Zoom Comes to the Campfire

[AustinBoston]

One of them screamed!  They all started running back the way they had come, as a haunting laugh that sounded like the laugh of a very small man echoed from behind them.  The laughing stopped, and a voice called "So you think you can zoom past me?"  The boys suddenly stopped, frozen in terror, trapped between the voice behind them and...

[tlhdoc]

a dead end, a wall had appeared in front of them.  The Boy Scouts didn't know what to do.  None of their training had prepared them for this hike of terror.  One of the scouts named Jon suddenly yelled that there was a ladder in the corner.  All of the boys ran for the ladder, only it didn't head up to the surface.  It headed down deeper underground.  They used a flashlight to count the eighteen rungs on the ladder.  Where did it lead too?  What what was moving closer to them from the tunnel?  What should they do?  Jason one of the scouts said I am ...

[ChisholmTrail-er]

"....afraid!  I know I'm supposed to be brave, and probably will be when I get to be 19, but right now I'm not!"  The other Scouts...

[tlhdoc]

all looked scared too.  Then one of the younger boys ran for the ladder and started down.  Twenty feet deeper underground they all went.  When they go to the bottom they ...

[ChisholmTrail-er]

...zoomed in all different directions.  Now separated in various tunnels, what they couldn't possibly foresee was....

[AustinBoston]

...someone zooming along and closing the cover!

[tlhdoc]

Now the twenty three scouts were seperated, some alone and all were trapped.

[ChisholmTrail-er]

Discounting the weaklings, they numbered twenty.  Fortunately, each carried a copy of their Preparedness Manual, entitled "Tunnel Survival".  

read carefully!

[tlhdoc]

The manual had 25 pages in it.

[griffsdad]

The manual had 26 pictures.

[tlhdoc]

They zoomed right through it, but ...

[brainpause]

...they zoomed right past the most important point:

[tlhdoc]

It was the fool proof twenty nine step by step directions on how to get out of an enchanted underground tunnel.

[brainpause]

Thirty souls had already been lost in the enchanted underground tunnel.

[ChisholmTrail-er]

Suddenly, from the deep recesses of the tunnel came a macabre voice.  "Just thirty?  One more would satisfy......"