REMOVE BATTERIES from RADIO. INSERT BATTERIES into SEARCHLIGHT.

You take the two AA batteries from the RADIO, and attempt to find somewhere to shove them into the 500 watt SEARCHLIGHT, no dice. You put them back into the radio.
You do however notice it's power cable running to the back of the FIRESTATION.

SEARCH BEHIND FIRESTATION

You climb down the ladder following the cord to a GENERATOR at the back of the FIRESTATION, use the GAS CAN, on the GENERATOR?

USE SOCK ON GENERATOR

You look at the SOCK.
You look at the GENERATOR.
You spent the next half hour trying to make them work and end up with a tired arm.

USE GAS CAN ON GENERATOR

You pour the GAS CAN into the GENERATOR and then turn it on, it hums to life and the SEARCHLIGHT on the roof turns on.
You aren't sure to keep the EMPTY CAN, or leave it.

READ KNIFE

The KNIFE has no words on it, not even a serial or brand.

KEEP CAN. RETURN to FIRE STATION ROOF. SHINE SEARCHLIGHT into CHASM.

You put the EMPTY CAN in your bag, at least it's lighter now.

You head back to the roof and shine the SEARCHLIGHT into the CHASM. The walls seem to be moving. There's a flash, a biting sensation all around you, and then you find yourself back at the GENERATOR having just powered it on.

RETURN to FIRE STATION ROOF. ENTER SLEEPING BAG.

[USE SPAS-12 on SNORKS.]

TAKE FLARES
TAKE NAPS

You put the FLARES in your pack, one of them seems lighter then the others and on closer inspection is a GRENADE.
Not sure what to do with NAPS. I'm going ahead and assuming you want to sleep. so you sleep in the SLEEPING BAG until the sun comes up.
Of course, before you do this you turn off the SEARCH LIGHT because it was waking you up.

You leave the sleeping bag and notice there seems to be a layer of dust on everything, you take a look at the town from this vantage point and notice everything is covered in.. something. You're not sure what it is but it's some sort of fine powder. You attempt to take some powder but it blows away with the wind and seems impossible to grasp. Overnight the generator appears to have run out of gas. The forest fire you noticed last evening has come extremely close to the town now, probably about a kilometre away.
From this vantage point you can see that the FIRESTATION has a FIRE TRUCK parked midway through the GARAGE, and that the chasm seems (although it's hard to tell) to have shrunk ever so slightly. The STORE has completely fallen in though. There haven't been any tremors since last evening.
(You never inspected the fire station, so you just went to to the front door and never checked to see if there was an alt. entrance)
(Also I almost felt like putting another death in here because you left the light on, but I got lazy and want to move things forward)

(I hope your keeping a tally of the death count, it would be interesting to know at the end how many times 'we' died.)

GO TO CHASM. LIGHT FLARE. THROW FLARE IN CHASM.

You climb down and walk to the CHASM, lighting a FLARE and tossing it in, as it goes down it's as if the CHASM has no walls, the only thing you can see is the light from the FLARE as it keeps going.. going... it doesn't seem to impact anything as you watch it for 5 minutes and it disappears from view.

TIE ROPE TO BOTTLE. THROW BOTTLE INTO CHASM (DO NOT RELEASE ROPE).

WASTE INVENTORY

WASTE ALAN

ALAN IS NOW BANNED FROM PARTICIPATION AND ALL FURTHER POSTS WILL BE IGNORED.
You tie the ROPE to the BOTTLE and toss it in the chasm, you lower it until you run out of rope but don't appear to have hit the bottom. The CHASM must be more then 100 meters deep. When you pull back the rope you notice that it seems heavier, but half way through any extra mass is gone. When you get it back the BOTTLE is covered in the same strange dust that everything else is.

EXAMINE FOREST FIRE

You take out your BINOCULARS, climb on top of the FIRESTATION, and look towards the fire.
You notice something quickly, the fire is generating no smoke, and upon closer inspection those aren't flames at all, it appears to be a giant cloud of insects, and it's getting close.

CLIMB DOWN LADDER, INSPECT FIREHOUSE.

You climb down and take a look at the FIREHOUSE in detail, noticing that on the side opposite the ladder there is a FIRETRUCK wedged halfway through the GARAGE door. The front door is still locked and all of the windows are too high to climb in.
You begin to hear a buzzing sound.

ENTER GARAGE

INSPECT FIRETRUCK

You enter the garage and take a look around, other then a TOOLBOX and the aforementioned FIRETRUCK there's nothing in here other then a door that leads inside.
The firetruck appears to have had any useful equipment taken off, the keys are in the ignition however.
The buzzing is getting louder.

ENTER FIRETRUCK.

[and close the ****ing door]

(I hadn't thought of that, I was trying to railroad you inside, good work)
You enter the FIRETRUCK cab, close the door behind you, and stare out of the window as a massive red and orange swarm of tiny bugs comes through. after about 5 minutes of nothing but bugs they pass, and any evidence of that strange powder seems to have been erased. Along with any plants and even bits of wood. You can hear a plane overhead now.

EXIT FIRETRUCK, RETURN to FIRE STATION ROOF. EXAMINE INVENTORY.

You had already been doing this, considering I haven't posted anything useful here so far. Though bringing it up in a huge spectacle has to make me wonder, are you getting your required attention for the day? Cause I'd hate to see you get all sad when nobody pays attention to you as usual.

LOOK PLANE

You leave the truck, examine you inventory:
FULL BOTTLE COVERED IN DUST, $300 CDN, GAS TANK, MAP, ATLAS MAP, DRY SOCK, KNIFE, BINOCULARS, LEAFET.
and then you climb onto the roof and look at the plane. It appears to be a large quad engine turboprop circling the area, from this vantage point you also notice the forest you saw coming in is now entirely gone, replaced with dirt.

Lick dust covered bottle to identify if it is actually dirt.
Use sunlight with knife to signal plane.
(hopefully those aren't to many actions.)

Now everyone is stealing my ideas.

(Knife on plane, that's clever. I was expecting flares or the searchlight.)
You lick the BOTTLE, and before you are even done you find you haven't actually licked the BOTTLE, you get an idea not to do that again.
Using the KNIFE you attempt to use the sun to shine into the pilots eyes. The plane is very high up but you think your attempt works when the plane pops a single flare and then wiggles it wings a little.

TAKE FIRETRUCK