Name: Captain Hector Draken, EEF
Entry: #105
Data:
Around 6 am I was woken up by a subtle clash of metal and the rustling of papers. Something was off and I could feel it. Still waking up and vision blurry, I saw a silhouette of a figure rummaging through my stuff, and it was none other than the merchant who invited me over.
Reaching for my holster, I noticed he had taken my pistol away while I was sleeping, and at that point, he heard me getting up.
“Looking for this eh?” He taunted me, stopping his rummaging just to brandish it.
“What are you doing?” I asked, still confused and slowly coming to my senses about what was happening.
“A traveler like you has some pretty good gear, this isn’t standard traveler gear, it’s military. These would fetch a good price among scrap buyers” he commented and proceeded to go back to rummaging.
Quietly and subtly, I started reaching for my second pistol, one right under my pillow. I’m surprised he didn’t do a full body pat down while I was dead asleep but I was thankful he didn’t.
Still preoccupied with searching for stuff to sell, he didn’t see me swing my entire body off the bed and fire a few shots in his general direction. That scared him enough to jump out of the way and run out the doorway.
Fully awake and aware now, I followed him carefully out the doorway, both of us firing shots back at each other while running around the camp. It didn’t take long for us both to run out of ammo and at that point I tackled him to the ground, trying to restrain him.
“What did you steal from me, tell me” I demanded.
“Let me go” he screamed
“Where are you putting the stuff you were planning to sell, I want my stuff back” I continued demanding
“Ok ok, it’s all in the case beside the tent, that’s where your stuff is and mixed with other stuff of mine”
Name: Captain Hector Draken, EEF
Entry: #106
Data:
Yesterday’s events were uncalled for but at least I have my stuff back. I also gained some more stuff, including rare meats, a skyripper, and a copy of some ancient text I realized afterward was just a takeout menu. Well, I won’t have to be stuck eating ration packs again for a few meals.
The entire Gorgon area has been sealed off by jagged rocks and what I believe is a magical airspace restriction, I guess I have to go around on foot then.
Overall I found that there were not many native creatures on the island and my journey west was pretty seamless.
Update: I was wrong, there are in fact native creatures here on the west side and are really protective of their territory!
Wandering past the jagged rocks, I found myself at the edge of some plains, and going across, I was approached by a group of centaurs carrying swords and spears.
“State your purpose, who are you?” said their leader in a stern and deep voice
“I’m here on behalf of the Elysians, I am an explorer and have heard stories of a bottomless pit that leads to death” I said
“You are not welcome here Elysian, nor are the Greeks, the myrinians, or any others, this is centaur territory”
“I would like to simply pass through to the pit, you can escort me if you must”
At this point they realized I wouldn’t cooperate and pointed their weapons at me, telling me to turn back or else.
Knowing I was left with the choice of flight or fight, I decided flight would be what I would do since centaurs can’t fly! I dumped the skyripper I had on the ground and launched myself up with it, scaring the centaurs back a little.
They kept jeering at me to come down, waving their weapons and chasing me, but I was safe in the sky. I continued my way westward and climbed altitude until they lost sight of me.
Name: Captain Hector Draken, EEF
Entry: #107
Data:
I… don’t remember what happened… one moment I was climbing altitude and going west and the next I woke up in a cave…
My datapad and scanner don’t tell me anything helpful and can’t even find my positioning. What is this place? How did I get here? How do I get out? All these questions, yet I’m still lying down on a cold and wet floor with water dripping down onto my face.
My skyripper and gear were laying next to me, I didn’t crash, I didn’t land, I just spawned here. What happened between entry #106 and #107? Can no one tell me?
The cave was eerie and cold, its damp environment showed it was underground and possibly underwater.
I probably laid on the ground for 10 minutes before getting up to look around. Setting up surveying equipment also didn’t work, nothing worked, I was stuck in a mysterious cave and it looked like there was no exit above or on the walls. I just want to know how to get back to the cave on foot.
