The Sprout Pouch

'The Sprout Pouch' by Richard H.

From page 29 in the manuscript book (which is an item you should be looking for during play)

I wasn't exactly sure where Reor (pronounced ROAR) had gotten off to, but I had a pretty good idea.

...and I'd always meant to see what sort of hole he'd dug up behind that bush... Ahem! Excuse me. I meant his 'Bush-Cave'. (He hates when people just call it a bush.)

Anyways, if we could but just surmount my constant digressions, the story would progress thusly: I walked slowly towards Reor's bush-cave.

Once I was around twenty paces from it, the smell nearly knocked me backwards. I didn't know what he had stashed away to rot and be rolled around in down in that hole, but I knew that I was going to have to tough it out.

I pulled my shirt up over my nose. Then, I mustered up all of my courage and began to inch slowly towards the unholy stench. It was hard to take that first step, but Pop and a couple of nice ladies were waiting for me back on that island near Greece a couple of few thousand years ago....-- and I had left them in a pretty tough spot, so I sallied forth.

With my nose under the collar of my shirt, I dropped down into the bush-cave, and...