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thearena2013-11-07 01:48 pm
gamemakers) wrote in thearena2013-11-07 01:48 pm
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All Across The Island
It begins at sunset, and the first one sounds like the warning alarm of the fences make just before they turn on.
You might even think that is what it is at first, until you remember that the fences are already on. And then the alarm sounds again, and this is now clearly the start of something new.
Again the alarm sounds, but doesn't it seem just a little bit louder?
The sound comes again, and again, and again, the warning sound set off into a full blown alarm, and each metallic raking BEEP noise that comes grows a little bit louder each time. Before long, the sound becomes so loud you can hear nothing else, and the jungle starts to go wild. Animals of every possible sort have been awakened; irritated animals with nowhere far to run with the fences on. They're just as trapped as you are.
Still, the alarm grows louder. Louder. Louder to the point where the sound starts to become painful. So loud you want to fall to your knees and bury your ears with your hands. In the sand. Beneath a dozen pillows. Then, it grows louder still. So loud that your teeth hurt and the ringing in your head is so bad that you can feel your own bones vibrate.
And just like that... everything stops. The forest goes still. For one perfect moment there is complete and total silence.
Everything goes back to normal. All the fences turn off, on schedule.
And if you get deep enough or think to look, you will notice the force field around the compound has turned off as well.
Who knows for how long....
You might even think that is what it is at first, until you remember that the fences are already on. And then the alarm sounds again, and this is now clearly the start of something new.
Again the alarm sounds, but doesn't it seem just a little bit louder?
The sound comes again, and again, and again, the warning sound set off into a full blown alarm, and each metallic raking BEEP noise that comes grows a little bit louder each time. Before long, the sound becomes so loud you can hear nothing else, and the jungle starts to go wild. Animals of every possible sort have been awakened; irritated animals with nowhere far to run with the fences on. They're just as trapped as you are.
Still, the alarm grows louder. Louder. Louder to the point where the sound starts to become painful. So loud you want to fall to your knees and bury your ears with your hands. In the sand. Beneath a dozen pillows. Then, it grows louder still. So loud that your teeth hurt and the ringing in your head is so bad that you can feel your own bones vibrate.
And just like that... everything stops. The forest goes still. For one perfect moment there is complete and total silence.
Everything goes back to normal. All the fences turn off, on schedule.
And if you get deep enough or think to look, you will notice the force field around the compound has turned off as well.
Who knows for how long....
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