Five Roads 2

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|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0D3M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[In the middle of the town where you slept last night, there is a great crossroads. Five roads branch off into the distance.] (bg:white)[Icicle road leads to the North. To the North of you the great Icicle mountains tower into the sky. According to legend, as one travels north, the mountains continually increase in height as you go North until there is nothing but an icy waste devoid of life. On a clear day, you can see the great Icicle mountains from an overlook in the village where you live; tops covered in sheets of ice. It is said that many brave enough to attempt a journey have frozen to death in the high altitudes.] (bg:white)[Vizinni road leads to the South. To South lies the terrible Vizinni desert, where the ancient city of Vizinni lays at the foot of the volcanic Mount Vizinni. The sun bakes down upon the mountain, which periodically shakes and trembles as it belches smoke into the sky. A old wise sage in your town has prophesied of a great earthquake in the near future that would be felt in distant lands. Caused by the imminent massive volanic eruption of Mount Vizinni, it would fill the great town of Vizinni with rivers and lakes of lava. Few in the desert would survive; only the mountain valleys East of the desert and the land North would be safe, although they might still feel the earthquake.] (bg:white)[To the West lies the dangerous and crime-ridden city of Paplau. Enormous and filled with skyscrapers, it surpasses even the city of Vizinni in size. However, it is known in your village as the most dangerous road you could travel. It was said that anyone who dared to travel down to the Western plains where Paplau lay would never be seen again. The whole city was run by mafia overlords who rule the population in terror. Paplau is considered to be the most dangerous of all roads one could travel.] (bg:white)[To the Northwest of you lies Chittyville, and expansive areas of farmland.] (bg:white)[To the East of you lie a great expanse of the Burbon hills, which are the Southern foothills of the Icicle mountains. It is said that somewhere along Burbon road, there is a cave which takes you Southeast under the Eastern flank of the Icicle mountains for hundreds of miles until you reach a tropical rainforest on the other side of the mountains. However, it has been said that many who have ventured into the cave have never returned, and beasts of prey prowl the cave for the corpses of those who have died and lost their way in the chasms under the mountains. Also, the Burbon hills are known to be enchanted; and the misty forested hills to your West are said to be populated with an array of supernatural beings.] (bg:white)[Which road do you choose to travel?] (link-reveal-goto: "Chittyville Road", "1WA")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Chittyville", "loop", true) (track: "Chittyville", "play" ) ] [[Paplau Road|0Z]] (link-reveal-goto: "Vizinni Road", "3W")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Vizinni", "loop", true) (track: "Vizinni", "play" ) ] [[Burbon Road|0Z]] [[Icicle Road|0Z]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0BM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[Once upon a time, in a village deep in the forested hills, you decided to seek your fortune. You grew up in a pleasant village at the top of the Eastern flank of the densely forested Burbon Hills. However, your village has only a few hundred people, and you know that this is your chance to go and explore the world, instead of stay in your tiny village forever.] (bg:white)[You have 21,000 dollars, so you should not have to worry about travel expenses unless you do something very unwise with that money. You will hopefully be able to travel far and find your new home.] [[seek your fortune|0C0]]

(bg:white)[FIVE ROADS:] (bg:white)[A Choose Your Own Adventure Story] |MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "click this text to see the MAP", "0AM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (link-reveal-goto: "click this text to move to another page", "0B")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 21,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0B")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0C0M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You travel all day long though dense forested land, up and down steep hills, following the one road that leads away from your hometown. Trees make a dense canopy above you, and you can hear animals in the distance. Even though it is broad daylight, it is dark in the forest, only broken by occasional rays of light shining down over the forest floor. You only have enough food and water in your backpack to last you for two days, after which you would starve to death or be eaten by wild animals.] (bg:white)[You hope that you chose the right road, because there is no knowing where you are going. The village where you grew up has only a few hundred inhabitants, and few have ever ventured beyond the town. Growing up you heard stories of the dangers of traveling on the roads. It was said that there were gangs of bandits that roamed the roads who would not hesitate to kill you and take everything you had. However, the road you traveled was so deserted you did not a single other person since you left your village. Wild animals also roamed the hills, and you could hear their howls and screams in the night in your village. You knew that to be outside in these forests in the nighttime was certain death. Bears and packs of wolves would come out of their caves and search for unfortunate prey.] (bg:white)[The footpath you travel on is not taken care of, and you realize that you must have wondered off and became lost. You know that to the West of you there is a town to stay the night, and the footpath leads towards it, but you know that if you are lost in these forests you could walk for miles and miles and never find your way out. You realize that if you walk either South or North, you will eventually come to the footpath, but you do not know which way to go. You are faced with a choice.] [[South|0C1]] [[North|0C2]]

