Sugarcane

It opens to a steep [[staircase]] leading up.\n//(Could this be the end)//\n[[Go up|go up]]

The white powder seems to be falling away from the wall, from where it was written. It must've been a long time since it's author was here.\n\n\n[[Back|oo]]

You're getting very tired... almost sick...\nbut you're almost [[done]]!

...Though your dance moves are not very cool...\n[[back to sweeping|Keep sweeping]]\n[[think of cool dance moves]]

The brick is a slightly lighter shade than the other bricks, it also is raised ever so slightly from the floor.(making it easy to stub your toe on) \n[[pull it out?]]\nor [[leave it alone|working hard 1]] and [[continue to work?|working hard 1]]

There are no doors to speak of, but you could [[hit things]] with it.

While you [[lay down]] resting, you remember about the single [[brick|wibble]] that you left.\n

//[[Goodnight...|you wake up]]//

[[Left|g9]]\n[[Right|i9]]

You lie there catching your breath before you get up to look around again. \n[[back|tower hole]]

[[Left|e8]]\n[[Right|c8]]

[[Left|d8]]\n[[Right|d10]]

The dark powder crumbles under your fingers and reveals stone underneath the half inch of soot. \nyour fingers are [[dirty]].\n[[back|return hot room]]

//Ahh, well I guess it's time to go up! let's go.//\n\nYou and the old man take your time towards the [[furnace room|idek]].

Or was it just your mind playing tricks on you... It doesn't matter...does it? \nAnyways, it doesn't seem to be moving now, so it should be safe to traverse.\n[[go forward?|walk]]\n[[go back|nope]]\n

If you were not paying any attention then you wouldn't notice the ever-so-gradual slope. At least you were making progress upwards. The sound of your feet hitting the ground gradually get more subtle and eventually become completely silent.\nYou conclude that this hallway is very odd.\n[[continue|walks]]\n[[check your surroundings|check]]

The only other way out is climbing up...\nyour strength is waning, [[climbing up the walls]] is impossible...\nAnd going [[back from where you came]] with out a torch could be possible, but as you go on you feel yourself getting weak.

You enter a small circular room, looking up you gaze up at the [[moon|moon]] which is made possible with the hole in the top. The [[walls|walls]] strech up as far as you can see, almost like the inside of a deep well. It is made entirely of [[stone bricks|bricks]] and the floor is covered with what you think is [[currency|coins]].\n

[[Forward|a6]]\n[[Right|b7]]

Your legs, still tingling from the fatigue, manage to bring you up the steps to the [[trapdoor]] that seals off this passage. light passes through the small circular window at the top, basking you in never before seen sunlight.\n[[Open|not working]]

You have search every inch of this place...\n[[look over again?|4]]\n[[Leave.|walks]]

You continue down the hole in mild light... It wasn't very long when your foot touches a surfae other than that of the ladders. You steady yourself on the flat surface and feel around for an [[exit|tunnel door]].

[[Goodnight.|escape restart]]

The old man starts making some food and you drool at the smell.\nWhen its finished you eat like an animal and stuff your face.\n//"Ill wait for you to finish an' then we can [[talk]] for a while"//\n

The crate shatters across the floor, wooden splinters cover the cold surface.\n[[...|get key rubble]]

Wipeing your filthy hands on your equally filthy rags that you call clothes, You notice red stains not from the rust redidue.\nIt's blood.\n[[Wrap it with cloth|cloth]]\n[[Wrap cloth around handle and open|works]]

...\n...\n[[..!|wakeup]]

[[...|wakey]]

Closer inspection shows that the layer of gunk is caked on there.\n[[touch]]\n[[leave it alone|return hot room]]\n

There is a window, but it is too high up to climb to.\nYou see that it's also barred.\n[[back|room no key]]

The whole contraption is on the brink of being pure orange rust, exept for the fist sized [[window|light]]. The only other item you note of importance is the handle.\n[[Open it?|not working]]

[[Forward|d9]]\n[[Right|e10]]

It shatters among your feet.\n[[...|note find]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|15]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

You open the door ever so slightly. Light floods you vision, but you take your time adjusting to the sight. When you regain your vision you see a small homely [[room|examine room]]. Do you [[call out]] or [[barge in]]

[[Forward|h9]]\n[[Left|g8]]

There's not much you can do. Might as well take a [[rest|goodnight sleep]]. What will you do? Might as well take a [[rest|goodnight sleep]]. The way out is blocked. Might as well take a [[rest|goodnight sleep]]. You're tired. Might as well take a [[rest|goodnight sleep]]...

