Ah...now this is more like it...

[RagnarRB]

Ragnar frowned at ALO's words. Near certain death? What else was new?

"Well you came thru it. Show us the way out then."

[AL0448]

"well you take a left at the maneating plant, go through the maneating bee hives and then wade though the poison lakes until you get to the other door, which is rustd shut, or i could just chuck you over and you could climb through the keyhole, it might work(althought the non-men among you *glances at sandworm* should be able to make it) "

[Kayde]

Kay gulped. Uh......"and what was our other choice?" she asked in a quiet and frightened voice.


(Nice to meet you alo. You are welcome here. And you know Sandworm so that makes you like family. .)

[DrkMandalorian]

"Wow," Spyral replied. "I think I'd prefer the teddy bears, to all this maneating stuff."

"So does that mean, nonwomaneating?" Jila asked.

"Gee..." replied al0. "I've never thought about it that way." HE put his hand to his chin and began to rub it in thought. "We usually send the prisoners down there. Really helps keep overcrowding in the prisons to a minimum. But what if it is true? What if all of the women we have tossed down there are still alive, because the maneating plants and bees only eat men?"

[AL0448]

"hey sandwor could you go check?" sad al0 " the last time i went down there i got a bad sting from one of the bees , i was dead for about 5 days "

[Sandworm]

"Well, I would. I'm not scared. Honest. not at all. They couldn't hurt me. but it would be.... ummm... oh yeah, abandoning the other scoobs. I can't go. Really sorry. but I can't (phew)"

[AL0448]

"fine err well you might be small enough to go through one of the mouseholes in the walls, this place is full of them" AL0 said
"err hate to ask, but if the mouseholes are our size, how big are the mice?"
asked sandworm

[Sandworm]

"oh, only about 2 metres long," replied Al0, smiling, "Obviously, I won't fit."
"Oh, we have magicians, one of us can shrink you a bit," Sandworm said.

[RagnarRB]

Ragnar shook his head. Then he looked straight at Alo. "No go, I'm not buying it."

Alo looked back, his expression innocent, real or otherwise.

"I want the real directions, not the fake ones."

"But they are real!"

"Maybe, but not to anywhere we need to go." He turned to the others. "Think of what he said guys. 'Down there' is referred to as a prison. A prison is a place you put people and things you don't want to get out, not someplace you just pass thru on your way to somewhere else. And you Alo. You say you won't go down there but if that's the way out then you've had to go down there everytime you've come here or left. I doubt you did, That means you know another way where you don't have to. And who's this we? Are there more of you here?"

He turned to Sandworm. "How well do you know this guy?"

(welcome Alo, not doubting you just writing in character.)

[Sandworm]

"He's probably lying. But he is big enough to crush all of us, so maybe we had better be nice to him?"

[AL0448]

"well i would love to show you the other way out but theres a slight problem , the reason that i gave you directions down there was because one of the other prisoners nicked the key to the door and ran off down there with it, so if you want to get out thats why i told you to go down there" said al0, only breathing once

"oh" said sandworm

(phew i got out of that one alright)

[Sandworm]

"right" sandworm continued.
"so what do we do then? and how do you get out at the moment?"

[RagnarRB]

Ragnar shrugged. "I'm all for breaking down the door myself."

[Sandworm]

"I second that motion," said Sandworm
"Me too," said Emram.
"What a surprise," said Kara, "The men want to take the violent way out."

[AL0448]

"and how exactly would you manage to break down the door?" asked al0 "its about as thick as all of you lieing head to head"