Penultimate Forest

**Penultimate Forest** is a location accessible through Corridoria that has a 17-hour day with an approximately 200-day year, with Winters possessing chills up to -150°F and Summers with highs of 185°F Due to this extreme temperature range it is advisable only to travel to Penultimate Forest during the spring or autumn when the temperature may range from a more habitable -20°F to 110°F.

## Life

### Trees

Penultimate Forest, as it's name would suggest, is mostly comprised of massive trees which have been known to exceed 3,000 feet in height. These trees do not need to siphon water all the way up to the top leaves via xylem due to a mechanism in which the tree funnels water condensate (as a result of the height and low cloud-cover) through hollows in the branches, trunks, and bridges towards the central trunk. This water is stored in the tree during excessively hot or cold weather spells.

The trees are able to withstand the great weight exerted on their bases and resist wind force due to being made out of two primary organometallic substances made of a carbon-based system of microscopic filaments between cells and a metallic cell wall for the cells themselves.

### Slugs

Large yellow slugs up to two feet in length inhabit this forest, being able to secrete acid capable of melting through the tree's metallic composition and reaching the pockets of sweet sap that appear here and there inside the tree. These slugs are noctural and will only come down from the trees at night. However, they can spray this acid when threatened or startled which is why it's advisable all explorers only visit during the daytime. The slugs may also curl up into hard shells and enter a state of cryptobiosis when temperatures below -80°F or above 30°F are reached. They prefer colder climates.

**Name:** Penultimate Forest
**Path:** R2L1 (72 feet from entrance)
**Status:** Terrestrial, Quasi-Safe
**First Expedition:** 14 July 1990
**Time Differential:** 1.0014

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**Artifacts** 4-Kallisti • MMC-OB6 camera (Operating Manual) • Oneir.OS • Starspeak

**TAOCEAR** *Overseers* Henry G. Gordon (1990 - 1993) • Mary Cindworth (1993 - 2020) • Marvin Levin (2020)
*Charting* Expeditions • List of Dimensions • Map

**Miscellaneous** *Corridoria Unlocked*

```
             █                The Final Realm
             ^
             ^  •
          █  █  █             The 300 Mile Outpost
         █████████
          █  █  █             Cloverworld
             ^  •
             ^

```

```
              █
             ███•              Aqueous
              █
           █  █  █
          █████████
           █  █  █
              █
             ███
              █
     █        █        █
   •███      ███      ███      The Meadows
  •  █        █        █
  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █    The Bilbous Plane
•███████████████████████████   The Garden
  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █    The Needleworks, A 1920s Museum
  •  █        █        █  •
    ███     •███•     ███      Stickerworld, The Tower
     █        █        █       The Omega Beach, YggdraCole
     •        █        •
            •███•              The Glassworks, Picasso's Nightmare
           •  █  •
           █  █  █             Oneiros INC., **Penultimate Forest**
         •█████████•           The Hill's Pockets, Streamerworld
           █  █  █             A Verde Planet, The Woodworks
           •  █  •
            •███•              Koiworld, Mirrorworld
              █                Entrance

```

```
   █ = Aquatic            • = Safe
   █ = Celestial          • = Quasi-Safe
   █ = Structural         • = Dangerous
   █ = Surreal            • = *Unknown*
   █ = Terrestial
   █ = *Unknown*

```