogance slowly washing into him, like a tidal wave steadily rising, understanding that all he has to do is "beat" this world, and he could stand atop of it. This would be fun, Brian thought to himself.
At this point, the hole that was the surface had dissipated since he had mined horizontally once his pace quickened, and came across huge pools of iron and lead. After mining all of this, a fierce smile appeared on his face, visible only by the torch light that he had just placed next to him.
"Right now, I'm just a cockroach in the eyes of the Moon Lord, no, even the Slime King! But just like all the other times…" Looking at the amount of iron and lead he had in hand, he knew he could easily make a full set of armor as well as a sword and pickaxe, "I will work my way up to the level of Gods!" Brian laughed to himself, now drunk in his arrogance of knowledge.
He felt ready. He was ready.
~Alright, well, those were the chapters I made last night (March 20). The way I'm going to do this, most likely, is a burst upload weekly. For example, I do a few chapters whenever I can through the week, then I upload them all up on Sunday/Monday/Tuesday. Deal? Love ya guys if you read this and enjoyed it so far!~