Journal of the Everfreeby EllingtonChaptersPage 1Page 2Page 4Page 5Page 6Page 7Page 8Page 9Page 10Page 3Page 1March 4, 2052 Dear Journal Hi my name is Kevin Roy, I am a 36 year old human living in the small town of Densburg on the edge of Zanibra. My friends Ed, Frank, Joe, Moe, Steve, and I used to go gold panning in Alaska back before the Black Tide devoured Earth and hope to one day go prospecting. Everyone knows that chlums are only found in the Everfree Forest (which borders Zanibra and is just outside of Densburg) and that makes the value even higher. Our peers think we're nuts for going in there because of all the strange creatures living in it. I have nothing against them, but that's what ponies and other sentient beings say, and if there's one thing humans have succeeded in the past, it's conquering beasties. We'll go prospecting for the precious medal chlum. It is a purple mineral similar to opals, and is worth a fine amount of money. The first thing we did was rent ourselves some kingqueens. They'll help protect us from the everfree beasties. We'll be off tomorrow and return sometime in november. Kevin Roy Page 2March 5, 2052 Dear Journal After much hiking and climbing, we've reached an animalless cave that should make a good camping place. The eight kingqueens are placed just outside the cave where critters will have to get through them to come to us. We're all excited about this, we haven't gone prospecting since we were on Earth, and now we get to do so once more. We'll all take turns to keep the fire going to keep the beasts out. Let's hope an ursa or a hydra doesn't try showing it's ugly mug here or we'll be in a fight of a fight. Page 4March 10, 2052 My friends and I are starting to get concerned. We've been digging in the same area for four days and haven't even found a trace of chlums. We're thinking about moving elsewhere. Frank had a little encounter with poison joke today. His hands turned into feet, he was still bipedal but it was goofy looking how the dude had human feet for hands. He had to have a bath in the nearby creek with the antidote. Poor Frank, he was hilarious looking. Kevin Roy Page 5March 13, 2052 Dear Journal Well, last night we had the fight we figured we'd have to prepare for. A manticore somehow got past our kingqueens and into our cave, the kingqueens didn't even make a peep at the sight of it coming. While stupid Ed was SUPPOSED to be watching, he went to take a pee in the forest. We all discussed this when we first came to this cave; if you need to go while on guard, wake one of us up to substitute you until your done, and pee in the cave NOT outside, but does he listen? NO! I don't care if we're 25 feet away, does he not know/care about safety features? We managed to kill the beast with our slugs, and we decided that "at least we'll score a skin rug" and when we skinned the thing we discovered 30-30 bullets in it. Whoever thought it was a fine idea to use a simple deer rifle on a 1500 pound lion must have been one stupid moron. But that's not all, there was a human foot in it's stomach, and to make things even spookier, Joe and I got a good look at the timberwolves last night; they weren't normal, they had large round red glowing eyes. Normally they have more oval shaped green eyes, and they're normally a lot smaller than these one's were. We have decided to move camp elsewhere, this spot is getting creepy, even under Everfree standards, and it's not like we've found anything here or ever will, this spot's a bust. Kevin Roy Page 6March 14, 2052 We've moved elsewhere and found an area that has an old ruined building that is leaning a bit, but should provide us shelter. Sorry I don't have much to say, but all we did was hike all day in this forest of terror. Then again...I guess I might as well point out how Ed was crying the whole way like a four year old. Kevin Roy Page 7March 16, 2052 Dear Journal DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! We just excavated the biggest chlump cluster I've ever seen. I didn't even know chlums ever grew this big. It is about 60 kilograms, and is worth about $5000.00. Two days here and we've already found $8000.00 worth of chlums. Now THAT'S more like it. And the critters are much fewer here than in "Site A" (for a lack of a better name) (there aren't any at all in fact) I have yet to even find a footprint let alone an actual beastie. Kevin Roy Page 8March 18, 2052 Dear Journal Of all the worst possible things that could happen, this is the! WORST! POSSIBLE! THING! It turns out I was wrong about there not being any beasties around here. A straight up dragon just came out of nowhere and made off with four of our kingqueens and our giant chlum. I'm even having to write with a flashlight right now because the dragon broke our lanterns. What that dragon wants with kingqueens is beyond me, usually dragons don't have any use for such things. Now not only do we have to start over again, but our transportation is gone, and the very thing we came here for is down to $3000.00. I've heard of dragons making raids like this, but how did he know we were here? I've scouted the