There is only //one rule//.
{(live: 1s)[
(color: "red")[**Stay on the Path.**]
]}
{(live: 2.5s)[
[[Stay on the Path?]]
or
[[Stray from the Path?]]
]}
Nope, Nope. No funny business.
You are a serious person. You put away thoughts of exploring and adventuring and make your way down the path home.
[[Keep Walking]]
or
[[Stray from the Path?]]
You peak into the woods along side the path. Sunlight dances between the leaves of trees. The air feels crisp and fresh. It smells like rain.
[[Go back to the path?]]
or
[[Venture out a little further.]]
Whew, even a single step out of line was a little too much. You feel the hard pavement beneath your feet and continue walking home.
[[Keep Walking]]
[[Go back to the woods]]
The leaves and pine needles crunch under your feet. It brings you back to walks in the forest, before forests were too:
[[Dangerous?]]
[[Time consuming]]
[[Just a small adventure never hurt anyone.]]
[[Stop thinking and go home]]
You take a deep breath deeply and step back into the woods.
You step on some mushrooms.
They (either: "are red with spots", "[[are in a circle]]"," [[release a brown cloud of spores]]")
{(live: 3.5s)[
[[Venture out a little further.]]
]}
Forests are dangerous. There might be creatures. Or animals. Or even worse.
(click-append: "worse.")[ People... They are hands down the worst.]
{(live: 2.5s)[
You hear a noise in the [[bushes]].
]}
It's too hard to take time off to do anything really. There's always something that needs doing.
{(live: 2.5s)[
//You haven't got all day//
]}
{(live: 3.5s)[
//Where is your big decision?//
]}
{(live: 4.5s)[
//[[Need to get back home to work|Strayed but went home.]]//
]}
{(live: 5s)[
//[[//Screw it//|bushes]]//
]}
The mushrooms have grown perfectly in a circle. You wonder how it could be so symmetrical. They look so tiny as though fairies could (colour:"red")[//dance//] upon them.
You worry that the circle is (text-style:"blur")[ [[magic]] ]
You understand that it's the remains of a [[dead tree]]
{(live: 3.5s)[
(either: "nnaaannnaaaaa", "lalalallaaaa", "(print: $name)", "daaaadaaaadummm", "a music box plays")
]}
{(live: 2.5s)[
//everything is dancing//
]}
{(live: 3.5s)[
You feel strange. The air is //sweet//.
]}
{(live: 4.5s)[
(text-style:"blur")[Why can't everything just stay [[still|Told you]]?]
]}
=><=
{(live: 0.5s)[
**YOU**
]}
{(live: 1s)[
//**SHOULD**//
]}
{(live: 1.5s)[
**HAVE**
]}
{(live: 2s)[
(color: "red")[ **//STAYED//**]
]}
{(live: 2.5s)[
**ON**
]}
{(live: 3s)[
**THE**
]}
{(live: 3.5s)[
(color: "red")[#**PATH**]
]}
Home safe.
You take off your shoes. Put away all the ideas of the path and relax in your same old, same old life.
==><==
{(live: 1.5s)[
**You**
]}
{(live: 2s)[
//**followed**//
]}
{(live: 2.5s)[
**the**
]}
{(live: 3s)[
(color: "red")[ **//rules//**]
]}
A small adventure never hurt anyone, why you might even have some story to tell. One of those grand stories that people tell at the pub. The kind you know is 100% made up.
[[Go back to the woods]]
You try not to let any of the thoughts of adventure or drawing outside the lines tell you what to do.
YOU
need to be at home. It's time to go home.
[[but I want an adventure]]
[[Keep going on the path]]
=><=
{(live: 0.5s)[
(print: $name)
]}
==>
{(live: 1.5s)[
(print: $name)
]}
<==
{(live: 2.5s)[
(text-style:"smear")[(print:$name)]
]}
=><=
{(live: 3s)[
(color: "red")[ #**//(print:$name)//**]
]}
{(live: 4.5s)[
//(text-style:"smear")[I found you]//
]}
{(live: 5.5s)[
[[RUN! Towards the path]] or
[[Deeper into the woods?]]
]}
You step out of the circle of mushrooms and think no more of it. It's mushrooms. Really.
You no longer go into the woods because its:
[[Dangerous?]]
[[Time consuming]]
You run towards the light of the path. On to its hard surface and as fast as you can carry yourself to the safety and familiarity of the path.
Amazingly, you don't even trip over your feet.
[[Strayed but went home.]]
You run wildly into the woods.
You take no notice of where you are going, as long as it's as far away from what ever that was.
Who ever?
Something is moving in the [[bushes]]
Maybe it's time to [[go home|Strayed but went home.]]
(either: "A squirrel with a nut pops out of the brush. It looks at your quizzically and then runs away. You sigh in [[relief]]", "A woman with a chain saw jumps out of the bush. You can't hear her over the chainsaw, and wonder how a chain saw could sneak up on you. That seems strangely flawed. She saws you in [[half|Told you]]")
Whew. That squirrel gave you quite the start.
Aww, look it's friendly.
Wait No..
{(live: 2.5s)[
[[RUN! Towards the path]]
]}
{(live: 3.5s)[
(go-to: "Eat Your Face")
]}
That was enough adventure for you.
You make it back to the house and prepare a nice scotch.
(click-replace: "scotch")[wine]
(click-replace: "wine")[water]
(click-replace: "water")[coffee]
(click-replace: "coffee")[tea]
==><==
{(live: 3.5s)[
**You**
]}
{(live: 4s)[
//**mostly**//
]}
{(live: 4.5s)[
**followed**
]}
{(live: 5s)[
**the**
]}
{(live: 5.5s)[
(color: "red")[ **//rules//**]
]}
The pull of adventure leads you off the path.
What really could go [[wrong?|Go back to the woods]]
You will have none of this straying business. Adventuring and exploring is far past you. It's time to go home. Make a nice dinner and watch the news.
You continue down the path you know so well that you could navigate it in your [[sleep|No Stray]].
The squirrel pounces on you and begins to chow down on your face.
It's eating your brain.
Yes, squirrels in this story are nuts.
{(live: 3.5s)[
//(Get it?)//
]}
{(live: 6.5s)[
(go-to: "Told you")
]}
(alert:"There is one rule.")
(set: $name to (prompt: "But first your name, please:"))
(text-style: "Blurrier")[##Stay on the Path]
[[Begin your journey|Stay on the Path]]
//Very loosely based on The Path by Tale of Tales. Made very quickly to practice different codes in Twine for the terror of knowing workshop 2016.
Diana Poulsen//