<h3>So many good choices</h3> Well, good sir...have you decided who to ask out yet? (link:"Christine")[(set: $date to "Christine")(goto:"How to ask")], who has a boyfriend and a lot of anger. (link:"Erin")[(set: $date to "Erin")(goto:"How to ask")], a beautiful socialite with rich parents. (link:"Frank")[(set: $date to "Frank")(goto:"How to ask")], a friend you've always found pretty. (link:"Janelle")[(set: $date to "Janelle")(goto:"How to ask")], the Astronomy Club president who is very shy and secretive. (link:"Mary")[(set: $date to "Mary")(goto:"How to ask")], the girl from a nearby religious compound. (link:"Susie")[(set: $date to "Susie")(goto:"How to ask")], who is somehow on fire. (link:"Wilson")[(set: $date to "Wilson")(goto:"How to ask")], a volleyball. <h2>An Idiot tries for a First Date</h2> Quick Plot Summary: You are Johnny McLonely, a High School Junior who has yet to get a first date. You have Saturday night free and a ton of people in your class you find beautiful, so the time has come to create a new beginning. However, you can only ask one, and you will almost certainly be insulted while doing so. [[Who will you ask, and how will you ask them?|So many to choose from]]<h3>How best to ask...?</h3> And what will you use to ask out $date? (if: $date is "Christine")[(link:"Bring Flowers")[(set: $method to "flowers")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Ask about Saturday")[(set: $method to "ask")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Write a song for her")[(set: $method to "song")(goto:"Result")]](elseif: $date is "Erin")[(link:"Bring Flowers")[(set: $method to "flowers")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Ask about Saturday")[(set: $method to "ask")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Ask her friends")[(set: $method to "friends")(goto:"Result")]](elseif: $date is "Frank")[(link:"Bring Flowers")[(set: $method to "flowers")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Ask about Saturday")[(set: $method to "ask")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Ask his friends")[(set: $method to "friends")(goto:"Result")]](elseif: $date is "Janelle")[(link:"Bring Flowers")[(set: $method to "flowers")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Ask about Saturday")[(set: $method to "ask")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Join the Astronomy Club")[(set: $method to "astronomy")(goto:"Result")]](elseif: $date is "Mary")[(link:"Bring Flowers")[(set: $method to "flowers")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Ask about Saturday")[(set: $method to "ask")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Discuss Religion")[(set: $method to "religion")(goto:"Result")]](elseif: $date is "Susie")[(link:"Bring Flowers")[(set: $method to "flowers")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Ask about Saturday")[(set: $method to "ask")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Give her a bucket of water")[(set: $method to "water")(goto:"Result")]](elseif: $date is "Wilson")[(link:"Bring Flowers")[(set: $method to "flowers")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Ask about Saturday")[(set: $method to "ask")(goto:"Result")]<br>(link:"Challenge him to a game")[(set: $method to "game")(goto:"Result")]] <h3>The Result</h3> (if: $method is "ask")["Hey $date! What are you doing on Saturday Night?"<br><br>](if: $date is "Christine")["Get lost, creep! I have a boyfriend, you know!!"<br><br>Awww yeah, you pathetically think to yourself...she wants me.(set: $SatNight to "all alone")](elseif: $date is "Erin")[(if: $method is "flowers")[You hand her the flowers.<br><br>"Seriously? Grocery store flowers? Get lost, little boy!"(set: $SatNight to "all alone")](elseif: $method is "ask")["Nothing with you," she responds. "I don't hang around low class trash."(set: $SatNight to "all alone")](elseif: $method is "friends")[You get to know her friends and they all like you.<br><br>They invite you to a mid-week party where they set you up with $date, saying she needs a good guy.<br><br>After spending some time with $date, you absolutely hate her and find an excuse to leave.(set: $SatNight to "listening to $date and realizing why you never really were attracted to her in the first place")]](elseif: $date is "Frank")[(if: $method is "flowers")[You hand him the flowers.<br><br>He takes a quick glance at his friends, then angrily pushes you up against a wall. "How dare you?!? Who do you think I am?!?"<br><br>You soon find yourself in a dumpster next to the flowers you gave him.(set: $SatNight to "all alone")](elseif: $method is "ask")["Meh, probably hanging at the carnival on my own. Wanna come?" Unsure of whether he knows of your true intentions, you go with him anyhow.<br><br>Without his friends there, he's much more open and seems to become closer to you, but neither of you makes a move. Does he even like guys that way.(set: $SatNight to "having a great time and building a friendship that could absolutely lead to more")](elseif: $method is "friends")[You ask his friends about him, and whether they think he'd even be interested. Most of them laugh at you right then, and the whole school knows within a day.<br><br>Frank angrily rejects you by slamming you into a locker.<br><br>You eventually go to see the school counselor and meet a boy named Gabe in the waiting room.<br><br>He asks you out, and the two of you go to a movie.(set: $SatNight to "watching a movie with Gabe, unsure where you want the night to go")]](elseif: $date is "Janelle")[(if: $method is "flowers")[You hand her the flowers.<br><br>"Um...thanks, I guess. See you around."(set: $SatNight to "all alone")](elseif: $method is "ask")["Probably working on my research. You can join me if you want. It'll be unlike anything you've ever seen before.<br><br>Reluctantly, you agree to join her. After all, what's the worst that could happen?(set: $SatNight to "getting dissected by aliens for research en route to Janelle's home planet")](elseif: $method is "astronomy")[Excited to get to know her and possibly learn a little, you go to the Wednesday night Astronomy Club meeting. She starts talking about "Baryonic Mass."<br><br>You make it approximately an hour before you leave with a headache.(set: $SatNight to "all alone")]](elseif: $date is "Mary")[(if: $method is "flowers")["Those were once living beings! How could you be so horrible to such beautiful flora?!?(set: $SatNight to "all alone")](else:)[She starts to discuss the practices of her cult with you. Apparently, they worship phone books. Eeep. Within five minutes, you make an excuse to get away from her.(set: $SatNight to "avoiding your phone in case she calls")]](elseif: $date is "Susie")[(if: $method is "flowers")[You hand her the flowers.<br><br>They incinerate in the fire as the firemen rush in to save her.(set: $SatNight to "all alone")](elseif: $method is "ask")[The firemen push you off to the side as they go off to save her. "How rude," you stupidly mutter to yourself as you walk away.(set: $SatNight to "all alone")](elseif: $method is "water")[You try to give her a bucket of water, but trip and throw the water on her. The water extinguishes the fire, and you catch her as she starts to pass out.<br><br>You wind up escorting her to get help, and she remembers you as a hero when she wakes up.(set: $SatNight to "eating ice cream and watching B-movies while getting to know her in her recovery room")]](elseif: $date is "Wilson")["............."<br><br>NOTE: Volleyballs can't talk.(set: $SatNight to "talking to inanimate objects")] You spend Saturday night $SatNight. (link:"Try another date?")[(goto:"An Idiot tries for a first date.")]