(text-style: "blur")[You open your eyes.]
You wake up in a strange place. You have no recollection of who you are or where you are.
[[Where are you??]]
<iframe width="0" height="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262514108&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
You look around. You're enclosed by four (text-color: "silver")[shiny silver walls]. The bright lighting (text-style: "shudder")[blinds you.]
[[You try to go back to sleep]]
[[You scream for help->You scream of pain]]
You lay back down, and your head hits a large metal rod.
[[You scream of pain]]
<iframe width="0" height="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262516844&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
A friendly looking female approaches. You try to communicate, but your message isn't getting across. How do you react?
[[You cry]]
Your new acquaintance starts crying too. Alas, it seems as though she can express emotions!
You give this gracious person a [hug]<cl1|.
(click:?cl1)[Your friend turns (text-color: "#4d94ff")[blue]!
Is your friend even human? [[Probably not]]]
She starts speaking in a language that you don't understand. It sounds like nothing you've ever heard before. It's definitely not Spanish, Arabic, or Mandarin...Feeling overwhelmed, [[you panic->What could it be?]] in confusion.
<iframe width="0" height="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262516578&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
You scream again, [[HELP!!!]]
<iframe width="0" height="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262513753&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
A man enters the room. Maybe he will help? You try speaking to him in English. He doesn't understand either. Guess he's an alien too... Is that what they are? That's your only explanation at this point.
[[Shit...]]
He hands you a computer. You are scared to open it, but you decide to do so anyways. A Facebook profile of a very attractive male pops up, but you can't understand what is posted in his profile. Seems like it is written in a different language. You look at the top of the screen which states, (font: "monospace")[This page is in (text-style: "italic")[Tamuchi]. Would you like to translate it to (text-style: "italic")[English]? [[Translate]]]
[[<img src="http://i.imgur.com/32hcLo9.jpg?1" width="848.5" height="355.5" alt="two foxes"->->Profile]]
Click on his profile to learn more.
<img src= "http://i.imgur.com/BCgqf8X.png?1" width="720" height="41.5">
You decide to open a new window and go to Facebook. While you can’t remember much from your past, a Facebook login comes to your mind.
[[Enter Login Information]]
(set:$textStyle to (text-color: "#00ff00") + (text-style: "bold"))
Now you know your name: $textStyle[Jonathan Doyle]. Can it really be? This is me?
You start to wonder how you could use this to escape from this strange silver place. Looking on your own profile, you find the person who last posted on your wall: $textStyle[Melanie Snow].
[[Message Melanie]]
You type...
(font: "monospace")[
Hi Melanie,
I’m not sure who you are, and quite frankly, I’m not sure I know who I am right now. But I gather you know who I am. If you know anything at all about who I am or why I’m trapped in a strange silver place with some strange aliens, let me know. I’m trying to escape, but I don’t even know where I am or who I am.
Best,
Jonathan]
[[You hear a noise.]]
<iframe width="0" height="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262517591&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
{
(set: $doorClosed to false)
(set: $outOfAirTime to 12)
(live: 1000ms)[
(if: $doorClosed is true)[ (stop:) ]
(else:)[
(set: $outOfAirTime to $outOfAirTime - 1)
(replace: ?warning)[You have $outOfAirTime seconds left before someone walks in!]
(if: $outOfAirTime < 0)[(goto: "Start")]
]
]
(click: ?CloseTheComputer)[
(set: $doorClosed to true)
(replace: ?warning)[
You close the computer just in time. Another strange humanlike thing walks in.]
(replace: ?CloseTheComputer)[You say [[hello]].]
]
}
(font: "courier")[[You have 12 seconds left!]<warning|]
[CloseTheComputer]<CloseTheComputer|
(set:$textStyle to (text-color: "#00ff00") + (text-style: "bold"))
Hmmm...Strange. This thing looks like $textStyle[Ograt Oskin] whose Facebook profile that you just saw.
Perhaps he could provide you with useful information. You decide to befriend him.
Ograt takes the computer and opens it. He sees his profile translated to English.
He runs out of the [[room]].
Ograt quickly returns, this time with a phone in hand.
He gives it to you.
