At Anchor
B Minus Seven
[[if you go on shore to get water,]]
([[about]])
You are on a finite beach.
<script>var waves = fuMakeSound("waves", "http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/sc0fziwjw4/SometimesJasmine_WavesOverPebbles_BMSmix.mp3", true, true);</script>
The sun the sky, a few fluffs. Splashing stretches from the horizon you. Behind, palms sway.
It's peace. The ship is a distant buzz. No 'all aboard' yet.
(set: $search to 0, $listen to 0, $call to false) (set: $sArray to (a: "a truffle.", "a drift.", "a horned stone.", "a mud-blue feather.", "an ant-line.", "a tibia.", "a tremulousness.", "a bed of mussels. Ah!", "a worn branch.")) (set: $lArray to (a: "splashing.", "splashes.", "sash.", "splash stretch.", "plashes.", "etch."))
[[Search]]
[[Listen]]
(set: $search to it + 1)(set: $listSear to $listen + $search)You find (print: $sArray's ($search))
(if: $listSear < 9)[ [[Search]]
[[Listen]] ] (else:)[ [[Search|They]]
[[Listen|They]] ]
(if: $call is true)[ [[Return]] ]
(set: $listen to it + 1)(set: $listSear to $listen + $search)(if: $listSear < 7)[(print: "You hear " + $lArray's ($listen))](else-if: ($listSear is 7))[(set: $call to true)You hear a cry.](else-if: $listSear is 8)[(set: $call to true)A crease.](else:)[(set: $call to true)You hear another cry.]
(if: $listSear < 9)[ [[Search]]
[[Listen]] ](else:)[ [[Search|They]]
[[Listen|They]] ]
(if: $call is true)[ [[Return]] ]
They take hold your hands and feet with fast rope. They haul you up and over.
They take your hands feet with rope. They haul you and over.
They your feet with rope. They haul and.
They with and.
The premise is adopted from Epictetus's <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0237%3Atext%3Denc%3Achapter%3D7">Handbook</a>, part 7.
The opening beach text is adapted from Caelyn Sandel's <a href="http://inurashii.xyz/tinyutopia/beach.html">Tiny Beach</a>.
The background noise is mixed from SometimesJasmine's "WindyBeach_<a href="https://www.freesound.org/people/SometimesJasmine/sounds/184890/">WavesOverPebbles</a>.wav".
The sound code is furkle's <a href="http://furkleindustries.com/fictions/twine/fuSound/">TwineSound</a> macro.
[[Back|At Anchor]]
(if: ($listSear is 7))[You drop it all and hurry back.](else-if: $listSear is 8)[You set your things in a pile and walk to the ship.](else:)[You let everything sink back into sand. You straggler, you meet the captain's glare.]