Haven't seen a community story on this site, but I have had plenty of experience doing this on another forum, so I thought I'd give it a go.
Here's how it works. This community together will create a story. I will write a few paragraphs, and end with the main character needing to make a decision or a perform an action. You guys then suggest to me the decisions or actions that the character will make, where I will write another few paragraphs. You can decide to make your suggestions realistic, or completely ridiculous, whatever you want. There won't be any punishments for silly ideas, but please do make an attempt to advance the story.
Rules:
1. Absolutely no suggestions involving the flat or round earth during the story. Just don't mention it. I hope you understand.
2. No suggestions involving supernatural things. Ita fine if you want to suggest an action that would have a ridiculously low probability of working, but make sure that it is technically possible to do.
3. No fighting.
4. No trolling.
5. Have fun
6. Now rules as needed.
Let's get started!
It was just past midnight. You had the late night watch on the castle walls. It had been completely routine up to this point. You just passed your fellow watchman, Carter, when your heart stopped. You heard a sound you hoped to never hear in your life, the sound of goblin war drums. You shout "SOUND THE ALARM" but halfway through, your voice gets drowned out by the horde of goblins all shouting Anthe same time. You look towards the woods, and sure enough, thousands of the foul creatures were charging across the lawn, and made it to the wall faster than you thought possible. You faintly hear castle alarm being raised, but you don't have time to pay attention towards it. Ladders started slamming into the wall you were standing on, and four goblins saw you alone on the wall, and engaged, while the rest went towards the gatehouse. Two of them had spears, while then others had short swords. All you had was a sword and a knife.