The Start of Something New! | KiwiStory # 1 + 15 SteemBasicIncome Per Winner Share Giveaway
Welcome to KiwiStory!
This is hopefully the start of an impromptu writing group/game that anyone can join in and write!
How to play!
I, @KiwiJuce3, will start off by writing the first paragraph of a fictitious story. To play, you must read the paragraph, and write and title the next paragraph in the comments below. If you can't think of anything to branch off the first paragraph but see someone made an interesting second paragraph and want to branch off that instead, you can reply to that comment with your own continuation of the story. I will then choose the best continuations of the story and include them in the next week's KiwiStory post. Responses, suggestions, and other comments are welcome!
I'm going to be starting off the story with more than 1 paragraph to hopefully give you guys something to work with, but I'll make sure to leave all the fun parts to you guys!
Rules
- There is no minimum word or sentence count, but your paragraph must have some meat to it, not just unimportant details.
- While the paragraphs with the most upvotes will be more likely to be entered, it isn't guaranteed.
- For right now, English only.
- The theme can vary from part to part. If someone starts off with sci-fi, you can transition that into whatever theme you like however you like.
- You are allowed to change who the speaker or what person they're speaking in (1st, 3rd), but you must keep the same speaker throughout your entire paragraph.
This Week's Rewards!
Every week we will give away something to make it worthwhile to take time out of your day to join in the fun. For this week, we're giving away 15 SteemBasicIncome shares for every paragraph that makes it into the story!
Want to try this out but not sure you're writing is good enough? Well, for our first KiwiStory we're going to give away 1 SteemBasicIncome share to EVERYONE who tries to continue the story, as long as it looks like you tried.
Now that we have all that sorted, let's get into the story!
Journey to the Other Side
I was just a typical college drop out with less than a hundred dollars to my name. I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer, claiming Mars in the name of the United States of gosh darn America. I wanted to explore the depths of the jungle, finding the remains of ancient societies and discover new lands never discovered before. But two years into college I found out how much work you had to put in to learn how to discover something properly, and I just gave up. My entire life just fell down around me after that. I started skipping classes, wasting what money I had saved up, and losing every scholarship I won. Once I was down to $100, I decided I would fly out to another city, as far as I could get, and look for a job at a local McDonalds or something. And that's where everything changed.
"Hey, I got $100 on me right now, where's the farthest I can go with this?" I asked one of the airline employees.
"Furthest out from here you can go for $100 is to LAX" she replied with a sweet voice.
"Dammit, that's only about 20 miles from here. Are you sure there's nowhere further?"
"Well, we do have a private location you can go to, but it's gotta stay a surprise until you get there," she told me with a wink.
"I'll take it," I told her, hoping I wasn't about to get scammed.
She took my $100 bill from me and gave me a blank red paper in the shape of a ticket.
"Wait, this is emp-"
I turned, and she was gone. "How's that even possible?" I asked myself. Her bright blue airline shirt was nowhere in sight. I was afraid she had just taken my money and ran leaving me with a fake ticket, but I decided to take my chances and see if I could get on a plane with this ripoff. I asked another nearby employee where I should go with this ticket, and she pointed me to a terminal about 30 feet down. I ran over there just as they were boarding, and managed to shout "WAIT!" right before they closed the gate. I scrambled over and handed my red ticket to the lady standing next to the gate, and she just handed it back and waved me through. As soon as I got on, I noticed the plane was empty. "Wai-" I turned to the flight attendant, but she was gone too. Just as I started to look around, the plane began to move. The pilot's raspy voice came over the speakers and announced - "Ladies and gentlemen, please remain seated and keep your seat belts fastened during take-off and diving. We will reach our destination in approximately 2 hours. Next stop- -----!"
And that's it! My part complete! Feel free to continue the story however you like, as long as it's the same story! In the blank at the end of the story, you can change it to be whereever you want!
I've never been able to sleep on planes. I always thought it was the tiny space, or the crying babies, or the service cart bumping into me over and over and over and over. You know, the things that are annoying about planes. But it turned out I couldn't sleep on this plane, either. I tried stretching out over a whole row, I tried covering myself in the little blankets, but nothing worked. It was just two hours of staring out the window, seeing nothing but clouds. And for some reason the inflight entertainment system had nothing but Prince. I hate Prince.
I was so curious about the empty plane that I decided to explore. I know that it is not allowed to walk in a plane while it is still ascending but I can't felt any imbalance while walking around so I decided to continue exploring. The plane was so big that after an hour I still didn't find anyone including the stewardess. I am so tired that I just take a seat and fall asleep.
Suddenly, I felt so hot. I look around but it still empty. Then I heard the pilot say,' We have arrived to our destination. Welcome to hell'. I'm so shocked and shouting that I want to go back but then a woman appeared and said,'Your ticket is a one way ticket sir. There is no going back for you.' I am now full of regret taking a short cut through my problems that I fall down on my back and hit my head on the floor but then when I open my eyes, I am looking at the ceiling of my bedroom. I am so relieved that it was only a dream and it is just 6 in the morning. I decided.
I wash my face and start doing my resume. I am going to find a proper job and build up my life again.
"Next stop... Death Valley."
What?! I didn't want to go to Death Valley! There's nothing there. Death Valley is the lowest, hottest, driest place in the United States. Surely nothing and no one lives there.
Why would the airline employees put me on a plane to Nowheresville? Unless, I think, Death Valley is the place someone goes when they (gulp) die. If that was the case, then I was on the proverbial boat crossing the River Styxx, never to return.
