NOTE: "Your Ex-Lover" is now a female, and you are a male.
Majority vote was: Tie between Show & Tell and Show.
You sit there, contemplating whether or not to show your ex-lover the box, wondering if you should tell her what you saw.
"It's a bit cold out, isn't it?" she asks you casually.
You hesitate, but eventually answer "Yeah, I kind of wasn't expecting this snow to last for so long."
"So, about that man who bumped into you on the way out ~"
"What about him?"
"He gave you a package; I saw it. Show it to me."
Hesitantly, you agree, reaching into your coat pocket, pulling out a small, brown-paper package, tied up with string.
"It feels like a cardboard box," you tell her.
"Hm, I think I know what it is, but we will have to go somewhere safe. Luckily, I am staying in a hotel on the other side of town; here is the address," she says, as she writes down the address on a piece of paper and hands it to you. "I will expect you there by no later than 3pm"
Looking at your watch, you notice it is 1:15pm already.
"Couldn't you just take it with you?"
"No, it's safer for you to take it."
Nervously, but trying not to show it, you agree.
Having left the bakery, you walk out to the street with your ex-lover, and she hails a taxi, telling you "Remember, that address, no later than 3pm."
"Can't I just come with you now?"
"No, as I have said already, it's safer for it to go with you."
The taxi drives away, and you look at the address, and if you walk there, it would take you until around 3pm to get there, give or take five or ten minutes either way.
Saturday, 27 August 2011
Saturday, 20 August 2011
A Cold Winters Day PART TWO (An original online interactive novel).
NOTE to the Reader: I'm just making this up as I go, and by and large have no real plans for what's going to happen to any of the characters.
Also, I'm trying to keep the characters as generic as possible, so if a female reads this she can interpret "ex-lover" as a guy. I'm just trying to make it as accessible to as broad of an audience as possible. However, that is proving difficult, and might just yet turn"your ex-lover" into a sheila (Note to overseas readers: "Sheila" is, as well as a woman's name, Australian slang for woman).
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: We share this journey together.
Majority vote was: Follow.
Remembering your ex-lovers scent, and remembering how spending time with them made you feel, you decided to ignore the door and try and catch up, as you watch your ex-lover cross the road, hoping you can get there before the lights turn red again.
You call out, "Hey, it's me! Hey!" quickly hastening your pace, however, you are a little too late, as the lights change colour, and busy traffic begins to flow in front of you.
Behind you, you heard the loud slamming of the door you almost most opened, and see around five, unidentifiable men, completely clothed, head to too, in some sort of militaristic outfits. Any chance you had of finding out what was behind that door is now gone, so you decided to continue your pursuit of your ex-lover.
You walked down that same street you saw them go, and can smell that delightful bakery where you both used to share so much time together, and decide to go in, hoping to find your ex-lover. Just as you walk through the door, a person un-apologetically bumps you accidentally on purpose, handing you a small box, but as you turn to get their attention, they have blurred into the crowd. Regardless, you see your ex-lover sitting a small metal table, in a metal chair, and decide to go up and talk.
"Why did you follow me here? and who was that person; what did they give you.?"
You explained that you didn't know them, and as you begin to reach into your pocket to take out the box and show it to her, you remembered that this ex-lover of yours ... never lied (as such), but was ... sneaky ... under-handed ... devious.
DO YOU:
1) Show your ex-lover the box
2) Forget the box, and just keep talking.
3) Tell your ex-lover about the events you saw near the door earlier this morning.
These are your options:
Show
Talk
Tell!
Show & Talk
Show & Tell
Also, I'm trying to keep the characters as generic as possible, so if a female reads this she can interpret "ex-lover" as a guy. I'm just trying to make it as accessible to as broad of an audience as possible. However, that is proving difficult, and might just yet turn"your ex-lover" into a sheila (Note to overseas readers: "Sheila" is, as well as a woman's name, Australian slang for woman).
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: We share this journey together.
Majority vote was: Follow.
Remembering your ex-lovers scent, and remembering how spending time with them made you feel, you decided to ignore the door and try and catch up, as you watch your ex-lover cross the road, hoping you can get there before the lights turn red again.
You call out, "Hey, it's me! Hey!" quickly hastening your pace, however, you are a little too late, as the lights change colour, and busy traffic begins to flow in front of you.
Behind you, you heard the loud slamming of the door you almost most opened, and see around five, unidentifiable men, completely clothed, head to too, in some sort of militaristic outfits. Any chance you had of finding out what was behind that door is now gone, so you decided to continue your pursuit of your ex-lover.
You walked down that same street you saw them go, and can smell that delightful bakery where you both used to share so much time together, and decide to go in, hoping to find your ex-lover. Just as you walk through the door, a person un-apologetically bumps you accidentally on purpose, handing you a small box, but as you turn to get their attention, they have blurred into the crowd. Regardless, you see your ex-lover sitting a small metal table, in a metal chair, and decide to go up and talk.
"Why did you follow me here? and who was that person; what did they give you.?"
You explained that you didn't know them, and as you begin to reach into your pocket to take out the box and show it to her, you remembered that this ex-lover of yours ... never lied (as such), but was ... sneaky ... under-handed ... devious.
DO YOU:
1) Show your ex-lover the box
2) Forget the box, and just keep talking.
3) Tell your ex-lover about the events you saw near the door earlier this morning.
These are your options:
Show
Talk
Tell!
Show & Talk
Show & Tell
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
A Cold Winters Day ~ (An original online interactive novel).
By Ian A. Hollis © 2011.
It was around noon when you'd finally made it into not-quite-main part of town, and as you walked down that snow covered street, and pulled your jacket around you to get warmer, you suddenly heard the sound a loose, unlocked door beside you.
On any other, ordinary day, such a sound may have not caught your attention at all, but for some reason, on this, somehow not-quite-ordinary day, it did.
You look to your left, and see a red door, and hear a cupboard door being blown open and shut by the wind, however, as you reach for the door handle to investigate further, you hear the voice of an old lover in the distance, venting the frustrations of their day, to the person on the other end of their mobile.
What do you do next:
Open the door, or follow your ex-lover?
Open ............. or follow?
Please comment your answer
NOTE: "Suggestions" on how I should approach future installments will be ignored; You're either playing or you're not.
I'll check back in a few days, and which ever option has the most votes is the direction in which I'll take the story. Like I said, we share this journey together.
It was around noon when you'd finally made it into not-quite-main part of town, and as you walked down that snow covered street, and pulled your jacket around you to get warmer, you suddenly heard the sound a loose, unlocked door beside you.
On any other, ordinary day, such a sound may have not caught your attention at all, but for some reason, on this, somehow not-quite-ordinary day, it did.
You look to your left, and see a red door, and hear a cupboard door being blown open and shut by the wind, however, as you reach for the door handle to investigate further, you hear the voice of an old lover in the distance, venting the frustrations of their day, to the person on the other end of their mobile.
What do you do next:
Open the door, or follow your ex-lover?
Open ............. or follow?
Please comment your answer
NOTE: "Suggestions" on how I should approach future installments will be ignored; You're either playing or you're not.
I'll check back in a few days, and which ever option has the most votes is the direction in which I'll take the story. Like I said, we share this journey together.
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