Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I'm Martin, and you are listening to a special weekend
compilation episode of Dad's Bedtime Stories. We're gonna head back
into the summer Camp planet to finish up some of
our compilations. I believe we're gonna start with let's see
here some sort of super Hero Summer Camp or Superhero
Gardening summer Camp, because that's an episode I made at
some point, and we're gonna follow that up with Survival Camp.
If you have a suggestion for a compilation episode or
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any of it works. But now a possible word from
a possible sponsor, followed by two full stories without any
commercial breaks at all, it's time to close your eyes,
get as comfy as you can in that bed, and
imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.
Imagine yourself waking up on spaceship, Oh, your boring spaceship
you say, good morning, anything fun to do today? You ask, Unfortunately,
we are currently traveling to a distant planet that I
believe if you will love to check out. However, the
journey there should be very long. You have several days
to kill before we get there. Several days. Ah, well,
maybe I could go back to the Summer Camp Planet.
Then you suggest, I thought you might want.
Speaker 2: To do that.
Speaker 1: Activating portal. Now, a little door in the floor opens up,
and out of it rises a huge circular portal. The
portal lights up a bright blue color that looks kind
of like energy water. Don't forget your things, Spaceship says,
as a long robotic arm shoots out of the side
of the ship carrying a large Duffel bag. Spaceship places
the Duffel bag down beside you. You grab a hold
of it, and then you jump through the portal. You
find yourself in a large, colorful tunnel, flying straight through
the center. As the tunnel turns left and right, up
and down like a super cool water slide. Then you
see another circle of liquid water at the end, fly
through it and find yourself behind the same tree in
the main parking lot of the Summer Camp Planet. As
you've done before. You walk towards the main building, open
up the door, and you're immediately greeted by some of
the Sails team on the summer camp Planet Wilcombe.
Speaker 2: I believe I've seen you before.
Speaker 1: Let me check the database, the woman types on a computer.
Speaker 2: Oh. Yes, you are prepaid for any summer camp you
would like to attend. Do you have anything in mind
for today? You think, for a second, where do I
want to go? Wait a second, my friend, Pip, I,
where's he these days? You ask?
Speaker 1: I'll search the dirtabase, the woman says, as she types
away on a keyboard. A yes, Pip, I believe he
is currently attending the super Hero Gardening Camp. The Superhero
Gardening Camp.
Speaker 2: What's that? Oh? It is a very popular camp, though
named somewhat strangely. The super Hero Gardening Camp is a
camp full of all sorts of different fruits. Each one
gives you a specially created super power for a limited time. Anyways,
you get to explore different powers and grow different kinds
of super fruit. It is a jolly good time. I say, uh, okay.
Speaker 1: You say I want to go to the super Hero
Gardening Camp. Understood Communicating with a shuttle now on the
other side of the main building, there's a little platform
kind of like a train platform. A futuristic space shuttle
sort of thing flies down and lands on it. There's
your ride, the woman says, pointing towards the high tech
looking shuttle.
Speaker 2: You walk across.
Speaker 1: The gigantic main building to the other side with the
little platform area. You climb aboard the shuttle, place your
bag on the ground, and strap yourself in one of
the seats. The shuttle lifts up off the ground and
shoots out across the summer camp planet once again. Once again,
you're amazed as you look below you at all of
the different kinds of summer camps that exist here. You
pass over one that looks like it's a giant water
slide camp of some kind, at least something like that.
Before long, the shuttle slowly begins to lower itself down
to what you can only assume is the superhero gardening camp.
Your assumptions are pretty much confirmed by looking around the
camp and watching kids of all different shapes and sizes
trying out various different superpowers. Kids in one corner are
creating flames from their hands and shooting them at targets.
Kids in another area are well practicing what looks like
super strength throwing gigantic boulders as far as they possibly can.
And of course there's kids all over the camp, just
kind of flying around with superflight abilities. The ship lands
in the back hatch opens up. You one buckle, grab
your duffel bag and walk down once again. Sure enough,
you see a familiar face, your friend Pip.
Speaker 3: Oh, they told me you were coming. It's so good
to see you again.
Speaker 2: Pip says, it's.
Speaker 3: Good to see you. Do well, they said we could
be in the same cabin.
Speaker 1: This.
Speaker 3: Here's our camp counselor, Rob.
Speaker 2: They it's right.