Only one way to find out. Pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming.
But when I pinch myself, my fingers go right through my arm. I am ~ already ~ in spirit form.
I felt asleep, it was a very unusual experience. Though it was indeed my first ever experience but something was there, something strange that my sense organs were sensing. Something that makes my heart started thumping like a drum. It has been just three minutes and my ears started sensing the noise.
I opened my eyes, rubbing it for a while.
What!!!! Holy....shit??? What's the hell happened to plane.
I was shocked and my mouth were wide open.
Every stuff of the plane has changed into a completely different spaceship. It's size becomes even more gigantic. Interior colour changed from into green. There were pipeline in the ceiling,into which something like plasma was rushing. It was imparting beautiful green colour. I looked to my partner, so that we could hug each other in the fear.
The man sitting besides me was no longer a man. He was an alien.
My head was spinning. I was trying to recapitulate every stuff that happened within half an hours.
"Here's coming Atlantus?"
Pilot shouted.
SHOCKING END TO SURPRISE BEGINNING
Moment I hear Atlantis I got shocked and lost my consciousness. I got up and to my surprise I see plane landed and 2 beautiful ladies standing to welcome me as if I am some millionare. They took me to PARADISE ISLAND BAHMAS casino resort. I took shower and went to casino and at that time I realised that my red painted ticket is basically free ride to casino and 100$ chips for playing at casino. Now I was wondering around what to do with this 100$ chip and suddenly it slipped from my hand and fell into a a slot with lucky no 7. and wen round finished its my lucky no 7 and I won. that's a beginning of my real story of that night. Finally after few hours I found myself a millionare winning almost everything. My total worth now 8.4 million$. than I decided to quit for a day and encash my chips, so I went to counter. There was option of converting all my money to a ticket for a jackpot round prize worth 100 billion$. well its too big risk of loosing everything so I decided to leave and take my money, but that lady on counter is so good in talking and I didn't realise that after 5 minutes I was having another ticket with red painted for a billion$ jackpot round and all my money is gone. when I turned around I was shocked and noticed I am still standing at airport with same ticket and nothing has changed from that time. so I realised I took a good nap and just got up from my sleep and than asked a lady about a ticket for which place it is. she told me its not a ticket, its just a form to fill up for which she will give a bus ticket instead of plane ticket, as 100$ worth plane ticket is not available.
Lets see if anyone continue after this paragraph
"Next stop Caral ."
I was so shocked I did not register anything for few moments. Then my ears began to slowly throb with pressure. We were climbing. I raised my self and looked around over the back rests of the seats. the aircraft was small with a single aisle and there were was only one door right at the front. I did walk inside. There was a door.
I slumped back to my seat more perplexed and afraid than before. If this was a hallucination I was going crazy; and what if this was real? Suddenly a screen materialized in the aisle and a message appeared upon it.
The ancient city of Caral is 5077 years old. It lies in the hidden Fold of the Supe Valley, which is 200 miles north of Lima on the Peruvian Pacific coast. You will need to be decontaminated. Please proceed to the rear of the aircraft and press the square panel. Take the new clothes from the bin and remove ALL your clothing and dump them into it. For articles you wish to keep, place them in the slot on the left side of the bin. Again press the square panel and the bin will recess and the DEcom-Chamber will appear. Step inside and wait till the green light starts to blink. Then you may dress and step out. Thank You. Please follow instructions to avoid distress.
The screen looked solid enough but as I stretched my hand to touch it, it vanished.
My heart was beating I was having the greatest day of my life ."I had a closest companion rodent, he won everything. 'It was time I got him back .I have been sitting tight for this time always the plane rivalry .The race began ''THREE, TWO .ONE, GO''
Whoosh. I turned the corners in a flash.it was coming up as a tie. I went higher up into the sky. I went left to right I couldn't control myself. I couldn't see the end goal. I cherished my plane. I was zooming in light of the fact that I suspected that I was coming last. I attempted to get if front, yet I was just toward the begin .Rat was the distance in the center. I needed to zoom in front in some way or another. When I got to the center of the race I extremely needed to win so I held speeding to the end.
Lower and lower. I could see my old companion Rat so I went speedier. "Truly I'm in front.'' I came zooming over the end goal'' YES I won'' at long last I beat you unequivocally this is the greatest day of my life. SPLAT OW NO RAT WENT MISSING the entire room went quiet nobody could see him.
The following day my companion and I came going through the entryway in a surge. I looked under the table for him. My heart was beating to know whether he was under there. POOF, my rodent showed up 'YES I discovered him. 'He was as yet not moving an inch tears were gushing down my face. I hung over him .his eyes were somewhat opening .I felt so energized that he was as yet alive. We hosted an exceptional gathering to celebrate of his triumphant of the plane rivalry.
The second rivalry was coming up however rodent would not like to do it since last time he did it he lost the race. His heart was beating last time he did it, he never completed a race in his life from that point on.
My heart beats faster than its unusual beating. I turned my head on the other side, trying to find someone I could ask for. Glory be to God, I saw a little boy sitting next behind me. He's about 9 years old and I wanted to talk to him, ask him where are the other passenger on this airplane. So, I waited patiently in few minutes and built a question inside my head on what to ask on that little boy. Then I go near to him. The moment that I reached to his sit, I shout in my loudest voice or should I say the scariest voice.
He flew and bite my neck! I run as fast as I could and shout for help, but no one hears my calling. . I went to the pilot's place and ask for help, but he only smiles at me. I cried and woke up still crying in my bed. Knowing that it is just a dream. A very bad dream.
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