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I plan to do an Ester chapter every so often to break up any monotony. The running theme for the Ester chapters will be along the lines of "Ester gets screwed again" as it never really works out for that poor man. but he won't be getting to fucked over in this chapter as I'm using him to kind of explain the premise of how the chickens got on an alien planet.
My name is Ester, my current situation is less than great. On my first day waking up from my cryogenic sleep pod I found out that our planet colonization ship had crashed. Luckily all the most important stuff on our ship had survived the crash including all of the passengers, food supplies, crop growing supplies, and farm animals.
On the unfortunate side of things, we lost our only way to communicate with earth in the crash. So we have no way to alert earth of our current predicament. But shit could be a lot worse, I still got my wife and daughter plus my chickens and cows so as far as I’m concerned I have everything I need.
But, this planet we crashed into is weird. Like really weird, as soon as I had stepped out of my cryogenic sleep pod I had gotten an alert of some kind. It had just appeared in front of my eyes like some kind of projection. It read:
Welcome "ESTER" you are now located on ADVENTURE PLANET 83 you have been integrated into this planets SYSTEM and now own a STATS page. Thanks for choosing the ADVENTURE SYSTEM for your adventuring needs, have a wonderful day!
(I'm having trouble getting the table to display correctly so I will fix the stat page/blue box when the web novel gets approved)
As it would turn out everyone on the ship ended up getting this message. But that would end up being the least of our worries. Almost as soon as we made a base camp shit hit the fan.
We had set up a base camp near the ship crash site. We had crashed in a savanna surrounded by a dense forest. The soil looks good for farming so we considered ourselves lucky. We had hastily erected a scrap metal and wood wall around our camp. We had close to a thousand people working so it was done within a few days but almost as soon as we finished we heard a roar and crashing coming from the forest.
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Within seconds and herd of large blue Elk looking animals came charging out into our savanna and behind them was a lion the size of a large truck that was gaining on them. the Elk headed right over our walls that at this point were not keeping anything out. Due to the fact that they are only about as tall as a full grown man.
The Elk herd seemed to be surprised by the fact that they were now surrounded by strange creatures (being us humans) and stopped running which ended up being fatal for one of them as the giant lion sprang over the wall and landed on top of one of the Elk casing the rest of the herd to scatter in all directions leaving our camp with just the lion and its fresh kill.
At this point, we were all ether running and hiding or running to grab a weapon. The lion just noticing the crowd of small creatures around it glared at us and roared causing us to hunker down as our more gun savvy friends lit up the lion with there laser rifles and pistols burning shallow holes into the lion causing it to be both surprised and angry. It launched itself at the nearest gunmen killing them instantly as its jaws snapped down on there head and most of their chest.
But unluckily for the lion, it also chomped the laser rifle that was in their hands. I don’t know if you have ever seen what happens when a laser rifle is severely broken or is shot by another weapon but to tell it to you straight, it fucken explodes. That is exactly what happened to the gun in the lion's mouth resulting in lion skull fragments and brain matter to rain down on the rest of us.
Most of us stood in stunned silence for a couple of minutes but we all eventually got back to work. I was able to build a pin for my cows and a coop for my chickens with the help of some of my friends. As we turned in for the night I saw some glowing lights near my chicken coop but figured it was probably nothing world ending. Plus I was way too exhausted to care and headed inside the safety of the ship to sleep.
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I plan to keep the chapters for this novel short and to the point, unlike my other web novel. that way I can try to get content out faster. But, just an FYI I'm back into my college classes now and those take up a lot of my time so don't expect chapters all the time.