Inspecting the brick closer makes you realize it's hollow!\n[[Drop it?|brick break]]\n[[throw it|brick break]]

The brick comes away from the floor easily[[....|rumble]]

Which one wil you choose to use?\n[[broom]]\n[[shovel]]\n[[crowbar]]

It is a heavy wooden door with a large latch.\n[[open?|real open]]\n[[back|room yes key rubble]]

[[Forward|f5]]\n[[Left|f4]]

[[Forward|g4]]\n[[Left|f3]]

As you go along it gets much warmer and you start to sweat like a pig, though it is very rereshing because it was very cold in that room.\n[[continue|left path2]]

There are two paths you can go down.\n[[Forward|g2]]\n[[left|f1]]

As soon as you step into the passage, the door closes right behind you! The narrow hallway extends before you.\n//Did it [[move]]?// You think to yourself.\n[[go forward?|walk]]\n[[go back|nope]]

The old man starts making some food and you drool at the smell.\nWhen its finished you eat like an animal and stuff your face.\n//"While ya do that I'll get a [[bath|bath f]] ready for ya, awight?"//

[[Forward|i6]]

You enter a room with a large [[furnace]]. The air is filled with soot and smoke, making it hard to [[breathe]] without covering your face. The old brick [[walls|wall]] are covered with soot, dust, and spiderwebs with the spiders long dead, making the room look smaller than it actually is. There are no other fixtures in the room besides the furnace, other than the piles of [[coal]] and a few [[tools]].

[[Forward|i9]]

[[Forward|f9]]\n[[Right|g10]]

You gaze at the task before you. There is a lot of coal. this will take a long time[[...|shoveling]]

you [[wiggle|wobble-y]] it.\n//it wobbles//\n[[back|floor piece]]

The walls go on for what seems like an eternity, you realize that you must've gone farther underground than you were in the room.\nLooking at the uneven stone bricks that make up the walls, you could essentially climb up if it was a shorter distance.\n[[try to climb?|fall]]\n[[back|tower hole]]\n

//The room you just came from was the bottom of a well, if you didn't figure that out, and sometimes people throw things down to make wishes you see, like wishing on a shooting star.//\n\n[[DING DING!|clock]]

You pull it over your nose and mouth.\nIt makes it much easier to breathe now.\nYou remember that you can still carry a [[tool|re tool]].

//[[CLUNK!!!|BANG]]//\nYou bring down the crowbar onto the floor!

You start climbing upp the jagged stone wall. \n...\nYou get pretty high up, but you look up and realize that you haven't even gotten a third of the way up.\nYou try to keep going, but you're just too tired.\nYou decided to go [[down|climb down]]

//WHATEVER//\nthis sorcery doesn't concern you, all that matters is the [[door|hidden door]].

Each step is odd to you.\nIt's as if the [[ground]] was purposefully trying to make you lose your balence. The sensations the floor is creating on the soles of your feet makes you wonder what kind of trouble lurks [[ahead|ground]].

...It's kinda [[wobble-y]]...\nDo you [[examine it|brickkk]] \nor go back to [[sulking?|sulking]]

...\nzzz\n...\njust a little rest.\n[[...|not goodnight]]

@thezeldaknight on Twitter \nor\nThekawaiigamers.tumblr.com

You see a door...\n[[Enter?|exit]]\n\n\n[[Restart Maze|g1]]\n(There's a few things you might've missed [optional])

//It's been fun Kiddo, hope I was of some help!//\nYou walk through the door[[...!|ops]]

//Don't give up// your mind tells you.\nsomething should be around here somewhere...\n[[keep going|keep going 1]]\n[[give in]]

its no use.\n[[leave it be.|return hot room]]

//[[rumble|ack]]//

You and the old man labour for a while and go back to hi- //your// new [[home]].

You reach your hand down the gap, only able to allow your fingers through. Feeling around in the dard void you feel a small scrap of paper. Opening it up, you see a very artistic drawing of a creepy puppet. Acknowledging the masterpiece, you put back the paper and continure on[[...|walks]]

Your legs give out.\n...\nThe stairs close onto your face.\n...\nagain.\n...\nagain.\n...\n[[...|goodnight fall 2]]

Your words are dust and dry air from your lips.\n[[...|?]]

The amount of coal //was// staggering but now it has significantly decreased...\n[[OUCH!|bricky]]

Which one wil you choose to use now?\n[[shovel]]\n[[crowbar]]\n

[[Forward|d10]]\n[[Left|e9]]

Theres a plain [[door|matty]] with no handle...\n[[Left|h9]]

There's nothing to be found here...\n[[ignore it and continue|18]]\n[[Leave|walks]]

Where are you...?\nIt's so cold...\nCold..\nSo [[tired|goodnight tired]]...\n

You feel a knob like handle and [[twist|twist fix]]

You climb back up and lift the cover over the hole and [[continue|con fixed]] in the pitch black [[silence|listen]].

