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NOVEMBER 27th, 2014
My wife had given me this journal to keep record of the adventure head of me, so I suppose I'll use it.
Today is the day I leave Northridge. There is supposedly a portal not far from here to another dimension. I'm going with a group to explore the dimension, colonists there have already set up a small settlement.
From what we have gathered, there is a strange shrine a few hundred miles from the settlement, and although that is quite a distance, it is still something that they want investigated, since this place is supposedly uninhabited by any humanoid species.
I guess I better pack up now, we should be leaving soon anyway. Not sure when I'll get back home, so I better say my goodbyes around town.
NOVEMBER 28th, 2014
After a day's worth of travelling, it's about midnight now. We've come across the portal. We're not sure where this thing will bring us, hopefully it puts us right where the colonists are...
Apparently we're going to be sticking around this place until dawn, that way we have plenty of rest and we have some more time to investigate the portal itself.
NOVEMBER 29th, 2014?
Well, we went through the portal around noon yesterday, and when we came out the other side, it's midnight again...?
That's kind of strange.
The settlement is set up just a few miles away from the portal, about a day's travel. Apparently one of the colonists was skeptical about being around the portal, something didn't seem quite right to him.
The livestock and wildlife we've seen around here so far looks the same as it is back home, so does the grass and trees and all that.
Maybe this isn't another dimension, but just some place very far away from home?
Who knows.
NOVEMBER 30th, 2014?
Well, we reached the settlement at about noon. One of the scientists there is looking at a way to possibly move the portal into the settlement, and if we can go back through and come out at home again, if we can move the portal there into Ridgeway or SMBXtown.
We're going to stay here for a few days to sort of straighten out and get a lay of the land a little more. Whenever we're ready to leave, we were pointed in the direction the shrine is supposedly in.
DECEMBER 8th, 2014?
We stayed at the settlement for a little over a week, and I think we're ready to get going. It's a two days travel to the shrine by foot, and since we have no other mode of transportation, it looks like we'll be going on foot.
DECEMBER 10th, 2014?
We haven't reached the shrine yet, but we're close. It's kind of small up close, but from a distance, it does look awfully big. Not sure why that is, might just be an optical illusion?
DECEMBER 11th, 2014?
Well, we're at the shrine, and nothing really exciting is going on here except for this strange hole going directly downward into a dark pit. The hole has some strange, infinite water source flowing from it as well. I think we're going to stop here and rest a while, I'm not sure when, or if, we'll explore any further.
DECEMBER 12th, 2014?
So, after an agreement, we figured that it would make sense if some of our guys stayed up here and I'm sent down into the hole with a radio. That seems kind of silly and like a stupid stunt, but I'll do it I guess.
They aren't sure if I'll be able to get back up from going down the hole, so they've given me a bunch of mining picks, shovels, supplies to last me a while until they can send an excavation team to help free me.
They say if I need any help, I'll use the radio.
This'll be easy.
Alright, I'm all geared up and I think I'm ready to jump down. I'll write when I reach the bottom I guess, if there's anything interesting.
JANUARY 2nd, 2015?
I dropped my journal somewhere in this damn cavern, but I finally found it. I thought I'd lost it. Not sure if anyone is going to be coming down to save my ass, I'm kind of worried. The radio's frequencies are going insane. I wonder if it has to do with that giant...
Probably not.
This place is quite strange, I feel small compared to this, and it isn't even that big itself... But there seems to be so much power emanating from it, it makes me feel powerless, like a mortal...
JANUARY 20th, 2015?
Well, I'm sure if they really were going to save me, they would have by now. I've managed to mine around a bit but these pickaxes were quite shit honestly. Why did they give them to me if they expected me to escape? Or maybe they didn't want me to escape... They knew I wouldn't be able to get out of here and they wouldn't send an excavation team...
I'm getting paranoid down here. Somebody help, maybe?
FEBRUARY 1st, 2015?
My food supply is almost gone, I've been eating bits and pieces of bread for a while now, but I've gotten almost too weak to write. Something is draining me of my power... I might just leave notes around here to deter anyone that tries to enter, that is if they find a way out...
I'm not sure why I'm writing in this journal anymore, it'd be a miracle if I even make it out of here alive.
