Discovered in a Game of Round Robin

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It's been a while since I posted a challenge here, mostly because it's been so quiet I wasn't sure that anyone would be interested, but it's spring, and the weekend, and oh well, why not? We've not played Round Robin for aaaages, and I thought it might be a fun game for the weekend - or a week, or as long as it keeps going (do we have a Pros novel in us? *g*).

The rules of the game are simple - add your installment of the story as a new comment to the post (check the comments first, to see where the story is up to!). Give it the subject title "Part Whatever" so that we can see who it's following on from. If you post your comment, and it turns out someone else has just beaten you to it, please be kind and delete your installment (maybe you can work it so that it carries on from theirs?) Try to keep installments of reasonable length and plot - we won't set a maximum length, just ask that everyone's fair to the other people who play, but I shall say that there's no minimum length. If you feel a single word installment will move the story on perfectly, then go for it!

If you'd like to comment to an installment, please comment reply directly to it - that way new comments to the post itself can be reserved for the story!

I'll try and keep up with posting the complete story under a cut at the end of this post - but please do check comments in case I'm behind (I probably will be!)

Aaaand - I think that's all!

Except that we need somewhere to start from, so I've internet-randomed a first line, and adapted it for our lads to create Part One in the comments below. Would someone like to carry on...? *g*

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