The Story Game

[MSB]

This thread aims to add a story game to the Mead Hall. It basically involves each person posting a sentence into the thread that follows on from the previous post. Nobody should post straight after themselves: they should wait until at least two more people have posted till they post again. Eventually it should make a strange story that ends in an unexpected and peculiar way. I want to see where we get to after a few months.

I'll start with:
It was a cold, sinister and bitter evening as the young child, named Robert, crawled through the misty and bizarre wood.

[The Foolish Horseman]

in the wood, lay a dingy dark secret that even the prince of darkness could dream of

[Motep]

That last sentence made absolutely no sense to me.

This secret was so old, even the oldest of the trees could not remember its making.

[Franconicus]

Robert was too exhausted to run, but fear pushed him further.

[MSB]

Then suddenly, without warning, the dark and deep secret was reveled in an amazing and spectacular way.

Note: I would have said more but I want somebody else to decide what the secret should be.

[Csargo]

Little did Robert know that this secret would lead to something horrible.