Choose-Your-Path Story
This was clogging up the Books in Progress thread, so we’ve transplanted it here. Choose away!
Date: September 24, 2009
Categories: Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction, RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs
Friday, 26 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
This was clogging up the Books in Progress thread, so we’ve transplanted it here. Choose away!
Date: September 24, 2009
Categories: Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction, RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs
Thanks GAPA’s! This is a really fun idea!
Do we get more, I-Man?
-A
Cool!
You walk outside after a nap to find everthing burn, and dead bodies everywhere. You see a mushroom cloud in the distance. Next you….
A) run and scream
B) kill yourself
C) turn your house into a bunker
D) go search for survivers
I would turn my house into a bunker.
C).
First I’d do A), then I’d finish up with C).
First A, then D, and if that was unsucsessful, C.
SFTHDP
I forgot to mention the zombies walking in the distance.
I meant everything is burned.
No more clogging! *celebration*
Right, this is looking like a PoPo, so I’ll add to mas0n’s to keep it from that fate.
Hm…
Am I allowed to set fire to Barney and send him into the swarm of zombies? Please?
6 –
2 – After my class, I’ll post some more.
E) set Barney and/or Teletubbies on fire and fed them to zombies
((I chose E.))
Yay! I choose E too.
Probably C or D. If I can see the cloud, wouldn’t I already be dead/dying/sick?
YES!!! I love Choose Your Own Adventure!
If you were house was surrounded by zombie would you:
a) Make a last stand
c) Try to hide
c) Pretend to already be a zombie
d) Kill yourself
A)
C)
C, and if that did’nt work, A.
What weapons would I have for the last stand?
B. If that didn’t work, C, and if that didn’t work, either, A.
C
on mas0n’s story – E.
Continuing my story:
You start walking and soon come across an old man. He looks like the wise, prophet type – bald except for some white hair around his ears, a ragged robe, sitting cross-legged. He stares at you. Do you:
A) keep walking in the direction you were walking
B) hit him with a rock from your slingshot
C) walk in a different direction
D) attempt to talk to him
E) sit down and stare back at him
D)
D), if that doesn’t work, E)
D
D.
E.
E), and after I got bored of that (which I would), D).
E. O.O
In this order: B, E, D.
E. I enjoy staring at people….O.o
B)
It would fun to hit him and run.
You get home after a long day at school and decide you want to do nothing but watch television. You turn on the TV and the only channel that is accessible is 24/7 Hannah Montana mania. You…
a) Keep watching and wait for it to end.
b) Keep watching and ENJOY it.
c) Get mad and pace the room, wondering how best to spend your time otherwise (not homework, surely!)
d) Set your television on fire using the nearest can of gasoline and a match.
e) March straight to the nearest television station and demand they play something better.
f) Turn it off at once and do your homework.
F! F! Death to Hannah Montana! (No offense)
Anyway, that’s what I usually do.
F.
F)
I don’t really watch TV anyway.
D. Then E. Then F.
D.
F, definitely.
D)
First E, then C, then F
You attempt to talk to the old man, asking, “Who are you? Where are we?” He says nothing in response, still just quietly staring at you. Do you:
A) keep walking in the direction you were walking
B) hit him with a rock from your slingshot
C) walk in a different direction
D) attempt to talk to him again
E) sit down and stare quietly at him
A. I’m impatient.
E, again.
E. Have a staring contest. That souds like a plan.
E. Totally.
E!
A.
E., most definetetely.
I would choose E again
I-Man’s Story: E.
Agrrrfishi’s: F
I suppose I will start one of these as well. I’ll come on the blog every afternoon and see how many votes for a particular path there are. The most votes wins! If there are no votes after a 24-hour period, then the first person to post gets their pick of where the story goes. Please make use of the “reply” button so I can get your vote easily. Enjoy.
You are sitting in your bedroom with your laptop on your lap. You are chatting with one of your friends on your favorite social networking site. Just as you are about to type “lol yeah i loved that movie 2” You hear a loud cracking sound outside, like something large had snapped in two. Do you:
A) Type “lol yeah i loved that movie 2”
B) Move to the closet and proceed with your social networking
C) Power off your laptop, leave it on the bed, and run outside to see what’s going on
D) Take your laptop with you outside to see what’s going on
E) Yell for mom
I wouldn’t, because I wouldn’t type that. I might type, ‘Oh, I loved that movie too’ but not that.
Okay, okay, fine.
D.
E)
B, and if I hear somethign else, E.
C, then E
D.
D it is.
You shut your laptop and hurry out the front door. Your mother and a few of the other neighbors are already outside staring in horror at the wreckage.
