Andrew and his team gasped as the came to the randevu strange rock doesn't really cut it. The 'rock' if you want to call it that was more like a crystal it was pure white like it was made of marble but also translucent it's strange properties also affected the area around it the small clearing that it was in was also pure white from the grass to the strange small specs of light that seemed to flicker like fireflies the only thing disturbing this scene was the large group of people that were milling around in it. As Andrew and his team moved in to the clearing he felt his bones begin to shack and a small ringing started up in his ears he felt like he had when he had gone to a rock concert but couldn't hear the music.

Looking around he say most of the other teams and while they all seemed worse for the wear but surprisingly no one seems to have died of course counting heads wasn't his strong suit but head find out soon enough as he walked to were the two groups team leaders were converged as he walked over Andrew saw a team that had duct taped their knives to their spears.

'Fuck why didn't we do that, that's brilliant' his thoughts expanded when he saw another group of people holding clubs with bird talons attached to them and another were using the bird's beaks as a kind of gauntlet 

'Well damn guess I'm not as smart as I thought I was' as he entered the group Jace noticed him

"Hey Andy good to see you finally made it what took so long"

"So long? Jace the forest in infested with six foot tall murder birds how long was i supposed to take?"

"Ha ha looks like you had it rougher than the rest of us we only had a few run ins with the dame things" Don's laughter bought a few nervous chuckles 

"Any way now that your here we can finally start talking about everything we found out" Jace was interrupted by a sudden squawking sound as a group of birds found the clearing everyone watched as the birds charged forward only to sope as the edge of the clearing squawking wildly as the backpedaled a few yards away and started to eye them hatefully

"Guess my idea that this was a safe place was right" Lee spoke up with a small grin 

"This place dose seem to be 'powerful' if that's the word for it" 

"Magic, Andy the word your looking for is magical" Andrew rolled his eyes at Jace's comment

"Anyway im sure you got some questions but look at this first" Don decided to going in as he pulled out a woven basket Andrew had time to see that it was made out of native grass's before Don started to pull stuff from it Andrew felt his mouth drop as Don continued to pull stuff out.

"Alright now promise not to freak out to much about this" Don then to out his knife and drew a small cut on his wrist Andrew watched as after a few seconds the wound closed up 

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"OK but how though?" Andrew decided to ignore Jace's disappointed mutterings. After all the things he had experienced to day the casual breaking of general physics was far from shaking him he wasn't annoyed by it at all nope not a bit 

"Ok man you can stop staring at me like that" Don almost laughed at his friends reaction the two had been friends for years and Don knew when Andrew was stressed he could only sigh inwardly as he decided to bite the bullet 

"Alright i'm sure you did your own research on the way here but you probably reached the wrong conclusion like Jace did" "Hey" Jace's protest was ignored as Don continued

"First off this is a different world, dimension, place were just gonna call it a world i'm sure you already knew that but it bears repeating, second were still made of matter from our world which I believe is why we've felt so strange since we got here."

"Yeah it's like something is trying to pull us apart and push us together or there's some weird pressure inside our bodies" Don nodded to Jace this time acknowledging him before continuing on.

"Third is that the natural rules have changed obviously since we wouldn't be here if they didn't but with that it's important to note that while we can interact with the new world we can't interact with it the way it interacts with itself if that makes any sense. It's weird but things like knives if they're made from earth matter don't increase the damage you do and things made from this world's matter have strange aspects like being able to hold almost four times their volume" 

"Wait but I did a test, the knives have double the kill potential" Don nodded at Andrew's question "I figured you would do some tests but I did to and what I found is that unarmed it takes sixty seven hits to kill with your fists but after a few hours it started to take thirty four this change happens to everyone and it didn't matter what weapon they used the spears seem to increase damage by about ten present while the knives default to whatever you have been useing, use spears and it's thirty one use your bare hands it's thirty four. I know it's weird but i'm sure we can find out how this all really works later"

"Great more questions we need answers for oh the joy" Jace could only laugh at Andrews deadpan "oh come on it's not that bad it's like a game here you need to hit something a certain number of time to kill it and getting better weapons reduces the number of hits you need you can store a ridiculous number of items in small bags and theirs medicine that can heal you instantly"

"Any game that requires you to hit a mob thirty one times is a game I don't want to play"

Jace gritted his teeth "Come on man TRY to enjoy this we're in a world where there's giant magic crystals and we can fight against monsters sure we'll probably die in the next thirty minutes but we would probably have starved to death anyway so TRY to have some form of fun I mean damn your making it hard to be positive here."

Sighing Andrew did have to admit that being in a different world was interesting "Fine sorry for being an ass but in my defences I totally deserve to be an ass right now"

"Besides that who said anything about dieing I knew you weren't listening to our conversation Jace we already tried the bird meat and it was fine plus there's no way in hell i'm getting offed by some sesame street reject" Lee's timely interruption was itself interrupted by the sound of more birds gathering around the clearing 

"So what was your plan exactly?" andrew asked a Lee and Don turned to him with two of the biggest shit eating grins he had ever seen on them as they spoke in unison "You're gonna love this."