You are in a desert. No end in sight. What do you do?

check for secret doors

Disbelieve.

Disbelieve that Pepsi would be blatantly disingenuous in regards to the availability of their product and the machines that dispense them.

Being the well prepared adventurer, you open your backpack to search for....

Your second hand genie lamp

You shed any semblance of experience harboured from residence in a westernised consumerist mollycoddled lifestyle realising the full cerebral and imminent seriousness of your predicament.

You panic.

You run up a 40 metre tall dune in 20 seconds arms flailing around like a set of clackers.

When you finally compose yourself you see an acacia sapling standing alone. In your inventory you have a flask, a piece of cheese and a plastic bag.

You wonder if you place the plastic bag over the acacia sapling and tie the bottom slightly above the sag you can collect some moisture coming from the leaves...

You do the "bag-over-plant" procedure, and you get the liquid substance 5 minutes later. You hear a wail to your left.


Also, I don't want to be rude here, but I do want to lay down one of the rules of this GOGventure:

No extreme randomness. We need to follow the story. I don't mean we can't get random, but when something has nothing to do with the previous post, and was done for nothing but giggles, than it blocks the flow of the story. Thank CptFandango for this layout; we were talking over how the new thread should come about.

Also, what he says below!

Or if it goes on to much of a tangent or gets unrelateable someone either do a well written retcon or bring it back on track :)

You take a sip of your bushwater and move to investigate the wail..

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I'll just go read some Problem Sleuth or MS Paint adventures then.


I hope you have a fun adventure ;p

You continue to hear the soul piercing wail get closer and begin to panic. Sweat is beading on your brow and your hands have started to feel clammy. You start feeling the wall looking for hand holds

You see a green woman phase out of your reality in the distance... Is this a mirage? Was that one of those orion women from star trek ? You have a feeling she will be back despite her hasty exit, if she was even real!

Anyway you put your thoughts back to survival, you are stuck in the frikken dessert for fecks sake!

You have already drank most of your acacia condensate and are seriously dehydrated and in danger...

As you approach the crest of the next dune you can see where the wail is coming from, It is an old man in tattered rags stuck in quicksand..

Wait..quicksand in a desert? So that oasis isn't a mirage!
A dead palm tree is near the muddy puddle, do you try to move it and help the poor man?

Amazed and overjoyed at the sudden change of environment you run towards the mud completely ignoring the man and start slurping at it desperately...

The man is up to his neck now and there is a dead palm tree right there..

Realizing in a split second how terribly selfish you're being, you stop slurping the mud-puddle and bend the tree to the man. Amazingly, his arm comes out of the mud, grabs on to the tree, and you pull him out of there.

"Thanks mate," the man says in an Australian accent. "I forgot how to get out of my mud bath."

He tells you his name is John, and that he's been here a long time...

You ask him if he knows a way out of here.

"Out of the desert? No. I walked for ages, each one from different directions, but only returned here. It's like a circle, this place."

You wonder what to do. Should you ask about his history? If he's been here for years, he should have some sort of map, mental or otherwise...