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Nearly naked, half frozen and falling to her/his death...
Hey Erin,
Why do you hate this character so much?
with love,
Hope
with love,
HER
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
Gee, I think we're not in
Gee, I think we're not in Kansas anymore.
Maybe she fell on a flying monkey.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Falling
...from five miles above Kansas, you'd definitely end up IN Kansas.
Not after you've been sucked
Not after you've been sucked up into a tornado. Doesn't EVERYONE know that tornadoes over Kansas end up in Oz?
Mind you, wearing nothing but underwear is definitely a new twist.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Oh, wow....
"A new twist on riding the twister to Oz." I really am sorry, but you threw the door *wide* open for that one. X-P
Peace be with you and Blessed be
Peace be with you and Blessed be
Oz?
What, Brisbane, along with all those other characters?
Dunno. I mean, it _is_
Dunno. I mean, it _is_ supposed to be in the middle of a huge desert. That COULD be Western Australia
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Been there
Ridden across it...didn't notice any falling seminudes...
Probably ...
... just unlucky or perhaps lucky depending on your POV :)
PoV
About five feet nine above the pea gravel at the time, allowing for saddle height...
Yikes!
Hey! What's with you?! That poor kid. And poor us. These cliffhangers are killing me. Ugh.
I have to see what she/he landed on. At least these chapters are short so they shouldn't take long to turn out. I'm hoping to see what happens before I leave England to come back to the states.
Thanks and kudos.
- Terry
Helter skelter, in a summer
Helter skelter, in a summer swelter?
"It couldn't really get any worse!"
Erin, you meanie! What a cliffhanger!
Dorothycolleen, member of Bailey's Angels
Casket
Speaking of open caskets: Could have caught up with the baby grand-open of course
Ack! We've switched genres.
Ack! We've switched genres. Not that I have any problem with either genre, but this has moved from plausibly real to fantasy and magic (not the stage kind), and that jars me out of my seat a bit. Not as badly as Stephanie was, though, fortunately.
Not yet
Nothing that has happened yet requires magic as an explanation, but I think I've provided enough hints that that is the way the story is apparently going. :)
Real life people have survived such falls but anything over about 600 feet, you're at terminal velocity without some sort of updraft to slow you down. That's why all the stories of people surviving unprotected falls of 5000 feet or more involve storm clouds.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Actually a couple instead
Actually a couple instead involve landing on a slope covered with something loose and not too hard. That slows you down a lot more gradually.
Brooke brooke at shadowgard dot com
http://brooke.shadowgard.com/
Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
"Lola", the Kinks
What the?!?
Well, to my surprise the internet thingy says that people have survived greater falls. Vesna Vulović fell 33,000 ft in the wreckage of her commercial JAT flight (though the internet thingy does cast doubt on the break-up altitude of her plane), Flight Sergeant Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (18,000ft), Lieutenant Ivan Mikhailovich Chisov (22,000ft) and Staff Sergeant Alan Eugene Magee (22,000 ft).
So, if Dale is lucky it'll be like a Wile E. Coyote and he'll just peel himself out of a person sized impact crater in the yellow brick road. If he's unlucky he's Sir Isaac Newton's bitch now and it's going to be messy.
Or it's the flying monkeys.
"Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life."
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Good thing...
...there exists factors such as terminal velocity, air drag, impact reducing but yielding objects, and impact distributing solids or fluids. Of course, I don't know whether one of those factors are playing into the situation here or there's some magic acting...
It can't get any worse?
Apparently she doesn't know her tropes as well as she thought. Me thinks she skipped a part or two in "Tempting Fate." Points for getting creative, though. Well done and well written. If Enemyoffun isn't careful, I'm thinking you might just beat him out as the biggest cliff hanger meanie on this site if you keep this up. ^_^
Peace be with you and Blessed be
Peace be with you and Blessed be
This is like those stories ...
... with sequential authors; you know, where each writer tries to make things as difficult as possible for one following. Except of course, Erin is shooting herself in the foot rather than being shot. "Do you know this piano's flying through the air?" "No, Steffi, but if you hum it, I'll play it."
I used to be involved in throwing things at aero-engines to see how they behaved but we never tried a grand piano. Lumps of gelatine simulating birds and sometimes even birds (dead ones, but defrosted) but never a piano. Clearly, our lords and masters lacked imagination.
Robi
no frozen chicken gun?
no frozen chicken gun?
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Frozen Chicken Gun
Would be a great name for a band! :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I presume
the rest of the aircraft had crashed somewhere, or at best crash-landed. Could it be the piano or something else from the tornado, which would enable a softer landing - assuming she didn't actually freeze to death or lose too many fingers and toes (and other appendages) to frostbite.
I still have no idea what's going on, but lovin' it.
Angharad
Angharad
Hmmm, I doubt the airplane crash landed
Quite a bit of decompression, yes, but loss of flight integrity, probably not. Mind numbing panic? YES!
As long as the engines are okay, and it is just one decompression hole, the plane itself should be able to land.
Poor Dale though. So, who lands, a boy or a 'girl'?
Edit: Oh and I wonder if she winds up in Australia ;-).
Kim
With her luck
She landed in a large manure pile!
Karen J.
* * *
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
I dunno about manure, but
I dunno about manure, but she seems to be in a world of sh*t. :)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
What?
You've never seen the classic Laural & Hardy about them joining the air force? They fall out of the open cockpits when the plane goes inverted and land in a big pile of manure. If it's good enough for L&H, it oughta be good enough for Stephanie/Dale!
Karen J.
* * *
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Now she's sucked out of the
Now she's sucked out of the plane, and falling, thank goodness her bra and pantys are padded.
Hugs,
Karen
The Satanic Verses
This reminded me of the opening chapter to "The Satanic Verses". TVtropes: "There's no way anyone could survive that."
-- Daphne Xu