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OOC: This is a closed thread for Chanaud and myself. Please enjoy and read along!
Date: Late Summer 1933
The depression was in full swing. The country was out of work, dried up, hot and hungry, and to pour salt in the wounds it was also illegal to drink your troubles away during this time of “prohibition.” Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow had begun their “Robin Hood” crusade against banks and the long arm of the law across the southwest. As the body count grew the notoriety followed. It became difficult to tell whether Bonnie and Clyde were heroes or criminals.
Meanwhile deep in the backwoods of the southern Appalachian Mountains another couple of less, shall we say, aptitude began their own life of crime and adventure. What follows are the chronicles of the lesser known adventures of Betty and Clive.
IC:
“Damn it’s hot. It’s hotter’n two rats fuckin’ in a wool sock out here.” Clive patted the sweat from his slightly protruding forehead as he leaned against the overheated jalopy he called an ahtymobile.
Steam poured from the radiator dissipating in the swarming heat along the side of the twisted mountain road. Betty sat calmly in the passenger seat taking the occasional nip from a silver flask. Clive stood and walked up the road apiece. He was about six feet tall, maybe a bit taller if he ever stood straight. His shoulders were broad and tapered nicely to his waist. His loose shirt clung to him as a dark strip of sweat soaked down his back. His loose and dirty pants hung from the worn leather suspenders draped over his shoulders. Tattered at the ends, his pants cuffs road about an inch above his ankle. His leather boots worn bare and with more than a few holes in strategic places seemed to dangle on his feet, as he plodded up the hot road.
He turned back to the car. The steam jet from the radiator had slowed. Shaking his unkempt head, Clive wiped the sweat from his brow once more and took the small rag over his head and wiped the droplets from the back of his neck. Leaving the red rag around his neck, Clive raised and dropped his arms exacerbated. He looked at Betty sitting calmly in the car as if it were actually cooler there.
“We aint got no water?” Clive hollered back to Betty as he approached the car.
“No” came her single word reply.
“Well shit.” Clive walked around to the back of the car and opened the small boot. He rummaged through a fair collection of various rifles and shotguns, before emerging with a medium sized tin bucket. He slapped the trunk shut and started off down the slope away from the car.
“I’ll be right back, I’ll get some water from that there crick.” Clive hollered as he made his way through the trees down the slope. He turned and yelled back to the car. “If’n anybody comes along, shoot ‘em.”
Clive slipped and tumbled the rest of the way down the loose slope, landing quite hard on his bottom, his feet flopping in the water. On his way down the bucket had come loose of his hand. It clanged off a log and bounced up striking him square on the head with a thump. “Shit.”
Date: Late Summer 1933
The depression was in full swing. The country was out of work, dried up, hot and hungry, and to pour salt in the wounds it was also illegal to drink your troubles away during this time of “prohibition.” Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow had begun their “Robin Hood” crusade against banks and the long arm of the law across the southwest. As the body count grew the notoriety followed. It became difficult to tell whether Bonnie and Clyde were heroes or criminals.
Meanwhile deep in the backwoods of the southern Appalachian Mountains another couple of less, shall we say, aptitude began their own life of crime and adventure. What follows are the chronicles of the lesser known adventures of Betty and Clive.
IC:
“Damn it’s hot. It’s hotter’n two rats fuckin’ in a wool sock out here.” Clive patted the sweat from his slightly protruding forehead as he leaned against the overheated jalopy he called an ahtymobile.
Steam poured from the radiator dissipating in the swarming heat along the side of the twisted mountain road. Betty sat calmly in the passenger seat taking the occasional nip from a silver flask. Clive stood and walked up the road apiece. He was about six feet tall, maybe a bit taller if he ever stood straight. His shoulders were broad and tapered nicely to his waist. His loose shirt clung to him as a dark strip of sweat soaked down his back. His loose and dirty pants hung from the worn leather suspenders draped over his shoulders. Tattered at the ends, his pants cuffs road about an inch above his ankle. His leather boots worn bare and with more than a few holes in strategic places seemed to dangle on his feet, as he plodded up the hot road.
He turned back to the car. The steam jet from the radiator had slowed. Shaking his unkempt head, Clive wiped the sweat from his brow once more and took the small rag over his head and wiped the droplets from the back of his neck. Leaving the red rag around his neck, Clive raised and dropped his arms exacerbated. He looked at Betty sitting calmly in the car as if it were actually cooler there.
“We aint got no water?” Clive hollered back to Betty as he approached the car.
“No” came her single word reply.
“Well shit.” Clive walked around to the back of the car and opened the small boot. He rummaged through a fair collection of various rifles and shotguns, before emerging with a medium sized tin bucket. He slapped the trunk shut and started off down the slope away from the car.
“I’ll be right back, I’ll get some water from that there crick.” Clive hollered as he made his way through the trees down the slope. He turned and yelled back to the car. “If’n anybody comes along, shoot ‘em.”
Clive slipped and tumbled the rest of the way down the loose slope, landing quite hard on his bottom, his feet flopping in the water. On his way down the bucket had come loose of his hand. It clanged off a log and bounced up striking him square on the head with a thump. “Shit.”