A continue-the-story game

Games need rules, so:

1) I think the most important one is always to break off mid-sentence.

2) Also important: Let at least two or three others post before posting again.

3) Please do feel free to introduce new elements (characters, settings, props, mysteries, etc.), and of course try to work other players' elements into your continuation if possible.

4) A line or two is fine, a paragraph or two is fine, but please leave things open-ended for the next player.

As openings go, this isn't great, but so it begins:

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It wasn't the most distressing thing I learned at our family reunion in August, but I finally learned the history behind Aunt Matilda's

@kevin-eleven said

It wasn't the most distressing thing I learned at our family reunion in August, but I finally learned the history behind Aunt Matilda's

facial scar and her tendency to place verbs at the end of sentences when

@relentless-red said
facial scar and her tendency to place verbs at the end of sentences when

she doesn't even speak German. It happened twenty years ago when she and uncle Ralph were on holiday in

@shallow-blue said
she doesn't even speak German. It happened twenty years ago when she and uncle Ralph were on holiday in

Switzerland - a place they always wanted to see before

@torunn said
Switzerland - a place they always wanted to see before

they commited

@badradger said
they commited

to going to Austria

@badradger said
they commited

themselves to investing in the Swiss shipping industry. There had been something about the investment opportunity that just felt

@relentless-red said
themselves to investing in the Swiss shipping industry. There had been something about the investment opportunity that just felt

like the ominous presence of the troll was about to

@rookie54 said
like the ominous presence of the troll was about to

send them back to austria to

@badradger said
send them back to austria to

isolate themselves from the pandemic in a fantastic lodge In the mountains

@drewnogal said
isolate themselves from the pandemic in a fantastic lodge In the mountains

that they had believed was known to nobody until late on the second night

@relentless-red said
that they had believed was known to nobody until late on the second night

when Aunt Matilda sensed an eerie presence beyond the doorway of the grand hall

@drewnogal said
when Aunt Matilda sensed an eerie presence beyond the doorway of the grand hall

where she and I had managed to get an invite to, because we were on a first name basis with