Tales of the Venturous Three

After getting bored and seeking out something to do, the Tales of the Venturous Three follow the happy-go-lucky trio as they travel deep into the jungles of the Macaroon Expanse in unexplored Tropicalis, and hopefully find a tale worth recounting while they're at it.

Chapter 1: Boredom and Ennui
It was an average, clear afternoon in Tropicapolis, Tropicalis, the busy capital city of around 3 million residents. Sun shone through the windows of Lagois Mansion, illuminating the entirety of its three stories, perfectly undisturbed by any clouds.

In the living room of the mansion were three individuals - a blue puffle with glasses who was reading a book, a fully suited ninja with visible blond hair, and a lime green penguin with a yoyo who wore a red hoodie and blue facepaint, topped with a cap. Everything in the vicinity was almost completely silent, save for the occassional flip of the puffle's book, the whisk of the lime penguin throwing and catching the yoyo, and the whistle of the wind through the open window.

Suddenly, after several moments, the lime green penguin caught the yoyo one last time.

Wikipenguino45: Yeah, okay, I'm gonna be honest. I'm bored.

The ninja, Falco, who had been staring out the window, sighed.

Falco: Same.

The puffle paused from his book and looked up to them.

Terry Van Furry: Well, you could always watch television.

Wikipenguino: True, but there's nothing showing right now that's new, isn't a rerun of a show, or particularly interesting.

Terry: In that case, you could play a game.

Wikipenguino: True, but I've already completed most games that I own and I'm still waiting on the others to update, which doesn't seem to be anytime soon.

Terry: Then you could watch a WaddleTube video.

Wikipenguino: True, but there's not exactly any new video I want to watch.

Terry: Well, then maybe you could read this book about the study of human culture and the lack of contact with penguinkind-

Falco: Terry, please. The point is, we need something actually fun to do.

Terry frowned.

Terry: Well, if none of my recommendations suit your liking, you're more than welcome to think of something yourself.

Falco: No, no, no, that's the thing. We can't think of anything!

Wikipenguino: Perhaps an adventure...?

Falco: But then again, where?

Terry: Where, indeed. At this point, I'd say there isn't any place that isn't or hasn't already been explored.

Wikipenguino thought for a moment, before his eyes lit up.

Wikipenguino: Wait, that's it!

Terry: ..."it" as in there's nothing to explore? If so, I'm perfectly content with that. No need for us to needlessly pursue something and endanger our own safety in the process as we have a tendency to do-

Wikipenguino: No, I mean the part about there not being any place that's been left unexplored. Because there is...

Wikipenguino got up and went over to a nearby bookcase. He began rummaging through the many drawers in the bookcase, before pulling out a map of Tropicalis. He then brought it over to Falco and Terry before pointing towards the southern end of the second main island of the country, Beakíl Island.

Wikipenguino: There's a region towards the south of Beakily, bordering Maritimus. It was left mostly unexplored and untouched throughout history, mainly because it was dense jungle and river, and nobody really wanted to make the effort to map it all out. My great-great uncle Zephaniah said that he and other explorers at the time left it unexplored because of how close it was to the border of the Imperial Empire back when Tropicalis was split into two.

Falco: Aren't there, like, any highways going through it?

Wikipenguino: Well, uh, not really. Hardly anyone lives in that region. Plus, the workers constructing on it didn't really feel the need to want to cross dense and unexplored jungle just to build a highway, so they didn't build any roads through there. Some historians think it may have been inhabited during antiquity, but nobody has really touched the area since. Nobody really knows what's in there now.

Falco: Cool...what if it's been hiding golden puffles all this time? I heard that according to legend, they not only have advanced telekinesis but can fly too. Didn't Zephaniah try to find them at some point?

Terry: Yes, he did, but no proof of the existence of any such gold or "golden puffle" was ever recovered by any known explorer in history besides myths. If golden puffles existed, we would have at least found or seen them by now.

Falco: You're really sure about that, huh?

Wikipenguino: Well, does it really matter? It looks like we've got some exploring to do...

Falco: Count me in, pal.

Wikipenguino: In that case, towards adventure!

Terry seemed reluctant.

Terry: This better not involve any exhilarating or life-threatening situations.

Falco: Oh, come on. It's better that nothing. Plus, we're only mapping out an unexplored region of the Tropicalian jungle that hasn't been explored since days of yore. Nothing we can't handle. It's just like you always say, Terry - nothing could go wrong! This should be easy. Even for you!

Wikipenguino: Alright, Falco, I think he gets it. You in, Terry?

Terry: I'll come, but remember that we're only going to map things out. Nothing else.