#is thete one ending in this game

[nativetosorrow]

WHAT THE FUCK…. WHAT THE FUCK U GUYS… WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKK

[rottingsoftly]

oh my god the duke. ok so in the dlc teaser it looks like rose is figting him, right? and that seems kinda weird since he helped ethan out and whatnot. also he has a snazzy new outfit. but anyway i was replaying village and its made abundantly clear that the duke sells things to the lords, and presumably miranda as well, and bits of dialogue wirh him kinda make it seem like he's stringing ethan along to kill the lords - almaot aa if he's in kahoots wirh miranda. When you first get to the castle, he's like oh you should go up to her private chambers but when you come back and tell him rose isnt there he doesnt seem super surprised or concerned about it like at all. His dialogue also suggests that he values making money over any loyalty to his customers. All the lords are really well off and ethan is just Some Guy, so it kinda seems like there's no real point in the duke helping ethan out unless he's potentially workong for miranda. BUT he srill assists ethan after the lords are dead so what if he *was* working for miranda but double crossed her because maybe somone wanted miranda dead. It's also implied that the duke isn't quite human, which makes sense because he sells his wares to the lords, but there isn't anything suggesting that miranda de-humaned his with the cadou. Of course, he could have been one of her eariler experiments, but it seems strange that thete wouldn't be any documentation. There's also the question of who does he sell all the weird shit he gets from ethan to? he wouldn't buy it if he was unable to profit from it in some way. And at the end of the game, its revealed that the BSAA also has bioweapons (the soldier guys) and was aware of the megamycete in Romania, and possibly of Miranda's cult SO what if the duke was created by them and worked as an inside man monitoring miranda's progress and collecting samples of the dead mutants (not just the lords but all the crystalized skulls and stuff) and ofc they paid him for it and now because rose is like half-mold cause ethan was already mold after the Baker house they're going after her to examine her workings (or maybe dispose of her so they can have the strongest bioweapons?) anyway yea just a thought i had

[asexualbuthorny]

Time to slander some anime crushes.

So y'all already know my thoughts on gojo so I won't even talk about him. Moving on.... Getou Suguru would manipulate you to hell and back let's not forget that he's basicaly a member of sorcerer kkk. Ummmm... if you tried to leave him he would probably pull some shit and you would suffer. He would also demand full support and loyalty while giving none back and if you were bad for whatever plans he had he would dispose of your ass real fast.

Mahito fuckers deserve to be locked up until they get standarts. Like I hate him because of what he did to Junpei but also he would play hella mind games with you and get rid of you once he's bored.

Levi would call you every slur in existance if you weren't cis straight and white.

Kuroo has never even touched a woman nor does he know where the clit is so I have no idea what you're writing about. Bokuto has also never touched a woman before. Kenma wouldn't even talk to you let's be real. He would avoid you just to escape your annoying ass.

Chrollo stans need help. Like he's uuuuugggllaayyy. And from what I know he has some kind of torture fetish so hahahaha no. Ya'll be taking shit from a man that looks like he doesn't shower.

Let's talk about Hisoka real quick. That man is a pedo so I don't know what you're simping for. Both of you should be in jail.

People who simp for Bakubitch need to take several seats. He would insult you 25677447887655 time a day would call you weak for having any mental illnesses and would probably call you slurs he would also only aknowledge you if you if you had a strong quirk and the chances of that are slim to none. Shigaraki simps would get their ass dusted in no time. That man can barely take care of himself if you want a child that badly adopt one. He would also get rid of you when you're no longer useful. Dabi stans should just stay quiet. That man is a murderer. He would not hesitate to burn you to ashes as soon as you annoy him. He would also probably be mad manipulative and all arguments would end with him gaslighting you and you dumb ass would still stay. Hawks would kill you if the hero commision ordered him to. No argument about it. He also seem like the type to want an "open" relationship but only he can sleep with multiple people. He would tell you to stop hanging out with your friends and use his hero status as a reason.