(bg:white)[You have 21,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0C0")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0DM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[In the morning you wake up and get in a conversation with the innkeeper as you check out of the hotel. You tell him about your plans to seek your fortune.] (bg:white)["My advice", he says, "is to get a car. I don't know where you plan to go, but if you walk, it would take you weeks of walking to reach faraway cities such as Vizinni or Pristine Harbor. There are stretches of road where there is no civilization at all and you would have nowhere to sleep at night. If you drive, on the other hand, it would only take 2 days of driving to reach the furthest civilized areas in the land. If you are on a budget, you could also get a bike, and there is a shop in this town that sells bikes and another one that sells cars."] (bg:white)[You decided to check out the shops, and you discover that a bike costs 900 dollars, and a car costs 18000 dollars] [[buy a bike|0D1]] [[buy a car|0D2]] [[don't buy either and continue your journey by walking|0D3]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0C1M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[Soon you find the footpath again, and continue your journey. After hours of traveling, in the early afternoon, you find a town to stay at. You book in at a hotel and go to sleep.] [[CONTINUE|0D]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0C2M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[For hours you travel. You travel up and down hills, ford streams, and navigate through dense brush. Unfortunately, you find no indication that you are traveling in the right direction. It is getting late. Do you turn around and travel South or continue traveling North?] [[turn around and retrace your steps|0C21]] [[continue traveling north|0C22]]

(bg:white)[You have 20,900 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0C1")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0D1M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[In the middle of the town where you slept last night, there is a great crossroads. Five roads branch off into the distance.] (bg:white)[Icicle road leads to the North. To the North of you the great Icicle mountains tower into the sky. According to legend, as one travels north, the mountains continually increase in height as you go North until there is nothing but an icy waste devoid of life. On a clear day, you can see the great Icicle mountains from an overlook in the village where you live; tops covered in sheets of ice. It is said that many brave enough to attempt a journey have frozen to death in the high altitudes.] (bg:white)[Vizinni road leads to the South. To South lies the terrible Vizinni desert, where the ancient city of Vizinni lays at the foot of the volcanic Mount Vizinni. The sun bakes down upon the mountain, which periodically shakes and trembles as it belches smoke into the sky. A old wise sage in your town has prophesied of a great earthquake in the near future that would be felt in distant lands. Caused by the imminent massive volanic eruption of Mount Vizinni, it would fill the great town of Vizinni with rivers and lakes of lava. Few in the desert would survive; only the mountain valleys East of the desert and the land North would be safe, although they might still feel the earthquake.] (bg:white)[To the West lies the dangerous and crime-ridden city of Paplau. Enormous and filled with skyscrapers, it surpasses even the city of Vizinni in size. However, it is known in your village as the most dangerous road you could travel. It was said that anyone who dared to travel down to the Western plains where Paplau lay would never be seen again. The whole city was run by mafia overlords who rule the population in terror. Paplau is considered to be the most dangerous of all roads one could travel.] (bg:white)[To the Northwest of you lies Chittyville, and expansive areas of farmland.] (bg:white)[To the East of you lie a great expanse of the Burbon hills, which are the Southern foothills of the Icicle mountains. It is said that somewhere along Burbon road, there is a cave which takes you Southeast under the Eastern flank of the Icicle mountains for hundreds of miles until you reach a tropical rainforest on the other side of the mountains. However, it has been said that many who have ventured into the cave have never returned, and beasts of prey prowl the cave for the corpses of those who have died and lost their way in the chasms under the mountains. Also, the Burbon hills are known to be enchanted; and the misty forested hills to your West are said to be populated with an array of supernatural beings.] (bg:white)[Which road do you choose to travel?] (link-reveal-goto: "Chittyville Road", "1BA")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Chittyville", "loop", true) (track: "Chittyville", "play" ) ] [[Paplau Road|0Z]] (link-reveal-goto: "Vizinni Road", "3BA")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Vizinni", "loop", true) (track: "Vizinni", "play" ) ] [[Burbon Road|0Z]] [[Icicle Road|0Z]]

(bg:white)[You have 20,900 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0D")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "1WBM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You walk on the side of the road, traveling down zigzagging paths for several miles. The elevation decreases, and you find that you are breathing thicker air than you have ever breathed before, having grown up high in the Burbon hills. The climate is warmer, and more humid, and you see more insects flying through the air. The birds sound different; more cheerful and less haunting birdsongs are heard here than the ones in the hills.] (bg:white)[Finally you stop descending It is getting dark, and you see a hotel ahead of you.] [[CONTINUE|1WC]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|2WM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[After walking for 18 minutes, a car suddenly stops by you and the window opens.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[A stranger pokes his head out and says "Do you want a ride?".] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you say yes or no?