People, Places and Things
(Provided by Michael Taylor, from his notes for the ultimate
LOTL role-playing game he someday hopes to write)
"Follow That Dinosaur"
01:20 The cave in High Bluff has a curtain made of some kind of
cloth covered with leaves.
There are also three steps which seem to lead a back cave. Will
refers to this as their curtain. Holly says that she uses it to keep
the flies out.
02:30 Holly calls the plants that their curtains were made with
`Dinosaur Nip'. Holly saw Spike (the
Triceratops) playing with it.
02:50 Rick speculates that this may be why Grumpy is so attentive to
High Bluff, because there is so much Dinosaur Nip around there.
03:28 Will and Holly are clearing out a large area of Dinosaur Nip.
Will mentions that he was going to go fishing.
03:56 Holly notices that the Dinosaur Nip smells when you get a lot
together.
04:02 Rick says he's going to take care of the Dinosaur Nip patch
that is south of the cave.
04:32 Will and Holly use bamboo poles with bundles of Dinosaur Nip
hanging off ropes at the ends to carry the bundles.
05:28 Will and Holly approach the crevasse from the right side of
the screen.
05:59 Will and Holly rest on large rocks near the crevasse.
06:03 Holly refers to Dinosaur Nip as ferns.
06:41 Near the rocks where Will is resting he notices the leg of a
man sticking out from underneath the rocks. It is actually a dummy
wearing knickers and a revolutionary war coat. The dummy is stuffed
with Dinosaur Nip.
08:25 In the dummy's pockets they find a hand-written journal. Rick
reads from the journal: "I finally managed to teach the little furry
monkey-people a few words of the Christian language. I call them
terrible lizard creatures the Sleestaks, after Major Joshua
Sleestak." Will speculates that he is the one who wrote the warning
about the Sleestak on the pillar outside the Lost City.
09:14 The journal confirms the nature of the Dinosaur Nip. "Harry
Potts has been gone for days now." The journal names the
other person in the party.
09:48 The journal states that its author will be across the crevasse
and into the cave where the pillars end. Which Will states is the
Lost City. The journal is apparently a warning to any who come after
the journal writer.
10:35 Will proposes that they find the rest of the journal in the
Lost City, reminding Holly that it is almost the end of the
Sleestak's dormant season.
10:50 They cross the rock bridge over the crevasse from left to
right to go towards the Lost City.
11:28 Grumpy manages to cross the rock bridge over the crevasse.
Holly notes that Big Alice (the Allosaur) isn't going to like that.
This corresponds to knowing that Big Alice lives around the Lost
City.
11:50 Will wonders where the diary said that they went. Holly points
out that there are three entrances to the Lost City. Rick says that
the Main Entrance in the center of the Lost City leads to
Enik's place and the Sleestak Pit. The entrance they are at
is the entrance with the fallen pillars. Rick thinks the diary must
have meant the one of the far side. "The cave where the pillars
end".
12:19 The Marshalls hide behind the pillars near the second entrance
to the Lost City.
12:53 Holly has never seen Big Alice so made before. Rick notes that
it is because they are very territorial and Grumpy has invaded their
turf.
13:37 As the ground shakes from Grumpy and Alice battling, the dust
starts to fall around the pillars the Marshalls are hiding behind and
they make a run for the Lost City entrance.
13:51 Rick wonders if this is the cave the diary talked about
when Holly sees a second "Beware of Sleestak" written on the cave
wall. Will notices that it's just like the one on the pillar out in
the jungle.
14:05 The Marshals go deeper through the tunnels. These
tunnels have artificial hexagon-shaped bracing that we have seen
before, with torch holders.
14:21 Holly wonders if they will meet any Sleestak, but Rick
and Will note that since the air is cold the Sleestak should stay
dormant.
14:52 The Marshalls find a cave that has a blanket, some
gourds and stacks of rock that Rick calls a Cairn. Rick says it is
meant to be landmark and a sign to look there because there is
probably something underneath. Holly notes that it is cold, but
after a look from Rick and Will says that she is not complaining.
15:44 Under the Cairn they find the rest of the journal and a
map. "I've finally found Harry Potts trail. He come here but he not
come out. I can feel it in me bones. There's a hole down there among
them dead lizards. That hole leads straight back to New England.
Harry Potts went in that hole and he went home. Take heart stranger,
I leave you this map. I go to follow my best chum, Harry Potts."
Rick checks the map to see if he can follow his trail. He sees a
tunnel and they all go through it.
16:56 They find a web-covered cave with three dormant
Sleestaks standing next to the walls.
17:38 They continue through the caves to find more dormant
Sleestaks standing next to the walls.
18:04 They come into a cave that has large glowing crystals
(around 10) embedded in the walls. The diary says to look for an
arrow. On the floor of the cave is an arrow made of crystals (around
11, 2 green, blue, green, blue green making up the shaft and four
red crystals making the point).
18:13 The
arrow points to a knee-high hole in the wall. The Marshalls
climb through the hole.
18:37 The tunnel remains only high enough for them to crawl
on their hands and knees.
18:53 It comes out into a Lava Pit. There they find two skeletons
with a tri-corn hat and the rest of the diary. Rick notices that the
lava is beginning to rise. Rick speculates that this rising lava is
what brings the Sleestak out of their dormant season.
20:11 The Marshals make a run to escape just as the Sleestak
are waking up and leaving their alcoves to chase the Marshalls.
20:51 Grumpy and Alice, still fighting knock down a pillar
outside the lost city.
20:55 Rick and Will bring crystals out of their pockets and
throw them together at the battling dinosaurs. They appear to be red
and yellow. They make an explosion big enough to break up the
dinosaur battle.
21:31 Back at High Bluff Rick is stirring a large silver metal
camping cook pot with what appears to be a bamboo stick with half a
gourd on the end as a ladle. The pot is resting on the rock fire
pit.
21:37 Rick reads the last half of the journal. "Dear poor
unfortunate stranger. If ye be reading this by now, ye know this is
not the way out of this miserable, god-forsaken land. Go back. Leave
these crawly caves. The Sleestak awaken when the devil's cauldron
bubbles up. I've stayed too long. They are awaiting for me to come
out. Wherever me chum, Harry Potts is, in heaven or hell, I'm hoping
that he'll put in a good word for me when I get there. At least,
I'll be out of here. Peter Koenig. Private in General Washington's
Revolutionary Army." |
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