The Seven Springs
In the hills surrounding the town of Bodega Bay in California, there is a tree, sitting right in the crook of two hills. Scattered 10 paces around it are 7 different fresh-water springs. It is said that one of them cures any disease, another grants immortal life, 4 will kill you instantly and cause your body to dissolve into powder. But the last spring is special. If you bottle water from this one and take it to a small cave hidden in the hills north of the tree, you will find a single large stone at the back of the cave. If you then splash the water on the stone, it will dissolve, leaving you a baseball-sized red stone. As long as you have this stone in your possession, you will always be in the right place at the right time. If you pour water from any of the other 6 springs on the rock, the cave will seal up, and you will be lost forever under the earth.
Posted in Locations & Sites, Rites & Rituals
October 4th, 2008 at 9:37 am
What if I poured all seven at once?
October 4th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Could I drown in the spring of immortality?
October 4th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Probably not, but you can still try.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Just bring 6 people with you.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:04 am
@ mikeal
if you bring six people and you happen to get the right water and they don’t the cave will close up and mostlikly only you will get out so when picking the people make sure you don’t like any of them
October 4th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I agree with Mikeal. Bring six people with you, bottle water from all of the springs, and all can go into the cave at the same time. Take turns splashing water on the stone from each bottle. If you’re sealed up, it’ll be okay, because one person will get the stone.
And when they’re in the right place at the right time, they’ll automatically be in the right place when someone finds the way out.
I wish I lived in California. D8
October 4th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I agree with Mikeal.
Can you die in the cave if you went to the immortality one?
October 4th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I live a short drive from the area of which they speak. I should try it out.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
This made me think of the first Happy Potter book, when they were trying to get to the stone thingy. And Tuck Everlasting, because of the springs.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
This was really short but good none the less
October 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Don’t go in the cave. Bring 6 people, make one of them sickly. Then carfeully test all the water, using the sick person last. Shoot the other two, if they live you know they are immortal. Then take the last spring and go to the cave. It’s workable so long as you don’t mind the whole dead people are your fault thing.
October 4th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Interesting.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Short, sweet, with a somewhat interesting premise to make me willing to try it.
Nice.
October 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
As much as I like the idea of fucking over the paranormal and coming out all right in the end (there are many stories about bargains with the Devil that interest me like that) I will point out a hole in your plan…. No one said the right water would *unseal* the cave. Just that the wrong water would *seal* it.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I love all your retorts.
Theyre always so funny/witty.
<3
October 4th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
to all the people saying that you should take 6 people there, you should rather take 7 lab rats with you and test the different springs on them
October 5th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Bring 7 AIDS victims and have them all drink the water simultaneously, use logic to figure out which is which and enjoy the good life.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:32 am
just send in samuel l jackson to turn the power back on.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:52 am
I liked it, funny thing is I live 15 minutes from Bodega Bay, it is my county.
WHO WAS STONE?
October 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
If you’re sealed under the cave, you can, always you know, ask me for help…
October 5th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
tis like a spring russian roulette.
i’d bring six jack asses and claim treasure’s there…so i could figure out which worked and which wouldn’t.
sounds like a plan, i didn’t mind this pasta at all =]
October 5th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
get 7 bottles, one from each spring, and secretly distribute them to terminally ill patients who have less than a week to live. 4 will die immediately, don’t use those springs. one will be healed and you’ll know that’s the disease-cure. then watch the last two until someone dies…the other one will be the immortal, and the other will be the one for the magic rock. you win.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:02 am
@Flea
However if you get the right stone, then the person who holds it will always be in the right place at the right time, so using that logic, the person would be able to get out somehow with the stone.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:04 am
You should bring 7 people who are sick and try them on each bastard,the guy who dies and does not disintegrate will be the one that is rock spring.
WHO WAS SPRING?
October 9th, 2008 at 6:19 am
That was my first comment above in this site and this is my second.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:35 am
Getting people “who are sick” is rather ambiguous though, since even something like AIDS can take decades to kill someone.
A sure fire way would be to get seven people, and poison them. You would simply have to tell them that they will die within the hour, and have them each test one pond with the promise that it is the antidote.
Of course, the only problem is you would end up with one immortal, and one person who was cured, and they would not be pleased with you.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
@ Skwirral
Best idea ever.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
WHO WAS TREE?
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
seven diseased people in each of the pools. four will die. one will be cured. attempt to kill the remaining two. the one that dies was in the correct pool.
November 4th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
@duh
wtf i don’t get it
November 14th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Wait if the stone makes you be in the right place at the right time than how could you manage to get the wrong water on the stone? =D
Also, aren’t all of the springs wicked special, seeing what they do. :3
Nice pasta, bit bland 7/10