Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Choose your own adventure: Option B


           You can’t take it any more. You tell you’re parents you don’t know what’s going on, who they are, why you’ve forgotten and what to do now. Your parents share a brief look and say that they’re not falling for it again. Apparently, you’ve tried this before. You explain that you seriously don’t know anything and that you’ve forgotten everything. Your mother yells at you to eat your breakfast. At first you’re shocked, you can’t believe what’s happening and that they won’t believe you. It is here you realize that the food in your plate spells something, a message: PLAY ALONG. You ask your parents what the message means. As the words escape your lips, the windows and doors to your house explode and several men clad in plastic armor and armed with scary looking guns flood the kitchen. You parents take evasive maneuvers and evade the invaders. Your mother grabs you and your sister and run to the living room while your father holds off the men with a semi-auto minigun he pulls from his pants. Your head is racing as you try to figure out what exactly is going on here. Your mother drops you and your sister off in the living room and approaches the bookcase. Your sister is crying indicating she’s just as lost as you are. Your mother pulls a random book out from the case activating a lever which opens a secret passageway under the house. She tells you to go in and take care of your sister and then breaks a window to escape. She says she’ll try to divert the men away from the house, giving you enough time to escape. You want to ask her more questions, the same questions which have been filling your head, but you never get the chance. You hear your father scream in the kitchen and before you even know what’s going on, your body reacts by grabbing your sister and going down the passageway. That is the last you will see of your parents.
            You come to in a dark cave with your sister beside you, out like a light. You look around trying to figure out where you are. You don’t know what to do now that you’re here and you certainly don’t know how you’re going to get out of this mess. Suddenly, the cave illuminates with light and two more pathways are presented in front of you. At the end of one of them is a light, the other, black as night. What do you do?

            E) Cave number 1, the light at the end of the tunnel may represent an exit and a
                 way out.
            F) Cave number 2, the tunnel seems to lead deeper into the caverns beneath your
                 house. You are determined to find out what’s going on.

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