Welcome Message

This exhibition has taken too long, you were supposed to reach the next campsite hours ago, you don’t recognize this part of the woods at all. Frustrated you set your pack down and start rummaging through it to take out your map. While pinpointing where you could possibly be, you hear a slight rustle in the brush but you ignore it. Light is now starting to wane and your anxiety is starting to rise, this simple research trip was supposed to help your current work, and now it looks like that is going to be halted do to your own incompetence. You hear the noise again and this time it’s much closer, you grab your flashlight from your side pack pocket and quickly turn it on. Scanning the perimeter you see nothing but trees and brush, could be nothing, but you can’t help the feeling that you are being watched. You put the flashlight on a hanging branch and use it to light your current surroundings, with this you come to the conclusion that you will have to make camp here and go back out in the morning. Suddenly, you hear the disturbance again and this time it is followed by footsteps. You turn around basically shouting as you see a tall figure standing before you, your hands trembling as you hold the flashlight to the being. “Hello, Human.” It says in what sounds like a cacophony of whispers and muffles invading your eardrums. You stand paralyzed.