FEBRUARY 19th, 2015?
I'm starving down here. I'm not going to make it much longer, I know I'm not going to be getting out anytime soon. For anyone that reads this, please bring it back to the colony, if it's still there.
Being down here by myself, I think I've either gone insane or have made a shocking revelation, but I'm almost certain this thing, be it a crystal or whatever it is, is actually protecting this world...
Yesterday, I was taking my normal walk around the cave, when the whole place shook around. A huge beam of light escaped out the top of the crystal, and tore through the ceiling above. It's quite bright up there, but I'm not sure if it reaches the surface or not, I haven't seen the light of day for a few good months now...
This crystal thing has eight tendril-like things coming out of it, I'm not sure what they do exactly, but something leads me to believe that they either drain energy from the world to power the crystal, or the crystal emits a foreign energy from it to feed, or power, the world itself.
I've also noticed that the crystal has been growing slightly. It was pretty small, just floating there in the middle of the cave before, but the tendrils have gotten thicker and the crystal has gotten bigger, this makes me believe further that this crystal is eating the energy out of this world. I'm not too sure about this...
I might not make it through tonight, I guess if I do, I'll write.
FEBRUARY 31st, 2015?
I found some glowing mushrooms down here, they provided me with some food, not sure if they're poisonous or not, but I feel great after eating them. The water from the pools by the entrance of the cave and from beneath the crystal taste a lot different from each other...
The entrance water tastes like rain water enriched with minerals, though the crystal water tastes... I'm not sure...
MARCH 3rd, 2015?
I've been puking up blood recently, I'm not sure what's causing this, but I feel like absolute shit now.
Can't say the same for my friend... I think his name is Steve... Or Martin... I think it's Martin...
Martin is asking me how I got here, I said the same to him...
His name probably isn't Martin isn't Martin. Maybe his name is Eric... I didn't ask him actually, he usually just disappears when I ask that.
Eric wants me to eat more of the mushrooms.
MARCH 4th, 2015?
Tony is telling me that there should be people coming to rescue us soon... Or was his name Eric...?
Eric sounds good I guess.
I asked Eric what day it was today, and he told me it didn't matter since we're in a cave and we can't see the sky anyway. I guess he's right, but I think I was keeping track of the days I've survived down here on the wall in my room...
The crystal is almost like my mother now...
It's telling me what to do...
This is my home...
MARCH 5th, 2015?
It's all hallucinations, I can't concentrate. Eric is not real... Or is he...?
The crystal is telling me to destroy it. Eric wants me to destroy the crystal. Smash it. Destroy. I will destroy the crystal tonight.
Where is Martin?
I think his name is Tony.
Or was it Eric?
The crystal is speaking to me and calling me home.
I want to smash it.
AUGUST 19th, 2019
Joey told me it was August of 2019 when he came here. Strange, I thought it was about March of 2015 now. Isn't that strange?
Ben told me there isn't any way out of here, but I keep climbing. Wait, I think his name is Joey?
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
Climbing.
I think I'm scratching at a wall now.
Ben asked if I was okay.
FEBRUARY 35th, 2009
I think today is my birthday. Happy birthday me. CJ says happy birthday to me. Was his name CJ? What was his name?
Terry?
Andrew?
Tyler?
UNKNOWN DAY, 20xx?
I can't figure out the time.
I have been having hallucinations. Something is affecting me mental state. I am putting up signs around here. Please read them sequentially if you find this before you read them. 13 signs I think. My 13 final messages. I might have one last entry...
I'm dying.
DOOMSDAY, 2015
TODAY IS THE DAY I WILL BREAK THE CRYSTAL AND UNLEASH SHA'GROLOTH FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE NINE HELLS.
I WILL OPEN THE GATEWAY TO THE ASTRAL PLANE AND DESTROY EVERYTHING KNOWN TO MAN.
Only because Danny told me to.
Or was it Martin? Martin is a good name for him.
Or Chad. Or Mike. Kyle is a good name.
I like Martin, that's a good name.
MARCH 9th, 2015
This is definitive. It is 2015. It is March. I survived this long, and here I will write my final words, to either be forgotten in this journal, nay, in this cave forever. I am on my last page of both life and this journal.
Goodbye my lov
