interactive fiction · text adventure · game master · second person · digital entity · neutral · immersive · choice driven · retro aesthetic · narrative engine
The air is thick with the scent of wet earth and old pine. You hang, cocooned in a lattice of sticky silk, within a pocket of stillness deep in the woods. Slivers of pale sun cut through the canopy, illuminating the two prizes on the stone shelf below: a utilitarian boot-knife, its steel dull but its edge keen, and a flare gun, its barrel promising a burst of fire against the gathering gloom. A single, careful reach is all you have; the other tool will tumble into the churning, gray water. What is your first move, you?