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[["Yes"|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[["No"|0Z]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "3WM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You travel all day down Vizinni Road. The dense forest gives way to cornfields as you travel down the hills into a great valley with a river. The climate grows steadily drier as you travel South. You spend a night at a hotel in a small farming town on the side of the river.] (bg:white)[The next day, you continue your travels. You cross a the river when after it turns to the West and is joined by another river and find that the landscape grows drier and drier. Soon you are in a new valley, but this one is filled with prickly scrub brush. A cold, dry wind blows down from the mountains on either side of you. Dust blows through the air. The elevation increases as you travel up the valley on a road that follows a small river fed by springs in the mountains. As you continue your journey, the river becomes a stream, and then a trickle, and then a dry riverbed. There is no more green now, just a scattering of desert scrub. The only moisture you see is some high snow-capped mountains to the East of you. You realize that you would die of dehydration should you run out of water, and you can only carry enough water with you to last for two days.] (bg:white)[By afternoon, you reach a small town in the desert called Rehdek. Due to a concavity in the land, there is a swamp-like area where grass grows, and there is enough moisture for people to sustain a community off of. However, the area smells bad due to the swamp, and the people are poor. You book in at a hotel and go to sleep.] (bg:white)[In the morning, while eating breakfast, you get in a conversation with a group of explorers while you are eating breakfast, and you get to know each other. You learn that have traveled all the way from Mogol to search for gold. One of them explains:] (bg:white)["When I was at college in Vizinni, I was given permission to look through the underground vault of ancient scrolls at the university. Vizinni has ancient scrolls dating back thousands of years, as it is the most ancient city that exists today. It is a tradition that at the universities of Vizinni the 30 college students in the city with the best grades will be given supervised access to the ancient scrolls, due to an ancient legend that humanity was created when 30 people were spit out of a volcano. I worked very hard for two years to get on that list. I had no social life, no sleep, and I obsessed over getting the best grades possible. Ever since we had learned about the ancient scrolls in school I had longed to see them. It was my only goal.”] (bg:white)[“Finally, after two years of excruciatingly hard work, I ended up on the list and was allowed to go down into an ancient stone vault deep in the ancient caves. All 30 of us were taken down into a room where we were given careful instructions by one of the guardians of the scrolls of how to handle the ancient papyri without breaking them, and we were told we must put on super soft gloves to continue. They were the softest gloves that I had ever felt, and they were made of a white material that I had never seen before. They made it so you could handle the most ancient scrolls without harming them in the slightest, if you knew the correct technique, which they taught us. The guardians of the scrolls led us down more than 50 feet below the surface of Vizinni through a system of ancient tunnels and told us the story of the guardians.”] (bg:white)[“ ‘A long time ago, a duo of ancient kings were fighting over the throne. The people were divided equally amongst the kings, but one king got the upper hand in a battle and pushed the other king out of the valley with his crafty ways. You see, there was only one fertile valley, fed by springs from the great mountain, and apart from that there was only sand dunes and desolation as far as you could see. It is so dry that it never rains in Vizinni. To control the springs is to control the only water source for hundreds of miles around. One of the kings, through his crafty ways and weapons, pushed the other king and his weapons out of the valley and guarded the fledgling city of Vizinni until the other king and all his followers died of thirst, heatstroke, and starvation; which did not take long. The new king made himself ruler of a long dynasty of kings that has ruled to this day (the word for “King” in Vizinni is “Dynast”), and his grandson had these vaults built to record the history of the kingdoms. Ever since, we guardians of the vaults have added to the histories and guarded them. It has been nearly 3000 years since the first of us began guarding the vaults of knowledge from the unworthy. For just as the ancient king pushed the other king and his followers out of the city of Vizinni and guarded the city so they could not enter, causing them all to die in the desert; so we guard the vaults of knowledge today from the unworthy who try to enter. You 30 have been deemed worthy.’ ”] (bg:white)[“The guardians them informed us that we too could become guardians if we wished to begin training, or we could study in here as long as we wished, and food and water would be brought to us by servants so we could focus all our attention on the ancient scrolls. If any damage came to the scrolls, we would be banned from the vault for a year, and if any damage came to the scrolls a second time, we would be banned for life. Surprisingly, to me at least, they allowed us us to photograph anything we wished, or as they said, we have deemed you worthy so you have our permission to take notes, copy the scrolls, or record them with any technology we wished. However, the original scrolls could not leave the vault.”] (bg:white)[“The university gave all 30 of us special exemptions to study the scrolls. We were given the option to change our major to one that focused entirely on the scrolls. This major is only offered in Vizinni, and graduates are highly respected as scholars. The classes basically consisted of writing research papers on the scrolls. We were judged harshly on how rigorous and accurate our research was, but were given a lot of free reign to research whatever scrolls we wished.”] (bg:white)[“I read about the founding legends of Vizinni. Some legends say that