When suddenly the room appeared

(if: $UnBound is 0)[(set: $InterRealityLegs to "Off")You are in a bind. This is the space where we meet. You will have to come back to it at a certain point, but you might have a different perspective. There are different ways to move, but right now, the only way to not be stuck is to be [[Un-Bound]].(set: $LegAccuracy to 0)(set: $NarratorPass to 0)(set: $talkedNarrator to 0) ](else-if: $UnBound >= 1)[You seem trapped in a loop. Your decisions have locked you in an unsatisfying merry-go-round; that is why you are back here. It is a different kind of bind that you find yourself in. Hopefully you have learned something from your choices that will allow you to avoid having to [[Un-Bind->Un-Bound]] again. ](set: $Doors to (a: "Door One", "Door Two", "Door Three", "Door Four", "Door Five", "Door Six"))

(set: $LikeSitting to 0)(set: $LegAccuracy to 0)(if: $UnBound is 0)[(set: $UnBound to 1)(set: $HapticSync to 0) Luckily you were able to get Un-Bound fairly quickly. Un-Binding has resulted in an Un-Tethering, though; you do not have much control of where you go when you Un-Bind, so maybe avoid doing that frequently. Only [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]] if you have to. Now that we are "here," try moving through space. There is nothing wrong with traditional human terms; [[walking->walking one]], [[standing]] or [[sitting]], the choice is yours. ](else-if: $UnBound >= 1)[ (set: $UnBound += 1)Oh no. You have Un-Bound yourself again. I guess whatever brought you back here was not enriching enough to give you a viable way out. Well, nothing we can do about it now; Hopefully things are not (Link-goto:"too bad", (either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" )). ]

(if: $UnBound <= 1)[(set: $UnBound += 1)(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]Oh, you have become Un-Bound again. That really is no good. It seems pretty mild this time - just a bit of shock, and only a few minutes of lingering dizziness. It is not a healthy habit, but hardly worth reporting to your doctor. If you were 90 years old, they might not treat it because, hey, you are 90. Even if that thought does start to creep around a bit when your mind wanders, it is the smallest, most miniscule amount of worry. NBD, right? So that is really all to the Un-Binding part of this equation. The only thing left to do is to see where this Un-Tethering (link: "goes.")[(set: $NearSighted to 1)(goto: "Bad Vision")]](else-if: $UnBound >= 2)[//Back again - the moment and suspense. But where this time? A repeat, or sometime new?//(set: $UnBound += 1)(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] Oh no. You have Un-Bound yourself again. I guess whatever brought you back here was not enriching enough to give you a viable way out. Are you taking care of yourself? Sure you can handle another one of these (Link-goto: "Un-Tetherings", (either: "walking one", "Bad Vision", "Bad Vision", "Walking Two", "Walking Three", "Walking Four", "standing", "Standing Two", "Standing Three","Standing Four", "sitting", "Sitting Two", "Sitting Three", "Sitting Four"))? I just care about you, is all.]

(set: $UnBound += 1)(set: $Worry += 2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]Oof, that is a bit more nasty of a case of Un-Bound. Your parents would definitely feel silly for making you go to school with all that Un-Bound-edness about you. //You have started to worry. But it is just a little bit of worry.// Ok, no big deal. You can deal with some worry - you should see where this Un-Tethering (Link-goto: "takes", (either:"walking one", "Bad Vision", "Bad Vision", "Walking Two", "Walking Three", "Walking Four", "standing", "Standing Two", "Standing Three","Standing Four", "sitting", "Sitting Two", "Sitting Three", "Sitting Four")) you.

(set: $UnBound += 1)(set: $Worry += 3)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]You have definitely become Un-Bound again. And I say this so firmly because it would be visible on you this time. It is a bad enough case that an I-told-you-so would be uncalled for; your Un-Bound-edness is clear, I am afraid. //You are beginning to worry more. Not enough to make you turn the car around, but you do linger, looking lonely at empty intersections thinking about an alternate, less Un-Bound version of yourself that would cut the wheel. You'd probably make it at least a 3 or 4 point turn.// Best to put this Un-Binding behind us; finish up with this Un-Tether and see where you come (Link-goto: "out.", (either: "walking one", "Bad Vision", "Bad Vision", "Walking Two", "Walking Three", "Walking Four", "standing", "Standing Two", "Standing Three","Standing Four", "sitting", "Sitting Two", "Sitting Three", "Sitting Four"))

Moving around like this feels pretty good. Close to natural. We have got a stride that certainly would not raise any eyebrows. In a sense we are moving. The connection of wanting to move, exerting energy, and pushing off of something has you feeling a bit better.(click: "pushing")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Your stomach lurches forward, but it leaves you behind. A fleeting queasiness, but the memory remains.//](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]] I suppose with that level of success you would probably want to [[walk some more]] - far be it from me to hold you back. If we linger, then you may become occupied with our stride, as though you need to concern yourself with how we appear when walking. Best to keep on moving or just stop altogether and try [[standing.->standing some more]](click:"your stride")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[ (color: "#606060")[//Come to think of it, your shoe does squeak each time you take a step. You try different ways to walk without causing the sound, but it is impossible.//]](set: $ShoeSqueak to it + 1)](click: "linger")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(set: $Worry+= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](color: "#606060")[//A taste, tangible and unpleasant, on the back of your tongue. Might be worth a Web MD trip.//]]](click: "stop")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[ (color: "#606060")[//Like that time you stopped going to violin lessons. Or quit the team. Or dropped a class?//](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]]

Not a bad choice, especially after your dizziness from the Un-Tethering (and the wooziness from the Un-Bounding) wears off. This gives us a chance to just do whatever for a while. As long as you do not lock your knees, we can do this indefinitely. And hey, even if you did lock them, so what? There is no hard and fast rule about how long you have to stand with stiff legs before you just pass out, right? It must be a general feeling. The more we stand - and the more we think about standing - the more you doubt that you were ever taught to not lock your legs. When you really think about it, you have never seen anyone pass out from just [[standing->standing some more]]. I do not mean to imply that it is impossible. But, hey, you have been to a lot of [[parades->ParadesTwo]], rallies, concerts - general "stand about for a long time" venues.(click: "rule")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//What if there **is** a rule for this and you have already done lasting damage to your legs?//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "locking your legs")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[You would love for someone to send you a link to a news article. One that will give you the jist of the story just from the headline. Then maybe you would not have to get so worked up about what the ideal angle is for a standing knee bend. Someone could be watching us right now. They would wait for the moment you dip (link: "below")[(set: $Worry += 2)(goto: "below")] that protractor-precise 2.5 degree threshold. When you do they will think "wow, that person is trying not to lock their legs! If only they knew my friend Jacob because he posted an article about it - the jist of the headline being that, if you cannot maintain a range between 2 and 5 degrees - you are better off locking your legs anyways."]]](click: "indefinitely")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//At best, that is a bluff. But know you have thought it. The possibility of endless standing stretches out in front of you. You feel uneasy, your stomach twists.//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] Standing is not making you uncomfortable, far from it! But it makes you think a lot about body thoughts; when was the last time you went out for a [[walk->walk some more]]?(click: "went out")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//And another day spent entirely inside, bravo. It felt like such a good idea at the time, but not anymore.//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]

Sitting would have been my first choice as well. Not to downplay the others, it is just //so// luxurious. Definitely the least likely to cause cramping, exhaustion, sweating, stomach aches, or a sudden onset of wanting to sit, but realizing nobody else is sitting. Which, sure, is context-sensitive. What about when it is obvious that we are going to be here for awhile? And look - there //are// chairs or at least stools - are we just going to hover here awkwardly, looking like we might be ready to leave at any time, when we could just go sit?(click: "stools")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Stools, god. They are like standing-lite, just such a waste. No back support, no leaning, crammed too close to each other; your feet dangle and you just want to go home.//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click:"luxurious")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[Might as well kick back a bit too, since there really is nothing like lounging a bit. Sitting //and// you get proper lumbar support? Laugh in the face of posture and give it a good (Link-goto:"slouch", (either: "slouch", "slouchTwo")).]]](click:"sweating")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//rough transition. Suddenly you obliterate shirts and feel like a swamp monster. But at least you are avoiding the aluminum, right? Or is that just a myth?//](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]](click: "posture")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Unless you just saw that one kid on your walk - the one who is just leaning so far forward, like his head is diving off his shoulders; if you could see with protractor-vision it would be bad, like not nearly 45 degrees; more like enough that they would have to make a sign for trucks to use a lower gear, and it makes you go "yeesh," but no out loud, but like thinking "yeesh," and, after seeing that, you straighten your back, or push your shoulders forward like you are wearing a cape because //that// is bad news, like a turtle without a shell.// Maybe [[do not slouch]] instead, that is a fair alternative.](click:"loud")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Can they hear your music through your headphones? When did you get headphones?//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "yeesh")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//The "yeesh" lingers; That kid must always have a sore back.//]]]]]

(set: $Worry += 1)(if: $UnBound >= 2)[//Do you have an ophthalmologist, and are they covered by your healthcare plan? //]//Eventually with all this walking, you notice an odd phenomenon. You feel like you are [[advancing]], which made you feel good before.//(click: "odd")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Odd does not necessarily mean unfamiliar. The unexpected unexpectedly quiets your brain.//](set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]] Our sightlines and milestones remain empty; you have not really moved anywhere. All of this thinking on moving, and not a single thought of where you were moving through!(click: "empty")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//There really is nothing here, despite your best efforts.//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] That not-walking flavor of walking is not sitting well. It is enough to furrow your brow, or cause a bit of a side glance. Do you really want to [[keep walking]]? Because it is not interesting, and I am starting to think if you keep "keep walking" then you might get frustrated at how you are not really getting anywhere.(click: "frustrated")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(set: $Worry += 2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](color: "#606060")[//You could have sworn that you **just** saw your keys a minute ago. You were the only one who moved them. You have checked all of the usual spots. Yes, you have a spare set but that is besides the point.//]]]

(if: $UnBound >= 1)[//Standing makes everyone stare at you as they pass by. It makes you feel as though the entire world is, for a moment, looking your way//(set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] Did you forget something at home? You do a brief check for your essentials - wallet, keys, phone; all present. Now there are enough (link: "people")[(set: $Uncle to 1)(goto: "people")] passing in both directions that you feel obligated to offer them - //them//, as though anybody is actually watching you - a plausible reason for your stop.(click: "reason")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You pull your phone out and look at it. You try and make sure the address in your phone is where you are presently standing. You cannot meet your friend standing if you are in the wrong place, can you? Even though your friend is not coming and there was never an address where you were supposed to be. You try to make it look even more convincing. You fail.//](click: "glance")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You cannot help but think that the exact thing you need to see is right outside your peripheral vision.//]](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "convincing")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You worry that it is painfully obvious that you have just invented a problem and you think everyone knows it. You think they care, and are paying attention; they might even tell their friends later how stupid you looked. They do not know it, they do not care, they were not paying attention, and they will not tell their friends about it. But they do not care, and they are not paying attention. They certainly will not tell their friends. Nevertheless, you do not stop worrying.//]](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] Bravo on the performance! I am sure you have set the world off your trail. The hounds lost your scent in the river; or maybe, the hounds never existed. Will you commit to an encore by [[standing around a bit longer looking confused and stood up]]? (set: $StoodUp to 1)]](click: "phone")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Has anyone texted you lately? Or called? Better check those notifications.//]](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "forget")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//A rush of every deadline, reminder, notice and due date. Have you returned your books? Signed up for classes? Paid taxes? Applied for that thing? Called your family back?//]](set: $Worry +=2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] ](else-if: $UnBound >= 2)[//While you chose to stand in good faith, your poor eyesight betrays you; you stop moving right inside an unstable tear in space and fall through. You land with a lowercase "thud," and are unhurt.//(set: $SnakeFear to 1) This place is completely unfamiliar - it is not something of our own creation. The space feels off, like it was not built for //us//, and by that I mean bipeds averaging 5-6 ft. tall. We can hear something, a slithering, distant and dry, with a velocity that suggests our location as the destination.(click: "unfamiliar")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Unfriendly drop ceilings make your neck pivot on its side. Garish, harsh angles offer constant unease. Whatever the purpose of this space is, it is wasted on you.//](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]](click: "built")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[Not to be a pest - I also am curious as to the timeline resulting in such architecture as well, but that menacing sound is almost upon us]](click: "suggests")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Spotting no exits, your options feel limited.//] You could [[curl up]] into a ball - is that a strategy that works with bears?(set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]](click: "feels")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Reaching your hand to what you can only hope is just a wall; it resists. Coarse, tough. You instinctively pull away.//](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]](click: "slithering")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Like a snake, only bigger. Like if a snake weighed as much as you do, and was moving fast.//](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]] ]

