KKRAASSSHHH!!!! SPLAASHHH!!!
OUCH! Gurble guble - blackness.
You wake with the taste of water in your mouth and sand in your eyes.
Your pornographic swimsuit magazine's pages are all stuck together and are not even good for firewood now. Best find somewhere to dry them out.
>L All
You see nothing, but there is a dank must to the area accompanied by the squeaking of what you (hope to be) small bats. The soothing lap of water against a shore is quite relaxing and the sand on your face suggests you have been washed up upon a bank inside a forgotten cove.
>Turn of Flashlight
The lens of the flashlight is broken, but the bulb is intact. The light is casts is dim and foreboding, but is enough for you to see ahead of you and to inspect your surroundings.
You can see, now, that a few of the splintered and smashed planks and other parts of the boat have washed against the sandy shore. Some of them look pretty sharp.
You cannot see your sword anywhere, which is just as well, as you may have impaled yourself upon it during the fall.
You are feeling apprehensive, defensless and lost without it.
There is a cave opening directly to the North and the sandy escarpment continues to the East. In your current state, you don't think you can climb back up the rocks without tools.
>Drop Dread Fear of what the Future Holds
You now feel less fatalistic and more like you will get out of this alive.
>Get flotsam (wood)
Got - *ouch!* one end of this one is sharp! It gave you a splinter.
>Use rope on wood.
Not only do you now have an Aboriginal hoodoo communucation device, you've also one half of a spear or even - a grappling hook (though, if you were to trust that to hold your weight, you'd better drop everything you're carrying first).
As you ponder what to do, and maybe this is just the dim light making you think this but:
A womanm perhaps *the* most beautiful woman you have ever seen steps out of the water so gracefully that she appears to glide over the surface. Her boobs don't even bounce a little as she moves. Naked from the waist up, your eyes are fixed on the Jade Pendant around her neck, nestled (as you wish you were
) between her breasts.
Something tells you that this Jade Pendant is the key to getting you another part of the map.
"You can close your mouth mortal", she jests. "You are a lucky person to have survived such a fall; I believe this is yours." She shows you the sword. "But to get it back, I need you to do me a favour".
"Don't all beauutiful women in adventure games want us to do impossible things before giving it up? Come on then, wench, get on with it so I can get my sword back and go stab some people and be the hero again".
She eyes you suspiciously.
"Choose your task then, Stranger! Since you have fallen a great height, You must climb back up to the top from where you fell using nothing but what you see around you. Believe me, many have tried and failed. Failed and died.
Second, you must enter the cave you see to the North. We call it the cave of Darkness as no natural light will penetrate it, however - you device appears to cast unnatural light that even our greatest sages cannot emit!"
You check the batteries and they are very, very low...
"Thirdly and ultimately - you must couple with my Dryad sister. One night spent in her bed in our underwater township. Since you are an unevolved air-breather, our alchemists have a potion that will allow you to breath water. Here - take one to see my sincerity."
Received Potion of Water Breathing (4hours duration).
"Well?" She asks, "what will it be? Before I set our Landsharks and Waterbats to rip you to shreds for desecrating our sacred grounds!"
>shit pants
"Decision Time!" you say, to no-one in particular.
What will it be?
The Climb, The Cave, or the night in the Water Dryad's loins. I mean arms.