Category: IFstravaganza
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Find the Scientist
Moments later when the coast seems clear you press your ear up the door where you last saw the scientist be led out by the intimidating men. The sound of footsteps growing more distant gives you the reassurance to open the doors. In the far corner of the alleyway you spot the woman who spoke…
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Going Back for Answers
You reluctantly accept that you need to figure out what’s going on, otherwise the guilt of not doing anything may just eat you up alive. Still annoyed at yourself that you grew a conscience, you begin devising a plan about where to begin looking for answers. Do you… Go look for the scientist? She obviously…
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Escape.
I began to paddle away and watched as the ship I had once lived on exploded. I made it out alive. I could hardly believe it. Then strangely after the explosion I saw some feathers falling away from the ship. One landed in my lap and I examined it. I had never seen a feather…
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The Feather.
As you closed the ships log, you shuddered. Could something like that really happen? Does no one else know about this? As you went to put the book back on the shelf you heard someone approach from behind you. “You shouldn’t read such scary stories. I’m sure it’s just nonsense.” the stranger said. You turned…
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The plan of attack.
We moved to the Captains quarters to get out of the darkness and stale air of the midsection. With two of our crew now dead, and the monster trapped on the ship, the remaining four of us decided we needed to hunt and kill it before it took any more of us. As we discussed…
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I chose to be the bait.
I couldn’t send the cabin boy to his doom. With the captain in position, and the cook having sealed the hatch, I moved deeper into the ship towards where the creature had fled. With the hatch sealed, the only exit, for both me and the monster, was back towards the stairs where the cabin boy…
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I chose to wield the net.
I told myself it was because he was faster than I, but I was too afraid. I made that poor cabin boy act as the bait. With the captain in position, and the cook having sealed the hatch, he moved deeper into the ship towards where the creature had fled. With the hatch sealed, the…
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A Captain goes down with his ship.
The blood splattered on the hull of the ship, and the tattered ropes that once held our captain confirmed our worst fears. The cook came up behind us from elsewhere on the deck. “What happened?” Was all I could ask, as the only way out should have been past us in the midsection. The cook,…
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I chose to prepare the lifeboat.
As I went to prepare the life boat for our escape, I walked past the hatch, and saw the faint discoloration where the worn wood met the deck. It was cracked open. I went to take a closer look and saw that the cook’s knife had been hastily wedged into it to prevent the hatch…
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I chose to get supplies and light the fuse.
I made my way below deck and gathered whatever supplies I could into my satchel. Then I began hurriedly sliding all the gunpowder barrels together before unravelling the longest bundle of fuse I could gather, backing towards the stairs to the top deck. I heard something fall somewhere down the corridor, followed by what sounded…