Re: (TFT) Solo 1

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

Day five
    Snake meat steak for dinner, now for breakfast.  From the look of how 
much she is grilling it will be for lunch too.  Just like you heard, it 
tastes like chicken.
    The flooding has gone down a little but this mound is still the only 
visible dry land.  Raccoons are gathered at the waters edge.  They have a 
bunch of fresh water clams.  They crack them open on fallen limbs and then 
wash them before eating.  Their opposable thumbs and maners make them seem 
very human.  You realize it has been a long time since you had a bath.
    Yall load up the Pirogue and set out.  Poling along under the arches of 
moss hanging live oaks, and trees.  Eva points out a 'bald eagle'.  "He 
probably ate well last night.  They like ground mice, and the water probably 
drove them out of their homes."
    [get one experience point for seeing a bald eagle.]

    An abandoned Home on the bayou appears around the bend.  It is weather 
beaten and overgrown.  The wood looks grey with age.
    Eva speaks up.  "Lets stop.  An old voodoo lady lived here.  She used 
to worship Simbu, the snake god of darkness.  But, she's been gone for 
years.  I might be able to find some cooking supplies in there.  At the 
least she might have tub to bath in."  The place is old and creepy.
    Eva finds everything she needs.  She quickly starts a fire and starts 
boiling many pots of water.  "Ohhh, this bath is gonna feel good."  She 
makes you wait outside.  About an hour later she calls you in.  Redressed 
and dumping fresh hot water into the tub, she says "Your turn," and goes 
outside.
   [get two experience points for a hot bath.]

   Later she cooks up a great gumbo.  Ya'll are gonna stay the night.  The 
gumbo has some fish she caught, some snake meat, countless vegitables, and 
even some rabit.  It is also very well seasoned.  This gumbo may be the best 
soup you have ever had.  You lay down on the floor and go to sleep with a 
smile.
    [get two experience for your first gumbo.]

    Due to heavy cloud cover it is dark that night.  Very dark.  This is 
what you wake up to in the middle of the night.  Why did you wake up?  You 
hear something strange but at first you don't know what it is.  Eva is still 
asleep.  Then it hits you.  The silence.  Every night so far has been a riot 
of crickets, locust, and frogs.  Now there is nothing.  Not even wind.  You 
don't like it.  Then you really do hear something.
    It sounds faint and fading yet distressed.  You can hear a lady calling 
out from the wood in the dark.  "Heeelllllp    Meeeeeeee.   Heeeelllllp   
Meeeeeeeeeeee."  A chill goes down your back.  That must be what woke you 
up.
    You grab your spear and go out the door onto the porch.  It is wicked 
dark out there and you don't like it.  "Hellooooo?"  You call out.  "Is 
anyone there?"  You hear nothing.  After standing there for ten minutes you 
go back in and settle down.  You can't sleep.
    "Heeelllllp    Meeeeeeee.   Heeeelllllp   Meeeeeeeeeeee."  You hear it 
again.  It is definetly a lady, somewhere in the wood.  Your imagination 
goes wild.  For an hour you lay there, waiting to see if the cries will wake 
up Lady Eva.  The cries continue on and off.  You begin to imagine some lady 
out in the wood slowly sinking in quicksand.  You wake up Eva.
    She's a little groggy, but she sees you are distressed and sits there 
quietly listening with you.  Finaly after fifteen minutes you hear it again. 
 "Heeelllllp    Meeeeeeee.   Heeeelllllp   Meeeeeeeeeeee."  Eva lays back 
down to sleep and mumbles "It's a cat.  Go back to sleep."  Incredulous you 
lay there for what seems like eternity.  Going out in the dark to fight what 
may be an Apep or a Voodoo queen doesn't seem like a smart idea.  The next 
thing you know Eva is waking you in the morning light.

    Ya'll load up the pirogue and set out.  Not very far down the bayou you 
see a clearing with a fallen log and huge Puma sitting on it.  Eva points to 
it and says "There is your cat right there."  She gives you a sideways look. 
 "Did you know they can sound just like a lost girl?  They have been know 
to lure prey that way."  Ya'll row on.
    [get twenty experience points for not being eaten by a Puma.]

    David Michael Grouchy II
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