Wednesday, October 22, 2014

A Tale Of Two Travelers: In Search Of Gulliver

     I had just arrived in Lilliput to look for Gulliver with my friend, when she came across a dog about two inches tall. This made me want to set out to find a dog too, for we were both fond of playing with animal figures back in England. I soon spied a dog, it had pointy ears, shaggy tan fur with brown spots, and a long bushy tail. I picked it up, careful not to squeeze it and called him Nitro. There was no sign of Gulliver, but we did spot the exceptionally made giant tables and chairs made for him. The Lilliputians stated that they had sent him away to The Forbidden Zone.
     We then headed towards The Forbidden Zone they had banished him to, only to be stopped by the King demanding we stay for the benefits of the kingdom. After he heard that we refused, he threatened to gouge out our eyes. It seemed as if he was fond of this punishment. Finally, he decided to let us go after we threatened to "put him out" in our own defense; in other words, we planned to step on him and his men if he insisted our eyes be removed. We continued our journey in a boat donated to us ironically,  by the King. After taking a few materials with us we set out to a strange land called Brobdingnag.
     We arrived at Brobdingnag which was the opposite of the Lilliputians land, everything was oversized. Out of nowhere a large figure almost crushed us to smithereens. A mammoth sized hand came down on us and I had unfortunately lost my dog due to the pressure of this creatures fat, smelly mitts. I was in the middle of her ring finger and her middle finger so I luckily escaped the blow. I got up and screamed at the top of my lungs, "You killed my dog!"  She replied in an astonishingly low voice for a little giant girl, "Eek It's a talking gnat!" I spotted a puddle below which seemed like a lake in my point of view. Suddenly, a shadow covered the area of her hand, as I looked up my friend screamed in terror, her other hand was in the air for another whack at us. I remembered the Lilliputians gave us five whole barrels of Glimmigrim each, which we later found out was a wine that fills your bladder. At that instant my bladder was to capacity and I had to go. I decided that if I emptied it here the benefits would go to us. The monstrous creatures' reaction was as if we had stung her and after shaking her hand vigorously we fell into the puddle unharmed.
      I looked at my friend in relief as we dried ourselves off on a humungous leaf, after that experience we had doubts Gulliver was alive. We climbed onto a large blade of grass and saw a far off stone and decided that we should investigate. After a long journey to the structure we saw that it was a house of some sort but how were we to get in? Finally, I realized we were small and could fit through any nook and cranny in the whole land, so we slipped under the door and saw four giants, one of which was holding Gulliver. By golly, it was the same little giant girl that almost took our lives! My friend put her hands on her hips and said, "Well look at that! That rat of girl is treating Gulliver like a king and she managed to kill your miniature dog and treat us like a bed bug!"
     My friend and I called Gullivers' name and finally got his attention. He requested in a different tongue to speak to us, and after the little giant girl set him down we took him quickly, not giving him a chance to speak and ran as fast as a gnat could fly. We returned to our boat and headed home. Along the way Gulliver explained how he survived in such a place astonishing our ears with his fantastical tale.
We enjoyed Gullivers' story and we compared it with our own to take back to England and incorporate it with our animal figure gameplay.