(set: $noClick to "noClick")
(hook:$noClick)[Swipe to Open the Phone]
(mouseover-replace: (text:"?" +$noClick))[ <img src="http://i.imgur.com/X88g0x1.jpg?1">
]
Ograt motions for you to open an app called [[Google Translate]].
Click the app:
{
[<img src="http://i.imgur.com/u9vcIwl.png?1" width="200" height="200">]<meetLeslieKnope|
(set: $LeslieKnopeCheck to false)
(click: ?meetLeslieKnope)[
(link:"Turn Dual Communication Mode On")[Dual Communication Mode: On
[[Ograt says hello.]]]
(set: $LeslieKnopeCheck to true)
]
}
(if: $LeslieKnopeCheck)[
$LeslieKnopeCheck[Google Translate is activated. You can now communicate with Ograt as long as the app is running.]
]
You ask Ograt: Who are you? Where am I?
[[He responds.]]
Ograt sighs.
(text-color: "yellow")[The app translates as he responds:]
"Jonathan, you might find this hard to understand...
We retrieved you from (text-color: #33cccc)[planet Earth] (text-style: "italic")[a few hundred years ago]. This may seem confusing to you, but, well, space is confusing like that.
Basically, you are the last human man from (text-color: #33cccc)[planet Earth] still alive. We transported you into the future to learn about your species before you completely died out."
[["Who am I," you ask?]]
(set: $textstyle2 to (text-style: "Shudder") + (text-color: "red"))
"Well, I am one of an (text-color: "#00ff00")[alien species] that evolved from humans after you started transporting people to live on (text-color: "#B30000")[Mars]. That's why we look so similar to humans.
Now you have a choice, Jonathan. You can work with us, help us to understand you and your species. Or you could choose to $textstyle2[rebel]... We would (text-color: "yellow")[highly advise] against this option.
Remember: no one from your planet is alive. I wonder why..."
[[You respond.]]
You ask: "Does this mean that I'm your slave?"
[[Ograt responds again.]]
Ograt: "Think of it as more of a collaborator..."
(text-style: "bold")[How will you respond?]
[["Ok. What can I do?"]]
[["There’s no way I’ll be your human puppet, you yell as you punch him."]]
Ograt: "I thought you might come around. It's very basic really. We're just going to need to meet with you each day for various reasons - to learn about your physiology and about the way you think.
Your first meeting will be this evening at 18:00 hours."
[[Check your watch.]]
(set: $textstyle3 to (text-color: "red") + (text-style: "bold"))
(set: $numberPunches to 6)
You start to $textstyle3[punch] Ograt.
[[Keep punching.]]
(set: $numberPunches to $numberPunches + 2)
You keep punching Ograt, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.
[[Keep punching.]]
[[Run outside.]]
[[Give up.]]
You give up after punching Ograt $numberPunches times. The punches just didn't seem to be doing anything, no matter how many times you hit him.
You tell Ograt: "Fine. I'll do what you want. [[What do you need?->"Ok. What can I do?"]]"
(font: "monospace")[16:00 hours]
You have two hours.
(text-style: "bold")[What do you do?]
[[Wait for Ograt]]
[[Find the Computer Again]]
(set: $SendLocationCheck to false)
You give up after punching Ograt $numberPunches times. The punches just didn't seem to be doing anything, no matter how many times you hit him.
Somehow you (text-style: "shudder")[break free] from the room. Ograt doesn't even try to stop you. Strange, you think.
You run down a long and empty hallway. No one is in sight.
You soon reach a door.
[[Open the door.]]
[[Turn back->"Ok. What can I do?"]]
<iframe width="0" height="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262515039&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
You open the door with the excitement of freedom [[and then...]]
<iframe width="0" height="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262515305&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
(font: "monospace")[The conditions on this planet are not sufficient for maintaining human life. You are dead]
[[Start Over->Start]]
And soon 18:00 hits...
Ograt walks into the room: "So, Jonathan, it's nothing too bad, really. We just want to better understand human life. You could live a happy life here and fit in just like one of us."
Doesn't sound too bad you think.
(text-style:"bold")[What do you do?]
[[Leave while you still can->Run outside.]]
[[Keep Talking]]
You rummage around through various drawers in the room. Finally, you find the computer. You open it up hoping that Melanie has responded.
