(align:"=><=")[(b4r:"none","none","solid")+(b4r-colour:white)[Where is my dinner, traveler?]]
(align:"=><=")[by Haodong Yan]
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(set: $End12 to false)Ending 1:(if:$End1 is true)[ Leave](if:$End1_2 is true)[
Ending 1 - 2: LEAVE NOW]
Ending 2:(if:$End2 is true)[ Never Eat Expired Foods]
Ending 3:(if:$End3 is true)[ The Man Went Missing]
Ending 4:(if:$End4 is true)[ Thank You For Your Kindness]
Ending 5:(if:$End5 is true)[ Greed Is Not Good]
Ending 6:(if:$End6 is true)[ Watch Him Burn]
Ending 7:(if:$End7 is true)[ Illusion]
Ending 8:(if:$End8 is true)[ To Kill]
Ending 9:(if:$End9 is true)[ Or Be Killed]
Ending 10:(if:$End10 is true)[ There Is No Escape]
Ending 11:(if:$End11 is true)[ Unfortunate Event]
(if:$End7 is false)[AiajfNAOF:N&FA9wfAW4](else-if:$End7 is true)[Ending 12:](if:$End12 is true)[ The Story Behind]
(t8n-time:1s)[[Startover->Start Page]]
(link-undo:"Back")"What a nice day," You said to your friend on the phone, "you are missing out on the beauty of our mother nature!"
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"I know, I know," the person on the other side answered, "but plans can't always keep up with (link-reveal:"changes.")[ How in the world would I know that my car would be crushed by a tree after the storm last night.] "
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You search around your bag while listening, looking for the last nail needed for settling your tent. Some canned food are swirled around when you do that, making a clinking sound.
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"Alright then, guess I will be solo camping today. Luckily I have some food left from the last camp. Have fun fixing your car, sir."
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1s)(click-goto:?page,"Page 2")Ending 7: Illusion
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(set: $Sign to false)Ending 1: Leave
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(set: $End1 to true)Ending 1 - 2: LEAVE NOW
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(set: $End1_2 to true)Ending 2: Never Eat Expired Foods
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(set: $End2 to true)Ending 4: Thank You For Your Kindness
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(set: $End4 to true)Ending 5: Greed Is Not Good
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(set: $End5 to true)Ending 6: Watch Him Burn
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(set: $End6 to true)Ending 8: To Kill
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(set: $End8 to true)Ending 9: Or Be Killed
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(set: $End9 to true)Ending 10: There Is No Escape
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(set: $End10 to true)Ending 11: Unfortunate Event
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(set: $End11 to true)Ending 12: The Story Behind
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(set: $End12 to true)You found out about this camping site a week ago. It has a great view of the city that you just moved into, and a forest claimed to be "very safe" by not having any dangerous wild animals.
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In your original plan, three of your friends were supposed to come with you today, but somehow, all of them had an emergency, as if some unknown force is trying to stop the camping plan.
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The friend that was just on the call with you was supposed to bring food to this trip, but now you only have some old canned foods from a while ago with you.
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After hanging up the call, you feel hungry.
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Take out all the canned food.->Page 4]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Leave.->Page 3]]
(link-undo:"Back")You decide to leave the forest. Somehow, you had a feeling of relief doing this.
After packing up everything, you drive straight to a Turkey BBQ restaurant. The food there was great.
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(link-undo:"Back")You open all the canned food. As you are about to start eating, you noticed the smell of the foods goes wrong.
You check the expiration date on these canned foods, realizing that they all had expired a month ago.
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Leave, I am not going to eat something expired.->Page 3]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Eat them, they are canned foods, they won't be that bad.->Page 5]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Go into the forest, there should be things to eat in the forest.->Page 6]]
(link-undo:"Back")You give a little taste test on these canned foods, figure that they only taste a little off. Therefore, you decide to
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Eat a little->Page 7 - 1]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Eat them all->Page 7 - 2]]
(link-undo:"Back")There are many (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[signs->Page 6 - 1]] located out side of the forest.
The day gets dark. You search around the forest and find some berries to eat.(if:$Berry is false)[ You felt so hungry that you ate all the berries.]
As you are trying to go back to the camping site, you realized that you cannot find the way back.
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Keep searching->Page 6-2]]
(link-undo:"Back")You eat some canned foods to stop hunger, but you threw up after having them.
Now you become more hungry.
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[LEAVE->Page 8 - 1]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Try to find food in the forest->Page 6]]
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(set: $Berry to false)You eat all the canned foods and throw up after having them. You feel extreme sickness and dizziness, then faint down.
