Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Bobo's Bizarre Adventure

First attempt at Virtual Villagers: Origins

A struggling village on a island lost at sea . . . . 

This is the world that Bobo knows. Bobo, a third generation of the original island settlers was conceived at a troubling time for the village; although, being but a child, he wasn't conscious to the anxious, harried complexions of the adults. Never in his young life had he known a full stomach, and so this became his reality. 

It was when Bobo had reached his tenth year that the villagers started disappearing. Long stretches of famine occurred more and more frequently and the village adults spent more and more of their time pacing back and forth with their heads in their hands and the only source of food they could hope for was an occasional mushroom. They called this time the Era of Starvation. Despite the hardships and the loss of this time, the villagers were able to find some solace in the peaceful garden that they cultivated and the miraculous lake that they uncovered. A cemetery was erected to house the sprawled skeletons that had begun to appear in the town center.  

Before long the Era of Starvation came to an end, leaving the village half as full as it was before and with survivors who were severely weakened. It was during this time that Bobo became a man. It was a mad race to research another food source, a race against time that became harder and harder as their bodies became increasingly fatigued, but nonetheless, this rush gave them hope. It was then that they came. The barrel of babies. 

The barrel of babies brought doom upon the tribe. They robbed the survivors of food and pushed everyone over the brink of starvation and their path left only hallowed skeletons in their wake. And then one day, it was just Bobo and two members of the barrel of babies. One baby died before he could mature and the other did not last long past 14. And with them gone, it was just Bobo. Just Bobo. 

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