(1) A group of five camels walk through the desert, four of which are carrying passengers. Each camel is tied to the one before it. In the front sits a broad-shoulder football player of a man. His short blond hair ruffles slightly in the fierce wind, blowing against him. His blue eyes glow, his firmly knit brows search the horizon for any sign of what's to come. The sun touches the horizon and his grim look turns to delight as a small triangle rises in the sun. He turns back to the woman behind him. She is covered from head to toe with cloth. Occasionally long wisps of velvet auburn hair are drawn out from beneath the scarf that covers her head. She is leaning down as low as possible to avoid the searing wind that almost makes her lose her balance. "Lisa, tell the others we make camp here tonight." He turns around and arrests his camel while she stares daggers at him in an uncomfortable silence. "My name's Allysa. Can't you ever get that right?" She cogitates to herself. She halts her humped animal. She twists and strains to glance behind her as the other humped animals come to an abrupt abatement. Atop the most humped is a young, curious boy who could be ten. His brown hair scatters in every direction, capturing the windblown look without trying. His brown eyes ask as his mouth almost unconsciously moves, "Here? Where goest we?" "I don't know, but we'd already have arrived there if you had refrained from scaring the camel into smashing beyond repair our compass." He dismounts as she heads to the fifth camel with all of the supplies. She passes the last rider who is a cutie, a little girl dressed in pink with long curls and plastic sunglasses. "Jessie, get off your camel, Daddy says here we stop for the night." "Okay, Nanny Lisa." The wind dies down and her pitchblack windblown hair comes to rest in a high arch encompassing and highlighting her face. The young boy takes a folding chair off the last camel as if he's done this time and time again. "Robert! Where's my chair?" "Coming, Dad," he says, taking the chair towards the beginning of the caravan and the man that is standing there. As he's on his way, Allysa, their babysitter, joins him. "That is it, it, it," she says as the twosome reach the man of the caravan (house), "but I'm not putting up the tents today since you can't seem to get my name right." Bobby puts the chair behind him and after a few moments leaves. "Oh no, it's the woman's job to work around the house. So it's your job to put up the tents." "And to cook the meals, clean the dishes and the tents..." "That's right." "But this isn't in my contract!" "Would you have signed it if it was?" "No, but it's ruining my beautiful complexion!" The man finally realizes that this chair is behind him. He sits down. The sound of a fart emanates from below him. He stands up and finds a deflated whoopie cushion on his seat. "Robert! Come here this instant!" After a moment of nothing, "Jessie! Go get your brother!" Realizing he's going to have to do this himself, he decides to wait until later to punish the boy. After gazing at the horizon for a while, he walks to the tents. He notices that the kids' tents are up as is Allysa's but not his. There's a note on it saying, "We've gone out for a bit so please enjoy doing things by yourself." It's signed by all of the liberated. The wind starts howling. Seeing the approaching storm, he concedes and sets up his tent. "This time only," he thinks. As the storm draws closer, he gets into his now setup tent and zips it up tight. He hears the clattering of hooves and then the sound of muffled voices as the storm ferocity increases, creating fear and insecurity that his tent is going on a long journey of its own. Later when he deems it safe after the deafening winds slowly decrease, he finds that his tent is still dark. He foolishly flings open the tent door to get some fresh night air and instead a flood of sand, dust and light pour into his tent. When it finishes, he slowly crawls out of his tent and examines his surroundings. After the sand storm had left, he assumes that the dunes are the other two tents. They form a nice valley in the center. He goes to the supply tent and takes firewood off the pile and starts a fire. Black transparent smoke gets in his face and he reacts by coughing. He coughs again and then he hears the sound of tents being unzipped. Slowly after getting flooded by sand as well, the rest of the clan emerge. They all look around and have a timid laugh. Dinner is served and they all rest for the night. If you want to be Frank, go to paragraph (2) If you want to be Allysa, go to paragraph (3) If you want to be Bobby, go to paragraph (4) If you want to be Jessica, go to paragraph (5) (1) You dream in a town. In the center is a saratophagus with the lid partially open. Inside you see a mummy. You realize this is the mummy's tomb. You look around the walls of the room and there are many doors leading out. There are doors around the chamber. Each one has an inscription in hieroglyphics above it. Quickly drawing from his knowledge from the book Hieroglyphics Made Easy, he reads the inscriptions above the doors. He finally picks the one that says, "Perfect Woman For The Job'. He notices a little stone pushed out from the rest of the wall next to the doors. He pushes and the doors with the inscription opens up. He steps in; the door closes behind him. A flurry of activity around him -- it is like he is being attacked. All of a sudden a beautiful appears before him and to purchase him. She gets nearer and neared until all of a sudden "*!@##@!*" she floats right up in his bed. Actually, more likely it goes, she gets closer and closer. He tries to get away but finds that he is surrounded that he keep sticking to. It surrounds every move making it difficult for him to move. All of a sudden, "*!@##@!