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Forest Bicycle
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You are at the edge of an urban forest, you are on the southern side riding your bicycle home from the city to a quiet suburb on the northern end. It is late at night. The forest is unlit, except for what your little bike light puts out. The forest is not ideal, but it is the only route back home.
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[[Into the Forest|F_2]]
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You pass quickly along the forest road. For a little bit you can still see the city lights, but these recede as you progress deeper into the heart of the forest. A river runs alongside the forest road on your left for a little while. You can hear it gurgling below. Then it turns off and leaves you in silence. You can see a faint light up ahead.
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[[Continue|F_3]]
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You reach the stile that separates the outer forest from the deep forest. In order to progress further you have to dismount and hoist the bike over the fence, then cross the stile and remount. There is a lamp above the stile. It also illuminates some of the wire fence, which disappears into the trees on either side. Summer insects flit around the light.
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[[Hoist Over|F_4]]
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You cross the stile, and continue further into the forest. You can sense a presence in this forest. The road is noticeably more degraded this far in. It narrows almost down to a single lane, and on either side the shoulders have collapsed into muddy pits. You know that further ahead, in the center of the forest, the road loops around a circle of trees. It has several exits, but only one leads to the northern stile, the others go to deeper parts of the forest.
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[[Continue|F_LOOP]]
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The road merges onto the loop. You're keeping count of the exits when from above and behind you hear a flapping something approach. It passes through the canopy over your head and emits a low, resonant hoot. Best to make a fast exit. You pass around the inner loop of trees, keeping an eye out for the landmark that indicates the right way out of the forest.
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Exit by the [[Mossy Boulders|F_NW_1]]<br>
Exit by the [[Rotten Picnic Table|F_5]]<br>
Exit by the [[Dead Tree|F_NE_1]]
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It takes a sharp turn to avoid the boulders and stay on the road. After a hundred meters, when the road becomes a dirt trail, you realise that you're heading further into the forest.<br>
You hear the flapping thing coming around again. This time it clips your helmet as it swoops across, causing you to teeter. You regain your balance, but it doubles back and catches you again, this time knocking you off your bicycle.
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The presence moves in for another blow, but halts when you draw out your Magic Egg. It hesitates, but when you brandish the Egg it emits a screeching hoot and flies off. You have repelled the hooting forest presence.
<<set _link to "[[Continue|F_5]]">>
<<else>>
You could fight this thing off if you just had the Magic Egg! But instead, you have fallen prey to the hooting forest presence.
<<set _link to "[[Wake Up|F_1]]">>
<</if>>
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You take the second exit by the rotten picnic table. It lies amongst a patch of deep weeds, and has collapsed on one side. By day, this area of the forest is a pretty spot to wander and think. Ahead you can see another light: the northern stile.<br>
You hear the flapping thing coming around again, and pedal faster to catch the light. This time it clips your helmet as it passes across, causing you to teeter. The thing rushes off, then comes doubling back towards you.
<<if $Inventory[1].flag is 1>>
You pull the Magic Egg out from your pocket, causing the thing to make a screeching hoot and change course, which gives you just enough time to reach the circle of light.
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You stay upright just long enough to get into the circle of light when the it catches out at you with a limb and knocks you down.
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[[Continue|F_6]]
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You have to duck to avoid a branch of the dead tree that overhangs the road. After a hundred meters, when the road becomes a dirt trail, you realise that you're heading further into the forest.<br>
You hear the flapping thing coming around again. This time it clips your helmet as it swoops across, causing you to teeter. You regain your balance, but it doubles back and catches you again, this time knocking you off your bicycle.
<<if $Inventory[1].flag is 1>>
The presence moves in for another blow, but halts when you draw out your Magic Egg. It hesitates, but when you brandish the Egg it emits a screeching hoot and flies off. You have repelled the hooting forest presence.
<<set _link to "[[Continue|F_5]]">>
<<else>>
You could fight this thing off if you just had the Magic Egg! But instead, you have fallen prey to the hooting forest presence.
<<set _link to "[[Wake Up|F_1]]">>
<</if>>
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<<set $Inventory to [
{id: 0,
flag: 0,
name: "Dummy",
desc: "A Dummy Object"},
{id: 1,
flag: 0,
name: "Magic Egg",
desc: "A magic egg to ward off fell presences"},
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You can hear the thing swooping through the canopy just beyond the circle of light. Then, after a long pause, it seems to return back towards the center of the forest, emitting a series of loud hoots. You have narrowly evaded the hooting forest presence.<br>
You waste no time in scrambling across the stile, but then you wait by the light for a long while, reluctant to continue on into the darkness.
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[[Continue|F_7]]
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The road begins to improve as you pass out of the deep woods, widening and levelling out. The river rejoins the road on your left, and you hear it gurgling below as you make your way out. Then between the trees you see the lights of the suburbs. The forest road comes out in a narrow lane behind the post office building. Just further down the street there is an all-night petrol station, where you stop to collect yourself before continuing into your neighborhood and to your home, then finally to bed.
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[[Go to Sleep|END]]
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You have survived your trip on the Forest Bicycle! Who knows what lies down the other pathways, and with that flapping hooting thing about, who wants to know? But if you had the Magic Egg, you might have a chance of finding out ...
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