RULES

☆ One journal entry for each stop we make. You can play catch up, but no writing in advance!
☆ Write no more than 800 words for each entry. Count them using this online word count tool or any other you have available.*
☆ ALL the requirements must be fulfilled in their respective entries. Failure to do so would void the entry.
☆ You are not allowed to edit your entry! So make sure you are 100% happy with it before posting.
☆ Again, remember to keep everything PG-13!
☆ There is no specific method required on how to write your entry. It could be in formal log format, diary, letters to yourself or someone, third person, it's all up to you!

Important things to note!

Remember the information about Menewsha Mr. Mayor helpfully posted in the Storyville contest? Well, they apply here too! I've brought over the information to display here for your ease.

☆ Information about train stops ☆

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Useful Island Information

Here are a few points that you need to remember:

✤ Menewsha has no modern vehicles or power sources.
Energy is generated by magic (for those who can) or steam.

✤ Menewsha is a mountainous island formed by volcanic activity.
The mountains cover the island's center and some of them are still active. A spur of this range reaches out towards the western coast, a flooded valley here provides paddy fields to grow Menewsha's red rice and raise golden carp, both highly sought-after export items.

✤ Dragons live among the tallest peaks in the center of the island.
The temperate climate prevents them from growing to enormous size, but they can easily fly off with a cow, or a human...but there have been no reports of humans being attacked thus far.

✤ Menewsha is approximately 50 miles at its widest, by 40 high.
If you imagine an oatmeal cookie that's spread into a rough and uneven shape as it baked, then someone took a big bite out of the righthand side of it, that's kind of like the shape of the island. With Menewsha town in the center point of the coast of the large bay created by the bite.

✤ The land to the north is riddled with caves and prone to sinkholes and landslides.
There's an underground river who's course is often altered by this.

✤ The flatter lands towards the coasts are farmed; the small Menewshan Black cow is popular but watch out for the bulls, they're feisty! Pockets of woodland abound, though forests tend to be avoided as no-one really knows what might be in them.

✤ The railway used to serve all towns and larger villages around the coast but it didn't cross the mountains, neither do the roads. Thanks to the new engine, the Spirit of Calesco, now they do!

✤ The coastline is tall cliffs on the northern side, breaking up into multiple bays and headlands on the east and west coasts as the land sinks, shelving to small beaches and tidal wetlands in the south.

✤ Smugglers have used secluded bays as rendezvous points for centuries, and dug tunnels up through the cliffs, often breaking through into the natural cave system.

✤ There are numerous small holdings and isolated dwellings scattered around inner areas of the island, before the ground becomes too steep.

Writing Requirements

☆ Firstly, grab your journal and name it here in the Travel Journals sub-forum!
☆ This post would be updated with new requirements whenever reach our next destination.
☆ There is no set time for when the requirements would be updated.
☆ Write your logs for each stop in your travel journals. Make sure to include all the needed requirements!
☆ Remember the 800 words limit!
☆ There is no specific method required on how to write your entry. It could be in formal log format, diary, letters to yourself or someone, third person, it's all up to you!

So I don't miss out on any of the required words in your entry, please underline them with the [U][/U] tags!

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Stop 0:
The Menewsha Central Station

Words: Star, frolic, tissue, cast, mild, watch.
Tasks: Describe the Menewsha Central Station and the Spirit of Calesco. Lose your way.

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Stop 1:
Garland

Words: Bride, grave, dice, poinsettia, bark, exhilarate.
Tasks: Solve a riddle. Tie a knot. Receive a surprise. Tear something.

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Stop 2:
Reinsend

Words: - Trot, rake, pencil, cards, volcano, glue
Tasks: - Beware of encounter "invisible cows", bake something, take a picture of small animal, stampeded by reindeer.

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Stop 3:
Icy Peaks

Words: - Crunch, banal, sculpture, solatium, moldy, haywire
Tasks: - Scolded by a NPC, use of duct tape, spot a dragon, take a hike

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Stop 4:
Saint's Pole

Words: - Irascible, Lachrymose, Incorrigible, Whistle, Jelly, Calculator
Tasks: - Make a Toy, hit a jackpot, find and put on a hat, twist your ankle, tell a story

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Stop 5:
Rochelle Harbor

Words: - Length, Inundate, Hive, Acerbic, Finale, Ameliorate.
Tasks: - Infected by a disease, jump off an edge, get a body modification, consume fancy beverage.

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