//Now it is becoming clear (if: $NearSighted is 1)[or, as clear as it can really get for you, given your sight problems ]- you are certainly not actually walking to any place in particular. Glancing forwards (or at least, the way you think is probably forwards) is no different than glancing anywhere else. This is disconcerting.(set: $Suspicion to 1)// At this point it feels as though we are being followed by ourselves. A creeping air of suspect sets in, and I can tell you are starting to get lost in the enormity of walking. If I am remembering things correctly, at least a few walks ago, I tried to call out to you - stop you from just walking without purpose. It must have worked then, and it must have not worked now. So now we walk, and that has become one of our defining features. Eventually it will be the only feature. **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(if: $InterRealityLegs is "Off")[(set: $Worry += 2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]//The enormity of it all is starting to get to you. You worry a good deal more.//](else-if: $InterRealityLegs is "On")[//The enormity of it all is astounding.//] Shit. We need to get your inter-reality worrying under control, and anchor yourself asap. "Everything" is way too much too fast. I should not have given you it as an option. You look dreadful; you are not in any state to consider everything, all at once. It is a lot, even for me. You did not Un-Bind; you are very much in a space. It just happens to be every space, simultaneously.(click:"dreadful")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//**Try not to breathe much - either hold your breath in, or out; it is important that you not linger much on the in between part of breathing while we do this next part.**//]] ](if: $ConfidenceInGroup is 1)[ //Everything is one big group. Because of this, and your confidence problems, you are terrified.// "Everything" is, like, the //biggest// group you can think of, and you are it. Your worry has graduated into something much more sinister. This is like that weird memory you have of sneaking out of bed to watch that show late at night that your parents did not want to let you watch - you did, and my goodness they were right; you should //not// have watched that.(set: $Fear to 1)] (if: $Doubt is > 0)[ You can still do anything, if you just //do// the thing. Breathing is personal, so nobody has to even really know if you are doing it! I mean, they will know if you do //not// do it, for an extended period of time, in that you would likely pass out or die or something along those lines, but you can hold your breath without anyone caring, in most cases. Very few diplomatic conflicts began because one party insisted on breathing too aggressively - I can really only think of the one time that happened, and (as I am sure you remember) Canada is doing just fine now.] Can you do something that is comforting? You have done well [[covering your ears]] before. But if that is not enough, try [[rubbing your fingers together]], the friction might get the haptics in sync again.

(if: $LegAccuracy is 1)[//You remind yourself, diligently, about your duplicate entry of a right leg. Each step is now a two step process, causing a sensation of helplessness before you safely land again. The process is mentally and physically exhausting. You make it well into your 40s (impressive, to be sure) when you sell the rights of your story to a tabloid. While the payout was great, the SEO on your name is forever tarnished.//(set: $Age to "forty ish") **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)] ](else-if: $LegAccuracy is 0)[//You should refrain from encouraging him like that.// Thanks for the vote of confidence. Now we are even closer to calibrated than ever before. I bet if we did a trust fall right now you would drop right into my arms, no hesitation. (click: "calibrated")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](color: "#606060")[//Breaking your own suspension of disbelief, the seams start to show. A screen door, tightly packed pixels - but they are there.//] ]](click: "trust")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](color: "#606060")[//I might get suspicious of you poking around so much...//] ]] Putting aside our potential for team building activities, there is a certain haziness regarding our "where." It is tough to stand nowhere; the specifics [[slip]] slowly downstream, and with nothing mentally to counteract our own uprightness, we start [[feeding]] the machine null entries.(click: "null")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Why does he distance himself from me like that?//] ](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "z")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(set: $EyeForDetail to 1)(color: "#606060")[//Just a formatting issue that my editor missed but thanks for looking out for me.//] ]] ]

(set: $HapticSync to 1)Good; that is a bit of an anchor. You can feel what is most likely your fingers rubbing together. Best guess would be your thumb and your index fingers, but I can be off by a finger or two sometimes. Just definitely keep that up! Luckily that is not a space-dependent action. (if: $Worry >= 4)[(set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]Now we have a link, albeit a weak one, between where you are and where you //feel// you are. I would say it is about as strong as wet newspaper, though, so refrain from sudden movements. Even though we are "Everything," we can at least pick out [[ourself->personal space]].

(if: $WentThrough is 0)[(if: $InterRealityLegs is "Off")[(set: $answer to "")(if: $WallHit is 1)[//You mentally push through that wall, hands first - you are not about to lead with your face. Working past that temporary discomfort has brought you somewhere much more comfortable.// ](if: $Embarrassed is 2)[//There is plenty of seating here, so you will not need to stand.// ]We are now in our personal space. Sure, we did not really "go" as much as we "made," but I am really feeling our success here so I will not dwell on the specifics. You have created this by travelling through your own most anchoring feelings and senses. I can appreciate that it currently appears rather sparse; it is more of a feel than a look. Like the perfect temperature where you do not sweat and you also have no need for extra layers. I think it is easier if you think about the way you float underwater. When you exhale just enough air so that you are suspended. In this scenario, nothing else was present to make waves. You are perfectly still. And it is that moment before any water stings your eyes, and certainly right before your brain recognizes that you will need to breathe soon. So you are, for maybe a fragment of a second, even if you are not conscious of it, indiscernible from your surroundings. So it is like that, only a room. That is where we are right now. You are now calibrated. Sort of. Similar to the way Ohio allows you to drive at the age of 15 and a half: you are free to [[go->The Room With A Lot of Doors]], but I will still hold on to the roof handles and yell out "holy shit" every time you blow through a stop sign or push a yellow. ](else-if: $InterRealityLegs is "On")[(set: $answer to "")//You are back. Safe, again, in your own personal space. Ahead of you is [[The Room With A Lot of Doors->Every Single Door Except One]] and the [[Doorman->Talking To The Doorman]].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "pizza")[(if: $PizzaSlices >0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(set: $PizzaSlices to it - 1)(replace: ?PizzaSlices)[$PizzaSlices](set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](set: $answer to "") //You eat a slice of pizza, which is comforting//](else-if: $PizzaSlices is 0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "personal space")]](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "personal space")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?] (set: $PizzaEat to 1)]](else-if: $WentThrough is 1)[(if: $talkedNarrator is 0)[(set: $Inverted to 0)(set: $talkedNarrator to 1)(go-to: "Narrator Gives")](else-if: $talkedNarrator is 1)[(set: $answer to "")//Oh, here in your personal space again. Lucky that you made it back. Ahead of you is [[The Room With A Lot of Doors->Every Single Door Except One]] and the [[Doorman->Talking To The Doorman]].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "pizza")[(if: $PizzaSlices >0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(set: $PizzaSlices to it - 1)(replace: ?PizzaSlices)[$PizzaSlices](set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](set: $answer to "") //You eat a slice of pizza, which is comforting//](else-if: $PizzaSlices is 0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "personal space")]](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "personal space")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?] (set: $PizzaEat to 1)] ]

(if:$KneeCrack is 1)[//You sit, mostly undisturbed. However, when you adjust your position, your knees give out a loud sound like crunching gravel. It is cause for concern, probably.// (set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]Honestly you just keep sitting. You are not having any kind of meditative epiphany, and you are not developing any permanent habits, fears or concerns. Sitting some more has at least conserved a fair bit of you energy. You will not be hungry, thirsty, or sleepy for quite some time. [[Waiting]] for something to happen is not the worst plan around.(click: "time")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[ (color: "#606060")[//Your thoughts start to wander to yourself - how you define yourself, or at least how weird it is that you cannot completely perceive anything specific except for the fact that you are sitting//]]] Since you have not thought about anything other than what you are doing, you might find it difficult to reconcile what or where you are. Now might be a good time to [[work on that->personal space]].

//You keep slouching. Now you are 30 years old, and you worry if your slouching is causing any other medical issues.// (set: $Age to 30)(set: $ToeShoes to 1) Slouching seems to have turned you into a timid 30 year old. You still keep in fairly regular contact with your family, but you are drifting from one low paying job to the next, and the only thing that defines you is your insistence on wearing those toe shoes - and not even just for exercising. The world is just always out to get us, you know? You hunch, sigh, and lurch your way through life. **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//Not slouching has given you impressive posture; alone, you are strong and confident. In a group, you are tall - honestly, maybe tall enough that you tower over others. You are at least 6' 5'' and slightly nervous in groups because of your height.//(set: $Height to 6.5)(set: $ConfidenceInGroup to 1) An impressive life decision. Or at least, you have mentally expanded the space that this decision could affect you, and as a result I would say you are batting one for two. Sorry about the "group nerves" thing. Just remember you need some [[recharge time->personal space]]; it is better for you to engage in short bursts, instead of taking on the pressure and enormity of [[everything]] at once. It is not like you have something better to do tonight, right? (click: "something better to do")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[ (color: "#606060")[//You do not have anything better to do; you do have plenty of self [[destructive things]] to do, but you will not acknowledge that until after the fact.//]]]

(if: $LikeSitting is 1)[//You thought too much about how you were sitting, and now you are metaphorically sitting on the edge of your seat all the time. Your brain now associates sitting down with pure excitement and anticipation, regardless of the activity.//(set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] I do not know why but we simply cannot wait to see what happens next. Each time nothing happens our eagerness doubles. If we wait //just a little bit longer//, it will happen. **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)] ](else-if: $LikeSitting is 0)[(set: $MultipleYous to 1)(set: $Doors to ($Doors + (a: "Find the Old Yous")))//In a twist on the classic "look before you leap," where in your case looking is not very useful, you sit and stand simultaneously. It is definitely uncomfortable; visually your appearance is unclear.// The closest thing I can think to compare you to is an [[abandoned]] 3D print job. Your legs are fused to your shoulders and arms. It feels like an in-between frame of animation, except someone has paused the show and now we look low budget. That really might just be because people do not understand key frames. Regardless, I am not sure if you can move anymore.(click: "between")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//There is no space separating your standing-legs and your sitting-shoulders. What if you can no longer move them independently?//](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]](click: "key frames")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//It is disingenuous, people post screenshots of a beautiful keyframe next to a purposefully sloppy inbetween, why? Yeah, the animation industry in the 80s had money, sure, but they have some kind of nostalgia agenda; did they even use two shows with similar budgets and styles? They probably cherry picked that gorgeous key from an OVA and the inbetweens from some monster-of-the-week throwaway garbage.//](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]](click: "fused")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//[[Glancing]] your sitting-head at your newly-fused limbs gives you an [[out of body experience->out of body experience]] - are those really **your** legs? The answer to which is that yes, they are your legs, just half.(set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]//]]](click: "only")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//If only I had not thought to sit if only i had not Un-Bound if only I had Un-Tethered somewhere else if only I had(set: $Worry +=2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]//]]] ]

//Left to your own devices, you think of anything. The process repeats, infinitely, gaining speed with each connection made. You are unable to grasp even a single word, inundated with a nearly complete, constant image of any word imaginable.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//Back and forth, the rocking motion of the sea. A rough patch on the road. Jogging. Each bump shakes through you.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//Despite knowing that you cannot change what happened, that there is nothing you can do now to improve your odds of success, that it was unforgivable, that being late is not that big of a deal, that the paper was actually due last week, that they were actually arguing in bad faith, that you let me down; dwell, stew, simmer and sigh. Your imaginary retellings wear down your confidence until you exist solely to rectify past happenings.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//---//(set: $Despair to 1)(set: $Worry += 2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / .../ **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//Simultaneously worse than both walking and meeting individually, you are trapped in a breathless, unnecessarily sweaty arbitration. You cannot help but think that nothing would have been lost by separating these two events; in fact you are confident that a long walk at lunch would have helped clear your head and prepare. Now, ambushed, exposed and visibly perspiring, you are at the mercy of this open ended check in.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//You stand, even though the song is not even that good. It might be that one old song that nobody was sure if they would play it or not, or maybe it was the third encore, or possibly you just have to deal with it and stand because everyone else started to. This moral compromise tears you up inside and you are never able to reconcile with this permanent mark on your escutcheon.//(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//You resist the mob pressure to stand, but this challenge does not go unnoticed. Unwelcome and nasty glares, jeering and taunting. Eventually the band stops and everyone, even the drummer, efforts to shame you into standing. You sit, solid and silent on that beach blanket that you took from your parents. Soon the news crews arrive, and all three local channels ask the question: "why will you not stand up at the concert?"//(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//You keep slouching, largely with no consequence. Your posture has not affected your life in any major way, but you do tend to walk hunched forward a bit.//(set: $LeanForward to 1) No medical problems, [[nothing]] to worry about. Slouching is really turning into one of those concrete, positive life events for you. Regardless of how [[formal]] the event is, or how engaged you are, we can pretty much guarantee - yep, you will be there, and you //will// be slouching. Your ability to at least appear this relaxed in such a variety of locations is nothing short of mildly interesting.(click: "appear relaxed")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//What are you trying to hide? Do you always have to slouch like that? Are you even capable of showing emotions?//]](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "life events")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//The enormity of the situation is starting to dawn on you. Not just when you slouched that one time, but any time you have ever slouched, any time anyone has ever slouched, the history of slouching, and how desperate it all feels. You develop a habit of gulping, loudly.//]] (set: $Gulp to 1)(set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] Certainly nobody talks about how you are that "slouching guy," right? (click: "slouching guy")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Loads of people have dished about your slouch behind your rather curved back. You are in at least two different phones as "Slouch Friend." Knowing this makes you think that you have made a bad choice.//]](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] ]

