30 January 2006, 6:12 AM
I'm pretty sure you've all done this at one point or another. One person starts the story out then stops at a point and waits for another author to pick up where he left off, then that author does the same. We go until the story becomes so convoluted that an ending is drawn up. Thought it would be a little fun and an exersize in creativity.
The only guideline I have for this little activity is that you think up your ideas from scratch right here. No thinking ahead then posting, the ideas have to be raw. It'll make it more interesting that way. If possible, try to be serious. I'm not too good at writing fiction so i'm going out on a limb writing this. Thanks, and have fun!
[align=left]Traffic had finally let up enough so that the birth of the city was visible. Linna had given up all hope of even making it in to her shift until the radio reported that the boomer incident, the apparent cause for the delay, had moved some ways away. Or so she thought...
"Yeah, Hey Priss, uh its around 2 in the morning, you guys are probably in the middle of a show, but if you get this message then you should know that I'm past the bridge. Should be there in the next hour if traffic lets up a lit..." She pauses as she catches a glimpse of an explosion and lazer fire, "I'm gonna have to get back to you later..." *How the hell am I this unlucky? I'VE GOT TO BE CURSED OR SOMETHING!* She screamed inside her head. A thumping began reverberating through the car as she thought. They were soft at fist, almost soothing, minor fwumps of pressure. Then suddenenly out of nowhere a huge fireball, then a thump big enough to shake the car. "What the hell?" She said as she tried to make sense of the situation.
Traffic up front had broken to the nearest exit which left the right lane completely open. People were abondoning their cars and running for the emergency tunnel entrances. "What to do."
The exit was now crammed with cars, but before traffic had a chance to move again there was a massive explosion and a huge fireball shot out from the passageway" She jammed the acclerator and let the car lurch foward into the wall of smoke ahead. The burnt out cars and people fleeing to get to safety was quite a scene, it reminded her of a movie.
"Come on just a few more meters and I'll be on my." She said tapping the steering wheel nervously. There were more explosions and the smoke was getting thicker. The sound of automatic weapons fire could be heard in the distance and the plink plink stacatto slaps were easy enough to identify as ricochetting rounds. She was getting closer to action.
"There, half a kilometer till ... wait, what the?" She leaned over the steering wheel to try to get a better look. The smoke was swirling and shooting in all directions. She looked again and found out immediately that her choice to take the path less traveled was a bad one. The familiar scream of hoverjets filled her ears as more smoke was blown away. It wasn't until the red eyes of the bu55c came into view that she realized that she was in deep trouble. The mouth cannon charged and the familiar glow lit the darkened road. A blue flash exploded from its mouth...
The only guideline I have for this little activity is that you think up your ideas from scratch right here. No thinking ahead then posting, the ideas have to be raw. It'll make it more interesting that way. If possible, try to be serious. I'm not too good at writing fiction so i'm going out on a limb writing this. Thanks, and have fun!
The Chain of Events
[align=left]Traffic had finally let up enough so that the birth of the city was visible. Linna had given up all hope of even making it in to her shift until the radio reported that the boomer incident, the apparent cause for the delay, had moved some ways away. Or so she thought...
"Yeah, Hey Priss, uh its around 2 in the morning, you guys are probably in the middle of a show, but if you get this message then you should know that I'm past the bridge. Should be there in the next hour if traffic lets up a lit..." She pauses as she catches a glimpse of an explosion and lazer fire, "I'm gonna have to get back to you later..." *How the hell am I this unlucky? I'VE GOT TO BE CURSED OR SOMETHING!* She screamed inside her head. A thumping began reverberating through the car as she thought. They were soft at fist, almost soothing, minor fwumps of pressure. Then suddenenly out of nowhere a huge fireball, then a thump big enough to shake the car. "What the hell?" She said as she tried to make sense of the situation.
Traffic up front had broken to the nearest exit which left the right lane completely open. People were abondoning their cars and running for the emergency tunnel entrances. "What to do."
The exit was now crammed with cars, but before traffic had a chance to move again there was a massive explosion and a huge fireball shot out from the passageway" She jammed the acclerator and let the car lurch foward into the wall of smoke ahead. The burnt out cars and people fleeing to get to safety was quite a scene, it reminded her of a movie.
"Come on just a few more meters and I'll be on my." She said tapping the steering wheel nervously. There were more explosions and the smoke was getting thicker. The sound of automatic weapons fire could be heard in the distance and the plink plink stacatto slaps were easy enough to identify as ricochetting rounds. She was getting closer to action.
"There, half a kilometer till ... wait, what the?" She leaned over the steering wheel to try to get a better look. The smoke was swirling and shooting in all directions. She looked again and found out immediately that her choice to take the path less traveled was a bad one. The familiar scream of hoverjets filled her ears as more smoke was blown away. It wasn't until the red eyes of the bu55c came into view that she realized that she was in deep trouble. The mouth cannon charged and the familiar glow lit the darkened road. A blue flash exploded from its mouth...