Beyond the bridge, the overgrown trail leads uphill and deeper in to the woodland. A chill breeze caresses your face: refreshing at first, but increasingly numbing. The foliage grows taller and thicker as you follow the meandering path deeper in to the woodland.
Then, on the breeze, you catch a whiff of smoke. Ahead is a small clearing with a fire that appears to have been recently smothered. Thin wisps of smoke drift upward from its remains. Next to the fire lies a body. From your vantage point, you cannot quite tell if the body is alive or dead. Your pause also causes you to look more carefully around you: there are crushed flowers and weeds suggesting that the campsite has recently been visited by other persons, or creatures. You feel there's something not quite right here.
Return the way you came and head back to the bridge (Blog one)
Go around the campsite and re-join the track at the other side of the camp (Blog one)
Here's the challenge.
ReplyDeleteAs an explorer, read, choose and enjoy. Start here: http://theporkster.blogspot.com/2011/03/notch-oak-roots-fork.html. As a blogger, continue the adventure at your blog. Write a scene with a choice for the reader to make. Link each option to a destination post if that post is already written. If you write a scene based on a choice at another post, comment at that post so the blogger can add a link to you.
If a scene exists, but you feel another is possible, write it. If we have multiple scenes for one option, all the better. Feel free to create alternative takes on the world.
Be bold!
If you've still no idea what's going on, read this: http://theporkster.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-your-own-adventure.html
A truly intrepid explorer! Welcome, jabberjabber, to the pantheon of creators!
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, this is more or less how I visualised the route, but your take is done far better than mine would have been, and very vividly with all that sensory detail. The tone is spot on.
I've just realised we'll now need an alternative scene for returning to the bridge from this side, so I'll put one up later today and leave the replacement link here. There's an alternative actual bridge scene at Lunching on Lamias involving what are probably zombies and it would be a shame to miss the chance for that..!
ReplyDeleteI'm really spamming your comments today...
ReplyDeleteHere's the link for the return to the bridge. Just switch this with the one you have now. And be careful crossing that bridge...
http://theporkster.blogspot.com/2011/04/bridge-thirst-cliff.html
If you want to write a return for your scene, feel free. If you do, just leave a comment somewhere at mine and I'll update the link.
I'm hoping someone jumps on the campsite lead soon - I want to know what's going on...
Cheers: I've swapped the old link for the new one!
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