Annie: We are back with a new chapter!
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Annie: Sorry if it is on the short side... Enjoy it anyway.
Key to follow:
Your journal entries are in Italics
Spoken words are Normal
Things written on paper (The professor's journal pages) are in Bold
At a nearby boat that was on the river I found another journal page with two entrees.
May 8th
I'm constipated.
May 9th
Last night something went through our bags while we slept! There were plenty of valuables but all that was taken was my chocolate! In its place they left another piece of the map that was taken from Gustave! This is very disturbing. First they try to steal the map, now they feed it back to us one piece at a time.
The entry for May 8th made me frown when I saw that he had written only two words that did nothing to help, but now I also have the rest of the map and when I walked back to the campsite I found someone else was there waiting for me.
"I'm so glad you came! I'm very worried about Professor Mandible! He may not have been as lucky as I was. Someone jumped me on the trail but I'm okay now. I see that you have been collecting the Professor's journal pages. He'll be so happy to see them returned when you find him. I almost forgot: take this torn diagram. You'll need it!" said Rachel.
I was relieved to find Rachel at the campsite as she was to see me there as well, but I still have to find the Professor.
May 10th
We've been following the river downstream and it brought to a small canyon. There is an old train here that must have derailed years ago, overrun by bandits like in the American Old West. Jesse James and John Wayne. One of the passenger cars is locked from the outside with a chain but there are all kinds of junk scattered about the place and I can probably find something to break the lock.
We'll sleep here tonight and tomorrow find a way across the nearby ravine where we can see a cave on the other side.
I found this page by the old train in the canyon that I found when I followed the river; I too can see the cave on the other side of the ravine. So that is where I will go next.
May 11th
We finally made it across the ravine after I rigged up a kind of human sling shot. We sustained fairly minor injuries but Rachel broke her glasses and that's a real setback. There had to be a better way across.
Me and my contraptions. I'm going to really get hurt one of these days.
I think I had the easier time crossing; I had used a plank I found at the old train to cross the ravine, instead of doing what the professor had done.
May 11th (continued)
A branch of the river runs through the bandit's cave and has led us to a room under the falls. There is a strange puzzle here involving jewels. It will need some study before we can progress. It's very advanced compared to others stone games I've seen the locals play.
We couldn't solve the puzzle because some of the stones were missing.
I had to go back to the train to start it to find some oars to row the boat that was in the bandit's cave, I had found bolt cutters, a light bulb, and a gas can and these things helped me started the train to get the oars.
Once I got back to where the boat was I got in and rowed off and found the puzzle that professor had found and was unable to solve... Let's see if I can solve it.
I solved the puzzle, I had to first put the jewels into the correct spots and when I did a rope dropped down and when I pulled on it, some jewels lit up and I had to follow the pattern and when I did it correctly the rock the puzzle was on made a line from a few of the jewels. When I finished repeating the lights in the correct order, the line had made the shape of a star and it cracked and broke apart and revealed an opening that had a scroll in it. The scroll showed me the location of the beetle temple!
SB/Kierra: We hope you have enjoyed the sixth chapter!
Annie: Sorry if it is short, I couldn't think of anything else to write. Review please and be nice with it.
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Annie: Bye!
