I don’t know if all this still applies, but as it is my first time participating, here’s the character information:
Character Name: Dalia Vivian
Character Description: Raised to be a Loyalist, Dalia is trying to conciliate her beliefs with her will to explore and learn more.
Language: English is not my language, so please forgive me if you find something that is not correct or if a part sounds a little weird. I hope it’s not too bad.
And here are the 5 Lore Submissions:
Entry #01
“Today is going to be a wonderful day!”, I thought to myself looking up at the bright blue sky.
The day started fantastic, as always! I woke up early to see the sunrise and when I left the house everyone still seemed to be sleeping. Everyone except Igor: I’m sure that when I woke up, I heard his pet papoo running happily towards the bridge. Either this man takes his job as an Information Officer very seriously or he really enjoys watching the sunrise over the river!
I was watching the fishes, in one of my favorite places: between the crystal beach and the televator to paradise landing. In the distance, I could hear the waves on the beach and the noise of the papoos playing in the bamboo forest. It’s unbelievable how everyone seems to pass by here so many times a day and they don’t stop to appreciate the beauty of this little spot!
“With a day as beautiful as today, nothing could go wrong!”, I repeated to myself. “In fact, here every day is good”, I thought, “every day is… well… the same.”, I sighed. "Wait! What am I thinking? Surely I shouldn’t think about things like that! Everyone is working towards the same goal. … The only problem is that everyone seems to think the same way and … would it really be a bad thing to think differently? Would it be wrong to try to explore other possibilities? … If only I could see somewhere a sign that would help me decide…”
“Just a sign…” I whispered.
“Kaboom”, a scary noise was heard!
At that time I had no idea how different today would become!
It’s late at night, only now I managed to stop and write. I know I’ve been avoiding writing for a long time. But today I finally realized that today was the day to start!
After all, today was a wonderful day!
Entry #02
The sun is already rising! It feels like I fell asleep again on top of the roof at crystal peak…
From here I can still see Igor and his pet papoo at his post between the bridges. Right, yesterday they were there too when it all happened:
It was still very early when I heard the sound of a huge explosion! Smoke rose to the sky, and it seemed to come from exactly where I am now.
Without thinking, I quickly ran towards crystal peak. As I passed the crystal beach houses, sleepy voices in the windows asked what was going on.
“Wait, Dalia! It could be dangerous!”, a familiar voice warned. It was Joe, one of my instructors. They always told me that I’m a little impulsive. “Am I being recklessly as usual?”, I thought, as I now ran after my instructor, struggling to keep up with his speed.
At the top of the stairs was Igor, running towards us.
– What happened? – asked Joe.
– I’m not sure! But the whole earth shook and stones fell from the mountain!
We crossed the bridges, and on the other side we saw smoke coming out of a big hole in the hill. Huge rocks were now blocking the road. We peeked at the entrance to the newly formed cave and who was inside was Mr. and Mrs. Boole.
– I warned you! We cannot invent what does not exist! – protested Mrs. Boole.
– If it already existed, it wouldn’t need to be created! And everything that exists must first be discovered. – replied an angry Mr. Boole.
And the conversation went on like that for a long time: what exists and what doesn’t exist, inventions versus discoveries, the knowledge, the science, experiments, protocols and a lot of other things that I didn’t understand and wouldn’t even know how to pronounce. They were still arguing and Joe was trying unsuccessfully to get them to explain what really happened.
It was at that moment that I finally started to look around me: “Crystals!” There were big crystals inside those walls!
Entry #03
Today I decided to sit inside this cave under crystal peak to write my final resolution: I will leave this place to explore and live my own adventures!
I will never get tired of looking at the crystals in this cave, not only because they are beautiful, but mainly because seeing them is what helped me to finally make this decision.
Mr. and Mrs. Boole are no longer around. It looks like Dr. Shepherd gave them a severe lecture regarding their unauthorized experiments. I think he’ll keep them at Shepherd’s Beach under his supervision for quite a while.
