the big place

[grigori]

the big place where giants rest

The Big Place lives up to its name without a shadow of a doubt with how even the most humble of plants towering well above any normal human standing around 3 to 4 meters ( or 9 to 13 ft ) from the ground to the very top of its leaves. The tree themselves? They're well over 60 meters ( 200 ft ) high with thick branches that stretch out into the sky to soak up as much sun as they can. With the monumental size of everything, it might be hard to grasp the size of whatever lifeforms exist in this world. What do they look like? How much do they differ from what someone might come to recognize?

Well, thankfully there won't be too much time to ponder that as they'll make themselves known given how they're typically underfoot for most in the first place. Insects and “small” invertebrates no longer the humble sizes that may be commonplace for most, and now are such a size where a fully grown adult may consider riding as a “steed” or use as a method of transportation. How would anyone go about doing that? Well, that's a question for them to figure out. Obviously, this means that vertebrates must be even larger. Now.... Just how big did they get to?

1. TREES - Forests are already daunting for those who lack wilderness experience but on this magnitude, it will surely be a test to anyone's skill to be able to deal with a single tree with how tall it will stand nevertheless how wide it spreads. In some ways, though, perhaps it would be easier to deal with a simple, singular tree than a whole forest as the grooves from the bark do make for excellent places to slip one's foot into and grab a hold of when climbing. ...if you choose to climb.

Just be prepared for what you end up embarking on and don't go beyond your limits. It is quite the fall down below if you were to lose your footing. ( But no dying off schedule for anyone. ) Fortunately, at the same time, there will be holes in some of these grand trees that might be a good place to rest for a little while. With a bedding of leaves and feathery down, why would anyone turn it down, right? Well, most likely because of that reason. No one likes a homewrecker and the creature that calls it home will not be too pleased.

Those who are less arboreal, at the base of one of the trees will be hollowed out providing for the prefect site for someone to consider as shelter. Now, it doesn't strictly appear to be unnatural but it doesn't look like it could be entirely natural as well. Especially considering how there are the faintest traces of artifacts that resemble tools. Dull and in poor condition as they are, though, if they were. ( 1, 2, 3 )

Now, while there are, obviously, plenty of trees in a forest that are all unique in their own ways, there is one particular tree with a particular knot that might stand out of the rest with how centralized it seems within the forest. Curiously, there will be some sort of force that may draw someone towards the knot. Yet, at the same time, there is no clear way how anyone could get up to the knot as the tree bark is as smooth as paper with no obvious way to scale it by normal means. Let the mods know if you want to try to enter the knot. ( 1 )

2. STREAM - Normally things that people can cross without any kind of problem has become something more akin to a deep river with the change of perspective. It's no babbling brook, but it does have enough of a current that those of ill-fitting size should be wary of getting to be too careless about their time in the water. Fortunately, it's a stream filled with life with fish hiding under rocks along with other smaller crustaceans . Unfortunately is that these fish and crustaceans are the size of giants compared to the average adult human. Fortunately, again, is that they don't appear to be hostile and will leave people alone if unprovoked. Nothing is promised to those who decide to do otherwise. ( 1, 2, 3 )

Now, those glass bottles that were seen around Cittàgazze can be found here—except, well, they aren't exactly “little bottles” anymore and instead look as though they could be big enough to hide in. Instead of picking them up, perhaps you want to call one shelter for a while? I don't know your life. As for the others—how are you supposed to go about tossing it back into the stream? What a good question to ask.

3. "RUINS" - Follow the stream far enough down and it will lead to something that seems completely out of place given the scale of everything else. What it is exactly will be a bit unclear as there isn't much that remains of it. Decaying and broken pieces of bark positioned in such a way that would to imply that it might have been part of a structure but it's nothing more than a suggestion. There are cracked remains of seed caps that seemed to hint at of another use with how they can be found stacked on one another. If there's anything that could be of use, then it's in a terrible state of disrepair and would require effort to get back into working order. And while there's nothing here to explain what remains, it certainly seems like something smaller did once inhabit the land of giants. ( 1 )

4. STONES(?) - Further down the stream to where it appears to feed into a larger body of water will be a sudden clearing along the stream bead. While there's nothing close to the stream itself, further in and perhaps in the center to the clearing is exists a ring of stones that surround a mound of ash that is thinnest towards the rim of the rocks and the most dense towards the center. Each stone itself is about 2 meters ( 6.5 ft ) tall with some variation as one could expect from stones and there is very little gaping between each individual rock. What does any of this mean? Who knows. Normally when there's ash, it means that there's fire, but it doesn't seem like anything was burned here for quite some time. I wouldn't recommend digging through the ash but you might get something akin to charcoal for your troubles, though. ( 1, 2 )

5. MUSHROOMS - Continuing down the stream and past the stones will lead to the “trail” to become rougher with the foliage becoming denser and more wild. Eventually it will become impossible to traverse with a fallen tree providing for barrier. Or, that's how things would appear to be mushrooms that have grown in such a way that someone might come up with the idea of using them as ledges to jump on and make use of to scale the rotting tree. Doing so, however, will land the bold into a different kind of forest—a forest of mushrooms. For those who want to explore at night might find themselves encountering bioluminescence mushrooms preventing them from getting completely lost. Please let the mods know how far you'll explore the forest of mushrooms. ( 1, 2, 3 )

6. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ - ...to love very overwhelmingly...to die...grief...the hearts...they felt every pain and they never healed.

6. "REMAINS"? - Far beyond the forest of mushrooms the ground will suddenly give away and with a depression in the ground stretching as far as the eye can see. Except, well, there is something in the way of that clear line of sight. Sunken in into the ground like a canyon and stretching for hundreds for meters, at least, are the bony remains of something. What it is will be hard to tell from the ground itself as the ground has sunken in to reveal a canyon of overgrown plants, mushrooms with only the hint of what it could be. A bony hand reaching to the sky. The gaze of the skull looking towards something unknown. While its possible to descend into the canyon itself, be careful of where you step. ( 1 )

Late night, after the sun has set and the moon takes its place, the forest whispers its secrets to those who would listen if only they could be understood. You'd think in a land seemingly made for giants their voices would be louder but it's far from it. The chirps from crickets, croaks from frogs, the scratching from animals that consider the night their playing ground... Words lost. Secrets drowned.

 

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