//"Huh? Who goes there?"//\n[[silence]]\n[[respond|convo]]

You do your self-proclaimed duty and clean up the room!\n//'good work'// you think to yourself and give yourself a well deserved [[rest]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|9]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

[[Forward|j6]]\n[[Left|i7]]

[[Forward|door?]]\n[[Left|h9]]

You find a key underneath... Was this hidden?\n[[go back|room yes key]]

It is a full moon tonight. \nYou can see it more brightly than in the room, it brings you slight happiness...\n[[back|tower hole brick]]

You come across a long path unfamiliar to you.\n[[Continue|familiar]]

[[Left|j7]]\n[[Right|j5]]

It seems to have been put there recently,\nbut maybe you should take it for now.\n[[take?|hall with torch]]\n[[leave?|hall1]]

there is a small bowl.\n[[touch it?|touch key]]

You just push it and it opens, to your surprise there is no cool air, but it's better than the muggy room so you [[enter|ops]] immediatly

...\n...\n...\n[[...|sorcery]]

[[Forward|c6]]

[[Goodnight.|1]]

[[Forward|a7]]\n[[Left|b6]]\n[[Right|b8]]

You now have a torch with you to light your way.\nYou have decided to not turn back unless there is a dead end.\nNow to the [[left|left path]] or the [[right|right path]]?

//Heh, I'll miss ye kiddo, but I know you just gotta get outta here.//\nHe walks over to what you expected to be a wall, tapped it with his knuckles and then[[...|guh]]

The wall rumbles and breaks open to reveal a [[door.|door appear]]

What other path is there to take besides just sitting here.(Which wouldn't do you any good.)\n[[walk]]

You pride yourself now that you've found something you're good at and do a little [[dance]].

You remove the floor as the letter said and peer down the dark hole. It is barely big enough for you to climb down the crude ladder [[down.|climb]]

[[Forward|see exit]]\n[[Left|b7]]

//[[rumble|finally door]]//

There is a [[window|window]] above you, a [[Door|door no key]] and a small [[crate|crate no key]] on the other side of the room.\nthere is an [[empty bowl|bowl]].

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|13]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

You call out in a hoarse voice[[...|response]]

You ask about his'work'.\n\n//Ahh then, well all I do is go up to the [[furnace room|askin]] every evening and shovel a few coals onto the fire. I bet'll be easy for ye, since yer young 'n spry. \nheh heh heh\nanyways, we should find some [[accomodations]] then.

You wonder how long it's been burning.\nIt seems like it won't go out for a very long time.\n\n\n[[Back|matty]]

You look around the room for the assorted tools laying around. you find a few that still function. Along with a [[face mask]] for you to wear, there is a [[broom]], [[shovel]], and a [[crowbar]]. Which one wil you choose?

[[Forward|b8]]\n[[Left|c7]]

You continue down the hole in pure darkness... It wasn't very long when your foot touches a surfae other than that of the ladders. You steady yourself on the flat surface and feel around for an [[exit|tunnel door fix]].

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep Looking|5]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

The brick is a slightly lighter shade than the other bricks, it also is raised ever so slightly from the floor.(making it easy to stub your toe on) \n[[pull it out]]\nor [[leave it alone|sulking]] and continue to sulk

It is a full moon tonight. \nYou can see it more brightly than in the room, it brings you slight happiness...\n[[back|tower hole]]

You point to the nearby sink and muffle a noise from your dry mouth.\nThe old man gets you a glass of water and you drink heartily, spilling some down your mouth.\n//"Ha, now you seemed parched.\n[[Anything else|take water]]?"

There is a [[Door|door yes key rubble]]. wooden splinters cover the cold floor.\nThere is an [[empty bowl|bowl rubble]].

//NO!// \n\nThat would be a bad idea, you should [[find something]] to use this on, why else would this be here?\n[[unless...|urge]]

There's no path.\n[[Go bac--|oh noos]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|8]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

It is a heavy wooden door with a large latch.\n[[open?|open]]\n[[back|room no key]]

[[Restart Maze|g1]]\n[[Restart from last major choice|walks]]\n[[Restart Whole game|1]]

The room is small but cozy with a quaint litle hearth poviding the warmth and an utility stove. It seems to be inhabited by someone here currently. [[back|twist fix]]

The door closed behind you once you steped into the hallway, now all thats left is an cold, lifeless wall.\n...\n...\n...\n[[go forward?|walk ]]\n

