DW: Darkworld Turn 6

From: pbem@aol.com (PBEM)

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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---------DW: Darkworld Turn Six (8/25/95)  ------

You take a quick look around. You try to feel if the flames and
smoke is hurting you or not.
You notice your ability to drop the fifteen feet without any difficulty,
and
your ability to withstand the heat and smoke.

Now that you are down in the cavern, you think "I should have grabbed a
clod of
the earth and grass from up above. Never know when something like that
will come in handy!

Before doing anything else or moving, You look up to see if You can spot
the
hole You came through.  It is not there.

No one seem to notice you.  You try to get someone's attention, blocking
their path if necessary.  However this turns out to be difficult.
Althoughthey do not seem to notice you, they do seem to be avoiding you.
If you move in front of them, they stop and change course.

The people running around seem paniced.

The boundry to this scene of chaos and destruction is the walls of the
building you are in.  Taking a moment to look around, you notice many of
the traditional trappings of a night club or gambling house, although they
seem a bit odd in some hard to discern way, as if from a culture other
than your own.

You continue to look for signs, symbols and icons that would indicate
something
bad was going to happen, but other than the obvious signs of impending
destruction by fire, there is nothing.

You try to talk to the "others," and to identify all the minds within.
"Let's use
names ... I'll be 'Thor' ... you  ?. Out of the frying pan into the... eh?
Well this body
definitely has some advantages over my old form.  We'll never be able to
return. Not
without some kind of rope and hook at least. Lets not stay here for long
...
the heat may be irritating for 'us' but fatal for the 'body'".

You look around.  There is no obvious direction the flames, smoke and
people are moving?  The people and buildings look genericly Asian.
Perhaps the bits of speech you hear are Chinese, but you are not sure.

You try to stop one or more people to ask them some questions.  You talk
to them.  You yell,  "What is happening?  Where is this?  Does anybody
really know what time it is?"  But just as when you tried to get in their
way, they do not seem to see or hear you.

You want to try to help them out
of the flames, but doing so requires that you find some way out yourself.

After this, you look for an exit, but do not see one within your limited
area of vision, which is actually quite small due to the smoke and flames.

You think about using the
teardrop to find a safe way through the flames. You have the teardrop
around your neck, and bring it out from under your shirt where you had
tucked it for safekeeping before beginning an analysis of your situation.

You use the teardrop as a compass to move to safety, hoping it will lead
you to an exit.  You hold it up by the cord. You see it swing up on the
cord, pointing off to your left.

You follow the cord.  People dodge around you as you walk.  After moving a
few dozen feet, you realize you are approaching the corner of what must be
a large room.  The smoke is thinner hear, although the people around you
are still coughing and hacking, gasping and screaming.  The flames have
not reached this part of the building.  many of the people, perhaps thirty
have pressed them selves into the corner.  Above them you can see the top
of  a doorframe, but the press of people almost completly blocks the door
from sight.

The walls are of painted cinderblocks.  The ceiling is concrete, supported
by iron beams.  behind you can still hear people running and screaming.
The crackling, snapping, and hissing of the flames ring sharply in you
ears.  You look at the pendant, which still pulls towards the door before
you, which is blocked by a few dozen people who are trying to force their
way out, but can't.

--------End Turn Six-----------

What next?

By the way, you are free to communicate via email anytime you want with
the other players.  However, do not let that slow down your turns.  In
otherwords, do not spend too much time or effort trying to coordinate you
efforts with others.  But sending a message or two to talk about the game
and make some long range plans for the character can be fun.  You do NOT
have to send me a copy of your email chat amongst yourselves.  I only need
to see the messages you send me that indicate what you want me to consider
as part of your turn.

Mark
PBEM@AOL.COM