area, and found no sign of dragons nearby, and the treetops and building should've hidden our campfire. Have I lost my touch? Back on Earth I could practically know what gender a bear was just by looking at it's footprint, but now I can't even tell if there's a gosh darned DRAGON close by. If I knew where the stinker lives we'd grab our 25mm rifles (did I forget to mention we had those?) and give that thing steel in it's face. We thought about moving elsewhere first thing in the morning and try again, even though we should head just back, this whole expedition may be more dangerous than we had anticipated, but we've found more chlums than we planned on finding in a year in the span of a few days, so we're sticking around, but we will keep a better eye out. Kevin Roy Page 9March 19, 2052 Dear Journal Last night, we've all decided that we should have two of us standing guard instead of one every night. This forest has given us more trouble than Alaska ever did. A lot of people have actually ridiculed the locals for being so scared of this place because of how the plants grow, animals taking care of themselves, and the clouds moving all on their own just like on earth, a lot of animal rights extremists have even considered them to be doing wrong for, not only "accepting", but "encouraging" the rest of this planet to be so "artificial". But being here now, I can see why they'd believe that this place is so dangerous. Don't get me wrong, I never 'ridiculed' them per say, but until now I thought they were being drama queens about it. I almost want this forest to be burned to the down for pest control reasons, but of course, that would take a bonfire that would burn like 1/5 of this planet, so THAT'S out of the question. let's hope that we'll fare better from now on. Kevin Roy Page 10March 20, 2052 Dear Journal We've uncovered about $800.00 worth of chlums today, totaling $3800.00. If we're THIS successful in only this much time, we may not need to stay until november. We were actually NOT expecting to make an income in this, but that may be the case. Of course the fun is in the adventure, not the money. But we don't want to pack so much that our four remaining kingqueens have trouble carrying not just the chlums but also our supplies. Luckily that dragon didn't eliminate our food supply, we have enough food for four months, and since we're down four kingqueens our kingqueens have even more food) and when THAT runs out we've seen enough birds to hunt with our pistols and more than our fare share of wild edibles. Sure .357s are overkill for birds, but we carefully rationed our supplies so we've only packed defense firearms, not really hunting firearms. If you're curious, the food we packed are those dehydrated foods that are popular in the military, and the kingqueen food is butcher's throwaway meat, not edible to us but the kingqueens can't seem to get enough of it. Kevin Roy Page 3March 6, 2052 Dear Journal Well, we spent our first night here in the Everfree. We heard Timberwolves barking like crazy, trying to get in, but our kingqueens kept those buggers out. Last night we decided to have our lookout always keep his shotgun and .357 Desert Eagle in handy, and even keep the our guns right next to us when we're sleeping, and not sleep IN the sleeping-bags but ON them so we can quickly jump up in an event that we'll have to fight. We started digging for chlums for the first time on our trip, and have found none today. I hope tomorrow will be better. Well what did you expect? To find like a bagful in one measly day? Kevin Roy
Page 1March 4, 2052 Dear Journal Hi my name is Kevin Roy, I am a 36 year old human living in the small town of Densburg on the edge of Zanibra. My friends Ed, Frank, Joe, Moe, Steve, and I used to go gold panning in Alaska back before the Black Tide devoured Earth and hope to one day go prospecting. Everyone knows that chlums are only found in the Everfree Forest (which borders Zanibra and is just outside of Densburg) and that makes the value even higher. Our peers think we're nuts for going in there because of all the strange creatures living in it. I have nothing against them, but that's what ponies and other sentient beings say, and if there's one thing humans have succeeded in the past, it's conquering beasties. We'll go prospecting for the precious medal chlum. It is a purple mineral similar to opals, and is worth a fine amount of money. The first thing we did was rent ourselves some kingqueens. They'll help protect us from the everfree beasties. We'll be off tomorrow and return sometime in november. Kevin Roy
Page 2March 5, 2052 Dear Journal After much hiking and climbing, we've reached an animalless cave that should make a good camping place. The eight kingqueens are placed just outside the cave where critters will have to get through them to come to us. We're all excited about this, we haven't gone prospecting since we were on Earth, and now we get to do so once more. We'll all take turns to keep the fire going to keep the beasts out. Let's hope an ursa or a hydra doesn't try showing it's ugly mug here or we'll be in a fight of a fight.