//"Kid? Are you ok?"//\n[[Food|p]]\n[[Water]]\n[[A bath|p]]\n[[Answers|p]]

What were you doing again?\n[[Don't remember|um]]\n[[Sweeping|Keep sweeping]]\n

You open the door wider with a loud rusted noise.\nYou hear footsteps..\n\n[[...|yelled at]]\n[[run]]

//CLUNK//\nThe floor falls beneath you[[...|goodnight maze]]

//"Hey kid! I dun' bite. come back here I dont get very many visitors, amuse an old man and talk a bit, maybe a bit to eat by the looks of ya"//\n[[enter]]

It is too dark to go along, there are no more torches along the walls to guide you.\nIt starts to get warmer as you go along, you feel sweat beading along your forehead...\nyou decide to go [[back|hall1]]

With a steady hand someone wrote.\n\n//This candle burns for as long as our ship sails//\n\n\n\n[[Back|oo]]

The stone brick in the wall finally comes free. You hold it in your hand, but it feels unusually [[light|inside brick]]. The [[hole|crevace]] where the brick once was is dusty.

ahh [[sleep.|nightynight]]

Good End.\n\nThank you for playing~\n\n[[Restart Whole Game?|1]]

Do you wish to heed the advice of the witer of the note?\n[[yes|down hole]]\n[[look for another way]]\n[[sit and think]]

[[Restart From Near Death|tools]]\n[[Restart From Last Major Choice|hall with torch]]\n[[Restart Whole Game|1]]

You turn back from the dead end with legs as tired as limp noodles. you [[contin-]]

[[Left|d8]]\n[[Right|f8]]

It is sticky, maybe you shoudn't touch it anymore\n[[Go back|room yes key rubble]]

[[Forward|e6]]\n[[Right|f5]]

[[Forward|e5]]

[[Forward|e9]]

[[Forward|e7]]\n[[Left|d6]]\n[[Right|f6]]

There's an uneasy feeling here...\n[[Left|dead end]]\n[[Right|e2]]

you pick up a chunk and open the the furnace, a blast of hot air hits you right in the face, but you still manage to get it in. \nIt didn't seem to make a diference.\n[[back|return hot room]]

[[Forward|e4]]\n[[Right|f3]]

//UGH//\nYOU CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE.\n[[SMASH]]

The middle of the far wall is [[written]] on in a fading [[chalk]].\n\n\n[[Back|matty]]

//Squeeeeeeeeeek//\nI-it opened!\nBright light fills the gloomy stairway making you blinded.\n[[Climb up]]

You look over to where the loud noise is coming from[[...!!!|door appear]]

There is a a [[Door|door yes key]] and a small [[crate|crate yes key]] on the other side of the room.\nthere is an [[empty bowl|bowl yes key]].

//[[rumble|bleh]]//

huh?\nYou sweep over an [[uneven brick|wibble]].\n[[continue sweeping?]]

It seemed safe...\nBut it is red hot!\nmaybe the [[lever]] will yield better results.

//well I guess I'll have'ta move all this here [[junk]] to make room for you. sorry kiddo but theres not much [[space]] to be had.

You get down and narrow yorself into the skinny hole. The old rickety ladder makes a creeking niose as you move down from step to step. \n\n[[Look up|manhole]]\n[[Look down|darkness dispair]]

yeah..!\nthats right...\nfind something...\nYou can't find anything...\n[[keep going]]\n[[SMASH THINGS NOW|give in]]

They shine and twinkle, he must've spent a lot of time on them you conclude. \n//I always wonder what the person who threw them down was like, sometimes I make stories for each item//\nHe picks up a small, wooden bear and looks at it longingly.\n//This was probably a young boy, I think. Wonder what he [[wished|wishes]] for...//

With this you could [[clean|clean up]] up the room.\nChoose another [[tool?|re tool]]

"..."\nAn old man waddles through the door eyeing you.\n//"well this is odd. I would've never expected a visitor. though it has happened once before.\nwell come on in! you look terrible, have something to eat."//\n[[Go in|enter]]

[[UGH-|goodnight fall]]

//[[SMASH!!!|CLUNK]]//\nYou slam the crowbar into a barrel of coal!

