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(Table of what levels you unlock each chapter)

This is Piñata Island. It’s the most incredible place in the world, where living piñata roam wild. In the middle of the island is Piñata Central. It’s the place where piñata packed with candy go so they can be sent to parties all over the world.  

Around Piñata Central are lots of gardens. And the people who live on Piñata Island have learned how to care for the land so the wild Piñata will stay in their gardens and fill up with candy. Candy-filled piñata can then be sent up to Piñata Central, so each party receives the piñata that suits it best.

This is an amazing island and my garden was the most amazing place on this island. I was famous here, but some PEST, Er… took a dislike to me. To make a long story short, all my hard work was ruined! I often wish that I were still young and strong enough to put the garden back in order, but those days are gone. Now the garden is yours and you’re facing a challenge that even I might not be able to beat.  

My name is Jardiniero (you’ve probably heard of me and if you haven’t you should have). I am the best gardener on Piñata Island, even after all this time there’s no-one as good as I was. The land that you are messing about with used to be my garden. I could make any plant grow and have any piñata stay in the garden… well apart from one piñata. Let’s face it, if I couldn’t get one, no-one else could. Now forget about all that, you’ve got a long way to go before you can even call this a garden.  

Not long after I started the garden I met my wonderful wife. She worked on the ships which traded piñata for other goods. This was in the days when piñata only left the island by boat, Piñata Central hadn’t been built then.  

Little Stardos grew quickly, just like my garden. I hired a helper called Lester to do some of the less skillful jobs in the garden. He was O.K. but he was always writing things down, drawing pictures and making ‘plans’. I’d ask him to do something and he’d mess it up. I’d tell him how to do it properly and he’d write it all down. If he listened more and wrote less he might have been more useful. I also found him trying to take shortcuts, he’d miss out some important work just so he could pack an extra couple of piñata into a crate to Piñata Central.  

Stardos was learning more and more everyday which was a good job because I found Lester messing around with sweets. One afternoon I was walking down past the Gooseberry bushes when I found Lester stirring a pot of stick red and black liquid which smelled SOUR. The secret of happy piñata is good candy. It’s one shortcut you can’t afford to take, start messing with candy and who knows what effect it would have on a piñata!

It was a good job that Stardos was such a natural gardener (like his dad) because our little family soon had a new member. Our second child, Leafos was born during Mother’s shore leave. Mother had to go back to sea very soon after Leafos was born. I brought up Leafos, continued Stardos’ training and maintained my fantastic garden.  

Leafos loved the garden so much she used to take flowers into her room at night. And it didn’t stop there, she tried to take a Moozipan to bed one night and I had to draw the line. The next day I gave her some paper and pencils and she started drawing all the things she saw in the garden, so she could put them up in her room.

As she got older she wrote about the plants and piñata as well as drawing pictures. In next to no time her walls were covered with sketches and writing so we made a book to keep it all in. That was the start of my Journal where a record of everything in the garden was kept.

In the old days I was an expert romance dancer. Mother was caught by surprise and my second daughter was born at sea. Mother named her after the migrating Storks that followed the ship. Little Storkos spent all her early years on the ships with Mother. She was taught to read by sailors and the comic books they collected. She grew up running around the decks pretending to have super powers.

Piñata Central had a regular supply of common piñata types but my garden was the only place to get the really unusual piñata. I worked in the garden with my family, Mother visited as often as she could. Everything was nearly perfect, and then my youngest son Sidos arrived, like the cherry on the cake.

Mother gave up sailing and we lived as a family in and around the garden for a short time. Sidos started to look after a Shellybean, then two and soon he had romanced them. He was very advanced for such a little boy (like a chip off the old man’s block). Sidos and his family of Shellybeans continued to spend lots of time together.  

When Piñata Central requested some Shellybean piñatas, Sidos happily sent the whole family. Sidos had taught the Shellybeans all sorts of tricks including the ‘Tower of Shellybeans’ and the ‘Shellybean burst’. Those little Shellybeans must have put on quite a show because when they came home there was suddenly a big demand for Shellybean piñatas. Obviously Sidos followed in his Dad’s footsteps, becoming a piñata expert before he could talk properly.  

You probably heard I was the most successful gardener on Piñata Island, and that’s not a boast it’s a fact. Suddenly a rumor started that there was one piñata I hadn’t managed to capture. I laughed when people asked me about it but it was starting to bug me. Surely if anyone could lure a Dragonache into their garden it was me.  

Meanwhile back on Piñata Island things were taking a turn for the worse. Lester approached Stardos with an offer of help while I was away. Lester claimed he had made some new red and black sweets that were a short-cut to attracting piñata. He invited Stardos over to his lair in the jungle to try them for himself…

I spent the afternoon drinking tea and listening to the old man. It turned out he was a Diggerling, and for years he had been digging strange and wonderful objects out of the ground. One object was a large egg, which as the old man put it “… was as close as he’d ever been to a Dragonache.”

The old man dropped me off at the docks and I built myself this chair out of old scrap I found. I sped down to the garden. It was like my worst nightmare come true. Piñata homes were smashed, the plants had all dried up and the soil had been baked as hard as concrete.  

Leafos was hiding in the house. She explained that Stardos had gone into the jungle to meet Lester. As soon as he was out of sight a gang of Ruffians had arrived. They smashed up the garden, ripped my journal into pieces and put all the piñata in a crate and sent them to Lester… No I can’t call him Lester anymore. Pester is a better name for him!

Little Sidos had run into the swamp with his Shellybeans. They were his only family for some time. This seems to have really affected him. Now he loves seeds (just like the Shellybeans do) and he calls himself Seedos.  

Mother hasn’t returned to Piñata Island. She must be having quite an adventure!

And now we’re back to where you came in.  

* On the map seen in Chapter 8, an unknown piñata can be seen. It appears to resemble a sea serpent, along with possessing all the characteristics of a sour piñata. Whether such a piñata truly exists is unknown, as nothing like it is ever seen in-game.

* The old Diggerling acts as a hint for the player on how to obtain a Dragonache for themselves, requiring the egg to be mined up by the same type of helper.