> I was searching for the white-stone, and had just ran out of saws. I was next to one othe 4 possible tress left where the whitestone could be, when the leviathan attacked me. I ran, and escaped to the tree! It had the whitestone under it. I had no saws, and it was a non-petrified tree. My amount of magic saws was -1. Afterwards I had an endless supply of magic saws. I could even use them against the Leviathan. Every time I had to use a magic saw it just substracted one from the counter. When I got a saw it still added to the counter. In the end I finished the game with about -50 of them.

Back in the days of legend, when the game was new (four years ago now?) I also discovered that you could flee onto the whitestone square, and I wondered what would happen if you managed to do while having no saws. I think I tried to make it happen for a few games, but then I gave up -- it's often hard to narrow down the whitestone's location enough without actually stumbling upon it, plus those saws tend to pile up even if you're not trying to collect them. But I guess we know the answer to the question now!