A large tree has cracked in half (vertically) and one half has fallen on your neighbor’s house, crushing the better part of what was once a home. The other half still stands, but it could fall at any second.
You show the same horror as your mother for a few seconds as you stare at the splinters of wood and shards of glass. No signs of life are to be seen, and you know the neighbors were home before the disaster becuase there is a somewhat dented car parked in their driveway. Your mother begins to dial 911. Do you:
A) Open your laptop and attempt to instant message your neighbor
B) Try to find your neighbor in the wreakage
C) Investigate the remaining half of the tree
D) Call a tree removal company to handle both halves of the tree
E) Stare some more
A).
B.
A, if that doesn’t work, B, then, D, then, C
A)
E:
You sit down and stare at the man. After about ten minutes, he says, “Hmmmmm…. yes, yes…. ah! I see!”
He stands up and beckons for you to follow him. You follow him through the jungle to a temple in a clearing. Inside, there are more men and women who look like him. One of them with a different colored shirt – probably the leader – steps forward and says, “We have been waiting for you, Chosen One.”
“There is a dragon who lives in a cave a few miles from here. To appease him and keep our village safe from total destruction, we must sacrifice one person every year. Before he died, our oracle prophesied that a Chosen One would come to this jungle, meet us, and vanquish the dragon. Will you follow your destiny?”
Do you:
A) Accept the quest
B) Decline the quest
A. Why not?
A
A. I hope we get some valuable weapons to fight with!
A. Sounds cool. Kill the dragon!!!
I don’t want a destiny! I just got here!
B.
A. This could lead to an adventure! I like adventures…
If you don’t mind me asking, how does this thread work?
Hm …
This seems interesting. Yes, how does this work?
FYI, MBers: these single-letter comments keep ending up in the spam bin, so you might consider elaborating slightly upon your choices.
Can we just make some up? Like, it doesn’t have to relate to any of the other stories?
20-E, then A, assuming I have a laptop. If not, C, then after stabilizing the tree, B.
23 and 23.1 – You can come here to post choose-your-path stories that you’ve written, and make choices on other people’s stories.
24.1 – You mean, your own story? Sure!
A.
You sit on the sidewalk and open your laptop. The instant message program is still up, and you can see that your neigbor’s status is online. You type “r u ok????” in and press “send.”
While you are waiting for a response, your mother talks with a 911 person. She’s telling them your neigbor’s address…
*ding*
A new message pops up. It’s from your neighbor, a 13 year old girl. She still has internet because she steals your wireless.
“yeah… what happend????”
“a TREE fell on ur house!!!!”
“how do I get out?????”
“were r u?”
“my room… idk if my parents are ok… how could this happen?”
Your neighbor’s room (you can tell because you’ve been in the house multiple times) is one of the few parts of the house that weren’t crushed. You can easily get in via a window.
“dont worry,” you type. “the cops are comin your gonna b alright.”
“what if my parents are dead???”
Do you:
A) Continue to console her and wait for the police to arrive
B) Go and find her youself.
C) Call the tree removal company while consoling her
((Note: She can’t get out through the window because she’s in major shock. Just wanted to make that clear.))
Choice A)
C) Call the tree removal company while consoling her.
It’s a tie! First post after this message gets their choice!
B!
C, then.
D. Mess up the story!
A on my story:
You agree to try and go defeat the dragon. They tell you which direction to go in, and also about someone who could help you. Shortly before you arrived, they sent someone with the village’s talisman to see if it could help defeat the dragon. You set out in that direction.
Soon, you enter a clearing with a tree in the center. A girl/boy ((whichever you’d prefer *coughromancecough*)) is hanging on to the top of the tree, and a group of black panthers are at the base, staring hungrily up at him/her. He/she sees you and cries out, “Help!” The panthers don’t notice. Do you:
A) Say, “Not my problem, kid” and keep walking
B) Fight the panthers
C) Distract the panthers
C)
26- A)
You are sitting at in your room, when suddenly, you hear a very loud, very annoying sound. Do you:
A) Ignore it.
B) Find out what it is.
C) Put a pillow over your head and whimper piteously.
or D) Yell at your little/big brother/sister to KNOCK IT OFF!!!!
E) All off the above, in the order C, B, D, then A.
Sorry kitty, since you didn’t reply to my comment, I didn’t see your vote.
For your story, D.
B) Fight the panthers
C. Fighting the panthers might end up being pretty useless.
C. Fighting the panthers would probably get me pulverized.
C)
Piggy’s choice: B.
You start to cross the street to the neigbor’s house. Your mother calls:
“Hey! What do you think you’re doing?”
“I’m going in to find Kristi.”
“You can’t do that! It’s too dangerous!”
