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So here's how this works. We'll make a collaborative text-based adventure game together.

When it's your post, you respond to the post above you by taking an action, then you describe the rest of the room. So for instance:

Post above you: You are in a dark room. In front of you is a dragon. What do you do?

Your post: PET THE DRAGON

You pet the dragon. It picks up up and soars into the clouds. In front of you is a flock of birds, and below you is an airship What do you do?

Make sense?

Ok, I'll start us off.

You awaken lying on a bed in a strange room. You have no memory of how you arrived here. Light flickers from a torch on the wall, and the bed creaks oddly, as if there is something under the mattress. To the WEST is a wooden door. What do you do?

I take stock of my current possessions (clothes, and anything in the pockets).

You are dressed in an ordinary, knee-length tunic. You hear the sound of water lapping against a barrier. You smell salt and a fishy odor. You are unfettered; you may get up and move about the room. What do you do?

You realize you're very hungry, and check the room for food.

You find no food in plain sight. So you check under the mattress for whether or not it has food. What do you find?

I find a hidden stockpile of home canned peaches with no highfructose corn syrup

and my p22 semi automatic

I grab a couple of jars put them in my back pack and cock the trigger back. Looking around the dimly lit room full of eery cobwebs. How in the heck did I end up in this room? Why can't I remember? Why was my gun and those peaches under the bed? I hear the creeking noise again but, realize it isn't coming from under my bed, just then I see a shadow move.

What do you do?

I grab my semi auto and call up my best friend dr John Watson, discreetly.

Watson arrives, he is hungry and sleepy. The shadows have long since disappeared and he finds you, the famous detective, curled up under the bed with a gun and an abundance of peaches.

What do you do?

THROW PEACHES AT WATSON

You throw the peaches at Watson...

He dodges all of them and turns into a dragon.

Behind you is a window. In front of you is Watson-dragon. There appears to be a shimmering object between two of Watson-dragon's teeth. What do you do?

Pull it out, he won't bite, and give him a shot he prepared for special moments.

He turns back to normal, the composed, intelligent English gent he is, just a bit rattled, and he says
...oh, look, Holmes, shadows!...
You turn around, shadows are approaching, and you exchange frightened glances with Watson.

THROW PEACHES AT SHADOWS

You throw the peaches at the shadows...

Well done, Holmes! The shadows belonged to a group of goblin assassins who happen to be terrified of peaches! The shadows dissipate and you hear their footsteps get further away.

Watson turns into a dragon. You're all out of special anti-Watson-dragon formula and he looks mad as hell.

Watson-dragon screams, "HOLMES! I'MA KILL YOU!" and begins to moonwalk towards you, his head rotated 180 degrees to face you while he spews fire in your direction.

What do you do?

Yikes. Say...
Watson! Mary is expecting you!
Add a smile and cock your head towards the door. As he is walking out, give him a bottle of baby formula and a can of dog food.

Watson dragon wreaks havoc on the bleak London street. He is snacking on the goblin assassins and that is good. Sometimes one has to leave his best friend alone for a while, you think. You light your pipe, get out your violin and snack on peaches. Watson will be normal by sunrise. Then he'll come back here and help out. Gladstone the dog runs into your room now, and you gave Watson your last can of dog food.

What do you do?

THROW REMAINING PEACHES AT GLADSTONE

You throw the peaches at Gladstone...

He dodges all of them and turns into a dragon.

Behind you is a window. In front of you is Gladstone-dragon. There appears to be a shimmering object between two of Gladstone-dragon's teeth. What do you do?

I grab the object from Gladstone. He shrinks back into a dog again.

Sorry, this is in first person.

I found the antidote! Now, no problems with dragons! Yay! Gladstone, chomping away at some peaches, lies peacefully at my feet while I puff on my pipe. Soon it's morning, a tired Watson, in human form, comes through the front door.
Oh, how I've missed you Holmes he says.
I smirk and he smirks back. All is well. But why did everyone turn into dragons? This might make a good case for me to solve.
I think...lord Blackwood and prof. Moriaty might have worked together in this conspiracy, Holmes. I swear I saw dragons last night!...Watson says.
You yourself were one...I mutter.
Just then a giant vanis dragon burst though the window of 221b baker street. We gasp and gladstone dies again.
What would you do?

I slay the dragon with my semi automatic. I throw the dragon out of the window. There is a rumbling outside, it starts getting chilly, and the rain begins. (Another thunderstorm) oh these long days of rain, rain and more rain. The only light in the room is a flickering candle in which I am reading my latest Sherlock Holmes mystery. Just then I hear a knock at the door.

What do you do?

I open the door cautiously and peek out.

Holy Moley there's a big fat parcel half my weight outside!
Merry Christmas Sherlock! Love, your brother mycroft it reads.
Whoo! Mycroft! I open it up to find a crate. Live animals, it says outside.
I take the lid off. Half a dozen platypuses clamber out. Watson yells bloody murder... Platypuses? What kind of brother do you have? Holmes? He asks me.
I shrug. The platypuses line up in a straight line beside Gladstone, who clearly enjoys their company.
What would you do?

Laugh at him.

You then realize that you're not Sherlock Holmes.
What do you do?

Slap my face.

Suddenly, cthulhu tentacles pop out behind you and grab your pathetic human body. How do you respond to this sudden kidnapping?

I feed spam to the tentacles. Should de-appetize 'em for a decade or so.