Exploration: the action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn more about it

A child is wandering through an enchanted forest searching for an ancient wonder.

Lizard riders riding through the desert and patrolling outside their borders to find a cure for their princess queen's sickness.

A group of kids breaking into a junkyard looking for spare parts to help repair their robot friend.

A child is wandering through an enchanted forest in search for an ancient wonder.

What is this ancient wonder?

A stone gate

Why is the child looking for this ancient wonder?

What makes the forest enchanted?

A giant statue that commemorates an event that has long been forgotten.

Growing up, this child's parents filled their heads with legends and myths. They are the only one that believes them and is determined to prove to everyone that these legends were once true.

The child is bored with life in their village and is seeking adventure.

They feel a strong sense of responsibility, almost like a life calling.

Many have gotten lost here.

At night, certain plants and foliage glow, making it seem like the presence of spirits are there.

Everything is so overgrown and the trees are so dense, making it difficult to see and navigate

What does the child encounter on the way here?

How does the child react once they find it?

They are shocked and in disbelief that this thing actually exists.

A swarm of birds

desolate corpses

A sharp and dangerous looking cliff

magical looking waterfall

Giant crystal

A twisted tree with engravings

Large rock

They need to protect it from forces of evil

What resistance does the child face?

Large body of water with spears sticking out

No one in their family believes them and is discouraging them.

There is an evil force that has set out looking for the ancient wonder to manipulate it's mystical properties for evil activities

Tangled by the dense foliage

What does this ancient wonder do?

power generator

grants magical powers to the user

opens the door to another world

lights up

reveals the past and predicts the future

they lose their way

Their morale is low because no one believes them and they are traveling alone

How is the child traveling?

They have taken the family's horse

By boat

On feet

Swinging through the tree vines

Does the child recieve any help?

They are contacted by a group of natives that know the whereabouts of the ancient wonder.

They briefly encounter their foes and have an altercation before narrowly escaping death

immortality

They are assisted by nymph faries

They befriend an unicorn

They befriend the birds that once tried to attack them.

What does this kid do during rest stops?

They are afraid

They pitch up a tent and goes to sleep

lie down against a tree branch and just rests

They cook food by a fire

They tend to their own wounds and sharpen their blades

what provisions has the child taken during this journey?

nothing but the clothes on their backs

a nap sack of the bare essentials: food, weapons, clothes, an important family heirloom

the book of legends that their family often read to them

Who was this kid before they set out on this journey?

Just a regular child

They lived in a fishing village; their family was poor

They have to cross this dangerous bridge

Their day to day life is very monotonous; there aren't that many travelers coming in or out

They are just an extremely curious person.

How did the child convince their parents to go on with this?

They escaped in the middle of the night.

Their parents are the only people that believe and understand the child.

A group of kids break into a junkyard looking for spare parts to repair their robot friend.


How do these kids break inside?

Who is this robot friend?

Where is this junkyard at?

What specific parts are these kids looking for?

Who are these kids?

Why do these kids wants to help out their robot friend so much?

They hop over the fence when no one is looking.

they cut the fence open with a special tool.

Why do we want to explore?

people are just naturally curios about things

out of survivial

What is this kid's family like?

they are generally supportive of their kids

they encourage their kids to think for themselves

This is a big family, both parents, with multiple siblings.

Swimming

Aircraft

How does the kid plan out their journey?

They researched everything and plotted out the route on their map.

How do kids explore?

They wander about with no direction

They observe and look at everything

they walk slowly

they go into every nook and cranny

they touch and smell everything around them

they store things inside their pockets for safekeeping

They go outside of a path

to question whether things are true

they start having arguments

The kid has entered inside and is now holding onto a torch to find a way inside

What is this village like?

Vietnam fish town inspired

Tame birds and ride them

What does this stone gate do?

Once you touch it, it opens a door to another dimension

It oozes a special medicine that can heal any kind of disease

They go up and touch it

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The explorer's sister is sick and there is a legend that a soup made from a certain stone is able to heal all illnesses. The explorer goes on the journey to search for the stone. On his way there, he helps many different people and is rewarded with special ingredients that he can put in his soup. In the end, the stone doesn't really do anything, but what does heals his sister are the additional ingredients he gets from helping other people.

Who does he help along the way?

How does the sister respond to drinking the soup?

How is the soup cooked?

What are some of the special ingredients he obtains?

Where does the explorer get this recipe from?