“Mom! She needs help. She’s really freaking out in there.”
“I’m not going to put you in danger. Stay right here with me. The police will arrive any minute now. They can help Kristi.”
You grumpily trudge back to the sidewalk. Your laptop has two new messages.
“ohmigodohmigodohmigod”
and
“are u still there??? dont leave me alone!!!!”
“im still here,” you type. “mom wont let me go in ur house”
“good i dont want u to get hurt”
“police r comin. i can hear them now”
The distant sound of sirens comes nearer and nearer until two ambulances, a police car, and a fire truck arrive at the scene. Amidst the flashing lights your mother informs the police officer what has happened and two paramedics go into the house through the window of Kristi’s bedroom.
“are u comin out?” you type.
“yeah ill see u in a bit”
The paramdics help Kristi out the window and walk her into one ambulance.
“My parents! They’re in the house!” You hear her yell. Policemen, paramedics, and firemen rush toward the house and start shifting through rubble.
Do you:
A) Go and talk to Kristi
B) Try to help look for Kristi’s parents
C) Call the tree removal company
A.
Update, tomorrow, sorry. I’m a bit tired right now.
You are drawing a picture of a HPB when you see a horse in your backyard. The horse is wearing a halter with no lead rope. Do you:
A) Call the police and/or animal control.
B) Try to catch the horse.
C) Stand outside and see if the horse comes to you.
D) Ignore it.
(Could I add another answer? Because none of those are what I would do.)
E) Wonder how a horse could be small enough to fit in your backyard.
(Sad, but true. Most of it is un-standable on rocks.)
C (and A while I’m waiting)
29 – C.
You pick up a dead bird that was lying near by, wave it at the panthers to get their attention, and throw it fifty yards away. They chase after it, and the boy/girl climbs down from the tree. He/she looks slightly younger and shorter than you, and (you note) kind of cute.
Do you:
A) Keep walking without him/her
B) Keep walking with him/her
C) Talk to him/her
C. He might say something worthwhile. Maybe he likes the Beatles! Then B.
C. He might be able to help me on the quest.
C, probably. Chances are my parents would A and someone would call our neigbor who is a little on the obsessed side about horses.
For most of the time I thought you were talking about post 30, and was so confused about the horse bit. Then I saw post 29.
I-man, Museblog has a gender-neutral pronoun. It is “en”. You can use it do describe the possible companion. C.
1. You are at you7r computer, on MuseBlog. Then, everything goes black. Do you:
A) Grope around for a light switch (Go to 2)
B) Yell loudly (Go to 12)
C) Just wait. (Go to 4)
2. You hand hits a wall. You find a light switch. You turn it on. There’s an HPB standing in front of you. Do you
A) Run like heck (5)
B) Stand there in terror (12)
C) Try to fight (6)
D) Try to communicate (7)
E) Hug it because it’s so cute (12)
4. You hear footsteps approaching. Do you
A) Wait (12)
B)Try to find a light switch (2)
5. You run, and the HPB chases after you. You come to a cliff.
Do you
A) Freeze, and slowly turn around (12)
B) Jump! (8)
C) Try to fight (6)
6. The HPB is clearly stronger than you. Do you
A) Run (5)
B) Give up (12)
C) Try to communicate (7)
7. You nervously make squeeking noises. The HPB freezes, and then makes some similar ones at you. Do you
A) Continue making squeaking noises (9)
B) Run (5)
C) Just stand there (12)
8. You see Kokopelli. Do you
A) Walk over (10)
B) Stand there (8)
C) Try to find ingredients for a pie (11)
9. The HPB looks incredibly offended. Do you
A)Run (5)
B)Stand there, still squeaking (12)
10. A pie flies at you, immobilizing you. You see the HPB fall off the same cliff you did. (12)
11. You are looking around for ingredients. You finish, and Kokopelli comes over, and challenges you. Do you
A) Pie him first, risking his anger (12)
B) Let him pie you first (10)
12. You are ripped to shreds. You die!
LOL. Whatever you do, you’re ripped to shreds eventually.
I made up a twisted, but morbidly funny one of these once. Let me see if I can find it.
You just had to tell everyone that. Thanks!
Well, technically at 8 you could repeatedly choose B… That’s what I’m going with.
That 8 at B was supposed to be 10. Sorry.
Escape From HPBs
1. You’re home alone, typing a long post on MuseBlog, when you hear a strange noise behind you.
A) Turn around to see what the noise is (2)
B) Ignore the noise (7)
C) Without turning around, throw your stapler behind you in the general direction of the noise (3)
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2. To your horror, it’s a platoon of HPBs. Bunnies fill your house, and they’re all moving slowly toward you. Soon you’re cornered, pressed up against a large window and holding only a stapler.
