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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:48:54 GMT -5
Waking some time later, Hyede checked and set the timer on his watch again before starting off further up the mountain. Another hour later the timer went off and the young man stopped for another meal and rest.
{48/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:49:04 GMT -5
Once he was ready again, Hyede continued his ascent. Once he’d climbed through the forty ninth hour, Hyede took another break and ate another portion of his dwindling rations.
{49/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:49:18 GMT -5
When the fiftieth hour arrived, Hyede started to feel both great and fatigued at the same time. He was coming very close to his goal now, even though his body was starting to fail him. Still he soldier on up the mountain for another hour long cycle and took his next scheduled break.
{50/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:49:36 GMT -5
Continuing on into the fifty first hour, Hyede maintained his ascent until his watch alerted him to the next break period.
{51/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:49:49 GMT -5
With every climbing and break cycle, Hyede was becoming more and more fatigued. He did however take this into account when he planned the trip and the ascent was scheduled to slow by now. Even though he was tired, the young man was still on schedule when he stopped after the fifty second hour for his meal.
{52/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:50:00 GMT -5
Hour fifty three was a but of a struggle. Hyede’s arms, legs and back were all starting to ache. However he still managed to make the distance he was shooting for before his watch beeped and he had to stop for the next break and meal.
{53/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:50:14 GMT -5
Fifty four was no easier. Hyede was finding it harder and harder to keep climbing up the mountain. For more then three days now he was trashing his body to get up the mountain, but somehow he was still able to get to the next planned stop around the time his watch alerted him to break time.
{54/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:50:26 GMT -5
Fifty five was another battle to get up the rock face. In addition to his arms and legs, Hyede hands were starting to bother him. He did manage another hour of climbing though, but almost every part of his body was in pain now. Stopping for his next scheduled break, Hyede decided it was best to take another nap before proceeding.
{55/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:50:39 GMT -5
Waking to start his fifty sixth hour, Hyede felt a bit better, but his body was still quite tired from the past few days. Dragging him self up the mountainside for the next hour, Hyede stopped on schedule and took his next break and meal.
{56/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:50:49 GMT -5
The draining effects of the mountain were truly making this trek grueling and before long, Hyede was grunting with almost every moment. When the next hour long cycle was up, he almost cried when he could see the summit just a few hundred feet up. Taking his break, Hyede opted for another nap.
{57/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:51:02 GMT -5
Starting his fifty eighth hour, Hyede made a slow ascent up the remainder of the mountain. When the hour was up, he took another break and ate another of the few remaining allotments of his supplies.
{58/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:51:20 GMT -5
Refreshed as much as he could be, Hyede started on what would hopefully be one of the last two cycles of climbing to get to the top. The ascent went well and by the time Hyede stopped for his next break, he was no more then twenty feet from the top.
{59/60}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:51:35 GMT -5
After completing his meal, Hyede started on the last leg of the climb. These last twenty feet were somehow particularly hard, almost as if the mountain it’s self were trying to stop him. The drain on his energy became even stronger and it was as if gravity it’s self was magnified. But eventually, Hyede reached up and felt the smooth rock of the mountain’s summit.
“Arrrrrrr!” he grunted out as he hauled himself up and over the lip and rolled onto his back, looking up at the sky.
{60/60} {+5 to Strength, Speed & Endurance. ^__^}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:53:19 GMT -5
After a few minutes, Hyede finally rolled onto his hands and knees and climbed to his feet. As soon as he did so he was shocked to see an old man with a long white beard standing not a foot away from him, staring into his face. The astonishment was such that Hyede almost fell off the cliff.
“Who… who are you?” he asked.
{1/50}
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Post by Hyede on Oct 3, 2008 22:53:34 GMT -5
“Now now sunny. Jump around like that and they’ll be scrubbing you off the rocks bellow.” The old man stated and took Hyede by the hand, leading him away from the edge of the summit.
{2/50}
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