But by the end, the accident wasn’t that serious: no one was hurt and the biggest problem was that the road between crystal beach and crystal peak became blocked by large stones that we are unable to remove. So everyone came together to create a new access through the cave. It took us 2 days to clean the entire space and build the new stairs, but it was worth the effort. This place is wonderful.
Also, seeing everyone working together on a construction was so nice. And for the first time I feel like I really got to participate. When we arrived at this place there were several constructions, but they didn’t let me do much, after all I was just a child. I’m not anymore!
The crystals on these walls have already been cleaned and are now completely exposed. No one has yet been able to explain how they appeared. Did the explosion create them? Or did it just exposed what was already here waiting to be discovered? It is common knowledge that it is possible to collect crystals from the creatures on this planet. But I had never seen this kind of crystals before and neither this big. The research data from Mr. and Mrs. Boole were considered confidential, so even if someone knows the answer, they won’t tell us.
There are so many things to learn! Today is the day! I’m determined to get out of here and tell everyone that I’m going on my own adventures to explore this land!
Entry #04
How did I end up in this situation? While I need to sit here, waiting for my legs to heal, maybe I should reevaluate my decision…
This morning I left the cave at crystal peak determined to tell everyone I was leaving. But as soon as I reached the bridge, I found Igor in a panic, saying that his papoo pet had been kidnapped. To calm him down, I ended up offering myself to bring his pet back.
I tried to follow the same path that the little papoo would have followed. He sent his pet to deliver a message to Undine in Paradise Landing. From there, I went down to the East to get on the road to the First Wave Settlement, because Undine said that she sent the pet to Peyton, and then he didn’t come back. I crossed the small river and climbed the stairs. I knew that after the first waterfall, the path to the right would take me to Peyton, but it was a long walk, so I decided to cross the bridges as it would be faster. As soon as I finished climbing the last flight of stairs, the first house I saw was Ol’Mort’s. “He is a grumpy man. Maybe I shouldn’t go there. But it’s just to ask if he saw the papoo. I’ll try!".
I was crossing the stone bridge, when I heard a noise that I knew very well: it was Igor’s pet. Ol’Mort had kidnapped him! At that time I was so excited to get him back, that I didn’t even think straight and said that I would bring 4 papoos to exchange for the pet.
And now I’m here! Why did I have the idea of trying to catch the pappos with an improvised box, hanging on a bamboo? I should have realized that when i released the rope, instead of catch my target, the box was going to fall and break, attracting two dozen of angry papoos to attack me. Joe ended up saving me, getting rid of the papoos, while Li took me in a hurry to the house to heal from the injuries.
But I can’t give up, if I want to get 3 more pappos I will need a new plan!
Entry #05
I finally managed to climb to the top floor of the ancient ruins. Fortunately these papoos aren’t very good at climbing the ruins’ floors, so I was able to escape them. But I still ended up all scratched up again.
At least my plan worked well: I waited for one of the red papoos to be alone, positioned myself right above him, threw my net, jumped down and tied it up.
The idea of using a net was great to catch the 3 pappos I needed. I thought about that after Joe handed me one of the yellow pappos tied in a net, while muttering that he didn’t understand why I needed it alive.
As I dragged the last of the 4 papoos to Ol’Mort’s, I was muttering the same thing to myself. Looks like a papoo stole Ol’Mort’s sunglasses, so when he saw Igor’s papoo he thought it was him and arrested him. I tried to explain that maybe it was another similar papoo, but he didn’t know that there are papoos of 4 different colors around here. So in exchange for the pet, I was supposed to bring a papoo of each type for him to “inquire”. I don’t know exactly what he thought the papoos would tell him. But by the end, he didn’t want to release the pet.
- This one has a collar so he is the most similar to the thief, who also wore accessories, a red cap! – he continued insisting.
By this point I was so furious that after all my hard work he wouldn’t keep his promise, that I took one of the big wooden masks he had at home and broke all the little wooden cages where he was holding the pappos.
While I was leaving with the pet, the other papoos were making the biggest mess in the house. “This time he’ll be lucky if he only loses a pair of glasses”, I thought. “A papoo with a red cap and sunglasses? This man is crazy! What will he say next? That there are also papoos that talk around here?”