Jul 28, 12:13 AM
I thought I’d write out the gist of the story for anyone who is interested. Enjoy!
JunkForest Story:
Sam is a 9-year-old boy who lives alone with his abusive, alcoholic father in a small country home near a vast, sprawling forest. One night Sam sneaks outside into the backyard to avoid another fight with his dad. He is usually able to day-dream alone out in the yard, but tonite hes too tired and weary of his dad’s insults to do more than prop his head up on the fence and stare blankly into the woods.
Sam’s dad works at the area factory, which is run by a mysterious corporation called Natrocorp. It is a bland, dull metal factory on the other side of the forest from Sam’s house. They create “Nature 2.0” (their own term) by recycling unused scraps and junk- and processing/smashing it all into small beige cubes. Then, by draining the life-juices out of the nearby trees and funneling it down into the factory, they can inject it into the beige building blocks and “grow” and process new types of synthetic plants. New, exciting colors nature cannot produce! Perfect for brightening up that dull office hallway! They hardly need any watering! etc. (So reads their marketing attempts…)
Underneath Sam’s feet, deep in the earth, lives a small community of fireflies- who are stirring now that dusk has fallen. They kiss their significant others goodbye and begin their journey through the layers of dirt and tree-roots to the open sky above. They emerge and soar in a large glowing group high in the sky, and Sam gets swept up into following them deep into the woods, which grows darker and more shriveled and frightening at each turn and twist of the fireflies’ flight!
Sam eventually slips and falls down a deep ravine and crashes headlong into a giant pile of junk. His last blurry vision is of floating junk spinning around him, glowing the same yellow-green as the tails of the fireflies. Then it all goes black…
When Sam comes to- the forest is all aglow with activity and sputtering junk-machinery. He meets the gruff but cowardly, self-proclaimed caretaker of the forest – a small Mechanic-bot pieced together from odd tubing, scrap-metal and junk. Suddenly a loud, deep siren bellows from the factory across the woods and its insatiable hunt for fresh junk begins! Sam and the Mechbot have to work together before they accidentally get sucked into the strange nature-skewing machinery of the Natrocorp factory!
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Junk Forest looks really awexome right now and it’s obvious you’re putting an incredible amount of work into it. I can’t wait to see it once it’s finished!
— notorious Aug 9, 03:11 PM #