Speaker 1: My name is Rob and I'm your counselor for the
super Hero Garden in Camp. Come with me. Rob and
Pip lead you to your summer camp cabin as it
normally does. It looks like a pretty normal summer camp cabin,
a large room with a whole bunch of bunk beds
spread around the outside. You find to bunk bed next
to Pips, throw your stuff on it and turn around. Well,
are you too ready for our first adventure? Let's go
explore some of the superpowers here on the Superpower Garden
and Camp. Oh my, goodness, you're gonna love this so much.
There's all sorts of superpowers you can get. Come on,
let's go check it out.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 1: Rob and Pip leave the cabin and walk down a trail,
a trail that leads you through the woods to a
forest of very interesting looking fruit. The trees here are
full of blue apple looking things that, instead of hanging
from the trees, seem to sort of pull the trees upward.
They float above the branches as if they're trying to
lift the tree into the air. Now we find that
one of the first things most campers want to do
is learn how to fly. This here is our flat
tree forest. Now, after we do some general plant maintenance,
our reward will be well the power of flight. Rob
starts to show you how the well flight apple trees
prefer to be taken care of, how to water them,
how to spread a little bit of special flight tree
fertilizer around, and how to check on the various fruits.
After working together to ensure the trees in the area
whereas healthy as they could be, providing them with lots
of water and food, Rob announces that it's now time
to show you how to pick the fruit. Now, most apples,
when you pick them, you take the bottom of the
apple and you kind of point it up towards the sky.
That breaks the thing off nice and easy. But these
here apples are the opposite. You're gonna take the apple
and kind of twist the bottom of it so it's
pointing at the ground instead of up at the sky.
Like this, Rob walks over to one of the shorter
apple trees. He grabs a hold of one of the apples,
which is sort of floating bottom up towards the sky,
and he twists it down towards the ground. Sure enough,
the apple easily breaks off. Then you gotta have a bat.
Rob starts chomping away on the apple, and then he
begins to float into the air. This is still one
of my favorite powers. Rob says, dry some you and
Pip both walk over to the flying apple tree. You
grab a hold of an apple, twist it down, and
then you take a bite. Strangely, the apple tastes like
a blueberry apple or something like that, But as you swallow,
a very interesting tingling sensation starts to shoot through your
arms and your legs, and then well you start to
sort of flow in the air. You finish eating the
apple and you try to get a hang.
Speaker 2: Of this power. How do you control it?
Speaker 1: You say, as you just sort of continue to float upward,
waving your arms and legs around.
Speaker 2: Well, it's sort of hard.
Speaker 1: To explain, but you should have a bit of a
new sense, lack a muscle you didn't have before, one
that allows you to push forward or backward, or up
and down. I think of it as a flat core.
You close your eyes and try to focus for a second,
and sure enough, you do feel something different. You hold
on to that feeling using your mind, and you push
it down towards the ground. Sure enough, that shoots you
up into the air. The harder you push towards the ground,
the further up you fly. You find that you can
sort of shift this new sense, making you turn left
and right, up and down. Before long, you Pip and
Rob are zooming through the sky, flying high above the
wel superhero gardening camp. You start by flying in wide
open spaces, turning left and right with ease, feeling the
wind press against your skin. You try to do a
couple loops and somersaults and twirls. It's amazing to feel
this free. You look down at the camp below you,
and you see other people flying around as well. Some
of them are sort of dodging beneath the trees or
between them. I should say you try that out too.
You and Pip fly down towards a nearby forest and
begin zigzagging between the trees left and right, left and right,
then again up into the air. Flying makes you feel
so incredibly free. After a while, you just sort of
start to slowly drift down towards the ground. You try
to use your flight sense to push yourself up again,
but it just doesn't work. You gently float down like
a leaf falling from a tree until you land on
the ground once again. Well I should have explained that
all of these powers only work for a limited time.
That's about all you get with the flight apples. Now
we can eat some more, or we can go check
out some other superpowers. Rob says, let's see what else
there is, all right, Actually, we've landed pretty near to
one of my favorite powers. Come over here. Rob leads
you down another forest trail until you come to another
set of trees that are full of well, super pears.
Pears that look a lot tougher and a lot bigger
than a normal pear. These here are strength pears. Now
you pick a much the same way you pick an apple,
twisting him up towards the sky. Rob demonstrates as he
grabs a hold of a pear. You and Pip both
get your own. Then you each take a bite. The
pears are absolutely delicious, and it doesn't take you long
to completely finish yours. When you're done, a different kind
of tingling sensation starts to pass through your arms and legs,
and suddenly your muscles start to bulge, kind of like
you're flexing every muscle in your body at once. But
the sensation continues and it gets stronger and stronger and stronger,
until you feel like you could lift up absolutely anything
in the world.
