Twilight appeared in the guide's house for the umpteenth time and gave a long sigh of annoyance. This place really seemed to get to her nerves extremely often, which usually led to them being melted or exploded. Unfortunately for Twilight, she would have to deal with this aggravation for the duration of her stay, however long that was.

At that moment, Twilight decided to not do anything and instead reflect upon what she did. She did a lot of exploring, which definitely got her a lot of useful items, but was that enough? From what she saw and learned from Fodder's interaction, there was a lot more she could do than just explore and die. But what?

Twilight exited her contemplative state of mind and went over to the chest overflowing with items. She had a lot of earth-related things, a bunch of wood, and a small collection of ingots and gems, but nothing else. She already tried to find out what she could use these things for using the Guide, but realized she didn't have the necessary things.

Although there were a number of potions Twilight had been completely ignoring so far in her travels. And Twilight just realized she could make staves with the gems and bars she obtained. And she had some red ore dropped from the Eye of Cthulhu which could be very useful. And she could make a whole bunch of houses for more people to live in, including one for herself.

And then Twilight realized that there was so much of the world she hadn't explored which could have a lot of useful things in it. She could go into the crimson and attempt to defeat the Brain of Cthulhu to get that red stuff it dropped. She could go underground and attempt to brave the hellish landscape beneath the world, but would likely have to find some way to get down semi-safely. She could see if she could go into the sky to see if she could find any wyverns to try and get some wings. Or she could wait for nightfall and somehow collect fallen stars.

Twilight gave herself the largest and most facehooviest facehoof she could muster, which somehow ended up killing her, but she didn't care about that! She could finally make some progress in this world instead of blindly wandering into sort of useful things!

First, Twilight made herself a sword out of that bloody reddish stuff, which she could somehow wield even though it larger than her. She also made the best staff she could, which ended up being a sapphire one that shot blue clumps of magic. She wasn't able to sustain a magical assault for very long, although that gave her a reason to collect stars.

Next, Twilight looked over the potions she obtained. A lot of them gave her different status effects, which Twilight didn't find very interesting, but she did decide to put some healing potions into her inventory. She also took some gravitation potions she obtained, which she could use to go into the sky and do whatever was necessary up there.

Twilight stepped outside for a few seconds and estimated she had a while before night fell. In that time, Twilight could make some more houses in her house tower to see if anyone else wanted to move in. Then maybe she could spend the night collecting stars and fending off the monsters that appeared with her new sword. Then she could go into the sky and explore there a bit, and hopefully use whatever she gained to fight the Brain all by herself and obtain loot! With her schedule planned, Twilight gathered the necessary resources and got to work.

A while later...

Twilight loved schedules, and loved completing schedules even more. But sometimes, doing the things that led to the completion of those schedules is not the most interesting. Case in point, repetitively making houses on top of other houses with the exact same contents in each and every one of them. Thankfully for Twilight's patience, it didn't take too long to get a total of 15 houses in place, including the ones she already made, before night fell. Although Twilight realized the fruits of her labors probably wouldn't be seen until night had passed, unless the people were suicidal or just plain stupid. Which might be the case, when Twilight thought back to her first night here.

But that wasn't her priority right now. Twilight could already see some stars falling in the distance, which excited her. She really looked forward to regaining at least a rough approximate of her magical ability. She also kind of wanted to see how powerful her new sword was, which led her out of the safety of her home and into the waiting arms of a sizable amount of monsters. She grinned in anticipation and charged out swinging.

It was then she realized that constantly swinging her sword at everything that moves and occasionally picking up fallen stars might get boring quickly, which nullified some of her enjoyment. Nonetheless, Twilight kept going because she knew it had to be done.

By the end of the night, Twilight was really getting tired of the constant stream of monsters and stars. She breathed a sigh of relief when the sun began rising, prompting the various monsters to start running to who knows where. Twilight quickly got rid of the various junk items she obtained and moved on to her next objective: sky exploration.

Twilight started running past the looming structure of the arena floating in the sky and gulped down one of the potions. And then nothing happened. Twilight skidded to a stop, frustrated that her schedule was unable to be completed, and attempted to puzzle out why the potion wasn't working. On a hunch, Twilight looked up at the sky, which suddenly turned into her looking down at the sky. Twilight let out a drawn-out "Whee!" as she fell up and her brain attempted to rectify the strange sensations it was feeling.

As Twilight was falling, she noticed these weird bird people flying after her. She really wanted them to be friendly, but her hopes were crushed when they started to shoot feathers at her. And Twilight could have sworn they looked sharp. She decided she didn't want to deal with the bird people and continued falling.