From the village elders

Family botanical book

book from the village library

orally passed down from generations

slow cooked in a massive kettle

dragon's toenail

Special miso paste

wheatgrass powder

flower

exotic dragonfruit

the soup is so disguising that she throws up and looks like she died before ultimately getting better

What kind of illness does the sister have?

bedridden with fever dreams

How did the sister get sick?

fever sweat

constantly tired and have to sleep

drinking polluted water

being in contact with a traveling villager

susposedly incurable

special virus going around that only affects those with a weak immune system

soy sauce or oyster sauce that is in a fancy bottle

poison

allergies

a group of warrior monkeys

What is the monkeys problems?

There are two groups of monkeys-old world and new world. They have been separated due to an earthquake and have developed different lifestyles. However they were able to remain in contact through a bridge, but that bridge has now been destroyed. The new world monkeys are running out of people to mate with and need to reconnect with the traditional ways of the old world. The explorer must help them rebuild the bridge and connect these two groups together.

gnomes dealing with turf warfare

a lonely spirit trapped inside a android body

mountain yam

burdock root

ginseng

what's her problem?

elaborate process that requires complicated machinery and a large fire. It also takes several days to make.

she is blind

she has lost her memories

She is cursed and wants to free herself from the android body

she is lonely

why is there turf warfare going on?

because the family is poor, she tried to scavenge ingredients, but she choose something bad and is now sick

How can she lift the curse?

She is able to regain her memories is she is able to go to the center of the river and stare at her reflection in the full moon. The problem is that her android body is deteriorating and she is about to die soon. She is also blind and cannot see. The explorer has to get her some eyes and build some sort of contraption that will allow her to go to the middle of river without getting wet. When the spirit is free, she will give him a narcissist flower for his soup.

Why is she cursed?

for helping out humans

she is cursed by a jinn because of unrequited love

A fishing village is tormented by a angry fish

dried/preserved bugs

Why is the fish angry?

Because the waters are being polluted

How does the explorer bring peace here?

The fish is injured

He helps the other villagers make a special ointment that heals the fish

He creates a special filtration system that cleans the water

There is a piece of plastic longed inside it

He goes underwater and removes the object that is bringing pain to the fish

How does the explorer help rebuild this bridge?

What is the explorer's first reaction to the monkeys?

How do they celebrate?

One of the princess from one affiliation has escaped because she feels lonely. One faction has blamed that the other has kidnapped the princess and war has broke out. A group of gnomes that know that the princess escaped is out searching for her and to bring her back to prevent war. The explorer has to help this group of gnomes find her.

Where does the explorer find the gnome princess?

sitting by herself in a mushroom forest and reading a book

How does he convince her to come back home?

What reward/ingredient do the gnomes give him?

He talks her back because he has a younger sister and understands how lonely it can get. He convinces her that her kingdom needs and truly loves her. The gnome exploration group almost gets killed trying to rescue her. She is moved by this and agrees to go back home.

The princess will agree to go back if the explorer obtains a lock of hair from a magical unicorn that is around the forest.

How does the group of people find the gnome princess?

They were able to track the princess' footsteps

The princess wears a special jewel necklace that actually serves as this magical mirror. The gnome group is able to locate her general whereabouts by looking at the mirror.

the gnome group finds loose strands of hair in the general direction of the forest.

He comforts a dying boar

Why is the boar dying?

How does he comfort the boar?

He helps a lonely giant get back together with his wife

He is wounded with multiple arrows.

The village nearby is undergoing famine and the boar was hunted for food. It managed to fend itself, but alas is severely wounded and just wants peace in its passing.

The explorer sings a song.

The boar asks the explorer to share a story. The explorer agrees and tells a really long allegory, which is really a long recount of his journeys thus far.

How does the boar react?

The boar thanks the explorer and offers him it tusk as a healing ingredient for his stone soup

How did this bridge get destroyed in the first place?

There is this nationalist/purist group of monkeys that burned the bridge down.

Why did they burned it down?

They throw a large fiesta, pow wow type of situation

Have a giant meal by the table

curious that monkeys can exist like this

They believe that the new world monkeys are superior. They believe that the mixing of the two worlds would lead to weaker offspring and they do not want mixed blood.

How do they react to the explorer coming in and trying to fix things?

They have complete distrust against outsiders. This group might appear friendly and helpful at first, but they will ultimately betray the explorer and the other monkeys by cutting down the new bridge right when there will be a union between the two groups

When the explorer finally discovers that these monkeys plan to sabotage the bridge, these purist monkeys will kidnap and lock up the explorer. The explorer will find a way to escape and save the day by revealing the monkey's plans to everyone and provide evidence on the day of the new bridge.

