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"Accessing GG.Log:\n\nWell, here we are again. I'm sending the drones out to all their original scouting locations. Once I confirm the conditions are the same I'll get to work. \n\nThis place... I still remember being in awe of these rainbow fields. It felt like being in a beautiful dream.\n\nAnd I guess in a way it was, because it ended much too soon."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\nI had the drones rebuild the conservatory exactly as it was before. I was so happy to see it standing there again, its glass filtering the beautiful daylight of this magical place.\n\nWhen it was done, for a moment I almost thought things were back to normal. I thought maybe I would just walk inside and start again like nothing had happened.\n\nAnd though I know that's not the case, it was still so nice to finally be home again."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nOh mushrooms, my first love. I still remember the day mom told me that they aren't actually plants, I couldn't believe it.\n\nAfter I got that field guide, I would always sneak into the forest with grandma's old suitcase and collect as many as I could. When she found out, mom was so upset. But I think she was more upset about grandma's suitcase than anything else. I didn't know it was special to her."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nI sometimes used to bring my lunch here and stare at these colossal fossils, wondering what this world looked like when they were alive. It's a world of slimes now but who knows what it was before?\n\nAnd if the universe has room for a whole world and its ecosystem changing course, maybe we should accept the same of each other?\n\nJeez, talking about the past sure resonates these days. I wonder what profound thoughts I had to share back then?"
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nI used to be afraid of the water. It felt like it was endless and would just swallow you up. I was only ever willing to dip my feet in the shallows, where I could see the bottom, see the extent of it.\n\nAnd now... what would you even call what I plunged into? Water so deep, so endless that I may never see the surface again.\n\nI'm feeling sorry for myself again. I should get back to work."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nI had been pacing all over the conservatory after it happened, my mind racing with what I should have done differently. I felt so guilty, so misguided. I ended up in these ruins, and I just slumped up against one of the walls, totally exhausted.\n\nThe stones were so solid and cold, and I felt the weight of the history they carried with them. And then a tiny bug crawling along one of the cracks in the wall slipped inside it and vanished. It passed through these ancient stones as if they were smoke.\n\nThat's when it all came to me."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\nThese tidepools remind me of when I would go to the beach with mom and dad. I never wanted to swim, I was too scared to do it. Instead I would wade in a tidepool and read this old book my mom had about a legendary explorer. They were a slime rancher who trekked across the entire Far, Far Range, making discoveries that would go on to make history.\n\nI used to dream about being someone like that. Being fearless and just diving into new adventures. I guess this is my chance."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nI was so in over my head when I first started here. I remember hauling jellystone back to the conservatory by hand because I was so excited. Breathless and sweating, I was going about everything all wrong, but I was happy.\n\nThere's little time now, so I'll need these refinery links if I'm going to be efficient.\n\nThis time I'm going to do it right."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nThe prisma waves seem to affect each area of the island differently, expressing a full spectrum of color in some places, but alternating between or splitting the spectrum in others.\n\nAnd they actively change. Sometimes quickly and constantly, others more slowly. In my first year here every season looked different to me. It was lovely while it lasted."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\nThe giant mushrooms on this island are responsible for maybe the greatest mycological discovery of my life.\n\nSorry, but it's a secret."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nEver since I came back, things have been a little fuzzy, like some of my memories stayed behind.\n\nSo I come here now to clear my head. I just let the sound of the falling water drown everything out and then in that white noise I can sometimes think clearly again.\n\nBut then all I see is it happening again, so I take a few breaths, steady myself, and get back to work."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nI grew attached to this tree when I first discovered it. I used to sit here and tell it all about myself. But these days it's different. I see myself in it now: two different paths struggling against the other, bound to this island, and changed by it.\n\nBut unlike this tree, I hope to leave the island some day. I want to find a way home. I really do."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nThe breach is so much smaller now. It fills me with hope. I remember when I first found it I just walked right in to the labyrinth and began exploring its endless, grey halls, not even understanding what was really happening.\n\nBut it's not so easy this time. Whatever I do, I need to shut the door tight behind me. I can't let it all happen again after coming this far. "
