SO I STOLE THE IDEA FROM AVATAR.
i decided to use the same story trope as found in James Cameron's Avatar. My main character while wondering in the Jungle is ambushed by a creature and separated from the group and the Race of sub humans would find him. this actually helped me steam roll and i finished this whole body over the space of a week after a few weeks of being stuck and avoiding it.
BODY SECTION OF THE STORY: THIS IS HOW FAR I GOT BEFORE GETTING STUCK:
Mr First Great adveture
by H. LanGdon
Day 1
Capetown
Arrival
I arrived in the city of Cape Town two days
ago from London after a long and torturous 6 Month at sea. My Time aboard the
Mariana was spent researching the claims I have been sent to investigate. Her Majesty’s
Royal institute on Science and Discovery has sent me to investigate claims of a
mysterious island, sailors have spotted along the Clippers route on their
journey to New Zealand. A few Captains have tried marking the location of the
island, yet the maps and information the Institute has received places this
island in a huge area of rough water between Cape Town and Australia. My
exploration team’s mission is to find this island. To map it and note any
significant discovery we find on the island. Tomorrow I leave for Port
Elizabeth. From there we will make preparations for our journey.
I,
Dr. Harold Langdon, shall find this island and be the first to claim it in the
name of her Majesty.
Day 4
Port elizabeth
I
have arrived in Port Elizabeth, a quaint colony that is home to a fair few
Lords and wealthy businessmen here on safari. Lord Arlington a fellow member
from the institute has invited me for a drink at the Hunting club. I asked if
they had heard rumor of the island, many though it was a myth made up by the
sailors who had spent far too many days at sea. Yet a Mr. Cecil John Rhodes, a
local business in the diamond trade has been kind enough to indulge my queries with
the information he himself has collected on the island. Mr. Rhodes has given us
access to all his company’s trade route maps and where his ships have spotted
the island over the last five years. His company’s maps are remarkable with
this information. I believe I have a much more accurate idea of where the
island is. This could significantly cut our travel time at sea searching for
the island.
Day 6
plotting a course
I have spent the past two days charting our
course for the island. It will takes us about two month to reach the area the
island has been spotted, from there it is a guess as to how long it will take
to find the island. According to Mr. Rhode’s captains the sea around the island
is exceptionally rough and filled with jagged rocks that makes traversing the
waters far too dangerous. These claims have lead me to believe the island to be
an extinct volcano. This would explain Mr. Rhode’s interest in the island. As an
extinct volcano it is an easy place to find diamonds and other valuable ores
and stones. No matter his reasoning his help still holds value.
Day 9
final prepArations
We have spent the past three day waiting
for our excursion ship to be loaded and stocked for the journey. I have moved
my quarters aboard the ship and begun to settle in for the long journey ahead.
Captain Mc Donald and I decided on the best possible route to the island. He is
still worried that the rough water around the island will be exceptionally
dangerous to traverse. I have assured him any damages to his ship will be
covered by the Institute.
Day 10
Setting sail
We set sail at first light, I have this
strange amalgamation of excitement and fear as I watch the port fade into the horizon
and all I can do now is look forward at the journey I have begun.
Day 17
Ocean magnificence
A few days have passed uneventfully. The
crew is largely accommodating and polite aside from one of the deck hands who
keeps making passes at me. One of the other crewmen has told me he's harmless
but he’ll keep a watch nonetheless which I appreciate.
Day 120
crew
The crew seem to share my fascination in
the island and what we might find, most dinners I have spent with the crew
listing to their story of faraway lands and the people and creature they have
seen, many have pondered what we will find in this new land. Their inquisitive
attitude has helped me to feel more at home among the crew.
Day 32
Stowaway
Last night the ships crew found a stowaway
hiding in the lower decks. The crew wanted to throw him overboard but Captain
Mc Donald has decided to throw the boy in the brig and interrogate him in the
morning. I wonder if the boy knew where we were heading?
