Switch Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 Ford cringes and retches as the taste kicks in. He quickly spits the food out on the floor. "Oh... um... I'm sorry! I guess your food sorta doesn't agree with... our dimension's... pallette?" He grins nervously hoping he hasn't angered them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThetaOrionis01 Posted May 3, 2004 Share Posted May 3, 2004 Lurel has all sorts of strange and unsettling dreams. In one dream he is eating a bowl of porridge when suddenly pink worms start wriggling in it. The worms turn into a swarm of insects which flies out of the porridge and straight at him, and he wakes with a start. He takes a sip of water from his bottle, and tries to go back to sleep. This time, he dreams about the beach. As he bends to pick up the strange metal he realizes that he is surrounded by the poisonous plants he fell into. They are sprouting from the sand and the mud around him like a rising tide, and before he can turn to run they have grown so huge that he is smothered by them. This time he wakes bathed in sweat, and it takes a while for him to calm down. He lies awake for a long time, only to fall, at last, into a dreamless sleep. Yet just before he drifts off, he hears a strange voice in his head....a voice he has heard before. "The Keeper. You must find out about the Keeper. Ask about the Keeper." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShinJiOh Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 Movement suddenly comes to Midge, if only it hadn't been to roll out the side of the bed he had been placed in... then landing with a thud. Midge stumbles over to the nearest window, takes one peek and then says "I'm not even going to ask" and with that goes back to sleep on his bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchik Posted May 4, 2004 Author Share Posted May 4, 2004 Lurel is wakened by Tallian shaking his shoulder telekinetically (a very odd sensation). "We will be ready to leave in a short time. Make your preparations. Leave what you do not need. Everything will be safe here. The gondola will arrive at the window." She points a 'wing' at the window Midge had earlier peered from. "I noticed that our welcome dish did not appeal to you. We have so little contact with your kind I do not know what to suggest. Some of the colonies prefer nuts and fruit if you prefer that. We have insects, a few rats....?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThetaOrionis01 Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 Lurel yawns and rubs his eyes as he sits up - he feels as though he hasn't slept at all. "We didn't mean to offend you by refusing your welcome dish," he says apologetically, "but it was very different from the types of food we eat. Nuts and fruit sound much more like our kind of food though. I'm not so sure about insects and rats...." He pulls on the boots he discarded before going to sleep. "How many of us should go?" he asks. "All of us? Or just one or two?" With a sigh, and a stifled yawn he gets up, and walks over to Ford to shake him awake. He turns to look at Tallian. "Who is the Keeper?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchik Posted May 7, 2004 Author Share Posted May 7, 2004 Tallian had already turned to fetch you the fruit and nuts when you ask your last question. She turns and stares at you with a frightening intensity. "Explain where you heard that name. And you'd better be convincing or you'll none of you leave here alive." You are suspended on a sleeping pallet that hangs over nothingness, in a country of which you know nothing, that is full of hostile people. You had better be convincing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch Posted May 7, 2004 Share Posted May 7, 2004 Ford stirs and sits up, still half asleep. "Huh, what? What's going on?" He looks at the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThetaOrionis01 Posted May 9, 2004 Share Posted May 9, 2004 Lurel stares at her in surprise and alarm. However much he has tried to accept this world as just another dimension, it now comes home to him just how alien it is. A chill creeps up on him as he considers his answer...and as he uncomfortably remembers something Tallian said which had not properly registered at the time. 'Unfortunately we need you alive'. In desperation he uses his empathy skill on her, hoping it will tell him something about her. "I don't understand your sudden hostility," he says to gain time. "The more so since I know nothing about this Keeper, and can therefore not tell why my question should have angered you so. Before we were brought here we did not even know of this dimension's existence. I can tell you where I heard that name - but for you to believe me I would have to tell you many things, about myself, my friends, and the chain of events which brought us here. It is a long story, and will take a long time to tell. Do you want me to tell you now?" Anxiously he waits for her reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShinJiOh Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 Midge sensing the mood needs to be lightened a touch offers up"well, i suppose it depends how do you present these rats... baked? stewed?, i once ate raw insects adn as for the taste.. well i was just desperate" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchik Posted May 10, 2004 Author Share Posted May 10, 2004 Tallian seems distracted by Midge's comments but quickly looks back at Lurel. "You need tell me nothing except how you know of the Keeper. Who told you of that name?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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