Speaker 2: Now, Rob says.
Speaker 1: Come on and test this out. He leads you off
to the side of the forest to an area of
gigantic round boulders. He grabs a hold of one of
the boulders, easily lifts it up over his head and
throws it as far as he can. The thing flies
high into the air and arcs down, eventually crashing into
a big open field full of other boulders. Give it
a try. Let's see which of you can.
Speaker 2: Throw the boulder, the furthest.
Speaker 1: You walk up to one of the boulders, you grab
it on either side with your hands, and strangely, you
accidentally crush the side of it a little bit, making
parts break off. WHA, I'm going to have to be
really careful when i have this power on, you think.
You lift the boulder back over top of you and
then fling it as far and as hard as you
can into the air. The boulder shoots up into the sky,
arcs down and crashes into the ground. You look over
at Pip, the once wimpy sort of looking kid, now
has well muscles. He grabs a hold of the boulder,
spins around on the ground, and uses the momentum to
throw the boulder even higher up into the air than
you could. It flies past both your boulder and robs
and crashes into the ground behind. I've sort of done
this before, Pip says, I told you, I go on
a tour of camps every summer. That's amazing. What else
can we do with this super strength? Well, we do
find that some of our campers want to test out
their new might against something kind of challenging, and that's
why we have this robot battle arena right here. Rob
points to the side and you suddenly see a gigantic
circular cage that you never noticed before. Inside it are
a bunch of robots lined up against the wall. We
get these things from the Robot battle camp. You can
decide how many you want to fight at once.
Speaker 2: Watch this.
Speaker 1: Rob says as he steps into the arena. I think
I could take on five of you guys. He announces,
and suddenly five of the robot on the outskirts of
the battleground activate and walk forward. One by one, they
begin to run towards Rob. Rob swings a fist and
breaks apart one of the robots into thousands of pieces.
As the next one attacks, he kicks it with his leg,
a perfect front kick that leaves the robot flying in
the other direction in multiple pieces as well. As the
next robot runs it, rob he meets it head on,
and I mean head on. He lifts his whole body
up into the air, pulls back his head, and as
he lands on the ground, he smashes the robot apart
using his forehead. The entire thing is absolutely obliterated, broken
into and thousands of pieces on the ground. As the
next two robots attack at once. He grabs them out
of the air, breaking apart their chest pieces as he
grabs on. Then he takes a robot in each hand
and smashes it together. The robots break into thousands of pieces,
and rob is victorious. He walks back out of the
battle area and says, nah, Rad, that was a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2: Your turn.
Speaker 1: You and Pip enter the battle arena. This could be
a lot of fun. You say, now, how many robots
would you like to take on? Let's just start with two.
I've never done this before. You say, all right, I
can add more after if you won't. Two robots activate
and begin to walk forward. They each take on a
fighting stance, and then they jump into the air. Pips
robot launching a flying kick, and yours a flying punch.
Neither of you are exactly sure what to do, and
the robots connect with both of their attacks. Strangely, you
don't feel anything. It's as if the robot just punched
a stone wall as hard as it could. You grab
onto the robot's arm, break it away from your chest,
and then strike it with your palm as hard as
you can. To your surprise, the center of the robot
goes flying and hitting the back of the cage, while
the rest of the robot still stands in front of
you until it collapses into pieces on the ground. Pip
lifts up his robot and throws it as well, smashing
it against the cage. I feel invincible. Let's try some more,
you say, and Rob activates more robots. Robot after robots
starts running towards you, and Robot after Robot gets smashed
into thousands and thousands of pieces. It turns out that
battling robots with super strength is actually kind of relaxing
for some reason.
Speaker 2: Malad.
Speaker 1: Then let's go check out some of the other things
and take care of them.
Speaker 2: Rob leads you on.
Speaker 1: A tour through the Superhero gardening camp. You see all
kinds of different plants and bushes, each one with the
ability to give you different powers ice, blueberries, fire strawberries,
and as you go you take your turn caring for
the plants themselves.
Speaker 2: Each section of the.