So thete we go I slandered some anime boys. But remember that these are just my opinions and there is no need to get mad. Let's call these my relationship headcanons for these characters yea?

[kaidas-daydreams]

Hi there! I love your writing and I was wondering if I could request either headcanons or a scenario of Leo trying to ask out a shy female Crimson Lion member his age that he has a crush on and it going increasingly wrong every time (until he finally succeeds in the end). Thank you!

thank you so much! i'm excited to get a leo request i hardly get any of him!

lion cub in love

leo had no idea that he had a crush in the first place, he just knew he really liked to tease her and be around her all the time even if she was rather quiet, it just made her cuter

the day he found out that what he exactly was feeling was love, he went to fuegoleon for help, thinking his older brother had some kind of idea about love...he did not

he did notice she was a shy one who didn't talk much and would get flustered quite easily, he at least knew he couldn't make a big deal out of it

he thought it'd be easy to confess his feelings for the female crimson lion but boy was he wrong the first time he tried to confess he stumbled over his words and ran away

his second attempt wasn't any better, the second he looked into her eyes he froze, he went all red and nearly passed out only to be saved by fuegoleon who had been passing by and made the excuse of leo being sick

everytime leo would see her around the base or accidently bump into her he would put his head down and walk the opposite way, he was way too embarrassed to get near her, this actually made her sad seeing as she became fond of the youngest vermillion

it started to become painfully obvious that leo had a crush on her, he would even get teased by the other members of the squad one of them even told her about it, making her a complete blushing mess, leo wasn't happy about it

fugoleon noticed how they both would avoid each other which confused him seeing as he thought leo liked the shy crimson lion, he did what he thought was right, he made them partners in training and on missions

leo built up his courage again thanks to fuegoleon's pep talks, "third time's a charm" he thought to himself, when he made his way over to her he tripped over his robe accidently landing on top of her

when mereoleona heard about this it was game over, she hated that leo was "dancing" around the fact that he liked this girl, he was going to confess and do it right

mereo dragged leo to the girl and stood him right in front of her, the girl was scared when she saw mereo, she thought she was in trouble, "my brother has something to say"

he stood in front of her playimg with his fingers, his mind was racing with thoughts of what to say, he hadn't prepared to confess at this very moment

"hi...i...um...hi....i just wanted...wanted to say that...um...ihavefeelingsforyou" he tried to run away again but mereo stopped him and pushed him back to her, she stood thete confused since she couldn't make out leo's fast talk

"he likes you" mereo got straight to the point and walked away

leo stood there blushing not having any idea what to do next, the girl quietly mummbled she liked leo back but he was able to hear, he was relieved she felt the same way

[r1ngfinger]

//RUNS IN SO QUICKLY//

Gastrodon.. Ninjask and Shedinja... Maybe PorygonZ even!.. And B.A.L.L (abra)

OOOUUUGH,,,

GASTRODON

A ten outta ten babby!! A+ Squishiness, v good noises, would hug this giant slug i care them All

Ninjask and Shedinja

NINJASK,,, not a pkmn I've ever thought much abt tbh!! I think I tried training one forever ago but got bored of the playthrough it was in r i p </3 meanwhile I DID try training a Shedinja w no luck bc it is hard 2 Be Strategic when yr main strategy is Be Fast And Hit Hard Before Dying. i lov Shedinja but <///3 I can never train them and if one does end up on my team it'd just be thete 4 moral support HAJAJSJD

PORYGON-Z

OOOOOHOHOHOHOOOOG. OOO! OOOOGUGUFJFUFHOO!!! THIS! this is THE CREATURE EVER . !!!! very squishy like Squishimals. The best rubber ducky ffor ranting ur coding problems 2. I wanna ve a porygon-z when i grow up. I trained one in PLA for a short stint and she was tHe best little ducky ever <3

ABRA

BALL

BALL!

ball :) ball <3 (ball........💞💓💖💝💞💝💓💗💞💗💓)

an absolute bastard 2 raise but if u are playing thhE right pokemon game then Alakazam and Kadabra are Monsters and will kick ass. if u are playing gen 7 or pla then i am So Sorry. they are so fragile </3 alsoa good moral support pokemon. i lomv b.a.l.l with my entire heart and ass

[fictionkinfessions]

I... don't know gow to talk about this but I figured I could try. I've been ignoring it and denying it for months, even just to me because no one knows about it but me. So... here goes, I think.

