Time, even under the best of circumstances, is weird. These, Hilma thinks as she stands in the cave entrance, are hardly the best of circumstances. She’d been working on her basket, barely aware of the time passing, maybe even taking a little comfort from the simple, repetitive task, when something, suddenly, seemed very wrong. Like the way your spatial sense shifts after catching a sudden gust of wind under your rotors; the world tilting around you. She’d gone outside to check, and while there had been nothing to see, the sense of wrongness had only gotten stronger. Nope, she’d thought, turning around. Like her primitive ancestors, she’d feel safe inside the cave next to her fire. She’d been thinking of her primitive ancestors a lot lately. Would they be proud of how much she’d already done, or would they laugh at her sad little pile of leaves and itchy grass skirt? Proud, she’d decided, as she contemplated her stock of food. She had fire, water and food. So there, ancestors. The squeal had come out of nowhere. Do dinosaurs squeal, she’d wondered. Maybe there was an injured animal out there. As much as she hated the idea of harming something, she needed to eat and surely an already injured creature would be easier to kill. She could put it out of its misery and get some food at the same time. Grabbing her spear, she’d headed out yet again. Now, as she stands in the entrance to the cave, spear clutched in her hands, time gets very weird. She feels as if she’s at the very center of an old clock, standing still while the face with its number spins around her. There is something teasing at her memory…. The shimmering portal pops into existence a few feet away and then vanishes, but it’s enough. Enough for Hilma to remember that same shimmer, that same flicker of some color she can’t name. It had been the last thing she’d seen after those…those Things had rushed her as she rode her horse toward their twisted tower. I could go back. The thought is insistent, so insistent that Hilma takes a step forward. The sound of a twig snapping under her feet pulls her up short. What the hell is she thinking? Sure, she could go back, but what if “back” isn’t where she ends up. Those Things had come from somewhere else, after all. A memory hits her-thick foul air, overwhelming heat and the way she’d been so slow and they’d been so fast. And pain. So much pain. That had just been their outpost in her own world. What, she wonders, would their own world be like? And if there were three worlds-hers, theirs and this one-what was to say there weren’t more? Worlds with even worse atmospheres or no air at all. Worlds with crushing gravity. Worlds with beings who could help her or kill her or worse. A portal flickers into being right in the entrance to the cave. Time stands still. Stay or go? Here or there? In the end, it’s not a difficult decision at all. Maybe if it had happened a few days ago, when she was naked and starving and so so thirsty, she would have risked it. But now? As she turns to head back into the cave, back towards warmth and light and her accomplishments, she smiles a little. Yeah, she thinks, her ancestors would be proud. *** I just banged this out, so it’s a bit rough. Thanks for the inspiration and all your hard work!

Error warnings popping up in the air is somehow more scary than portals...

This is 100% my favourite channel with Kruggsmash being a close second, both with really immersive storytelling.

I’d say our protagonist’s pacifist trait is less of a moral dislike of violence but more a natural hesitance for violence that despite her best efforts makes her hit a lot less harder than she should

Portal storm. Awesome. Brings to mind one of the sayings from our RP group: Dice have no memory. They do, however, have a sense of humour.

I am just in pain when Rycon has no clue that you can use construction menu with * and do "Remove Grass" constructions that will give you 1 piece of straw for tile of grass or 2 pieces for long grass. It makes forest life much, much less painful.

Gotta say, that sudden warning at 35:55 is incredibly good at just freaking you out, I love it. It's like analog horror levels of "something is terribly wrong." I can just picture your face dropping as you saw that pop up! Portal storms are nuts.

You should keep food 4 spaces away from fire to preserve it better. Also there's a crafting speed percentage on the top right of the crafting menu, so you can keep track of it.

The thing about cold and sleeping in the cold is that when your character falls asleep, their overall warmth actually lowers, and in certain cases, like yours, it falls *right* below the threshold of comfortable to chilly.

A bandana is probably your best bet for mouth warmth only 2 rags to be made, which can be made out of any kind of 80 thread/plant fibre/sinew per 1 rag etc, only gives 5 mouth protection but that will make all the difference, and obviously you can craft multiple and wear 2. You can also change it into a head bandana and wear them on your head. Harvesting hickory roots (Interact with a hickory tree with a digging stick or better) in buches of 10 can be used to make "salt" and from that salt you can keep crafting and reverse crafting salt and salty water, to get your applied science up, i think you need like 3 applied science before you can tan hides.