//You must have locked your legs for too long. Or maybe you thought of something gross; you have a propensity for this kind of behavior. The air is hazy, and you hit the ground hard. The effect is doubled - not only did you pass out, which sucks, but you also passed out in school.//(set: $Age to 16)(set: $Embarrassed to 2) I try to be frank with you; we have a pretty good relationship. This one is just bad. Not in a mortally injured kind of way, but in that deep-seated kind of [[sitcom]] way. Everyone you know either walks by or was in your last class anyways so there is no avoiding this topic of conversation for days. And just to be safe the school decided to call an ambulance, which is just hysterical in retrospective, but we are not retrospect-ing right now.(click: "ambulance")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Do you call your parents in the ambulance? before you get in? If you are able to make a phone call, why do you really need to be in this thing anyways?//]]] Instead, you get wheeled off on a stretcher which is totally overkill. The ride is short; your parents meet us at the hospital and everybody around quickly realizes how massively unimportant this situation is for your physical well being. You are hungry, which matters more to you than anything right now, and you looked like a complete moron back at school so that is honestly weighing pretty heavy. Your mom asks you, while you are needlessly hooked up to a monitor, what you want to (Link-goto: "eat", (either: "go out to eat at fast food", "wing it at home")) after this.

//You are at a Fourth of July parade. You are eight years old, and adults are throwing candy at you. Nice. It is pretty hot out though.// ??? What r u doin man this is getting complicated.

//You are downtown, somewhere. The parade stretches in front of you for blocks; is it a seasonal parade? Or an event? You are not sure. You have had too much to drink beforehand to drive home.//(set: $BAC to .094)(set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] This might be a really good parade, but we are not in a great way to sit back and enjoy it. One of our friends made sure we had a drink or two before the festivities began, and then we made sure to use the drink tickets we bought at the start of the evening, so - I mean you were keeping track, right? I stopped keeping track because I thought you were on top of it. [[Having any more to drink]] would put us on the verge of rooms spinning. There is definitely music playing, and people are yelling, and you stepped in some trash but that happens. You look up and notice your friend in the crowd in front of you.(click: "your friend")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[ (color: "#606060")[//You tap them on the shoulder, but it is not your friend. You will probably think back to how they seemed a little annoyed and bothered by you later, right when you start feeling good.//]]] It gets cold out and the sun sets. There are plenty of lights on, but you still have problems seeing. Your phone is nearly dead, which is a weird sign to you that you want to go home. Do you [[call a ride home]], or try and [[find your friends->found them]] to hitch a ride with them?

//You made a bad short term decision by lying to yourself about the motive. It feels disappointing every time you tell someone that "it was just what you needed to do at the time."//(set: $Duplicity to 1)(set: $Worry += 2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] We all have backslides like this, to different degrees. You can deal with the different spaces you have, consciously or otherwise, chosen to exist within: If you can just [[self reflect]] for a moment, honestly, then we can get back on the adventure. Try and focus with me so that you do not [[make another impulsive, self-duplicitous decision]].

//>Cast a wide net >It is not all or nothing >You invented these rules//(set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] We try to anchor ourselves mentally. Instead of a panic nap, or binge eating, or whatever else we could have done, this becomes a small step forward. Now our emails went out, or our plans were made, or we did reach that one deadline, and nobody was mad, and nothing was ever really in peril, and in the grand scheme of things it is absolutely fine that the milk expired; your coffee is still [[warm->personal space]].(click: "panic nap")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Shaking, sleeping. It takes most of your day. You were going to get some errands done, or some homework, or take the car in to the mechanic, or? But the nap was two hours long. You have a headache, but at least you woke up with no major consequences.//]]]

//'I deserve this,' you say to yourself, confident that this will be the last time you shirk responsibilities to 'relax,' or whatever.// (set: $Duplicity += 1) At this point, you have become willing to dupe yourself so that it does not feel as bad to think about your own failings as your //own.// You have adopted an "us against the world" mentality, only there is an increasingly scary emphasis on "us" when it comes to "you" because you will just change that depending on the situation. You are not to be trusted, but you do not know that (for long, at least). **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always (Link-goto:"Un-Bind", (either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" )).(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//You can hear everything, but now it is muffled. It makes you feel a little better.//(if: $Worry is > 0)[(set: $Worry -=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] Not a lot can take the edge off of all things simultaneously, but this at least makes things quieter, despite their all-encompassing, overwhelming, everything-idness. You can hear each thing existing, but unlike before when it was really giving us a bit of a crisis, now we can kind of relate to it, since we at least know that we are the thing with its hands over its ears. We try not to think too much about the [[blood circulation]] that we can now distinctly hear in our ears. Instead, use this brief, slightly more calm moment to get out of everything and [[narrow it down->personal space]].

//The feeling of your hands over your ears was comforting, but it has become tighter. Now you can hear and feel the blood pumping. It is a repetitive and dull feeling. It makes you ache.//(set: $BodyFear to 1) We spend a long time with our hands over our ears. Maybe you took a breath, or maybe you lost your concentration. Either way, the slow, soft thumping of our heartbeat builds. Eventually we are numb to anything except the loud and constant sound; it feels sharp, prickly and painful. **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//Like a car battery that needed to be driven for a while after you jump it, your knee really needed the immediate exercise. Waiting atrophies what little muscles you had left.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//Thinking that you are advancing makes you actually advance. However, with no indications, sensations or expectations of where you are advancing, you find that you advance right into a wall; your brain snaps back from hitting your skull. The collision is painful.// (set: $WallHit to 1)(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] Oh - that was incredibly unpleasant. I hope you do not have a mild concussion. That wall was //extremely// rude for sneaking up on us like that. And it snuck right into your face! At great speed, no less. Not for nothing, but are you going to let it just get away with that?(click: "get away with")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You try to chastise the wall, but, even in this reality, it is still inanimate. Your harsh words, while ineffective against this **particular** wall, do upset other walls elsewhere. These walls will remember your transgression.//]](set: $WallOffense to 1)(set: $Doors to ($Doors + (a: "Door Wall Offense")))] We should disengage with this thing - and maybe find some ice to press onto the area right above your eye because it is starting to really swell up. It is a //persistent// wall, not letting anything [[through->personal space]].(click: "swell")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You remember the advice you got in your junior high school cross country team - use something cold, apply pressure, and elevate the afflicted area. Was that all of it? Maybe your memory is not as good as you thought, or maybe it is your new head wound? You get really caught up in the last part. If elevating an injury is actually important than how the hell are you going to elevate your head anyways? Is there somewhere higher for it to go? And what was that acronym anyways.//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] All walls end, and we are free to just [[go around them->walking around it]]. Not the most exotic solution, but hey, it is a possibility.(click: "solution")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//The solution is "through," but now you feel bad for cheating.//]](set: $Worry += 2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]

//"Around it" proves to be the difficult part. As if to boast, the wall appears to grow with each step. The end is in sight! Except, it always is.//(set: $Calves to 1) The first few times trying to circumvent the wall proved incredibly unsatisfying. But, given your stubborn nature, we continued attempting to be "around" this thing. Each time we got to the end of the wall, or each time we thought it was nearly there - totally convinced that now it would actually be over - the wall just laughed and got longer. This kept things interesting for awhile; the mocking gave us a purpose. But eventually the wall stopped engaging, and we kept walking. Hopefully we find "around" soon. **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//It is late. You are so engrossed in your role that you do not notice it is dark out. Earlier, you pretended that you had been stood up by a friend. Now you have gone to great lengths to convince not only everyone else, but also yourself that this is actually the case. Each time a new face walks by, you start from the top.// You begin to fume. Can you believe they would just bail on plans like this! Did they send you a text? Should you call their family? (click: "text")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//They did not send you a text because in this space, they are not real.//] ]]We should call their family.(click: "call their family")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[// No answer. Even more proof that something is going on.//](set: $Paranoid to 1)]] You are sure that they are worried; you know you are. We had plans tonight! Now we have to cancel? That is a double imposition. They are not the kind of person to just forget something like this. I have lost track of time - days, and weeks. We are tired, hungry, and thirsty. If only they would show up. We should wait a little longer, right? **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(if: $BAC is < 1)[(goto: (either:"driver turns out to be really nice", "driver is totally quiet"))](else-if: $BAC is > 1)[//You order a ride back from your phone. Or at least, you think you did. You certainly remember sharing your location. But after fifteen minutes go by, you start to get a little skeptical.//(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] To be fair, the rideshare app did look suspiciously like your favorite pizza place. We stand around a little longer, just outside the major crowds from the dwindling parade. Soon enough, a car pulls up and we are eating from an imposing pizza box. You eat a few slices, give some away and decide to keep two for later-you. Aside from the fact that we are not headed home, and that you did order a large, this is not the most surprising outcome. Plus, you were ravenous, so this was gonna happen one way or another. Sitting on the curb, eating a slice of pizza, makes you feel [[comfortable->personal space]], in a weird way. (set: $PizzaSlices to 2)]

//Having another drink and looking for your friends caused you to unknowingly step into an alternate timeline of your life. While the prospect is exciting, the only thing different in the entirety of your history in this timeline is that your friends were standing behind a firetruck, so you never find them.//(set: $Distrust to 1)(set: $Friends to 1) You wander the city aimlessly, wondering why your friends would abandon you like this. You think about all of the conversations that you have all had up until this point; maybe you missed a text where we all decided on a meeting spot. Or worse yet, maybe they all collectively decided to ditch us. None of the possibilities you can think of are flattering. Later that week, you put up "MISSING" posters for your friends, sure to include your contact information. Nobody ever calls back. Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//You find your friends exactly where you left them, or at least, that is what they tell you.//(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](set: $Money to 20)(set: $ShowSpoiled to 1) Your friends are, for the most part, having a good time. Compared to you, they look warmer and better rested - but that is mostly a jealous, not malicious, observation. Lucky you: that one friend who never really wanted to come to the parade is looking for any excuse to leave, and kindly offers to drive us [[home->personal space]] before we have to ask. As you depart, someone throws twenty dollars at you - apparently those drinks earlier were bankrolled by us. Nice of them to remember. You shove your hands in your coat pockets and walk back to your friend's car. They cannot stop talking about the last show that they just binge-watched, which is fine on the one hand because you are in no state to contribute to this conversation, but a little unfortunate because you had been planning to watch that show. You smile regardless, and genuinely cannot be upset because going home makes you feel bulletproof.(click: "coat pockets")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[ (color: "#606060")[//You grab your phone and unlock it; the last article you were reading was about a new way to stand that burns calories and makes it impossible to pass out,//]]]

//You are downtown, somewhere. The parade stretches in front of you for blocks; is it a seasonal parade? Or an event? You are not sure. You have had too much to drink beforehand to drive home.// This might be a really good parade, but we are not in a great way to sit back and enjoy it. One of our friends made sure we had a drink or two before the festivities began, and then we made sure to use the drink tickets we bought at the start of the evening, so at this point it is all a bit dicey. Having any more to drink would put us on the verge of rooms spinning. (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Oh geez another drink? Alright well you did not eat a big dinner so this one is not gonna feel too good.//]](set: $BAC += .02) There is definitely music playing, and people are yelling, and you stepped in some trash but that happens sometimes. You look up and notice your friend in the crowd in front of you.(click: "your friend in the crowd")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You tap them on the shoulder, but it is not your friend. You will probably how they seemed a little annoyed and bothered by you later, right when you start feeling good.//]]] It gets cold out, and dark; there are plenty of lights on, but you still have problems seeing. Your phone is nearly dead, which is weirdly a sign to you that you want to go home. Do you want to [[call a ride home]], or try and [[find your friends->could not find them]] to hitch a ride with them?

