Story Fest 2017: Sentence Story Telling

[thehumantrashcan]

Hello everyone!

 

One of my most favorite camping trip games was telling a story one sentence at a time while going around in a circle.  I'm happy to be able to offer such an experience here for our Story Fest 2017!!!

 

For those who have not had the privilege of enjoying this fun camp fire games I'll break it down.  I will start a story with just one sentence.  The next person will continue the story with another single sentence and then another person and so on.  Now of course we must all follow the rules of DM about the PG-13 content and I'd like to keep any spam/high-jacking to a minimum.  For the PG-13 guidelines please refer to the code of conduct.  As for spam/story-jacking, please don't add another sentence unless someone else has posted after you.  If there seems to be just a couple people going back and forth, allow for 15 mins in between posts to allow someone to collect their thoughts and get a sentence in before two people just run away from everyone else.  I'm not saying it always has to be 15 minutes before you follow up someone's sentence, only if it seems there are only two people posting back and forth.

 

Now I am all for being goofy and writing either a wild and crazy story or something silly.  However, let's also keep from completely messing up the story as a whole if it seems to be flowing in a certain direction.  Try to keep the story flowing along and don't throw in a lot of Soap Opera type reveals.  If there any problems please PM and I will try and sort out any conflict this may cause.  If this is much of a success I will try and keep this going past the event time if allowed.  Or move it to another thread.  If we do come to something of a stop I'll try and collect all the sentences and post them here in the first post so you won't have to scroll through what I hope will be many pages of a story we as DM'rs can be proud of.

 

Oh yes, and try to stay away from run on sentences that drag on and on and don't seem to want to stop because this, in a way, can high-jack the story and it's simply bad grammar, which isn't something we want to promote or encourage as there can be many people who might start raging over it, so for the sake of peace and everyone's enjoyment, refrain from these types of sentences and let everyone have a chance to share their part of what I hope will be a wonderful, adventurous, fun, entertaining yarn.

 

So let's begin!

[thehumantrashcan]

Milltown was a simple town nestled in a valley at a point where a few mountain streams all came together to for the beginning of the great Helos River.

[Ryrin]

As I sat quietly by the river's beginning, I thought of my next move.

[Cross]

it took three hops and four squares but i jumped up yelling "King me!"

[Dar'Jen Ab Owain]

The black cat that had been curled up at my feet, jerked awake at my outburst and stared at me with accusing, yellow eyes.

[Ryrin]

I felt someone else was here.

[thehumantrashcan]

Sure enough my sister growled in frustration over another lost game of checkers.

[Ryrin]

She tipped over the board and all of the pieces went flying.

[thehumantrashcan]

This was the last straw for the black cat so he began to yell at my sister.

[Ryrin]

My sister got up and ran into the dark woods.

[Dar'Jen Ab Owain]

I stared down at the cat, glanced briefly at the board and scattered pieces, and took off after her with a sigh.

[Cross]

but her trail soon went cold, no footprints, or broken twigs to lead me in the right direction

[blank]

As I went further and further into the forest, a feeling of unease spread through me, a feeling of being watched. 

[Cross]

It wasn't just the watching, the dark felt...tangible. 

[Ryrin]

She stopped and turned, it appeared as if a dark shadow had actually moved!

[thehumantrashcan]

Soon another shadow moved and yet another, it seemed as though they were swirling around me like a small twister but without any wind.

[Daruya]

It felt as if cold, clammy hands were clutching at me as the shadows writhed around me.

[blank]

All of a sudden, the cold grasp tightened and I was pulled out of the whirling mass of shadows back into some dense vegetation. 

[LilyElizabeth]

I looked up into the grinning face of my sister, who exclaimed "Gotcha!"

[Ryrin]

I was ready to strangle my sister when .....

[LilyElizabeth]

a look of horror crept over her face, as she looked over my shoulder. 

Edited July 14, 2017 by LilyElizabeth

[thehumantrashcan]

...the shadows began to reach for both of us.

[Cross]

it took hold of me first, wrapping its inky black tendrils around my ankle

[LilyElizabeth]

I screamed.

[Cross]

with one horrible tug my feet came out from under me