1: 'On a Lonely Road'
‘Despite racing against the rain on your way northwards, the storm finally caught up with you in earnest and with it the night has fallen, abyssal black and riven by lightning. Conditions on the rain-swept road force your speed down to a virtual crawl so that your head-lamps can pierce the gloom and keep you on the path. The only thing certain now is that the weather behind you is worse than that which surrounds you, driving you onwards. What should have been an eventless journey has become something dangerous and unpredictable’
You are half involved in conversation, although the conditions tend to keep you alert. Now the rain is driving so hard against your windshield that the wipers are hard pressed to clear it. Inside the somewhat cramped Ford, the whine of the wipers and the heater do little to aid conversation. Lightning flares, its frequency increasing as the distance between each flash and the rumble of thunder decreases.
The vehicle groans with effort as it labours up a steep forest edged road. Without warning, with a suddenness that makes you jump, an enormous flash of forked lightning erupts in the road before you….
OOC: You are in Thomas Furman’s Model ‘A’ Ford, so we begin with Thomas Furman making a Regular Drive Auto Roll. |