Ding!\n\nA giant man comes out from the backroom.\n\nHe's wearing a trenchcoat. Some writing on it says:\n\n"WARRIORS OF CLICKBAIT."\n\nThen:\n\n"HEAD OF COMMAND."\n\nYou ask him, "Who are you?"\n\nHe doesn't reply.\n\nHe takes a walkie-talkie out of his pocket and speaks into it.\n\n"They're here. You want them dead? ... Alright."\n\nThe giant man drops the walkie-talkie to the floor.\n\nYou ask, "What's going on here? What have you done to these people?"\n\nThe giant man shrugs. "I dunno. I just kill the ones that are in the way."\n\nHe points at you. "And you're in our way."\n\nWith one hand he picks up a flamethrower, and with the other hand he lifts a 5-foot wide axe with a chainsaw on top.\n\nHe screams and runs towards you. \n\nYou look down.\n\nYou see some writing on a floorboard.\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|floorboard]]\n

You slap his cheek.\n\nHe punches your eye.\n\nYou feel the back of your skull dig into the concrete floor.\n\nHe climbs on top of you and digs both hands into your throat.\n\nYou struggle, but he won't let go.\n\nBreathe. Can't breathe. \n\n"I've waited 3,000 years for this..."\n\nBreathe. Can't breathe. \n\nWriting. On his elbow.\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|touch_elbow]]\n

You tap the zombie's shoe, but nothing happens.\n\nThe zombie uses this moment to grab you again, pulling you to the floor.\n\n"Hahaha! You fell for it AGAIN?! How GULLIBLE can you get? HAHAHA!"\n\nIgnoring the voice, you roll the zombie over and over - one moment on top, the next below, on top, below, on top -- \n\nYou feel the floor lurch away from you.\n\nYou grab at the edge to stop yourself from falling down the same hole the zombie did.\n\nSeveral seconds later, you hear a thud from below.\n\nYou slowly climb up, back onto the floor again.\n\n"With pathetic skills like that, I'm surprised you're not dead."\n\nYou hear footsteps coming towards you.\n\n"I guess I'll have to do it for you."\n\nAs you try to look up, you see industrial pipes all over the room.\n\nBANG!\n\nA bullet rips into the nearest pipe.\n\nRight next to the bullet hole, there's some writing:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|pipe]]\n

You click the text with your fingers -- and find your hand slowly clasping the edge of a platform, as the concrete around you falls into the darkness below.\n\nA few more seconds of rumbling, and then silence.\n\nHanging from the edge of a platform. \n\nYou pull yourself up, and follow the ground.\n\nEventually you see a dull light, and taste the fresh air from outside.\n\nYou're nearly there.\n\nThe sky is dark. \n\nMetal railings are all that stand in your way to freedom.\n\nYou look for the words you know you'll find, and see them on one of the metal railings:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|metal]]\n

Again, the pressure on your chest.\n\nThump. Thump. Thump.\n\nRhythmic.\n\nPump. Pump. Pump.\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|thump]]\n

You tap the back of the commander's back - distracted by the steam, he loses balance and tumbles to the same death the zombie just did.\n\n"NOOOOO!" he screams.\n\nHe fires a gunshot in mid-air.\n\nThen, another thud.\n\nThen, nothing.\n\nYou wonder who attached that note to his back. And how did they know it would end up saving your life?\n\nYou turn to walk away and get your bearings.\n\nA man in black has a sword pointing at your face.\n\n"You... You've just defeated the Clickbait Commander," he says.\n\n"And you did it EFFORTLESSLY.\n\nI don't know who you are, but your journey ends here.\n\nI will defeat you."\n\nOn one edge of the sword there is some writing. \n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|sword]]\n

