(set: $Hidden to "false")
(set: $Lost to "false")
(set: $danger to 0)
#Hiding Out
The year is 2048. Most of the world's problems has been solved for the past 30 years. War has been eradicated, life expectancy have improved for the better, and the world is at peace.
Trading among countries has increased, technologies advanced the world where exploration is the thing of the past for most people. Anyone can go to whatever they want from the comfort of their homes. No sense of danger, no need to travel, and no worries about one's own life. The world may be at peace, but they're always problems that will appear when we least expect it.
[[To the slums|Slums]]
{(if: $Lost is "true") && ($danger = 5)[
(set: $Limits to "true"]}You wake up from a dream, laying on a worn out bed inside a run down apartment. The sunlight hit your eyes through the small window next to your bed. You block the sunlight with your right hand as you look around your room, noticing how empty it looks.
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(color: red)[//Now where am I? Ah right, I remember now. I needed a place to rest and found this place.//] You thought yourself as you got up, streching your body.
As you were getting up, you notice a scar on the back of your right hand. (mouseover-append: "hand.")[ Though you don't remember how you got it, you figured you got it by accident while exploring. (mouseover-append: "exploring.")[ You lightly touch the scar with your left hand.]]
While looking at your scar, you hear footsteps coming from below. On instinct, you crouch down leading against one of the walls of the room, listening.
(color: red)[//Sounds like they found out where I am. I need to get out of here!//] You quietly got up and look for an exit. You see a small window on your left. (color: red)[//Too small for me to fit through; I'll have to find another way out.//] (mouseover-append: "out.")[ You look to your right and see a door. You walk towards the door and turn the handle.]
(color: green)[How do you want to proceed?]
[[Hidden]]
(t8n: "pulse")[ [[Lost]] ]
(set: $Hidden to "true")
(set: $danger to 1)
You walk out of the room, slowly closing the door behind you. Staying low to the ground, you found yourself in a hallway with floor boards sticking out of the floor with stains on the wall. (color: red)[//This place has seen better days.//]
You hear footsteps coming from your right, so you went to your left still crouching as you move through the hallway. Fastforward(click-replace: "Fastforward")[30 minutes later, you appear to be at the ground level of the building. You see the exit sign overhead as you make your way [[Outside]] .]
(set: $Lost to "true")
(set: $danger to 2)
You rush through the door into a hallway that looks as run down as the room. You found yourself in a hallway that looked as old as the room you were in just now.
(color: red)[//Now where do I go?//] You asked yourself looking from left to right. You heard footsteps coming from your right getting louder by the second. You ran down the hallway to your left, closing the door along the way.(mouseover-append: "way.")[ Most of the windows in the building are board up, so jumping out of the windows is out of the question. You need to head [[Outside]].]
You found yourself outside among the ruins of a old city. You see rundown buildings all around you in the middle of the city, abandoned by the world.
You needed to get out that area as it's not safe for you to be out in the open. (mouseover-append: "open.")[ The footsteps are getting closer. I need to decide on my next course of action.]
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You look around and see an alley way on your left {
(if: $Hidden is 'true')[
[[ Hide ]].
](else-if: $Lost is 'true')[
[[ Run ]].
]}(set: $danger to 3)
You here a door being forced open as you see a group of men storming out of the building you were just at.
You can hear them talking from where you're at
(text-colour:yellow)[Do you see anything?]
(text-colour: green)[Nothing sir!]
(text-colour:yellow)[Alright. Everyone, search the area! I want that person found!]
(text-colour: orange)[Yes sir!]
(color: red)[//Well, this is just great. I need to get out of here!//]
You see the group of men going in mulitple directions, some of which are heading to your direction. You remain quiet as some of them walked past you. Once you see no sign of life around, you quietly made you way down the alley, paying attention to your surroundings all the while.
You approach the end of the alleyway when you suddenly hear voices coming from your left. You position yourself right at the edge of the wall. (color:red)[//Must be some of those men from earlier.//] You take a peak around the corner to see two men standing over a body talking to each other. If you're quiet, you can hear them talking.
|2>[(link-rerun:"Eavesdrop")[(show:?1)(hide:?2)]]
|1)[(text-colour: green)[See anything?]
(text-style:"sway")[Nothing yet. Just another dead body. Let's see: (random:10,90) degrees Celsius, roughly (either:1,2,3) hours ago. None of these numbers make any sense.]
