Choose your own Adventure

Postby FelixSH » Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:25 pm

Who knows the old "Choose your own Adventure"-Books? They were stories, were you started with a prologue and than with chapter 1 of 400 (most of the time). At the end of the chapter, you could choose between two or three different possibilities, something like "If you want to go right, go to chapter 44, if you want to go left, go to chapter 161". Depending on your choices, the story changed.
There were simple stories, but also a lot with roleplaying-elements, for example dice-chosen values for strength or luck, or you could choose some abilities at the beginning like "talking with animals" (they were mostly phantasy-style).

So, I would like to try such a story, TUGs-style. I will write the segments and give you choices. The way with the most votes will get chosen, at a draw the dice will decide. I will try to update every day, but everything depends on your participation. I have no real experience with tugs, so there might be slightly unrealistic bits, but I will do my best to avoid them. Also, I won´t plan this in advance, it´s more of an experiment.

On to the scenario: The place is a single family house with two floors, a cellar and an attic. An attic and two rooms are on the second floor. On the first floor is a kitchen and a living room, toilet, bathroom and two further rooms, one of them the bedroom of the parents.

The characters: Benjamin (You), a 14 year old. Average build. His room is on the second floor.
Max, his 16 year old brother. Slim and tall. His room is on the first floor.
Zak (average build) and Felix (a bit short and weak), friends of Max.

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It´s saturday. Your parents are away and will come back on sunday evening. Your brother and his friends are preparing a party and want you out of the way. As you don´t agree to this, they tie your hand behind your back, your feet and your knees, and bring you to your room. They turn on the TV and promise to come back after three hours to give you a toilet break and to give you something to eat and drink. After they go back down, you think about your choices. Do you want to

-try to break free on your own?
-wait and break free at the first toilet break?

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Your choice. It will be fun. :wink:

Re: Choose your own Adventure

Postby Jay Feely » Sun Nov 13, 2011 9:38 pm

try to break free on my own
You will have to subdue me to restrain me. I been a bad boy so make sure you torture me too with anything but pain.

Re: Choose your own Adventure

Postby sarwrductan » Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:32 pm

knowing me, I'd be trying to break free while wrestling with the possibilities of what if I can't.
Those who walk forward always looking back, don't see that which makes them stumble

Re: Choose your own Adventure

Postby FelixSH » Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:15 pm

Oh great, players. So, let´s see what you got yourself into...

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You decide to try freeing yourself. As your brother wasn´t especially careful, you have no trouble finding the knot of the rope around your wrists. Unfortunately, even minutes later you had no luck, the knot is as strong as ever. Sighing you let yourself fall on the bed and try to think. Suddenly you remember the scissors in your drawer. Careful you stand up and start hopping forward.
As you reach the drawer, you open it and take out the scissors. As careful as you are, suddenly you lose your control and fall with the back against the drawer, making some noise. Cursing you try to stand up again, but it doesn´t take long to hear one person coming up the creaking stairs.
You don´t have much time. Will you

- try to cut all the rope, so you can defend yourself properly?
- only free your legs, so you can knock the person who comes up down?

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Hmm...this is harder than I thought, I hope it is at least somewhat interesting. Please note that it is definitely possible to free only your legs, while even I don´t know at the moment, if there is enough time to free yourself completely in option 1 (where you start with freeing your wrists).

Re: Choose your own Adventure

Postby Jay Feely » Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:45 pm

Only free my legs
You will have to subdue me to restrain me. I been a bad boy so make sure you torture me too with anything but pain.

Re: Choose your own Adventure

Postby Chase Ricks » Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:05 am

cut off all the ropes?
From whence I came and whence I went heaven said I was too evil and sent me to hell. Demons and devils succeeded in breaking my soul.

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