You burst in and lock the door behind you.\n\nIt's quiet. Silence.\n\nYou slowly look around. \n\nIt's a classic old-fashioned bar. Old beer and beverages line one wall behind the counter. \n\nChairs and tables fill the rest of the room. \n\nEvery single seat is taken.\n\nThe chair closest to you is... You blink.\n\nIt's taken by a zombie. \n\nIt's not moving.\n\nYou recognize it - its head is missing.\n\nNext to it is another zombie - missing its leg. \n\nIt looks mangled, like it's fallen a long distance.\n\nNext to them is a man in an ice-blue trenchcoat.\n\nDead.\n\nHis skin is decayed, just like the zombies.\n\nOn the next table is the man in black.\n\nAlso dead.\n\nAlso surrounded by lifeless zombies.\n\nOn the next table --\n\nYou take a big gulp.\n\nIt's the blonde woman with a shotgun.\n\nDead.\n\nHer face and skin is just like the others.\n\nDecayed.\n\nYour legs feel shaky, and you lean on the bar counter for support.\n\nOn the counter is a bell.\n\nPrinted on the bell is some writing:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|bell]]\n

You're staring at your computer when a message appears on your screen.\n\n"Incredible news. Through my work on government corruption, I have discovered that there is in fact a purpose in life - a purpose in which we all have a part to play, and which I must get out to the world as soon as possible."\n\n"I am sending you this message in the hope that you find me before the government does and re-gains control, to twist and distort humanity's purpose for their own wicked gains."\n\n"I only hope you are ready for the journey you are about to embark on."\n\nBelow this message is some writing:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|hello]]\n

You tap the piece of paper with your finger, and the bottom half drops to the ground.\n\nThe paper lands ink-up on your carpet.\n\nThe beeping sound keeps getting louder, and louder.\n\nThe paper on the carpet still says:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|carpet]]\n

You click the sole of the shoe. \n\nA small blade pops out of the bottom. \n\nYou raise it high above your head, ready to strike the thing, when--\n\nYou notice some writing on the blade.\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|blade]]\n

"This'll help with the pain," you say.\n\nYou don't actually know, but you have a feeling whoever left it here had good intentions. \n\nIt's gotten you this far, hasn't it?\n\nYou inject them and they relax into your arms.\n\n"WHAT THE FUCK?!" screams someone else from across the road.\n\n"You've just injected him with poison - that's enough to kill a man!"\n\nYou try to explain. "But I thought --"\n\n"Why the fuck would you just inject someone like that? \n\nHe's gonna die.\n\nIt's your fault."\n\nYou see a tattoo on the man's arm. It says:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|tattoo]]\n

You tap the man's clothing.\n\n"Argh! I'm sorry! I'll explain faster! Just don't kill me!"\n\nYou nod. "So why is clickbait so important?"\n\n"It became too powerful. It started being used everywhere.\n\nIf teachers wanted students to come to a lesson, they'd use clickbait.\n\nIf religious leaders wanted their flock to read a holy text, they'd use clickbait.\n\nEven videogames started using it."\n\nYou laugh. "Ha, now I KNOW you're lying. Videogames don't use clickbait, and I doubt they ever will."\n\n"Oh really?" the man in black says. "Then how did you get here?"\n\n[[It was an action-packed journey, but it began when I was sent a secret message on my computer.|next]]\n

You reach out to touch his arm, and again he pulls away just in time to double down and throw you to the ground.\n\n"You're so fucking predictable, you know that?"\n\nHe pulls out a knife and jumps on you, digging it into your belly, your kidneys, your back...\n\nBlood dripping, you wrestle it out of his hands and throw it away, out of reach.\n\nYou look up at him and notice some writing on his cheek:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|cheek]]\n

Touch elbow. No good.\n\n"You're as stupid as they say, aren't you?"\n\nFight. Can't fight. Choking.\n\n"Don't you realize? I created clickbait.\n\nI control it.\n\nI control EVERYTHING."\n\nBreathe. Can't breathe. \n\nWriting. On his forehead.\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|forehead]]\n

You tap the piece of paper on the carpet, and you realize the carpet is a different texture here.\n\nYou feel out the edge of the carpet with your fingers - there's definitely a section of the carpet different to the rest here.\n\nYou try to lift the small section of carpet.\n\nThe beeping noise gets louder.\n\nUnderneath the carpet is the wooden foundations.\n\nEngraved in the wood is the words:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|wood]]\n

