We all enter, arms ready, prepared for anything, Annie even look at the ceiling to see if any goblins would fall on us.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depend on what you think is more fortunate.
Nothing happen, the room is straight up, just the same as before, there isn't anything new, like we saw before, no goblins, no door, nothing, just the white room.
We all stand in the middle of said room, my eyes looking around as Matthew say to us "that's, just the same room"
Wow, I didn't noticed, thanks for your participation!
I don't say that out loud but he's right, I don't know how much I need to say it, but that fucking dumb room show nothing, and it's not like there is any system messages rewarding us by saying some dumb shit lik-!
...fucker
And me who hoped I'll get interupted mid monologue again.
It's not like there is any message saying good job you're in the next room, no, it's just, nothing.
"is that even the next room?"
Annie ask, as confused as any of us are, but...it's not like we can do much here, I mean..."let's look around more perhaps there is something we didn't see?"
So we start looking around, just searching for...something, anything, I don't know if I'm glad there is no monster to rip out my throat anywhere, or whatever the contrary of glad is that there is litterally nothing.
At first we all stick together, ready to fight off anything at the first sign of danger, after a while we just seperate ourselves, looking at the walls, the ground, the anything really.
Are we gonna starve to death here?
Matthew talk again, balrow and Jenna are pretty silent "I do not believe there is anything of importance in this room"
He says from the top of my shoulders. lifted him up to look more closely at the ceiling.
Yeah, we're that desperate.
Still nothing though, putting him down pretty easily Annie answer "thanks captain obvious, the real question is what do we need to do"
At that, we all look at each other, and after a while Jenna speak up for the first time "perhaps the next room is hidden there?" she point at the room where the hearth is, I doubt it, but perhaps she's right?
She wasn't.
We lifted everything, moved every tapestries.
Balrow hit the wall trying to hear if the walls are empty with some constructor worker magic kind of ears, we searched, everywhere, I'm sure I could remember every single dot in that fucking wall on the section I was searching in, but in the end, nothing, again.
Is this a joke?
After a dissapointing result, we all find ourselves sitted before the hearth, like we did before, wow, we progressed so well.
Jenna look depressed as fuck, she was ready to show the goblins revenge, I think, but in the end we only met, this.
I really don't want to talk about the whole starving and thirst problems but my throat is yearning for water right now, can I even use a weapon well after not drinking for a whole day?
Before anyone tell anything about it in a bad way, any way that would bring the mood down even more, I decide to do the hard job of bringing the problems up.
"So, there is no next room, and we will need some food and water really soon"
Matthew look at me, raise an eyebrow and mull over his words before continuing "indeed we do" simple, Annie keep up with "can goblin meat be eaten?" ah, I predicted that.
"Still doesn't take care of the water problem" Jenna add just after, and that's without any hesitation that I try to bring their hopes up.
"We have some time to think about how to get out of here though, I'd say a good ten days though"
Annie look at me with a raised frown
"isn't surviving without water is like 3 days"
Fuck, can't you shut up for a second, I don't need pessimistic people in a survival scenario girl, keeping my true thought for myself I give a much more optimistic view.
"nah, that's a myth, just an average while you're in the middle of elements, outside, while being active physically, there are humans that survived for dozen of days without food and water! Especially food. If we keep still and just focus on thinking we'll have more time"
I hope, I truly hope I'll have more time.
Annie, deciding to believe me nod, same as jenna that cross her arms and try to sink into the couch, matthew look at me with narrowed eyes, I smile at him, he sigh and turn his head away, balrow turn his head toward me and without any care in the world he say "let's break a wall" I stare at him, he stare at me.
What did I said? BADASS GRANDPA!
He didn't ask the others, he asked me, and probably for a good reason, the others seems to consider this idea completly crazy, and it kinda is, but...do we have another choice?
"Let's think more about it, and if we don't find a better idea...let's search for a good wall to break" he nod at that and go back to, staring at the hearth I guess.
I lie down on the couch my spear already in my inventory, it's been a while since it's in it, breaking a wall? Fucking ridiculous.
Best idea yet though.
We all go back to doing our own things, and I almost doze off while trying to figure out a way to get out of this cursed ass place.
The soft couch making wonders for my bruised body.
I would say that there must be a hole, somewhere, or anywhere really since we can breath, but....magic, I can't be sure of that.
Annie suddenly say "we can start eating the goblins" WHAT'S HER FUCKING PROBLEM WITH WANTING TO EAT GOBLINS!?
"No, well yes, perhaps, but that would just make us be able to wait longer, we still wouldn't have any solution" she grimace at my explanation, she probably just tried to help.
Was I wrong? It's a tutorial for fuck sake, that's in the name, it needs to be doable, as I think Matthew say something else "perhaps we need to go to that light source?" I look at him and get up.
"let's try" so try we do, I put him on my shoulders.
Again.
And try to make him see how far the ceiling is, he say "far" far? "How far?" "very far" fuck.
"If balrow came on your shoulders would he reach it?" "not in a thousand years"
I put him down "let's try the furniture"
he follows me as the others look at us, we try to push one of the dresser but...it just doesn't move, no matter how hard we push "The fuck!? Is that stuck in the wall or what?" I say out loud and we try some of the others, nothing move.
After a while we're both back on the couch, and I go back to thinking, the tutorial is supposed to be doable for fuck sake, what kind of system just straight up let their players starve to death?
Best game ever.
And a great fucking day, kill someone, kill more goblins, mental breakdown, and then realize you're gonna starve to death and you can't do shit about it.
In the middle of my mental rant. Jenna get up, and started searching the room we're in again, trying to find a secret passage or whatever we didn't find before, I look at her moving around and hope she does find something, because this fucking tutorial is not a tutorial.
After a while balrow look at me again.
A big sigh escape me as I jump off the couch "let's find a wall"
And finding a wall we do, well more like balrow is tapping all the walls while I just, stare at them, fuck.
I can't even do shit.
Something spring in my chest. Again. Just like I felt helpless against twitchy, just like that. The tip of my fingers shake.
My vision become dizzy.
Grey spots appear.
I want to puke again.
I blink everything away, ignoring everything.
Bring me more goblins! Yeah, that's prefferable to not knowing what I can do, a tutorial should be doable easy, and teach things for fuck sake!
As balrow walk forward and keep tapping with his finger again his ear stuck on the wall listening to...whatever he need to listen to, he suddenly move away sharply and rub his ear.
"what?"
He answer "I felt something on my ear"
What does he mean? heard something? Wondering about his strange wording, I see him put his fingers on a specific part of the wall and drag them from left to right, one time, two time "there is something"
I frown and go do the same thing as him....and there is, just under my fingers I can feel a small groove.
it's apparent considering every part of the wall feel smooth apart from this, it almost feel like a seam, getting closer, I focus on it, trying to understand what the fuck is that.
Annie coming back in the room see us both like maniac against the wall and ask
"did you find something?"
I barely answer just whispering a "kinda" the sound of our conversation bring the others in the room.
As I try to dig my nails into the seam, it work, there is something, what is this?
I take my spear out and try to dig it inside, the tip is too big, Instead I put my eyes as close as possible to the thing, I stare at it, look at it, touch it, what is that?
I remember something suddenly, something I said, a tutorial should be doable, and teach things. Like a lock get unlocked from my mind I remember an ability that's in practically every litrpg I read, and behold
[Tutorial door: barely hidden for the new tutorials doers to search and find, this door has specifically been made to challenge your limits while teaching you a valuable tutorial lesson, Inspect!
Congratulation for completing the next step of the tutorial, to open the door make every living team member inspect the door!]
You son of a bitch.