In my canon, I did die beffore the tragedy or at the start of it I guess, but I didn't stay dead. Ms. Yukizome took my body and gave it to Tengen. If anyone else knew of this they probably said they wanted to give me a funeral.

But they didn't... Instead they- they...

There is a dnahanronpa lab au, were everyone is experiments of Junko... the sprite for me in it. Being a living computer essentially is... that's me.

What Tengen did to me. Or had the Future Foundation scientist do or... whatever. I don't know. I just know that they used alter ego to make an AI of me for the NeoWorld Program. I know that AI was actually hooked up to my body. I know they implanted a defibrillator into my chest necause even the slightest amount of adrenalin, anything that wpuld make my heart rate speed up would cause my heart to stop.

They had machines, robots to help bulster numbers against the Monokuma army Kazuichi made. Who do you think controlled those machines? Ultimate Gamer, I was so good at combat games that it bled into being a near genius at battle strategy. So why wouldn't they make me fight and try to kill my friends. I always... let them go though. I wouldn't kill Nekomaru or Akane. I avoided hitting Kazuichi. I hesitated and let the machines be destroyed by Izuru, because he was Hajime- him and Hajime shared a body and I couldn't... I wouldn't kill the people I care for. The people I love like family and romantically. I refused.

Not that it seemed to bother Tengen.

I hate thinking of it, of living and feeling my excecution because perhapd the Junko AI knew... she could hack Future Foundation files, if Tengen had anything about me thete then she knew. I don't think he did. I think I was entirely off record.

I hate that I existed in two places at once, one was a miserable lonely existence full of pain and constant foghting and the other I got to be with the people who matter most to me. I got to live peacefully and then Junko happened. Junko always happens...

But Tengen happened first and that I hate more. Junko killed me but Tengen brought me back as a weapon, as some- thing. It makes me so angry and sad to think about it. Why? Why couldn't he just let me die? I was already gone and I should have stayed dead! I hate Junko for killing me and making my friends suffer but I hate Tengen even more! Thats why I'm both human and AI Chiaki, because I wasn't allowed to die and I was literally half in tge real world and half in virtual!

And only in Danganronpa is something as wild as that capable of happening. I guess.

But- I am happy that afyer Tengen was gone and they were builsing the foundation back up... that Munikata took over. That Munikata... found me.

He listened to me! He listened to my story of what happened and in the end he had Alter Ego work on fully merging my AI and my consciousness. And once that was finished- he detached me from my wiring and finally let me die. I lived on in my programming as an AI. I wasn't physical anymore but I was happy. I could be with everyone. And after a long while- I think they built a new body for me. It was hard but everuthing was better. So much better.

If I ever see Munikata again, I'm going to thank him because I didn't get to do it last time. And if I don't see him again, I'm going to say it here. In case he remembers this, so he knows.

Arigato, Munikata-san. Thank you. Thank you so much.

