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This story is about a mud who has no idea of what the native world in really like, but when he gets out of SoulStorm Brewery he straight away he goes in the deep end, and he finds lots of interesting, or odd, stuff.

CHAPTER 1: THE WONDERING MUDOKON

It all began one evening when Abe came back from saving all three hundred Mudokons from SoulStorm Brewery. As soon as he appeared from the sky, every one ran over to him to thank him for saving them, except for one. This one had a slight disliking for Abe, so instead of thanking him he went over to Alf's rehab and tea, and drunk tea until he couldn't drink it anymore.
Because he had been working as a slave in the Brewery for most of his life he had no idea what the outside world was like, everything around him was new. After a while he got fed up with everyone talking about how Abe saved them all, so he got up from his table, picked up his cup of tea and left the hut.

As he left, he turned back around to have one last look in there and all he could see was Abe and Alf on the big table singing, with everyone else watching and singing around them, so he took one more big gulp from his cup, threw it on the floor, then as walked away an elum appeared in front of him carrying a native, he looked at the native, and noticed that he was different to him in a way, because the native had feathers on his head and he didn't, then he looked down at the floor then walked off. He walked just the distance so he wasn't able to hear the noise from the hut, which just made him depressed. As he was walking away, he noticed more and more natives were walking from their huts, in the little village nearby, to Alfs hut to celebrate with them. While he was walking, he was looking for some where nice to rest for the night, then he saw a hill next to a wooded area so he decided that he would stay there for the night.

When he got to the hill he sat down on a rock and looked up to the sky. After a few minutes he started to hear lots of Scrabs howling from behind him and running in his direction, so he got up scrambled as high as he could to get away from them, as they passed he was watching them weave in and out of the trees and jumping over fallen branches, he saw one scrab fall over and get trampled by other scrabs behind it. As the last scrab passed he watched it catching up with the others as they ran on in the distance. Straight after, a flock of birds flew from a tree top, he turned around to see if he could see anything that disturbed them, but then in the corner of his eye he noticed something shining from behind a pile of rocks, as he got closer to the shining object a few more scrabs ran passed him which made him fall on his back, as he got back up and started to get closer and closer to it, then he noticed it was a pile of full SoulStorm Brew bottles.
"There must be at least twenty bottles here." He thought to himself.
"I wonder who put them here and why?" He looked around to see if he could see anyone, but everyone was at Alfs hut celebrating. So he found a comfy spot next to the bottles and started to drink them. One by one he felt sicker and sicker but he still wanted to drink them. When they were all gone, he got up and started looking around to see if he could find anymore bottles, but because he was drunk he couldn't walk properly, then as he was looking a paramite jumped in front of him, he fell over, banged his head on a rock and got knocked out.



CHAPTER 2: THE STRANGE CAVE

When the Mud woke up, he found himself feeling as good as new, and thinking he's never felt so well. He had been unconscious for so long he didn't even have any idea what the time was, or even what day it was. Suddenly, he noticed he was inside a small cave, he got up, having no idea how he got in there, and started walking around to see if he could find a way out, but all he could see were markings on the walls of what looked like native mudokons with circles around them, elums running away from what he thought were scrabs and paramites, then another marking of something that he had never seen before. He stood there for a minute trying to think of what that marking could be of, It looked to be of some sort of a mask.
Then, he noticed a small hole in the wall just higher than he was, so he tried climbing out, but then he heard a noise from behind him, he froze, fell back down to the floor, and turned around slowly. There on the wall he noticed there was a bright light breaking through the stone, and more markings that he had never seen before started to appear and suddenly a door shape appeared. As he walked over to it, it started to open inwards and there was a mudokon there who he didn't recognise, he was the same height as him but he had all body paints on him, huge colourful feathers on his head, and something was attached to his right hand. He then noticed that the marking on the back of the door was of him, and of someone else who looked like him but was carrying something different.
"Where am I ?" He said to the strange Mudokon, but he didn't reply.
"WHERE AM I?" But as soon as he said that, someone else came from behind him, again someone who he had never seen before, but this time he was wearing a mask, the mud turned his head around and realised it was the same mask as te marking on the wall behind him that he didn't recognise. The masked guy came up to him, put his hands together and started to chant. He looked at the masked guy, then at the mud behind him.
"What's he doing?" But neither of them said nothing. Seconds later he felt something come over him, like a cold wind, and had an urge to close his eyes. As he did, he had a flash back of when he was back in the brewery, how he was taken when he was a young mud, and how he was beaten by sligs as he was slaving away, scrubbing the floors, and also of when Abe rescued him and nearly killed him with a bone grinder. Then the flash back stopped, he opened his eyes and the masked guy spoke in a really soft but strange voice.
"I now know what trouble you have been through, at SoulStorm Brewery"
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"That flash back you just had, I saw too"
"How?" He asked, with a puzzled look on his face.
"My name is Bigface, I am a shaman, healer, teacher, and some muds regard me as a miracle worker. I know everything."
"O.k then. If you know every thing, what's my name?"
"You have no name. You were snatched by the evil Glukkons when you were only young, and from then on, you were ordered around by being beaten by sligs."
He looked at Bigface in astonishment, he was lost for words.
How did I get here?"
"You were found at the bottom of a windmill by this Mudarcher here."
Bigface pointed to the mudokon with the thing on his hand.
"He was on his way to Alf's tea hut when he came across you, you were lying unconscious next to a pile of brew bottles, so he came and got me, we went as fast as we could on our elums, but when we got there you had died, so I brought you back here and I healed you."
The mudokon couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"The last thing I remember, is watching a herd of scrabs run past me, I don't remember no brew."
"Follow me, and I will tell you more." Said Bigface as he turned around and walked out the door. So the Mudokon followed him, with the Mudarcher closing the door behind him.
As the door closed, the mud looked behind him at the wall and there was no sign of the door, just more markings of something, which again he didn't know of.
As they were walking, he noticed that the markings on the wall out here, were of the same in the small cave and on the door he was just in, he still didn't know what that other mudokon is next to the mudarcher, so he stopped and asked Bigface.
"Uuummm, excuse, Bigface, but what are these markings here on the walls?"
"These three are of three powerful forces on Oddworld. This one here is of a Tomahawker, he carries a big club around with him which is made out of old bones, this one is of a Mudarcher, which is a stage up from Tomahawker, and you can see on his right hand is a spooce bow, it can fire across many distance, and the next one is of the Shrykull, Abe turned into this half Mudokon half god creature when he made it through Paramonia and Scrabania because he was the chosen one"
As soon as Bigface told him about the Shrykull, he had another flash back from back in the brewery, he remembered seeing Abe morphing into another creature, then bright flashes coming from him. The flash back stopped. The mud wondered if Bigface saw that flashback to, but he didn't say anything
"You, one day will also be able turn into a Tomahawker and then a Mudarcher when the time is right."
"How will I know when the time is right?" Said the mud.
"You'll find out." Replied Bigface. "But at the moment you haven't even got a name yet."

They carried on walking and entered the outside world. As they were walking Big Face turned to the Mud.
"From now on you shall be known as Ben."
"Ben?" Said the Mudokon.
"Yes." As he said that then, they came up to a mountain with a hill in front of it. It wasn't a big hill, but when you were on top of it you could notice the vast size of the mountain it was in front of. When they all got to the top of the hill there was a well there, the Mudarcher jumped in first.
"Go on Ben you jump in now." Said Bigface.
"Jump in there!" Exclaimed Ben.
"Yes, it is easy, just stand in front of it and jump." So Ben walked up to it, took a deep breath and jumped in.