Hmmm

I’m not in the headspace to write stories at the moment, so I’ll just do a little bit of plotwork and planning for the upcoming scene, I may do some more writing on it tomorrow and post then, but I’ll need to think out this section first.

John finds himself fallen down an ice crevasse hundreds of feet below the established trails, what would be considered a safe altitude in the Continental Glacier, which is not to high, but not too low, and accounting for proper terrain beneath, i.e. wide flat surface reduces ice flow. There are still cracks and crevasses in the sheet, and john happens to slide down into one, he is on his way back to town with some important information, and he is ambushed by the killer, who shoots him out of his sled, traveling 80 miles an hour, he slides for thousands of feet, skidding into a side glacier, and down a crevasse. The crevasses typically get narrower and narrower the further down they go, so eventually john wakes up in an awkward position (not sure what yet) Pinned on either side of the crevasse, and completely stuck. There will have to be some shenanigans getting out of the crevasse, but he has to escape so the killer can’t lie in wait for him if he makes it back out. We’re assuming he slid hundreds of feet down the crevasse, and he needs to go up and out, but not the way he came in.

I would like to MacGyver his way out of the position, and up the ice, using just the tools on his body, one of his guns came out of the holster, the other one still had the leather strap around it. He also has his built-in skates, but no crampons, or ice climbing gear, since he was shot off his sled.

So going over his inventory, he’s not going to have much.
One pistol is still in the holster, the side that didn’t get smashed in the fall.
15 rounds in the pistol, .45 ACP.
One small knife in his boot
A very torn up Crowned cloak
His boots, with a retractable skate on the bottom of them, removable by thin screws.
One cigar, one lighter

He’s going to wake up upside down, the shot in his leg and lower torso bled on his way down, but have now slowed, since his heart is below the wounds.

He can’t reach his knife at this point, only his pistol, I think blasting into the ice to free himself is the best option, and we’ll do a bullet countdown until he makes it back to town. His head is actually crammed, so first he shoots right next to his head to free his head and neck movement, then one near his left knee so he can spin the leg sideways, and curl it down to reach the boot.

Once he can reach the left boot, he can pull out the knife, then slam it into teh ice to pivot off of and haul himself upright. Now his wounds start bleeding, half clotted from the blood, but having regained blood pressure.

He can’t see his wounds so he lights his crumpled cigar for light.

Now with the knife he can cut sections off the cloak, and wrap his leg then take the belt buckle, and adjust the belt so it covers the glancing shot in his side, plugging it with more cloth.

Being crammed in the ice, trying to haul himself up with the knife, he just slides back down. He’ll think for a while, holding one of teh empty cartridges in his hand, at one point he pushes the cartridges in his hand, and sees it slides into the ice, then gets the idea to attach cut cartridges to his shoes as crampons. He can remove the four screws holding the blade to his boot, and use the one blade as another ice pick, then his remaining good leg as a makeshift crampon. using the knife to make two holes above him, sliding the skate blade into one, and the knife into the other, then hauling himself up, then holding the position with the makeshift crampon will the the method. to make it out.


Will add some features to the crevasse, so he’ll have to pull up and back out of the crevasse, and do some cool ice climbing moves to get out. He will also need to locate the position of the killer, possibly watching near his broken down sled, then sneak out and past the killer. He’s not going to confront the killer here, but will hear him blow the sled to smithereens, and head out of the area, while john is hiding.

Confrontation will happen in town once he figures out who it is.