Text-based Adventure

Synopsis

You awake in a lush forest, at what appears to be mid-day. You hear birds chirping in the distance, and a gentle breeze rustling the leaves of the trees.

Up ahead in a clearing you can see a small log cabin. There is no light in the windows, no smoke coming from the chimney, and no sound you can hear coming from inside. The path to the front door is overgrown with weeds, but the door is slightly open.

As you begin to stand, you notice a small purple sack at your feet, with 'Needful Things' inscribed on it in golden thread. You logically assume this sack contains every item that you could ever possibly need, so you pick it up.

Gameplay

This will play out in the form of a classic text-based adventure, where you are presented with a scenario and 3 (or so) options; you pick an option, and the next person writes the response to that choice, and presents some more options.

Example:

Person A [response] :

You are standing in front of the house, the front door is slightly open.

> open door

> leave house

> go to sleep

Person B [command] :

> open door

Person C [response] :

You open the door and walk inside. There is a ham sandwich on the floor.

> eat it

> step on it

> leave it and look around the house

Person B [command] :

> eat it

Guidelines

1) No double-posting. If you post an action, someone else writes the response, and so forth.

2) Include the action in the response. If the action is "> open door", start the response with something like "You push open the door and..."

4) The sack of Needful Things does indeed include every item you could possibly ever think of, or have obtained on your journey.

Edit: I originally suggested the responses leave the commands open-ended, but people seem to be enjoying presenting 3 command options, so those are the new rules!

And to start things off:

You are standing in front of the house, with your Needful Things sack safely tucked away. The front door is slightly open.

Let the game begin!
>open door

You push open the door and walk inside. From the main entrance you can see the common area with a sofa and television, and a hallway. You can't tell where the hallway leads to from where you are standing.

Turn on television

You push the power button on the television and it flickers to life. A newscaster comes on screen in the middle of a broadcast:

...causing panic around town. Nobody can clearly identify the cause of this sudden shoelace shortage, but people with flip flops and loafers remain unaffected. Turning to weather, the next few days will probably be sunny, maybe, and...

...as you stand watching the TV in a daze, you hear a tentative voice coming from down the hallway: "Is someone there?"

Look for a place to hide. Why am I here?

>freaks out and runs around

You frantically look for a place to hide before the owner of the voice makes his ingress. You find a small space under the SOFA, a nook behind the CURTAINS and a dark crawl-hole in the wall behind the MYSTERIOUS TAPESTRY.

> crawls into the hole behind the MYSTERIOUS TAPESTRY

After getting yourself situated in your new hiding place and gathering you wits about yourself you take a moment to assess the situation. suddenly the realization that you may have overreacted to the news broadcast considering you have on your favorite pair of slip-on sneakers on, besides there are much big problems to be dealt with.But mostly you are overcome with the urge to take the MYSTERIOUS TAPESTRY down off the wall and roll it up. you crawl out of the and right yourself.

As you are rolling thr tapestry and placing it into the bag, a voice tells at you, angrily. "What the hell do you think you are doing?"

As calmly as possible, you try to explain yourself...

> punch person in the face

Luckily, said person has a glass jaw, and goes out cold. They do have a nice pair of shoelaces. You wonder what is in the rest of the house... or how long they will be unconscious. Perhaps you should kill them and take the shoelaces? Or maybe raid the fridge for a well deserved ketchup and peanutbutter salad...

>use shoelaces to tie and immobilize them

You use the (now extremely rare) shoelaces to tie up the inhabitant. As you do so, the television flips to pure static and you hear an extremely loud boom from upstairs.

Maybe it's time to leave? Also, ketchup and peanutbutter salad sounds good, but is there time? Only one boom. Should you investigate? Maybe whatever mad the boom likes strange foodstuffs, and you could barter with it? Was it even a person? It almost sounded like a shotgun. But why would Kurt Cobain be upstairs?

> walk upstairs

As you reach the top step, you realize the upstairs hallway is crowded with a great many midgets wielding whiffle ball bats. They have not yet noticed you, in fact they seem to be involved in a sick game of Russian roulette, but without guns. One lays dead, his aluminum foil helmet smashed nearby... blood drips from several plastic bats...

Logically I grab the tinfoil hat and attempt to blend in.