As she continued falling, Twilight wondered if it was possible to fall to far. The sky had faded into pitch blackness, with stars twinkling in abundance and the sun moving steadily across the expanse. If Twilight had a little more time, she probably would have just stayed here, marveling at the beauty that existed here. Alas, bird people wanted Twilight's soul, while she wanted to both find wyverns and not rocket too far away from the ground.

Twilight looked up. As she looked up, Twilight spotted the top of a floating landmass, which she quickly fell towards. But she also spotted that the bird people from before were directly below her, and she would have to fall through them to reach the peculiar object. But she was prepared. Twilight quickly got out her staff and started firing, thankful for all the stars she collected earlier. She did manage to kill one before she fell into the mass, which cost her a lot of health.

But as Twilight fell toward the island, she realized she would likely die from the fall damage. Thinking quickly, Twilight reversed her gravity a few more times, until she landed gracefully on the island with nary a scratch. From here, she could notice a few more details of the island, including that it apparently had a mini forest. The island itself was a chunk of dirt that was suspended in a cloudy bowl, and there were smaller clouds above her dripping water. But what was most interesting was the bright yellow house that Twilight was surprised she didn't notice sooner.

Twilight rushed towards the house, mindful of the bird-things that still wanted to kill her. There wasn't any door on this side of the house, although Twilight noticed she could jump much higher than usual. She managed to find a door on the other side, which she managed to get through just before getting bombarded by insanely sharp feathers. Twilight breathed a short sigh of relief before looking around her. The house wasn't very populated, with just a table, two chairs, and a chest, all of which were made of this interesting material.\

Before she did anything else, Twilight put one of her torches inside the house in case anyone was crazy enough to live here. She then took a look in the chest, which contained the usual potions and coins, as well as some sort of golden horseshoe. Upon examination, she realized it would completely negate any fall damage, thanks to a helpful description she somehow knew about. Although Twilight wasn't exactly sure how to put it on, since she didn't know of any smithies.

Twilight decided to look in her inventory in case the answer to that problem existed. There were a number of slots below where she put her armor, which made her wonder if that was where she put the horseshoe. When she discovered it did go there, she realized she could also put her climbing claws in there so that she could actually use them.

Twilight would have wanted to sit there, basking in the feeling of new discoveries and knowledge, but was unable to due to the fact that potions don't last forever. But Twilight would have to go through the bird people piling outside the door in order to not waste some of her precious potion. Twilight idly wondered if she could hit multiple enemies with one sword swing as she prepared to face the onslaught of enemies.

But immediately after opening the door, all the bird people instantly flew in and shot all of their feathers at Twilight, which killed her before she could even defend herself. On the plus side, Twilight discovered via the death message that these were harpies, so she wouldn't have to constantly refer to them as generic bird people. However, as she waited to come back to life, she mused that it probably wouldn't be any better to know them as generic harpies rather than bird people.

So Twilight had managed to complete mostly everything on her checklist save for finding wyverns. But she had a feeling she could do more with her sword then she initially thought. So, immediately after appearing back at the housing complex, she went over to the guide and put the sword into his information slot, wherein it was revealed to her that she could craft a "Night's Edge." Frustratingly, she was unable to figure out where to get the other swords required for it.

"So I have one of the swords right now," she said to herself as she paced around the house. "One of them looks like it would be found in Tartarus, or whatever it's called. One of them seems to be made from plants; in the jungle maybe? And that last one looks like it would be in the ocean somewhere. Come on, Guide, are you going to say anything useful?"

"I am here to give you advice on what to do next. It is recommended that you talk with me anytime you get stuck."

"That's what I'm asking you for!"

"You can use your pickaxe to dig through Dirt, and your axe to chop down trees. Just place your cursor over the tile and click!"

At that moment, Twilight decided she really wanted to punch the guide in the face. Instead, she just settled for facehooving. She didn't want to deal with the guide anymore, and went out to see if anyone else had entered the housing complex. It didn't look like anyone had entered, but when Twilight checked her message area, it was revealed to her that a dryad had moved in. Twilight puzzled over that information for a little while, until she realized that the dryad must have gone to the cloud house. Which didn't make sense because it was entirely disconnected from the rest of the world!

Understandably, Twilight was pissed. In her pissed state, she thought it would be a good idea to see if she could take on the Brain of Cthulhu. And so, without even preparing for it, she set off on what she would later realize was a fool's errand.

Author's Note

Hello everyone! I am terribly sorry I kept you all waiting for so long for this new chapter, but I got distracted and/or uncreative. I absolutely forgive you if you wrote this story off as dead and deleted it from your mind.