-Chiaki Nanami 🎮

(#Fictive please if you will mpc)

[dreambook06]

Dream from: Jan 27, 2018, 1:00 AM to 9:40 AM

Jee.sus. No. this is so hard to write, it is SO goddamn much!!! WTF! so i will jump all over the place other wise it is too. much. so the longest part of the dream mustve been this wole alternate reality elementary school thing where there was a very ocd neat freak teacher who was like a pompous older woman but later it changed to sra. nelson lol. but she was like rly religious or something or idk like very whatcha call it like she thought pokemon was bad for kids or something idk so she hid all the pkmn stuff in the classroom or limited it or something idk something to do with pkmn somethings paper clipped to the floor then i broke in and puled them up out of the ground bc what she was doing was wrong and unfair to the kids idk exactly what it was. it made sense at the time. (i wasnt part of the classroom idk how i got involved in this all. i think i was present-day me the whole time?but veeeeery alterlate reality-y-nothing like irl at all) so yeah etc etc sO MUCH and then there’s this whole library thing where ... but it was so so much more like not a normal reality looking library it was jjust a single giant wall very flat mixed with theside of a cafeteria and on the wall there was a poster that said “frogger” w a pictute of frogger from ancient shadow and it was like one of those elementary lunch posters yknow like eat ur veggies or whatever and it apparaently was super nostalgic to me so i wanted to steal it lol and  i . did. i ws gonna just take a pic of it but i thought i might as well steal it to have the actual physicl thing in my posession. i took it off the wall and assumed no one would notice idk. this was all after house in the school btw so i went outin the side of the scool -verry unreality you dont understand- and put the rolled up poster behind or under a rock to take home when i left... also i had my ds w/ which was also near the rock and folds of some kind of paper thing but the whole time i was sueeper nervous someoneed find it and steal it. so much more ugh!! but basicallty the main thing was i was stealing back “my” childhood pokemon figures from the school that i’d stolen over the years when i used to go there - stolen from “sra. nelson”’s classroom and they somehow teletoprted out of my room and back tot theschool when they found out they were gone yrs later...etc... so i kept sneaking in and stealing back little by little and sra nelson set up like booby traps and stuff in this weird alternate reality classroom and things hanging from the wall idk. but later too i was i guess stealing pkmn cardswhich were on the thin library bookshelves.. i stolelike 3 of them and it became a huge deal the police were after me tryingto find out who did it so i had to keep sneaking back andreturning them after all but it made me so sad bc those thing were sonostalgic to me. idk soososososososo much more holy heck! there were way more characters it was insaaane!!! but im too awake now to recall and it’s not suuuuper important.. not one of those SUPER insanely unrealitydreams like the one from jan 20. 

so the whole other section of the dream was even more or just as wild... omfg.... gonna skip around a heck ton bc i dont know how it came to be,,,, so.

(ps i think i woke u p  around this part like slightly for 5 seconds to num-nums back side by my face bc she was up on be pillow behind and around my head with her back legs dangling on the side of the 2nd pillow by my face. she mustve just went up there or made some movement)

jeezuz it isSOmuch!!! nvm what i said before this is insalelyyl so osooo much!okay this isnt gonna be in order at all so this is gonna jump out of no where. basically it was this weirdweeriwriwridweirrdweridwerid world weirddddddd world like a weird unreality home a house a roun ish thingand i was thete somehow but also 3-ish year old me was there. and grandma c. and some parent idk. but idk. there was a couch and idk sooo much more a box tv in front of it...i guess i was there bc i was kind of time traveling through my life... but with tons of random stuff mixed together that don’t belong like ... fifer was in that house in this cat bed behind a curtain up high in this cat tree-like pillar... but fifer was dead. the dead body had been sitting in there for like 4 ish years at that point. they thought just putting a curtain over it would preserve the body. and i said that’s not how it works. but they pulled back the curtain (they=??? unreality version of mom?) and revealed fifer there perfectly preserved. then her leg began to move, she was moving, rising, like she was just waking up from a pleasant nap. hopped down the fuzzy beige pillar thing. acting normal.mom was stunned i was in disbelief reality was questioned.. i was like.. how...(also i was like “i thought we buried her in the woods at kc rd?”) was she never really dead and she’s just so so old she can do nothing but stay up there and not move? and every night she came down to eat? idk but mom was crying happily so hard. things were so weird idk idkidkkdkdkdkdkd.... later.... idk i was w/ dad in grandma evie’s alternate reality house kc rd house. everything was blank like no color so i had to use that one gimp tool that “select by color” tool and color the walls irl. like de blob... i didnt complete it. too much work and i didnt know the right colors everything was. i can’t remember the colors of things from old memory. i just used a deeper maroon brown ish color. but then i made my way to one room and idfk what else but it was reminiscent of old dreams big time and somehow the scene and everything shifted to something else and  a different room w/ a little seat thing by a curtained window and for some reason i was mimicking miranda sings voice, i was like ‘”it’s miraaaandaaaa..aa...a” so then jump back to that weird childhood house w/ me age 3 in it (but also me age present day whatever that is was there and it was from that pov this all happened..) so idfk like omg it was jus ttheir everyday life in like 2003 but unreality not not at all how it rly was just so werid in thisweird dome world house place omfg... big rooms weird angles of walls idk!! the whole place was like yellow...the vibe was kind of like this teletubbies thing but not rly it was just so... ugh!!cant xplain. 