A) Throw the stapler to distract the bunnies, while you open the window and jump out (3)
B) Smash the window with the stapler, then jump out (4)
C) Try to defend yourself with the stapler (7)
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3. Desperately you throw the stapler, but it is no use against the hundreds of HPBs that attack you. You are messily devoured.
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4. Luckily you’re on the first story of your house, so you only fall a few feet. Unluckily, you hit your head and black out.
You wake up in a bunny dungeon, still clutching your stapler. The door is unlocked, but a single bunny is guarding it. A random towel lies on the floor.
A) Throw the stapler at the bunny to distract him while you run out (3)
B) Throw the towel over the bunny’s head to distract him while you run out (5)
C) Turn into Chuck Norris and kill the bunny with a roundhouse kick, then run out (6)
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5. The towel was perfect for distracting the bunny. You escape just in time – only to find yourself face-to-face with a horde of more bunnies!
A) Throw your handy-dandy stapler at them (3)
B) Turn into Chuck Norris and annihilate them all (6)
C) Try to make friends (7)
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6. There can be only one Chuck Norris. Your pitiful attempt to fight the Pink Side of the Force is nowhere near what Chuck Norris would have done. You are promptly bunnified.
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7. Resistance is useless. You are zombified by the HPBs.
I ended on 6. It’s better being a bunny than being dead!
Better Pink Than Dead!
3. Ouch.
1. You wake up one morning, to find that you are coughing like crazy. Luckily, both of your parents will be out today, leaving you home alone. What do you do first?
A. Go back to sleep. (2)
B. Grab your laptop and go on MuseBlog. (3)
C. Get out the ice cream! (9)
D. Stop your fake coughing. (9)
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2. You sleep the day away, uneventfully.
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3. You scroll down to the neophyte’s page, to find your neighbor, under the name “(YOU)’s neighbor”. En posted a warning that a giant, pink, ball of fur is right outside your door. You:
A. Ignore it. (2)
B. Post “I’ll go check it out.”(4)
C. Take a peek through the window… (4)
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4. The hot pink monstrosity leaps through the door and attacks you. You combat it with:
A. Your bare hands. (6)
B. The thermometer that was in your mouth. (8)
C. Nothing. You run away and hide. (5)
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5. While hiding in a closet to get away from the monstrous HPB, you come up with:
A. Your will. (6)
B. A plan … (10)
C. A broom, some Clorox Bleach, and some sheets. (10)
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6. There is no hope for you. You are devoured by the HPB.
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7. Yay! It’s gone!
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8. The muser gems on it are holding the thing at bay, but not for long. Interesting. What do you do?
A. Make a last stand (6)
B. Run away and hide. (5)
C. See how long it lasts… (14)
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9. After that, you hear the doorbell ring. What now?
A. Answer it. (6)
B. Hide in a closet (5)
C. Pretend no one is home. (2)
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10. With the items around you, you create HPB-proof weapons by licking everything. Now, what do you decide to do with it?
A. Battle the fiend, and somehow kill it. (12)
B. Run to the safety of your neighbor’s HPB-proofed house. (13)
C. Strategically shove it into a corner where your experimental HPB destructor is. (11)
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11. It’s cornered in the perfect spot, when it starts to bunnify you … what now?
A. RUN!!!! (6)
B. Get close enough to hit the HPB destructor button. (7)
C. Look at it quizzically. (12)
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12. You’re doomed. You die.
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13. You and your neighbor watch as HPBs take over the world.
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14. You’re running out of time! What do you do?
A. Hide in a closet (5)
B. Lick it again (8)
C. fight with your bare hands. (6)
Oops. I was just at the ball.
13. At least I live…
Happy Choose Your Own Path!
1. You wake up from a happy sleep to a happy morning. Do you:
A: Get up to enjoy your happy day! (2)
B: Go to sleep to enjoy your happy sleep! (3)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
2. You get up out of your happy bed, and put on some happy clothes. You happy mother comes in and happily tells you to happily go to school. Do you:
A: Happily go to school. (4)
B: Happily go back to bed. (3)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
