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You awaken to soft dawn light blanketing your room- but wait…your room doesn’t catch morning light… Bolting upright you look around wildly, trying to process what the hell is going on.

A thin, but soft, white blanket slips down into your lap as you sit up, and you now feel a chill from the crisp morning air flowing through a small window on the far wall. There’s little else adorning the room but for a small chair with a satchel on it, and the peeling paisley wallpaper and wispy cobwebs lead you to believe the room is long out of use. A plain door hangs slightly loose in its hinges, and you can hear a soft murmur of voices, though you’re unsure where from.

How do you proceed?

1. Go to the window

2. Examine the satchel

3. Try and leave through the door

4. Lay back down and cry

#Start #Choose your own adventure #cyoa #story

Window

You move quietly to the window, and peering out your met with a fantastic sunrise creeping up over far off hills, illuminating a sprawling garden below you. You’re about three stories up, but the murmuring is more clear now, and as you scan the greenery you see a gargantuan man crouched low over one of the flower beds. He seems to be chatting softly with the daffodils, but before you can parse out what he’s saying there’s a loud whoop from above.

Your head snaps up in time to see a woman sitting aloft an intricate staff swan dive from the clouds. She stops above the man and flips to hang upside down from the staff, gesturing towards the man who stands up to address her.

How do you proceed?

5. Call out to them

6. Lurk and eavesdrop

3. Back away slowly from the flying woman and try the door

#Option 1

Satchel

The satchel is made of plain brown leather, a single pouch closed with a worn looking iron buckle. As you approach, it shifts ever so slightly.

How do you proceed?

7. Continue towards the satchel

1. Go to the window

3. Try and leave through the door

#Option 2

Door

Carefully you approach the door. The murmurs seem to have subsided, and as you gingerly turn the doorknob the door yields to you. Peeking out into the hallway the coast seems clear. To your right is a closed door made of some dark wood a ways down and across the hall, and a spiral stairwell going both up and down. To the left there are two open doors similar to yours, one coated in moss and the other clumsily painted red, and a heavy oak door at the end of the hall propped open with a massive potted plant. You can see an alcove leading to a large open room, the contents of which you cannot make out from this angle.

How do you proceed?

8. Go to the dark door

9. Go to the stairwell

10. Go to the mossy door

11. Go to the red door

12. Go to the open room at the end of the hall

#Option 3

Cry

You curl up and cover your head with the blanket, beginning to sob. You have no recollection of how you got here, wherever here could be, and you’re quite scared. You stay there, hidden beneath the blanket and shivering until the tears subside, and then you hear it. The soft creak of a door opening and a shuffle as something moves into the room. You freeze beneath the covers before lifting up a corner of the blanket.

Staring but inches from your face are large, pupil-less green eyes emitting an unearthly glow. Throwing yourself backwards you can take in the full figure in front of you, small, maybe four and a half feet tall, and covered in a black hooded cloak from which it is difficult to make out distinct features. It holds out both hands in a peaceful gesture. “You are okay,” it whispers in a raspy, tinny voice. It bares its teeth in what may be a smile, large, sharp incisors protruding over thin lips, its eyes squinting like a cat. It reaches out a hand with sharp black claws.

How do you proceed?

13. Scream

14. Kick out at it

15. Take their hand

#Option 4 #Karntin

Call Out

You call out to the pair below in hopes that they can aide you. Both jump and turn at your shout. The man seems to try and crumple in on himself, giving a short wave before looking away. The woman rights herself on the staff and floats up to your widow. You can make out details now, her short hair dyed bubble-gum pink over a heavily freckled face framing blue eyes that seem to almost sparkle. She smiles brightly at you and in the most southern of drawls introduces herself as Ellie. Still smiling she extends her hand towards you, floating just barely out of reach.

How do you proceed?

16. Introduce yourself politely

17. Introduce yourself not-so politely

18. Reach out and take her hand

#Option 5 #Ellie

Eavesdrop

You duck below the window sill and listen intently to their conversation. The woman has a thick southern accent, and you can’t discern what she’s saying as she rapidly chatters away at the man for a good minute before he responds in a deep, rumbling voice.

