HappyBoulder2 wrote:

STOP BEING HAPPY, OUR WORLD IS MESSED UP AND STUPID

cs156175 wrote:

“Bye! See you later!” Says your boss cheerfully. It’s the last day of work before vacation at VT industries, a picturesque building with rising walls, each floor organized in more or less the same way, only shaped by the people who work in them. It’s thankfully right outside of your neighborhood, which is a straight road culminating in a little round area. Each house looks mostly the same. You live at home, and go to work every morning (except vacation, of course).
To the left of your house are your old neighbors who leave their Halloween decorations up for the entire year and love to chase kids who get on their lawn. To their left is the house of the socially awkward guy who you’re friends with outside of work. The three houses to your right are Bob, Tom, and Billy, three of your friends from work.
You pay the bills. Everything is fine. You can’t imagine it being better, in fact.
As you open your door after stepping over your perfectly groomed lawn with bushes lining the edges, something catches your eye. This isn’t how it goes every day. You feel a bit of shock but get over it quickly.
There’s a cloaked figure on the sidewalk. It’s impossible to see their face. They don’t fit with what you’ve come to expect of the neighborhood.

• Try to follow the mysterious figure.
  

• Go inside and treat it like a normal day.
  

o-Berryfrost-o wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

“Bye! See you later!” Says your boss cheerfully. It’s the last day of work before vacation at VT industries, a picturesque building with rising walls, each floor organized in more or less the same way, only shaped by the people who work in them. It’s thankfully right outside of your neighborhood, which is a straight road culminating in a little round area. Each house looks mostly the same. You live at home, and go to work every morning (except vacation, of course).
To the left of your house are your old neighbors who leave their Halloween decorations up for the entire year and love to chase kids who get on their lawn. To their left is the house of the socially awkward guy who you’re friends with outside of work. The three houses to your right are Bob, Tom, and Billy, three of your friends from work.
You pay the bills. Everything is fine. You can’t imagine it being better, in fact.
As you open your door after stepping over your perfectly groomed lawn with bushes lining the edges, something catches your eye. This isn’t how it goes every day. You feel a bit of shock but get over it quickly.
There’s a cloaked figure on the sidewalk. It’s impossible to see their face. They don’t fit with what you’ve come to expect of the neighborhood.

• Try to follow the mysterious figure.
  

• Go inside and treat it like a normal day.
  

Go inside and treat it like a normal day.

• Bedroom
  

• Living Room
  

• Kitchen
  

• Back outside
  

cs156175 wrote:

o-Berryfrost-o wrote:

-snip-

You contemplate for a second and step inside the house. To your left is your living room. To the right is your kitchen. Straight ahead is the door to your bedroom and bathroom. Nothing has changed, as usual. The images you have with your family (A mother, a father, and one sibling) still sit on the mantelpiece next to your TV.
You’re officially on vacation!
Now, you must decide where to go.

• Bedroom
  

• Living Room
  

• Kitchen
  

• Back outside
  

cheese-duck wrote:

HappyBoulder2 wrote:

STOP BEING HAPPY, OUR WORLD IS MESSED UP AND STUPID

BUT EVERYTHING IS RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS

Edit: “high i'm damien maymdien and i know what you're probably going to ask me. i've heard it a hundred times, people come up to me and they say, ‘hey damien, why is everything so dumb and stupid?’”

HappyBoulder2 wrote:

cheese-duck wrote:

HappyBoulder2 wrote:

STOP BEING HAPPY, OUR WORLD IS MESSED UP AND STUPID

BUT EVERYTHING IS RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS

Edit: “high i'm damien maymdien and i know what you're probably going to ask me. i've heard it a hundred times, people come up to me and they say, ‘hey damien, why is everything so dumb and stupid?’”

RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS ARE STUPID

cs156175 wrote:

“Bye! See you later!” Says your boss cheerfully. It’s the last day of work before vacation at VT industries, a picturesque building with rising walls, each floor organized in more or less the same way, only shaped by the people who work in them. It’s thankfully right outside of your neighborhood, which is a straight road culminating in a little round area. Each house looks mostly the same. You live at home, and go to work every morning (except vacation, of course).
To the left of your house are your old neighbors who leave their Halloween decorations up for the entire year and love to chase kids who get on their lawn. To their left is the house of the socially awkward guy who you’re friends with outside of work. The three houses to your right are Bob, Tom, and Billy, three of your friends from work.
You pay the bills. Everything is fine. You can’t imagine it being better, in fact.
As you open your door after stepping over your perfectly groomed lawn with bushes lining the edges, something catches your eye. This isn’t how it goes every day. You feel a bit of shock but get over it quickly.
There’s a cloaked figure on the sidewalk. It’s impossible to see their face. They don’t fit with what you’ve come to expect of the neighborhood.