You stumble over a loose [[brick|brickk]]... \n\n//Damn it to hell//\nyou think to yourself\n\n[[ignore it?|stubborn]]

With this you could shovel up [[coal.|shovel coal]]\nChoose another [[tool?|re tool]]

There's nothing to see here..\n[[Keep Looking|4]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

...\nyou cant think of anything...\nyour mind is a blank...\n[[...|maybe]]

[[Forward|h8]]

This must be a maze...\n[[Forward|e1]]\n[[Right|f2]]

The stone bricks are cold to the touch. They seem very old but put together well. If you tried very hard maybe you could shake one loose...?\n[[try to shake one loose|brick]]\n[[back|tower hole]]

Radical!\n[[...|uh]]

Before you go on you take a rest on the stairs...\nYour tired legs thank you[[...|sleppy]]

The next days are spent the same, the memory of your escape wilts. Your life continues but ends in the same instance....\n\nNEUTRAL END\n[[Restart From Last Major Choice|thats right]]\n[[Restart Whole Game?|1]]

It's very dusty, it might take a while[[...|wobble]]\n

You're a natural!\n[[Keep sweeping]]\n[[Victory dance]]

A small [[candle]] flickers in the middle of the small [[room|oo]]. \n[[Back to Maze|h9]]

You walk up to the old looking crate. The wood seems as if it wold break if you [[threw|throw crate]] it, [[Examine|get key]] it?

...\n[[...|1]]\n

//"Ahh, strange indeed...\nWhat do you plan to do, kiddo?//\n[[Escape|escape]]\n[[Stay here with old man|stay]]

Only one more pile!\n\nonly...\n\nyour legs are jelly\n\nyour arms spagetti\n\nyou decide to [[sleep|goodnight work]]

It seems like this hole is a wishing well.\nIt would be disrespectful to take their wishes.\n[[back|tower hole brick]]\n

There's nothing to be found here...\n[[ignore it and continue|10]]\n[[Leave|walks]]

The wall behind the stone is plain dirt. You notice that it looks intentionally hollowed out. You think maybe something was hidden here once, but you can't be sure. \n[[back|tower hole brick]]

You feel your hands getting calloused and covered in soot, but you're quickly and efficiently doing [[your job.|tired]]

It wont budge..\npossiblly the large metal latch needs a key?\n[[back|room no key]]\n

Where did the wall go?\n[[think about it]]\n[[it doesn't matter]]

Even if you were to half blind yourself by trying to look through, the otherside of the glass is too plastered with grime to even recognise anything useful.\n[[Open it already!|not working]]

You hold the brick in your hand.\n[[look at it|brick look]]\n[[throw it|brick break]]

You lie there catching your breath before you get up to look around again.\n[[back|tower hole brick]]

You can definitly feel it getting warmer.\n\nafter a few turns you see a warm red glow.\nmaybe it is an exit?\n[[continue|hot room]]\n

You gasp at the [[wall|fell wall]] that fell away to reveal a [[door|hidden door]] hidden behide it.

Various coins you do not recognize are scattered on the floor, some even seem to be older that however old you are.\n[[pick up?|coin pick up]]\n[[back|tower hole]]

[[Forward|a7]]\n

It's a key.\nyou should hold onto it.\n[[go back|room yes key rubble]]

You're running out of energy.\nHungry, Cold, Tired...\nMaybe you'll find a sanctuary if you continue...\n[[back|otherside]]

It is sticky, maybe you shoudn't touch it anymore\n[[Go back|room yes key]]

[[Forward|e10]]\n[[Left|f9]]

[[Forward|e8]]\n[[Right|f9]]

[[...|3]]

You wake up.\nyou know nothing.\nThe rest is up to you...

You're among a place that you're sure you've seen before...\n[[Continue|f5]]\n

You see something glint underneath where the crate used to be.\n[[pick it up?|key ugh]]

[[Left|i7]]\n[[Right|j6]]

You feel around the ragged wall for any loose bricks. One of the stones feels peticularly wobbly, you decide to try to pry this [[stone|loose brick]] out.\n\n\n

You [[consider|clean up]] cleaning the room.\nOr is the [[mystery brick|floor piece]] important?\n

Getting out of the hole you feel the whole world around you with all your senses. The air has never felt so clean, you could taste the fresh breeze.\nGetting out was your goal, and you've acceived it.\n\nYou're [[free]].

//You can do it!//\nit must be around here somewhere...\n[[keep going|keep going 4]]\n[[give in]]

The ruby red color oozes through the cloth; hopefully it'll hold. You need help though. Maybe there'll be someone in the outside world.\n[[Open trapdoor|works]]

Every subtle noise you make echos through the downard tunnel in a deafening pitch. Other than that you can hear a dim humming[[...|con fixed]]\n

You cover your face with your threadbare sleeve. hopefully you'll find something easier.\n[[back|return hot room]]

Your eyes ajust to the dim moonlight trying to read the hastily scrawled note.\n[[...|note]]

You make you way up the wall in a last futile attempt...\nBut it was hopeless... you limbs grow numb and you let go of the holds...\n[[...|goodnight tired]]

It is a heavy wooden door with a large latch.\n[[open?|real open]]\n[[back|room yes key]]

Its a bit cold down this path, the torch seems to be your only warmth. As you go down you feel a slight breeze.\nYou [[continue|path2]]

You feel a knob like handle and [[twist|twist fix]]

[[Restart From Near Death|otherside]]\n[[Restart From Last Major Choice|hall with torch]]\n[[Restart Whole Game|1]]

A [[door|magic]] appeared from the wall!!\n//This should lead outta' here//

//magic?//\nwho knows? definitly not you that's for sure.\nmaybe the [[door|hidden door]] will help you out.