(link:"Notifications")[(font:"monospace")[One New Message]
[[Open Message]]]
<iframe width="0" height="40" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262514596&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
"Ok time for the first study," Ograt says. "This will only be a few short moments. Relax and close your eyes."
[[Close your eyes]]
(font: "monospace")[Jonathan,
Oh my gosh. We were so worried. I'm not sure what happened to you, but we can send you help. I just need you to send me your location.
Love,
Melanie]
[Send Location]<sendLocation|
{
(set: $SendLocationCheck to false)
(click: ?sendLocation)[
(text-style: "bold")[Location:] Sent
(set: $SendLocationCheck to true)
]
}
[[Wait for Ograt]]
You dream you're in a strange unknown place with (text-color: "silver")[shiny silver walls].
[[All Done->A]]
[[Wake Up->B]]
"All done."
You wake up to Ograt standing over you.
"Shall we get dinner now?"
[[Head to Dinner]]
(set: $textStyleEnd to (font: "arial") + (text-style: "bold"))
(text-style:"blur")[You wake up, opening your eyes. What a strange dream, you think.] (text-style: "italic")[Where am I? What am I doing?]
Suddenly it all comes back, as you look around you to the (text-color: "red")[red solo cups] strewn all over the floor, the smell of alcohol and old pizza filling the room.
(text-style: "italic")[Well, what a crazy night, you think. I hope everyone had fun at the party...]
$textStyleEnd[THE END.]
Ograt takes you to the favorite burger joint around. Who knew this place would be so similar to (text-color:"009999")[earth] in some ways.
You remember that Ograt likes running (remember, his Facebook profile), so the two of you begin bonding over it.
"Let's go for a run," he tells you. "Tomorrow at 06:00 hours."
[[You go to sleep->The Next Day]]
Your alarm (text-style:"fade-in-out")[goes off]. It's 05:45, and you're ready to run.
You meet up with Ograt, and he hands you a (text-color: "silver")[special suit]. "Your human body won't tolerate the conditions out there, so you'll have to wear this. Hope it doesn't get too hot and steamy!"
[[Step Outside]]
You and Ograt begin your run. You're having so much fun that you think you could get used to this. But this could be your chance. It could be your chance to run away. Perhaps Melanie from Facebook is sending help...
[[Stick with Ograt]]
[[Run Away]]
(set: $textStyleEnd to (font: "arial") + (text-style: "bold"))
You stick with Ograt, liking him more and more with each stride you take.
You both have so much fun that you begin running every day together. Slowly, you meet all of Ograt's friends, and soon you feel like you belong.
You've found your place. What was once home is long gone in your memory. You've found a new home now.
$textStyleEnd[THE END.]
(if: $SendLocationCheck)[
$SendLocationCheck[You see a ship appear. Melanie must have sent it after you Facebook Messaged her your location. [[Get On]]]]
(if: $SendLocationCheck is false)[You run away. Ograt doesn't chase after you.You run around the (text-color: "purple")[planet] for hours. Eventually the suit fails you, and your body can't take it any more.
(font: "monospace")[The conditions on this planet are not sufficient for maintaining human life. You are dead.]
[[Start Over->Start]]]
<iframe width="0" height="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262515039&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
As you get on, you're greeted with Melanie and some other humans.
"Oh Jonathan, we were so worried about you," Melanie saiysd.
"It's a good thing we found you," she says. "These (text-color: "#00ff00")[aliens] have been abducting and killing many others like you over the past few months. Everything they've told you is a lie. You can't trust them. They're trying to destroy us. You're lucky to be alive."
The spaceship takes off.
[[You wonder: Are they really trying to destroy us?]]
<iframe width="0" height="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262515687&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe>
(set: $textStyleEnd to (font: "arial") + (text-style: "bold"))
You'll never know...
$textStyleEnd[THE END.]
(text-style: "bold")[Name:] Ograt Oskin
(text-style: "bold")[Birthday:] 3/17/1296
(text-style: "bold")[Hometown:] Tamatam, Mars
(text-style: "bold")[Hobbies:] Destroying planets, studying human life, watching (text-style: "italic")[Keeping up with the Kardashians], running
(text-style: "bold")[Friends:] 172
Hmm perhaps this could be useful, you think to yourself.
[[Open a new browser window]]