Speaker 1: Camp has its own caretaker who knows how to care
for that special plant, and you and Pip join in
watering the plants, caring for them, planting new plants out
of the seeds of the old. It's actually a pretty
good time man. That brings us to one of the
highlights of Superhero Garden in Camp, the chance to build
a plant of your very own with a super power
of your very choosing. Rob says, follow me to the
plant laboratory. Rob leads you into a large white building
that's down by the mess hall. Inside you see cubicle
after cubicle with other kids working in little lab coats
talking to computers, planting seeds into dirt and putting them
into some sort of interesting chamber that allows the plant
to grow really quickly.
Speaker 2: Now in this lab.
Speaker 1: You can work beside an advanced artificial intelligence that has
been programmed with different alien species from throughout the universe.
Your job is to come up with the kind of
plant you want to create, and the artificial intelligence will
help engineer a plant or a plant seed anyways, based
on what you want. It sort of takes the genetic
information it has about different alien species and implants it.
Speaker 2: Into a seed.
Speaker 1: You can then work with some of our gardening experts
to turn that into a plant. Our incubation chambers allow
the plants to grow at rapid speed as long as
you create something that we don't considered to be an
existential threat to the universe or others back wherever you
came from. We'll let you take it home, care for
the plant, and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Will
be your workstation, Rob says.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: You find a workstation with a large computer with a
little computerized face on it, something that looks a lot
like a three D printer, a whole bunch of pots
and dirt and water, and an incubation chamber. Hello, the
computer says, what would you like to create? I'll leave
you do it, Rob says, and then he walks away.
Uh what can we create? You ask? My data banks
are full of all sorts of interesting alien life forms.
Would you like to explore some of them? The computer asks, Uh?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: What sort of power? Were you thinking? Perhaps invisibility or
the ability to manipulate one of the elements of the planet.
The computer says, do you think it would be possible
to make some sort of teleporting power?
Speaker 2: You ask?
Speaker 1: Searching data banks? Now interesting, there is one species, a
species of quantum teleporting frogs that seem to have the
ability to shift their existence from one point in the
universe to another. Would you like me to create this?
And merge it with some sort of seed. The computer asks, Uh, yeah, excellent,
what type of fruit would you like to create?
Speaker 2: Well, uh, maybe.
Speaker 1: Some strawberries, you suggest, looking over at Pip, who just
kind of shrugs his shoulders. Understood infusing genetic information from
Quantum teleporting frogs into strawberry seed. You watch as the
three D printer like device starts to activate, Light shoots
out of it, and bit by bit, two tiny strawberry
seeds are created. Finished creating, Now it's time to plant
the seeds. You and Pip both take one of the seeds.
You grab a little pot, fill it up with dirt,
water it a bit, and plant the seed inside activating
incubation chamber. Please place the plants inside. You and Pip
open up the door to the incubation chamber and place
the two pods with dirt and seeds inside it, and
you close the door. The chamber activates a light which
kind of mimics the light of the sun appears above,
and the chamber starts to hum with energy. Soon, at
some sort of accelerated speed, you see the strawberry seeds sprouting,
then growing. Then little flowers appear, and the flowers start
to turn into strawberries. When the incubation chamber beeps, the
plants are fully grown. You open up the door and
you and Pip both pull out your strawberry plants, complete
with quite a few strawberries each. Well, Pip, you think
we should try them. You ask, I, I will if.
Speaker 2: You do, Pip says.
Speaker 1: You place the strawberries on the counter, you each pick
one out and you take a bite. Now, the strawberries
are very delicious, but the sensation that they cause throughout
your body is kind of hard to define. It's a
sensation of being less solid, less well, less in existence
than you're used to. You never really noticed how your
body felt so firmly planted in reality before until now,
when it no longer felt that way. Your mind started
to wander around the area from place to police. You
think about the flying apple trees, and suddenly you find
yourself in between them. You think about the super strength
pear trees, and in an instant, you're there as well. Next,
you think for a second about spaceship where exactly is he?
And the answer is given to you as you appear
on the middle of the ship. You look over and
find changer in the form of some sort of alien
you've never seen before, and spaceship or the spaceship robot
sitting down on the couch, watching Netflix and drinking some
sort of drink. Clearly they got up to some interesting
things when you're not around, But just as quickly as
you see it, you appear back at the summer camp planet.
You decide to use your new power to explore a
little bit. When Pip appears beside you, you make a suggestion,
I want to go check out some of the other
summer camps. Quickly, you ask, uh, okay, I guess it
couldn't hurt anything. Pip says, I want to lead the way.
Pip asks, okay. You step over and place your hand
on Pip's shoulder. Maybe that'll allow you to both teleport
to the same place. Then you close your rise and
you think about some of the different places you've seen
on your way to this summer camp or one of
the others. You reappear at the Water Slide Camp MP.
