Konrad calls out to them. His voice is hoarse from exhaustion and under-use.
'I'm lost! I was dumped in the river . . . some people tried to drown me . . . I,' Ingmann felt foolish trying to explain himself, and got right to the point, 'I'm a doctor. I need help getting back to the city'.
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- Tue May 25, 2010 9:52 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Curgesing River
- Replies: 12
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- Sun May 23, 2010 3:04 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Curgesing River
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7712
Seeing the boat, Ingmann was on his feet. His hunger was temporarily forgotten. An almost euphoric rush made his knees feel weak, and he had to stand his posture so as to not fall into the river. Ingmann began to wave his hands in the air and shout for rescue. There was little chance the boat would ...
- Sun May 16, 2010 3:58 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Curgesing River
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7712
With his back leant against the crumbling stone rocks and cobbles of the fence, Doktor Ingmann made as low a profile as he could. He watched the hovel with nervous interest. With a grumbling stomach, and the agonies of wet saliva taunting his appetite, Ingmann knew he could not travel more than anot...
- Sat May 01, 2010 1:51 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Curgesing River
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7712
Strange fears can beset even the most rational men, when their senses have been taxed and unnaturally distorted, and when their needs are at their utmost. For Doktor Ingmann, alone in the dank and dilapidated shack, with his stomach groaning from hunger, and his body feeling an acute craving, his ne...
- Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:25 pm
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Curgesing River
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7712
A sharp crack peeled across the open plain and resounded like a roar of thunder. Ingmann blew the residue powder from his pistol. He had merely tested the flash charge with a miniscule amount of dry powder and was relieved to find his only weapon still worked. Sitting upon a dilapidated stone fence,...
- Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:31 pm
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Curgesing River
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7712
Ingmann had barely settled into sleep before the light of the sun had set upon his back. His boots still trailed in the river, cooling him, yet the warmth of the sun was enough to rouse the doctor. Sleep had been brief - at least since Ingmann had ended his nightmare. For minutes, confusion reigned....
- Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:06 pm
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Curgesing River
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7712
He fell. The sweet intoxication took him into its black embrace. Seething in through every pore, through his throat; lapping and softly tugging at the senses until all was swathed in the cloak of opium, the mistress of love and comfort, the terrible queen. The old man’s face cackled until it crumbl...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:18 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
With a pub full of impoverished men with more lusts than their purses could obtain, and with the pressing need to always appear professional, Doktor Ingmann took pipe and tea cautiously. Naturally he would recline backwards, even lie on the floor beside the pipe. This time, he decided to remain seat...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:45 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
Konrad shakes his head firmly, and maintains a stern expression. He takes four silver from his purse and places it on the floor before the old man. 'Not a silver more,' the doctor declares, knowing that even if the old man couldn't understand the words themselves, he'd surely get their meaning. This...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:03 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
Extortionist. His crime is written in his face as much as in his deeds. Too bad I left my tools at the warehouse, his skull would make prime research material. Doktor Ingmann shook his head, trying to appear firm, without displaying any of his contempt for the old man. He reached in to his purse an...
- Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:48 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
'I shant be long. Have another drink or two on me'. Ingmann places enough money on the counter for Louis to drink twice as much as what he is now. Mentally calculating the time it will take for Louis to finish another two drinks, the anatomist strode into the back room, making sure he sat in a corne...
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:03 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
- Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:54 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:37 pm
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
The odour of a city is as much a part of the impression she leaves as her sights, and this one smells rotten. The wet reek of rotting ropes and weed encrusted wood wafted from the docks, intermingling with unwashed filth and heaped compost. Pipe weed, thick and acrid, clotted and clogged the air of...
- Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:09 pm
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
'No need. We'll see what we may, where we can. I'm more interested in the lower orders at first, the foundation of a community; the walls may come later'. The doctor beckoned for Louis to follow him, and he set off at a brisk pace towards the gloom of the riverside. [ Ingmann will try his best to ma...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:38 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
- Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:39 pm
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Warehouse District
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35875
In the dim light of the warehouse, Konrad Ingmann watched the party with impatience. He did not mind bedding down in quarters beneath his station – a life in exodus had necessitated the abandonment of traditional comforts from time to time. Certainly, he missed the trappings of university life, but ...
- Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:59 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Bluttenburg Pass
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15475
Tiresome , Ingmann thought. Why do educated men still cling to facile notions? Forsaken by Solarias indeed. How can we be forsaken by that which has no existence except in the minds of imbeciles? The anatomist consumed his meal with little relish for anything but its taste - the company bored him a...
- Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:12 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Bluttenburg Pass
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15475
As the men ushered themselves in, as much to assauge their hungers, as to escape the cold, Ingmann cast a keen eye over the tower's interior. The history of the Nissian empire had never interested him overly much. It was his habit to disparage histories or, at least, those with an esteem for the pas...
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:47 am
- Forum: Valley of Blood
- Topic: VoB - Bluttenburg Pass
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15475