• Try to follow the mysterious figure.
  

• Go inside and treat it like a normal day.
  

Digby Wolfson
Donko Patterson
Echo Meowson
Elsa Snowson
Louisa Johnson

TheRealNetherBefore wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

o-Berryfrost-o wrote:

-snip-

You contemplate for a second and step inside the house. To your left is your living room. To the right is your kitchen. Straight ahead is the door to your bedroom and bathroom. Nothing has changed, as usual. The images you have with your family (A mother, a father, and one sibling) still sit on the mantelpiece next to your TV.
You’re officially on vacation!
Now, you must decide where to go.

• Bedroom
  

• Living Room
  

• Kitchen
  

• Back outside
  

Back outside

• Actually, this is a bad idea. Go back inside.
  

• Chase after the mysterious cloaked figure.
  

• Sit in the sun out on your porch.
  

cs156175 wrote:

TheRealNetherBefore wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

o-Berryfrost-o wrote:

-snip-

You contemplate for a second and step inside the house. To your left is your living room. To the right is your kitchen. Straight ahead is the door to your bedroom and bathroom. Nothing has changed, as usual. The images you have with your family (A mother, a father, and one sibling) still sit on the mantelpiece next to your TV.
You’re officially on vacation!
Now, you must decide where to go.

• Bedroom
  

• Living Room
  

• Kitchen
  

• Back outside
  

Back outside

Immediately after stepping inside, you turn around and step back outside. It hardly even crosses your mind that this is an unusual decision. Maybe you turned back around because you did a double take at the strange figure. Maybe it was your subconscious. Maybe it was a choice made for you. Maybe you just realized that a vacation is better spent out in the sun than in the house.
Either way, the figure is still there, creating quite a contrast to your happy, bright neighborhood. You squint, but no other features seem to be visible, aside from the darkness and the hood. Something feels wrong here…
You shrug and look to your left, a compulsion you often have but never consider unusual. Now you stand on your wooden porch.
What now?

• Actually, this is a bad idea. Go back inside.
  

• Chase after the mysterious cloaked figure.
  

• Sit in the sun out on your porch.
  

Blobfish993 wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

“Bye! See you later!” Says your boss cheerfully. It’s the last day of work before vacation at VT industries, a picturesque building with rising walls, each floor organized in more or less the same way, only shaped by the people who work in them. It’s thankfully right outside of your neighborhood, which is a straight road culminating in a little round area. Each house looks mostly the same. You live at home, and go to work every morning (except vacation, of course).
To the left of your house are your old neighbors who leave their Halloween decorations up for the entire year and love to chase kids who get on their lawn. To their left is the house of the socially awkward guy who you’re friends with outside of work. The three houses to your right are Bob, Tom, and Billy, three of your friends from work.
You pay the bills. Everything is fine. You can’t imagine it being better, in fact.
As you open your door after stepping over your perfectly groomed lawn with bushes lining the edges, something catches your eye. This isn’t how it goes every day. You feel a bit of shock but get over it quickly.
There’s a cloaked figure on the sidewalk. It’s impossible to see their face. They don’t fit with what you’ve come to expect of the neighborhood.

• Try to follow the mysterious figure.
  

• Go inside and treat it like a normal day.
  

Try to follow the mysterious figure.

• Keep chasing. She’s trying to fake you out.
  

• Stop and walk to her instead of running.
  

• Wave to Tom and get him to help you chase her.
  

Ryasis wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

TheRealNetherBefore wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

o-Berryfrost-o wrote:

-snip-

You contemplate for a second and step inside the house. To your left is your living room. To the right is your kitchen. Straight ahead is the door to your bedroom and bathroom. Nothing has changed, as usual. The images you have with your family (A mother, a father, and one sibling) still sit on the mantelpiece next to your TV.
You’re officially on vacation!
Now, you must decide where to go.