"How did you know what to do? You were just following instructions, right?\n\nJust clicking.\n\nClicking.\n\nClicking.\n\nRight?"\n\n[[... Oh no|next5]]\n

It's blurry, but it looks like you're in a forest.\n\nAs everything comes into focus, you realize it's like no other forest you've ever seen.\n\nYou look at the trees.\n\nThere's no writing on them.\n\n//No clickbait.//\n\nYou look at the clouds.\n\nThere's no writing on them.\n\n//No clickbait.//\n\nYou see a group of people sitting on a hill ahead of you.\n\nThey're slowly waving you over.\n\n//You realize that you can go anywhere, do anything - no rush, no pressure.//\n\nYou take a good look around.\n\n"There's only one place this could be..."\n\nYou feel a strange pressure on your chest. \n\nYou look down at the message you wrote on your chest.\n\nWritten in blood:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|chest]]\n

BANG!\n\nYou pull the trigger!\n\nFuck, fuck, fuck!\n\nYou just blasted an innocent bystander!\n\nThey're bleeding like a fountain! You're FUCKED!\n\nYou look at the gun again! It still says:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|gun]]\n

AIR. You take a deep, hard suck of air.\n\nThe small man stops pumping your chest, and he lets out two tiny words.\n\n"Oh, shit."\n\nWith two sweeps of your arm he's on the floor, and the gun is in your hand.\n\n"Go on then," he smirks. "It's not the first time you've killed a man today, is it?"\n\nYou hesitate. Dark thoughts cloud your mind.\n\nThen, you remember the words you heard earlier today:\n\n[["Use the clickbait against itself."|give_gun]]\n

An idea. \n\nYou open your shirt. \n\nWith a jagged nail, you write something. \n\nOn your chest.\n\nPain. But you keep going. \n\nKeep writing. More blood. Then--\n\nFinished. But still choking. \n\nCan't breathe.\n\nCan't breathe.\n\nThen...\n\n[[You die.|death]]\n

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Your heart sinks as your foot lands on some metal.\n\nWhy would there be metal in a place like this?\n\nYou look at the people in the distance.\n\nThey're still waving you over.\n\nYou bend down to look at the metal panel.\n\nThere's writing on it.\n\n"EMERGENCY EXIT"\n\n"USE ONLY IN CASE OF RESUSCITATION"\n\nThen:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|exit]]\n

The ground shakes again, more intensely this time.\n\n"Oh really? Are you sure?"\n\n[[Yes, and I also discovered a tunnel under my house.|next2]]\n

Forehead. Can't reach. \n\nGrip too strong. Can't breathe.\n\n"Relax. Just let it happen..."\n\nLook for gun. Still on floor. Next to pens. Reach for it.\n\nCan't reach it.\n\nCan't reach it.\n\nCan't reach...\n\nHe whispers:\n\n//"Die."//\n\nCan't breathe. Can't fight. Can't win. \n\nClose eyes.\n\nHear voice.\n\n"Use the clickbait."\n\nOpen eyes. Hear voice again.\n\n[["Use the clickbait against itself..."|nail]]\n

You feel the pressure again.\n\nAs if someone's clicking your chest.\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|click]]\n

BEEP.\n\nYou tap the wood with your finger. You hear it click - a panel is loose.\n\nBEEP.\n\nYou remove the panel, and underneath is a huge manhole, with a ladder leading downwards.\n\nBEEP.\n\nYou clamber down the ladder.\n\nBEEP.\n\nDown.\n\nBEEP.\n\nDown.\n\nBEEP.\n\nDowner.\n\nBEEP.\n\nHalfway down the manhole, you see a small switch in the side of the wall:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|button]]\n

You click the panel and it opens. \n\nBelow is a deep, dark chasm.\n\nYou take one last look around - at peace, at serenity.\n\n[[Then you jump down.|jump]]\n

You tap the sword - it slips out of the man's hand and falls to the ground.\n\n"I surrender. I'll tell you everything," says the man in black.\n\nYou feel the ground rumble slightly.\n\n"Who are you? What's going ON?"\n\n"I'll tell you everything you want to know...\n\nBut first, do you know what clickbait is?"\n\n[[Yes|y_clickbait]]\n\n[[No|n_clickbait]]\n