Portal Storm days are inside days. Not only do they creep me out, they're quite dangerous while outside. And I have been teleported outside my vehicle by one, that's spooky af.

damn, this series needs to be posted more often

Got me some stalker vibes there at the end ^^ What a intense turn of events. Good that Hilma decided to create the basket before going to the clay deposits or the storm could have caught her outside.

What a boon that cave at spawn really was I don't know if Hilma would have made it this far without it. good chance the elements would have been here downfall overnight.

I found this channel around Christmas time last year and binged the entirety of Bran's Tale. Innawoods is my first opportunity to watch one of the long-form Cataclysm stories here unfold "in real time", without knowing what will happen next, because I don't have a playlist that tells me how many more episodes are left. And I'm so excited about this series already, to the point where I drop all other activities just to watch the newest episode as soon as I notice it has come out. In short: I love it. Can't wait for it to continue!

I think the missing textures is suited to the portal storm. When reality fails, how do you picture it?

Now that you have a blanket, you probably won't need to keep the fire at night. Instead of wearing the blanket, drop it were you want to sleep and the game will give you notification that you used it for warmth, even better it will warm your whole body that way, including your head and mouth, simulating your character going fully under the blanket.

Guess who's now addicted to this style of video and scenario for CDDA Thank you Rycon, I'm actually really grateful for this amazing content

the portal storm legit gave me the creeps. loving this series. also a thought came to me, I think a bone knife has better buchering than the rock but I could be wrong, it might be prudent to try and make one.

Been watching on and off your roleplays for years now. Uh, sometimes too long for my taste, simply don't have time. But this series im watching fully, like saturday cartoon.

Can i just say that this series is starting to make me want to do an Inawoods playthrough as well. also: throwing weapons (stones dug from a hole or foraged, spare spears....) will be more likely to get a turkey than charging in with a melee weapon, even a reaching one.

i feel like hilma is growing stronger emotionally every day she survives on her own, i feel like when the cataclysm hit she got with a group and they protected her, she was always timid and scared, when the mi-gos abducted her she was TERRIFIED. she wishes she could go back to the first year in the cataclysm, but she knows she cant, she has to push on and survive. she has to survive for her friends. (sorry if its a bit messy i am typing this out very late at night)

I gotta say, I know you’ve been on a shorter playthrough grind later, but I don’t just wanna see only 6 or 7 episodes of Hilna surviving. I want to see this series played out, Hilna either learning to thrive to the maximum degree she can in her environment - metal tools, full seasonal clothing sets, tamed animals, a farm, etc - or dying in the process.

It's a blowout Stalker.

The turkey hunts always have me biting my nails in anticipation! I'm LOVING this series! Keep up the good work. I'm staying tuned, that's for sure!

Loving the raw survival aspect of this story!! (As I did with Leif's one) Thank you Rycon!

This is simply amazing storytelling! A big thank you for your effort, from Denmark 😊

As always, I am absolutely loving your content. Watching this struggle for survival is so captivating.

Loving this new series. Leif was what got me to start watching your channel, so happy you're doing another wilderness run!

Hey Rycon i would say get enough clay to make maybe 2 big pots and 1 more clay pot so you can use em both to like make drinkable water for both big water holding pots and have the other 2 as a water pot for while ur working and the other so u can make broths and stews also i hope those herbs last a while cause maybe u can use them to make either teas or medicines. Oh and see if you can make like some kind of storage shelves to put your food on so that it's away from the fire so at night they can freeze and stay fresh instead of going bad next to the fire

Incredibly hooked! Love the series so far! Also I wanted to let you know that you are incredibly luck to have found a cave, Portal Storms + Innawood feel so unbalanced if you can't find shelter before your first or second storm! Please be careful! I dont want Hilma's journey to end because of lack of gamebalance if you're caught outside during a Portal Storm! I literally had to ask the CDDA discord for help to disable the mod on my Innawood playthrough because I would die incredibly fast once the second/third storm hit. Cheers! and Thanks again for the best roleplay content on KZfaq!

A bone shiv would be a big help, as you found a bone. Yikes, that portal storm... I can see her thinking at first that the screaming was a dinosaur of some kind, caught in that, and being harmed by it (more then enough to drive one back underground), but then the realization that the screaming was sometimes coming from the ground itself, as if it was time and reality that was being tortured... that is next level.

Such a good ep again! My first portal storm in cdda took me completely by surprise, hadn't heard of it at all and thought for a second I was munching too many cattail rhizomes or something lol. That cave is a real life saver with these too, not only with exposure.

