Today I got to work on fully digesting my knowledge of healing. Well, it would be more accurate to say that I started working harder towards that goal. And I am making good progress, like ridiculously good progress. Of course, last time I put a dedicated effort into this project I hadn’t yet fully connected my mind with my forest, and I certainly hadn’t made my trees smarter. So I guess it makes sense that I am making rapid progress. It will be a matter of days before I finish.

As the rope of knowledge in my head shrinks there is more space in my head for loose ideas to be pulled out of that rope, and my dramatically improved mental capabilities let me chew through those ideas incredibly fast, making it get faster, faster.

Basically what I am doing is taking corpses and undead and practicing any sort of healing I might need to practice at that moment. Surgery was surprisingly useful here, as there are all sorts of things you can learn from cutting open a corpse, even if the act itself wouldn’t be too useful for practical healing.

I noticed today that my forest had surrounded Pearlhold, so naturally, I went to check out the city. Walking through the walls of the city it was weird to find that few people recognized me. I'm used to people looking at me with a sort of reverence when I walk down the street, it’s odd to be ignored by most of the people around me. Not entirely unpleasant, but odd.

The second thing I noticed about the city was that it was dirty, dark, and dingy. If you ignore the brilliant luster of the walls anyway. I feel kind of insulted by that, to be honest, I’m not entirely sure why. Though if I had to guess I would say that this city is mine in two distinct ways, first Par captured it for us, and then I claimed it with my forest. It being dirty felt like a personal insult or a personal failure, and I’m not entirely sure which.

And so I told people to clean it up, and keep it clean. I could probably clean it all on my own rather quickly, but then it wouldn’t stay clean, and I also think it’s boring. But ignoring that last part if the people clean up the city themselves then they should be more willing to keep it that way, it was the result of their own labours after all, and I am not completely ignorant to the sway I have with my people.

The third thing I noticed was that many of the people were unhealthy, and many were injured and damaged. Which isn’t unusual in a city this big, there will always be people that are unhealthy, but with this much, there has to be some root cause, like maybe the place isn’t clean enough? I don’t know, I don’t think being dirty can affect your health that significantly unless you yourself were incredibly dirty, at that point it can wear away your skin and possibly cause other problems. So maybe getting the place cleaned up will help, at the very least it can’t hurt.

Oh yeah, I heard that My dad’s old companion will be showing up in a day or three, depending on traffic at the teleporters.

As for refining the undead brains, progress was slowing down a bit, though we are still making good progress. We are reaching a limit to our ability to increase the size of the brain without it collapsing in on itself. We will need to figure out a way to fix that.

Other than that not a lot happened today.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.