You wake up the next morning in a hospital, having no memory of whatever happened after you fainted previously.
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(link-undo:"Back")You don't know why, but there is something in your mind that is stopping you from staying here.
After packing up everything, you drive straight to a BBQ restaurant. The food there was great.
(t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")[[Ending 1 - 2->Ending 1 - 2]]
(link-undo:"Back")There are signs about preventing wildfires.
You remembered it.
(t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")[[Back->Page 6]]
(set: $Sign to true)As you are searching around, you see a house lying within the woods.
Cobwebs are lying around every corner. Shattered window pieces, fallen bricks from the wall, and roof tiles are scattered around this place.
The darkness of the night covers the building like a veil, hiding all the mysteries behind this historic building.
Floating mists within the forest surround the place as if this house belongs to a different dimension.
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(link-undo:"Back")When you walk closer, you see an old man sitting on the stairs behind the opened door, trying to put on his clothes.
His body is covered by scar. One of his arms and two of his legs are replaced by prostheses, but they don't seem to be working well.
He notices you, and ask you if you have any food to spare.
(if:$Berry is false)[(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[You do not have any food to spare.->Page 9 - 3]]](if:$Berry is true)[(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Sure, take these berries.->Page 9 - 1]]
(if:$Berry is true)[(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[I will not give you my food.->Page 9 - 2]]]]
(link-undo:"Back")You have ate all the berries previously, thus having no food to give the old man.
The old man ask you if you could go find food for him, he will pay you a gold coin in return
You
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(link-undo:"Back")The old man seems happy about your action, and he takes out a gold coin.
"Thank you for your kindness, please take this as my payment for the food."
"Oh, thank you so much for your gold. This worth a lot more than what I have done."
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[["Can I trade you more food for gold? I can go find some for you."->Page 9 - 1 - 1]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[["May I please stay over at your place tonight?"->Page 9 - 1 - 2]]
(if:$Sign is true)[When you look at the building, you suddenly remembered the story about [[the robber and fire->Robber and Fire]].]
(link-undo:"Back")You reject the old man's request.
The old man says nothing, and he walks into the forest.
Suddenly, the mist in the forest becomes thicker, and you feel overwhelmed with tiredness. You collapse onto the stairs.
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(link-undo:"Back")The old man gives you a shotgun and some bullets.
"This will help hunt some animals."
"But I thought there are no edible animals in this forest," you said, "people have only seen birds in this forests."
"There will be," the old man responded, "if you want them, you can always find them."
You look at the gun, then look at the old man.
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[["Okay"->Page 10 - 2]]
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(link-undo:"Back")You reject the old man's request.
The old man says nothing, and he walks into the forest.
Suddenly, the mist in the forest becomes thicker, and you feel overwhelmed with tiredness. You collapse onto the stairs.
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(link-undo:"Back")"After two weeks of searching, the person went missing was never found. The family of that person claims him to be camping with his friends, but his friends said they never received any invitation for camping. The story behind remains a mystery."
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Ending 3->Ending 3]]
(link-undo:"Back")Ending 3: The Man Went Missing
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(set: $End3 to true)'This man seems very rich. He just gave out that gold coin like it worth nothing, which means he probably has a lot more of them.'
With gun in you hand, you are thinking of robbing the old man for his wealth.
What is your next move?
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Shoot the old man.->Page 10 - 1 - 1]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Threaten the old man.->Page 10 - 1 - 3]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[['No I should not do this'->Page 10 - 2]]
(link-undo:"Back")Starting the second day, you start living in this house and begin finding food to trade with the old man.
The old man asks for a specific kind of food every day.
For the first day, he asked you to find him apples from the forest.
For the second day, he asked you to find him rabbits from the forest.
For the third day, he asked you to find him pigs from the forest.
Surprisingly, you successfully find all of these inside the forest.
Now you have some gold coins, do you want to continue trading?
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"flicker")[[yes->Continue Trading]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"flicker")[[NO->Stop Trading]]
(link-undo:"Back")(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[["Sure thing. Here, take this"->Page 10]]
(link-undo:"Back")You have once read this story on a news paper. There was one robber who tried to rob a rich famlily in a forest. During his action, the entire house accidentally caught on fire. The family successfully escaped from the burning house, but the robber is buried under the ruins forever. The forest near by miraculously did not lit up on fire.
