Change 3785
Originally Posted : Thu May 14 00:02:32 2009
Posted by : Aristotle
Title : new jungle area discovered
A new area has recently been discovered in the Tsunami Jungle.
It should be most appropriate for people leveled 10-13. As it's new,
please send all bug reports, questions and ideas to Aristotle via
mud mail or the typo/bug command.
This diary was discovered at the entrance to the new area:
[ ... Most of the pages are matted together with dried blood and
impossible to read. Most of the rest are half rotted and
moldy. However, there are a few legible pages left. ...]
... is rough going. I've had to use my machete to hack a path through
thisdamnable jungle in the most haphazard way. A snake ate my compass
three days ago, and the jungle is so thick I couldn't get my bearings.
No doubt the path I cut through the jungle is meanders more than than
a bowl of spaghetti.
[ 11th day of the 5th month of the 436th year ]
I am starting to think that medicine man, or shaman, or whatever the
hell he was, has lead me on a wild goose chase. He claimed riches beyond
imagining north of this jungle. An ancient giant pyramid, abandoned
eons ago and full of treasures and unclaimed magic. I've been over
every inch of this jungle, and all I've found are plants, birds, snakes,
natives, bandits (curse them!), giant cats, monkeys frogs and feces. No
sign of any pyramid at all.
I've also come across the remains of fellow adventurers that came before
me, their equipment strewn uselessly on the ground around their decaying
corpses. Am I to end up that way?
[ 13th day of the 5th month of th 436th year ]
I saw the biggest snake of my life today. And by saw, I mean I saw it
bite me on the face and try to eat my head. I managed to beat it off with
the leg bone of a hapless adventurer who died on that very spot before me.
I ran south, always south, away from the damnable pyramid. I half wonder
if that pyramid hasn't cursed this jungle, bestowing a dark influence on
its inhabitants--making them stronger and meaner. The fauna of this
jungle
are considerably more formidable than the rest of the Tsunami Jungle that
leads here.
[ 19th day of the 5th month of the 436th year ]
Unsure if I will survive the day. Snake bite on my face has festered and
small worms now emerge from the wounds. I think flies have laid eggs in
me. I thought I saw my sweetheart Lucinda Belle today and reached out to
her. But it was only a chimpanzee who returned the gesture by hurling a
most foul flob of feces into my face.
I have used a smal rock to etch my memory of the maze I no doubt carved
into the jungle with my machete onto a large rock near by. May this
journal
and that map save the life of any who stumble upon my remains.
Farewell.
[ 20th day of the 5th month of the 436 year ]
C..an...t ...d..d....g..d..e
[ ... the rest is incomprehensible gibberage smeared with dried blood ...
]