As you look around, you see an intricate set of
slides going in all different directions. Kids happily running up
giant staircases, sliding down on large tubes, and generally having
a good time. This place looks awesome. Let's see what
else there is. You close your eyes and again you
reappear in a pile of garbage. You look around, and
there aren't many campers to see. All you see is
a giant landfill. Maybe this is where they put all
their garbage. This can't possibly be a summer camp, can it,
you say, as you look around at the trash, But strangely,
you do notice a few campers and a camp counselor
digging through the piles of trash. It's not your idea
of a summer camp, but it could be kind of cool.
You close your eyes again and you reappear on a
summer camp where all of the buildings look like they're
made of chocolate. Amazing, But the ground is covered in
something strange.
Speaker 2: It is that coffee on the.
Speaker 1: Ground, you ask, And then as you take a step forward,
you slip, fall towards the ground and instantly disappear, reappearing
again in a well. A pile of clouds pit appears
beside you, and the cloud lifts up off of the ground.
For some reason, it's solid, and you find yourself surrounded
by their campers, just sleeping on their own clouds drifting
up into the air, floating around lazily. Your watch beeps,
indicating that whoa, it's way past bedtime. We need to
get back to camp, you say. You place your hand
on Pip's shoulder again, close your eyes, and reappear standing
in front. If you're teleporting strawberry plants, you and Pip
each grab a hold of them. I'll meet you back
at the cabin, you say, and with that you disappear,
reappearing right in front of your bunk. You place the
little strawberry plant down on a shelf beside the bunk,
climb into bed, and Pip soon appears and does the same.
This is so cool, Oh, I can't wait to try
out other powers. As you lay in the bed, you
feel the teleportation power start to fade, and once again
you feel more solid. You pull the covers up to
your chin, close your eyes, and lay your head back
on the soft pillow. With each breath, you begin to
sink down deeper into the comfortable mattress as you release
all of the tension from your arms and legs, and
the more you breathe, the deeper you sink, the more
relaxed your muscles become. And the more your mind begins
to wander off to thoughts of new dreams and new
adventures to come. Good night everyone. You wake up the
next morning inside your very own log cabin. You and
Pip quickly run outside to greet the other villagers. You
watch as they begin to make their way out of
their very own cabins, sit around the campfire and cook
some breakfast. You walk over and sit down with them. Wow,
good morning, Bill says, Good morning Bill. What else can
we do to get this camp going? You ask, well,
we're gonna need a number of things, starting with a
storage area. Man. So you, Pip, Bill, and Edna get
to work building the storage area, a place where food
and water and other supplies can be stored for the
villagers to use. When that's done, it's time to build
a place to make better meals. Then it's time to
build a blacksmith forge. Then, of course, you need to
build new houses and shelters to have more villagers come
and work in those stations. You, Pip, Bill, and Edna
spend day after day building the town up, until you
soon have hundreds of workers. You have houses and farms,
seamstresses and crafters, wood cutters, miners, and even fishermen and hunters.
Once the town is pretty much built up and you
have all the right people working in it, you spend
days just kind of living for a living, gathering water,
eating food, caring for animals, tending crops, talking to others.
It's actually a really good time, but it does eventually
start to feel like it might be time for something new.
After spending about a week at Pioneer Camp and building
a extremely impressive village for that amount of time, you
and Pip go to see Bill and Edna. Guys, this
has been really fun. We actually kind of thought this
camp would be terrible, but we soon realized it. It's amazing.
The thing is, I think we're kind of ready to
move on. You say, ah, I thought this would happen.
Bill says, oh, also, we got a message from headquarters.
Apparently you two have been on the waiting list for
some sort of survival camp. Well, it turns out it's
ready to go. The helicopter's coming shortly. Helicopter, you say, man.
Then you hear a thundering sort of sound. Helicopter bleeds.
A helicopter's shadow appears on the ground, and you look
up to see two men dressed in army outfits lowering
themselves down on large ropes. All right, it's time to
come with us, one of the men says. You will
be dropped off at the secret survival camp location. Gather
your things immediately, the man orders. So you and Pip
head to your cabins, pack up your duffel bags, and
walk back to where the soldiers are standing on the
ground holding their ropes. One of the soldiers holds another
rope out towards you, a rope with some sort of
harness on it. The harness immediately wraps around your body
like automatically, and the rope begins to pull you up
into the air. The soldiers make their way back up
as well, and then help pull you into the helicopter.