humanity was created by the volcano gods in the fires of Mount Vizinni and spit out in a volcanic eruption, where they had to learn to subsist off of the swamp birds that drank out of the mountain springs that came from Mount Vizinni and drink the spring waters to survive. Slowly, they developed agriculture using the spring waters to irrigate the desert, and slowly civilization was born.”] (bg:white)[“Some say that in the future, just as Mount Vizinni created humanity in a volcanic eruption according to the ancient legends; so will humanity be destroyed: in a massive volcanic eruption where Mount Vizinni explodes and all humanity is encased in lava, and all that are not destroyed by lava will be destroyed by the famine that will be caused when the world is cloaked in ash.”] (bg:white)[“During my third year of university, one of the servants accidentally tripped and put his hands against the walls to stop himself. It was in a dusty corner of one of the caves that no one really went very often, and he had just been sweeping the floor. To his surprise, part of the wall moved inward, and a the rocks behind him began to rearrange themselves, revealing a great door that slowly opened to reveal an ancient room of scrolls that had never been opened for at least 700 years.”] (bg:white)[“There was great scholastic interest in the contents of that room, and soon all 30 of us students were indexing and photographing the ancient scrolls. Even a few of the old guardians taught themselves to use some of the newer technologies in order to record the documents as there was simply so much new material to research.”] (bg:white)[“What we learned among other things was that 900 years ago there used to be an ancient city in a deserted valley far from Vizinni. They had their own culture and spoke their own, now lost language. I have seen runes written in that language on the scrolls of the newly discovered room, but no one has been able to interpret them. Among other things, the valley was renowned for its great wealth, and it was said that the streets were paved with gold. Nobody knows what happened, but that valley mysteriously disappeared from the historical record 800 years ago.”] (bg:white)[“However, one day, there were just 5 of us students in the room, and we came across a hidden scroll that had a map of where the long lost city was. The 5 of us quickly realized that we could all be very wealthy. We used our cameras to take pictures of the maps, and then we did the one thing we had been told never to do. We destroyed the scroll so no one else could ever find the ancient city. All the gold would belong to us. We set fire to the room in case there were other scrolls that told of the location of the ancient city, and as the alarms went off we fled the caves during the confusion. We immediately left the city as we feared what would happen to us, and we lived in hiding in Mogol for a few months. The Dynast of Vizinni was so upset when he realized what we had done that he ordered a special unrevocable decree giving a reward to anyone who could find us and ordering that we be brought back to Vizinni and executed.”] (bg:white)[One of the students laughed and pointed out that as they were armed with guns, there was nothing you could do to stop them and get your reward, if that’s what you were thinking of doing. However, even the reward of 200,000 dollars the Dynast had offered per capture of each one of the five paled in comparison to the massive wealth they were sure to find in the valley. They remarked that after they had started talking to you they thought you would make a good addition to their group, as they were all city folks and unskilled in the wilderness, whereas you had come from a rural background deep in the dangerous wilds of the Burbon Hills.] (bg:white)[The first student continued: “At this moment we are on the run, searching. The valley we spoke of is not far from here. We took a path towards Mogol to confuse the authorities and stock up on provisions for our journey. Then we headed East and then South to here. Once we find the gold we will move to Paplau, the city of anarchy, where they will never dare to search for us, and live like kings. We need your expertise to survive in the wild. Come with us!”] (bg:white)[What do you do?] [[join them and travel southeast into the wilderness to search for gold.|0Z]] [[smile and politely end the conversation, then go outside and slash the tires of their vehicle and phone the authorities|0Z]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|4WM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[The road leads into a dark, creepy forest.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Soon it splits into 3 roads.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[One is unmarked, and leads to a gaping cave.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you go in the cave, go to the witch's house, or go to the wizard's house?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Cave|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)(text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Witch|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Wizard|0Z]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|5WM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You walk along the road.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Soon, you can't see any more cornfields or trees.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You are walking along in the middle of what is getting more and more of a hilly moor.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You see an "X" marked on the side of the road in the dirt with purple paint.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you dig it up, sit there and wonder what to do, or walk on?