But then, a gust of wind brushed against me and I turned, looked down and ahead. There it was, a pit, a very large one in fact. This was probably the pit everyone was talking about, the mystery that made anyone who went into it disappear.
But wait, what should I do? Is this the only way out and in? Perhaps, but if this truly led to your mysterious disappearance, why should I risk it? I have a mining operation going on, data to gather, and more adventures to go on.
“Well this is the risk of adventure,” I said to myself and began writing a note and leaving signs of my presence in case someone were to follow my steps and try to find me. They’d know I was in this cave and jumped into the hole, never to return.
Name: Captain Hector Draken, EEF
Entry: #108
Data:
Well, I spent all of yesterday unsuccessfully getting my skyripper to work again and noticed it broke from a crash. I must have flew too high and crashed down, ending up in this place. So the gods are looking at me and find me entertaining.
The time has come, I have gathered enough data on the mystery cave and think it’s time to jump in and see where I’m going. I put on my armor and prepared my datapad to gather as much data on the jump down as possible.
“Oh man I wish I had a rope to catch me if this is a fiery pit of lava below” I whispered to myself and jumped.
“Aaaaaaaaah” I yelled as I ran and jumped into the hole legs first. The wind picked up and kept pushing up, it felt like I jumped into a huge fan with the sheer amount of air blowing at me.
Staring at my datapad, it wasn’t picking up much information, and then suddenly, a bright flash of light and I was standing on a rock. The sudden change in brightness caught me off guard and I struggled to adjust.
Once my eyes adjusted to the change in lighting, I noticed the rock I was standing on was no ordinary rock, it was just a random floating rock and my datapad showed I was back on the west side of the island.
Confused, I looked around and there was no sign of a cave entrance anywhere. I felt like I went crazy and this is just the environment messing with me. There was no way I was back on the island but here I was, on a random rock and on the island.
Jumping off the rock, I landed hard on the ground but didn’t break anything. I really shouldn’t have done that but I was out of ideas. My skyripper wasn’t working, I had no rope, and that was all I could think of. Now I had to make it back to civilization on foot.
Name: Captain Hector Draken, EEF
Entry: #109
Data:
Entry #109 is not the best quality, I’ve been evading centaur after centaur trying to kill me. I think I realize why people go missing and only several come back to tell the tale about the pit.
So, when a traveler gets curious and jumps in the pit, they end up in centaur territory and get picked off by centaurs if they are unlucky. This is where the pit that leads to death comes from. The people aren’t missing, they just get captured or killed off by centaurs.
Well, mystery solved, however, I’m still stuck in centaur territory and have been getting alert after alert from supervisors on planetside that the Elysian High Command is investigating my activities.
As I was checking my position on a scanner, I felt something hit hard on my armor, making me drop to the ground. A centaur sneaked behind me and started hitting me with his swords. That was the last thing I saw and then black.
I woke up a little while later tied up and sitting against the ruins of a stone wall. Around me were some centaurs and there was the same centaur leader again.
“I told you to not disturb our lands”
“I didn’t mean to, I was transported onto a floating rock and have to return on foot”
“Lies, there are no floating rocks in our lands, only flying machines like the one you fly”
“I swear, I can take you to it, if it’s real, can I have safe passage out?”
“There is no floating rock, if there is, then you have amused us and if there is not, you will be our hostage”
They untied me and had me lead them to the rock. As we approached the rock, I told them to look up and there it was in all its glory, a floating rock.
We all approached and started trying to poke at it with sticks and spears, and it was not coming down.
“What sorcery is this Elysian?” the lead centaur said with a little fear in his voice.
“It’s not my doing, it’s just how it was when I woke up on it” I replied
“I have no idea how you did it but you have told truth. I guess we will believe that you went to find your pit”
“I did find my pit, like I said, I was not planning to spy or try to invade”
“Very well, here is a marked stone, with this, the other centaurs won’t give you trouble going through our territory, show it to them and they will leave you alone. Farewell Elysian”