Eric

I examine the bottom floor of the tower. The stairs were broken and I did not want to get up there just yet. The room had some broken wooden furniture and a door. I try the door and finds that it still works. The hinges could use a little oil but I will take what I can get.  I walk back into the trees and drag a couple of fallen branches onto the hole. I arrange the branches to form a sort of grid covering the hole. I use smaller branches to fill in the grid and make a translucent wall. I use moss and leaves to cover up the makeshift wall and to insulate it.  I grab some good size stones and start building a fire pit  near the door.

That done I walk back into the tower and start shifting some of the broken furniture outside to burn. I move half of a desc and see something gleaming from under the wreckage. I shift the rest of the desk and find a pair of spears. one of the spear’s handle is broken so i snap the handle close to the point to make a knife. I lean the other spear close to the door for hunting.

Going back out to the fire pit I grab my knife and a softwood willow log. I carve a groove into the log and sharpen a stick to a point. I place a pile of tinder onto a flat stone and get to work. After about ten minutes of rubbing I get the wood dust to smolder and get a small flame. I transfer that to my  pile of tinder and I get a small fire. Night is falling fast so I do my best to cover up the fire with half a log to keep some coals for the next morning.

I wake up the next morning cold, hungry and thirsty. my fire still had some coals at the bottom so I can light another one after I find some food. I follow the sound of running water until I get to a creek. The water looks clean enough so I drink some and start looking for anything edible. I am  searching for some berry in a bush when I hear the sound of something colliding with the ground next to me. I look around and see a perfectly good coconut lying between to roots. “How the hell did this even grow here?” I mumble to myself as I pick up the coconut. I look up and see that there are coconuts growing around the top of a spruce tree. “Not even going there.” I look around and find four more coconuts on the ground. I grab them and head back to the tower.

When I get back to the tower I crack open one of the coconuts and drink the milk. After I scrape all of the meat off and store it on a flat stone I washed in the creek. I fill the coconut shell up with water and put it in the fire to boil. When its boiling I take it out with two y shaped sticks I found in the trees. I set aside my new drinking water and  grab my knife. I pick up a piece of wood and start carving it with my knife. Ive never been to proud of my carving skills but I managed to carve a spoon like object for eating.

I find some wild onions in what looks to be an abandoned garden on the west side of the tower. I peel them and boil a few pieces at the bottom of a coconut shell. I then add some stinging nettles and wait for my makeshift soup to simmer.

I send the night sitting in front of my fire and eating my delicious soup. I decide to check out the rest of the tower tomorrow morning. I fall asleep on my makeshift bed make out of rubble from the tower and have some weird dreams about some blue pony running through the forest.

The next morning I start working on getting up to the next floor of the tower, the stairs were shattered but I managed to make three piles of wood that I could climb over to get to the next floor. I climb up and have a look around. there is a rack of spears leaning against a wall, the rest of the room is taken up by a stone spiral staircase that leads to the top of the tower. I start climbing the staircase and find myself in this sort of dungeon. There is a metal cage containing the skeleton of some long dead unicorn. Bits of star emblazoned clothing hang from the unicorns body. Three gold rings were slid down its horn as to stop it from using magic. next to it lies a blue wizard hat covered it bells and stars.

I grab a key hanging on a hook embedded in the wall and I open the cage door. I grab the rings and put them on. I look around the room and find a bowl and goblet on a table. next to the table lies a couple barrels.  I walk up to the one that is  open and take a look. “Is that booze?” I look at the other barrels and they are all marked with a big red apple. “probably cider” I mutter to myself as I examine the unopened barrel. I grab the barrel and carry it down the the bottom floor. I put the barrel next to the bed and go back upstairs to grab the rack of spears.

On the way down I can drop one of the spears and it gets stuck in my wood pile. I try and pry it out put its embedded in one of the bottom logs. I start moving wood and find that the spear had embedded itself in a wooden trapdoor. I move the rest of the wood and try to lift the trap door. it appears to be locked so I jump on it as  hard as I can and the wood splinters. I jump again and the wood completely beaks and I fall through the hole.