//Your driver is a statue. They hardly move, let alone speak; Even their driving is stiff, almost completely done with their wrists. Their phone speaks directions and the driver gives no indication that the instructions made sense, until they take the correct turns. You imagine that this is what it will be like when self driving cars launch. This makes you wonder if your job will also be automated or not.//(set: $JobAutomation to 1)(set: $Worry += 1) We sit in total, not-awkward silence. Each time we make a close light or pass a crowd of people, I can tell that you wonder if this will initiate a conversation. But no - we are practically alone. It is, in your opinion, just the way it should be. Eventually we are calm, just enjoying the passing, dimly lit scenery. Each block closer to our [[apartment->personal space]] makes you increasingly calm.

//Your driver is actually incredibly friendly. They offer just enough conversations where you do not run into any awkward pauses, and stay pretty surface level with their topics. You like the way their car smells, and it puts you at ease.//(set: $Worry -= 1) The drive feels like it only takes a few minutes. We talk about our favorite restaurants - you mention that takeaway place that can only seat a few people at a time. They tell you about a great sit down spot that is further out in the burbs; You say you have never heard of it, but I know you have and you just purposefully forget it because you never want to go out that way. By the time we pull up to the house, you think about how much nicer it is when your drivers are able to converse like this. Even so, you are clearly ready to [[call it a night->personal space]].

//Your mind drifts. Each summer at 7PM you watch sitcom reruns with your siblings. You are not in school, and it is sweltering. The quality is unimportant - at this point it is a habit. Just like you, the reruns are in no particular order; you find great joy in trying to figure out which of the 10 seasons this episode takes place in. You get a bowl of leftovers for dinner at 7:30, and just keep watching.//(set: $TVGuide to 1) This is on of my favorite episodes. It takes a little while, but we are somewhere in season 7. So that is before the show got moved to a different network but just barely, so the plot twists are crazy like they were trying desperately to maintain that primetime slot. We never get any resolution, because the same set of reruns re-run. It feels like the network that bought the rights really cheaped out. You did not get to watch any of the finales when this was airing, so at this point you feel like you will never really know what happens to any of these characters. The TV Guide provides no helpful information. **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//You are a bottomless pit; regardless of how many burgers or tacos or whatever you consume, thirty minutes later and you are ready to go. Tonight is not really any different, so you just order a scattershot of numbers off of the menu. You are driving your friends around with you and you are picking different menu items from different drive-thrus.// It is a good thing you can eat so much because none of your friends drove here so you are gonna need that energy to drive each one of them home and then drive yourself back too. It looks like we filled the car up pretty good with bags of total artery clogging shit, and the only issue now is to order that one joke item from the menu - the one that has a funny name, and will likely push your friend with the weak constitution past their intake limit. Once we get back to our place, we put on a DVD of a gameshow that one of us bought when the rental place went out of business. (click:"funny name")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Your FrizzWhizz Cinnamon Cider Shake sits proudly in the front seat cupholder, nearly overflowing. You could hear the drive-thru worker sigh when you ordered it.//]](set: $BigGulp to 1)] One by one, you drop everyone off at their houses. It is a long route in total. There is even a sobriety checkpoint - they caught us too, our fry intake was way out of line. It takes you over an hour, but you finally make it [[home->personal space]].(click: "checkpoint")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You roll down the window and the officer asks if you have had anything to drink tonight. Your voice cracks and you say Cherry Coke. Obviously that is what they meant.//]] (set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]

//Nothing is for dinner tonight. You do not understand how this can be the case so frequently until you grow the fuck up later and realize it is because your parents are fucking tired. It is a classic night of "winging it," and you scavenge for chips and salsa, or a can of soup, or cheese quesadillas.//(set: $Quesadilla to 1) You should be doing your homework, but this quesadilla is not going to microwave itself. Since you are already procrastinating, you could get fancy and heat up some beans. Maybe even add some lettuce as an after bake. Either way you just guess how much time it needs - as long as the cheese is melty, but not burnt to a pock-marked crisp, you are not picky.(click: "beans")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[ (color: "#606060")[//You dump some black beans on your food. It makes it taste better, but now it is damp, and the integrity has been compromised.//]](set: $Quesadilla += 1)](click: "lettuce")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[ (color: "#606060")[//You chop up some lettuce and sprinkle it over your quesadilla. Now it is crunchy.//]](set: $Quesadilla += 4)](click:"melty")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[ (color: "#606060")[//You microwave it just right, but the cheese drips onto your hand and really burns you.//]]] Nothing else happens tonight. You think you want something to happen, but you do not know what it should be. So, nothing happens, and you go to [[bed->personal space]].

(set: $PizzaEat to 1)(set: $answer to "")(if: $RoomWithDoors is 0)[//Alright, you are on your own now.//(set: $RoomWithDoors += 1)(set: $InterRealityLegs to "On") I am giving you the reigns. Nobody lives linearly anymore; try and be that nebulous cloud. Any floor of the chocolate factory is yours. **You can sometimes come (text-style: "superscript")[home] if you get lost, and other times you can go (text-style: "superscript")[back] if you are stuck.** ]//You stand in a room of your own creation. (text-style: "superscript")[Behind] you is every single door, ever, except for one. In (text-style: "superscript")[front] of you looms a tall, humanoid figure, and presumably, the door spurned by all the others; it looks beautiful.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "front")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "The Front Door")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else-if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else-if: $answer is "behind")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")](else-if: $answer is "pizza")[(if: $PizzaSlices >0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(set: $PizzaSlices to it - 1)(replace: ?PizzaSlices)[$PizzaSlices](set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](set: $answer to "") //You eat a slice of pizza, which is comforting//](else-if: $PizzaSlices is 0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "The Room With A Lot of Doors")]](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "The Room With A Lot of Doors")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//You wal(text-style: "superscript")[k] forwards towards the figure next to the door.(if: $ShoeSqueak is 1)[ Your right shoe, consistently the talkative one, betrays your location. ](if: $Fear is 1)[(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]The thought of impending conversation looms.] (text-style: "superscript")[T]he closer you get, the less sense their appearance makes. From straight on, you assume it is a tal(text-style: "superscript")[l] man. Blink once, and for just a moment there sits a l(text-style: "superscript")[a]rge boulder. Squint and you would swear a river, rub your eyes and the sun itself. If only you could open it.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "talk")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "The Room With A Lot of Doors")](else-if: $answer is "pizza")[(if: $PizzaSlices >0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0) //You eat a slice of pizza, which is comforting//(set: $PizzaSlices to it - 1)(replace: ?PizzaSlices)[$PizzaSlices](set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](set: $answer to "")](else-if: $PizzaSlices is 0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "The Front Door")]](else-if: $answer is "open")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Open the Lonely Door")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "The Front Door")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(if: $Worry >= 8)[(set: $GG to 1)(go-to: "endWorry")]

//You are consumed by your worries. Each small nagging thought compounded on top of the other until you are immobilized. You fear any new line of thinking may exponentially increase this pressure, you opt into a quiet, motionless trance.(set: $Worry to 0)(if: $SeeYourHead is 1)[ Once, you glance your sitting-head upwards. Slowly, craning and twisting, you can feel your standing-head moving to meet your gaze. It is unclear if you are moving both of your heads, or just one.](if: $SnakeFear is 1)[ That hiss and slither, the sound of weight, each ricochet before softly settling behind your ears. Knees pressed to your chin, your shape retreats; small as you are, that lingering, noisey haze perpetuates the moment that **they** are just about to arrive.](if: $NearSighted is 1)[ Also your vision is just terrible.]// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart(click:"Restart")[(reload:)(set: $Worry to 0)]

<div class="inventory">---///--- (if: $GG is 0)[ Your Worry is |Worry>[$Worry]](else-if: $GG is 1)[ Your Worry is All Encompasing](if: $SeeYourHead is 1)[ You saw your other head](if: $NoLeftHand is 1)[ The Doorman took your left hand](if: $dryerSheet is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Doorman")[ A dryer (text-style: "superscript")[sheet] is stuck to your shoe](else:)[ A dryer sheet is stuck to your shoe]](if: $isStar is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Doorman")[ You are a literal (text-style: "superscript")[star]](else:)[ You are a literal star]](if: $SeaShell is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Doorman")[ You have a pleasant-looking (text-style: "superscript")[shell]](else:)[ You have a pleasant-looking shell]](if: $noClothes is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Doorman")[ You have forgone (text-style: "superscript")[clothes]](else:)[ You have forgone clothes]](if: $BeenHereBiped is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Doorman")[ You have two (text-style: "superscript")[legs]](else:)[ You have two legs]](if: $haveTowel is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Doorman")[ You have a white (text-style: "superscript")[towel]](else:)[ You have a white towel]](if: $RedHand is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Doorman")[ Your left hand is painted a deep (text-style: "superscript")[red]](else:)[ Your left hand is painted a deep red]](if: $Dog is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Doorman")[ You are a small (text-style: "superscript")[dog] with a shiny collar](else:)[ You are a small dog with a shiny collar]](if: $Sharp is 1)[ You are dressed incredibly well, and everyone takes notice](if: $Despair is 1)[ You have seen the absence of everything and it makes you despair](if: $MultipleYous is 1)[ There are at least two other versions of you out there. It is your fault](if: $Paranoia is 1)[ Your imagination and fear have teamed up to cause bouts of unpredictable paranoia](if: $PizzaSlices > 0)[ You have |PizzaSlices>[$PizzaSlices] slices of (if: $PizzaEat is 1)[(text-style: "superscript")[pizza]](else-if: $PizzaEat is 0)[pizza]](else-if: $PizzaSlices is 0)[](if: $LikeSitting is 1)[ You like sitting and will not be pressured into standing](if: $SnakeFear is 1)[ Large, 150 lbs snake creatures haunt your dreams](if: $EyeForDetail is 1)[ You have a strong attention to detail](if: $NearSightedGlasses is 1)[ Your vision is bad, but you are wearing corrective lenses](if: $NearSighted is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Doorman")[ You are near sighted and need (text-style: "superscript")[glasses]](else:)[ You are near sighted and need eyeglasses]](if: $Uncle is 1)[ Your aunt or uncle just passed away](if: $KneeCrack is 1)[ Your knee grinds audibly with each step](if: $ShoeSqueak is 1)[ Your shoe squeaks when you walk](if: $Fear is 1)[ You are afraid. This fear makes you avoid groups, dark rooms, and speaking situations](if: $HapticSync is 1)[ You are rubbing your fingers together. It is soothing.](if: $BodyFear is 1)[ You are squeamish and uncomfortable around bodies, including your own](if: $StoodUp is 1)[ Your imaginary friend stood you up, how rude.](if: $Calves is 1)[ You have very well defined calves from all the walking](if: $WallOffense is 1)[ Most walls do not trust you and will guard their secrets when you are around](if: $Suspicion is 1)[ You inherently do not trust individuals](if: $Quesadilla is 1)[ You have a delicious, plain cheese quesadilla](else-if: $Quesadilla is 2) [You have a cheese quesadilla with beans that is soggy](else-if: $Quesadilla is 6)[ You have a quesadilla with the works. It is unwieldy](else-if: $Quesadilla is 5)[ You have a quesadilla with cheese and lettuce. Crispy, and dry](if: $BigGulp is 1)[(if: (passage:)'s tags contains "Prehistory")[ You have an XL (text-style: "superscript")[milkshake], and only took one sip from it clothes](else:)[ You have an XL milkshake, and only took one sip from it]](if: $TVGuide is 1)[ You have a copy of the TV Guide with you](if: $Embarrassed is 2)[ You are deeply embarrassed, particularly about passing out](if: $Age is "forty ish")[ You are forty ish](else-if: $Age is 16)[ You are (text: $Age) years old](if: $ToeShoes is 1)[ You are wearing an old pair of those running shoes with toes.](else-if: $Age is 30)[ You are (text: $Age) years old](if: $JobAutomation is 1)[ You think robots might make your career irrelevant in a few years.](if: $SongStuck is 1)[ You cannot stop humming Hey Jude](if: $FaceWarm is 1)[ Your face is red from second-hand embarrassment](if: $Friends is 1)[ You do not have any friends](if: $Distrust is 1)[ You do not trust figures of authority](if: $ShowSpoiled is 1)[ Your friend spoiled the show you wanted to watch](if: $Money > 0)[ You have (text: $Money) dollars](if: $BAC > .08)[ You are legally intoxicated](if: $BAC > 1)[ You really have had too much to drink](if: $WallHit is 1)[ You hit that wall with your face; now your forehead is red](if: $VomitOnShoes is 1)[ Your shoes have vomit on them](if: $Gulp is 1)[ You tend to gulp audibly when confronted by the universe](if: $LegAccuracy is 1)[ You cannot feel your right leg when you walk](if: $Height is > 0)[ Your height is at least (text: $Height)] (if: $ConfidenceInGroup is 1)[ You prefer to be alone] (if: $Doubt is > 0)[ Your Doubt is (text: $Doubt)](if: $RoomWithDoors is 1)[ You have been to the Room with the Doors] Your UnBound is (text: $UnBound) Your InterRealityLegs are (text: $InterRealityLegs)(if: $DoormanShow >= 1)[ You have shown the Doorman |DoormanShow>[$DoormanShow] doors]</div>