(if:$End7 is true)[[["Are you the robber that died in fire 10 years ago?"->Ending true end]]]
(link-undo:"Back")"Of course you can. Here, come on in."
The old man gladly invite you into the house, and let you sleep in a room on the second floor. The room is suprisingly clean, and you feel safe staying in that room.
After a night of sleep, you wake up inside the tent you set up outside the forest.
You reach down your pocket, finding an ancient gold coin in it.
"When did I got this?"
You look at your phone and see the date shown on there.
"Wait... when did I came here to camp?"
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"I guess you have found it out." Said the old man.
"So you have never died from the fire? How is this building not burnt down?" You asked.
"I have died from the fire, but I have become a part of this house because of the fire." The old man explained, with a great patient, "My obsession with the treasure in this house has kept me from transmigrating, and I prevented the house from burning down completely. However, I have had enough suffering in this world. The damage caused by the fire is constantly hurting me even when I am no longer human. It is time for me to end suffering. In my next life, I do not want to be a robber any more."
The old man asks you to bring the gold coin that he has given you outside the forest. As you finished doing that, the old man has entered transmigration again, and the house in the woods has disappeared.
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(link-undo:"Back")You shoot the old man as he is turning around, and he collapsed onto the ground. After finding nothing on the old man's body, you step into the house, trying to find the place that keeps all his wealth.
You eventually find an open bag of gold coins lying on the ground. As you bend over to reach the bag, a piece of wooden beam drops straight onto your back. Your whole body is filled with pain, and you lost the ability to move around temporarily. Suddenly, you feel the heat coming from the opened door. The building is caught on fire for some reason, and you cannot escape from it.
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(link-undo:"Back")You keep trading with the old man, but things are not going in a right direction.
The old man start to ask for some weird stuff for foods. Ants, bat wings, and spider legs, these requests makes you very uncomfortable.
As you decide to end your trade with the old man, he made his final request: a human heart.
As the old man made his final request, a new traveler is coming nearby.
You decide to:
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Kill the old man and run away. ->Kill old man]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Kill the traveler to obtain heart.->Kill traveler]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Warn the traveler to go away from here.->Warn traveler]]
(t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")[[Reject the old man and try to leave..->Try to Run]]
(link-undo:"Back")You think that you have earned enough profits from the old man, thus decide to leave the forest.
As you stepped outside the forest, you lost consciousness under extreme hunger. Before you fall, you had the illusion of seeing the forest on fire.
When you wake up again, you are in the hospital. The "Gold Coins" that was once in your pocket become rock pieces, and it happens to be that you have starved the exact same days as you stayed inside the forest. Everything you have eaten there is not real.
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(link-undo:"Back")You try to kill the old man. As you land your shot on him, the old man lits up on fire, but he can still move. You keep shooting at him, but it does not seem to be working.
You throw the gun away and try to run. However, the second that you try to turn around, you feel yourself on fire. When you look up, the person in front of you is wearing the exact same clothing as you. Pain caused by the fire has driven you insane. Before you lost consciousness, you realized that it was "you" that was in front of you.
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(link-undo:"Back")You decide to kill the new traveler to obtain the human heart.
You first went hiding in the woods, and then you heard the traveler trying to make you go away.
You faked leaving this place, sneaked to the back of the traveler, and, without any hesitation, sliced the neck of the new traveler.
After doing so, you see the old man walking out of his house.
You try to tell him that you have got the human heart that he wanted, but you find that you cannot speak anymore.
When you touch your neck, a deep cut is there. Blood is flooding out the artery on your neck.
Redness is the last color you see, and regret is the last feeling you felt.
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(link-undo:"Back")You yell at the new traveler, trying to get him away from this place.
As the new traveler disappear, you thought the new traveler has left.
As you are thinking of the next step to take, you feel something cold slicing through your neck.
You falls to the groud.
Redness is the last color you see, and regret is the last feeling you felt.
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(link-undo:"Back")You decide to run away.
You picked a direction in the forest and kept running. However, even though you have felt like you have been going in a straight line, you somehow always ended up around the old man's house.
Desperation begins to grow in your mind.
When you became exhausted, you caught a creature in your eyesight.
That creature wears the same clothing as the old man.
The creature comes closer to you.
The forest becomes quiet again.
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(link-undo:"Back")You try to threaten the old man with your gun.
The old man did not respond to your threat.
You become angry, trying to shoot his leg to let him listen to him. However, the gun exploded when you try to do that. It was a big explosion.
Unfortunately, you held the gun too close to your face.
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