room6/SwampPath

6.1.2023 ROOM SIX :  the Swamp Path

You travel some way around the edge of the swamp, occasionally hearing strange unsettling animalistic calls coming from a mist which has been gathering as the day progresses. Occasionally a gnarled tree grows from the marshy area. 

Eventually you come to an earth embankment wide enough to drive a vehicle down. It stretches into the swamp area and fades into the mist. 

You walk along it for some way before the embankment gives way to an old wooden jetty covered in lichen and moss. Although is slimy the wood betrays that it is used regularly by the way a narrow path winds across the crude planks, footsteps crushing moss to the bare wood blackened by damp and grime. 

To your left and right green weeds float on open water with occasional grassy tumps and twisted trees scattered around. Sounds of muddy gasses bubbling up all around becomes vaguely hypnotic. 

You continue along the way before the mist clears around an island of some sort, marked by a tall grey-blue granite stone embedded with many white earthy crystals. Behind it are trees covering most of the island. The path continues through the shadows of the small forest behind the granite rock. Against the back of the rock is a rope-ladder up to the treetops. 

Although it is quite obvious someone has built this place, you hear no sound of any people. 

Do you want to explore the shaded path? 

Would you prefer to climb the rope ladder? 

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