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nI know I'm on a mission here, but that hasn't changed anything about these geysers: they're still fun as heck.\n\nI think I can afford a few minutes for a splash like the old days..."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nUgh, I forgot my fork. Looks like it's hand noodles again..."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nThe first time I was here I turned this entire ruined complex into a beautiful garden. I'd never know the original purpose of this place, but I thought its creators might be happy knowing that far into the future someone was making sure it still had purpose.\n\nThere's no time for that now, but I am going to at least plant some of my favorite flowers right here and hope that in time they'll flourish and cover these ruins once more.\n\nMaybe if I ever make it back home I can see it myself."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nOh good, I was looking for a place to store all my giant mushrooms anyway.\n...\n... ...\nI bet dad would have laughed at that one."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nWhen I left the ranch, when I left my home, I thought that somehow I would prove myself. That I would prove to my parents that my choice was the right one and they would forgive me for not continuing their legacy.\n\nBut that's not how it worked out. And before I started my journey I heard that they had sold the ranch, and... and I just couldn't face them. So I left again without seeing them.\n\nI regret that choice every day. I wish I could have said goodbye."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nI got the idea for this conservatory from a history book I had as a kid. I thought it was so lovely, the way that you could be inside it but feel like you were in the world outside at the same time.\n\nI wish I had something like this back home. Maybe then I wouldn't always have had to run off to look for plants and mushrooms. Maybe I would have been closer to them..."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nI feel at home here. When I traveled across the Glass Desert it was caves just like this one that gave me shelter and allowed me to survive my trek. Just feeling walls around me and solid ground beneath my feet gave me all the security I needed to close my eyes and make it through another night.\n\nBut I can do without some of it. Like if I ever even smell roasted cactus again I'm pretty sure I'd barf."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nI never managed to conclude if the prisma waves caused all this lava to erupt to the surface but I believe it did. The rainbow grass and iridescent rocks; all lovely to see and the ecosystem seems to co-exist with it to some degree, but this lava, this is the breaking point.\n\nMy guess is it started like it always does: it creeps up a few degrees over the years and you hardly notice and then one day you realize you're cooking.\n\nUgh, I wish I had a dog to pet right now."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nI just found my first slime fossil on the island. It looks like such a happy little thing. You know, we still have no idea how these are formed? We can travel across the stars in the blink of an eye but we don't know how this goofy face ends up in a rock?\n\nI think that's quite reassuring really. I'm glad this world still has its mysteries to share."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\nThis gate is still sealed too, so I really must have been the first to enter since it was abandoned.\n\nIt was here that I had my first doubts. I thought I was talking to engineers: problem solvers, people who could fix what I found. But once we left the labyrinth and met up here I saw they were smiling. They were excited at the sight of opportunity. The company had sent their money people, not engineers. I don't think they had even considered stabilization.\n\nIt wasn't long before it all collapsed."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\nMy gosh, this grass! Just look at the colors change as I speak! I just arrived at this island and I'm already finding one of the most unique botanical discoveries in recent memory?\n\nIt's all too good to be true!"
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\n\nI used to start my mornings with a jog along this path. It felt so great to feel the sea breeze as I'd make my way to the hollow trees ahead.\n\nSometimes I would even come back at the end of my day and watch the sun set.\n\nBut I also think this is where I got robbed by a ringtail slime..."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nHistory is a funny thing. When you're young you're told how important it is, how it's the greatest teacher. But then you see the people out there with power, the ones making history, and they ignore the past.\n\nI suppose I'm no different. In a way I'm out here trying to escape my family's history.\n\nI'm sorry mom and dad. I'm sorry grandma. But I really want this."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\nWhat a fascinating place! I've never seen flora split in two different chromatic variations like this before. On one side, beautiful, shimmering oranges and golds, and on the other, deep, verdant greens. It's extraordinary!"