A sort of failure haunts your mind...giving up so quickly[[...|find brick]]

//"Yer a bit stinky i must say heh eh eh"//\n\nHe leads you into the small bathing room and leaves you alone.\nThe warm water washes over you and feel yourself cleaner than you can remember.\nWhen you get out, you see the old man layed out some clothes for you.\n\n//"When yer done we can [[talk]] for a bit, eh?"//

You forgot to cover up the hole, but it lets in the only source of light. Do you go back to fix it?\n[[yes|fixed]]\n[[no|con no fix]]

//'nything else?"//\n[[Food|food]]\n[[A bath|clean]]\n[[Answers|other]]

You almost get to the bottom when you miss a foothold and fall a ways down. Thankfully it wass't too far of a drop, but you take a minute to [[recouperate.|recoup b]]

You lay on the warm and dirty floor, (maybe you should've [[cleaned|broomm]] it?) when you brush your hand over an uneven [[floor piece]]

Little dolls, tin cups, modest and regal rings, statuettes of beautiful women, small bits of coloured glass, little sachels of patterened cloth, old broken down stopwatches with cracked glass and so much more...\nThey amaze you.\n//I like to keep 'em [[shiny]], keeps me busy 'n sane.//

It is too dark to go along, there are no more torches along the walls to guide you.\nThe hallway seems a bit too cold for you liking to you now...\nyou decide to go [[back|hall1]]

[[Forward|b6]]\n[[Right|c7]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|12]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|11]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

There's a tiny gap in the wall.\n[[inspect it|steph]]\n[[ignore it and continue|14]]\n[[Leave|walks]]

back to work for you...\n[[examine brick|wibble]]\n[[Another job|working hard]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|16]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

there is a small bowl.\n[[touch it?|touch rubble]]

One brick is exceptionally worn down.\n[[inspect it|blank 2]]\n[[ignore it and continue|18]]\n[[Leave|walks]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|17]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|20]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|19]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

[[Goodnight.|escape restart]]

When you reply, an old man waddles through the door eyeing you.\n//"well this is odd. I would've never expected a visitor. though it has happened once before.\nwell come on in! you look terrible, have something to eat."//\n[[Go in|enter]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|7]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

[[Restart From Near Death|shit]]\n[[Restart From Last Major Choice|shit]]\n[[Restart Whole Game|1]]

You continue down the path from where you came, but without a torch makes it very cold and pitch black.\n...\nYou start losing the feeling in your fingers...\n[[...|sleep]]

Glancing at the [[broom|Keep sweeping]] reminds you of what you were doing.

...\nWith nothing else to hit, you throw the crowbar to the wall behind you in a fit of rage.\n//THUNK//\nYou lie down panting from the rampage you just went on when[[...|ooo spoopy door]]

It's no use!!\n[[Try again!|open?]] \n\n[[Wipe off hands|clean hand]]\n[[Turn back|umbrella]]\n[[Rest|goodnight escape]]

your hands are now a darkened color.\n[[wipe off]]\n[[leave it be|return hot room]]

You spend a few minutes thinking of a cool [[dance|radical]] and perfect the moves!

You pull down with all you might and the lever swings down.\n//THUNK//\nThe panel opens up.\nyou decide to keep this in mind.\n[[back|return hot room]]

[[Forward|b7]]\n[[Left|c6]]\n[[Right|c8]]

//[[Owch!|ow]]//

There's no end in sight.\n[[Look up|manhole]]

[[Forward|e3]]\n[[Right|f2]]

You're now in a hall.\nIt is significantly darker with only torchlight to light your way, compared to before with the moonlight shining in the room.\n\nThe hall splits into two paths...\nthey seem nearly identical, which path shall you take?\nThe path to your \n[[left|dark left path]] or the [[right|dark right path]]\n[[examine torch|torch]]

You finally get back to the task at hand[[...|ugh]]

[[Forward|f3]]\n[[Left|e2]]

[[Forward|f4]]\n[[Left|e3]]\n[[Right|g3]]

[[Forward|f5]]\n[[Right|g4]]