Rycon, I love your videos and have watched you for years. I may be in the minority, but I don’t see the need to edit out the dead time in Cataclysm. Call me old fashioned, but I enjoy watching you grind. Either way, you are the artist and I leave the creative choices to you sir.

When that message, "Reality is beginning to break(...)" popped up, I legit got concerned.

I was going to make a reference to how we do have this thing called Bluegrass in the U.S. which refers to a specific part of Kentucky, although it's also associated with a type of music Then I noticed that Hilma is apparently in some version of the land that would be Kentucky lol. Although there is a grass called bluegrass, it's actually common to Europe and a few other places, as it was spread by the Spanish in the New World However, as much as I like the grass products being blue, bluegrass is still grass and is very green Thanks for the upload Rycon, I'm definitely liking this one so far :D

Great series! PS. Note that peeking up and down stairs doesn't work right in Cataclysm these days. I'm not sure why not. It's been broken for awhile (certainly since the last stable build).

I've been enjoying your channel on and off through the last few years and this is the first time I'm watching a series as it airs...and wow. I am fascinated and really enjoying this!

your better off turning the cattail rhizomes to starch since that yields plant fiber portal storms are best avoided by staying under a roof or in an improvised shelter best bet for catching animals like turkeys is to push them into the cave where they will be trapped

This is fucking amazing. I am so happy this is going. Good luck Hilma!

my head canon is that she's wearing the grass blanket like a cloak or shawl.

About 7 months late but I've just stumbled upon this series (and your channel) and I'm very excited to get the experience of binging every upload

I love the shock in the midst of some quaint crafting. X'D

I love that your first Portal Storm was recorded.

Just found your channel. I really appreciate the story telling! Looking forward to the next episode. Cheers

i wanted to ask this while the episode is swill new. what are your plans for end game? stuff like canning and jarring with the glass jars. there is a way for your to make those out of raw materials, do you intend to do it? the big point is metal. the game is built on metal it's basically as important and used as rags. there is the possibility to mine and refine metals from the ground but it's an entire ordeal, do you intend to do so? for me the point of this series is the monumental advancement you do which in a regular playthrough is basic stuff. this series is the perfect opportunity to focus on base building and crafting set ups which at least I and maybe others would love to see as it's a real struggle to do. I can't emphasize enough how much i love this series it's amazing

Yes love this videos.. thank you for making it longer!!!

I feel like 'Accomplished sleeper' should allow sleep while only 'slightly' cold.

These are such fun. Thank you for sharing them with us

honestly waiting everyday to see more of this uploaded keep it up this is awsome!

Good stuff, like always!

Another great episode 👍

so good! look forward to each episode cant wait to see what happens yet

That notification filled me with an actual sense of dread, absolutely love it for this series!

Let's just hope Hilma will not be stuck outside during a portal storm...

Awesome show 👏

Alright yeah this series is awesome!

watching this as i do my own innawoods. after 3 unlucky lives of no clay spawning at all i finally found a small deposit after whimsically falling down a crater in a fit of frustration. the blocks fell into place and with any luck ill have shelter in a day

Thank you for a bit of editing you did.

*You can jump to the TL;DR to get the summary of the problem it will present to the RP series. I sincerely suggest that you read at least that section, should you see it, Rycon.* I did a little research about the Portal Storms, since I remembered then trying to implement them- or something nearly identical- before... and it making the game effectively unplayable in a wide variety of situations. Unfortunately, it seems that they are functionally the same as I remember- there are random effects that can basically render you SOL because you decided to play the game. The devs- and the singular dev above them- absolutely have the right to design the game how they want. I just feel like they are increasingly making decisions that aren't really for the best in terms of long term playability, particularly for anyone that *doesn't* like the idea of starting a new game every few (in game) weeks. It'd be one thing if there were ways to reduce the problems that go with surviving in one world for more than a week or two, but they've largely gone for adding problems. Even if it's not as bad as it was at the peak of the "realism above fun," some of the decisions still seem greatly in favor of people who prefer to start over frequently, despite the presented mantra of "if you can do it in real life, you should be able to do it in the game,¹" implying that survival in the long term should be possible.(¹Unless it would be too fun, or too convenient, as has been the case for removed features before...) It's especially a problem if you are someone who got into the game when long-term survival and/or the idea of a "stable end game" was a good reason to get into the game... TL;DR: In short, it seems the devs are adding all problems, no solutions. The Portal Storms are 100% a case of this trend. Not only can monsters in them sense you via smell and hearing, but they recently changed it so they spawn even if you are inside, meaning that they come inside to find you- and will break down barriers like walls to do so. This includes *GROUPS* of Unseen Hunters, Flaming Eyes and Hounds of Tindalos. Even in combination with one another. This is stated as particularly being a problem on Innawood, and combined with the extreme frequency of the storms (many people are reporting storms happening immediately after one another, or with breaks as short as two days) it makes it extremely difficult to progress on maps with minimal shelter. And shelter on Innawood is also often not compatible with the shelters that stopped these issues on the main map. Also of note is that the Portal Storms currently have *zero positive trade off.* None. While the dev says that they are "planning" on "eventually enabling a playstyle" that would benefit from the Portal Storms, they go on to admit that they haven't even started any planning for it. Let alone any implementation, or even pre-implementation processes. Meaning that the Portal Storms are an extreme, game ending threat particularly for maps meant to be isolated from pre-built structures, with literally zero potential to come out of the event with more than you went in with, and every likelihood of dying due to the fact the feature was extremely incomplete and imbalanced when it was implemented. The dev for Portal Storms even attempted to add a mod to disable them, but the main devs refused under the idea that it was better to opt players in by default, in order to "make them fun so players don't want to turn them off." Given how incomplete the feature is, I greatly suggest disabling further storms, and playing it off as a side effect of the Mi-go teleporting Hilma there. The developer of the feature said that it can be removed by opening the .json and removing, "EOC_PORTAL_STORM_WARN_OR_CAUSE_RECURRING" (remove the quotation marks)

