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Who could say no to free food?

"Good morning!"

...somehow, of all things, it's the sashimi and pumpkin pie that she finds massively disorienting. They both look just about like what she might've found at—home. At home, on Earth. There were a lot of broadly familiar foods in the other place—bread, cheese, et cetera—but not pumpkin pie specifically, and not, of all things, sashimi. God, what she wouldn't give to go to a sushi restaurant right now.

 

She sits down and takes a moment to collect herself. Wouldn't do to get her feelings all over everything.

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"Good morning!" she smiles broadly "Did you sleep well?"

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"Yep! Gonna do some more exploring today, get my map filled in a little better." But first, food. She avoids the sashimi because it would be deeply awkward if she took one bite and burst into tears, but she samples everything else.

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"A noble goal. There's a lot to discover even just on the surface. Just make sure to watch your step around the purple areas... there are some pretty deep ravines."

If they notice her food choices they don't comment

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"Thanks, I'll keep an eye out."

Once she finishes breakfast, she does indeed head out to resume her trek around the circumference of the island. What wonders await?

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To get back to where she was she'll need to walk through some more of the jungle, it's pretty much like the jungle she walked through last night. If she's feeling brave she could poke into caves but otherwise, after she gets to the beach she can continue her circuit until she reaches another desert.

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Yeah, no getting distracted by caves today. Straight to the beach, then continuing along the shoreline.

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Well, then she gets to see another desert.

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And after another normal forest she also gets to see the promised purple biome. Complete with purple grass and purple trees.

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Vaguely concerning, but also kind of pretty? Stepping carefully in memory of the helpful stranger's warning, she examines some of the trees to see if they behave like normal trees in terms of what can be shaken from their branches.

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Immediately upon stepping into the purple biome everything gets darker it's as if it's just after sunset instead of the bright sunny morning it was moments before.

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...bizarre. She steps in and out a few more times to confirm that the effect is localized and it hasn't just advanced the time of day by an alarming number of hours, then resumes examining trees.

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Yep, it's completely localized. As for the trees she gets the usual mix of leaves branches and acorns along with two new fruit a blackcurrant and a bunch of elderberries. On her last tree she gets three gold coins.

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That's a lot of gold coins! Well, okay, it's not an objectively high number, but considering they're gold coins, still a lot.

She strips some bark to make a shoulder bag and packs away all the goodies, then keeps walking.

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As she walks she'll find strange craggly rocks that are thematically purple bordering the promised deep ravines. It definitely looks like it would be a bad idea to fall in. There are also thorny bushes around which look like they might hurt if you tried to walk through them.

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She steers clear of the ravines, and pauses next to a thornbush to see how easily she can break off a branch and handcraft it. If they're as malleable as bark, she might use them as a starting source for makeshift weapons.

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The thorn bushes as it turns out are extremely brittle and come apart in a mass of splinters with even relatively gentle force.

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Bugger. She spends a minute or so trying to piece the splinters back together into something more craftable, then gives up and keeps walking, occasionally raiding trees as she passes them. What's next along the shoreline?

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Trees yield the usual acorns branches and leaves for the most part, the odd part is the sudden swarm of monarch butterflies that appears from one tree.

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And then it's back to the generic forest biome. There is an unusual pink tree in this patch of the forest though.

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Ooh, pink tree. What's up with the pink tree? What does it yield when shaken? Any interesting properties in the bark if she strips some?

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It's bark is more textured and maybe a little more durable than that of the other trees. When shaken it drops a pink sapling.

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Neat! Is the sapling portable, can she take it home in her bark bag? Or in a bigger, pinker bark bag if this one won't do?

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The sapling is very portable it's like the toilet, a miniature version of itself, and it gives her the sense she could magically plant it in the ground near her.

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The sapling is totally coming home with her. All right, onward along the shore.

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