Inspired by Edward Packard’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book series. Just be sure to include the “page number” in your post. One page per post; sigs discouraged; watch out for simulposting as much as possible. Go!
—Page 1—
You are visiting Chicago for the first time on a business trip. It’s your last night here; all of your colleagues have already left town. Restless in your hotel room, you decide to visit the tavern down the street. On approach, this seems like any other bar in any city, with the usual flickering neon signs and merry din of patrons enjoying themselves. By the time you enter, you can almost taste your first lager. As you approach the bar, you notice a sad old gentleman in a loincloth reading More of the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams between sips of his grasshopper. The bartender seems nervous.
If you want to strike up a conversation with the old man, turn to page 2.
If you want to order a beer, turn to page 3.
um, are we supposed to go on with the story and then give new options for the next person?
assuming that:
I strike up a conversation with the old man.
Page 2
As you get closer to the old man, you have that eerie feeling you recognize him. You smile casually and pull up a chair. You grab a peanut from the bowl in front of you as you introduce yourself. The old man smiles back, in a forlorn way and says his name is Kenneth Howell. You both strike up a conversation about the straight dope. You still can’t place where you’ve seen him before. Kenneth says he has something to show you.
if you want to see what Kenneth has to show, go to page 4
if you are feeling tired and want to retire, go to page 5 *
You sit down at the bar and the very attractive bartender (she’s a brunette btw) looks askance of you. You smile and ask for a beer. She doesn’t move for a moment: just looks at you. Then she says “You don’t want a beer right now”
If you insist on ordering a beer then turn to Page 16
If you decide to not order a beer but stay turn to Page 6
If you leave turn to Page 7 *
“Behold,” Kenneth crows. “The rarest collectable of all!” He produces an autographed photo of Cecil Adams.
“Where did that come from?” you gasp.
“I know Cecil personally.”
“No, no, no. I mean where was it just now? Ugh, never mind. And just why are you wearing that loincloth, anyway?”
If you want to hear the old man’s reply, turn to page 8.
If you are creeped out and just want to leave the bar, turn to page 7.
If you are feeling tired and want to retire, turn to page 5.
[sub]we ARE just assembling a choose-your-own story, right? meaning we add pages linearly until all storylines are exahusted, right? so that people can just scroll down and up to play, right? if that is the case, then i get page 5.[/sub]
–Page 5–
Disinterested in the events of earlier, you head up to your room, and prepare for bed. right before you go to sleep, you hear an argument outside your door. you cannot understand exactly what is being said, but it is a heated exchange and one of the participants is an old man.
Do You:
*leave your room and intrude upon the argument, which is becoming quite heated, in which case you turn to page 9.
OR
go to sleep, writing off the argument as normal hotel noise, in which case you go to page 21*