3. You happily fall asleep. You’re fine the rest of the day.
4. You happily arrive at school, and everyone there is happy. Your teacher happily asks you to happily turn in your happy homework. Do you:
A: Happily turn it in (5)
B: Happily say “Sorry, I don’t have it.” (6)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
5. You happily go through the day, and are happy the rest of the day. You get home. Do you:
A: Go on happy MuseBlog (7)
B: Do your happy homework (8)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
6. “That’s ok.” says the teacher. You happily go through the day, and are happy the rest of the day. You get home. Do you:
A: Go on happy MuseBlog (7)
B: Happily do something else(8)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
7. You happily go onto happy MuseBlog, and the random thread is happily replaced by the happy thread. Do you:
A: Continue blogging (7)
B: Happily do something else. (8)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
8: You happily do your homework. When you finish, Do you:
A: Go on happy MuseBlog (7)
B: Go outside and play with your happy friends (9)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
9: You happily go outside and play a happy game of happy ball. Your team is close to happily loosing. Do you:
A: Happily play the best you can! (10)
B: Happily cheat (11)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
10: You happily play the best you can. Your team wins! Do you:
A: Go out for happy victory sodas (12)
B: Happily go to bed (3)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
11: You cheat, and your team wins! Do you:
A: Go out for happy victory sodas (12)
B: Happily go to bed (3)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
12: You and your happy friends go out for happy victory sodas. The happy waitress brings them to you. Do you:
A: Happily accept them (3)
B: Happily pretend to drink it (13)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
13: You happily watch while everyone else happily falls asleep. Do you:
A: Drink it to (3)
B: Leave it there, and go home (5)
C: Happily wonder why everything is happy. (14)
14: The world collapses, and you are left in a cavern with enormous HPBs. They rid you to shreds.
14. I guess I’m just paranoid. Hmph.
HAPP OVERLOAD!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! *explodes**pieces gather back up* Sorry ’bout that. Bleh, it’s still raining in PA. It’s been raining since last Thursday.
Now the word happy looks like gibberish!
Now I’m starting to forget what “happy” means. And I;ve been ridded to shreds by enormous HPBs!
C’mon, I-man! We’re waiting to hear what happens next in your story!
I’m T’INKIN’, I’m T’INKIN’!
Can I start one?
R101: Yes, of course!
This is to try and break the trend of ones that end in everyone’s demise:
1. You wake up one morning, and see that the sun is hot pink. Do you:
A: Go back to sleep (15)
B: Scream “Oh my God! HPBs!” (2)
C: Say “Cool! I love hot pink!” (3)
2. You see the sun is getting larger. Then, you realize it’s not the sun! It’s a giant bunny ship! Do you:
A: Hide under your covers, cowering and preparing for the attack. (14)
B: Arm your stereo with waltz music. (13)
C: Go outside to greet it. (4)
3. You realize the sun isn’t a sun, but something else. Do you:
A: Go outside to see what it is. (4)
B: Go back to sleep. (15)
4. The enormous pink thing lands. Out of it comes an HPB. Do you:
A: Try to attack it (5)
B: Attempt communication (6)
C: Hug it, because it’s so cute and fuzzy! (7)
5. You leap at it, but then the bunny says “Wait! Listen to us first!” Do you:
A: Yell “I’ll never listen to an evil bunny!” (12)
B: Listen (8)
6. You ask “Do you speak English?” The bunny says “Yes. We have come in peace.” Do you:
A: Say “Peace? Bunnies just want to kill bipeds, I thought.” (12)
B: Ask it to tell you more about itself. (8)
C: Run (14)
7. The bunny backs away, slightly scared. Do you:
A: Hug it again! (7)
B: Try and communicate (6)
8: The bunny says “We have been on the run from our ‘companion’ race. We are Niceus Goodieus. Will you help us?” Do you:
A: Call the president (11)
B: Show it MuseBlog (9)
C: Try and kill it. (12)
9: You and the other MuseBloggers agree to help them. Do you:
A: Have them hide in MuseBloggers’ houses (10)
B: Get the president involves (11)
10: The bunnies hide in MuseBloggers’ houses. The plan works! The evil bunnies never find the Niceus Goodieus!
11. You call, but the person just laughs and laughs.
12. The bunny says “I’m sorry, but you have shown us your species is not what we thought it would be. The invasion will start now.” and blasts you with it’s energy beam. You die!
13. Nothing happens. You waste the whole day listening to waltzes.
14. Nothing happens. You waste the whole day cowering and shaking.
15. You sleep the day away, uneventfully.
Alright, I’ll try one.
You wake up one morning and find you have the power to jump into the stories of books. You:
A) Jump into The Princess Bride
B) Jump into the Icemark Chronicles series
C) Jump into the Uglies series
D) Jump into The Wheel of Nuldoid
E) Say “That’s nice.” then turn around and go back to sleep.
H’mm…. I’ll have to go with E, as I always try to do these things realisticly.
Sorry.
Ung. I wanna jump into LOTR.
That would be an interesting CYP story. “You wake up inside of LOTR one day…” Hm. Might just have to do that.
Sorry, I had to use books I’ve actually read.