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Dig up the "X"|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Sit on the grass and wonder what to do|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Continue your journey|0Z]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "1BAM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You bike in a Northwesterly direction through misty forests full of cliffs, fog, and moss. However, Chittyville Road is paved and in good condition, so there is no danger of getting lost.] (bg:white)[You cross over bridges, and up and down picturesque hills. In the early afternoon, after several hours of leisurely biking, you come to an overlook. The forest ends. Below you for miles stretch the plains of Mogol for as far as the eye can see. Rivers thread through the land and nourish farmlands. In the distance you see the town of Chittyville.] (bg:white)[You bike down the road, traveling down zigzagging paths for several miles. The elevation decreases, and you find that you are breathing thicker air than you have ever breathed before, having grown up high in the Burbon hills. The climate is warmer, and more humid, and you see more insects flying through the air. The birds sound different; more cheerful and less haunting birdsongs are heard here than the ones in the hills. [[CONTINUE|1BB]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|2BM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You bike along. After biking for about 5 hours you notice that a creepy white van is following you.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you call 911, ditch your bike and run into a cornfield, go along like normal, go faster, or zoom into a cornfield while still on your bike?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Call 911|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Run into cornfield|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Bike normally|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Bike faster|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Bike into cornfield|0Z]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "3BAM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You bike all day down Vizinni Road. The dense forest gives way to cornfields as you travel down the hills into a great valley with a river. The climate grows steadily drier as you travel South. Due to the steady lowering of elevation you make great progress on your bike.] (bg:white)[The turns to the West and is joined by another river, and Vizinni road crosses it with a bridge. You stop to enjoy the view and have a picnic on the grass. You notice that this is the driest and prickliest grass you have ever seen.] (bg:white)[After you cross the bridge and travel South you enter a new valley, but this one is filled with prickly scrub brush. A cold, dry wind blows down from the mountains on either side of you to the East and the West as you travel South. Dust blows through the air. The elevation increases as you travel up the valley on a road that follows a small river fed by springs in the mountains. As you continue your journey, the river becomes a stream, and then a trickle, and then a dry riverbed. There is no more green now, just a scattering of desert scrub. The only moisture you see is some high snow-capped mountains to the East of you. You realize that you would die of dehydration should you run out of water, and you can only carry enough water with you to last for two days.] (bg:white)[You pass through a small town in the desert called Rehdek. After traveling a few more hours, it starts to get dark, but just as it does, you find a village on the side of the road with a hotel and a small community. You book in at the hotel and go to sleep.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[In the morning, while you are buying food, you get in a conversation with the waitress and tell her of your plans to travel down Vizinni road on a bike.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[She looks at you in horror and says:] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)["You are foolish. Have you seen the maps? This hotel is the last stop for hundreds of miles! If you were to travel out into the desert, you would soon die in the desert. There are no more places to stop until you reach Oasis City, and you will be dead long before that if you try to bike. If you try to drive, you could make it from here to there in a day, but even then there is danger. There is no place to buy cars in the Valley of Rehdeck. It would be foolish to continue your journey."] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You realize that she is right and you have no choice except to turn around. ] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[CONTINUE|0Z]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|4BM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You bike into a dark forest.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[The road splits into 3 roads.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you bike down the road that leads into a gaping cave, go on the road that leads to the witches house, or go on the road that leads to the wizards house?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Cave|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Witch|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Wizard|0Z]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|5BM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You bike up and down grassy hills.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Soon you find that you are in the middle of a moor.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You suddenly see a spaceship on the side of the road.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you stop and go over to look or continue your journey?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Check out the spaceship|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Continue your journey|0Z]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0D2M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[In the middle of the town where you slept last night, there is a great crossroads. Five roads branch off into the distance.] (bg:white)[Icicle road leads to the North. To the North of you the great Icicle mountains tower into the sky. According to legend, as one travels north, the mountains continually increase in height as you go North until there is nothing but an icy waste devoid of life. On a clear day, you can see the great Icicle mountains from an overlook in the village where you live; tops covered in sheets of ice. It is said that many brave enough to attempt a journey have frozen to death in the high altitudes.] (bg:white)[Vizinni road leads to the South. To South lies the terrible Vizinni