“Ellie, slow down,” he says, and while he sounds naturally threatening you can detect a sort of fondness in his tone. “What’s this about a guest?”

This Ellie character laughs. “Not a guest, at least I don’t think! A human perhaps? Nadiya is waiting for dinner to introduce us, she’s so boring. I want to meet them now,” she cries in a childish whine. You can picture her stomping her foot in a huff.

Wait, hold up…are they…not humans? You don’t dare pop your head up to look now but they both seemed very human from what you saw.

The man grumbles to himself for a moment. “Ellie, if there’s a human about we should take care. I’m going to head inside, I suggest you do the same.” You hear the clank of metal against metal. “And get down from there, what if someone sees you?”

“Ugh, you’re boring today too, George. I’ll see you at dinner.” You wait a few minutes and their conversation doesn’t pick back up.

How do you want to proceed?

3. Try and leave through the door

19. Try and climb out the window

#Option 6 #Ellie #George

Satchel Mark Dos

You reach out towards the satchel and it squirms even more. You can now smell a certain irony tang in the area, and the leather looks much more…vivacious than it should. Are you sure about this?

20. Yes, let me open the satchel

1. Nope, never mind- Go to the window

3. Nope, never mind- Try and leave through the door

#Option 7

The Dark Door

You go to investigate the dark door. It’s made of wood and looks to have been stained a deep purple or blue, it’s difficult to tell in this light. As you put your fingers lightly to the grain the door creaks open. A pair of glowing green eyes stare back at you, no pupil or sclera visible. Your throat closes in panic as you start to step away, but a quiet, raspy voice calls out. “Hello?”

You pause. The eyes blink at you slowly, like a cat. “Are you lost?” the voice croaks, and a small, clawed hand reaches out to grip the door frame as if ready to close it at any moment. There’s a hint of…fear? “Can I help you?”

How do you proceed?

21. Screech in fear

22. Ask their name

#Option 8 #Karntin

The Stairwell

Approaching the stairwell you feel a slight chill off the stones. Peering up the stairs there seems to be one level to climb, and the stairs stretch downward a ways but there is a metal grate cutting off the lower levels.

How do you proceed?

23. Go upstairs

Back into the hallway and…

8. Go to the dark door

10. Go to the mossy door

11. Go to the red door

12. Go to the open room at the end of the hall

#Option 9

The Mossy Door

You pass by the moss covered door and notice a small plaque affixed to the wall. Brushing away some dirt you can make out the name “Nadiya”. You try the handle to find the door is locked. It doesn’t seem that anyone has been here in a while.

How do you proceed?

8. Go to the dark door

9. Go to the stairwell

11. Go to the red door

12. Proceed to the open room at the end of the hall

#Option 10 #Nadiya

The Red Door

You go over to the red door and the closer you get the hotter it gets. Standing next to the door is uncomfortable, sweltering heat surrounding the doorway. You reach for the knob and find it’s almost unbearably hot. You snatch your hand away.

How do you proceed?

24. Wrap your hand in your shirt and try the door knob again

8. Go to the dark door

9. Go to the stairwell

10. Go to the mossy door

12. Go to the open room at the end of the hall

#Option 11

The Open Room

You make for the open room at the end of the hallway. As you pass by the potted plant, tendrils spill out from it, snaking out rapidly and ensnaring your ankles. You yelp as with surprising strength the plant hoists you in the air and brings you to rest over a gaping maw that emerges from the foliage. Dangling upside down you try and wrestle out of your bindings as the plant lowers you down.

“Michael, stop that,” a bored voice says from the door way. The plant stops with a grumbling sound, but continues to hold you. You crane your neck around to find a beautiful woman staring at you coolly. Her long blond hair hangs in a braid draped over one shoulder, and she adjust her glasses before speaking again. “My apologies, Michael here hasn’t had his afternoon snack yet.”

She snaps her fingers and Michael the Plant drops you in a heap on the stone. Wincing you pick yourself up, and the woman beckons you into the room before turning her back on you and going inside.

How do you proceed?