maybe aftereffects of a recent time travel :O .What an amazing series keep it up!!!

Very nice! Keep them coming

Thanks for the video.

Rycon never dissapoints!

Great series! Really enjoy the storytelling. I believe the crafting slowdown you saw when making the second sheet was due to your hand encumbrance. Hand encumbrance has a big effect on crafting speed, along with (I believe) focus and tiredness, and you were also Dead Tired at the time.

We need more of this pronto mi amigo

i love this series :)

hilna just can't have a break. First a mi-go camp, then dinosaurs and now a bloody portal storm

Really love this kind of survival series loved the lief one also have you ever played vintage story i think you might enjoy it especially on the wilderness survival mode :)

Thanks for the video! This is awesome progress so far. I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to try thrown weapons against the turkeys. Like a Rock or the Spear. Keep up the good work!

ah, Man that backpack is going to be such a boon for transporting! congrats!

That portal storm had me like whut

this is getting interesting

Moving the food away from the fire will help with the rotting time.

This is going to be fun

Hilma's good luck with the water is offset by the bad luck from the... well... you know.

Best wishes

Finally another Episode :D

Reality breaks are the worst! XD

make a bone shiv for butchering and you should try and hunt something like a coyote as it will attack back and not run away allowing you to kill it, and that portal storm just happened to me too today, i had no clue what was going on and went out there and alien grass started growing everywhere before the game crashed to desktop lol

Im glad "it" didnt take you when the portal storm started..

Oh damn didn't expect this The scariest part, it didnt say it was coming from above

Your lucky, those portal stores can last like a week. Unfortunately, they are hard coded to start at day 6 or 7 everytime. I did multiple tests and I've read other people having the same issues. If you didn't have the cave, you'd probably be dead or close to it.

I wonder if you make seeds and sneak up to the turkeys, could you trick them that your cool by feeding them then strike? I bet it would hurt Hilma in her heart to do that but what is needed is needed

I like to think when you peeked out of the cave and ended up with yourself technically being outside was the world breaking. Maybe Hilma was too confused and worried about this off feeling to really think 'How am I outside?'

35:55 wicker backpack? more like wicca backpack

Been a while since i played. Is the travois still a thing? Or did they add some roadblocks to getting it so easily?

It's a shame you cant put stuff in the pot before you fill it in water. That makes more sense than dragging the pot around. You can do this Hilma!

Maybe with all the wild life around some traps would help get some food. Not sure how well they work tho.

Wow first view 😁 I enjoy your video brother man thanks for the entertainment.

Blue grass! Haha, I get it. Right? Right? :D

Well, that looks promissing.

portal storm huh? i guess i need to update my game too

Hope the storm didn't leave anything crazy behind.

You can put a bunch of clothes on the ground and stand on them for heat

What is your opening greeting? Is it kia ora? It's hard for me to be sure, I'm thinking it might be something else similar sounding

I was wondering what is the name of the graphical overmap font or mod. it looks very good but i can't seem to find it. If someone could tell me that would be great.

Im yet to experience portal storm myself

Are you using the default tileset?

Ma man!