Unfortunately, Alexander's guess about the presence of his car is only too correct--it's nowhere to be seen.  Equally unfortuante, while there are several restaurants on his map, their presence is mostly advertised by brightly colored logos around the margins rather than helpful directions.  Perhaps the natives intend visitors to rely on helpful hospitality?<br/><br/>His eye catches movement in the fog!  A figure moving, out there on the other side of Nathan Avenue, in the direction of the park so prominently listed...<br/><br/>Just then, he hears a distant mournful tolling of a church bell.<br/><br/>+++<br/><br/>Zach, not being completely panicked by his close encounter with strangeness, manages to bring himself skidding to a stop just before he would have run right off the edge of the world!  There's a gap in the road, as if something simply tore the world away like a child ripping a page in two.  Jagged pipes and chunks of concrete jut out into empty space and the bottom, if there is one, must be one heck of a long way down!<br/><br/>Looks like the only way to go is back the way he came.  But with all due caution.<br/><br/>Just then, he hears a distant mournful tolling of a church bell.<br/><br/>+++<br/><br/>Doctor Munigant vanishes into the restroom, waving to Scott as if to say 'wait a minute and I'll be right with you'.  Fair enough.  It's been a long trip and they haven't exactly had a lot of chances to stop.  Maybe he should take the chance to go, too.<br/><br/>Deacon makes it as far as the bottom landing on the steps down to the trail when something unusual happens: the mournful, leaden tolling of a church bell rolls up out of the forest below, a sound with a weight behind it that slams into his skull like a bowling ball!  It's bad.  It's very bad...it's bad enough to make him scream in agony, shameless as any small child!  He reels...and then, as suddenly as it began, the pain passes.<br/><br/>Scott hears the bell as well.  It hits him like a raging bull: incredible pressure building in his head, blindingly agonizing...which passes after a horrid moment of disorientation and vertigo.  Whatever that was, hopefully it won't be back!<br/><br/>The bell has fallen silent again.  So have the woods: the few bird calls that were, are no longer.<br/><br/>+++<br/><br/><strong>There are, of course, certain rules that must be observed.</strong><br/><br/>