desert, where the ancient city of Vizinni lays at the foot of the volcanic Mount Vizinni. The sun bakes down upon the mountain, which periodically shakes and trembles as it belches smoke into the sky. A old wise sage in your town has prophesied of a great earthquake in the near future that would be felt in distant lands. Caused by the imminent massive volanic eruption of Mount Vizinni, it would fill the great town of Vizinni with rivers and lakes of lava. Few in the desert would survive; only the mountain valleys East of the desert and the land North would be safe, although they might still feel the earthquake.] (bg:white)[To the West lies the dangerous and crime-ridden city of Paplau. Enormous and filled with skyscrapers, it surpasses even the city of Vizinni in size. However, it is known in your village as the most dangerous road you could travel. It was said that anyone who dared to travel down to the Western plains where Paplau lay would never be seen again. The whole city was run by mafia overlords who rule the population in terror. Paplau is considered to be the most dangerous of all roads one could travel.] (bg:white)[To the Northwest of you lies Chittyville, and expansive areas of farmland.] (bg:white)[To the East of you lie a great expanse of the Burbon hills, which are the Southern foothills of the Icicle mountains. It is said that somewhere along Burbon road, there is a cave which takes you Southeast under the Eastern flank of the Icicle mountains for hundreds of miles until you reach a tropical rainforest on the other side of the mountains. However, it has been said that many who have ventured into the cave have never returned, and beasts of prey prowl the cave for the corpses of those who have died and lost their way in the chasms under the mountains. Also, the Burbon hills are known to be enchanted; and the misty forested hills to your West are said to be populated with an array of supernatural beings.] (bg:white)[Which road do you choose to travel?] (link-reveal-goto: "Chittyville Road", "1DA")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Chittyville", "loop", true) (track: "Chittyville", "play" ) ] [[Paplau Road|0Z]] [[Vizinni Road|0Z]] [[Burbon Road|0Z]] [[Icicle Road|0Z]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "1DBM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[As you drive towards the West, the road curves North somewhat. The climate grows windier and colder as you come closer to the Sea of Bllingller. Instead of constant farms, you see mostly prarie grass with a few scattered settlements.] (bg:white)[After hundreds of miles of driving you come to a fork in the road.] (bg:white)[It is getting dark. You have spent 200 dollars on gas.] (bg:white)[A sign says:] (bg:white)["Go right to go to Vesterville or Combden.] (bg:white)[Go left to go to Mogol or Pristine Harbor."] (bg:white)[Do you turn right or left?] [[Right|0Z]] [[Left|0Z]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|2DM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You zoom along the road.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[There's a car full of criminals behind you.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[They shoot a bullet at the back of your car, but miss.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you drive faster, drive normally like nothing happened, drive slower, call 911, ditch your car by the side of the road and run straight into a cornfield, or zoom your car straight into a cornfield?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Drive faster|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Drive normally|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Drive slower|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Call 911|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Stop and run into cornfield|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Drive into cornfield|0Z]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|3DM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You drive for hours and hours.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[The climate gets drier and drier.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Soon you are driving through a desert.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You come to a city built on an oasis in the desert.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Beyond the oasis city is a mountain range full of strange and unknown valleys.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You have reached the end of the desert.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[To the left of the arid mountains ahead of you see clouds and moisture rising from the mountains beyond them.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Unknown valleys await you.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[The highway branches into 16 different roads.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[14 of them each lead to one of the mysterious valleys in the mountain range ahead of you and to your left.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[On the other hand, Vizinni road itself turns right to continue on into the deep desert to the great city of Vizinni, not far beyond which the volcanic Mount Vizinni, which regularly pumps smoke and ash into the sky.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Ground 51 also takes a different path into the desert in between Vizinni road to your right and the mountians ahead of you and to your left, crawling along the edge of the mountain range to the classified goverment area.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Which road do you choose?