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Not insanely adventurous, but it's all I got.
>Be senior in high school
>Hangin out with a couple of friends near a river
>Not super secluded, kind of a park area
>Decide to go on a hike down the trail, notice a way up the steep valley
>Whythehellnot.jpg
>Start to hike up, easy climbing for a while
>Find a dear trail heading up quite a ways
>Start up on it, notice bones from small animals start popping up
>Ignore the omen
>After a while longer, Friend 1 about shits his pants
>See rotting dear carcass spread across the trail
>FUCKTHISNOISE
>Decide it best be time to go back down
>End up splitting up on the way down because of size differences
>Friend 1 gets down first, starts trying to guide me safely
>Friend 2 nowhere to be found
>Get about 20 feet to a drop-off, about 6 feet to the ground, then a few yards to the river
>Friend 1 shouting at me
ROLL FOR LISTEN
>1
>"Anon, go down!"
>"Right here? Wouldn't that be fucking stupid?"
>"Just go down!"
>Ifyousayso.jpg
>Turns out he was saying “Go around!”
>Take a single step, ground slides from under boot, start sliding down
I'm scared as shit at this point, because I could have easily fallen into the river, and I can't swim.
>Come off of drop-off hauling balls
>Boot catches exposed tree branch
ROLL FOR REFLEX SAVE
>16
>Manage to use the branch to stop my momentum, and land on the flat rocks before the river
>Breathe, then set out to find Friend 1
>Find out later that Friend 1 slide most of the way down, grabbed a fern to slow down a couple feet before his head hit rock
>Headache, maybe very minor concussion
>Friend 2 slid on his ass most of the way. Didn't hit anything, but almost fell into the river
>Damage control, no major injuries
We realized we dodged a bullet there. We still hike on the trail occasionally, but we never tried to climb up the valley again.