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Un-Bind Six

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//You cannot slip past the Doorman. That Lonely Door is closed. You do not have to look inside it anyways. I am trying to help; this way is much easier.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always (Link-goto:"Un-Bind", (either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" )).(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(set: $answer to "")(if: $FedOnce is 0)[//You toss a d(if: $InterRealityLegs is "On")[(text-style: "superscript")[a]](else-if:$InterRealityLegs is "Off")[a]mp [[stick->feeding damp stick]] forward, with unders(if: $InterRealityLegs is "On")[(text-style: "superscript")[t]](else-if:$InterRealityLegs is "Off")[t]andably little result. If anything you need to shuffle closer now that the heat grows weake(if: $InterRealityLegs is "On")[(text-style: "superscript")[r]](else-if:$InterRealityLegs is "Off")[r]. Wet (if: $InterRealityLegs is "On")[(text-style: "superscript")[s]](else-if:$InterRealityLegs is "Off")[s]moke and your eyes sting; looking to the side, is anyone else there?// ](else-if: $FedOnce is 1)[(set: $Worry += 5)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] //Low light, your shoulders pull close to your ears. [[Looking up->feeding damp stick]]: <p>. . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .// </p>(if: $InterRealityLegs is "On")[ |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "star")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "The Stars")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "feeding")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?] ]

//Another [[feeding]] attempt; you should have known from that cold feeling that all you are doing is making it worse. Clattering, a shiver, one zipper going up, breath on flesh.(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](set: $FedOnce to 1)//

(set: $Worry +=5)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]

//You watch another-you walk away and leave yous, the sitting-you and standing-you, behind. You can feel both of yous well up with anger, sadness and dejection. Why did you not just ask yous if yous needed help? Standing-you starts to cry. Sitting-you has had about enough of this shit, and is mostly just jealous that you thought of leaving first.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always (Link-goto:"Un-Bind", (either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" )).(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//Being confronted with two bodies - the sitting and standing "yous," is too much to reconcile. A third you, arguably the most "you" in terms of appearance takes over. Thankfully for your "new-you's" sanity, you are facing away from the "fused-yous."// An impressive way to solve a problem! I cannot speak to the long term impact of leaving behind two sentient, stationary clones of yourself, but "short-term-we" are feeling alright with the decision. The break from a two-conscious life to a one is a relief.(click: "behind")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//But they both call out to you, their voices cold and detached. How could you deny them? You turn. To them, sit-standing in stasis, the very act of movement on your part is provocative. Jealousy. Worse even than their intertwined limbs and fused flesh - the "old-you" will always wonder if the "new-you" is still back there; watching yourself watch yourself.//]](set: $Worry +=3)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](click: "relief")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You really feel a sense of relief for leaving them behind? Without thinking to see if they wanted any help moving? They are literally other yous!//]](set: $Worry +=2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "one")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Thank goodness there is just one of us now. Now we can put the whole thing [[behind->personal space]] us.//]]]]

(set: $SeeYourHead to 1)(set: $Worry += 1)//Out of the corner of your eye, you see the other corner of your other eye glanding back at you. The sight, even just for a moment, sends you reeling; Neither of your heads ever want to go through that ever again.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always (Link-goto:"Un-Bind", (either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" )).(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(set: $answer to "") |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] |keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "bob")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "bob")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "New Simple Keyboard")]] (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] |keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "bob")[(go-to: "bob")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "test room keyboard")]] (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

bob

(set: $answer to "")(if: $DoormanShow < 3)[(set: $answer to "")//The Doorman, seeing your ap(text-style: "superscript")[p]roach, blinks again and appears more human than (text-style: "superscript")[e]ver before. Still, something is off - taller than usual, he looks flat. Almost as though he is impossible to f(text-style: "superscript")[o]ol and always looking your directio(text-style: "superscript")[n].// (color: "#606060")[--Well?--] //the doorman says, in the same tone your parents take you when you are out late and have not given them an update in awhile.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "personal space")](else-if: $answer is "glasses")[(if: $NearSighted is 1)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "glasses gift")](else-if: $NearSighted is 0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")]](else-if: $answer is "open")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Can You Open the Door")](else-if: $noClothes is 1 and $answer is "clothes")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "mirror")](else-if: $isStar is 1 and $answer is "star")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "A Star")](else-if: $SeaShell is 1 and $answer is "shell")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Shell")](else-if: $BeenHereBiped is 1 and $answer is "legs")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Nice Legs")](else-if: $RedHand is 1 and $answer is "red")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(set: $RedHand to 0)(set: $NoLeftHand to 1))(go-to: "Red")](else-if: $Dog is 1 and $answer is "dog")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Good Boy")](else-if: $dryerSheet is 1 and $answer is "sheet")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "No Point")](else-if: $haveTowel is 1 and $answer is "towel")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Prepared")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?] ](else-if: $DoormanShow >= 3)[(set: $answer to "")//The Doorman sees you return and smil(text-style: "superscript")[e]s.// (color: "#606060")[(if: $WentThrough is 0)[--Here--](else-if: $WentThrough is 1)[--[[Again?->Bound]]--]] //the Doorman says, gesturing towards the only other door. It ap(text-style: "superscript")[p]ears b(text-style: "superscript")[e]fore you now, unloc(text-style: "superscript")[k]ed, (if: $WentThrough is 0)[for the first time.](else-if: $WentThrough is 1)[as it always was.]// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "personal space")](set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(else-if: $answer is "glasses")[(if: $NearSighted is 1)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "glasses gift")](else-if: $NearSighted is 0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")]](else-if: $answer is "peek")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Peek the Door")](else-if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?] ]

(if: $UnBound is 2)[Restart from scratch, or, you can always (Link-goto:"Un-Bind", (either:"Un-Bind Four", "Un-Bind Five", "Un-Bind Six")).(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]](else-if: $UnBound >= 1)[Restart from scratch, or, you can always (Link-goto:"Un-Bind", (either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" )).(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]]

//All those people watching would not think you were strange if they knew the totally-not-made-up truth: A death in the family. Someone you have not spoken to in awhile. In case they ask, things got strange a year ago over the holidays when they started talking politics. But you still feel like you should be there, because your absence would be stranger than your presence. Do you have any photos of the aunt or uncle you just mind-killed for your convenience?//(set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](click: "absence")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//What will those family get togethers be like now? Is this broken link the last reason to visit anymore?//]](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "death")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You do not think about death frequently. You like it that way. Death, like a racist uncle, should be kept at a comfortable [[distance->personal space]].//]]](click: ".")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Probably just a typo on the back end. There, did it go away after you clicked it?//]]](click: "spoken")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//A silence, then someone you do not recognize coughs. Should you say something?//]](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]

//A school dance. A wedding for a friend. A night out. Mourning, visiting. Regardless of your current occasion, you are incredibly well dressed.//(set: $Sharp to 1) There is not a single article of clothing on you that has not been tailored to fit. Standing, sitting, walking, jumping - you are completely comfortable with any "ing" you can think of! It is to the point that you wonder why you do not get //all// of your belongings custom ordered. Some compliments on your dress, and a few admiring looks lift your spirits. You look sharp!(click: "custom")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Because that is incredibly expensive, that is why. Remember how little money you have?//]](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "school dance")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Not only were your clothes **not** tailored then, you were also suffering from being a completely self absorbed piece of naive human garbage, and they do not make formalwear in that size.//]](set: $Worry +=2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click: "wedding")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Luckily you are not in the wedding, so you can make appearances without needing to rehearse. No speeches, duties or matching outfits - and you can [[leave->personal space]] whenever you want.//]]](click: "speeches")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You did get third-degree secondhand embarrassment from those speeches though.//]](set: $Worry +=2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]

(set: $answer to "")//Ignoring the shape shif(text-style: "superscript")[t]ing figure, you attempt to open the door on your own. The doorman does not even attempt to stop you; confusing, unti(text-style: "superscript")[l] you approach and realize there is no door(text-style: "superscript")[k]nob, handle, bell or other device that would empower you to le(text-style: "superscript")[a]ve. (color: "#606060")[--Show me what is through those doors--], the Doorman says.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "talk")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "The Front Door")](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Open the Lonely Door")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//The Door(text-style: "superscript")[m]an s(text-style: "superscript")[h]akes his h(text-style: "superscript")[e]ad in a two dimensional and resounding negative. (color: "#606060")[--Show me what is through those doors--], he says, leaving n(text-style: "superscript")[o] room for arguments and your task clear.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(go-to: "personal space")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Can You Open the Door")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//You (text-style: "superscript")[p]ivot, confro(text-style: "superscript")[n]ting the infinit(text-style: "superscript")[e] doorways. Each is closed, but you can tell n(text-style: "superscript")[o]ne are locked.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "open")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(set: $Dog to 0)(set: $isStar to 0)(set: $DoorsList to (shuffled: ...$Doors))(go-to: 1st of $DoorsList)](else-if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "The Room With A Lot of Doors")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Every Single Door Except One")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

//This door is the end, so far.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(if: $talkedTimes is 0)[(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[Stop chasing me.](set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")]]</div>(set: $talkedTimes += 1) ](else-if: $talkedTimes is 1)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[Why are you so obsessed with this?](set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")]]</div>(set: $talkedTimes += 1) ](else-if: $talkedTimes is 2)[(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[You realize this might not be healthy for you, right?](set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")]]</div>(set: $talkedTimes += 1) ](else-if: $talkedTimes is 3)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[Is this not enough for you?](set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")]]</div>(set: $talkedTimes += 1) ](else-if: $talkedTimes is 4)[(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[What do you think you are missing out on?](set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")]]</div>(set: $talkedTimes += 1) ](else-if: $talkedTimes is 5)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[Have you been to space yet?](set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")]]</div>(set: $talkedTimes += 1) ](else:)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[Fine. Keep going. I tried.](set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")]]</div>(set: $talkedTimes += 1) ]

(set: $answer to "")(if: $LegAccuracy is 1)[(set: $answer to "")//Hurtling forward, breakneck. [[Out of breath]]. Now steady. Balanced in motion. Faster than what is behind. How many legs do you have?// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "two")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Biped")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "one")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "OneLeg")](else-if: $answer is "three")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Chair")](else-if: $answer is "four")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Quadruped")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Door One")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?] ](else-if: $LegAccuracy is 0)[(set: $answer to "")//Breakneck. [[Out of breath]]. Hurtling forward, now; steady. Balanced in motion, faster than what is behind. How many legs do you have?// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "two")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Biped")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "one")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "OneLeg")](else-if: $answer is "three")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Chair")](else-if: $answer is "four")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Quadruped")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Door One")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?] ]

(set: $answer to "")(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]//Just one small wall sits in front of you. It is old and crumbled. There is a little bit of graffiti on its back. It does not block or obstruct your path in any way; it just wanted to stop by to let you know how much it resents you.// (color: "#606060")[--I dislike you--], //the wall thinks at you. You internalize that resentment.//(set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 12)[(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")]]

//Defined only by your lack of air intake, your physical self never manifests. You grapple unsuccessfully with the anatopism that is breathing when you have no respiratory system; the result, impossible to understand, hurtles you back through the door.(click: "door")[(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](goto: "Every Single Door Except One")]//

