The Chelon Rose

Act 1: the Exile

Trapped! Part 2

Haw haw haw, Goph, RRRrrrrr, arch, arch. Haw haw haw ha ha ha.

You awake to the Hyena like laughing and the bark like speech of the Knolls. You feel warm splashes lash your face and body. The air smells of urine as a group of Knolls make a game of tormenting their prisoners.

You appear to be peering down a very long tunnel with gray light at its end. That is until your perspective corrects itself and you realize you are in a shaft, suspended over a drop of 600 feet to the heaving sea far below. It is light, you wonder if you have slept through the night.

The shaft is circular in shape, with a large round room built above it. In the room is a large wheel with many poles like handles, as if intended to be turned by many hands. A large wooden axle runs from the wheel across the shaft to the far wall of the room. The axle is directly above you and looks worn with age. You and your friends are connected to the axle via thick ropes. Each of you is in a crude wooden cage that hangs from the axle over the shaft.

You're skin pimples with cold, as you realize you are naked. None of your property is in sight. Out of nearby windows in the room, you can see that rain falls heavily. In the room around the edge of the shaft, Knolls come occasionally to torment their prisoners.

Cold, naked, tormented, you are trapped and you do not know what your fate might be.

created: 14 February 1998 | Last Updated: June 23, 2001

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