True. A, then. I’d want to jump into a book I’ve read too.
A.
A. I ♥ Wesley. He’s awesome!!!
C. Whee! Hoverboards!
OK, three people said A so I’ll go with that.
You jump into The Princess Bride right as Inigo is threatening a man with too many fingers on one hand. You hear him say: “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Do you:
A) Distract them both by yelling “Inconceivable!”
B) Find a random dagger on the ground and help Inigo.
C) Find the aforementioned dagger and help the many-fingered man.
D) Yell “As you wish!” and fight Dread Pirate Roberts style, killing them both.
E) Quietly walk away.
D. Kill them both!
E, I think. I wouldn’t want to mess up the storyline.
E. I respect storylines.
B. The guy w/ too many fingers is creepy. Or A. That wod be wierd weird.
A or E. Perhaps B, but that might hurt the storyline too much.
DEAD THREAD! Live, thread, live!
Yes! Live, thread! Please?
OK, I’m finally getting around to writing the next part of my story.
“Thank you for saving me from those panthers,” en says kindly. “My name is ((does anybody have a good gender-neutral name besides En?)), and I am from the village a couple miles from here.”
“I know,” you explain. “I just came from there.”
“Really?” en asks curiously. You explain your story to her as she listens with eager fascination. When you finish, she says, “Wow. I’m not sure about the first part of your story, but the second…”
En pulls out a large stone disc with six strange markings on it. The markings are arranged in a circle. You stare at it as en explains, “This is my village’s talisman. It was created by the oracle about 20 years ago, before the dragon started terrorizing us. I was sent to the dragon as our next victim, but I secretly took this with me in case it could defeat the dragon.”
Do you:
A) Say “You’re crazy,” and keep walking towards the dragon’s cave on your own
B) Trick en into going on to the dragon’s cave alone and waiting to see what happens
C) Keep talking with en
D) Head in a different direction alone
E) Head in a different direction with en
F) Go together to the dragon’s cave
F, please.
Figures that the first vote is the most straightforward one .
F.
F)
Some gender-neutral names are Sam, JoJo, or Skylar.
Aack. Small correction: it should be “when you finish, en says”, not “when you finish, she says”.
B) Better him than me
Okay, I’ve found something old that I’d like to repost here: actually, it was my first post on MB:
You’re shopping in a mall in southern Arizona. It’s lunchtime and you’re getting very hungry. Suddenly someone throws a pie at you. Your reflexes are so good that you catch the banana-meringue pie (thanks to hours of playing dodgeball at school).
You…
a) eat the pie
b) get utensils and a napkin and THEN eat the pie
c) turn around and throw the pie at the next person behind you
d) mournfully stare at the pie, wishing it were a donut
e) run in the direction from whence it came
f) run around like a scared chicken, screaming “The pies are falling…â€
((Okay, I corrected a few apostrophe mistakes and a wee bit of spelling…))
A, then E.
Why such a jerk to En??
And I’d probably D.
Not meant personally, but I keep dying on all these choose-your-path things. Always. That way, I can see what happens to en so I can fight the dragon. Besides, en might defeat it…
D. I don’t like bananas.
E (and A on the way)
It’s funny; the first time I posted this the majority answered C (or E)
Okay, this one’s kinda stupid and comes from a manga-obsessed brain, but…..
You wake up one morning, not noticing anything out of the ordinary, and stumble groggily to the bathroom. After a few minutes of still-not-noticing-anything in the mirror, you finally realize that you have cat ears! You:
A. mutter “it’s all a dream, really, it must be only a dream….” and collapse back into bed. You were never really awake anyway.
B. scream, then jump into bed and pull the covers over your head and call to your mother that you’re sick.
C. scream, start jumping up and down, throw on some clothes and run out to catch your bus (which you are now late for).
D. calmly get dressed, eat breakfast, and remember to put a hat on before you leave. This is nothing out of the ordinary….
E. (other)
E- Reread “The Metamorphosis” and write a Venn diagram.
B.
D.
C. (I suppose that the jumping up and down is from excitement?)
Yup…. XD I’d choose C too.
E: Makes sure it’s not a dream, then celebrate and skip school.
C, then E: call a physiologist to try to figure out what happened.
52 – A or B, not sure which.
Continuing my story (F):
You and en continue through the forest until you find a cave. Going in, you find yourself standing on a slightly narrow cliff that branches off into three paths in front of you. At the end of each path is a door. All the doors look the same – there is no discernible difference. Do you:
A) Choose the door on the left
B) Choose the door on the right
C) Choose the door in the middle
53 – B
B
I’ve decided to start one. This is based on G.I Joe, which I saw on an airplane. I liked the movie (except for the SINKING ICE), so I’ve been obsessed with everything about it lately.
