Random Weekly Roleplay - Been Here a While
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N. Grapemuffin
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You look in the hole. Inside the hole is a rope, a centipede, and a can of Coke Zero.
What do you do?
What do you do?
The rope briefly intrigues me, but first things first, I pull out the can of Coke Zero, open it, and dump it out a few feet away from the hole. I don't want to risk injuring the centipede. I then go back, gently take the centipede out of the hole, and look at him closely. He looks like a Herman, and so you say to him, "From now on, you shall be known as Herman, first of your name." The centipede waggles ... I don't know, 20ish feet in your direction as a sign of appreciation. You glance back in the hole, decide there's nothing more there for you, and turn your back to it. Herman wiggles a bit in a leftwards direction, and lacking any reason to favor one direction over another, you acquiesce to his decision and head left.
A mysterious force seems to be paying attention to my behavior and seems to be encouraging me to do something, so after walking for awhile to the left I come to a nice tree with some tufts of grass at the base. I sit down and rifle around in my backpack, finding a dog-eared comic book that I've read about 40 times since I bought it a couple weeks before. It's a Flash comic, and while I'm not normally all that into the Flash, this story was so well told and drawn that I can't stop staring at the smooth lines and the reading the clever dialogue. I set Herman on my knee as I read and he rolls around a bit and wiggles his legs in a centipedish way. In the distance, I can hear some traffic on the nearest city street, but other than the occasional traffic noise I could just as well be in the middle of a giant primeval forest. I imagine myself to be a magnificent adventurer, stopping for a rest on my great journey and consulting my magical tome. By the time I finish reading through The Flash again, Herman is getting restless. I let him down and he begins crawling away. I think about picking him up again, but he seems to know what he wants so I let him go. I look back in the general direction of where I came from before and see lightning crashing in the distance.