Originally published at: Five kids got lost (and then found) exploring New York City's sewer system | Boing Boing
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Roll for initiative.
Oh, those little shits…
(sorry, sorry, sorry, first thing that came to my tiny mind)
Nice to see that the spirit of reckless adventure is still alive in kids. As ever, it sucks for the grownup first responders who have to rescue them when things go wrong.
Are these kids part of some sort of club for losers?
Updated from the book?
I remember exploring the storm drains of our town when I was growing up. That was a lot of fun. A lot of muskrats, too!
That’s what happens when you don’t have a mapper in the party.
… nothing about albino alligators high on cocaine? Standards are slipping. /silly
Same here, although we didn’t have muskrats, just a surprising number of shopping carts!
It’s just kobalds. How bad could it be?
I hope these kids have learned a valuable lesson…. about marking your way back as you go.
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It’s not the molepeople you have to worry about, it’s the CHUDS.
And forget breadcrumbs. The mutants just regard them as appetizers.
Exactly. They widened the road and put in new storm sewers right next to my house when I was about 6 or 7, so it was both an excellent and (sufficiently) sanitary adventure.
I think their trek might have been more successful had they gone exploring in post-apocalyptic France…