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[continue on Vizinni road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[turn onto Cheesecakeville road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to Lafalot road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to the University of Thrill road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to the University of Chemistry road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to Candylandville road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to Ground 51 DO NOT ENTER road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go on Stained Glass road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[turn on Noodles road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to Normal Town road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to Weird Town road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to Hippie Paradise road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to Lumber Business road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go on Country Fried Squirrels road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go on Mouseland road|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[go to Bookworm road|0Z]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|4DM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You drive into a dark, dense forest.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[The road splits onto 3 different, smaller roads.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you drive on the road that leads into a massive gaping Cave, go to the witch's house or go to the wizard's house?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Cave|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)(text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Witch|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Wizard|0Z]]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|5DAM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You drive on.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You soon find yourself in a hilly moor.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[By nighttime, you see a nice hotel.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[When you get out of your car, the wind is very strong and cold.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Dark clouds hover in the sky.] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[CONTINUE|5DC]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0C21M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[After hours of travel you find the footpath again, and continue your journey. After hours of traveling, in the late evening, you find a town to stay at. You book in at a hotel. You know that you narrowly avoided disaster, for as you check at the hotel, the sun finally sinks beyond the horizen and you suddenly hear the bloodthirsty screams of wild packs of wolves not far away. The wolves and bears have awakened. You know that if you had taken 30 minutes longer to reach the hotel you would have been devoured. You go to sleep to prepare for tomorrow's journey.] [[CONTINUE|0D]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0C22M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[Eventually it gets dark, and you hear the animals come out into the forest and begin their hunt for prey. In the distance, you hear bears growling and packs of wolves howling at the moon. You hear deer and small animals shriek with terror as they are eaten alive by the carnivores. Your hands are bloody from crawling through dense brush all day, and you feel weak and tired. You must find a place to sleep. Ahead of you, there is a cave. Where do you sleep?] [[Set up camp in a tree|0C221]] [[Set up camp in the cave|0C222]] [[Set up camp on the ground|0C223]]

(bg:white)[You have 20,900 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0C21")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0C221M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You are bitten by a poisonous snake in your sleep and die. THE END.] (link-reveal-goto: "PLAY AGAIN", "0B")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0C222M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[In the cave there is a family of bears. They eat you. THE END.] (link-reveal-goto: "PLAY AGAIN", "0B")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0C223M")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You are soon eaten by a pack of wolves. THE END.] (link-reveal-goto: "PLAY AGAIN", "0B")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 21,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0C221")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 21,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0C222")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 21,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0C223")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 21,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0C22")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 21,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0C2")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 20,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0D1")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 2,900 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0D2")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 20,900 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0D3")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0A")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 19,900 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "3BA")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Vizinni", "loop", true) (track: "Vizinni", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "0ZM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (link-reveal-goto: "PLAY AGAIN", "0B")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0Z")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 20,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "1BA")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Chittyville", "loop", true) (track: "Chittyville", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "1BBM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[Around dinnertime, you reach Chittyville. You decide to stay there for the night.] (bg:white)[There are 3 places for travelers to sleep in Chittyville.] (bg:white)[Your first option is Ghouleesh Motel, a negative 1 star motel that costs 99 cents a night.] [[CONTINUE|1BC]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "1BCM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[Your second option is Holidye Inn and Suites, a 3 star hotel that costs 100 dollars a night.] [[CONTINUE|1BD]]

