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Michelle, Valerie, and Emily's Magnificent Adventure

When we landed on our planet, we looked around from where we stood, and decided to sit down and look first at what was below our feet.

The first (and most abundant) characteristic of this land was the color green, especially on the ground. Upon closer inspection of the ground, we noticed that the green color we saw took several physical forms and some different shades of green.
The first object we observed had wiry, green protrusions from the ground. It was attached to the ground in a spreading, vein-like pattern. Its length stood anywhere between the length of an average human pinky to an average human middle finger. At the top of the wirey part, there were three flat, tear-dropped shapes, each with a middle crease,each about the size of a finger nail.
Thing 2: this thing was also green and attached to the ground. We found many other specimens on this planet that involved the color green and were ground-bound, so we made an abbreviation/acronym for this type of thing: "gg" for "green" and "ground". The second thing was hair-like, protruding from the same origin, in a bunch. A few strands tend to share a bottom pinky nail length tube structure. It was dispersed throughout but less abundant than object one.
Thing 3: This object was not attached to the ground-- free moving. It was slippery/sticky and cold feeling. Beige colored length of a thumbnail. There was a repeating oval pattern on the surface with two points (dark brown) protruding from one end. As it moves, it leaves a shiny trail. Three were observed together. Protrusions went back to its main form-- seems like a defense mechanism.Because this object was free moving (unattached to the ground) and because we saw future objects that were free moving, we made an acronym for similar objects labeled as FM.
Thing 4: GG This object is a yellowish-green color. It is fuzzy in texture and is attached to the ground. It is easily pulled from the ground. When pulled up from the ground, it looks the same as the part above ground, but it was brown and carried dirt with it.
Thing 5: FM This object is shiny, is reddish brown in color and fast-moving. It is small-length of pinky nail, and has 8 tiny attachments protruding from body. It has 3 spheres of main body(protrusion is attached).
Thing 6: F… This thing was not attached to the ground, but it did not move on its own. It was flat, and dark-red, with hint of orange and yellow, creating some pinkish tint as well. Shape was a symmetrical, 5 point star, with two adjacent points spread away from each other to create 180 degree line. There was a line coming from each of the 5 points, all meeting at/coming from a single point at the midsection of the previously described two-spreading points of the star. At this point, there is a protrusion from the flat star-plane at this point that sticks out.
Thing 7: FM This object was green and had six moving protrusions like thing 5. There was an orange line running down its back in the middle and it was in a teardrop shape. There were two reddish, very small protrusions coming from the top of the front. There were three kinks in each lower protrusion (leg-like structures) with orange/brown tips.
Thing 8: GG Bigger than other GGs that we observed previously. Shiny, flat ovals attached to either side of a brown protrusion. The first protrusion comes from the ground and then splits into other protrusions. The shiny side of the ovals is facing up to sky. There is a vein-like structure that starts from the ground and splits into others.
Thing 9: GG Largest GG we observed, about the height of one and a half humans. Lots of brown protrusions starting from one central attachment to ground. The green parts are very pliable whereas the brown parts are rough and stiff. The green parts are flat, nail-length, thin symmetrically opposing. The tips are light green. There were red spheres, diameter of a pinky nail thinly scattered. The red spheres were also slightly transparent. There is a whole in the bottom of each sphere with a green circular object in it.

 

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