• Bedroom
  

• Living Room
  

• Kitchen
  

• Back outside
  

Back outside

Immediately after stepping inside, you turn around and step back outside. It hardly even crosses your mind that this is an unusual decision. Maybe you turned back around because you did a double take at the strange figure. Maybe it was your subconscious. Maybe it was a choice made for you. Maybe you just realized that a vacation is better spent out in the sun than in the house.
Either way, the figure is still there, creating quite a contrast to your happy, bright neighborhood. You squint, but no other features seem to be visible, aside from the darkness and the hood. Something feels wrong here…
You shrug and look to your left, a compulsion you often have but never consider unusual. Now you stand on your wooden porch.
What now?

• Actually, this is a bad idea. Go back inside.
  

• Chase after the mysterious cloaked figure.
  

• Sit in the sun out on your porch.
  

Chase after the mysterious cloaked figure.

ADVENTURE! though we may get murderured

• Keep chasing. She’s trying to fake you out.
  

• Stop and walk to her instead of running.
  

• Wave to Tom and get him to help you chase her.
  

cs156175 wrote:

Ryasis wrote:

-snip-
ADVENTURE! though we may get murderured

You bolt after them. They don’t run away. This is a lot more of a distance than you expected. You’re beginning to feel a little tired. One of your friends opens his door, sees you, and stands in shock. It’s probably Tom. Tom stares at you before taking a step out of the door. Does he aim to follow you? It doesn’t matter. You keep running. Suddenly, the mysterious figure puts a hand to their mouth and begins to speak loudly. “HEY, BUDDY!” She yells. “I’m not going anywhere!”
You’re almost there but it’s getting a bit tiring and you don’t want another option to pop into the mix.

• Keep chasing. She’s trying to fake you out.
  

• Stop and walk to her instead of running.
  

• Wave to Tom and get him to help you chase her.
  

cs156175 wrote:

Blobfish993 wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

“Bye! See you later!” Says your boss cheerfully. It’s the last day of work before vacation at VT industries, a picturesque building with rising walls, each floor organized in more or less the same way, only shaped by the people who work in them. It’s thankfully right outside of your neighborhood, which is a straight road culminating in a little round area. Each house looks mostly the same. You live at home, and go to work every morning (except vacation, of course).
To the left of your house are your old neighbors who leave their Halloween decorations up for the entire year and love to chase kids who get on their lawn. To their left is the house of the socially awkward guy who you’re friends with outside of work. The three houses to your right are Bob, Tom, and Billy, three of your friends from work.
You pay the bills. Everything is fine. You can’t imagine it being better, in fact.
As you open your door after stepping over your perfectly groomed lawn with bushes lining the edges, something catches your eye. This isn’t how it goes every day. You feel a bit of shock but get over it quickly.
There’s a cloaked figure on the sidewalk. It’s impossible to see their face. They don’t fit with what you’ve come to expect of the neighborhood.

• Try to follow the mysterious figure.
  

• Go inside and treat it like a normal day.
  

Try to follow the mysterious figure.

You bolt after them. They don’t run away. This is a lot more of a distance than you expected. You’re beginning to feel a little tired. One of your friends opens his door, sees you, and stands in shock. It’s probably Tom. Tom stares at you before taking a step out of the door. Does he aim to follow you? It doesn’t matter. You keep running. Suddenly, the mysterious figure puts a hand to their mouth and begins to speak loudly. “HEY, BUDDY!” She yells. “I’m not going anywhere!”
You’re almost there but it’s getting a bit tiring and you don’t want another option to pop into the mix.

• Keep chasing. She’s trying to fake you out.
  

• Stop and walk to her instead of running.
  

• Wave to Tom and get him to help you chase her.
  

Blobfish993 wrote:

HappyBoulder2 wrote:

cheese-duck wrote:

HappyBoulder2 wrote:

STOP BEING HAPPY, OUR WORLD IS MESSED UP AND STUPID

BUT EVERYTHING IS RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS

Edit: “high i'm damien maymdien and i know what you're probably going to ask me. i've heard it a hundred times, people come up to me and they say, ‘hey damien, why is everything so dumb and stupid?’”

RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS ARE STUPID

Excuse me, unicorns are the national animal of Scotland, and I am from Scotland. Mynheer, you are in the wrong. Scotland pride! Scotland power!

Ryasis wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

Ryasis wrote:

-snip-
ADVENTURE! though we may get murderured

You bolt after them. They don’t run away. This is a lot more of a distance than you expected. You’re beginning to feel a little tired. One of your friends opens his door, sees you, and stands in shock. It’s probably Tom. Tom stares at you before taking a step out of the door. Does he aim to follow you? It doesn’t matter. You keep running. Suddenly, the mysterious figure puts a hand to their mouth and begins to speak loudly. “HEY, BUDDY!” She yells. “I’m not going anywhere!”
You’re almost there but it’s getting a bit tiring and you don’t want another option to pop into the mix.