anyway idk likegrandma doing dishes, cosette age 3 running around w/ rly curly hair lol......OH HOLY CRAP I REMEMBERED THE VERY EARLY PART OF THE START OF THIS DREAM HOLLLYY CRAP! wait... it’s slipping away.... let me thing...... ugh crap. it’s gone. but i remember like 2 fragments: so i was looking through some like idk videos of old school parties things idk that people recorded idk! like 7th grade and in one of them i was in a group with some other people and... karen! it was like this maze thing in the school idk like a party for fun kind of halloween idk idfk!! too vague to even...but it was weird for 2-3 reasons. 1: karen wasnt at our school in 7th grade. 2: karen and i were acting like BFFS and laughing w each other and playing games and making funny jokes. and 3: i looked like i was 5 years old in the video like a rly blonde and cuter version of 5 yr old me, while karen looked normal, like she was 13. it was rly weird idk but it ws so weird bc karen and i were best friends and while watching i was dumbfounded like i dont remember this at all!! and there were other clips too but idfk!!! idfr!!! (r= remember)

so back to thething... likek.   i was 3 and running around the place, trying to reach up by the dishes on the sink, reaching for a spoon and stuff, grndma or someone came over to me and pointed at the picture on the spoon of a 3d-ish patrick from spongebob coming off the spoon in a transarent squishy texture. and she asked who is this? and i said in a like my 1-1/2 yr old voice “patrick star.” etc it was so random it kept shifting back to the room w/ the dead fifer up there but also w/ the tv down andto the right of it and a our 00s colorful long couch.. grandma told me (apparently they could see me and stuff and it was just normal) to watch after 3yr old me while she did chores or idk.so i did and it was so hilarious the uninhibited things kid-me said. idk an example... but yeah eventually things got even more unreality w more giant rooms we traveled through and stuff al this weird trap door stuff and stuuuffffff. more characters came along idek.... but this now is near the end of the dream which i should’ve written about first bc now i forgot a lot.... so this will jump a lot and make no sense.... but i had my camera and was recording for fun... but the camera had ike 6 mins left on it which was bad. i wanted to record all the adventures that were going on it was crazy! omg.... so freaking much!!! this tiny little rat/frog thing that was on my hand i put it in front of the camera while i was on the couch watching a cartoon (a weird unreality show mix of childhood shows i dont even remember anything about it now frickign) w/ 3 yr old me and took a picture of the frog thing watching the show. and it was a rly good picture like hq and stuff..... later..... well basically the whole living room turned into water like deep water murky too and someone was trying to get across by riding an oxen or something...(oh yea somewhere in this dream there was a thing about me being vegan but i dont rmemeber. mightve been during all the “sra. nelson“craziness) but then the scene shifted to the same thing but aparently there were people filming a scene for a tv show or movie there and they had these scaey weird grotesque looking human things running slowly (bc water) in a circle while in the center there was a cluster of like 5 camels w/ ropes attached which the weird monster people were cirling around.... idfk!!! but the videographers had 360 cameras or whatever. i guess it ws a very dramatic part of the movie where they needed lots of different shots and angles ... and they made me join the people “actors” in the marshy water w/ the ribbon rope thing running slowly in circles almost like 3/4 submerged underwater .. and once they got their footage they packed up and left and there was a scene of them behind the scenes working w/ their footage and it was like rly bad quality i thought w/ like bright green grass and stuff and i was like were those even professional movie quality cameras? so the water draine and everything was back