(if: $BeenHereBiped is 0)[(set: $answer to "")//You could have been anything, and you still went with being bipedal.// //You run in a way that suggests confidence. Or is it just that you are used to having two legs? The pursuing figure gains, closer now than before. Your own breathing is less confident now than when your number of legs was ambiguous. Now, finally, it approaches. You hear it yell out to you://(click:"yell")[(set: $BeenHereBiped to 1) (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[--This feels like a cop out. Are you adequately challenging yourself throughout your life?-- ]] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "yes")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "yesLie")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "no")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "noTrue")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Biped")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]] ](else-if: $BeenHereBiped is 1)[(set: $answer to "")//You could have been anything, and you still went with being bipedal.// //You run in a way that suggests confidence. Or is it just that you are used to having two legs? The pursuing figure gains, closer now than before. Your own breathing is less confident now than when your number of legs was ambiguous. Now, finally, it approaches. You hear it yell out to you:// (color: "#606060")[--This feels like a cop out. Are you adequately challenging yourself throughout your life?--] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "yes")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "yesLie")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "no")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "noTrue")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Biped")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(set: $answer to it - $answer's last)(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?] ]

(set: $answer to "")//You are a dog. One of the kinds with short, stubby (text-style: "superscript")[l]egs. They (text-style: "superscript")[b]arely (text-style: "superscript")[l]ift you off the ground. Your gait is more adorable than effective. You arrive at what you think is your destination and stop. The figure ch(text-style: "superscript")[a]sing you stops, and waits.//(set: $Dog to 1) |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "ball")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Fetch")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Quadruped")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

//Eight legs would make perfect sense if you were an octopus or a spider. Unfortunately, you are a human - eight legs looks a bit off on you. Instead of having all eight legs slowly extending from your hips like the Vitruvian Man, you have legs for arms. So you have four legs on one side of you that you can crawl with, or another four protruding behind you that, I guess, you could use if you wanted to as well.// NOT CONNECTED

(set: $answer to "")//The figure r(text-style: "superscript")[a]ises its left (text-style: "superscript")[e]y(text-style: "superscript")[e]brow like a concerned parent. It looks like it is about to speak, but then, thinking better of it, slo(text-style: "superscript")[w]s its chase, now ambi(text-style: "superscript")[v]alent towa(text-style: "superscript")[r]ds you.//(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] They probably just do not understand us. T(text-style: "superscript")[h]ere is nothing inheren(text-style: "superscript")[t]ly wrong with what is comfortable ... ? |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "whatever")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "yesLie")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//The figure appreciates your honesty and can relate on a deep level. It runs at your side, matching your pace, and puts you at [[ease->personal space]]. Soon you can no longer see it in your peripheral vision.//

(set: $answer to "")(color: "#606060")[--Two legs. Not Bad--] //the Doorman says.(if: $legPoint is 0)[(set: $DoormanShow += 1)(replace: ?DoormanShow)[$DoormanShow](set: $legPoint to 1)](else-if: $legPoint is 1)[] Go (text-style: "superscript")[back] or go (text-style: "superscript")[home].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Nice Legs")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//You g(text-style: "superscript")[r]ab the (text-style: "superscript")[b]all with your teeth an loo(text-style: "superscript")[k] up. The figure is ecst(text-style: "superscript")[a]tic. You have never known such joy.//(click:"teeth")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Yeah, teeth. You have them and they are quite sharp. Your breath smells bad as well. Does "dog-you" even care?//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "bark")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Bark")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Fetch")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(if: $DogBetray is 0)[(set: $answer to "")//Your mouth opens and you let out a noise. The ball tumbles, and rolls down the hill. This is a tragedy, and you whine. The figure chases the ball instead of you; betrayal runs deep.//(click:"down")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You could chase it again, sure, but what kind of precedent does that set? besides, you are getting old.//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click:"chases")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Further still. Will the figure ever come back?//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click:"opens")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You wanted to speak, not bark. What kind of monster are you?//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click:"betrayal")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Betra(text-style: "superscript")[y] the figure (text-style: "superscript")[b]ack; show them what it feels like to leav(text-style: "superscript")[e].//]](set: $DogBetray to 1) |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "bye")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Bark")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]] ](else-if: $DogBetray is 1)[(set: $answer to "")//Your mouth opens and you let out a noise. The ball tumbles, and rolls down the hill. This is a tragedy, and you whine. The figure chases the ball instead of you; betrayal runs deep.//(click:"down")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You could chase it again, sure, but what kind of precedent does that set? besides, you are getting old.//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click:"chases")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Further still. Will the figure ever come back?//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click:"opens")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//You wanted to speak, not bark. What kind of monster are you?//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] (color: "#606060")[//Betra(text-style: "superscript")[y] the figure (text-style: "superscript")[b]ack; show them what it feels like to leav(text-style: "superscript")[e].//] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "bye")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Bark")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?] ]

(set: $answer to "")(color: "#606060")[--Good boy.--] //the Doorman says, patting your head.(if: $dogPoint is 0)[(set: $DoormanShow += 1)(replace: ?DoormanShow)[$DoormanShow](set: $dogPoint to 1)](else-if: $dogPoint is 1)[] Go (text-style: "superscript")[back] or go (text-style: "superscript")[home].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Good Boy")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//C(text-style: "subscript")[o]ld, consist(text-style: "subscript")[e]nt. No(text-style: "superscript")[t]hing to grasp; Faste(text-style: "superscript")[r], hoping for (text-style: "superscript")[a]genc(text-style: "subscript")[y]. Sp(text-style: "subscript")[r]ead fur(text-style: "subscript")[t]her a(text-style: "subscript")[p]art and r(text-style: "superscript")[e]achi(text-style: "subscript")[n]g, (text-style: "superscript")[w]rithing.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "entropy")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Heat Death")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "water")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Cold Shower")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Door Three")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)? ]

(set: $answer to "")//A (text-style: "subscript")[c]amp. E(text-style: "subscript")[v]eryone (text-style: "superscript")[h]uddled and in(text-style: "superscript")[s]ide? Look(text-style: "superscript")[i]ng, furtive sounds and ges(text-style: "superscript")[t]ur(text-style: "subscript")[e]s. Nobody says (text-style: "subscript")[a]nything. Fur-w(text-style: "superscript")[r]apped. Their eyes fall on you.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "cave")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Cave")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "milkshake")[(if: $BigGulp is 1)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Share Milkshake")](else-if: $BigGulp is 0)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Door Four")]](else-if: $answer is "shirt")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Clothes")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Door Four")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)? ]

(set: $answer to "")//Undulating and (text-style: "superscript")[w]et. A mo(text-style: "superscript")[v]ing horizon, choppy. Gr(text-style: "superscript")[a]dations in color and t(text-style: "superscript")[e]xture.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "wave")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "A Wave")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Door Five")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//Limite(text-style: "superscript")[d] in(text-style: "superscript")[f]ormation. Only (text-style: "subscript")[l]ights in the distan(text-style: "subscript")[c]e, b(text-style: "subscript")[l]inking, but how f(text-style: "subscript")[a]r off? Som(text-style: "subscript")[e] tu(text-style: "superscript")[r]n off, othe(text-style: "subscript")[r]s (text-style: "superscript")[t]urn on aga(text-style: "superscript")[i]n.// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "drift")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Drift Through Space")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "cellar")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Basement")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Door Six")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//Strips of light, bright colors. Each line with a different texture. Footsteops just beyond the threshold. Far above, an unreachable ceiling.//

(set: $answer to "")//Completely surrounded. Cold, pressure to ascend. Just barely, eventually, emerging.//

(set: $answer to "")//Looking down, relatively speaking. At such a height, it all looks flat. Not exactly lonely.//

(set: $answer to "")//Your incessant drive forward, in a straight shot, has lead you promptly and finally to the end. This heat death, a halt to motion, leaves you motionless. With nothing left to connect or grasp, any functions you have acquired slumber.//(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(set: $answer to "")(set: $inShower to 1)//The wa(text-style: "superscript")[t]er from your shower is painfully frigid. Arm outstretched, your fingertips extend, desperate to adjust the (text-style: "superscript")[t]emperature. Your body retreats and you hold your breath.//(if: $clickFingertips is 0)[(click:"fingertips")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //Your index and middle finge(text-style: "superscript")[r] just barely reach the shower k(text-style: "superscript")[n]ob. You wish you could lean in closer but dare not take such a pl(text-style: "superscript")[u]nge.//(set: $clickFingertips to 1)]]]](else-if: $clickFingertips is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //Your index and middle finge(text-style: "superscript")[r] just barely reach the shower k(text-style: "superscript")[n]ob. You wish you could lean in closer but dare not take such a pl(text-style: "superscript")[u]nge.//]](if: $clickBody is 0)[(click:"body")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //Covered in goosebumps, you are shaking. Your disdain for the cold water had you pressed up against the shower tile; only a slight improvement.//]](set: $clickBody to 1)(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]](else-if: $clickBody is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //Covered in goosebumps, you are shaking. Your disdain for the cold water had you pressed up against the shower tile; only a slight improvement.//]](if: $clickOutstretched is 0)[(click:"outstretched")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //The s(text-style: "superscript")[i]ght of your own arm fully extended, trapped in the shower, trying de(text-style: "superscript")[s]perately not to get (text-style: "superscript")[w]et, is just (text-style: "superscript")[t]ragic.//]](set: $clickOutstretched to 1)]](else-if: $clickOutstretched is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //The s(text-style: "superscript")[i]ght of your own arm fully extended, trapped in the shower, trying de(text-style: "superscript")[s]perately not to get (text-style: "superscript")[w]et, is just (text-style: "superscript")[t]ragic.//]](if: $clickAdjust is 0)[(click:"adjust")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //Why did you not just wait patiently for the water to heat up before getting in?//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](set: $clickAdjust to 1)]](else-if: $clickAdjust is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //Why did you not just wait patiently for the water to heat up before getting in?//]] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "twist")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Twist Handle")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "turn")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Turn Handle")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Cold Shower")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//Rotating the handle, you overshoot the perfect temperature slightly. The resulting heat causes you to pull back in pain. You try again, smarting from your last attempt, only to again rotate too far back into the cold. Incapable of finding that middle ground, you try endlessly to control you shower. Look at how pruned your fingers are. How long has it been?// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(set: $answer to "")//Frequently theorized but rarely realized - you let go of the shower handle at the precise moment. The water is now a perfect temperature; warm enough without risking irritated skin later. You are immensely satisfied with yourself.//(if: $clickDry is 0)[(click:"irritated")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //But you really ought to apply some moisturizing cream, otherwise your hands may crack. Just the thought of your skin pulling tight makes you wince.//(set: $clickDry to 1)(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]]]](else-if: $clickDry is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //But you really ought to apply some moisturizing cream, otherwise your hands may crack. Just the thought of your skin pulling tight makes you wince.//]](if: $clickRarely is 0)[(click:"rarely")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //It would be a mun(text-style: "superscript")[d]ane, but worthwhile superpower. As would be "getting out of the shower without spacing out and wasting 20 minutes standing around having imaginar(text-style: "superscript")[y] conve(text-style: "superscript")[r]sations in your head."//(set: $clickRarely to 1)]]]](else-if: $clickRarely is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //It would be a mun(text-style: "superscript")[d]ane, but worthwhile superpower. As would be "getting out of the shower without spacing out and wasting 20 minutes standing around having imaginar(text-style: "superscript")[y] conve(text-style: "superscript")[r]sations in your head."//]] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "dry")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Dry Off")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Turn Handle")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $haveTowel to 1)//Stepping out of the shower, you grab a nearby towel to dry off before heading back to your [[room->personal space]].//(click:"towel")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //Far from the high comfort offered by the warm water in the shower, your towel will have to do.//]]](click:"out")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //That cold air almost completely disperses your previous feelings of content. And you were so close, too.//(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]]]

//With only one leg, you fall down while attempting to run. The creature behind you easily catches up. Bracing for the worst, you bring your knee to your chin and curl up. You could have sworn you had that other leg.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//You are a stool. No longer running, you just sit there. The force chasing you easily catches up, given you recent lack of independent movement. As expected, it sits on you.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(if: $glassesOn is 0)[(set: $NearSighted to 0)(color: "#606060")[--Here-- ] //the Doorman says, handing you a pair of glasses. You put them on, and immediately things become more clear.//(click: "put them on")[(set: $glassesOn to 1)(set: $NearSightedGlasses to 1)(goto: "glasses gift")] ](else-if: $glassesOn is 1)[(color: "#606060")[--Here--] //the Doorman says, handing you a pair of glasses. You put them on, and immediately things become more clear. Go [[back->personal space]] or keep [[talking to the doorman->Talking To The Doorman]].// ]

//Your time was up.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart(click:"Restart")[(reload:)(set: $Worry to 0)]