• Keep chasing. She’s trying to fake you out.
  

• Stop and walk to her instead of running.
  

• Wave to Tom and get him to help you chase her.
  

Wave to Tom

• Look in your hand.
  

• Ask her where she’s going.
  

• Ask her what it is.
  

Blobfish993 wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

Blobfish993 wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

“Bye! See you later!” Says your boss cheerfully. It’s the last day of work before vacation at VT industries, a picturesque building with rising walls, each floor organized in more or less the same way, only shaped by the people who work in them. It’s thankfully right outside of your neighborhood, which is a straight road culminating in a little round area. Each house looks mostly the same. You live at home, and go to work every morning (except vacation, of course).
To the left of your house are your old neighbors who leave their Halloween decorations up for the entire year and love to chase kids who get on their lawn. To their left is the house of the socially awkward guy who you’re friends with outside of work. The three houses to your right are Bob, Tom, and Billy, three of your friends from work.
You pay the bills. Everything is fine. You can’t imagine it being better, in fact.
As you open your door after stepping over your perfectly groomed lawn with bushes lining the edges, something catches your eye. This isn’t how it goes every day. You feel a bit of shock but get over it quickly.
There’s a cloaked figure on the sidewalk. It’s impossible to see their face. They don’t fit with what you’ve come to expect of the neighborhood.

• Try to follow the mysterious figure.
  

• Go inside and treat it like a normal day.
  

Try to follow the mysterious figure.

You bolt after them. They don’t run away. This is a lot more of a distance than you expected. You’re beginning to feel a little tired. One of your friends opens his door, sees you, and stands in shock. It’s probably Tom. Tom stares at you before taking a step out of the door. Does he aim to follow you? It doesn’t matter. You keep running. Suddenly, the mysterious figure puts a hand to their mouth and begins to speak loudly. “HEY, BUDDY!” She yells. “I’m not going anywhere!”
You’re almost there but it’s getting a bit tiring and you don’t want another option to pop into the mix.

• Keep chasing. She’s trying to fake you out.
  

• Stop and walk to her instead of running.
  

• Wave to Tom and get him to help you chase her.
  

Keep chasing.

• “What is this? Who are you?”
  

• “Oh, thanks.”
  

• Stay in silence.
  

cs156175 wrote:

Ryasis wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

Ryasis wrote:

-snip-
ADVENTURE! though we may get murderured

You bolt after them. They don’t run away. This is a lot more of a distance than you expected. You’re beginning to feel a little tired. One of your friends opens his door, sees you, and stands in shock. It’s probably Tom. Tom stares at you before taking a step out of the door. Does he aim to follow you? It doesn’t matter. You keep running. Suddenly, the mysterious figure puts a hand to their mouth and begins to speak loudly. “HEY, BUDDY!” She yells. “I’m not going anywhere!”
You’re almost there but it’s getting a bit tiring and you don’t want another option to pop into the mix.

• Keep chasing. She’s trying to fake you out.
  

• Stop and walk to her instead of running.
  

• Wave to Tom and get him to help you chase her.
  

Wave to Tom

Mid exciting chase, you stop and beckon Tom. In a second he’s running after you two. You slowly start walking and when he catches up to you you’re both running towards the figure. She isn’t moving at all, which is unusual because why wouldn’t you be moving if two neighborhood people were chasing after you? Anyways, Tom outruns you and hits the figure. This knocks both of them over. For a second, you can see the figure’s eyes. They’re blue, but not the perfect bright blue you see around town. Instead, something about her eyes is more deep, more dark, and less saturated. But before you can gaze into this total stranger’s eyes, she pulls the hood back on. This should have ended weirdly but it didn’t. An anticlimactic getting up? No witty one-liner from any of you? Unusual indeed. And you find yourself unable to think of anything clever to say. That’s weird. Why would you need to? You question your affinity for funny answers. Who exactly have you been trying to make laugh all this time?
“Wow, you’re still! If you hadn’t been standing there I wouldn’t have run into you!” Says Tom to the figure.
“Yes.” She replies.
No witty comeback.
“Anyways, I must be going”, she mumbles. You expect something exciting to happen. Nothing does. She puts her hand over yours and drops something into it. No punchline. She makes you uncomfortable.

• Look in your hand.
  

• Ask her where she’s going.
  