*" he screams as he sits upright in the bed where he was sleeping in his tent. "What a nightmare!" he says. "I think I need some air to wash that one out of my cerebrum." He climbs out of his tent with closed eyes, stretching and yawning and starts walking rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. When all of a sudden he steps on air. He lands with a gulp. He's relatively unhurt, but looks around at the periphery. The moon is illustrious in its brightness this night and lighting up the chamber. He glances to the center of the room, and just off to the center of the room right next to him, he sees a translation on a sarcophagus that is closed at the moment. It says, "Cursed be the one who enters this tomb for many blessings shall drop on his unsuspecting his head and shall overwhelm him." "Wow! This is strangely familiar." Around the room there are a series of stone doors, each of which have an inscription above them. He starts to interpret le premier and the woman is perfect for the job. "Wow! I sure could use a woman, especially if she can do a job as in my dreams." He pushes the slightly pushed out stone and makes it even with the wall. The stone door rises creating an entrance. He walks in and the stone door closes behind him. From behind there comes a grating in the total darkness. Suddenly, he feels a tickling all around him. He heads towards the grinding sound. He hears another grinding, only with this grinding sound, he hears running water. He heads in that direction. Slowly the cave gets brighter and phosphorous like and starts glowing in the tunnel. As he gets closer to the water, the light grows even brighter to the point where he sees that there's a boat waiting for him amid the current. He decides, "What other alternative do I have of escaping this place?" He gets in the boat and releases the line. The boat picks up speed as it goes through the currents. The tunnel grows dark as the lighting recedes from him. Soon it is pitchblack and he has no idea which way he is going. After a long time in the dark, his boat bumps up against something. He reaches foot-forward over the edge of the boat and finds a metal grate in front of him which is easily open. He moves hastily out of the boat and reaches the grate. He finds himself in a small tube with water at his feet. Small holes of white appear above him. He investigates one and finds that its a manhole cover. He finds himself in Cairo just as the day is beginning to dawn. His first thought is to get back to the others. Then he realizes that the compass is broken and he doesn't know where they're at. So instead of going to the camel dealer, he goes to the search and rescue team instead and gives them the approximate coordinates where the other three should be found. Then he checks into his hotel. He starts to rest in his hotel room but an itchy, scratchy yet ticklish sensation irritates all over his body. He goes to the store to buy some lotion and finds that it does no good. Then he begins to wonder what happened in that dream. So he goes to the doctor. "It seems to be just a virus," the doctor says. "Take a couple of aspirin and contact me if it gets any worse." The next day after much agony and suffering, he finds that little dipsticks started appearing on his body. He thinks nothing of it and pops a few. The day after this large purple rash swatches appear all over his skin. "I don't remember this being a symptom of any disease that I know of," he says. He goes to the doctor and sure enough, the doctor hasn't seen of a disease that has this as one of its symptoms. But then he remembers back through his archives and there was one other case. The doctor says the symptoms disappear after the rash completely covers the body. Sure enough, you become a purple alien and once you do, it completely disappears. This makes you uneasy because for some reason you don't think it's gone. You have the doctor do a full check on every system and he finds abnormally high levels of estrogen, even more than for a female and cellular restructuring, he sends your tests to the best scientists in the world. And they immediately fly you out to do further tests. It's discovered that a virus was injected into your system, a large quantity of it and it is slowly going from cell to cell in your body and changing you into a female. This is the first encounter in the real world of this disease and there's no known cure and they are not sure how long the change will take. But they do have a number of options and leave the choice up to you. You can wait it out You can try new solutions They can cryogenically freeze you until someday they can do something about it. **Writer's note: The choices are: Feeding him estrogen pills, hoping to defuse it or something else in as far as future cures go The other cure is to try an experimental brain transplant. (2) Allysa start or Lisa start You get into your sleeping bag and go to sleep at night. You dream that you are in a cabin. You look around and you see a bunch of doors, hieroglyphics over each one. Suddenly you find yourself with a book of hieroglyphics in your hand. Mm this must be dreaming, you think to yourself. Needless to say, you use the book of hieroglyphics to translate and you see one inscription. It says, "The Perfect Makeover." You notice next to the door that there's a bit of stone that is an outcropping. You push it and the stone door begins to open. You step through and the door closes behind you. Instantly the room lights up and surrounding you everywhere are makeups and motions and all sorts of everything. You examine them carefully and you put some on that make you look absolutely beautiful, and something starts to happen. Hey, you find that you can't move. Something has surrounded you. "Noooo," you scream; and you wake up with a start. "Man, I need to walk around and get this dream out of my head." So she climbs out of her tent, yawning and stretching. Then she steps on air. The next thing she knows she is down in a pit. She looks around. "Man, this seems awfully familiar." She's in a room with lots of doors. "This one looks extremely familiar," she says. She pushes the outcropping and the door opens. She walks inside and the door closes behind her. You are in darkness. You feel a tingling all over you. You're not quite sure what it is, but it sure beats all of this dirt on you. You take another step forward and then fall down. You slide and slide and slide and slide until all of a sudden you stop, and you've dropped into a dimly-lit room. Suddenly, the lights brighten and a scream comes to her and scream swings its way in front of her. Yawning it says, "Welcome, Tester. Today's option is a full-body makeover. You have a choice of pretty pink, beautiful blue, something about rouge and, correction. You have a choice of our spring colors, summer colors, autumn colors and winter colors. You will be tested and we will find the best color for you for each set. Choices: That will be 9 through 12. (4) Bobby start You fall asleep and dream. You find yourself in a cavern with lots of doors all around with hieroglyphics on each one. You can read them because you learned the hieroglyphics to play a joke on your dad. You read through the hieroglyphics and find one that has to do with pranks. "Ohoo, this would be a good one." You push on the rock and it's the door and the door opens. You go inside and the door closes behind you.