A River Runs Through It (Railroad)
You stagger around drunkenly, trying desperately to work up enough spit to swallow, or perhaps throw up. It could go either way at this point. Your tongue feels like a strip of leather glued to the roof of your mouth. You're really, really thirsty, is what I'm getting at, here.
You see, with great relief, a night-darkened river running through the field ahead of you. It seems to have a series of little yellow rectangular flowers floating down the middle of it, but you can't be too sure, since your vision keeps doubling. You head toward the river to drink your fill.
When you reach the river, though, it's not a river at all! It's just a bunch of oily gravel. Some total ass has played a trick on you; it's not your fault, don't worry, it's the ass's fault. Anyway, you walk down the gravel until it's bisected by a set of tracks. Where the tracks cross the gravel path, there's a big metal sign. It has two r's on either side of a giant letter X. "Rxr?" you slur to yourself. "What does 'rxr' mean?"
You decide to just follow the tracks and see if whatever animal made the tracks was headed to a watering hole. As you walk, you hear a whooshing sound in the distance -- it kind of sounds like a waterfall! You walk toward it, and it gets louder and louder.
Then you hear a howl that sounds like some kind of enraged animal. Maybe that sign was warning you that the watering hole was guarded by a ferocious rxr? You think about turning back, but you've gone this far, and you're really thirsty, and no rxr is going to keep you from the watering hole. Anyway, the rushing noise is really loud now, as is the rxr's howl, so for better or worse, you're almost there.
Then a bright light shines comes rushing toward you! Hey, maybe this watering hole has a fairy who lives nearby, and she's coming to show you how to get past the rxr and --
WHAM.
Occurred during St. Sneaky Pete's Day Stupor on St. Sneaky Pete's Day XXVII, if the character had the effect Cotton Mouthed.
Notes
- Players who encountered this adventure during SSPD XXVII woke up the next day with a rxr shield in their possession.
References
- The title of this adventure references a 1992 film directed by Robert Redford.