Day 33
interrogation
The Captain has asked me to sit in on the
interrogation. He believes there might be a chance the boy is an escaping
prisoner or worse a spy for a foreign country.
The captain was a truly menacing force
standing over the boy. The captain’s interrogation was a lot more forceful than
anything I’ve ever seen. After beating the boy for a few minutes he begun to
ask the boy questions. The boy broke immediately and spilled is confession
through blood soaked teeth. His name is James, a sailor’s son abandoned at the
colony after his father’s ship sunk and his mother died of illness. All he
wants is to follow in his father’s footsteps and make a life of his own. I have
asked the captain to give James the benefit of the doubt and hire him aboard
the ship.
Day 47
James
It has been two weeks since James has
joined the crew. The captain has him working in the kitchen. The crew seem to
like him and a few have even been able to vouch for James as they had sailed
with his father years ago. Truly this is a boy born for a life at sea.
Day 59
arrival
Lady luck must truly be watching over us. Three
days ago we entered the region where the island had been seen. After three more
days sailing to the center of the region we spotted land. It is our destination,
the Captain has confirmed it. We sailed as close to the island as we could before
we got too close to the jagged rocks that brake through the waves like
monuments warding off all visitors. The captain has decided to sail around the
island in search of a safe place to anchor.
Day 64
safe passage
The Capitan has spent the past five days
sailing around the island in search of a secure place to make anchor. I have dedicated this time to mapping as much
of the islands key features as possible. My initial hunch that the island is an
extinct volcano proved to be correct. The island is covered in dense vegetation
and the sounds of animals can be heard from the ship. We finally found a safe
place to anchor and approach the island. We will spend the night aboard the
ship and set off on the rowboats for the island tomorrow.
Day 65
camp
We arrived on the beach of the island and
begun to set up a camp from which we will start our exploration of the island.
It seems we will have to make our way up the edge of the crater that stands as
tall as a mountain. This volcano must have been gigantic while it was still
whole. A few men were able to kill a bore in the jungle. Although the crew is excited for the fresh
meat I am more enthralled by the fact that there are animals like bores living
on this remote island. My body fills with anticipation wondering what we will
find in the crater.
Day 66
Night of Unrest
Our first night on the island was spent celebrating
our arrival on the island. As festivities carried on I kept one ear to the
jungle listening to the all the different birds and trying my best to name the
most I was able. There were many I had never heard before. I will need to
document them all before we leave.
Day 67
Exploration begins
We have begun our exploration of the
island. I decided it would be wise to map the jungle at the base of the crater and
find a safe way to travel to the center if the island. We discovered our first
danger lurking in the jungle, a species of flightless birds native to this
island that chased our exploration party back to camp only to be scared off by
a hail of musket fire. Standing taller than a horse with a razor sharp beak and
a lethal set of claws the crew have taken to calling them Razor beaks. Although
not overly creative I can’t deny it is an apt description.
Day 68
on guard
Due to the discovery of the Razor beaks, we
have had to increase the amount of torches and guards around the camp. The crew
has become very uneasy about what lies beyond the shadowy edge of the jungle. I
fear the crew have become more reluctant to explore further into the island and
this journey might be forced to a quick end.
Day 69
Exploration party
Our exploration party has grown in size
after the Razor Beak incident yesterday. The Captain has assigned us a group of
armed guards, the men seem less than eager about their new promotion.
Day 73
route to the center
After four days of carefully searching the
base of the crater we have found a safe route into the crater. We have begun to
make preparations for an excursion into the center of the island.
Day 76
expedition Party
We have organized a small party to travel
to the center of the island. Captain Mc Donald will be accompanying my research
team and I along with a few heavily armed members of his crew. We will leave at
first light tomorrow.
Day 77
expedition
We left at first light this morning for the
center of the island. It took us till mid-day to make it over the craters rim,
Captain Mc Donald has decided for us to make camp in a clearance at the base of
the crater. From the top of the craters rim I was able to get a good idea of
the terrain. I have mapped a few key
location in the crater to help keep us on course to center.
Day 78
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