[[Forward|f6]]\n[[Left|e5]]

[[Left|e6]]\n[[Right|g6]]

Two straght paths leading forward unravel before you.\n[[Left Path|h6]]\n[[Right Path|h7]]

//Believe in yourself//\nit has to be somewhere...\n[[keep going|keep going 2]]\n[[give in]]

Your break from hard work is so relaxing that you forget about how tired, hungry, sweaty, and parched you are.\n[[back to work]]

//~Don't lose your way~//\neverything has an exit.\n[[keep going|keep going 3]]\n[[give in]]

//maybe you should check behind there again...?//\nit HAS to be somewhere...right?\n[[keep going]]\n[[give in]]

//Anytime now!//\nWhat are you even looking for again?\n[[keep going|keep going 5]]\n[[give in]]

You're laying in the corner a dark cold room with only the moonlight from a [[window|window]]. there is a [[Door|door no key]] and a small [[crate|crate no key]] on the other side of the room.\nbeside you there is an [[empty bowl|bowl]]

The large metal door blocking your path takes some force, but you eventually get it [[open|escape 1]].

Where are you...?\nIt's so cold...\nCold..\nSo [[tired|goodnight work 2]]...\n

You continue. \nYou glimpse an end to the path you're taking, at the end a small sconce luckily brings light to the dim dreary journey.\nThere is one door at the end of the hall.\n\nIt' to the [[left]] of you, wooden with a small, plain handle of cold metal. Must be made for common use.

[[Left|a6]]\n[[Right|see exit]]

Various coins you do not recognize are scattered on the floor, some even seem to be older that however old you are.\n[[pick up?|coin pick up b]]\n[[back|tower hole brick]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[keep looking]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

You pull with all your weak might, but it only budges just the slightest bit, leaving your already grimey hands with sprinkles of sunset colored residue.\n[[Wipe off hands|clean hand]]\n[[Keep trying to open|open?]]\n[[Turn back|umbrella]]\n[[Rest|goodnight escape]]

The old door opens with a satisfing creek.\nIt was much heavier than you expected.\n[[continue|hall1]]\n

[[Forward|e9]]\n[[Left|f8]]\n[[Right|f10]]

You start sweeping[[...|sweep]]

You almost get to the bottom when you miss a foothold and fall a ways down. Thankfully it wass't too far of a drop, but you take a minute to [[recouperate.|recoup]]

[[Forward|d9]]

You open the large wooden door quickly, making a eerie //creeeek//\n[[Enter|g1]]

[[Forward|f10]]

[[...|maze restart]]

there is a small bowl.\n[[touch it?|touch bowl]]

Sweat beads on your brow. It's much harder work than you expected, and there seems to be never ending labor...\nDo you [[continue?|go on]]\nor do you [[give up?|failure]]

The smooth surface is chilly and instantly cools you down, reminding you that the furnace is pumping out hot air and making it harder and harder to survive the heat.\n[[open door?]]

It says...\n\n\n //"To all others that are in this place,\nI may have found another path out, though I do not know the certainty of an exit. It is only a path that I have discovered through my escape of this cold place. Along the wall closest to the right of the door entrance there is a spot on the floor where the cobble are connected together and can be lifted to reveal a ladder down. I have not investigated this place. hopefully, It leads somewhere where I can be free of the everlasting dim light of the moon. At least before I die of starvation[[...|otherside]] //

//"Dont you worry, I'll talk with ya. It's more important that you get yerself fixed up"//\n[[Food|food]]\n[[A bath|clean]]

There's nothing to see here.\n[[Keep looking|6]]\n[[continue down|walks]]

you try to go on but you end up needing to rest.\nDon't over exert yourself.\n[[Rest|ahh]]

The steep stairs made your legs hurt.\nYou see a light at the top.\nNot as high up as some of the other paths you've taken.\n[[Rest|ahh]]\n[[Keep going|haha no]]

The door is a material that you don't recognize.(maybe its a type of stone or metal?) \nyou get closer and feel a cool warmth that's refreshing.\n[[touch?]]

One part of the wall is discolored.\n[[inspect it|blank]]\n[[ignore it and continue|10]]\n[[Leave|walks]]

Huh?\nWhere am you?\nWho am you?\n[[assess the situation|examine]]\n[[ponder|sit think]]

You start to work, filling you with a sort of workmans pride. [[You continue]]

The giant metal stomache towers over you. The surface radiates heat. The panel to the inside of the furnace seems safe to [[open|latch]] with your bare hands. There is also a [[lever]] off to the side.

