unrealtrip
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Lot's of SHTF and TEOTW threads with all sorts of crazy scenarios got me thinking that a continuing story thread might turn out pretty cool with all that creativity out there. Anyway, you don't have to turn out a novel and you don't have to be a writer to participate, just continue the story. If you've never written anything before, now is a great time to start. Imagine if you were telling a story to a friend and just type it out.
Simply pick up where the last person left off, you can take the story in a whole new direction or continue with the last person's theme. Please keep your response down to 3 paragraphs maximum. Incorporate whatever you want, politics, science, guns, you name it. The only rule I ask is that you please leave real people out of it. Otherwise, have at it.
I'll get things started, it is simple enough so here goes nothing.
EDIT: Put a #) in front of your post where # is the next sequential number. That way if 2 people post at the same time, we know that they are both posting the next paragraph after whatever one they were responding to.
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It was an exceptionally hot summer this year; with almost no humidity, there was just an unrelenting, overpowering heat. Standing outside in the shade it was 128 degrees with a hot breeze. Looking across the barren landscape that was once covered with rolling green grass you could see the waves from the heat rippling in the air. There were no clouds in the sky to give us any sort of protection from the sun and it had been almost a year since I'd seen any birds or insects. I could hear a murmer of voices on the wind, their muffled prayers to whatever God that had doomed us going unnoticed. I wondered how much hotter it must have been in that church that it was out here.
It wasn't like it came out of nowhere either, some scientists predicted this is where we were headed, but as usual the academics never agreed on anything and the politicians fed the masses whatever story they thought we would believe. 2007 seems like just yesterday, but in the three short years since, we had seen hotter and hotter weather with records being broken daily. It started out with really erratic weather, 90 degrees one day, then 40 the next. It wasn't until the summer of 2007 that things started to get scary, that's when the second big heat wave hit. It was the hottest year in recorded history and it was just two years before, that the first wave killed all those people in France.
This time it was different, this time we saw the effects right here at home in the US. It started slowly enough with the rolling blackouts. Pretty simple math really, too many people using too much power and the grid just couldn't handle it. Whole city blocks were without power for a few hours, then whole days....
Simply pick up where the last person left off, you can take the story in a whole new direction or continue with the last person's theme. Please keep your response down to 3 paragraphs maximum. Incorporate whatever you want, politics, science, guns, you name it. The only rule I ask is that you please leave real people out of it. Otherwise, have at it.
I'll get things started, it is simple enough so here goes nothing.
EDIT: Put a #) in front of your post where # is the next sequential number. That way if 2 people post at the same time, we know that they are both posting the next paragraph after whatever one they were responding to.
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1)
It was an exceptionally hot summer this year; with almost no humidity, there was just an unrelenting, overpowering heat. Standing outside in the shade it was 128 degrees with a hot breeze. Looking across the barren landscape that was once covered with rolling green grass you could see the waves from the heat rippling in the air. There were no clouds in the sky to give us any sort of protection from the sun and it had been almost a year since I'd seen any birds or insects. I could hear a murmer of voices on the wind, their muffled prayers to whatever God that had doomed us going unnoticed. I wondered how much hotter it must have been in that church that it was out here.
It wasn't like it came out of nowhere either, some scientists predicted this is where we were headed, but as usual the academics never agreed on anything and the politicians fed the masses whatever story they thought we would believe. 2007 seems like just yesterday, but in the three short years since, we had seen hotter and hotter weather with records being broken daily. It started out with really erratic weather, 90 degrees one day, then 40 the next. It wasn't until the summer of 2007 that things started to get scary, that's when the second big heat wave hit. It was the hottest year in recorded history and it was just two years before, that the first wave killed all those people in France.
This time it was different, this time we saw the effects right here at home in the US. It started slowly enough with the rolling blackouts. Pretty simple math really, too many people using too much power and the grid just couldn't handle it. Whole city blocks were without power for a few hours, then whole days....