Page 4March 10, 2052 My friends and I are starting to get concerned. We've been digging in the same area for four days and haven't even found a trace of chlums. We're thinking about moving elsewhere. Frank had a little encounter with poison joke today. His hands turned into feet, he was still bipedal but it was goofy looking how the dude had human feet for hands. He had to have a bath in the nearby creek with the antidote. Poor Frank, he was hilarious looking. Kevin Roy
Page 5March 13, 2052 Dear Journal Well, last night we had the fight we figured we'd have to prepare for. A manticore somehow got past our kingqueens and into our cave, the kingqueens didn't even make a peep at the sight of it coming. While stupid Ed was SUPPOSED to be watching, he went to take a pee in the forest. We all discussed this when we first came to this cave; if you need to go while on guard, wake one of us up to substitute you until your done, and pee in the cave NOT outside, but does he listen? NO! I don't care if we're 25 feet away, does he not know/care about safety features? We managed to kill the beast with our slugs, and we decided that "at least we'll score a skin rug" and when we skinned the thing we discovered 30-30 bullets in it. Whoever thought it was a fine idea to use a simple deer rifle on a 1500 pound lion must have been one stupid moron. But that's not all, there was a human foot in it's stomach, and to make things even spookier, Joe and I got a good look at the timberwolves last night; they weren't normal, they had large round red glowing eyes. Normally they have more oval shaped green eyes, and they're normally a lot smaller than these one's were. We have decided to move camp elsewhere, this spot is getting creepy, even under Everfree standards, and it's not like we've found anything here or ever will, this spot's a bust. Kevin Roy
Page 6March 14, 2052 We've moved elsewhere and found an area that has an old ruined building that is leaning a bit, but should provide us shelter. Sorry I don't have much to say, but all we did was hike all day in this forest of terror. Then again...I guess I might as well point out how Ed was crying the whole way like a four year old. Kevin Roy
Page 7March 16, 2052 Dear Journal DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! We just excavated the biggest chlump cluster I've ever seen. I didn't even know chlums ever grew this big. It is about 60 kilograms, and is worth about $5000.00. Two days here and we've already found $8000.00 worth of chlums. Now THAT'S more like it. And the critters are much fewer here than in "Site A" (for a lack of a better name) (there aren't any at all in fact) I have yet to even find a footprint let alone an actual beastie. Kevin Roy
Page 8March 18, 2052 Dear Journal Of all the worst possible things that could happen, this is the! WORST! POSSIBLE! THING! It turns out I was wrong about there not being any beasties around here. A straight up dragon just came out of nowhere and made off with four of our kingqueens and our giant chlum. I'm even having to write with a flashlight right now because the dragon broke our lanterns. What that dragon wants with kingqueens is beyond me, usually dragons don't have any use for such things. Now not only do we have to start over again, but our transportation is gone, and the very thing we came here for is down to $3000.00. I've heard of dragons making raids like this, but how did he know we were here? I've scouted the area, and found no sign of dragons nearby, and the treetops and building should've hidden our campfire. Have I lost my touch? Back on Earth I could practically know what gender a bear was just by looking at it's footprint, but now I can't even tell if there's a gosh darned DRAGON close by. If I knew where the stinker lives we'd grab our 25mm rifles (did I forget to mention we had those?) and give that thing steel in it's face. We thought about moving elsewhere first thing in the morning and try again, even though we should head just back, this whole expedition may be more dangerous than we had anticipated, but we've found more chlums than we planned on finding in a year in the span of a few days, so we're sticking around, but we will keep a better eye out. Kevin Roy
Page 9March 19, 2052 Dear Journal Last night, we've all decided that we should have two of us standing guard instead of one every night. This forest has given us more trouble than Alaska ever did. A lot of people have actually ridiculed the locals for being so scared of this place because of how the plants grow, animals taking care of themselves, and the clouds moving all on their own just like on earth, a lot of animal rights extremists have even considered them to be doing wrong for, not only "accepting", but "encouraging" the rest of this planet to be so "artificial". But being here now, I can see why they'd believe that this place is so dangerous. Don't get me wrong, I never 'ridiculed' them per say, but until now I thought they were being drama queens about it. I almost want this forest to be burned to the down for pest control reasons, but of course, that would take a bonfire that would burn like 1/5 of this planet, so THAT'S out of the question. let's hope that we'll fare better from now on. Kevin Roy
Page 10March 20, 2052 Dear Journal We've uncovered about $800.00 worth of chlums today, totaling $3800.00. If we're THIS successful in only this much time, we may not need to stay until november. We were actually NOT expecting to make an income in this, but that may be the case. Of course the fun is in the adventure, not the money. But we don't want to pack so much that our four remaining kingqueens have trouble carrying not just the chlums but also our supplies. Luckily that dragon didn't eliminate our food supply, we have enough food for four months, and since we're down four kingqueens our kingqueens have even more food) and when THAT runs out we've seen enough birds to hunt with our pistols and more than our fare share of wild edibles. Sure .357s are overkill for birds, but we carefully rationed our supplies so we've only packed defense firearms, not really hunting firearms. If you're curious, the food we packed are those dehydrated foods that are popular in the military, and the kingqueen food is butcher's throwaway meat, not edible to us but the kingqueens can't seem to get enough of it. Kevin Roy
Page 3March 6, 2052 Dear Journal Well, we spent our first night here in the Everfree. We heard Timberwolves barking like crazy, trying to get in, but our kingqueens kept those buggers out. Last night we decided to have our lookout always keep his shotgun and .357 Desert Eagle in handy, and even keep the our guns right next to us when we're sleeping, and not sleep IN the sleeping-bags but ON them so we can quickly jump up in an event that we'll have to fight. We started digging for chlums for the first time on our trip, and have found none today. I hope tomorrow will be better. Well what did you expect? To find like a bagful in one measly day? Kevin Roy
