One tiny little critique: you introduce tje zombies in the very last sentence of the journal or whatever, but there wasn't really any umph or description behind it because you only talk about the slimes. The zombies felt like one of those thing that was just thrown in at the last minute, without any clear purpose or meaning to it yet.
As i see it there are two possible fixes here:
1. Just do for zombies the same thing you did for slimes. I really liked how you used a lighter tone and not as much intensity when talking about the slimes, yet, in the last sentence, you say the character struggled with the slimes, which really gives this part a low-level character vs. low-level enemy feel. For zombies, you could do the same thing. A statement or two after the slime part about their attacks and/or their a description, and then leave that last line alone.
2. Hint at the zombies' larger strength in the last sentence. I see two ways you could go about this path too:
a. Hint at the zombies with a vague statement that does not outright reveal the zombies' precense. Something like "...let alone whatever else is out there" for example. This builds suspense, as the reader knows there is an immideate, larger threat at play, which will inevitably encounter the character at some point.
b. Pretty much the same thing, but reveal the zombies. To me, this is the easiest way to fix the issue because all it requires is some restricturing of the original sentence. The og sentence implies that the character did face a zombie, but, if it was restructured, it should imply that he found a zombie and then ran away.
I know my overly-long critique is going ti make this seem like a glaring plot hole, but it's really not. It's really up to you whether you want to fix it or not; that is, it's so little of an issue tjat some might even say its not an issue at all.
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Edited by GiantSlayer: 5/20/2020 6:18:21 PM[quote]If I could barely hold off the slimes, it’d be suicide to try to fight off what else roams around in the dark...[/quote] How’s this?
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Oh, that's awesome! I see you went with version 2a, which would be the most suspensful out of the three. See, the thing i like about 2a is that it gives you a lot of room to maneuver going forwards; the reader will have absolutely no clue about what comes next, but they will know [i]something[/i] is out there.