• Ask her what it is.
  

cs156175 wrote:

Ryasis wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

Ryasis wrote:

-snip-
ADVENTURE! though we may get murderured

You bolt after them. They don’t run away. This is a lot more of a distance than you expected. You’re beginning to feel a little tired. One of your friends opens his door, sees you, and stands in shock. It’s probably Tom. Tom stares at you before taking a step out of the door. Does he aim to follow you? It doesn’t matter. You keep running. Suddenly, the mysterious figure puts a hand to their mouth and begins to speak loudly. “HEY, BUDDY!” She yells. “I’m not going anywhere!”
You’re almost there but it’s getting a bit tiring and you don’t want another option to pop into the mix.

• Keep chasing. She’s trying to fake you out.
  

• Stop and walk to her instead of running.
  

• Wave to Tom and get him to help you chase her.
  

Wave to Tom

Mid exciting chase, you stop and beckon Tom. In a second he’s running after you two. You slowly start walking and when he catches up to you you’re both running towards the figure. She isn’t moving at all, which is unusual because why wouldn’t you be moving if two neighborhood people were chasing after you? Anyways, Tom outruns you and hits the figure. This knocks both of them over. For a second, you can see the figure’s eyes. They’re blue, but not the perfect bright blue you see around town. Instead, something about her eyes is more deep, more dark, and less saturated. But before you can gaze into this total stranger’s eyes, she pulls the hood back on. This should have ended weirdly but it didn’t. An anticlimactic getting up? No witty one-liner from any of you? Unusual indeed. And you find yourself unable to think of anything clever to say. That’s weird. Why would you need to? You question your affinity for funny answers. Who exactly have you been trying to make laugh all this time?
“Wow, you’re still! If you hadn’t been standing there I wouldn’t have run into you!” Says Tom to the figure.
“Yes.” She replies.
No witty comeback.
“Anyways, I must be going”, she mumbles. You expect something exciting to happen. Nothing does. She puts her hand over yours and drops something into it. No punchline. She makes you uncomfortable.

• Look in your hand.
  

• Ask her where she’s going.
  

• Ask her what it is.
  

cheese-duck wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

Ryasis wrote:

cs156175 wrote:

Ryasis wrote:

-snip-
ADVENTURE! though we may get murderured

You bolt after them. They don’t run away. This is a lot more of a distance than you expected. You’re beginning to feel a little tired. One of your friends opens his door, sees you, and stands in shock. It’s probably Tom. Tom stares at you before taking a step out of the door. Does he aim to follow you? It doesn’t matter. You keep running. Suddenly, the mysterious figure puts a hand to their mouth and begins to speak loudly. “HEY, BUDDY!” She yells. “I’m not going anywhere!”
You’re almost there but it’s getting a bit tiring and you don’t want another option to pop into the mix.

• Keep chasing. She’s trying to fake you out.
  

• Stop and walk to her instead of running.
  

• Wave to Tom and get him to help you chase her.
  

Wave to Tom

Mid exciting chase, you stop and beckon Tom. In a second he’s running after you two. You slowly start walking and when he catches up to you you’re both running towards the figure. She isn’t moving at all, which is unusual because why wouldn’t you be moving if two neighborhood people were chasing after you? Anyways, Tom outruns you and hits the figure. This knocks both of them over. For a second, you can see the figure’s eyes. They’re blue, but not the perfect bright blue you see around town. Instead, something about her eyes is more deep, more dark, and less saturated. But before you can gaze into this total stranger’s eyes, she pulls the hood back on. This should have ended weirdly but it didn’t. An anticlimactic getting up? No witty one-liner from any of you? Unusual indeed. And you find yourself unable to think of anything clever to say. That’s weird. Why would you need to? You question your affinity for funny answers. Who exactly have you been trying to make laugh all this time?
“Wow, you’re still! If you hadn’t been standing there I wouldn’t have run into you!” Says Tom to the figure.
“Yes.” She replies.
No witty comeback.
“Anyways, I must be going”, she mumbles. You expect something exciting to happen. Nothing does. She puts her hand over yours and drops something into it. No punchline. She makes you uncomfortable.

• Look in your hand.
  

• Ask her where she’s going.
  

• Ask her what it is.
  

Look in my hand.

(Is this going to go full on “plot twist you live in a dystopian society”?)

• “That laughing! Tom! Didn’t you hear it?”
  

• “…Nothing.”
  

• “I’m sorry, I must be hearing things. I need a break.”