You are an Army person and you are out on a mission. Suddenly, a bunch of energy blasts rain down from above. You:
A- Take cover! Let someone else do the fighting.
B- Fight, fight, fight! Fight some more! You love fighting! Destrop all enemies! *maniacal laughter*
C- Go in, but be cautious. You don’t know who’s out there.
D- ____________
I continue for the first response.
D- Wake up.
Nice loophole. But…
You wake up in a cold sweat. You had another nightmare about the day you were accepted into the G.I. Muse unit, and when you met that:
A. Man
B. Woman
C. HPB
C.
Sorry for the looong wait…
You remember when it looked down at you, and said, “(insert name of MuseBlogger here)? Is it really you?” Then you suddenly remember! You saw in before,
A. On the Bunny Apocalypse thread
B. In Muse magazine
C. ______________
D- Quit the military, go home, and live a nice, normal life. Go to college, get a PhD, meet someone and get married. Become a Peace Activist. Recruit for the Kokonspiracy. Eventually have MB take over the world, peacefully.
You were asking what I’d really do.
*agrees* *would never join an armed forces*
Okay, on my story, I need someone to choose something that’s the same as what someone else did… or I’ll just use C since that’s what I’d pick and Ducky picked it already.
I’ll just use C then, if no one minds. Leaving it up for a little while to give someone else a chance to pick, but otherwise…. C.
C on my story:
As you’re about to get on the bus, you realize you don’t have anywhere to sit. Normally your friend Ash rides this bus, but today en’s sick (en told you on IM last night that en had caught a cold over the weekend). You:
A. sit up front, where all the little kids hang out.
B. sit in back with the fangeeks who seem to think every day is a convention.
C. take the empty seat over by the popular kids.
D. sit with that nice, shy girl from your English class–Katy, was it? Or Kitty?
E. run back inside.
People? Choose, please?
POST. HERE. NAO. BEFORE I GET ANGRY. >_>
D, or B. Probably B.
Most definitely B. I don’t get along very well with ‘populars.’ (No offense intended to any MBers who consider themselves popular!)
Ditto.
D. Sounds like the kind of person I’d get along with.
D. If that fails, A: sit and glare at the little kids until they leave me alone. Depressingly, I have done this before.
D, and try and get to know her.
B, especially if they think it’s a Star Trek convention, or D.
SFTDP, but just had an idea-
You are in the middle of a lightning storm in the Berkshires, with 42 other random people you don’t know, under a roof that is only being supported by two walls. You:
A) Run yelling into the middle of the field directly outside of the two walled structure.
B) Trick the others around you into running into the field.
C) Have a dance party, and listen to the Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, and some crazy rappers.
D) Go to your happy place, and forge everything else exists.
E)________________.
I personally, choose B.
D. If that doesn’t work, E. Build two more walls out of bricks that are just sitting there.
This situation does not sound familiar at all. No sir. Not one little bit. But I think that this is definitely the situation where C happens.
Oh, is the dance floor by any chance surrounded by candles to keep the bugs away? Candles that you can fall on?
Yes, yes it is.
B on my story:
You go through the door on the right and arrive in a room that looks like the one you just left. You turn back to find the door is gone. Do you:
A) Take the door on the left
B) Take the door on the middle
C) Take the door on the right
D) Push en to en’s death
E) jump off the path to your death
F) jump off the path to your death and drag en with you
F
D), then E), but I guess that would be F)…
F! F! F! F! *giggles*
58.1 and 58.2 – What’s wrong with you people?!
No idea. Maybe they’ve had a bad day.
A. Why is everbody choosing F?
Please come back.
F! F! F!
U! U! U! (okay, that might not be appropriate for the MB, but still funny. )
OK, because everyone has said F, I’m going with the first non-F answer, A:
You and en walk through the door on the left and come out into a small cavern. The door clangs shut and locks behind you, but further inspection reveals a hole on the door into which the talisman can fit. This will then open the door, but you decide to explore before leaving.
On the opposite wall is a door with no markings or handles or anything. Between the two door is a large, bronze, box-like contraption. There is a hole in the top that looks like the talisman might fit in it.
Do you:
A) Put the talisman in the door
B) Put the talisman in the contraption
C) Whack en about the head with the talisman
D) Hit-
You know what? I have a feeling I know what’s going to happen if I pull out various “slap/hit/kick someone” options, so I’ll just stop there.
B.
B.
H. Hit en with the talisman, and kick in the doors. Resulting in a huge liquid nitrogen related explosion.
(For your own health, DO NOT listen to Keiffer.)