The monkey initially do not trust him

Why does the explorer even want to help the monkeys anyway?

He misses his family and this group remind him of them

He physically needs to cross to the other side to continue the journey

A part of the stone legend is that one will need the help of monkeys in order to find it

How does the explorer gain the trust of the new world monkeys?

The explorer proves his pure intentions and selflessness by risking his life to save one of the baby monkeys

How does the explorer save the baby monkey?

He helps one of the babies up from falling a cliff

He protects the monkeys from a group of violent crocodiles

The children in the monkey tribe get along well with the explorer

How do they get along?

the baby monkeys show the explorer around the forest, and they swing around together

The explorer accepts the strange bug/vegetarian diet of the monkeys

The monkeys do that thing where they gently touches the explorer's nose like this is the first time they've encountered humans

Why don't the monkeys initially do not trust the explorer?

One of the wiser counselor monkeys says that the explorer's appearance is part of the stone legend, and that he will eventually save them from great danger.

The fact that the explorer knows the stone legend is impactful because for the longest time, these monkey's ancestors were once guardians of the stone.

They've once been tricked and had their homes pillaged by humans. However in actuality, that event was orchestrated by that supremacist monkey group so that their whole tribe would be distrustful against outsiders.

He helps the group of monkeys gather all necessary supplies

What type of supplies does he need?

rope spun from the silk of a spider

the hair of a unicorn to strengthen the rope

wood from a milenmium old tree

He also gives a nice monologue about acceptance, blah blah blah that really touches the group of monkeys

During the explorer's search for a legendary stone, he comes across a group of warrior monkeys and helps them in rebuilding a bridge.

Why does the explorer help rebuild the bridge?

How do these two groups first interact with one another?

Who are these warrior monkeys?

Why does the bridge need to be rebuilt?

How does the explorer look like?

Where do they meet at?

What time of day is it?

How does these warrior monkey's look like?

How does the home of these warrior monkeys look like?

The monkeys distrust the explorer and are intially hostile.

The baby monkeys are curious about humans and gently touch the explorer's nose.

The baby monkeys really take on with the explorer and show him around by swinging through the vines.

night time with cool, green lights

Daytime with warm orange/yellow light flowing in

He thinks that these group of monkey might know something about the legendary stone.

He needs to cross the bridge in order to continue his quest.

How does he help the warrior monkeys rebuild the bridge?

He helps them collect the necessary materials needed.

What types of materials?

Hair from a magical unicorn that only appears at night during a full moon.

They live high up on the trees in bungalows twisted within the tree vines

Amazon Rainforest

New world monkeys, but they wear medieval European armor

They are wearing medieval East Asian armor.

It was destroyed by another group of monkeys that wish to permanently separate the new world monkeys from the old world monkeys.

cute 13 year old boy

A grown ass man

They are a part of the new world monkeys-a group separate from the old world monkeys.

The new world monkeys are running out of resources and want to reconnect back with the holistic methods of the old world monkeys.

night with blue moonlight coming in

red lights to show the danger, hostility, and distrust from the warrior monkeys

He physically helps build the bridge together

What does this bridge look like?

Bridge suspended mid air and is held together by vines and wood.

wears a cloak

wears a hat to cover his face

hiking boots

large backpack

carries the toenail of a dragon as his weapon

In the impasse where the bridge was supposed to be.

In the middle of the road

High up in the trees because the explorer was caught spying the monkeys

What are some of the characteristics of the new world monkeys?

5 primate familities:Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae

consist of almost exclusively arboreal (tree-dwelling) species like marmosets, tamarins, capuchins, and spider monkeys

What are some characteristics of old world monkeys?

macaques, baboons, and vervet monkeys

These monkeys spend much more of their time on the ground, but can be found in habitats ranging from the rainforest to the savannah to the mountains

possess prehensile tails, meaning they can use their tails to grasp or hold on to objects (2). Their tails can aid these monkeys in finding and eating food in the canopy as well as moving amongst the trees, as their tails provide extra support and balance

butt pads/callouses to help with sitting since they're mainly on the ground.

New World monkeys often have claws on all of their digits with the exception of the big toes of marmosets and tamarins

Old World monkeys have fingernails and toenails

New World monkeys are also flat-nosed (platyrrhine) with nostrils further apart

Old World monkeys have nostrils closer together and a nose which faces down (catarrhine) (2).

In New World monkeys, it is common for the males to be involved in infant care

New World babies will more commonly ride on their mothers’ backs

mainly females care for young

New World monkeys generally rely much more on fruit

Old World monkeys which instead focus more on leaves and grasses

near a waterfall