I learned something about myself today - I'm a big wuss.
So I've been playing VS for 1,5 in game year (I actually dont know if there is a counter anywhere but feels like dozens if not hundreds of hours) & I'm loving it.
I tamed wild bees & made honey. I baked a stack of pies. I'm working on my flax farm to finally get that large sail on my windmill. I wandered south & found huge chalk desert so I could start making leather. I even found a HUGE deposit of hematite & I'm comfortably sitting in an iron age.
What a journey! All those small steps felt so rewarding.
There is a problem though - The Resonance Archives. Not gonna lie - I'm scared to death. I was never a fan of horror elements in games, never played anything like Resident Evil & even Subnautica was way too much for me. But goddamn it, the stories I hear about that place (& generally about all lore-related locations) just make me uneasy.
To be honest I had a really hard time caving & even mining. I was jumped by a shiver variant of some sort in my hematite mine (no problem, I had good gear & dispatched him) but I just had to log off for the day after this encounter.
It's so stupid. It's just a video game. None of it is real. I have a good gear & so far the monsters were not particulary powerful. In real life I don't think I have any particular phobias. I'm OK with spiders, I'm OK with darkness, I'm OK with flying on board an airplane. I'm almost 40 years old, living ordinary life.
So why do I start sweating just thinking about some of this game's locations ?
I'm a big wuss.