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[Enjin Archive] Let's SMS a Story!
Started by [E] Yield

There was a time, back before the iPhone or various Droids; when text messages were costly and limited to just 160 (Unfathomable to today's youth, I know!). In these times, it could be quite difficult to convey a series of thoughts effectively. To keep this skill alive, I have decided to make this forum game so we can all keep in practice! The concept is simple, progress the story in 160 characters or less (letters, punctuation, spaces)

Don't double post! Texts are expensive and there are no unlimited plans!

If you need a hand (of fingers) to help you keep count, I recommend this site: http://www.webworldindex.com/countcharacters.htm

And to start us off, here is my entry:
wrote:
It all started one summer day when Steve was taking a walk in the woods. Normally, he would prefer a nice book but today, he was feeling rather adventurous.

Good luck!
He stumbled across a flower, and sniffed it. The flower smelt of fox sweat. (75)
"What could have caused such an abstract scent?" Steve pondered. He let the thought go, but didn't realize it would come back to hurt him later.

Steve hobbled around looking for more things to smell when he came across a(n)

"Advance towards me brethren!" William shouted as he stood there with his sword equipped in his left hand, ready to attack at any time...
There was once a dinosaur named bob he was born and 3 days later he died and was the youngest dinosaur to die back then.
sleeping fox who's stench filled the air gasping for breath Steve passed out only to be woken by
a big fat creeper hissing in front of his smelly face. He tried to

Do spaces count? (Not part of the text)

If so,

If not,
run away, the only thing was. A big Chicken named LucasGreen was trying to escape the big corperate KFC's Chicken coup only until a sweethearted
spider jockey destroyed the facility and set him free. The explosion scared the fox away, and Steve...