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Thread #66174 Message #1098028
Posted By: GUEST,Corridus
21-Jan-04 - 01:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Stir Crazy: A Hamster Goes Mad Slowly
Subject: RE: BS: Stir Crazy: A Hamster Goes Mad Slowly
Day 353: I have had a very narrow escape and am facing great difficulties. Yesterday was so traumatic that I neglected to make my journal entry. I had set out to thoroughly explore the maze of tunnels, all of which were constructed of the smooth, impermiable material I have described before. The tunnels led to various lookout spots facing into vast rooms full of junk, as I had noted before. The Castle has many of these rooms. Imagine my horror when I found the hideous countenance of The Cat staring fixedly back at me through the barred window that covers the tunnel opening!!! I am well acquainted with The Cat. It has had evil intentions towards me ever since I can remember. When we first met it went around and around The Cage, trying to find a way in. I stayed well back from the bars and clicked my teeth as a warning. The Cat pawed viciously at The Cage but could not get in. All the time it watched me fixedly with its huge eyes! Well, after a few days of that The Cat decided to just ignore me, but I know what it was really up to. It was waiting for a golden opportunity to destroy me, whenever it got the chance.
The Cat has now realized that I am free. It intends to hunt me down remorselessly. When I crawled what seemed like a long distance, and peered into another giant room through another barred window, there it was again! Staring at me! This is not good. The Cat has very good hearing and it is following me about on the outside.
Knowing this, I determined to plunge deep into the bowels of the tunnel system, where The Cat could not follow. I went down. Presently I found myself at a steeply inclined portion that led into who knows where. I slid over the edge and consigned my fate to the paws of destiny. There followed a dizzying tumble into the gulf, a bounce, another slide, and I fetched up, shaken but whole at the bottom of another long straigtaway. It was very dusty, and I was growing increasingly thirsty.
As I moved forward I heard strange noises, as of some enormous breathing leviathan straining at its labours, and a hot breeze came flowing down the tunnel. At length I stood before a vertical drop with a torrent of hot air pouring forth from it. As I looked down I saw with horror what could only have been the very FIRES OF HELL raging at the bottom of the shaft!!! Incredible as it seems, The Castle rests upon the Fiery Pit itself!
I scrambled away in haste, fearing the approach of Satan's Imps, who might drag me down, and the hot wind beat at my tender heiny. I stumbled blindly into a tunnel that led to the left and slightly upward, then angled to the right. It ended at another barred window. Through this window I could see a dark and dirty room that was not very large by Monster standards. The Cat was nowhere in sight, and the door was closed.
As I write this, I am pondering my next move. I must escape these tunnels or die. I must find water and food. I have but two choices...either get past one of these window/gratings or go all the way back to the place where I first entered the tunnels. Either choice is difficult. The gratings are very tough. As for the way back, it leads up some vertical shafts, and I doubt that I can climb this shiny stuff well enough to make it.
This may be my final entry if I don't find a way out soon.
Corridus