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[iamvegorott]

Don't Starve Emotions Chapter 12

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Moving Camp

“So you’re just going to-” Dark didn’t even get to finish asking his question before Mad slammed a hammer down on the science machine. He watched as the machine turned into a pile of supplies, and Mad picked up the pieces and added them to a backpack. 

“Most of these items stack, and it appears that whenever we put them into a bag, they combine almost magically, but we’re able to pull them out one at a time as long as we can recall what we placed in them,” Mad explained as he handed the bag to Dark. 

“Alright,” Dark said flatly as he slipped the bag over his shoulder. 

“We’re making great progress,” Mad caught that low mood. “I can’t blame you for wanting to get out of here as fast as possible, but if we’re not prepared, it won’t end well.” He felt bad that his words didn’t help since Dark only nodded at him before walking off to be with Wilford. 

“He’s out of his element,” Mare said after Dark was gone.

“We all are.” Mad picked up his own backpack. 

“I mean, he has no control. Dark’s whole thing is being in charge, leading, and knowing everything that’s happening, but you and Phantom are the only ones who understand the world we’ve been sent to, and Dark has to figure it out with the rest of us.” Mare explained as he helped Mad with putting his backpack on. He knew it wasn’t needed, but he was having a similar struggle to Dark, whether he was willing to admit it or not. 

“I bet it is a little weird having me and Phantom in charge.” Mad chuckled, placing a hand on the one on his shoulder, tilting his head up, and smiling at Mare. 

“Just a little.” Mare kissed Mad’s forehead and smiled at Mad squeezing his hand. 

“If we leave now, we’ll be able to make it to the new camping spot and create our fire pits before night kicks in,” Phantom said, pointing to the spot on the map. Bing had given up on his shirt at this point with how often people were looking at the map. “We’re aiming for this specific spot.” Phantom touched the spot he spoke of, and he quickly pulled his hand away at an almost shocking feeling getting his finger. Bing flinched in shock at the same feeling getting him, and he placed his hand over it.

“What was that?” Bing asked.  

“Static or something?” Phantom looked at his hand and noticed a bright red spot on the tip of his finger. 

“The fuck is that?” Anti asked, pointing up at the sky. Phantom followed the point and saw a big red spot in the air. 

“That’s where we’re supposed to be going,” Phantom said. 

“That spot’s on the map,” Google stated, having moved Bing’s hand to check on him and seeing the red circle. 

“Makes me think of a map marker.” Chase committed. “You know, like those arrows on the screen’s compass that shows you where to go.”

“We’re just now using that?” Marvin asked.

“Don’t Starve doesn’t have that.” Phantom continued looking at the circle in the air. “But Mad made a mod that does.” 

“A mod?” Yancy asked. 

“He didn’t like having to always check the full map to see where to go since the mini-map mod we got only showed so much. He wanted that compass thing Chase mentioned,” Phantom explained

“Does this mean the mods you and Mad use are part of this world?” Chase asked. 

“Do you guys have cheats?” Jackie asked. 

“Most of our mods are just visual things, the map marker, colored wormholes, health bars-”

“Wormholes?” Jackie and Chase asked together, cutting off Phantom’s list. 

“They’re like mouth-looking things that you jump into and it sends you across the map. It takes some sanity away to do so as well.” Phantom was back to looking at the map, pointing out the icons. “It looks like we’ve gotten close to a few of them and the colors won’t show up until they get used. They might be useful when we start properly looking for the door to save some travel time.”

“Maybe we’ll get lucky and not have to jump into the literal asshole.” Chase made a face at seeing the wormhole icon. 

“It has teeth,” Phantom added and laughed when that got Chase’s face to scrunch up more.

“Is that our map marker?” Mad asked, eyes to the sky as he stood next to Phantom.

“I think our mods are in the game,” Phantom said. 

“So those health bars we saw on the spiders ain’t usually in the game?” Yancy asked. 

“Please tell me you have like a cheat that makes you auto-win or something.” Mare said. 

“Where would the fun in an auto-win be?” Mad shrugged. 

“Like I was saying, it’s mostly just visual stuff to make tracking things easier. We like the game as it is but we like making certain things less annoying and tedious.” Phantom said.

“Like disabling the monkeys in Shipwrecked,” Mad added.

“Fuck those monkeys.” Phantom huffed. 

“Great. More information that doesn’t help us.” Dark and Wilford had joined with the others toward the end of the conversation, catching just enough to know what was being discussed. 

“Every little bit helps, Dark.” Wilford patted Dark’s back. Dark looked as if he wanted to say something else but bit his tongue and just sighed instead. 

“Now I wish we had invested in some more mods,” Mad said as he started walking, knowing the others would follow as he went toward the red spot in the sky. “Even if it was just for one time, maybe it would have transferred to this situation.” 

“Not like we can change the past.” Phantom chewed the inside of his cheek. 

“You stole that line from me.” Mare softly chuckled. 

“No, I didn’t.” 

“I literally tell you that all the time when you-”

“No, you don’t.” 

“The fuck you mean I don’t? I just told you last week when you were pouting about-”

“Lah, lah, lah.” Phantom started singing, putting his hands over his ears. 

“You are so immature.” Mare tried to grab Phantom’s wrists to move his hands but Phantom easily slipped away. 

“You started it.” Phantom stuck his tongue out.

“These are moments I should record and show Robbie wherever he asks for a sibling.” Chase laughed. 

“Robbie’s been asking for a sibling?” Anti asked.

“Ain’t that like Blank’s thing?” Yancy asked. 

“Robbie says that Blank’s his boyfriend.” Chase’s comment got Mare to stop his ‘fight’ with Phantom. 

“Blank is his what?” Mare’s tone dropped.

“Well, that answers what Blank tells Mare.” Marvin clicked his tongue.

“They’re five, they can’t have boyfriends.” Mare said. 

“Having a boyfriend at that age means they hold hands sometimes. It’s cute and innocent.” Chase said. 

“Back to the sibling conversation.” Jackie skipped ahead a little and walked backward. “Is Robbie expecting like an actual sibling or just another kid? Cause like RJ and CJ should count, right?” 

“RJ and CJ are cousins according to Robbie,” Chase explained. 

“So he’s wanting a new child Septiceye?” Illinois asked. 

“Something like that, I guess.” Chase scratched his cheek. 

“He doesn’t really understand where we come from,” Marvin added. “I feel like the only way to ensure there is another child is to adopt but I don’t think adopting an average human child would work out well.” 

“We do not need another child, most of us are childish enough on our own,” Dark stated. 

“You don’t like being a daddy~?” Anti asked Dark with a big grin. “I think you wear that title well~” 

“Chase, Dark, and Mare are very good daddies,” Mad said with an innocent smile. 

Wilford and most of the others broke out into a loud laugh. Jackie and Yancy looked just as confused as Mad and both Dark and Google rolled their eyes. 

“I’m going to throw up.” Phantom faked a gag. 

“What? Why? What am I missing?” Mad asked. 

“I’ll explain later.” Mare sighed.