to “normal” 3 rd old me did a lot of more funny things too but idont remmeber... lastly. laaaastly.... the whole dream was pretty different... the house became a giant mario kart wii-esque race track but we were actually in the game bc it wasnt avideo game it was us actually in karts/bikes racing...it was me, some family, some others idk, and karen again. so we raced and it was crazy fun and a very wild fun map omfg... but it wasn all jusr racing it was a weird mix of so much. it went on for forever so many different obstacles and turns and tunnels and roomsand traveling and fun and not all by car. i was recoridng this too. oh yeah there was this one half-black guy who was like martin kinda and he was w/ me (& 3 yr old me?) on thejourney for some of the scenes....... there is sosososo much more to it you dont freaking know and neither do i now!!! forgotten!!! gone forever. oh well. too much to hold onto anyway. but it was so much more childhood stuff and wildness. but the game finished up around the last lap idk... back in race mode and there were these wario stadium-esque walls like a skate board slope ramp thingy... racinb up those,, get the speed boosts ont he ground, crazy,people neck-and neck, karen was like in th place but then she threw some chansey looking egg bomb thingy and hit 2 out of 3 people and they swerved and she raced toward the finish and won and was super happy and i got 6th place and she wanted us to watch the replay it was crazy too idk!!! actually it think we just re-watched the last 30 seconds where she threw the egg bombs and it was an aerial pov and it was hilarious to see the precision as they swerved out of the way and she sped thru the finish line lol.... might bve been some more stuff after this, and there was a shitton of more before all this and in--between. holy hell. but then i woke up and firgot it all. so the end. freakign. need a dream recorded. i swear to god. for real. holy. heck.

[suzietadventures-blog]

A few days transcript

18.11.17

Travelled to another camp at the Southern end of Lake Malawi. The journey took us along the Rift Valley into the beautiful mountains around the lake. When we neared the top, we stopped to allow us to take photos of the lake , but I looked up and saw a order of prey circling the valley before us. Took a picture and Richard, one of our resident vets/ornithologist identified it as a black Kite. Wow, beautiful.

Looking at the lake from there, I thought about how I learned about the Great Lakes and the Rift Valley in school so long ago and how incredibly fortunate I am to be able to experience all this.

The journey took a full 8 hours with a few stops, one of them being a police check. An officer came into the bus, walked around and asked where the cider was. We didn’t have any, so he accepted a bottle of water instead.

Arrived at the camp around 330pm, it’s paradise. I have a lovely room with a huge bed and it’s en suite. So much more comfortable than the last few nights. It’s not a 5 star bathroom, but it’s a bathroom so yaayy.

17.11.17

Today there was a local village tour which was included in the tour. An 8 hour mountain walk was optional as was wood carving but decided to have a relaxing day. Leaving the camp, we had to pass a number of shops selling wooden ornaments and things, where we were bombarded by the local vendors. These followed us for the whole tour, making sure we returned to their stall at the end.

First stop was the local primary school where the younger children don’t have desks and have to sit on the floor. The classes are about 60 strong and a mixture of ages. The youngsters kept catching hold of our hands. We were given a talk by the head master then handed a donation box.

Next was an orphanage, which looks after 45 local children who have been orphaned, usually through aids. There were only 6 there today, but felt awkward as they were basically gold to perform for us. Again a donation box. Finally onto the local hospital, which was more like a doctors surgery but without the sterile environment and again another donation box.