The helicopter quickly takes off, flies far over the different
Pioneer villages of Pioneer Camp and off into the distance
over many different summer camps. Some sort of amusement park
camp with a whole bunch of roller coasters, that water
camp you've seen before but never actually been to, and
again a camp that looks like it's just a bunch
of coffee spilled on the ground, and buildings made of chocolate.
No one's hanging out at that camp, and you still
can't figure out why it exists. But soon the helicopter
comes across a new area, an area covered in trees
of all different shapes and sizes. It honestly doesn't look
like a real forest. It's almost too diverse. Trees that
would grow in all different parts of Earth are all
growing together.
Speaker 2: It's like a.
Speaker 1: Mix between a jungle and a forest, with some alien planets.
Speaker 2: Thrown in there.
Speaker 1: All right, we are at the destination, the soldier says,
lowering you down the harness, then slowly lowers you and
Pip down towards the ground. It releases, pulls back up
to the helicopter, and the helicopter flies away. You and
Pip find yourself standing in front of a single camp
counselor with well just a pile of stuff. Welcome to
survival camp, the counselor says, my name is Alexander, and
I will be your camp counselor. Uh Hi, Alexander, you
say hi, Pip says as well, raising his hands slightly.
Now in survival camp, the key idea is too, sir,
you have some supplies here a sleeping bag, a sleeping pad,
and basic tools. Each of you will have one multi tool.
I suggest carrying it in your pocket, Alexander says as
he hands both you and Peb a multi tool. This
has knives, saws, drills, magnifying glasses, can openers, and just
about any other tool you could need. Now, it certainly
is not the best knife, and it is not the
best screwdriver, and it is not the best drill. But
in a survival situation, it is your landline. There are
also an assortment of some larger tools, a fold out
saw for some flint and steer, and lots and lots
of paracord. You can never have too much paracord in
a survival situation, Alexander explains. Now there is much to
do in order to have somewhere to sleep tonight. You
will have to first create a shelter. Uh okay, out
of what you ask. Well, you can create the shelter
out of anything you wish, anything you can find. However,
if you want some ideas, I also have a special
survival book for each of you. Alexander then hands you
and Pip little pocket sized books. These books have the
basics of all survival how to create fire, how to
create shelter, how to find and identify different plants. I
highly recommend looking at it before eating almost anything. If
you do not recognize it, it might be poison ivy
or just plain poisonous. Now you will find this forest
to be abundant in almost all things. We specially created
it for a perfect balance. There are many fruits, There
are many naturally occurring vegetables. There is plenty to forage
if you know what you are looking for. There are
many animals in the area as well. Most of them
are wildly friendly. You raise your hand in the air. Yes, you,
the man's says.
Speaker 2: Just a quick question.
Speaker 1: If you perfectly created this place with all of the
you know, like edible vegetables and all that stuff, why
did you put in poison ivy? You ask, Ah, that
is an excellent question. Survival is no fun if there
is not a little bit of danger, and in this case,
the main danger is poison ivy. If you would like
to see a picture of it, just look at the
index of your book. You flip through the back of
the book until you come to the letter P. You
scan down it and sure enough you find poison ivy.
Page sixty four. You flip to page sixty four and
there's a perfect picture of poison ivy, a single stem,
three leaves, and an explanation that this stuff will leave
you very, very itchy. It explains that it's covered in
some sort of oil that you can't quite pronounce, and
most people's body has an allergic reaction to the stuff,
making them red, itchy and blotchy. It'll certainly be on
the lookout for that. Now, I suggest you pick a
shelter design and get to work. You and Pip start
flipping through your books looking at all of the different
kinds of makeshift shelters. There's like luck cab and style ones,
though those look like they take a lot of work,
and they're sort of a framed ones, and well, the
lean to style of shelter kind of catches your eye.
The forest around you has all sorts of gigantic trees. Pip,
what if we do one of these shelters. We can
lean a whole bunch of branches up against one of
those giant tree trunks and then cover it to keep
us safe from the rain and weather and that sort
of stuff. You suggest, Okay, that seems like a great idea.
Pip responds, and the two of you get to work.
You each grab one of the larger saws and head
off into the forest. You cut down large limbs and
seedling sized trees. You collect already dead branches, and you
bring each one back, leaning it up against the tree,
creating a sort of makeshift roof. When you're done, you
gather branches that are full of leaves and pine needles.
