Day Fifty-One

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Dawn rose over the forest ahead as I began chipping away at my pillar. Not before I was greeted by a friend, however.

I see you behind that tree.

Been a while since I had to use my bow.

A spider observed the conflict from atop a nearby tree, but he seemed content not to join in and let me put down my sign and carry on in peace.

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I trekked on through the forest, passing more than a typical amount of chickens. But before long, I ran out of both forest and land and was faced with another ocean.

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Blerg. Ocean.

Best just get this over with.

Not long after leaving the shore, it looked as though my boat trip would be short as a desert appeared to the south. However, it didn't wrap around and faded out again as the ocean stretched on.

Desert to the south.

...but ocean to the east.

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The ocean continued for the better part of the morning as old, bad memories of a week at sea flashed through my mind. Clearly, I still hadn't gotten over that particular adventure. But then, eventually, a forest appeared on the horizon, just to the south. This time, the land did indeed wrap around.

Land ahoy?

Land ahoy!

More specifically desert ahoy, apparently.

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I left my boat behind and started across the desert under the early afternoon sun. For a while, I wondered if the desert would end up being as large as the ocean.

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Looking north-ish.

Lo! A tree in the distance!

And so ends the desert.

 As I reached the mountains I crossed a small lake and climbed a small hill onto a grassy plateau. A forest of conifers was just visible on the horizon.

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Into the woods we go.

As often seems to be the case in conifer forests, wolves were everywhere. But as usual, they left me well enough alone, save some curious glances.

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Sun beginning to sink back to the west.

The conifers thinned out and were slowly replaced with more generic trees on a land pocketed with deep shafts and ditches.

Mind the gap.

A whole lot of exposed rock.

As the sky finally darkened, I found myself wondering into a swamp. I picked a few mushrooms (not that I seem to have gotten hungry for two days now, bizarrely) and built my tower.

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But then something weird happened. I looked to the left, and the sun was setting. To the left. Not behind me. 90 degrees from where I believe it should have been.

To the left is where I came out of the forest and into the swap while (I thought) I was heading east. But now the sun is setting in the direction I thought north.

I was greatly disorientated now. Had I gotten lost in the woods? I swear I was following the sun properly. Did it just suddenly change positions at sunset? I had heard rumours of Notch saying they would "fix" the sunrise/sunset positions, but I am completely unsure if that is what happened or if I just got lost. There was no time to ponder it now, though. It was getting dark and I needed to get up on my pillar. Besides, it ultimately matters little. Whether the sun has moved or not, I would continue towards the dawn one way or the other.

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