You try and move, take a step forward.\n\nThe pressure on your chest continues.\n\nClick, thump, pump.\n\nClick, thump, pump.\n\nClick, thump --\n\n[[CLUNK.|clunk]]\n

You click to find out more, and your printer suddenly whirrs to life.\n\nA single A4 page is printed.\n\nAs the paper winds around the printer, you hear the beeping noise slowly getting louder.\n\nYou can barely believe the words appearing from your printer:\n\n"YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER."\n\nThen:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|paper]]\n

Amazing! Click to find out more!

Clicking the brick into place, you hear some machines whirring in the walls.\n\nThen, the floor below you gives way, and you drop into the room below, collapsing in a small bed of hay.\n\nBefore you can check out your surroundings, the door bursts open:\n\n"Wow, you're here before me. You must REALLY be 'The One'," says the woman with the shotgun, still pointing it at you.\n\n"'The One who destroys Clickbait forever'," she says.\n\nYou're a little disoriented and angry. You burst out:\n\n"Who are you? What's this about a prophecy? How am I supposed to get rid of clickbait forever? Why did my house just explode?!"\n\nBefore she can answer, you notice a gold-leaf message on the end of her shotgun, which is still pointed in your direction.\n\nIt says:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|shotgun]]\n\n

Inside the backroom, a beardy man is clicking a keyboard in front of a computer screen.\n\nThe message he's writing says:\n\n"Incredible news. Through my work on government corruption, I have discovered that there is in fact a purpose in life - a purpose in which we all have a part to play, and which I must get out to the world as soon as possible."\n\nYou look at him. "So, you're the one who sent me that e-mail. Why?"\n\nHe looks you up and down a moment. Then continues clacking away.\n\n"You killed the creator of clickbait? Big deal."\n\nYou repeat, "Why did you send the e-mail?"\n\nHe shrugs.\n\n"It's only clickbait. No need to get so upset."\n\n"I've done things," you say. "I've done bad things, to get here. My house exploded. Of course I'm upset."\n\n"Clickbait isn't there to upset you, or make you happy, or make you crazy. It just exists."\n\nYou take a step forward.\n\n"I'm going to destroy clickbait. Forever."\n\nThe beardy guy chuckles.\n\n"You can't destroy it. \n\nYou killed the creator, but there'll always be people like me, who enjoy making more of it."\n\n"I guess it's a moral choice," you say. "I either kill you and everyone like you, or I allow clickbait to continue to get more powerful and destroy the entire world. And videogames."\n\nHe looks at you again.\n\n"Actually," he says, "I've already made the choice for you."\n\nHe points towards a big red button, with writing on it:\n\n"SELF-DESTRUCT BUTTON"\n\nThen:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|destruct]]\n

"How do I stop it?" you ask. "Clickbait, games, everything. How do I stop it and return everything to normal?"\n\n"It's very easy," replied the man. "You're already on the right path. \n\nYou're clearly the chosen one.\n\nYou already know what to do."\n\n"But I DON'T know! I don't know what's going on! I don't know anything!"\n\nSuddenly the ground erupts again, shaking and swallowing up the man in black in front of your eyes.\n\n"Use the clickbait!" he screams. "Use it against itself!"\n\nThe floor below you collapses and you go into freefall with the rubble around you.\n\nYou plummet down for second after second. \n\nYou realize this is probably the end - you've learned all you can about clickbait. But there's no way you'll survive hitting the ground. Your journey's over. It must be the end.\n\nYou try to clear your mind for the last time in your life.\n\nWhen something flashes in front of your eyes.\n\nWords. Text:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|rubble]]\n

