Land Of The Lost

By: Jennifer Dana

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This is not your normal story. On each slide there is a choice, usually one like: “follow the pony.”

But sometimes there are 2, or even 3 choices. You may click on the choice you want and then you will be brought to the correct slide instantly (that is, if I hyperlinked this right). Good luck!

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You’re walking & looking up at the summer sky. All of a sudden you trip into a deep, dark, damp hole.

You wake to find yourself in dark, green goop.

You hear a voice say “If you wiggle you will only sink faster.” you look around but you don’t see anyone or anything.

YOU DECIDE TO GO AGAINST IT’S ORDERS & FLAIL YOU ARMS WILDLY

YOU DON’T MOVE AT ALL

You’re are waving your arms you peer up and you see a branch, you grab the branch and pull yourself up. Then a voice says “Owwwwwwwwwwwwwww!” it turns around and it shows you its face. It turns out to be a cute little creature. It says “Hi! I am a bobble and my name is AXZ139 but my people call me Zee for short.”

Should you introduce yourself Or

Should you run away

You introduce yourself as a

human

You say you are a human. Zee says that his people don’t allow people here because they have been known to be very rude.

You runaway then see a house

Should you walk in and look around

Run away from the house

You run away from the house. You run into the woods and see a path.

You go down the path

You follow the path, then you see a light it gets darker and darker. You don’t know what to do you walk a little further, then to your surprise you fall into a hole very similar to the one you fell in earlier. Then you notice that the hole led you to a sunny warm beach. You walk around…

And suddenly you see your home in front of you, it must be a dream, you think. But no it’s to real. With the sudden recognition that you’re home, you run as fast as light towards the front of your house.

You see a house you go in. There is nothing interesting, so you go in the back yard. You see a pool and decide to go swimming. Then you see a woman behind you. Suddenly she jumps in and drowns you. She pushes you down at the bottom of the pool… and you don’t come back up.

You decide to run away. Zee yells “Don’t go that way you will fall…” the bobbles voice faded away and you can not here it any more. You see Zee jumping in the dark green goop. You look around and see a dark deep hole you try to stop yourself but it is too late!

You fall into a deep hole. You keep falling for what seems like eternity. To your surprise there is enough light to see your surroundings. You hit the ground, but it doesn’t hurt. You look around and see 7 eggs and a cave.

The caveSuddenly you can hear a deep rumbling, “Well, then finally decided to show up?”

“Show up?” you ask.

‘Well, there is a prophecy that connects with you.” it replies.

“A prophecy that connects with ME? Who are you?” you ask. Well half shout really, you want to tell him that you don’t trust him and won’t if he keeps telling you about some stupid prophecy.

“Arghhhh!” a scream pierces the still air.

RUN TOWARDS THE SCREAM

STAY WHERE YOU ARE

You decide to stay where you are. Bad choice. After a moment you here rumbling and the cave top which is supported poorly by clay columns collapses on top of you.

TRY AGAIN?

You run towards where the sound came from. You keep running as fast as you can and you see a running river you try to stop but it’s too late.

“OI!” you cry as you slip and fall into the crystal water

Instead of feeling a rocky ground beneath you, You find yourself on soft green moss. You enjoy yourself for a moment then you realize something, how are you going to get out?

The only possible way out is climbing. Climbing what. The only thing to climb are the walls, way too slippery, there are stalactites but… wait why not?

Climb stalactites

Stay down

You fail on eating and finding food.

Try again?

You get up and look at the stalactites from a different angle.

“It’s possible.” You mutter to yourself. And with that you start the climb.

You have a bloody lip, a sprained ankle and your knees and hands are bloody by the time you finally make it. You look around and to your disappointment you realize you climbed out of a cave just to be in another cave. Or did you? You turn around and look around and just as you hoped you see a sliver of light. So, naturally you follow it.

Follow the light

You follow the light for a few hours. It leads to a opening in the cave. It seems to pull you towards it. Suddenly your brought back to reality, and just in time to you were almost stepping off into the air which would lead to falling which would lead to ground which would lead to certain death.

You are awakened by a blinding light. You look up and see a lady in white. She is so bright you can’t look at her for more than 10 seconds with out getting a bad headache.

“You need to trust your instincts.” she says lightly. Oh really, so you want me to run away, you think.

“You need to jump out of the cave.” she says a bit more forcefully.

“What?! Are you nuts,” You cry, “I can’t jump out of a cliff 1,000 feet off the ground!”

For a second you think you hear a running creek, then you realize she’s laughing.

