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The "choose our own adventures" game!

Discussion in 'Fun and Games' started by RainDreamer, Aug 29, 2015.

  1. RainDreamer

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    So I hope everyone here knows what a "choose your own adventure" game is like, because we are going to play one here, but in a much larger scale. We are going to collaboratively create such a story together. Here is how we are going to do this:

    Poster 1: Provide a scenario (no more than 1000 words), then provide choices (max 5)

    Poster 2: Choose one of the choice and write that choice down, and write their own consequences of that choice, before providing more choices of their own for the next poster.

    Poster 3: Continue the game by once again choose another choice from poster 2, write their own consequence, then give more choices for next poster

    ...and so on.

    The narrative can be in any format, and any setting, and any perspective that you like. I only ask that you should make the consequences/implication/extrapolation of the choices at least tangentially related to the choice and scenario that the previous poster provided, including the protagonist of the previous scenario. Also, while you can make up any choices you want for the next poster, please don't pigeon hole the narrative by providing essential the same choice in different wordings. Give some variety.

    Example:

    Poster 1: You wake up, and immediately notice that you are under water. Instinctively, you try to hold your breath, but your lungs are already filled with liquid. You panic and squirm, but you couldn't move your limbs - apparently there were something restraining them in place. After a few minutes struggling vainly, you realized you are not drowning. While you feel difficulty in breathing the liquid - whatever it is, apparently you are able to survive in it. You take a moment to survey your surrounding. The first thing you noticed is your own reflection on a glass surface before you, a...

    • man
    • woman
    • trapped person.


    Poster 2:
    Choice: trapped person.

    It is not of your concern of who you are right now, considering the situation you are in. And on a more meta level, it is impossible to narrate this in second person and then accommodate to all the people playing this game if we are going to put them inside rigid labels that may or may not be accurate to them. Thus, you are a person trapped inside a glass tank, with its surface blurred from what you can only assumed to be condensations. You can make out some other pink lights on the other side - perhaps other tanks like the one you are in. You look down at yourself and notice your naked body being encased in strange machineries, and tubes snakes around your body, plugged into various metal ports on your skin. A few came loose from your violent struggle earlier, seeping out a dark blue liquid that is slowly changing the colour of the clear pink liquid you are breathing. You are unsure if that is a bad thing, and ponder your next course of action:

    • Struggle some more to free yourself
    • Try to remember why you are here
    • Bash your head against the glass

    And that is how you play it! Shall we start the game?

    • Yes
    • No
    • Maybe
     
  2. DreamerBoy17

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    • Yes

    You wake up in a strange room. The walls, ceilings, and floors are all a uniform white, the same color as your clothing. The only thing standing out is a tiny door located to the right, not higher than a few inches, with a little red doorknob. Everything is silent, and you wonder how you even got into this situation. You wonder what the best course of action should be:
    •Open the tiny door
    •Lay down in the room. Surely someone will show up eventually
    •Bang your fists against a wall

    (This looks fun, I always loved these games and you've set it up in a very unique way.
     
  3. RainDreamer

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    •Open the tiny door

    Since everything else in the room is white except for the red door knob, you figure it has to have some significance. You kneel on the floor and examine the door carefully, hoping to find some clues to your situation, but it is no use. Aside from the teensy red knob, the door is almost featureless, its frame barely visible on the bland, sterile white wall surrounding it. You knock on the door - absurd circumstances notwithstanding, proper etiquettes must still be exercised. There were no response. Or perhaps the response was so small you can't hear it against the low, but perceptible hum saturating the room you are in. You decided to open the door. There was nothing inside. As in, literal nothing. Nada, zip, and other cliché expressions of void. It was like a piece of the universe is missing behind that door, and you are staring into a gentle, but ominous black hole.

    You decide to:
    • Stick your hand inside the door
    • Forget about it and look for other clues in the room
    • See if you have anything to use for a test run into the black hole door
    • Go back to wait in the room for something to happen. Maybe.
     
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    Stick your hand inside the door

    You peer into the blackness beyond the little door frame and wondering what, if anything could be inside. You can only guess at how big the space is. You look behind you at the rest of the room and see nothing else. So you slowly stick your hand through the tiny doorway. You can't feel anything at first as you fish around inside, but suddenly you feel a warm breeze on your hand and you keep it still. Again, more warmth blows onto your hand, this time accompanied by what sounds like breathing. Something is breathing on your hand. Just as you are withdrawing your hand, you feel the teeth of some creature scrape against a couple of your fingers. You are bleeding heavily, but you peer inside only to find there is no longer a black hole. Now, you are staying at the mouth of a lion in the savanna through the tiny opening.

    You decide to:

    -Shut the door and look for more clues
    -Wait for the lion to move so you can see what else is through the door
     
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    Shut the door and look for more clues

    When you attempt to shut the door some force pushes you out the door you fall down a hole that you didnt notice before the lion falls down after you. After you get to the bottom of the hole you are in an alternate world everyting is oppisote maculine is feminine, rich is poor hot is cold, fierce is cowrdly etc. Etc. The lion is killed off by some zebras on your eay to the nearest town a giant fly come and is about tomstomp on you. You-

    - Stand still in awe

    - make a mad dash for the town

    - fly into the flies ear and make annoying buzzing noises
     
  6. RainDreamer

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    - stand still in awe.

    Since this world makes everything to be opposite, by standing still you are in fact moving very fast away from where you were. You are quickly taken to the town by some invisible forces. But you are not stopping. Straight ahead is a massive thing rushing up toward you. You have no time to look at what it is exactly, you are about to crash to it!

    You have to:
    • Roll to the left
    • Roll to the right
    • Crouch down
    • Jump
    • Running forward