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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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Gripping the knife tightly, Sandy winced and thought for a moment about Mindy's admonishing her for not being aggressive enough.
Driving the knife into the creatures neck it screeched and stumbled. A wrench and a jerk and the creatures throat was slit and the three of them went crashing to the ground.
Sandy groaned, sprawled out spread eagle in the grass.
"Is it dead?"
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"I do be thinking do." She stabbed it in the back of the head, just to make sure. It didn't stir.
She turned round, her face breaking into a grin as she ran at Sandy throwing herself at her in a hug, sort of. Pruna didn't usually start these things and she wasn't sure where her hands were meant to go. "That did be being brilliant!" She laughed, "You did be being amazing." She leaned down and kissed Sandy on the tip of her nose.
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Trembling she slid her arms around Pruna.
"That was very...very scary." she mumbled in a voice that betrayed her shock. She gripped Pruna tightly but was smiling in a dazed sort of away.
"We're alive." she added trying to reassure herself.
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She nodded, that was important. The monster was dead and they were alive. For now. "We need to be moving before the others learn it do no be being with them."
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"Or before something bigger smells all this fresh dead meat." She pointed out and took Pruna's hand again so they could try and escape.
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"Can you be climbing?" She looked down at Sandy's shaky legs, "We will be safer in the trees I do be thinking."
Fade to black?
Her eyes lingered on the dead dinosaur though. It was frightening even in death the way it's big sharp eyes were glazed over and glassy. Fluid was leaking from it's mouth and rows of teeth.
Would killing a human be just as easy?
A fist wrapped around Sandy's gut and she knew sooner or later she'd have to find out.
Yup!
Then she noticed her looking and sighed. "Do no be going all leaky faced over a monster, Sandy Marko." She warned.