Add One Sentence - An alternative to "Add Three Words"

[BlueCross]

While I find the "Add Three Words" thread both intriguing and clever, I also find it rather like trying to open a door while wearing a strait-jacket.  Too often a poster really does nothing but add filler and is unable to forward a particular path.  Of course, perhaps that is the challenge, and perhaps ultimately it does provide a higher reader 'reward' to those who are able to muck their way through it.

I certainly do not want to denigrate or usurp the "Add Three Words" thread but I thought perhaps we could start yet another but this time, each poster would add an entire sentence.  There also seems to be an unlisted rule that no poster may post their three words (or in this case, sentence) until at least two or three other posters have also chirped in.

At any rate, I will start...

[BlueCross]

Martin Preiss had been walking up the narrow rocky path for hours, yet there was still no sign of the cabin.

[The Hanged Man]

I agree, I have seen several results but mostly the "add three words" thing usually ends with an incoherent plot of randomness. (I think that's how they write the Scary Movie films.) I did have one good result which told of an epic civil war between two monarchs, the crab queen and the crab king.

He stopped to check his map, scratching his head before carrying on, he felt like he was going in circles.

[AcdQueen89]

As the sun began to set and Martin could see the stars he realized that he had been traveling North, the cabin was supposed to be in the East

[Hoopy Frood]

Hindsight being 20/20 and all, Martin cursed himself and vowed that next time he'd bring a GPS, or at least a compass.

[BlueCross]

He finally decided that he would rest where he was and wait for daylight when he heard the faint noise, not so much a cry as a low and long wail.

[TK]

As he looked out into the dark he saw.. could it be? Was that a mormon being hunted by a mormon hunter? Clearly these were escapees from some more constrictive regime.

No but seriously.

He knew this was bear country so he froze barely, allowing his breath to escape in a thin stream into the cold night, as he listened he thought he could pick up words in the cry.

 

[The Hanged Man]

Suddenly a mysterious figure emerged from a cave to his right, it was tall and bulky and it stood on two legs, it was a bear!

[TK]

He shuddered as the hulking shape swallowed loudly, "sorry, speaking with my mouth full, put this on! You'll catch your death out here" said the shape as it flung a thick coat at him.

[The Hanged Man]

Sheepishly, Martin took the coat, ensuring that he made eye contact with the bear at all times.

[AcdQueen89]

"Druid said it's supposed to rain tonight. I've got shelter," the bear gestured into the darkness.

[Xerxes]

The bear removed his AK-47 guaranteed him by the constitutional right to arm bears, and expostulated "So, are you coming in, or what?"

[The Hanged Man]

Martin wasn't sure as to whether or not this was a good idea, after all his mother told him to never trust strangers, though the cold was getting to him and this bear didn't seem untrustworthy.

[AcdQueen89]

"Give me the gun and I'll follow you," Martin quickly decided as his teeth started to chatter.

[The Hanged Man]

"Can't!" The bear protested "It has sentimental value."