25. Follow her

Back into the hallway and…

8. Go to the dark door

9. Go to the stairwell

11. Go to the red door

#Option 12 #Nadiya #Michael the Plant

Scream

You scream at the creature, and it squeaks in fear before scurrying away and zipping out the door. You take a moment to collect yourself.

How do you want to proceed?

1. Go to the window

2. Examine the satchel

3. Try and leave through the door

#Option 13

Kick It

You lash out at the creature, kicking it square in the chest. Its small form flies backwards and crumples in a heap beneath the window. You get up to finish it off, but before you can get to it an unearthly wail begins to come from the huddled shape. You fall to your knees, ripping at your ears as this sound carries into your body, digging into your ears and eyes and tongue as you pant for breath. You feel like you’re dying, the sound seeping into your lungs, clutching at your heart. The last thing you see before darkness overtakes you is the large green eyes weeping some sort of luminous ichor as it reaches out for you.

You have died.

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#Option 14 #Karntin #Bad Ending

Take Their Hand

You take the offered hand, and the creature’s other hand comes to rest on top of yours, patting it gently. “There, there, see? You are alright now. Karntin will take care of you.”

Surprisingly, you do feel reassured by this. They rock back and forth on their heels. “What is your name?”

You answer, and ask where you are.

“The House.” Karntin nods. “The House is safe. Hungry?” They begin to pull you up out of bed. “Dinner is not ready, but we can find food in the hearth. Come with me.”

Karntin leads you from the room and down the hallway, past a dark wooden door and down a spiral staircase. They push open an unlatched metal grate and lead you down a few levels into some sort of main hall. You follow Karntin, who still holds your hand, into a kitchen area. They let go of you to clamber up onto a counter, and rifles through a box before sitting down and offering you a piece of bread.

You accept and pull out a stool. Karntin tells you that everyone else is excited to meet you later tonight, and while Karntin asks you question after question about your life “outside”, you’re unsure what’s going on, but glad to at least have a friend for it.

End.

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#Option 15 #Karntin #Good Ending

Polite Introduction

You introduce yourself to Ellie and invite her in, and she smiles and floats into your window with a shout down below “George, I’ll lead them down to the kitchen, meet me there.” As she lands her staff shrinks down until she’s holding a wand, and with a wave her pink dress gives way to a plain t-shirt and jeans.

“That’s better,” she sighs, stretching a bit. “So how long have you been up-“ she stops, looking at the satchel. With a snort she ignores you and strides over to it. “Norm, I know you weren’t gonna try and eat our guest now, right?”

You question both her sanity and your own for inviting her in, but then the satchel lets out a whine and a long tongue whips out, quickly followed by four short, furry legs. You watch in horror as Ellis reaches down and pets the horrifying creature that has revealed itself. “Go back to your master and tell him to be on time for dinner for once.” She opens the door and nudges the creature with her boot

The satchel scurries out the door and she turns back to you. “Sorry about that, mimics, y’know?” She laughs as if that joke made any sense and pulls you through the doorway. “So you’ve met me of course, the most important one, and sorta met George-he’s a shy one, sweet as a button though- and Normaneu. Norm, as I like to call him, belongs to Surtec, big fellow who lives down the hall, I would not cross him if I were you.” She turns back halfway down the hall to make sure you heard her.

You nod, at a loss for anything else to do.

“Good. Nadiya is also on your floor, but she gets so wrapped up in her little world you probably won’t see her for days. Karntin is in that door we just passed, also a sweetheart, if a little odd.” She leads you down a staircase. “Down here is where George and I stay, and if you venture up is Yanti, she’s okay I guess, bit of a recluse.”

She continues to chatter aimlessly as you descend into a main hall. She sits you in a comfy armchair and continues to talk to both you and herself as she goes in and out of what must be a kitchen, bring out iced tea and little finger sandwiches. George, the large man from the garden wanders in, smiles sheepishly at you, and nibbles on a sandwich from a tiny ottoman.

You are thoroughly confused, but don’t feel unsafe. Hopefully you’ll learn more but for the meantime, you’re content.

End

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#Option 16 #Ellie #Good Ending #George #Normaneu

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