You push the words, and the giant, heavy door lurches away from you, leading to a dark laboratory.\n\nA single light flashes above you. Glass lies shattered on the floor around you. \n\nThe laboratory seems like it was abandoned in a hurry.\n\n~\n\nThere's a heavy panting nearby.\n\nSomething is shuffling closer. \n\nCloser, and closer... \n\nIt licks its lips.\n\nYour eyes dart around the room, but you see no movement.\n\nCloser, and closer...\n\nYou realize you have nothing to defend yourself with.\n\nYou're unarmed.\n\nYou have nowhere to run to.\n\nNo idea how to escape.\n\nCloser, and closer...\n\nYou decide to--\n\nToo late! You've been grabbed by a zombie!\n\nIt looks gross!\n\nOn its head is a tattoo - 6 familiar words:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|zombie]]\n

You click the tattoo.\n\n"What the fuck?! Don't fucking start with me. I'll kill you."\n\n"I didn't mean to hurt him. \n\nI was just following instructions. \n\nIt was clickbait!\n\nIT'S THE CLICKBAIT'S FAULT!!"\n\nYou take no responsibility for your actions, and start running away.\n\nYou run towards the nearest building.\n\nOn the door it says:\n\n"NO ENTRY."\n\nThen:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|inside_bar]]\n

"Did you really kill a zombie? Or were you just following clickbait?\n\nGo here, do this, click this, get to the next level, click click?"\n\nThe ground vibrates, louder than ever. \n\n[[No, I did everything myself...|next4]]\n

"Uhh... I'm not sure how you got so far without knowing what clickbait is. But whatever.\n\nClickbait is a low-effort way to get someone to read something.\n\nYou pretend you've got something amazing, that they MUST hear or they'll lose out big time.\n\nFor example, a news headline that simply says 'WOW! You won't believe this amazing thing we just learned!' \n\nYou have to click the headline to see whatever they want you to see.\n\nThe problem is, it became too powerful."\n\nThe ground rumbles again.\n\nYou notice some writing sewn into the man's clothing.\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|clothing]]\n

You reach out your hand towards his - when suddenly he grabs your gun and tosses it to the floor, out of reach.\n\n"People like you are so predictable," he sighs, and strokes the hair of the dead blonde woman. \n\n"These people -- what have you DONE to them?" you ask.\n\n"They're just like you -- or me," he says. "They wanted to find out more."\n\nYou ask, "What do you want? Let me go. I don't know anything."\n\nHe takes another step forward, and looks you directly in the eyes.\n\n"You come all this way and pretend you don't know anything? You know everything. You just wanted //more.//"\n\nBefore you can respond, the small man cracks a fist into your skull, then whams another into your gut.\n\nYou recoil - then see some writing on his sleeve.\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|sleeve]]\n

You click your fingers into the zombie's forehead, and in a spurt of blood its skull rolls off its body, which slumps to the floor.\n\n"Amazing" says a blonde woman with a shotgun. "The prophecy must be true."\n\n"Who are you? And how did you get here?" you ask.\n\n"And why didn't you fire that shotgun 5 seconds earlier?"\n\n"We can't talk now, there are more monsters here. Follow me."\n\nShe darts down a corridor, shotgun aloft, ready for more. \n\nYou follow her for a bit, before getting tired. Putting a hand on the wall for support while you catch your breath, you see some graffiti on one of the bricks.\n\nOn the brick, it says:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|brick]]\n

"Good - so you know clickbait is just a low-effort way to get someone to click on something.\n\nYou have to click the headline to see whatever they want you to see.\n\nThe problem is, it became too powerful."\n\nThe ground rumbles again.\n\nYou notice some writing sewn into the man's clothing.\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|clothing]]\n

You click the panel and it drops to the ground.\n\nThe woman looks at you, stunned.\n\n"See what I mean? Unnaturally good."\n\nA scratching sound starts to come from the door.\n\nAn uneven thumping.\n\n"You've got to go - they know you're in here."\n\nShe pushes you into the tunnel behind the panel.\n\n"Don't worry about me - just keep crawling!"\n\nInto the dark tunnel you crawl, until you reach a dead end - a brick wall stops you from moving any further into the tunnel. \n\nIn the darkness, you see a small axe. You pick it up. There's some writing on the handle.\n\nYou take one last look behind you.\n\nA zombie drops into the room from above, the same way you did.\n\nThe woman grabs her shotgun.\n\n"Go! NOW!"\n\nYou turn back to the axe, and on the handle it says --\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|axe]]\n