The brick comes away from the floor easily[[....|rumble]]

...maybe you should use it to break things...\n[[give in]]\n[[resist the urge|find something]]

You look over the stashes of old trinkets well beyond your years, the old man notices you admiring them.\n//I see yer takin' a shine to my [[treasures]], sometimes I'll see one mixed in with the coins. people must not have much money to offer for [[wishes]] so they throw down their trinkets. Since yer my 'prentice as of now, what's mine is yers.

//The funace room ye ask?\nahh its not too far from here, just up from where you came and down a few halls. I'll be the guide the first time, but it's simple enough.\nNow, now, [[where|accomodations]]'ll I put ye...?

//If you start something you should go through with it// You guess...\nYour breathing gets harder.\nyou [[continue]]

Made of cement and litered with dirt and debris.\n[[Continue up|go up]]

There is a large [[furnace]], the old brick [[walls|wall]] covered with soot, and the piles of [[coal]] and a few [[tools]] are still there to your surprise. The air is filled with soot and smoke, making it hard to [[breathe]].

There is just a crate left, nothing more...\n[[go back|room yes key]]

[[Forward|i8]]\n[[Right|j7]]

//What's that?//\nHe scratched his head.\n//I may have heard you wrong, but did you just say you wanted to stay here?//\nYou nod.\n//Well, quite an odd idea, but, I am gettin' pretty old and need someone to take over my [[work|taking over]]. I'll welcome ye...//

//rumble//\n//rumble//\n//rumble//\n//[[?!?!]]//

//[[BANG!!!|THUNK]]//\nYou slam down onto the furnace with the power of a thousand suns!

[[...|goodnight work 3]]

Pring at the edges you seem to get it even more [[loose|loose]]

//"hullo?"//\n//"is there someone there?//\n[[...|silence]]\n[[respond|convo]]

[[Forward|f8]]

You're still in the well-like room. you can gaze up at the [[moon|moon b]]. The [[walls|walls b]], as they were before, strech up as far as you can see. You left the loose [[brick|inside brick]] on the floor. the floor is still covered with [[coins|coins b]].\n

It seems like this hole is a wishing well.\nIt would be disrespectful to take their wishes.\n[[back|tower hole]]\n

This must be a maze...\n[[Forward|g3]]

...\n...\n[[huh?|shit]]

You turn a corner and all of a sudden a gust of wind blows out your torch and see a cool white light.\nmaybe it is an exit?\n[[continue|tower hole]]

back to work for you...\n[[Another job|working hard]]

You spend the next day with the old man chatting until it was time to work again[[...|jk]]

maybe you should look around\n[[look around|examine]]\n[[stay a bit longer|sit think]]

//Ahh well, we'll make it work.//\nYou look over to the old trinkets that cover every surface of the room, the old man notices you admiring them.\n//I see yer takin' a shine to my [[treasures]], sometimes I'll see one mixed in with the coins. people must not have much money to offer for [[wishes]] so they throw down their trinkets. Since yer my 'prentice as of now, what's mine is yers.

AHH!\nYou wake yourself up!\nBetter not fall alseep yet, You're almost there!\n[[Continue|escape 2]]

Anyways, with this you could open a door... if there was any [[...|door find]]\nChoose another [[tool?|re tool]]

The jet black coals cover the room in piles around the [[furnace.|furnace]] \n[[Throw one in?|throw]]\n[[back|return hot room]]

[[...|2]]\n

there was a slip of paper inside.\n[[read it?|eyes]]

It is sticky, maybe you shoudn't touch it anymore\n[[Go back|room no key]]

The old man agrees.\n//"Yer a bit stinky i must say heh eh eh"//\n\nHe leads you into the small bathing room and leaves you alone.\nThe warm water washes over you and feel yourself cleaner than you can remember.\nWhen you get out, you see the old man layed out some clothes for you.\n\n//"When yer done I've made some [[food|food c]] for ye"//

The room's soft carpet fills you with ease and comfort.\nThe old man leads you to an armchair beside where he is standing.\n//"Before you tell me how 'ya got here, why dont you get yerself cleaned up? Yuh look exhausted. What would you like?"//\n[[Food|p]]\n[[Water]]\n[[A bath|p]]\n[[Answers|p]]

maybe you should've done something else?\n[[broom]]\n[[crowbar]]\nor maybe the [[shovel|stubborn]] was the right thing to do?

Going closer to the door you hear an empty whisper of what sounds like wind.\n\n[[Open door|see left door]]

You put your hand around the rusted metal handle and [[pull]]

//"well...\nTo tell yuh the truth, I didn't know anyone else would've been here. How strange. So you dont know who you are?"//\n[[thats right]]

Holding it in your hands makes you want to eat crab...\nhuh...[[weird|anyway]]