You place them on top of each other to cover
up the shelter, and before long you and Pip stand
proudly in front of the thing. Ah, well this work,
you ask, where Alexander responds, there is only one way
to find out. He lifts up his wrist and starts
pressing buttons on his watch. Then he looks up at
the sky, pulls out an umbrella and opens it up.
The sky quickly darkens Gray's storm clouds form overhead, thunder
and the lightning begin, and you and Pip run into
your shelter.
Speaker 3: The rain starts.
Speaker 1: At first, the shelter kind of holds up, but as
the rain continues, the shelter begins to leak. Then, as
the wind blows the leaves and branch as you stacked
on top start to sort of blow away. The storm
stops as quickly as it started. Alexander closes his umbrella
and walks over to the two of you, still huddled
underneath the completely broken down shelter. Well, it was a
good attempt, but I suggest you do some deeper research
into the book. You and Pip continue to read through
the book. You read about all sorts of different ways
to reinforce a shelter. One of the ones that looks
kind of appealing to you is well clay. You wonder
if there are any clay depausit. It's around here. You
and Pip go on a search and soon come to
a river bed. Sure enough, on the side of the
river bed is a gigantic depause it of well sand
and clay. You grab handful after a handful of the
clay and walk it over towards your shelter. You continue
until you have a gigantic pile of it. Then you
and Pip fix up the lean to shelter and begin
smearing it and clay filling in all of the gaps
between the sticks.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 1: The sun should make that harder before you know it. However, clay,
if not fully hardened, will dissolve in water as well.
I suggest covering your roof in something else. Some bark
can be a good option. To demonstrate this, Alexander walks
over to a tree that's fallen over in the forest.
He uses his multi tool to cut a seam all
the way around it on both sides, then straight down
the middle. He then peels off a gigantic strip of bark.
Watch this, he says. He spreads out the shingle onto
the bottom of the shelter. Then he uses the drill
in his multi tool and starts to drill two holes
through the shingle and into one of the branches, one
on either side. He then grabs a twig that looks
like it's about the right size and hammers it into
the hole, cutting off the access after bark shingles put
on with wooden nails. It is more effective than you
might think. So you and Pip, following his example, begin
to collect more of the bark, cutting it off strip
after strip. Pip works on creating very straight little wooden
sticks about the same size, and you work on drilling
holes through the shingles and into the shelter. It's something
that seems easier than it is. It actually takes a
lot of effort, a lot of turning, a lot of twisting,
and your wrist is kind of sore by the end,
But slowly you and Pip manage to cover the entire
thing in shingles. Very good, Ready for test number two,
Alexander says, pressing buttons on his watch. Again, you and
Pip again run into a little shell helter and hunker
down while rain clouds form above you and the rain
starts to fall. This time, however, you and Pip stay
bone dry. You peek out of the shelter while the
storm's going on. You watch the water fall down on
the shingles and drip from one to the next. Perfect,
you say, Very good, Alexander says. As the storm disappears,
when the sun comes out once again, your shelter is
ready for sleeping in. So you and Pip go about
making some beds or bed frames, stick legs, stick frames,
and sticks all the way across the top. Alexander shows
you how to split a stick in half using a
knife or a hatchet, and you use this technique to
make a nice flat bed surface. You spread out your
sleeping pads and your sleeping bags, and you and Pip
look at your newly finished shelter already for nighttime.
Speaker 2: You even create.
Speaker 1: A little bit of a makeshift door out of sticks
and wooden nails. It isn't perfect, but it does give
you a sense of safety. Very good. Now it is
time to gather some food. Go out into the forest,
find all you can find, then bring it back here
and we will start a campfire. So you and Pip
head out into the forest once again. The first thing
you come across is kind of hard to miss. A
banana tree, fole of green and yellow bananas surrounding the
banana tree, or a whole bunch of monkeys. Hopefully they're friendly,
you say as you walk up to the tree. H hey, guys,
you mind if we borrow some bananas? A rather curious
monkey walks over to the tree, breaks off a bunch
of bananas, walks over to you, and hands them to you.
You grab a hold of them. Oh, thank you, you say.