(set: $answer to "")//You gesture towards the cave which em(text-style: "superscript")[i]ts a faint glow. One of the figures tugs at your arm and begins walking you towards the entrance. Rust-r(text-style: "superscript")[e]d han(text-style: "superscript")[d] outlines cover the walls; Paint-loaded bo(text-style: "superscript")[n]e straws lay on the ground with precious stone tools.//(if: $ConfidenceInGroup is 1)[ //These prehistoric humans are foreign to you, but more terrifying is their number. Being the center of attention makes your palms sweat.//(if: $CaveGroupWorry is 0)[(set: $Worry += 2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](set: $CaveGroupWorry to 1)](else-if: $CaveGroupWorry is 1)[]](if: $clickTools is 0)[(click:"tools")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //Your gaze rests on the obsidian objects; it becomes clear that you should not have as multiple figures move to block your view.//(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](set: $clickTools to 1)]]](else-if: $clickTools is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //Your gaze rests on the obsidian objects; it becomes clear that you should not have as multiple figures move to block your view.//]](if: $clickOutlines is 0)[(click:"outlines")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //Hand e(text-style: "superscript")[x]tended, you can line up your own fingers with the marks on the wall.//(set: $clickOutlines to 1)]] ] ](else-if: $clickOutlines is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //Hand e(text-style: "superscript")[x]tended, you can line up your own fingers with the marks on the wall.// ] ] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "index")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(set: $RedHand to 1))(goto: "Index")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Cave")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//One of the hum(text-style: "subscript")[a]ns swi(text-style: "superscript")[p]es at your shi(text-style: "superscript")[r]t. Your clothes, immediate(text-style: "subscript")[l]y foreign, are ill-received. Tensions rise; Some of the group now stands in front of you, bac(text-style: "subscript")[k]s turned and arms outstretched. Their numbers pale compared to the loud, shou(text-style: "subscript")[t]ing and po(text-style: "superscript")[i]nt mob growing ever closer.//(if: $ConfidenceInGroup is 1)[ //These prehistoric humans are foreign to you, but more terrifying is how many there are. Being the center of attention makes your palms sweat.//(set: $Worry += 2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] ] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "rip")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(set: $noClothes to 1)(goto: "Rip")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "talk")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(set: $scar to 1)(goto: "Try Talk")(else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Clothes")]]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

//The Doorman admires your preparedness. You feel as though the two of you have bonded.(if: $towelPoint is 0)[(set: $DoormanShow += 1)(replace: ?DoormanShow)[$DoormanShow](set: $towelPoint to 1)](else-if: $towelPoint is 1)[] Go (text-style: "superscript")[back] or go (text-style: "superscript")[home].//(set: $answer to "") |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Prepared")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//You are given a straw; pigment sprays onto your hand, now represented on the wall. Stepping outside, the stars get brighter the further you walk from the fire.//(click:"further")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //It feels colder now, moving away from camp. Should you really head off on your own? The thought of surviving alone sets your mind racing.//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click:"stars")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //A deep, cosmic fear wraps around you; how did you come to this place?//]](set: $Worry += 2)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]](click:"Stepping")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //Moving out of the cave reminds you of where you came from. Are you ready to go [[back?->personal space]]//]]]

(set: $answer to "")//The Doorman takes your left hand. He gives no indication that you will be getting it back.(if: $redPoint is 0)[(set: $DoormanShow += 1)(replace: ?DoormanShow)[$DoormanShow](set: $redPoint to 1)](else-if: $redPoint is 1)[] Go (text-style: "superscript")[back] or go (text-style: "superscript")[home].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Red")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//Amidst the roaring and shouting, you tear off your clothes, throwing them aside. The mob is pacified - half rush to examine your discarded garments; another conflict brews over ownership. Most simply wander off. A few stay and passively embrace your presence. Together, you all walk back to the campfire. There are no Monoliths here today.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(set: $answer to "")//The Doorman turns into a mirror. It is the first time you have seen yourself since ever. The Doorman, silent and reflective, passes no judgment on your new lifestyle choice.(if: $clothesPoint is 0)[(set: $DoormanShow += 1)(replace: ?DoormanShow)[$DoormanShow](set: $clothesPoint to 1)](else-if: $clothesPoint is 1)[] Go (text-style: "superscript")[back] or go (text-style: "superscript")[home].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Red")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//Out of habit you speak - please listen, I just got lost - that kind of thing. Nobody understands. The crowd overpowers your blockade and you fall, trampled. You remember passing out. Or dying.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always (Link-goto:"Un-Bind", (either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" )).(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(set: $answer to "")(set: $BigGulp to 0)//You hold out your XL milkshake. The crowd quiets and a brave few step forward. You mime taking a sip, and a few follow suit. The reaction is immediately positive; Such a unique calorie consumption dissipates all the tension.// Thank goodness you got that XL size - you have enough to share with everyone here. You seem [[relieved->personal space]]!(set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]

(set: $answer to "")//You inch past the Doorman, ha(text-style: "superscript")[n]d lightly pulling the door past your fa(text-style: "subscript")[c]e. Pe(text-style: "superscript")[e]king through n(text-style: "subscript")[o]w, you see yourself from behind, invert(text-style: "subscript")[e]d. The sight is disorien(text-style: "superscript")[t]ing, especially a(text-style: "subscript")[l]ong your periph(text-style: "superscript")[e]ral vision; Your mind st(text-style: "superscript")[r]uggles to determine which "you" - the (text-style: "subscript")[s]eeing one or the being seen one - it should pay attention to.//(if: $NarratorPass is 0)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[I asked you to stop following me]</div>](else-if: $NarratorPass is 1)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[You really want to go through again? After what happened last time?]</div>](else-if: $NarratorPass is 2)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[Please. This is tiring me out. I cannot keep up.]</div>](else-if: $NarratorPass is 3)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[I do not even know what you have to gain at this point.]</div>](else-if: $NarratorPass is 4)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[This has to be a record.]</div>](else-if: $NarratorPass is >= 5)[<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[Whatever, I can just keep the door open at this point.]</div>] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "enter")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Enter the Only Other Door")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "close")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Close the Door")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Peek the Door")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $NarratorPass += 1)//You push open the door and walk through. The process immediately Un-Binds you; the Doorman, your space and your senses are nowhere.//(set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(if: $WentThrough is 1)[(go-to: "Bound")](else-if: $WentThrough is 0)[(set: $WentThrough to 1)(set: $Inverted to 1)(go-to: "Bound")]]]

(set: $answer to "")//You heed the voice's advice and close the door. It probably has your best interest in mind, surely.// Go (text-style: "superscript")[back] or go (text-style: "superscript")[home].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Close the Door")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

<div class="narrator">|fade-out>[Fine. At least stop looking at things upside down and flipped like that, it makes me nauseated. Relax a bit.](set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "personal space")]]</div>

-ere walking anyways- oh. Weird. You have either been here before - like, felt this sensation of walking before - or maybe you were just Un-Bound, because you can not really remember choosing to walk. As though you got put into a body that was already walking. You look slightly awkward! (click: "awkward")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](color: "#606060")[//Ok, you look **very** awkward. And your shirt has a tag sticking out the back, can you imagine? How mortifying.//] ] ]I think you only imagined a handful of people noticing your bizarre tripping-disguised-as-walking. It is not too bad, but you might think back on it when you go to sleep tonight, and //then// it might be a bit worse. Even I might try [[taking a breather->standing some more]], and you know how much I hate that! I do not wish to slow your roll though; if what you need to stop walking like a weirdo is to [[walk it off->walk some more]] then please, continue. [[Sitting->sitting space tear]] while trying to walk, especially with your poor eyesight, feels dicey. We would risk a rather nasty conflation where you might start second-guessing yourself.

//You are walking, but you can only feel your left foot touch the ground. When your right foot hits the ground, it feels like your other leg took the step// That is a nasty sensation - it looks like only your left foot made the "trip." Aside from an increased risk in twisting your ankle, this should only be a minor inconvenience. You will need to constantly think about it though; if you do not [[remind->consider our surroundings]] yourself that you can use both legs, even though it feels like you are a human pogo stick, then you might trip and fall! (set: $LegAccuracy to 1) While a career in dancing might be a bit of a stretch now, your every day [[motor functions->walk some more]] check out. [[Everything->everything]] appears to be in order, more or less.

//While you are walking, you suddenly start walking. This causes you to vomit uncontrollably.// Ok, well, we got unlucky with that one. I will give you a second or two to get through the worst of it and [[take a breather->sitting some more]] //You do get through the worst of it. You have some vomit on your shoes.//(set: $VomitOnShoes to 1)(click: "shoes")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//These are not even your shoes! You have to clean them before you give them back.//]](replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]] I am going to do that silver lining thing where I point out that you are wearing dark shoes anyways, so throw-up would probably be the third or fourth guess; it is way more likely that someone would suspect mud, or steel cut oatmeal, or other things you usually [[step in->walk some more]]. There is not really [[anything]] around to wipe them on, though, so you are going to just have to hang in there.(click: "oatmeal")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//The thought of oatmeal after recent events causes a fresh bout of nausea.//]](set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]

Standing! Alright. Honestly you can do a lot worse than standing after being Un-Tethered from an Un-Binding. Good on you! No motion conflation, or time blending, or exposure, or anything like that to bother you.(click: "Good")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](color: "#606060")[//Do not think that kinder sounding words will benefit you every time. Hopefully this one subverted your expectations and caused you to question my intentions.//]] ] You seem a little shaky though. I know that can be disconcerting to hear, but I do feel like we have that kind of relationship. We have been through a fair amount together, right? You do tend to fixate on things too much. But this time, I am telling you - "hey you, you seem a little shaky!" Like a family member would say as you head out to meet your friends. That way you still have time to look more presentable. You could put on a new shirt, for example. Maybe one that is not so wrinkled? Or just put a layer over it, and hope the humidity does some natural ironing. It is humid out, [[Right?->consider our surroundings]] I am not the type of person to say "hey, you," as though I was an insolent student in a lecture, shouting at you (without even raising my hand, no less!) and then said what amounts to - "you look like shit". That is not me.(click: "fixate")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Now you cannot decide if the extra layer you put on will draw even more unwanted attention. Will everyone know that you are trying to hide a messy undershirt? Or maybe they will think you are ashamed of how you look in form fitting outfits? Worse still, maybe your friend over there told you that you look a little shaky just to throw you off your game//](set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] ]](click: "lecture")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(set: $Worry -= 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry](color: "#606060")[ //The expectations are simple - you just show up, listen to the professor speak, and leave. Your day is planned already, and the predictable schedule soothes you//] ]] Anyway, are you ready to get out there and see [[everything]] there is in the world?

//Un-Tethering has given you a stomach ache//(set: $StomachAche to 1) Well you //look// unharmed and generally whole. I am guessing from your slight lean and your arm wrapped around your torso that you got an upset stomach from the Un-Bind-ing. Those Un-Tethered stomach aches are the worst! It is usually because your gut is a few inches to the left of where it should be. I think, though, we can just keep on going and it will eventually course correct. I would avoid any [[sudden jerkiness]] though. Until this sorts itself out, you will definitely want to make a conscious effort to keep your stomach acid balanced, and try not to shift any unwanted bile around. No sloshing for you; you would be much better served taking a breather and [[sitting down for awhile->sitting some more]].

//Standing up is easier than you thought it might be. You are worrying a little less now.// You really know how to put on a show. Here I was thinking you were going to worry about that worrying, and now look at you! I can say, with tremendous confidence, that you are worrying exactly one less than you were before. Numerical reduction of concerns are not too common either so, that could even be a confidence boost?(click: "confidence boost")[ (transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[//Finding out that you are worrying less has not increased your confidence. This backfires, and now you worry about expecting to feel better.//] Well it was certainly worth checking on. Bummer though. No use [[Dwelling]] on it.(set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]] Anyways, this is good. Enough that I feel you would get a good night's sleep, the kind you get after really accomplishing something meaningful. Standing //and// you are less worried. You winner, you. Want to keep on trucking? There are not really strict bedtime rules here, so you are free to [[stand some more->standing some more]] if that feels right. Out of everything possible, that and [[sitting->sitting some more]] seem pretty tame.

