Professor Leroy Nelson Weatherby was man well accustomed to catastrophe, being well advanced enough in his years to have experienced many of the myriad of horrors life thrusts onto its' tormented subjects. Bred by Eton and tutored by Oxford and accustomed to many of the remotest areas of the world, Weatherby must admit that this youthful frame took to the cause of adventure with rigorous enthusiasm. However, nothing in his vast and diverse experience quite prepared him for this.
Weatherby rested his head against the smooth black soil and felt was struck by an unbelievably eerie sensation. A cold, smooth material slowly and steadily slipped across Weatherby's face, in a manner the old professor had to admit was rather pleasant. He opened his eyes. A watercolour of brilliant greens, reds, yellows and oranges blurred into his vision. Weatherby's dry throat yelped in horror. He had misplaced his glasses! A most unforgivable catastrophe! He rose with all the effort he mustered, but then there was a flash of marshy green. A shivering pain burned itself into his arm, cold stinging fangs sinking into his wrinkled hand. It was over in an instant, and the professor glanced to the side as the culprit slivered away into the bushes. Quickly, and with a speed inconsistent with his age, he fumbled in his pockets for his extra pair of spectacles. "Forewarned is forearmed" was the professor's maxim, and he always had an extra of everything just in case, as was typical of his nervous and paranoid nature. In moments they were found, and with a cry of joy he put them on. He looked through them, and saw riveting cracks saw through his vision. A massive grey mass loomed toward him.
"Blast!" the professor exclaimed, throwing the offending spectacles onto the ground. He ground his heel into the forest floor and was almost on the brink of despair. That is, until he heard the faint sound of voices at a distance beyond.
Hope regained, the professor ambled cautiously toward the sound of the voices, being well aware of his apparent handicap, and let out a cry:
"I say! Is anyone else alive out there?"