The monkey then stares at you, giving you a look
that you somehow know means now, what are you gonna
do with them? You break off a banana, peel it
and take a bite. You nod your head. Good banana,
you say, and the monkey starts to clap. From there,
you and Pip decide to gather more things. You find apples,
you find wild leaks, and you come across a very
strange looking plant. You flip through your book until you
find a matching description, survival potatoes. Apparently these potatoes taste
like steak when you cook them over a campfire. I
don't think those exist on earth, but I want to
try them, you say to Pip. All right, Pip says,
So the two of you follow the instructions and dig
down deep into the dirt. Sure enough, you begin to
pull out gigantic and very hearty looking potatoes. You gather berries, strawberries, rasberry,
as well as some type of wild growing wheat that
the book says you can turn into a makeshift bread
or bannock of some kind. You bring your bounty back
to Alexander and place it in front of him. Ah,
very good, you have gathered all of the supplies needed.
Now we must start the fire. First. You will need
very dry tinder. Try to find anything that will burn well,
dry bark, dry sticks, and if you can find it,
some pine sap or tar of some kind. So you
and Pip once again head out and start gathering as
many sticks and branches as you can possibly find. You
also find a pine tree. It looks like it's leaking
sap out of the side. You use a stick to
scoop up as much of it as you can and
kind of rub it off onto a dry piece of bark.
You bring back all of the sticks and pieces of
wood and place them in front of Alexander. Excellent job.
This will allow us to have clean water and cooked food.
Now what we do is we use the flint and
steal Watch this, the man says. When he strikes the
flint with a metal striker, some kind a bright spark
ignites and flies to the ground. Knocking the flint and
the steel together can create very hot pieces of metal.
If you can get one to land on some tinder
or your pine tar, you to be able to start
a fire. Now you build the fire up slowly, small
sticks first until they are well caught on fire, then
larger sticks, and so on. Alexander explains. You bend down
and grab a hold of the flint and the steel.
You create a small little pile of sticks inside a
little stone circle that Alexander must have created while you
were gathering things. You place the piece of bark with
the pine tar on it in the center, and a
whole bunch of other things surrounding it. You begin to
strike the flint with the steel. It takes a few tries,
but soon enough a spark flies out and lands directly
on the pine sap.
Speaker 2: It starts to smoke.
Speaker 1: Very good, Now blow on it, Alexander says, So you do.
Each time you blow, it starts to glow a bright
orange color and smokes a lot, and then it catches
on fire. Quickly put the little sticks on, he says.
And so you start putting the little sticks on. They
set on fire too, And you continue to build the
fire outwards, starting with the tiniest of sticks, moving up
to medium sized sticks, and before very long at all,
you get up to full sized sticks. The fire's burning
and well doesn't have much of a chance of going
out anymore unless one of those gigantic rain clouds appears again.
Very good, Now go get some water. We must boil it,
Alexander said, as handing you and Pip a large pod.
Speaker 2: Uh why do we have to boil it?
Speaker 1: You ask, Well, you don't have to boil it, but
I recommend boiling it to make sure all things are killed.
You do not need to get sick in the woods.
So you and Pip go off towards the lake, scoop
up some water and bring it back to Alexander. He's
sort of set up a makeshift burner using some stones
on the side of the fire. He places the pod
there and slowly it starts to simmer. Now, let's see
what you have. Oh, my goodness, you've found them, Alexander says,
the survival potato. This is one of the best things
you will have ever eaten. Alexander shows you how to
peel the potato using an attachment on your survival tool.
You then place them on the end of a pointy stick,
which you also create with your survival tool, and hold
them over top of the fire. Soon, the most wonderful
smell fills the air, a smell that makes your mouth
water and your stomach growl. That should be enough, Alexander says,
Now take a bite once it is cool. Of course,
you blow on the survival potato and look at it
in your hand, turning it from left to right. It
actually looks like a steak too, like a like a
large potato shaped steak. When it's ready. You take a bite,
and sure enough it's one of the best things you've
ever tasted. These are delicious. You quickly peel more and
cook more of them over the fire. You eat until
your stomachs are full, and drink plenty of water as well. Now,
my friends, it is time to go to bed. Have
an excellent night, Alexander says as he walks over to
a tent that he set up. Why does he get
a tent, you wonder, But you and Pip head off
into your fort, a place that you kind of want
to sleep anyways. You lift up the makeshift stick door
and pull it opened. You and Pip both climb into
your sleeping bags atop your sleeping pads, and you place
your head down on a well a pillow sack full
of clothing that you brought with you, a makeshift survival pillow.
It's surprisingly comfortable, though. You close your eyes and you
just listen to the sounds, and you just focus on
your breath, noticing your stomach rise and fall with each
relaxing breath, until soon you find yourself getting very sleepy,
and before you know it, you drift off to a
world of new dreams and new adventures to come. Good
night everyone, m m M.
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