[Taocow PBEM] Book 3 - Chapter III

[Koba Rowers]

[Koba]
" I don't like the idea of that tunnel. We should try to make for the  
surface somewhere. See if we can go along the coast away from town."
[/Koba]

On Jul 27, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Kitsune <kitsunefx at netzero.net> wrote:

> [Alex]
> Alex suggests, "We may want to try to go for the tunnel.
>
> She keeps a careful watch on the mini-submarine if she can.
> [/Alex]
>
> Aaron Clausen wrote:
>> [Louissa]
>> "The votes seem to be for the shipwreck." Louissa says, biting
>> her lip, obviously nervous as she glances between the wreck
>> and the surface above.  With a sigh, she steers the boat
>> towards the wreck, with a bit more skill, but with no ease.
>> [/Louissa]
>>
>> [GM]
>> As they close in on the wreck they can see more clearly the
>> kind of ship it once was, some sort of vast tanker.  It looks to
>> have been torn almost in half, it's hull stretched like butter
>> spread too thin.  It looked more like it had been pulled apart
>> than cut into or damaged by explosion.
>>
>> The vast maw of its split hull opens up before them, the interior
>> black as night.  A large basking shark looks at them indifferently
>> as they enter the ruined ship's hull, and suddenly all light is
>> extinguished.
>>
>> Louissa fumbles for the lights, and the enormous interior
>> is revealed.  Details are difficult to see, with the inner hull
>> encrusted.  Louissa moves the boat as deep into the
>> interior, as far as she dares, and gently sets the boat down
>> on to the sediment-covered floor.  She turns the lights out
>> in the hopes of avoiding being seen.
>>
>> Minutes pass without any sign of anything.  Those minutes
>> turn into half an hour.  Suddenly there is a distant sound,
>> a faint pinging.  It comes and goes, and then, after perhaps
>> a half an hour it disappears.
>>
>> It has now been a full hour under the water, and everyone
>> begins to feel a little faint, the air growing heavy and
>> stale.  A red light begins to blink on the console, and a
>> voice speaks urgently in a strange language.
>> [/GM]
>>
>> [Louissa]
>> "We've got to get out of here and to the surface." she
>> says.  "I think we're running out of air."
>> [/Louissa]
>>
>> [GM]
>> Even as Louissa speaks, they see beams of light in the
>> distance, outside the sunken ship but sweeping back
>> and forth.  Those with sixth sense feel danger, but it's
>> not necessary, the party seems stuck between a rock
>> and a hard place.
>>
>> One of the beams flashes over top of their boat,
>> narrowly missing illuminating them.  It does, however,
>> seem to illuminate something further back in the
>> ruined hold of the wreck.  There's another vessel,
>> a small submarine by the looks of it, about twenty
>> feet long, height hard to determine because it's
>> buried in sediment.  After the beam of light
>> moves away, the sub disappears into the blackness,
>> but everyone can almost swear they see a red light
>> start blinking from the direction of that sub.
>> [/GM]
>>
>>
>
>
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> then we are a sorry lot indeed -
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