“I might be ‘nuts’ considering I don’t know what it means. But you would be crazy if you didn’t jump.”

You stare at her in confusion for a moment wondering whether or not you should tell her what ‘nuts’ means but you decide not to.

She gives you a kind look, then begins to fade.“N0! Wait!” You cry after her. But she’s already gone.In your desperation to have someone to talk to you

crawl to the edge of the cliff. The night has turned back to normal and you look at the moon. For a second you think you see her face and you stare at it for a moment when….

The ground beneath you gives way! You reach out trying to grab onto anything, anything. But you only grasp air. You glance up at the moon for what you think will be your last time… but suddenly you hit soft grass. Grass? There’s no grass on trees, you think. then you look at the moon. It’s a half moon, but the one in the forest was a full. But you’re so tired you don’t even care. You lay back down and wonder whether or not you should look around.

LOOK AROUND

SLEEP

You get up and look around, well look around isn’t really accurate, feel around is more like. Well you feel something all right, you feel yourself fall and hit the ground too hard for any human to survive.

TRY AGAIN?

You decide to sleep. After about 12 hours you wake up to blinding sunlight & a really misty landscape. You decide to look around now that you can actually look. To your left is a cliff, it would have been terrible if you had fallen off it at night. To your right is grassland. And behind you is the sun, but wait, the mist is clearing away and…

Right in the middle of a clearing is a apple tree rich with big, juicy plums.

You run towards the apple tree with your arms out stretched

You wait a while longer

You sink through the green goop and you drop on flat hard ground. Every where you look you see grass land. The only thing you can see for miles and miles is green, lush grass, billowing in the wind.

Then you see a little being fall out of the sky.“They really have to fix the sewer system!” It

yells.

You Ask “Sewer System?”

You Ask “Who Are You?”

“Oh!” he exclaims, “You must be from the later world.”

You ask “What do you, mean the later world.”

“The future well the future for us. The “sewer system” is what you future people call potholes. Blah, blah, blah. Yada, yada, yada.”

Continue

You stand there looking confused for a few minutes. Then you say “ Pothole? You can’t fall through a pothole! You’re just lying! How’d I even get here?! Oh, wait you can’t answer that because all you do is lie!”

“What happened to humans in the future? I guess you’ll just have to learn to settle yourself.”

Say “Anyway can you show me the way out of here?”

ORCONTINUE ARGUING WITH HIM

“Yes, yes, yes back to that concept...”The small man-horse-looking-thing snaps his fingers. A

pounding sound shakes the ground. Then you see a dinosaur 50 feet tall. You look up and you’re about to scream when they both yell “Shhh!”

So you decide not to scream.

“Get on the dinosaur.” the man –looking-horse-thing tells you, “Oh yeah, I know a way out of here! But I can’t show you, you’ll have to find it yourself.”

“Wait, what?!” you scream after him, he doesn’t look back just keeps trotting away.

You decide to follow him secretly

OR

Or ride the dinosaur

You decide to follow him. He keeps looking back but he never sees you. You follow him for a week or so, eating berries, and drinking stream water. Then he leads you to a strange cottage he walks inside and you -being the curious person you are- follow.

As you’re stepping the door you feel like you’re being torn then suddenly you’re inside your home and the smell of warm chocolate chip cookies greets you.

You ride the dinosaur for a few days then suddenly he stops and stands up straight. There’s nothing to do but slide off him. As soon as you hit the ground he runs away, shaking the earth every step. You know he dropped you off here for a reason so you get up and look around. There in the distance are a bunch of mountains.

You immediately know that is where you’re supposed to go. So you set off. Along the road you meet an animal that calls itself a dire wolf. It appears to be dyeing and there’s nothing you can do to help it.

“Look at me,” it says through a thin voice “you are human?”“Well, yes. Why?”“There are few of us who know about ‘pothole business’.” he

says mystically.“Pothole business? A pothole has nothing to do with

anything. They’re just, potholes!” you exclaim.

He laughs “Very wrong, very wrong. In fact potholes have everything to do with everything. Now hear me out.” he clears his throat, then begins “There were a group of us who lost people close to us. We were the ‘band of “brothers.”’ in our day it was absurd to group up with other enemy species. So we were shunned. Driven out. Left to rot.” he says the last sentence so viciously you have to fight every reflex in your body to take flight.

