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[Tales from Earth] Collaborative Story (story)

[chippy]

Georgina felt something brush her cheek, it was her purple scarf as it blew in the winter wind. Today was going to be an important day, she thought, and walked across the car park to where her car was parked...

[kraed]

...but to her horror, as she approached the space she left her car in the sparse metropolis of the multistory park, there was nought but an empty space. All she could find was a single post-it note attached to a pillar resting against the wall in front of her. After overcoming her intial shock and anger at her beloved new car being missing, she walked over in confusion to examine what was written across the note..

[Dorkmaster not logged in]

she walked towards the note, thinking all the while "This is silly... I certainly parked somewhere else, and I'm mistaken." However, as she got closer to the pillar with the note, she realized that the first word was her name, Georgina.

Glancing around, to see if anyone was looking at her reading this note, she now felt determined that something more was going on. She read on.

[Scott]

"This is for your own good." Shocked, she stepped back. There more words, but anything which began with a theft and benevolent intentions was almost certainly no good. She took a breath, realizing the weight of the matter.

[MasterCheese]

She pulled the post-it off the pillar and read it again...more thoroughly. After reaching the end she gasped in disbelief. It wasn't possible, there was no way that the note was from Susan, she disappeared years ago.

Thinking to herself that it was just a hoax Georgina shoved the note into her pocket and walked off, hoping to find her car in another of the many levels of the car park. It was then that she noticed the figure, all dressed in purple, walking towards her...

EDIT: Ok, Scott posted before me...but it still fits with a minor adjustment! Yay!

[sledgecallier]

As the figure got closer she realised that it was a dark skinned man. In his left hand was a brief-case and in his right there was some kind of walking stick. There was no hint of friendlness in the strangers eyes as he moved steadily towards her.

[MasterCheese]

For a second she found herself thinking why such a sinister man was wearing purple. But she quickly dismissed this thought and ran as fast as she could towards the elevator. She furiously stabbed at the button to go down, back into the shopping centre, but nothing happened, the elevator was out of order!

Meanwhile the man was gaining on her, surprisingly fast for a man with a walking stick. She ran towards the stairs, but fell over. Cursing her high-heels, Georgina struggled to get up. The man, seeing this, just snickered to himself and unsheathed the sword concealed in the walking stick...

[number9dream]

As the man advanced towards her Georgina began to feel herself panicking, she realised that her life was not so much flashing before her eyes as parading, the questionable tarty dress she had worn at the office party, the drunken karoake last night and the lasagne she had made which had poisoned her last would-be boyfriend. She also began to ponder the wisdom of wearing high heels in a life or death chase, but decided that if you gotta go, you gotta be looking your best....Shaking off these thoughts, she managed to stagger to her feet and reached the door to the stairs just seconds before the man in purple...

[Onionring]

…Grabbed Georgians shoulder. On closer inspection, Georgina noticed that the man was wearing a skirt. "Who on earth is this?" she wondered, "and why is he wearing a skirt?". Just then the man stopped in his tracks. His sharp glare was fixed on Georgina. Georgina began to panic. She took three paces backwards but the man edged slowly towards her with his eyes still transfixed on Georgina. She tried to run past him but the man held his walking stick out to act as a barrier preventing her from leaving.

"Who are you", Georgina asked. The man smiled, waving his walking stick around, he said,

"I'm someone you know very well". His skirt started to sway side to side. Georgina smiled back,

"Suppose I don't know you. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen you before in my life". The noise of police sirens could be heard in the background.

"Listen Georgina, I haven't got much time." He signalled in the direction the sirens were coming from, "They're after me". He handed the brief case over to Georgina. "Take this, It has everything you need."

"What do you mean?"

"Open it and find out for yourself. I am in no position to tell you". "Here, take these as well" The man handed her his walking stick and the skirt he had been wearing. "Now go...run"

Georgina began to run away from the man with everything he had given her. So many questions were going through her mind. "Who was he?" and "What is in this brief case?". She turned around to see if the man was still there but no, he had gone! Vanished… into thin air…

[Reason]

EDIT: Posted at the same time as above Deleted

[European Chris]

EDIT: now mine makes no sense-not that it did.

[MasterCheese]

She stood there, running over what happened in her mind. She glanced at the skirt she was clutching far too tightly in the same hand as the walking stick and the briefcase in her other hand. It was a perfectly ordinary brown briefcase, with nothing at all amazing about it. Carefully opening it she noticed that the police sirens were coming ever closer and decided it wouldn't be the best idea.

She walked down the stairs, wondering where she should go that would be private enough for her to open the case...

[European Chris]

The convent was the only place she could go and Georgina arrived just as Lord Goshworth, a friendly character, was getting down to business.

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