Disclaimer: I don't own ARK, the lovely people at Wildcard do. The plot is based on my playthru in single player mode. There are a couple pretty basic first chapters as there aren't that many ways to start out in the world :)

One

It's bright.

I've walked around for a bit, simply scouting the area. A beach stretches away on the right, while rocks and plants litter the left. In the distance another beach with some large trees can be seen. Mountains tower above everything. It has started to heat up, and my stomach is rumbling. I grab some blue and red berries from the bushes along my route; they are tasty and calm my stomach.

I head back to the location where I awoke. It was flat, sandy and rocky. Multiple stands of palm trees arc around the northern side, with a field of massive boulders to the east and west. The south looks out over the water. A few minutes to the north is a dark jungle that sounds full of life.

The first sign of other life appears in the form of a tiny blue-grey dinosaur. It sees me and with a squeak turns and runs away quickly. It stops not too far away and watches me warily. I can hear a rumbling in the background, but don't go see what it is; obviously it's massive and I'm a tiny unarmed person.

I need tools and weapons. There are many sharp rocks scattered about the area so I begin by gathering a pile of these, in addition to a few rounded and concave rocks. The concave rocks I sort different colored berries into, while the rounded rocks will make good ammunition for hunting. Using several of the sharp rocks, wood from some tree limbs and some fibers from a stringy fern I fashion both a hatchet and a pickaxe.

By this time it was getting dark, so I sparked a small fire on the sand with some flint and some of the dead palm leaves and fern plants. The little dino has finally left, probably to bed down for the night. Piling various fern branches and leaves up to make a pillow I go to sleep with my back against the rock.