“Go on,” you say encouragingly, or maybe a little pushily.“Well we joined again and set off. I was the oldest and the wisest (excuse me for my lack of

modesty) in the group. I stayed to myself. It meant a lot to be shunned, for my kind. Our empire was based on honor. So to lose that honor was like losing my backbone. But someone gave it back to me. Probably the most hopeful and most determined one in the group. Pip, was his name.” he paused and looked off into the middle distance. You hate it when people do that. “mischief… was his game.” He said in a thinner and quieter voice. “ Many people who deserved to live, died. And some that deserved to die, lived. But I’m not in the one who decides that. The brave animals that died will be glad to know they did not die in vain. I have the information and the experience of a thousand lifetimes.”

You realize immediately what this means.“Tell me!” you yell in excitement, then remembering your manners you

add “Please.”“Yes, yes I knew you’d be interested in this part-” a coughing fit rack

through his body “sorry, I’ll continue. First of all, you can’t go into the future, only the past. And you can’t get injured, or killed during the ‘travel’. There are always ways to get back to your present time, but they’re 10X harder to find. Is there anything else? Oh! Yes, yes, if you decide to stay here you will not be effected by time. You can still get hurt or killed, but you will not get old. Eventually though you’ll catch up with your own time and then be able to live the life you were living before this pothole business.” he looks at you for a moment then says “Head East, it will take you towards help.” and with that the dire wolf died. Little do you know that you were just speaking with the last pure-bled dire wolf in history.

You follow the dire wolf’s instructions and head East. You experience many things and just when you have no hope, you come across a lake.

“That ends it. It’s impossible.” you mutter to yourself in frustration.

Take a swim in the lake

or

You turn North

As you’re walking in the lake you fall into a hole. You expect to drown, but you can breathe….

Suddenly you’re home. You can feel it. And sure enough when you turn around you’re staring right at your home.

“Wow.” You breathe and that’s all you can think as you walk towards the door.

In your determination to get home you keep to the North for a loooooooooong time. Bad choice, you freeze to death in the Arctic Tundra.

TRY AGAIN?

“Settle themselves?! Settle themselves?! I’m as settled as settle can be!” He looks at you with a disgusted look on his face. Then starts talking in a language you’ve never heard before. Then he yells at you “Go fight the wind by yourself!” “What do you mean?” you ask.

‘Go fight the wind by yourself’?

But he just walks away. You look around and notice you should go… You fail on eating and finding food.

Try again?

“Who are you?” you ask the thing. It now appears to be a horse about 6 inches tall, but in this place you aren’t taking any chances.

“That is none of your concern.” he answers mystically suddenly you remember what he is. You have no idea how it came to. He is a Eohippus, a horse just 10x smaller.

The Eohippus starts talking again, “There’s no food here. Even though no grass can look healthier, it isn’t safe. Huge birds come here night and day. They feed on my kind as you feed on a drop of chocolate.” (next slide)

After a long moment of staring at each other, none of you blinking, he says “F.Y.I you wouldn’t last 24 hours here so if you want to live to see another day… follow me.” why should you trust it? Why shouldn’t you? You finally decide to:

FOLOW THE EOHIPPUS

After 2 days of no food and no water the After 2 days of no food and no water the landscape changes, instead of lush, green landscape changes, instead of lush, green grass as far as the eye can see, there are grass as far as the eye can see, there are

rocks and patches of sand. The grass is now rocks and patches of sand. The grass is now drooping and your stomach is growling with drooping and your stomach is growling with

every step. You’re starting to think you every step. You’re starting to think you shouldn’t have followed the Eohippus.shouldn’t have followed the Eohippus.

(next slide)

Suddenly the Eohippus stops in his tracks.

“Get down” he hisses. You look around and suddenly you spot them. They look like rhinoceros without the armor plates. They have a skin flab neck and 2 HUGE horns sticking out of their foreheads.

““What are they?” you ask.What are they?” you ask.

““Arsinotherium, they made a pact with the Arsinotherium, they made a pact with the lions a hundred blue moons ago. Ever since lions a hundred blue moons ago. Ever since then they have become the most feared then they have become the most feared animal of my time, even more feared then animal of my time, even more feared then the Saber tooth tiger. And that’s saying the Saber tooth tiger. And that’s saying something.”something.”

After a long time of silence your legs are getting cramped. Finally when you can’t stand it any longer, you stand up. What you see makes you gasp.

“What? What is it?” asks the Eohippus. His curiosity getting the better of him he hops on the rock you were hiding behind.

Right in the middle of a clearing is a apple tree rich with big, juicy plums.