You suddenly wake up finding yourself in a white room with people staring at you. You seem to be chained up . You have no idea what’s going on but you feel a object in your hand that can cut through the chains.What would you do?
A)Scream and ask where you are
B)Cut the chains then and there and try and fight them off
C) ____________________
C) Throw the object at someone. And miss, because it’s rather difficult to throw things accurately when your hands are chained up.
C- cut through the chains and then proceed to run wildly towards the people, screaming nonsense and waving the object.
C) Ask politely where I am.
C) Determine whether I am dreaming, realize that it’s reality, wave the object around frantically, cut through the chains, grab a bucket of black paint and paintbrushes that had conveniently appeared, and then force the other people to help me paint the room ask the people where I am and what is going on.
I-man’s story: B.
YANSWAT’s story: C – Cut through the chains, then ask politely where I am.
Can I start one?
You wake up one morning and plan to lounge in bed reading for a bit. You reach for the book on your bedside table, but instead your fingers touch something hard. You sit up to get a look, and find that it is the hilt of sheathed dagger. You then realise that this isn’t your bedroom. It is too luxurious and tidy.
Suddenly, a short serving maid with a breakfast platter enters the room. “Good, you are awake, Darklord.” She says.
Do you:
A) Ask what is going on
B) Say “Of course I’m awake!”
C) Eat the breakfast
D) Any combination of A, B, or C. (Please state the order of the actions)
C) Eat the breafast
(SFTDP) And in my hurry, I misspell the most important meal. I should really go eat dinner.
A) and then E) threaten her with the dagger.
I am afraid threatening her with the dagger is not an option yet. It may become one after she answers your question, however…
D)- A), and then C).
B, C,A
((Doesn’t anyone realize that the food might be poisoned?))
((That would make the story end before it begins. Besides, I’m hungry. I don’t wake up properly in the morning until I’ve had a meal.))
That was an idea I hadn’t thought of. Thank you for pointing that out. I can’t kill you in the beginning of the story, but I may be able to work it in somehow.
D) C) and then A).
D)- B), then C) when the maid leaves
A) Ask what is going on.
OK, I now see the problem with allowing for combinations, but it really was necessary. Other than B on it’s own, which got no votes and will be therefore excluded, everything got one or two votes. I’m going to repost the options in the hope some people might change their minds so that thyere can be a clearer choice. (You can no longer use combinations or letters that are not posted here.)
A) Ask what’s going on.
C) Eat the breakfast
AC) Ask, then eat
BC) Say “Of course I’m awake!” then eat
CA) Eat, then ask
BCA) Say, Eat, Ask
Remember, your room is luxurious, the maid called you “Darklord”, she seems subservient, she seems to expect you to know what is going on, and I’m not (thank you, Ducky) likely to poison you yet.
CA) Eat, then ask.
C)
B-You don’t want to sound too cocky. Serving people talk and you don’t want people on your bad side.
A-You also don’t want to sound oblivious to what is going on. Just play along with it. Figure it out as you go and make sure that people trust you. Again, serving people talk.
E: Explain your situation. If I can’t do that, I’ll ask what’s going on.
OK, I re-tallied the votes, and it looks like Ask won. (Thank Bibliophile for being the tie-breaker.) C was one point behind, so I’m actually using AC (sorry).
“Wh-what’s going on?” You ask tiredly.
The serving maid smiles kindly (though not warmly). “You did drink a bit more last night than you should have, didn’t you, Darklord? Your sister was defeated, remember? Your coronation was last night.”
“Oh, right.” You say, trying to look as though you new what was going on. You decide to eat some breakfast.
You look down on a platter of half a dozen foods you’ve never seen before in your life. The utensils are equally alien.
You:
A) Ask about it
B) Ask the maid to dinewith you and watch what she does
C) Say you aren’t hungry
Well, since I suppose I can’t explain my situation, I’d probably just say I’m not hungry. Asking would arouse suspicion (chances are, they’re familiar to everyone in the area), and I wouldn’t want to just do what she did. That would mean eating it all the same, and I’ve no idea what could be in that food. Although you said it wasn’t poison, I wouldn’t technically know that, and even if I did, the possibilities would still be endless, from human flesh (maybe this ‘Darklord’ person and the maid are both nonhuman, or cannibals) to cockroaches to something I’m horribly allergic to. It’s better not to eat.
Of course, I’d have to sometime, but I’d prefer to wait and see if there’s any way to find out without sounding crazy.
In other words, well, C.
Yup, I agree with Bibliophile that C is best.
Yes, C.
Could one of these be continued, or could someone start another? This was a good thread.
Why don’t you start one? I’m not a great writer, but I would like to do one of these.