//The Un-Tethering interpolates your body during your absence. It used your uncle as a template, and now you have a trick knee.(set: $KneeCrack to 1)// A complete stop. Some people prefer this: They think, "hey, I was just Un-Bound, and that Un-Tether-ing must have //moved// me. It only makes sense that I have landed //somewhere,//" as though Un-Bind-ing is controllable. As I see it, you could just as easily show up in exactly the same place. Not to mention you did not really "move" in the first place, right? Luckily for you, you are not too shaken up by the trip. Other than the slight scraping of knowing you just //were//, only some(thing, place, time) else. But you can put that on a to do list for a different day, I think. (click: "time")[(color: "#606060")[//The thoughts of "when" are creeping back. Do you have the time to play this game right now?// (set: $Worry +=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] Ok, you are a bit more shaken up, but nothing we cannot handle!]] I might advise [[sitting some more]]. You do not seem to be worrying too much. Crunchy-sounding legs is benign. Sitting is nice. You have read into things before, acting as though your choices neatly fold into the next decision. You think you have created a chain of events that enable each other. When you think about it, it makes you happy. To think you have meaning. Anyway, I might be overstepping my bounds. You are free to just try [[walking->walk some more]] - but I cannot say that the transition will be a smooth chain of events like the ones that make you so happy.

(set: $Worry -=1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]//Sitting is really doing it for you. You worry a little less.//(set: $LikeSitting to 1) Notice we did not really Un-Tether to a place, but instead to an action. And there is [[nothing]] less worrying, in the short term, I think, than inaction. The trick is that you need to not think about the specifics; just focus on (or un focus, I guess?) sitting. If you get weighed down on unimportant, intrusive thoughts about things like "//[[how->sitting space tear]]// am I sitting?" or "//what// am I sitting on?" then we could get into some trouble. //When// do we sit is more compelling anyways, and I cannot help but see a pattern. It is not as simple as "anytime you can because that is your preferred state," but that is a good starting point. From there, it is also compounded by the trend of standing desks, at which point we would have to wonder, "what if my job required a desk like that? can they do such a thing? How much would they have to pay me to stand all day instead of sitting?" Nothing quite like [[sitting->sitting some more]] to counter the thoughts of something quite as awful as a [[walking meeting]].

//You are sitting. Unfortunately, everyone at the concert in front of you is standing// (set: $ConcertVision = 1) This is just one of those things that happens, really. If it is a seated venue then you have a better chance, but the minute they play that //one// song, you are as good as done. This is a really unlucky place to Un-Tether to, because it only lets you [[stand up even though you really did not want to]] or [[just sit down and be that one guy who sits while everyone else stands]], neither of which will get you out unscathed.

(if: $WentThrough is 1)[(if: $NearSightedGlasses is 0)[//The Un-Tethering has caused your vision to deteriorate.//(set: $NearSighted to 1)(set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 5)[(go-to: (either: "walking one", "Walking Two", "Walking Three", "Walking Four", "standing", "Standing Two", "Standing Three","Standing Four", "sitting", "Sitting Two", "Sitting Three", "Sitting Four"))]]](else-if: $NearSightedGlasses is 1)[(go-to: (either: "walking one","Walking Two", "Walking Three", "Walking Four", "standing", "Standing Two", "Standing Three","Standing Four", "sitting", "Sitting Two", "Sitting Three", "Sitting Four"))]](else-if: $WentThrough is 0)[(if: $NearSightedGlasses is 0)[//The Un-Tethering has caused your vision to deteriorate.//(set: $NearSighted to 1)(set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 5)[(go-to: (either: "Walking Two", "Walking Three", "Walking Four", "Standing Two", "Standing Three","Standing Four", "Sitting Two", "Sitting Three", "Sitting Four"))]]](else-if: $NearSightedGlasses is 1)[(go-to: (either: "walking one","Walking Two", "Walking Three", "Walking Four", "standing", "Standing Two", "Standing Three","Standing Four", "sitting", "Sitting Two", "Sitting Three", "Sitting Four"))]]

(set: $answer to "")//You keep looking up until you //are// up, among the stars. The campfire smoke is fresh, but in front of you is a greater blaze. That small fire has plenty of fuel now.// <div class="narrator">|fade-out>[This feels like enough to me. Like you got somewhere.]</div>(set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 15)[(go-to: "personal space")]]

<!--(set: $UnBound to 1)(set: $DoormanShow to 2)(set: $InterRealityLegs to "On") for not unbinding the first time <--

(set: $answer to "")//You are a p(text-style: "superscript")[a]tch of wate(text-style: "superscript")[r] in the ocean. Rocking back and forth, there is nothing on the (text-style: "superscript")[h]orizon. Sometimes you are (text-style: "superscript")[c]olossal, other times not so much; You like the quieter moment(text-style: "superscript")[s].//(if: $clickQuieter is 0)[(click:"quieter")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //When you focus very close, you can feel the various ocean fauna moving throughout.//(set: $clickQuieter to 1)]] ] ](else-if: $clickQuieter is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //When you focus very close, you can feel the various ocean fauna moving throughout.// ]] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "crash")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Crash")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "A Wave")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//You crash onto the shore, scattering and splashing. Spread thin, (text-style: "superscript")[b]ut the air feels nice. You could get (text-style: "subscript")[u]sed to this.//(if: $clickShore is 0)[(click: "shore")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //The rough (text-style: "subscript")[s]and, (text-style: "superscript")[e]specially, has a wonderful texture.//(set: $clickShore to 1)]]]](else-if: $clickShore is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //The rough (text-style: "subscript")[s]and, (text-style: "superscript")[e]specially, has a wonderful texture//]](if: $clickAir is 0)[(click: "air")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //You get a twi(text-style: "subscript")[n]ge of jealousy that the air is allowed to move a(text-style: "superscript")[b]out so freely.//(set: $clickAir to 1)]]]](else-if: $clickAir is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //You get a twi(text-style: "subscript")[n]ge of jealousy that the air is allowed to move a(text-style: "superscript")[b]out so freely.//]] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "sun")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Evaporate")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "ebb")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(set: $SeaShell to 1)(goto: "Return to the Sea")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Crash")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

//You resist the urge to stay and slowly slide back into the water. It was the right choice; you immediately feel at home. As you drift back, you grab a nearby seashell as a memento of your time spent on land.//(set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "personal space")]]

(set: $answer to "")//You linger for too long and start to feel hot. Your agency wanes. Now you are spread far too thin; parts of you rise into the air and disappear. Your sense of self dissipates, and you fear you may never see the ocean again.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

(set: $answer to "")//The Doorman reaches into a deep pocket and pulls out a sand dollar. Both are enjoyable to look at.(if: $shellPoint is 0)[(set: $DoormanShow += 1)(replace: ?DoormanShow)[$DoormanShow](set: $shellPoint to 1)](else-if: $shellPoint is 1)[] Go (text-style: "superscript")[back] or go (text-style: "superscript")[home].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Shell")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]//You open the door and see the fused-yous. They are aggressively unhappy to see you. Snarling and swearing, they wish nothing more than to be you instead. Thankfully they cannot move. Hopefully they never learn to cooperate.//(set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 15)[(go-to: "Every Single Door Except One")]]

(set: $answer to "")//Do you have a suit?// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "yes")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Space Man")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "no")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Star")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Drift Through Space")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//You are fum(text-style: "superscript")[b]ling through a dark baseme(text-style: "subscript")[n]t. Arms outstretched, you hope to grasp a lightswitch. Unf(text-style: "subscript")[a]miliar sounds surroun(text-style: "subscript")[d] you; lac(text-style: "superscript")[k]ing vision amplifies your fears.//(if: $clickGrasp is 0)[(click:"grasp")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //You finally grab hold of something. Wet, damp and forgotten - your laundry, likely weeks old by now.//(set: $clickGrasp to 1)(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry]]]]](else-if: $clickGrasp is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //You finally grab hold of something. Wet, damp and forgotten - your laundry, likely weeks old by now.// ]](if: $clickOutstretched is 0)[(click:"outstretched")[(transition: "pulse") + (transition-time: .4s)[(color: "#606060")[ //You bump int(text-style: "superscript")[o] everythi(text-style: "superscript")[n]g and are certainly covered in scratc(text-style: "subscript")[h]es, cuts and scrapes.//(set: $clickOutstretched to 1)]]] ](else-if: $clickOutstretched is 1)[(color: "#606060")[ //You bump into everything and are certainly covered in scratches, cuts and scrapes.// ]] |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "knob")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Upstairs")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "hand")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Squatter")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "Basement")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//You are an astronaut drifting helplessly through outer space. You air supply is low. There is no chance of aliens picking you up. You have no comrades who will pull you in with a tractor beam. An AI did not turn on you. Your head might explode if you remove your helmet. Your EVA suit is almost out of fuel.// **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//You are a star. You are large, old and have experienced a lot. Your deep red color is a joy to witness. What else could you possibly need to accomplish?//(set: $isStar to 1)(set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "personal space")]]

(set: $answer to "")//The Doorman marvels at your celestial majesty.(if: $starPoint is 0)[(set: $DoormanShow += 1)(replace: ?DoormanShow)[$DoormanShow](set: $starPoint to 1)](else-if: $starPoint is 1)[] Go (text-style: "superscript")[back] or go (text-style: "superscript")[home].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "A Star")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]

(set: $answer to "")//You grab another hand. Unable to rationalize why, you move your arm upwards and make out more features - a nose, eyes and a mouth. The unresponsive body causes your mind to race. "How long has this person been here? Are they alive?" The possibilities of someone living below you - without your knowledge, no less - makes you break out in a cold sweat. Barging downstairs because of the commotion, your landlord chastises you. You know that the lease forbids subletting! He tears up your contract and swears that you will be kicked to the curb. How could you be so careless?//(set: $Worry += 1)(replace: ?Worry)[$Worry] **You are Bound. This is the end of your path.** Restart from scratch, or, you can always [[Un-Bind->Un-Bind One]].(click:"Restart")[(reload:)]

//You grab a doorknob and, finally, are able to leave the basement. Climbing out of the dark, your eyes take time to readjust. It is not until later in the day that you realise that a fabric softener dryer sheet was stuck to the bottom of your shoe.//(set: $dryerSheet to 1)(set: $time to 0)(live: 1s)[(set: $time to $time + 1)(if: $time >= 10)[(go-to: "personal space")]]

(set: $answer to "")//The Doorman kindly removes the sheet that is stuck to your shoe. (color: "#606060")[--I never use these--], the Doorman says, dismissive of static and wrinkles.(if: $sheetPoint is 0)[(set: $DoormanShow += 1)(replace: ?DoormanShow)[$DoormanShow](set: $sheetPoint to 1)](else-if: $sheetPoint is 1)[] Go (text-style: "superscript")[back] or go (text-style: "superscript")[home].// |keyboard>[(link-repeat: "a")[(set: $answer to it + "a")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "b")[(set: $answer to it + "b")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "c")[(set: $answer to it + "c")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "d")[(set: $answer to it + "d")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "e")[(set: $answer to it + "e")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "f")[(set: $answer to it + "f")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "g")[(set: $answer to it + "g")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "h")[(set: $answer to it + "h")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "i")[(set: $answer to it + "i")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "j")[(set: $answer to it + "j")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "k")[(set: $answer to it + "k")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "l")[(set: $answer to it + "l")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "m")[(set: $answer to it + "m")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]] (link-repeat: "n")[(set: $answer to it + "n")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "o")[(set: $answer to it + "o")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "p")[(set: $answer to it + "p")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "q")[(set: $answer to it + "q")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "r")[(set: $answer to it + "r")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "s")[(set: $answer to it + "s")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "t")[(set: $answer to it + "t")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "u")[(set: $answer to it + "u")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "v")[(set: $answer to it + "v")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "w")[(set: $answer to it + "w")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "x")[(set: $answer to it + "x")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "y")[(set: $answer to it + "y")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](link-repeat: "z")[(set: $answer to it + "z")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]] |answer>[$answer] <p>|keyboard>[|keyboard>[(link-repeat: "↪")[(set: $lastAnswer to $answer)(if: $answer is "back")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "Talking To The Doorman")](else-if: $answer is "unbind")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "unbound")[(goto:(either:"Un-Bind One", "Un-Bind Two", "Un-Bind Three" ))](else-if: $answer is "home")[(set: $WrongAnswer to 0)(goto: "personal space")](else:)[(set: $WrongAnswer to 1)(goto: "A Star")]] (link-repeat: "←")[(if: $answer.length > 1)[(set: $answer to (substring: $answer, 1, $answer.length - 1))(replace: ?answer)[$answer]](else-if: $answer.length <= 1)[(set: $answer to "")(replace: ?answer)[$answer]]]]]</p> (if: $WrongAnswer is 1)[why did you type (print: $lastAnswer)?]