Dirk Poor

The Long Field

Somebody has to go first, and it's usually nobody's job.

Dirk Poor standing where the pavement ends at the edge of a huge overgrown field — Past the last street in Fortune Falls, the pavement just stops. After that it's field, and nobody goes in it.

Dirk Poor pushing tall grass aside as he steps into the field — There wasn't a path. Dirk figured somebody had to make one.

Dirk Poor deep in waist-high grass with houses small and far behind him — It took longer than it looked. It always does.

Dirk Poor looking down at old scrap half-buried in the grass — There was stuff out there. Things that had been sitting in that grass a long time.

Wide view of Dirk Poor at the far side of the field with a flattened trail behind him — He came out the other side with a flat trail behind him, all the way back to the street.

Dirk Poor with hands on his hips looking back at the trail through the field — It wasn't much of a path. But it was one, and now it was there.

Somebody has to go first, and it's usually nobody's job.

One more run.

Built From Scrap. Worth More Than Gold.

Story frames are AI-generated from the studio's own physical prototype figures. All final Cheap Skaterz artwork is created by human artists.

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