About Bearington Island

Bearington is the main island in the Bearlagos, where most bears live.

Bearington is the largest island in the Bearlagos and looks like a bear paw when Bearillo, and the surrounding islands of Forestine, Jungleton, and Slowth are viewed together. Bearington is the most active place in the Bearlagos with everyday life of your average bear taking place here. You can find many things around Bearington Island, especially in the main town of Bearington Town, that helps the bears in their everyday living.

PLACES AROUND BEARINGTON:

THE BEAREUM – This is where bears learn about the history of the land, teddy bear roles, and famous bears like Paddington. This place has special meaning to the start of Eski and Oinky’s friendship, and also in understanding Eski and Padeski’s relationship.

MOUNT KKOOL – The central mountain of Bearington, and a big source of natural energy for the bears. Mount Kkool has unique resources as the rainwater in the Bearlagos has a hint of honey in it, and as this falls on the coldest, top layer of the mountain it clumps together before thawing into slow-flowing, yellow hunney (as Bearlago bears call honey) streams, which then continue further into the hunney waterfall, lake, and river.

Mount Kkool has become a tourist and recreation attraction now as bears come to collect hunney (which never goes off) at the waterfall, marvel at the hunney-colored water rivers, or swim and catch salmon in the hunney lake and natural plunge pools. That’s not all though as Mount Kkool also boasts its unique underground cool-cave system and maze-like network known as ‘The Amazington Caves’ which has hunney running through it too, as well as the ‘paw trails’ running around the mountain making Mount Kkool the perfect environment for peaceful bear walks.

If you want to know more about Bearington’s Mount Kkool then Gom Bam Boo is the right bear to teach you all about it. The bears love it here. Doomy loves to chill out in the caves while Oinky uses the caves for direction training (as he always gets lost, yet somehow finds his way back). Mount Kkool is one of Eski’s favourite places as he loves to jetski and try to hunneygobble on the hunney lake.

DOOSH CHOCOLATE FACTORY – This is Doomy’s favourite place by far. Bears might not be known to like chocolate but they do. It’s another source of energy for them, along with hunney and popcoin, other Bearington favourites. It’s not just tasty, it’s also important to the bears’ habitat, especially in cool underground places and for soil fertility when mixed with hunney. Why Doosh? Well, legend has it that underground mining was very noisy as it echoed above, but when natural chocolate mines were found the walls made much less noise when being mined and prevented such loud bangs from being a distraction, which was an added benefit. The owner of the factory decided to call it Doosh, which ironically means a loud bang, although some of the chocolate they make does make a loud pop in your mouth. Some (now) unused chocolate caves make for good quiet retreats for bears like Doomy.

CUB CARTS – Where bears come to learn to drive. The bears use Cub Carts to get around Bearington. Why Cubs and not Bears? Well on Bearington it became a tradition to learn to forage and get around very young, and the name just stuck. It has a ring to it. Cub Carts are also special cars that run on hunney and that don’t get caught in hunney rain. During large rainfall roads and paths get too sticky, so Cub Cart sticky-proof cart tyres were invented, along with a suction device to take in the hunney rain and use it as added fuel to get around further.

VISARIUM – A place bears don’t like going but have to sometimes. It allows them to get a visa known as a ‘Bearsa’ to go between other Bearlago Islands, and allows them to legally to renew their ‘Beartificate’ so they can continue to study and learn to increase their skills. The Visarium also has the ‘Visaster’ area for when things go wrong and bears have to leave the Bearlago Islands. Officers here are cruel, hard, uncaring people, called ‘Visasters’, who try to minimize the amount of bears on the Islands, but partly to keep it safe too. 

POSIUM –  A posing simulator place where bears learn to become ‘celebearities’. It has a simulator for bears to watch other celebearities and try to learn how to pose for photoshoots and act like them. Posium is a place Eski knows all too well as he’s only ambition in life was to become a celebearity like his idol Paddington Bear. Ever since learning about Paddington when young Eski had his eyes set on the Posium. He becomes to determined to pass all his Posium badges and levels to become a celebearity, and to act like a modern, narcissistic, ‘meciety’ bear that has attitude, until his real adventure journey teaches him something the classes would never have.

