A piece of interactive fiction vs. role-playing game, where you get to suggest the next move and influence how the story progresses.
#6. A change is as good as a holiday.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 You decide to slow the pace a little. If you're going to get picked up by police it will be due to erratic driving alerting the police to your presence, so you drop back into lane and chill out on your Duke brothers driving style.It gives you a little time to think, sitting in traffic. You realise that this car will probably soon be the target of a hunt, and decide it is best to ditch it. After driving for some 15 minutes, you come across a quieter section of the city, and roll into an alleyway, not too dissimilar to where all the trouble started, and pull over. You turn the ignition off, and sit staring forwards into the darkness for a little while - just trying to calm yourself.
Reaching into your pocket you pull out the package which you haven't yet had a chance to check, and slowly unravel the paper wadding. Your stomach clenches and you reveal yet another piece of the nightmare which is unfolding at each step you take. A finger, bloody at one end where severed from its owner, and pointing directly at your torso, almost accusatory in its position. The blood drains from your face, but relative to this evening's events so far, this is simply another in a long chain of questions raised.
You sigh, but as you inhale, you catch the putrid whiff of your clothing. If you're ever going to get to the bottom of this, you need to look half decent. A morbid thought passes through your mind, and you turn around to the cadaver behind you.
Moments pass and before you realise what you've done, the body is dressed in your dishevelled rags, and you're suited and booted.
You're standing in an alleyway beside a car with a body dressed in your old clothing. You are carrying your wallet, a severed finger and your mobile phone.
If you've got a wallet maybe you've got some money, see how much cash there is and if there's enough for a drink maybe find a bar, somewhere dark and ominous feeling and in a dodgy back street of course, so you can sit, think, review the events so far, check all your fingers are still there and see if there's anything handy in your mobile phone.
Ew! Can we go back in time and not look at the mystery package?
I reckon the Pink Kitten has some answers, and we've got lots of questions. TIme to give them a call.
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