You're sitting by the microwave, waiting for the others to get to your turn in the latest battle against Lord Soth, fingering your lucky d20, and occasionally checking on the popcorn as it rattles away in the microwave.  Then the power in your friend's old house goes, out, flickers back on, and boom, the microwave blows next to you.

Laying on the floor, you see the others clustered around you, and one frantically dialing 911.  A new player, asks them to step back, and checks your pulse, and makes a face.  You still can't move.

You see him slip a knife from his sleeve, and flick his hand, but in a way that won't be noticed by the others.  Then he casually brushes his bloody hand past your lips, and you taste salt.

"Lift him up. Perhaps a pillow under his head would help."  Surprisingly all scatter.

"Friend, I know this is going to sound crazy, but in a few minutes, you will, if things work out right, end up in another time, another world. My gift to you because I like the way you play rpg's.  You'll be a peculiar kind of immortal."

And then things fade...

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You wake, not in pain, and hear the sound of birds whistling, and cool, wet air scented by trees and grass blow past your nose.  You're laying on your back with your eyes closed.

Playtester

I get up and look around. I look around for a few minutes, trying to understand where I am and what happend.

You're on a smooth, dirt path, in a lush, shadowed wood.  The trees are oak and hickory, and the undergrowth is mostly ferns.  Its a symphony in green and brown.

PT

"Great," I say to myself. "No food anywhere." I then check my pocket for my cellphone, hoping it wasn't destroyed in the microwave explosion.

Cel phone appears fine, but you have no signal.  It says "Out of Area" when you examine it.  And it seems glitchy.

Playtester

"Can this get any worse?" I ask myself as I start walking. "Good thing the clock on it still works." I say as i check the time..

Upon checking the time, you see it is still set for the time of the game at your friends house which was at night, and this by the light is somewhere in the mid-morning.  But your clock claims it should be night.

Playtester

"well thats grea. I'd better start checking for other people. mybe someone else from the group ended up here too." I say as i start looking for a path to walk on.

You continue down the path you are on, and reach a small stone bridge.  Being naturally sneaky as you said, you see a short "man?" stirring a pot over a campfire.  He's two feet tall, and three feet wide, and his face looks like it was made of stone by an inexpert sculptor.

He whistling, and after a bit you recognize the tune.

"Fe, fi, fo fum..."

PT

"whoa, looks like a dwarf.." i whisper to myself, remembering the inages in my player handbook. "if he is a dwarf, then this should realy tick him off"
 "hey drawfy@ Your mother was an elf and your father was a gnome!" i yell out to him, then run out of there as fast as possible.

He roars like rocks shattering, and charges a step.  A fist sized rock whizzes past your right shoulder only speeding your feet.

"Stinking Elf!!"  He hollers from behind you, and you realize he's not following you as the sound recedes behind you.

PT

I walk back to the dwarf, trying to keep as straight a face as psooble.
 I then ask, "Hello good dwarf, do yu perhaps know the way out of these woods and to the nearest town? I was transported here by a mage and now i can't seem to get home."

ooc: hey, its either partly or completly true. night now..got a theo test tommarow...

Up close you can smell his stench, like rotten eggs mixed with carrion.

"I'm no dwarf. I'm the troll of this bridge, bound here by elven magic. And if you want to leave this wood, you go over my bridge, and pay me gold, or blood, or riddle. I hope you choose blood, and he hefts an axe."

PT

"i guess i'll choose riddle, as i have no gold worthy in these lands and do not wish to part with any blood." i say to the troll, trying not to puke.

He smiles.

"You fail, and I get blood AND gold, or you cannot cross. Tell me then. What is the beginning of the end, the end of time, and is found amidst men?"

PT