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nI am a GENIUS. I've made so many great discoveries on this island but this latest one changes everything.\n\nI found a giant mushroom cap here about the size of a pizza, turned it UPSIDE DOWN, added sauce, cheese, peppers and some other mushrooms, baked it and voila!\n\nI'm going to call it Mega Mushroom Pizza and I'm going to eat it every day."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nI love this spot because it lets you take in so much of the island. The sounds of slimes hopping about, the birds chirping, the wind as it moves through the trees, and the waves of the sea all come together like a song.\n\nThere is music in nature if we only just sit and listen. And I have a whole lifetime on this island to do just that."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\r\n\r\nTrees like this one can live for thousands of years. I used to think that compared to us, they must perceive time very slowly, but then I realized that was because I was putting people at the center of time.\n\nIn reality, trees have been here long before us so their perception of time is closer to truth. We are here for just a moment before moving on, and the trees remain. \n\nI wonder who else this tree will meet? I wonder if it will tell them about me?"
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nI'm feeling good today! I think I'm finally getting a handle on things here and I'm at my favorite spot ready to watch the sun set with a bunch of yummy cookies I baked all... by... myself. And you know what? I've earned them because I've been working so, so hard and wait a sec what is up with this statue that-\n\nYOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nI thought I wasn't going to find a way into this place but there's a huge hole in the wall on this end big enough for an elephant to pass through! I think it's time I finally did some exploring inside this structure.\n\nThis feels just like when I was a kid and I'd sneak into the woods. It'll be just me and my discoveries. I feel very good. And excited!"
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nYAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Accessing GG.Archive:\r\n\r\nHey, you, wherever you are out there! This message is for whoever built this place:\n\nI don't know why you built it, or what happened to you, but I just want to let you know that I'm going to plant some stuff here to make it look nicer. \n\nI know I'm new here, so I don't mean to overstep, but if I do this, maybe some bees will stop by and this place will become an important part of the ecosystem. I hope that's ok with you."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nI think I've mostly tried to not think about leaving home. This island has so much to distract me, so much of it that's mine to study... but then I look out to the sea and see the sun rise and I know that they're seeing the sun rise like that too, and all of the sudden they're here with me.\n\nI hope they're ok. And I hope that some day they'll say they're proud of me."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nCaves like this have always kind of creeped me out. The stone walls and the darkness, they made me feel trapped. I was always more at home being outdoors, with the sky or at least a tree canopy above my head and the soil beneath my feet.\n\nI suppose those feelings are the same ones that brought me here in the first place."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nI think I need to just sit here for a minute or three to catch my breath and collect myself.\n\nI was careless, too busy marveling at the tropical foliage here and a geyser shot me into the air, almost dropping me right into a pit of lava!\n\nI sometimes worry I took on too much here... that I'm not ready to be on my own."
"Accessing GG.Archive:\n\n\nAnd here we are, back at Ember Valley? The labyrinth must wrap around most of the island!\n\nJeez, how long was I even in there? Next time I'm definitely bringing lunch. And an extra fork.\n\nIn any case, I need to rest up and head right back in there. This is starting to feel like a truly amazing scientific and historical discovery. I need to make some calls!"
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\nWhat an amazing discovery! This glacier wasn't even here when I first came to the island. I'm not sure how that's possible so I'm sending out additional drones to collect more data.\n\nIn the mean time, I am going to see if this 'snow' is as fun as the stories I read as a kid..."
"Accessing GG.Log:\r\n\r\nI can hardly believe it... saber slimes? Everyone knows they've been extinct since some time after the Jellasic Period. Could this glacier somehow have contained them and this world like a time capsule? Perhaps it was frozen at the bottom of the Slime Sea and the seismic activity from Ember Valley shook it loose. \n\nI need to keep exploring."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\nThese auroral effects here, the ghostly trees, and surfaces that materialize at night, are similar to the phenomena inside the Labyrinth. And that shouldn't be possible given the current state of the breach. I am begining to suspect that the ice shell that remains surrounding this glacier is amplifying the prisma waves, like creating an echo chamber where the effects in the environment are more concentrated."
"Accessing GG.Log:\n\nWhile waiting for the drones to finish collecting their data I built a snowman. I had seen them before in books, and since I had an extra carrot, I figured it was worth a shot.\n\nI am no sculptor, and I immediately took pity on my snowman. I was glad he couldn't talk.\n\nBut then as the hours passed, he looked even worse. It was midday and the sun's rays were warming my cheeks. And then I realized why this place wasn't here before."