Your family already believes you are gone. The apartment is emptied with all your stuff sold or donated to charity. Car, sold. Now here you are, crouched behind the fence of your parents' backyard. It is the middle of the afternoon with most residents of the neighborhood either at work or in school. It's a good thing too, after all, what would they think to see a man dressed in full army battle dress uniform camouflage, green face paint, a worn out machete holstered (your only 'weapon' and due to being worn will not last long) and carrying a large brown rucksack of survival equipment to complete the tools and accessories attached to the uniform? Despite everything, you feel super excited and you cannot back out now. You turned away from everything and went all in. This is going to not only be an adventure but a lifestyle.
You pull out a tiny black box with a red button on the center from your pocket. This would be your final chance if there is any. You can still turn back now and just live at your family's house and get your bearings back until you can have your own job and apartment again. It would be like starting over.
The cool breeze blows, across your face and you realize that this is such a stupid idea. Your thoughts are right, you should turn back. You start to lower the device down to your pocket.... "Fuck that." You say, quickly pressing down the button before you change your mind again.
Poof
A bright flash of light blinds you and the world as you know it changes for good. The environment is instantly different. Your eyes start to adjust after the impairing flash blindness and you find yourself surrounded by a dense jungle of grass the size of trees. The air is cooler in temperature despite being a hot summer afternoon, the effects of the shady jungle and your tiny body having a harder time retaining heat in the ultra-sized earth. Weird sounds alien-like groans, buzzing, clicking and cracking fill the air in a constant ambience. The sounds of now gigantic bugs and animals making for an otherworldly jungle. The sap from the grass-like trees also made the air humid as the sun evaporated it but the cool air from the shade refused to let it escape. A true rainforest. Your heart stops for a second as you realize the shrinking device is no longer in your hand, it fell out during your shrinking session. It was designed to shrink along with the user to make it possible to reactivate it and grow again but now the device is lost at a tiny size amongst the grass. You could try to search for it but your survival instincts kick in and you realize every piece of energy you have must be used wisely. The initial experience in this jungle will be your most crucial and will decide how the rest of your adventure or life shall turn out. If you are desperate enough to grow back you can find this place and search until kingdom come, otherwise, the result is the same. You are shrunk and trying to survive, tired of the world and deciding to live however you choose.
Craning your head up, you see a gigantic wooden wall stretching perhaps a thousand feet or two. The backyard fence, but the gap under it is easily big enough to drive a semi stacked on top of each other 3 times through. You walk under the fence and although the grassy jungle shows no change, you realize you are now in the backyard of your family. A place that may as well be its own country or even world in your proportion.
You decide that your first goal out in this jungle should be to...
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