Roll: 1
Annie takes one step outside and her heartbeat races. The overcast sky threatens death by lightning and thunder, springtimem hail and sleet, floods and the sniffles. She feels the panicked need to find her kids and get them inside, before a Kevin Costner movie breaks out the storm breaks.
Roll: 5
While the doctor and nurse are distracted, Starn manages to free himself from the cart at last! For a moment, it’s as if time slows down, and Starn sees the situation clearly. Doctor and nurse ten feet away to the right, the ambulance behind, a cop car behind that. People coming and going from an entrace twenty feet to the right, and the doors to the emergency entrance right before him. He could maybe, just maybe, make an escape, if he were very careful. And Starn is very careful.
Roll: 6
Jack Screams in terror, grabs the thing that hit him, and runs off, knocking several of the combatants over on his way through. He runs blindly for a while, not daring to look behind, but certan of one thing - the sound of pursuit.
Roll: 1
Try as he might, Stan can’t manage to get upright. He’s sure he has the mechanics for it in his head, but his limbs just won’t ully cooperate, and his inner ear starts acting up again, leaving him dizy and disoriented on the floor. At least he knows it IS a floor, though. Things could be worse. Or they could be not at all.
Roll: 3
Jeremy tries to shake off his regrets and burdens and to move into clarity, but thye continue to cling to him. Instead, he moves into a dim awareness and sorrow as he slowly opens his eyes to his apartment. The weight of his past settles again on his shoulders as if it seeks to drag him back into dark unconsciousness, but it leaes him all to conscious of the world around him in all it’s misery and shame.
Roll: 3
Joe stuffs the bun in his mouth whole. It bulges in his cheek and nearly chokes him. Just as he starts to chew, trying to work bits of it down to a more manageable mouthful, the chaos in front of him gets more dangerous, and he turns to flee, having no time to search for the rest of his meal. He runs a little way before he realizes he is running behind someone else. Hey! Tht guy has his bag of buns! Looks like he is going in the right direction after all.
Roll: 5
At last, Ed makes it to his parents home, and sneaks in the back door, wary eyes darting all around to detect any surveilance. Satisfied that he is at last unobserved, he enters the kitchen, where his mother and father look up from a late cup of cofee, mom reading a magazine, and dad scanning te sports section of the day’s news. Ed is sure this is at least the fifth time his dad has read that section today. “Oh, Eddie, there you are, dear. We had begun to worry.” She looks to Father for confirmation of their distressed state, but he barely glances up from the paper. “Son,” He says in greeting.
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Topic: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Read 33387 times)