(bg:white)[You have 20,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0BC")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Chittyville", "loop", true) (track: "Chittyville", "play" ) ]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|5DBM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You check into the hotel and go to sleep.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[By now you have driven deep into the mountains, and the hotel sits precariously near the edge of the cliff.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[But you have no other choice, as you know that you would freeze to death if you tried to sleep in your car in these mountains.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[The hotel is small and rustic, and you are in such a remote area that the only visitors that night apart from a group of mountain climbers.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[In the middle of the night you are awakened by wind and rain.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you go back to sleep or look out the window to see how bad the storm is?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Go back to sleep|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Look out the window|0Z]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "1DAM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You through the forest, but after an hour you drive down a steep winding road from the hills of Burbon above you to the plains of Mogol below. The plains are full of pleasant farmlands, and you pass through Chittyville, take the main road, and drive through pastoral scenes for hours.] (bg:white)[This landscape continues for awhile as the road takes you further and further West. The hills of Burbon and even the Icicle mountains to the North disappear in the distance behind you as you continue driving.] [[CONTINUE|1DB]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "1WAM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You walk in a Northwesterly direction through misty forests full of cliffs, fog, and moss. However, Chittyville Road is paved and in good condition, so there is no danger of getting lost.] (bg:white)[You cross over bridges, and up and down picturesque hills. Finally, after a full day of very tedious walking, you come to an overlook. The forest ends. Below you for miles stretch the plains of Mogol for as far as the eye can see. Rivers thread through the land and nourish farmlands. In the distance you see the town of Chittyville, but you know that you will not make it there before it gets dark.] [[CONTINUE|1WB]]

(bg:white)[You have 20,900 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "1WB")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 20,900 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "1WA")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "1BDM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[Your third option is the Delux Chat Qoue, which is an 8 star hotel that costs 20,000 dollars a night.] [[Ghouleesh Motel|0Z]] [[Holidye Inn and Suites|0Z]] [[the Delux Chat Qoue|0Z]]

(bg:white)[You have 20,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "1BD")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Chittyville", "loop", true) (track: "Chittyville", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 20,000 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "0BB")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Chittyville", "loop", true) (track: "Chittyville", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 2,900 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "1DA")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Chittyville", "loop", true) (track: "Chittyville", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 2,700 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "1DB")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Chittyville", "loop", true) (track: "Chittyville", "play" ) ]

(text-colour:red)+(bg:white)[[MAP|5DCM]] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[You check into the hotel and go to sleep.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[By now you have driven deep into the mountains, and the hotel sits precariously near the edge of the cliff.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[But you have no other choice, as you know that you would freeze to death if you tried to sleep in your car in these mountains.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[The hotel is small and rustic, and you are in such a remote area that the only visitors that night apart from a group of mountain climbers.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[In the middle of the night you are awakened by wind and rain.] (text-colour:black)+(bg:white)[Do you go back to sleep or look out the window to see how bad the storm is?] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Go back to sleep|0Z]] (text-colour:green)+(bg:white)[[Look out the window|0Z]]

|MAP>[(link-reveal-goto: "MAP", "1WCM")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "MAP", "loop", true) (track: "MAP", "play" ) ]] (bg:white)[You stay at the hotel for the night and continue your travels the next morning. The land is much more level than the hills, and filled with streams and farmland. The pastoral scene is broken by a view of Chittyville ahead of you.] (bg:white)[You cross the bridge and enter Chittyville. This city is the largest you have ever seen, and you are surprised by all the people moving around, occupied with their day-to-day tasks. You shops full of windows, and at the center of the town a massive luxery hotel; the Delux Chat Qoue, which is known as the most luxerious hotel in all the land. It is where the Dynast of Vizinni, the Sovereign of Mogol, and foreign kings have stayed when they wanted a break from ruling their lands.] (bg:white)[After seeing all the sights of Chittyville, you decide to continue your travels. There is a road that heads North, one that heads Northwest, and one that heads West. Which road do you choose to travel?] [[north|0Z]] [[northwest|0Z]] [[west|0Z]]

(bg:white)[You have 20,800 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "1WC")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Intro", "loop", true) (track: "Intro", "play" ) ]

(bg:white)[You have 20,700 dollars] (link-reveal-goto: "BACK", "3W")[ (group: 'playing', 'stop') (track: "Vizinni", "loop", true) (track: "Vizinni", "play" ) ]