QURIOUS – An active learning center for the curious. Bears come here to learn about all sorts of bear trivia, and even some trivia about this other world that seems so far away from them where these things called humans live. Quteso loves going here and she tries to win many coupons by studying hard so she can keep going there for free and learn more. The cub badge says ‘me learning’ which Quteso ends up saying all the time. Quteso has a thirst for knowledge but also seems to forget a lot of what she learns, yet some of the facts she learnt here ends up being very useful later in Bearventures as she becomes a great accidental detective.

FLOATY, HUNNEY AND JUMPY RIVERS – There’s 3 rivers that run from Mount Kkool down through to the sea at different areas of Bearington. At one point in the past all of the rivers were full of rich hunney, making some of the land owners, such as in Bearillo, very wealthy. However, today there’s only one river that runs well in hunney, whilst the other two have become more barron in hunney but used for other purposes today.

Floaty River was the longest hunney river flowing all the way to Bearillo, but now it’s used primarily as a recreation ride because the river allows objects to easily float, so bear use it for the cub carts/log float rides as part of Bearillo’s Adventure Park. The bears can start at the top of Floaty River at Mount Kkool and float all the way down to Bearillo and use the floats that covert to cub carts too, and when done they leave their ride at the river and it’s brought back up to the top by the ‘cub train’ for other riders.

Jumpy River is nearly dried up in that it’s become more of a lake near Mount Kkool now but is the place to go to catch salmon and ‘spring fish’ as they spring up easily out of the water, but they are only allowed to be caught at spring time so it becomes a dedicated spring event to catch these fish, which also is when flood season arrives. With more water, there’s more fish, so bears come to try and catch salmon (which make them smarter), and spring fish (which gives them courage). The floods brought about other problems though such as bears getting stuck in the mud, so Pensa invented the convertible float carts (cub carts and log floats) to ensure bears could still get around. However, the floods can damage surrounding crops and the Amazington Caves remain too dangerous in flood season so stay closed then.

The final river known as Hunney River is still flowing well in hunney but it seems to be suspiciously leading out towards the sea near Darkwood and therefore Fort has been placed between Bearington and Darkwood to try and intercept the hunney and ensure the bear inhabitants don’t run out of Bearlagos most precious energy resource, but in recent years there’s been less and less natural hunney available which is a concern.

BEARY BERRY FIELDS – (the slogan ‘they’re beary berry good’). This is a special area on Bearington which grows bear berries, near the hunney, rich soil. These give bears extra energy and ideas, but they have to pay popcoins for them, the main currency in The Bearlagos. The berries really help bears with their brainpower, as does salmon, but there’s one of two ‘bad apples’ mixed in which might have the opposite effect, from a past effort by Dr. Grizz to sabotage the berry fields. There’s also the ‘Dunno Fruit’ fields which you can also buy in the Bearlicious Mart which is a fruit that changes every time you eat it (you never know what you are going to get with one bite tasting different from the next one). 

Many years ago these fields (and others around The Bearlagos) were mainly swamps and marshes, and had many ‘mallows’ growing in them, but there’s not many left after the ‘mallow-rush’ many years ago, only a few around the flood season. The remaining mallows leftover are harder to find now and have often been GM’d (genetically-modified) over time. They were modified at first to simply try and keep them growing as they were dying out, but then (knowing they were popular with locals) they were then corrupted and made poisonous by Dr. Grizz, and finally, they were labeled dangerous and inedible (while actually secretly used to record footage around The Bearlagos – planted by Padeski to protect the island from Dr.Grizz – knowing people wouldn’t touch them as they are seen as poisonous). There’s a unique ingredient within the mallows that somehow can track dream states. It doesn’t make dreams, but it can allow them to be re-traced, and this ended up being the source behind Pensa’s invention of the ‘dreammallows’ in Dreamback.

Bassventures – Beareum:

This song was repeated over and over in the Beareum. You may find Eski randomly humming this but not really knowing why. 

Bassventures – The Machine Goes Round:

A song that epitomises the working life of a factory, like in the Doosh factory where they play this song all day long on a loop.

Bassventures – Strike A Posium:

The song which trains bears to strike apose when the music pauses. Bears must move around with the music and then strike a unique pose at the right time. 

Bassventures – Get Qurious:

The intro music to the 'Qurious' learning center. It tries to make learning fun.