You click the floorboard down and the other end shoots up, snagging the giant man and tossing him out the window.\n\nHe screams. Then - silence.\n\nYou move towards the door - you're not safe here. Maybe you should run away.\n\nSuddenly, a small man bursts out from the backroom.\n\nHe's covered in writing.\n\n"You fucking killed him? Fuck."\n\n"Who are you?" you ask.\n\n"Who am I?" he chuckles. "I am the way, the truth and the light. Click to find out more!"\n\nYou hesitate. Then, you pull out the gun.\n\n"Stay away or I pull the trigger."\n\nHe laughs and takes a step forward. "Actually, you'll do whatever I want you to do."\n\nHe holds out a hand. \n\nOn his palm, there's some writing:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|hand]]\n

You grab his sleeve, but in one quick movement he rips it off and dodges behind you, putting you in a headlock.\n\nYou pull an arm off for long enough to see some writing on it:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|arm]]\n

You place the gun down on the floor.\n\nThe small man pauses, wondering if you're showing him mercy.\n\nHe rises, and reaches for the gun.\n\nHe stops.\n\nHis face turns white.\n\nThere's writing on the trigger.\n\nYou walk away.\n\nBANG!\n\nThen, silence.\n\nYou walk away.\n\n~\n\nYou walk towards the backroom door.\n\nIt says: "DO NOT ENTER"\n\n[[Open it anyway.|backroom]]\n

"Don't touch my gun," she says.\n\nShe rests the shotgun against a wall and starts unscrewing a panel in the wall.\n\n"It's the prophecy," she explains.\n\n"In every universe there's someone who's really good at everything they do, even though they never practice.\n\nIn our universe, that person must be you.\n\nWhat else could explain what's happened so far? How you've managed to escape death so easily?...\n\n...\n\n...ARGH! Why isn't this panel unscrewing?"\n\n"This is dumb," you say. "I'm going. I've got to go see why my house exploded."\n\nYou notice some writing on the panel she's struggling with:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|panel]]\n

BOOM! \n\nYou click the button, and the top of the manhole goes dark.\n\nThe ladder shakes and you lose your grip, landing on the concrete below. \n\nThat must have been an explosion.\n\n"The beeping must have been the sound of a bomb," you think to yourself.\n\n"My house has probably exploded," you realize.\n\n"But did it explode due to a timer, or because I clicked that button?..."\n\nAs you ponder this, you turn around, and see a huge, iron door in front of you. \n\nThe same familiar words are written on it...\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|door]]\n

As you click the blade's handle, the zombie puts its arms around you!\n\n"Hahaha! You fell for it!" A loud voice booms from somewhere in the room.\n\nThe zombie tries to kick your legs, dig its nails into your ribcage, bite you... \n\nYou stab the blade into its head, again and again - but still it lives, it tries to bite you, it bites and bites and bites...\n\nYou see an opening and throw the zombie to the ground. \n\nOn its left shoe you see some writing:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|zombie_shoe]]\n

The metal railings give way, and you're free.\n\nOutside, fresh air rushes into your lungs.\n\nBut there's too many coincidences.\n\nWhat is this writing everywhere? Who wrote it all?\n\nHow does it know where you'll be, what to do, how to survive? \n\nYou should be thrilled at your adventure, yet it all seems a bit... fake. Contrived.\n\n~\n\nAn old man wanders up to you:\n\n"Playing the old 'click to continue' game, eh?"\n\n[[Yes|continue]]\n\n[[No|continue]]\n

OH SHIT!\n\nYou shot them again!\n\nThis time in the leg!!\n\nThey're screaming in pain! They've fallen over and are lying on the ground and spitting out blood and FUCK!\n\nYou slowly walk over to them.\n\n"Please... help me!" they gasp.\n\nYou see a syringe next to them.\n\nOn the syringe it says...\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|syringe]]\n

