Annie: We are back with a new chapter!

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Annie: Sorry if it is on the short side... Enjoy it anyway.

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Your journal entries are in Italics

Spoken words are Normal

Things written on paper (The professor's journal pages) are in Bold


Since I began my research on the beetle temple I heard many tales of the exterior but I never once heard anything that described the interior like what I am seeing here.

I realize now that all the stories I heard were just that-stories. Meaning that if anyone has ever made it out of here alive they didn't document it, which I find hard to believe. But I can't think about that now. I'm overjoyed to be here and to witness this miraculous temple first hand. If I die here, so be it. I die doing what a coleopterist loved best: studying beetles.


He will not die down here. I think if the stories where true about this temple and the beetles and the tree, I can see why no one has documented this; they would want to protect it.


I fell asleep on the main controls for this lava level. I really tried to figure it out but I'm so dang hungry I couldn't focus. The pipes just reminded me of hot dogs. When I passed out I must have moved a lever or something because when I awoke a new path leading deeper down to the 4th level had been revealed!

I found a peanut in my beard and gleefully ate it. Rachel and I had some trail mix last week. Funny how things get lost in there. I'm like that peanut in a way I guess. Solo and off the beaten path.


"I'm impressed you were able to make it this far. You're close but it's not over yet. Find the professor and heal the tree. I won't be able to thank you personally, but I have confidence in you and know that you will prevail. And please, tell no one of this place; ever. Goodbye." Said the temple guardian when I found him again.

Well it looks like I was right, to protect this place I and not speak of it. Bane knew that I was heading off to find the professor, I will tell him that I did just that and helped him with what he was doing in South America in the first place, that will be all I can say.

Past the temple guardian I found a room that had three doors and a bunch of stones, I needed to light up all of the stones in a circle to unlock the first door.


Right off I'm greeted with more locked doors. If there is one thing I really can't stand its ancient doors that are locked by clever games. I have no time for games. Bah! I go adventuring to get away from playing games, and look at me!

The mushrooms growing on this level are very tasty! Wow, and you don't need to eat many!

I have a feeling the steam created on the floor above was used to create moisture without flooding the area with the full flow of the river. The steam has been shut off for some time and everything is started to die. The beetles are probably affected too! This could be a golden opportunity to test my serum! Now, if I can only find a beetle.


I had to go back to the puzzle game and play a different but similar game to unlock the second door.


SB/Kierra: We hope you have enjoyed chapter thirteen!

Annie: Sorry if it is short, I couldn't think of anything else to write. Review please and be nice with it.

SB/Kierra: Cya!

Annie: Bye!