Round Robin – An Experiment in the Old Game of “Consequences”

This is part one of the round robin story we are writing collaboratively in preparation for the next session (9 July 2009). Please contribute to this creative writing effort.

Part 1

Out of the bright sunshine of July, Captain Jervis stepped in one pace into the restful obscurity of the hotel. He stopped, hoping to hear some sound which would indicate the whereabouts of the person left in charge. There was silence. His arrival had occasioned no curiosity or even notice. He walked through the hall and found himself in a cocktail bar of which the bar was closed and locked. Further still, he emerged on the covered terrace with glass panes overlooking the harbour.

It was disappointing to find no one about the place. He had on the tip of his tongue the phrases, a little grandiose, in which he would have ordered dinner for five. Four of the five, after all, were persons of some importance, the chief actors in a drama of war and treachery. The fact that he, the fifth, had so minor a part in the affair–little more than the ordering of dinner–was what inspired his desire to seem imporant. He knew well that once the others arrived he would be unimportant enough, a person to make a note, to hurry up the dinner, or to answer the telephone. He was intelligent, the Brigadier thought a great deal of him, he had not done at all badly in the Army, but he was still only the Staff Captain. His job was to keep quiet and obey orders.

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