The wood carving vendors then took us to their stalls, where I bought a few presents after haggling really well.

After lunch, relaxed in the shade of one of the camp covered areas on the beach, reading my book in the shade and breeze. Fantastic. The 2 retired ladies, Maria and May joined me and Maria took a fancy to a parked mobile home type truck, asked the owner if we could see inside. Very impressive and brilliant to travel Africa if you know how to fix mechanical things.

I was finally tempted to go in the water, being reassured by everyone that there is no biloxia in this area of the lake. It was glorious, tepid fresh water, waves and sandy under foot.

16.11.17

5am start today as a long drive into Malawi, Lake Malawi.

The expansive vista once again changed regular from the mountains we started at to forestry and open plains. The roads were particularly bumpy as there seemed to be a new road being built for miles which meant we were diverted onto what felt like a dirt road for much of the morning. After about 6 hours, looking down from the mountainous landscape at the valleys it felt like it could be Europe with its ploughed fields varying shades of brown and green

We stopped at a really busy Market place a short while before crossing the border. It’s obviously a frequent stop for border crossers, the locals were friendly if pushy. The buzz and vibrant colours worn by the local women was brilliant. Bought the best mango I’ve ever had for 30p.

As we traveled along the Rift Valley, the lush green of the vegetation continued banana groves and to tea plantations high in the mountains. This scene is marred only by the tonnes of plastic bottles and bags littering the side of the roads for the whole journey.

Finally after nearly 10 hours driving, we reached the border with Malawi. An hour and half and at the border then 3 hours inside Malawi to the lake. Absolutely exhausted but they have s bar and a cold beer so yaayy.

15.11.17

6.30 set off for game drive in the park. We were put into the typical safari jeeps you see on tv, they re perfect for it though. I wasn’t sure we would see anything but even from the road, we saw a buffalo that had been killed prob by a lion, a lion cub and a lioness. Inside the park, the guides were able to find lots of game for us, lions mating right in front of us crocodiles, one came from nowhere and tried to catch a bird right in front of us , elephants walked across the road in front of us, lots of giraffes, vultures finishing off a deer, hippos. I feel so very lucky to have been able to make this trip and see all these animals in the wild.

There’s a mixture of people in the group, vets, teachers, app designer and 2 other retired women. This all makes for a varied conversation at meal times.

Time to move on again at lunchtime. We passed flat dry plains making our way into the mountains. As we climbed, the scorching hot temperatures fell slowly so that by the time we arrived at our camp, it was a pleasant manageable heat. On the way, a bird, apparently a speckled mouse bird flew into our truck. Very pretty with a long tail. Fortunately the vet, Richard managed to catch it without injuring it and set it free gently when we stopped.

We re staying at a place owned by a British family who’ve lived here for generations. It’s called a farm, but shows no resemblance to one. No en suite for me here, have to go outside onto the grounds for the shared toilets and shower s.

14.11.17

A long day on the road travelling from Dar es Salaam to Mikumi National Park.

Our truck has windows really big windows that open all the way down, so the temperature inside the truck was pleasant.

The scenery along the route changed from what I would call shrub land to vast open plains with a few bigger trees dotted here and there. We could see a mountain range in the distance, which we eventually neared, but didn’t go through it.

Along the route, the villages seemed to be defined by their road side stalls, thete were all sorts, from wooden bed frames amongst other things, coffins, clothes hanging from trees and basket ware with numerous brick and block sellers. We passed only a couple of hotels such as Vatican City pub lodge and Good time guest house.

When we entered Mikumi National park, the wildlife was almost immediately visible. I caught my first sight of baboons, zebras, giraffes and wilder beast .

The camp is in the middle of the wild and so has rangers walking around, particularly at night. My cabin is a lovely, very basic lodge type thing but very hot.