Episode XIV
by Disiance
Marla Stewart had received several comments about an organism living in the Acid Resort's hot springs. She dismissed these comments, thinking that the water's properties must be causing some sort of optical illusion; nothing can live in such water! she thought. It wasn't until after the twelfth report from a group who claimed to see a monster jump into the hot springs that Marla decided to investigate herself. She remembered which hot spring from the visitors' reports that the supposed creature was at the most and headed in that direction. Walking carefully so she didn't disturb the creature or alert it to her presence, Marla advanced to the spring. A quick flash caught her eye and she turned to look just in time to see a splash and accompanying ripple. Figuring what ever this thing was must have high acid levels Marla put on her rubber gloves just in case. As she approached the hot spring the creature had gone into, another splash caught her attention fifteen feet to her right. Turning quickly, she saw the monster rushing towards her, left arm outstretched.
Another object caught her attention. A spikey appendage on that outstretched arm. A spikey appendage aimed for her! Thinking quickly, Marla leaped out of the way, carefully avoiding the acid pools around her. She ran to the nearest utility shed for some fast-dissolving high-base (pH 13) tablets which she used in the hot pools when they got too acidic. Chancing a glance behind her, she saw the creature recovered and chasing her.
Reaching the shed, Marla quickly locked herself in, turned on the light, and made an aqueous solution with the tablets while she heard the disturbing noises from the creature outside circling the shed. After the tablet had dissolved into the water, Marla took a broom and used it to unlock and push open the door. Immediately the creature sprang for her, and realizing the big chance she was taking, Marla tossed the base solution onto the monster. With an awful shriek the creature turned and ran towards one of the pools, and Marla could swear she saw, smelt, and heard its flesh burning. She then quickly ran to call the police.
Labels: Marla Stewart
posted by Matt @ 7/22/2005 08:17:00 PM
11 comments
11 Comments:
Nice job, but...Marla?
A thought... 'Organism' suggests something small (to me, at least). Lifeform or creature would do more to suggest something large. Then again, that may just be the way Marla thinks. :-)
Just to confuse you, we have two characters who start with Mar. Marcia is a student at the university and working with Dr. Pettigrew. Marla owns a resort in another town.
Just wait. There's an episode about 5 away or so where the two characters interact. That's when I realized what a mistake we'd made with our names.
More than that, they both have initials M.S. Marla Stewart and Marcia Silverberg.
yeah, bleh :P
But in an upcoming episode they'll become more distinct. :-) I'm pretty sure that eventually they'll not be confused, they'll act so differently.
Yes, the two will begin to distinguish themselves soon.
You guys REALLY need to do something to spice this thing up!
Like what? And I'm curious, anonymous? Did you stumble across this? I'd love to know how you found this (not that it is bad, I'm just curious to see how people find this)
I found a link to it on Yokanchis blog. And I mean like, more action!! More fun!!
Ah, well there is more action coming up. In our actual writing we just finished episode XXV. The thing is that we get instructions for each episode (randomly generated) and then we write according to those. So for example we can't just kill off characters on a whim. ;-)
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