1 Chapter 1 - Farming? (2/2)

Dungeon Size6 tiles

Funds5 Bronze

Below the Dungeon status were options for the crop store, general store, dungeon expansions. There were more options farther down but all were grayed out and titled, 'Insufficient Level' so I had no idea what there were. The general store had meal bars and other luxuries to make my life easier, though I couldn't afford any of it. The dungeon expansion allowed me to add more 'tiles' to my area but the price for that was too much to consider. An expansion of two tiles cost ten silver and would change the tile grid to a four by two, a three tile expansion cost fourteen silver changing the tile grid to a three by three.

I could eventually repurpose the tiles, but that was grayed out so I had no idea what I could do with each tile. In some ways this place reminded me of a game I had played before, just more imprisoning with no contact with neighbors.

I opened the crop store option.

Crops Available

Blue Dandelion5/10 Bronze

Red Grass10/17 Bronze

Blue Grass12/21 Bronze

Neglism20 Bronze/ Varies

I focused on the Neglism which was the crop I had planted outside.

Neglism - a dangerous plant the invokes and feeds off of negative emotions. A useful component in creating status cures and poisons. The quality of the negative emotions determine the fruitfulness of the harvest. Lowest quality Neglism pods sell at 10 Iron while the highest quality have been sold for Gold. Caution to farmers, negative emotions evoked by Neglism can cause depression, bursts of extreme rage, jealousy, greed, suicide, murder, and in some cases apathy so extreme the farmer in question remained in a vegetative state until he died of natural causes.

Neglsim will begin to invoke and absorb negative emotions shortly after sprouting. Once Neglism begins to absorb negative emotions it will no longer need to be watered. Neglism is harvestable only after absorbing sufficient negative emotions to produce lowest quality seed pods.

Neglism is only recommended to be grown once, as all memories and thoughts used to create the negative emotions fed to the Neglism will no longer invoke negative emotions.

The descriptions for the other plants were much simpler describing the kind of soil it liked and how long it would take to grow. Given the soil I had outside the Blue Dandelion was my only choice besides Neglism.

There were harvest guides that came with the crops, and besides the seed pods, almost everything else on the plant could be used or sold. A reduction of the sap that wasn't available for sale as it had no shelf life interested me as the consumer would gain permanent increase to their to status effect resistance.

The warnings that went along with the crop scared me a little. Unfortunately with the long growth time of Blue Dandelion, twelve hours, which was short compared to the growing time of Red and Blue Grass which was one day, made it impossible to save any money as I still needed to eat. The Neglism was my only chance for extra cash. As I was sure I couldn't escape I hoped I could find something else in the upgrade options, or at the very least make my life a little more comfortable. There was a pretty comfy looking bed in the general store for three iron.

More importantly given the choices available to me in the store, whoever put me here wanted me to grow the plant. That or spend the rest of my time constantly growing Blue Dandelion and living off of what little I could get from the profit made on those.

Satisfied that I remembered the information about Neglism correctly I moved to sit on the cot then closed my eyes. I could try and sleep but I didn't bother. I had already slept a lot since arriving. There wasn't much else to do. Watering could only be done every two hours. I had watered the Blue Dandelions every two hours once before, there had been no change in the final harvest so I didn't bother now. I would try again in two hours with the Neglism because I needed to feed it my negative emotions for it to grow. I had plenty of those. How I got here, my girlfriend, my parents, and if that wasn't enough I was sure I could come up with a few more.

Then again as dangerous as the Neglism sounded the last line in the description sounded like the ultimate therapy session. Maybe that was the real reason I had chosen to grow it, though the extra money was definitely a close second. This cot didn't even have a pillow.