You push the button.\n\n"60 SECONDS UNTIL SELF-DESTRUCTION"\n\nYou take a step forward. "So that's it? I don't get a choice? I come all this way and I don't get a choice?"\n\nThe guy shrugs. "It's just clickbait.\n\nIt's not there to make you happy or sad. It just exists."\n\nYou stand there, trying to think of something clever to say or do.\n\nThe beardy guy looks at you. "Can you leave me alone, pal? I need to finish this e-mail before the building explodes."\n\n"45 SECONDS UNTIL SELF-DESTRUCTION"\n\nYou stumble outside, past the man you shot, past the horizon.\n\nMaybe the bar exploded, maybe it didn't - you were too preoccupied with your thoughts to notice.\n\nMaybe the beardy guy escaped, maybe he didn't.\n\nYou wonder if what he said was true.\n\nCan clickbait ever be destroyed?\n\nIs it a force for good, or evil?\n\nYou keep walking towards the future, looking for the answers.\n\nAnd a new house.\n\n~ //End\n\nWritten by qualifiedbadger.\nEdited by SleepyAgents.//\n

The pipe clicks out of its socket, and blasts steam out of its end. \n\n"ARGH!" shouts the voice. \n\nYou see a man in an ice-blue trenchcoat being blasted by steam, gun in hand, arms protecting his face. \n\nYou jump behind him, in case he tries to attack you again. \n\nOn the back of his trenchcoat is a logo. \n\nIt says: \n\n"THE WARRIORS OF CLICKBAIT."\n\nThen:\n\n"COMMANDER."\n\nBelow that, there's a small note badly stitched in. It says:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|commander]]\n\n

"Clickbait. It's all clickbait."\n\nThe room rumbles and a loose tile falls to the ground.\n\n[[There's no way...|next6]]\n

"Games can't be clickbait" you say. "Games cost over 80 dollars... \n\nWhy would anyone spend that just to follow clickbait for several hours?"\n\n"Like I said," replied the man, "Clickbait became too powerful.\n\nYou're paying to click.\n\nWhen was the last time you put thought or skill into beating a game?\n\nThe rest of the time, it's just clickbait.\n\nClick click. Click to continue."\n\n[[Click to continue!|more]]\n\n

He says "The only way to win is to stop playing," and walks off.\n\nYou notice he dropped a chunky black object.\n\nYou pick it up.\n\nIt's a gun.\n\nYou look at the trigger.\n\nThere's something on the trigger.\n\nThere's writing on the trigger.\n\nThe trigger says:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|trigger]]\n

"And what else did you do?"\n\n[[I killed a zombie with my finger.|next3]]\n

You tap the axe against the wall - it breaks away.\n\nYou hear screams behind you - gunshots.\n\nYou keep tapping - light filters in from behind the wall. You keep tapping.\n\nThe screaming turns to a choking sound.\n\nYou keep tapping - you can reach your hand in, but no more.\n\nYou keep tapping the axe, tapping.\n\nSmall pieces of the wall in front of you begin to crumble away. There's light shining through the cracks.\n\nHeavy breathing comes from behind you. Something is trying to climb in the hole.\n\nYou keep tapping, tapping. More and more of the wall breaks away, but not enough. \n\nSomething is coming from behind. There's no way out. It's getting closer, closer.\n\nYou keep tapping, tapping. \n\nThe hole is big enough to put your head in - but not enough to get through. You keep tapping, tapping.\n\nThe thing behind you gets closer, closer. You feel it breathe on your leg.\n\nYou keep tapping, tap--\n\nThe wall gives way! You burst through it. \n\nYou fall into the light - and collapse in a heap.\n\nThe thing is following you into the room.\n\nYour shoe has fallen off and is lying next to you. You see a small label stitched into the shoe, that you've never noticed before:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|shoe]]\n

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You click the words, and a pop-up appears on your screen.\n\n"Downloading Secret Message..."\n\nWhile waiting, you notice a beeping noise in the background. \n\nYou have no idea what the beeping noise could be.\n\n"Secret Message Downloaded."\n\nThe message appears on screen - a huge mess of garbled language.\n\nThen, at the bottom, it says:\n\n[[Amazing! Click to find out more!|print]]\n