You run towards the apple tree with your arms out stretched

You wait a while longer

You wait a while longerYou wait a while longer

You wait a little longer. But you don’t You wait a little longer. But you don’t see anything. So…see anything. So…

You run towards the apple tree your You run towards the apple tree your arms outstretchedarms outstretched

Just as you’re reaching for a apple on the apple tree a snout comes out of nowhere and nips at you. “Oh sorry!” it exclaims. You can feel anger swelling up inside of you. What right does this primate have to nip you then say “Oh, sorry!” It scrambles out of the thick leaves and onto a branch with no apples (the only one on the tree). Eohippus comes up and bows his head respectfully.“Ahh… Julius.” The Primate-Thing thing says looking straight at the Eohippus. He continued on dramatically, “Long time no see… what’s up?”

“Ahh, ya know.” Julius replied.

You can’t help but wonder how Pip The Primate and Julius The Eohippus know each other, you say this aloud and they decide to tell you. This wasn’t exactly what you meant, but you decide to go a long with it.

“When Julius and I were cubs,” started Pip, “there wasn’t a time when we weren’t causing trouble. Either it was: see what the Saber Tooth lion would do when we wake it up. Or how long we could stalk the mammoths without them knowing. But there were times when we went to far. The time that has to do with you… ha, well that’s a long story.”

ASK ABOUT The story

“Julius and I were of on our most dangerous yet. We were going to see were the heart of the Piranha kingdom was. Now this was the Stupidest, most dangerous thing anyone, anyone could do. But we thought of it and ever sense then it was nagging at the end of our minds for a looooong time (okay 2 days) before we could stand it no longer.

“ We went to the last rumored place to have a swarm of piranhas. On the bay of what you ‘futures’ call Hawaii. So anyways, all was going according to plan until…” you see Pip look away guiltily.

“What, what?” You ask.

Pip sighed heavily before going on, “Well, a piranha came out and bit at me, I knew we were close so I gave Julius a few pulls on the rope I was holding. See, I was holding the rope (opposable thumbs) and Julius was looking under the water for short periods of time. But what happened next was possibly the worst thing that happened to me in my lifetime. Julius didn’t respond. You need to understand we made up signals. Danger was one pull, found something was three and ‘pull me up’ was two.”

I don’t know what happened next, all I know is Julius didn’t respond.” Pip looked at Julius, “so if you want to find out the rest of the story ask Julius, or not, it’s all right with me.”

Ask Julius about the story

Tell them to just get to the point

“Well I didn’t respond to Julius because a group of piranhas were coming towards me. I knew I couldn’t out swim them so I went an hid in a cave. I was too late, they had already seen me, and I was running out of breath. They came into the cave slowly, they knew I posed no threat to them so they were taking there time. But besides the no air problem, and a bunch of piranhas coming out to tear me apart and eat me my mind was on something else. The cave wasn’t stopping yet, so there must be a way out of here I thought. Well half thought really, I didn’t actually get to think it all through because I had just fallen into a hole, quit like the one you fell into. Anyways don’t ask me the rest, I still haven’t gotten over what I went through.”

Pip bowed his head in Julius’s direction “After that happened I devoted half of my life to finding out what happened to you. My friend a ‘dolphin’ told me Julius had just fell into a hole and didn’t come out. She said they were common under water. Though obviously they aren’t in you time, seeing as to how confused you were when you saw us. But any way I found out quite a lot.”

Ask about the “Pothole Business”

“Well first of all, you can’t go into the future, only the past,” Pip began “And you can’t get injured, or killed during the ‘travel’.

There are always ways to get back to your present time, but they’re 10X harder to find. Is there anything else? Oh! Yes, yes, if you decide to stay here you will not be effected by time. You can still get hurt or killed, but you will not get old. Eventually though you’ll catch up with your own time and then be able to live the life you were living before this pothole business.”

You look around at them and notice them staring at you expectantly.

“You want me to make a choice, don’t you?” you ask them.

“Kinda, I mean it’s going to be hard but you can’t just do nothing.” Pip answers. He sounds truly sincere.

The ultimate choice:Stay in this time period until you get caught up with your own timeline

ORGo looking for a “pothole” to get back

home

You have chosen to stay here until you get caught up with your timeline. You will experience many things and it will be hard to settle back in your own timeline, but it will be worth it. Good luck!

You have chosen to go, immediately, back home. You wake up where you were walking before this “pothole business” now it is Fall, and you have a lot of explaining to do. Considering the fact that you spent 2 years of your life looking for the ‘pothole’, you will live a *semi-normal life. Good Luck!

*That’s a little bit of an under statement, but good luck anyway!

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Credits All thanks goes to Namelessforest.com, for inspiration.

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