It has been about a month or so since my arrival to The Dust Valley. There is no indication of the Dust Sword's where abouts except that it must be in this valley due to how it's effects are active.
This is irritating but is of little concern to me because I'm only here to research its effects. Speaking of I have discovered that nothing is truly completely immune to the sword. In fact everything that doesn't turn to dust tends to have one or more side effects such as: time distortion, mutations, and entrapment.
First I should cover time distortions, as these make life rather confusing. The time distortion seems to be the most prominent effect as it affects pretty much everything. For instance my garden. Everyday the growth of every plant is randomized and sometimes produces paradox clones of the various produce. This is great as it means I tend to have at least one thing that's ripe for me to eat. Another example of this is that my shelter changes in age. Sometimes it's newer and sometimes it's falling apart from old age. Lastly for me it seems to affect my age as well. On one day I wake up 5 years old and the next I'm 30.
Next I'm gonna cover the mutations, these are rather concerning and make me question my sanity at times. For the most part it seems to be a somewhat rare side effect as it has only affected a few things to my knowledge. I believe it also needs to be an organism in order to take effect which makes some sense but this is based on my limited scope of research. So far it's affecting a few of my crops turning them into random plants such as watermelon and lemons. They all started out as carrots and corn too so I know for a fact that I planted them as such. I too have mutated, I'm now a crow. I'm not even a mammal anymore it's odd. I don't really mind though because I'm still me and I can become semi human if I focus.
Lastly the entrapment, this one was a difficult pill to swallow. I found out about this one after I started to mutate. I tried to flee from the valley to get away from this fate. But sadly I ended up unable to exit as I kept being pulled back into the valley. I guess no one will ever learn of my findings unless they too become lost in its grasp.