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Carl's Diary - Day 1 of exploration

I hate my stitch lips, I am saving up to have them removed, today they almost got me killed! I spent most of today on a Fee Co train from the depot all the way to Paramonia Hub 264. The ride was quite poor since the track goes into disrepair about one hundred miles before you reach the station. After the journey I was met by a greeter, amazingly it still worked and was not the deranged, manacle robot that most are these days. Perhaps the fact that it was chained up stopped it from attacking. Anyway, I got directions to where I would be staying, apparently a small village mostly inhabited by native mudokons gone semi-industrialist, freelancers if you will. Oh and the brew out here is awful, no soul storm, I had to take pure nicotine just to keep my cravings down. There's this really crappy stuff instead called expresso, a picture of a mudokon sprinting on the cover gave me the idea it was a perk up. Well it certainly didn't perk me up.

With no guide I simply followed the narrow wooden causeways high above the canopy of the trees towards the village. armed only with a small stick to lever myself up the steeper parts, I trekked for about an hour until I heard a growling noise, much to my dismay I was met by a ferocious looking fleech. Not like the typical green ones pet glukkons get but a grey one, perhaps because it was native? Well I din't stop to think to long for it tried to grab me with it's tongue. Me. An intern. Who spends his life carrying the wretched things, I grabbed my stick and shoved it deep down the back of it's throat. It gagged and got stuck, I then spent the next fifteen minutes trying ot get it into a specimen jar still alive, I hope I get a bloody raise for this!