> Why don't we meet him, Hm?

Let’s give this guy a name.


> Big Stinker.

What? You’re only a little stinky.


> Mudman

That’s more like it.

Your name is MARTY MUDMAN. You are 17 years old and you have SURVIVED in these WETLANDS for your entire life. Your PARENTS have left you to your own devices 4 years ago, after they determined you were apt enough for this environment. They left due to UNCERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, but you figure it was within reason. You enjoy being LEFT ALONE most of the time anyway, so that none may inhibit your FREEDOM. However, you aren’t opposed to having friends and contributing to your local COMMUNITY.

You are generally a KIND and FREE-SPIRITED type of person. You love to casually roam and DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. While you do as you see fit, most of the time you are RESPECTFUL towards others, though you may come off as insensitive or aloof at times. You are also a very QUIET person, due to having lived in the wilderness with almost NO ONE around. This doesn’t stop you from being loud unexpectedly, you just think excess noise is unnecessary.

You live alone, as mentioned before, in what you would describe as WARM WETLANDS, or a mild SWAMP. Your house is a LITTLE SHACK, obscured by some bushes and trees, with facilities suitable enough for you. It fulfills all your basic needs and gives you a place to rest, bathe, and browse the WORLD WIDE WEB at your leisure.

Your INTERESTS include going on ADVENTURES, discovering WILDLIFE, exploring the LAND, and DOCUMENTING NEW FINDINGS. Your hobbies include day-to-day SURVIVAL, strumming on your ACOUSTIC GUITAR, reading BOOKS, and looking at MAPS. In fact, you’ve experimented with cartography yourself, but have only managed some CRUDE LAYOUTS of the lands. Some may interpret it as a child’s doodling, but it makes sense in your head.

Your chumhandle is interminableMoss and you show off your mostly chilled out nature by speaking in a pretty quiet but polite manner. nothing out of the ordinary, just you living your life! :]

Now that this is cleared up, you’ve got some serious frog showcasing to do.


> Show off your recent catch

A mighty fine frog in its natural habitat. You found this one sitting just outside your shack.


> Wait, look! There's even more frogs now!

Oh would you look at that? What an absolute party!


> Lay down. Let the frogs embrace you.

You let the water encase you. Clothes are temporary and peace is forever. There’s a cleaner looking stream nearby that you could soak in for a moment if you wanted to clean yourself off anyways.

This is the life.


> Contemplate.

The joys of nature are always so thrilling. It’s so painful to think there are some people out here that would hate to be in your position. You know your best friend would hate being here, he would probably start sobbing at the very idea of getting his clothing even slightly wet. He’s always been pretty uptight with the idea of any mess…

Maybe you should text him and ask how he is!


> Take out your phone

Your trusty invention! You do this whole laying in water thing fairly often, so it makes sense to make sure your phone doesn’t fizzle out or something from all the water. Welp. Time to text your buddy!

-- interminableMoss [IM] began pestering wonderousThespian [WT] --

IM: you wouldn’t believe what i’m doing right now :]

WT: let me guess 4 u

WT: ur probs @ ur house soakin urself in water

IM: haha

IM: yeah

IM: you should try it out

WT: r u showerin soakin urself in water or r u layin in crusty ass water soakin in water

IM: hey

IM: i’ll have you know that swamp water isn’t dirty or “crusty” like everyone thinks it is

IM: be nice to nature!

IM: she does a lot for us.

WT: ill pass on ur offer

IM: you’re always being such a sore thumb :[

IM: i’m sure once you try out sitting in some water surrounded by fish and plants you will love it

WT: wtf

WT: tht litrly sounds like th opposite of smth id like

WT: cant u get like

WT: idk diseases or smth

WT: wtf wht if the water gives u like aids

WT: is that somethin that happens

WT: water aids

WT: thats like not healthy or whatev

WT: aint there like those fish that bite the shit out of ur toes

WT: n like suck ur blood

WT: thats gross

WT: i dont want to sit in sum murky ass water gettin sucked off by a fish

WT: shits like

WT: not cool or whatever

WT: id rather be gettin that treatment from a hot girl

WT: if u kno wht i mean

WT: 😏😏😏

-- interminableMoss [IM] sent a video attachment --

WT: wtf did u even hear anythin i was sayin

IM: sorry!

IM: i got distracted looking at these frogs

IM: look how cute they are

IM: :]

WT: theyre like

WT: whatever

IM: :[

WT: fine theyre like fire

IM: what do you mean they are like fire?

IM: they’re frogs, they’d die in fire

WT: no omg

WT: dude ur like

WT: 2 wholesum lmao

WT: its kinda cute

WT: wait not cute

WT: fuck

WT: no homo dude

WT: im not gay and never will b gay

WT: its just like funny idk

WT: im not gay i didnt say anythin

IM: okay, i believe you!

IM: hey, can i come by today?

IM: i wanted to post a few more videos on my new youtube account but the wifi out here hasn’t been very good

WT: wow its almost leik ur in a swamp or smth

IM: wait you’re right

IM: i think it is because i’m in a swamp!

WT: omf

WT: im not even gonna get back on this it ended badly th last time i did

WT: which was like

WT: 2 secs ago

WT: ya u can use my wifi

WT: n come see how hot i am or w/e

WT: lolz

IM: awesome!

IM: i will see you soon my friend

IM: :]

WT: WAIT

-- interminableMoss [IM] ceased pestering wonderousThespian[WT] --

WT: pls tell me u r goin 2 wash urself off b4 u come into my house

WT: omfg

WT: u fukin bitch wtf

WT: i cant believe u disconnected on me

WT: smfh

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