Purple Forest Adventure 1

Last night, I crossed the wispy white bridge into the purple forest. I'd probably been there about a bajillion times, but something felt weird about this time. For the first time ever, I actually looked back to where I crossed the bridge from, and caught a glimpse of a crack in the air which showed a glimmer of my bedroom in the RL. I winced as the portal closed with a brilliant flash and all that was before me was the back forty acres of the red grotto. I turned and headed to my destination, the Green mushroom where Rich was no doubt waiting for me.

On my way, another fantastic specimen caught my eye. Now, if you know anything about the PF, you know that to get to the Green Mushroom, you walk strait until you reach the Blue Frosted Owl's tree fort, then take a left, swing over the musky pink river on the conveniently placed rope (courtesy of Dante Slavotski, a Canadian who used to frequent the PF), crawl under the big Ghoul bush (the BIG one, you would know what I meant if you saw it), take a right at the Orange Boulder, cross the green bridge and there you are, easy peasy. But this time, the Orange Boulder had... shifted.

Now, unless you somehow got the Lavender to help you (the purple Totoro, who is very stubborn and only wakes up from his nap once every two years...), then there is obviously no way any human from the RL could possibly move this boulder, its as big as a house, a small mountain if you please. Somehow it had. I decided to examine this, got close enough, and jumped as it moved, ever so slowly, but a movement none-the-less. I hid behind a teal vine tree and watched it for a little longer.

10 minutes passed and I saw it shift 5 times, not very much, but it did shift. I got up the courage to walk around and examine it a little closer and upon arriving on the other side, I found its head. Yes, I know what you are thinking "Boulders don't have heads" thats what one living in the RL would say, but in the PF, this did not much surprise me (no more than the first time I saw a maroon shadow ghoul).

I kneeled down to examine the head and realized that this was no boulder. This big orange house that I had walked passed so many times and saw it as nothing but a checkpoint was none other than the biggest Millitoad I had ever seen.

There are always great surprises in the PF, even when you think there is nothing more to be seen. But I ended up having a conversation with the Millitoad (turns out, his name is Reto-to) and I ended up helping him with some stuff which was causing his shifting (cleaning a few of his million feet) which is why I was so late... Sorry Rich :/