Okay I only have 22% so this is going to have to do. Hello okay so my name is Daniel Harper, you might have heard of me. I’m a professional mountain climber and have been doing this for almost fifteen years. I’m the guy who taught all those actors in your favorite movies how to climb. It’s a big deal.

I’m recording on my phone and I believe I have just found the lost city of Atlantis. This is not a drill and I’m recording this just in case someone finds my phone because I don’t make it back. So I was climbing in the Rockies right, standard climb, high altitude. When I was climbing, I see this perfect rectangle in the rocks, it's about the size of a fridge okay. I decided to climb into it but I still have my line attached just in case I go too far. I start walking and I pass maybe 30 feet of cavernous terrain to see a jungle unlike one I’ve ever seen before.

Trees that sore and touch the heavens and little creatures swinging from branch to branch. I have never seen anything like it. There’s no way this is Earth’s surface, I think I’ve actually landed in the Earth’s center where scientists theorize dinosaurs still live. I can’t be certain but I’m sure, this is it, the center of Earth. I’ve been walking for three minutes now and am probably getting to the end of my line here but this is absolutely spectacular. I mean there are no words in our language to describe such beauty.

At the very far end, I see some sort of structure, it looks like a city and I can only theorize it is the lost city of Atlantis. Scientists have said it’s real, I’ve said it’s real, there it is maybe four miles away from me. I am going to take a couple pictures of this before I head back I, uh, oh fuck. Something cut my line.


It has been three hours since I have found this new world, the Earth’s center. I started walking towards Atlantis because it appears that the portal I used to enter this world closed and cut my line clean. I have no choice but to make my way to the city. Scientists have said that the city housed some of the most powerful magical artifacts we’ve ever known. I can say with certainty that this city seems to still have natives, I can see a sort of smoke in the distance leading me to believe that people are living here. A new tribe, a new sort of species even. I can only theorize that I am the first to make contact with this new species in probably hundreds of thousands of years. I- oh fuck. I just stepped in what appeared to be, uh, this is strange it’s like large white arches. A structure of some sort? I would like to document it but I am running low on battery and didn’t pack any other resources. Surely there is a way to charge the device in Atlantis but uh, what the, what are these? Are these bones? Wait, there is something chirping, it sounds as if it is getting closer.


To those who find this, this world is certainly not the Earth’s core. This is a new layer of hell that our people are not ready for. Wherever gods may be, they have abandoned this cursed land. There is nothing but death here. The city I thought was Atlantis seems to be some sort of amalgamation of New York, but I don’t understand. There are trees and roots growing within buildings. I’ve even found my house but I don’t recognize it. I found pictures of me but they appear to be of me as a child, however I’ve never taken these pictures and they aren’t in my home. I did, however, find a charger, and proceeded to charge my device. There appears to be power in this building although I don’t understand how. I must say, I have to stay moving as something appears to be following me. It keeps chirping at me, I hear it hopping outside.

I have now claimed New York City. Upon the highest building, I stand, looking at this layer of Hell. I believe I am now king, and as I stand here, holding onto riches I could only dream of, I must say this feels fitting. I knew my life would be something like this, I just knew. One thing I don’t understand, why this city of New York looks so different from mine, and why is everything so off? It’s like time works differently here and I just don’t seem to understand it. But none of that matters. I killed the thing! I shot it. I found what appears to be a gun of some sorts and shot it. It hissed at me, and then spoke something that I didn’t understand. A curse perhaps. Only scientists would know. It doesn’t matter, I stand alone at the top of the state building, looking down at this brave new world. There are none who could take this from me. None.



“Is that the last recording?” Haru asked, kneeling to inspect the footprint.
“Ye-ah. I think? I’m not too familiar with these devices.” Talindra said, handing the phone over to the hunter. Haru took it and began pressing the buttons, navigating through the menu until an answer was found.
“Yeah, this is the last one. Pretty sure he made his way down here when it got dark. Prints are probably from a Tikoloshe. If that’s the case our boy here is long gone.”
“Poor bastard?” Talindra asked, shrugging with her shotgun in hand.
“Poor bastard. Come on, let’s not be next.”