(color: red)[//What did he pulled out just now?//]
(text-colour: green)[You're right. Nothing about this whole thing make sense. Why does the captian want this person so badly?]
(text-style:"sway")[Who knows. Records the readings and our location and lets get out of here.]
(link-rerun:"Stop Listening")[(hide:?1)(show:?2)]]
The two men started moving deeper into the alleyway. You could follow [[them|left]] or go the opposite direction to the [[right]].(set: $danger to 5)
You turn to the alley and started running. Moments later, you can hear a door opening behind you. You can make out voices, but you can't hear what is being said as you're more focused on getting as far away in that area as fast as possible.
You reached the end of the alley as you see two paths branch off in two directions. (mouseover-append: "directions.")[You don't hear any footsteps so you believe you have some time, but you feel like you need to hurry.]
You look at both paths, going in opposite directions from each other. You need to decide to go either [[left]] or [[right]].
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{(if: $Lost is "true")[You decided to head left at the fork.
You stumble across body laying on the floor. You notice it was a body of a (either: "male", "female"). You didn't think much of it since you're in a hurry. You were about to run pass the body until you felt something grabbing your ankle.
You look down to see the body suddenly grabbing you with bloodshot eyes.
(text-style:"rumble") + (text-size:2)[''DIE TRAITOR! YOU MUST DIE!!'' ]
You couldn't believe what was happening: the body laying on the ground just now was now screaming at you. It's yelling is going to attract the people after you, so you try and pry it's hand off of you.
Try as you might, you can't get free. Just then, you felt something hitting your head follow by a gun shot.
Your body hit the ground.
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(text-size: 5)[Bad Ending.]
[[Back to the beginning|Beginning]]
] (else-if: $Hidden is "true")[You walk up to the body to take a closer look. The body of the (either: "male", "female") doesn't look out of place. No signs of blood, any wounds, out of place, not even a weapon. It was laying face down on the ground with it's head pointing at the direction the two men headed.
You started to head to that direction when suddenly, you felt a hand grabbing your foot. You look down.
(text-style:"rumble") + (text-size:2)[''YOU'LL KILL US ALL! LEAVE!!'' ]
You were shocked to see the same person that was on the ground grabbing your foot.
(text-colour: orange)[Did you hear that? It came from behind us!]
(color: red)[//That's not good! I need to get away!//]
You hurry as you try to get away from that area, but the hand grabbing you is not letting you go.(mouseover-append: "you go.")[ You took your other foot and kicked his hand away.]
Once you were free, you ran the [[other way|right]]
]}{(if: $Lost is "true")[
You decided to head right on the fork. You ran down the alley, leading towards what appears to be the city center, until you see a ship parked in the middle of the city.
Not too sure if going aboard the ship is a good idea, you decide to throw caution to the wind and board it.
(color: red)[//I could try and fly the ship, but I don't know the first thing about flying.(click-replace:"flying.")[Scratch that idea, better find a place to hide.]//]
He found a cardboard box that was big enough for him to hide in that has a logo of a fox holding a knife in it's mouth. You thought it was weird at first, but thought nothing of it as you open up the box, enter it, and close the box up.
It was quite some time until the ship started to take off. You're not sure where the ship is going, but at least you're safe for the time being
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(text-size:2)[OK Ending]
[[Back to the beginning|Beginning]]
](else-if: $Hidden is "true")[
You made a right at the fork and ran along the other alleyway. As you were running, you could hear a gunshot coming from where you came from.
(text-colour: green)[You there, stop!]
(text-colour: yellow)[Captian, we got eyes on our target heading (either: "north", "south", "east", "west") from our location.]
You overheard them talking as you turn a corner running away from them.
One of the men chasing you started shooting at you, barely messing your head as a corner of a wall blocked the shot.
(text-colour: yellow)[Hold your fire! We were ordered to capture him alive.]
(color: red)[//Capture me alive? What do they want with me? (mouseover-append: "with me?")[ Whatever that reason is, I'm not sticking around to find out!]//]
You make another turn and found yourself in a deadend. (color: red)[//Not good!//] You see a door in front of you and rush to open it, but it was locked. With no hiding spots and the sound of footsteps closing in, you started to panic trying to force the door open.
Giving up hope in opening the door, you turn your body to face the alleyway with your back against the locked door, waiting for a struggle. Just as the men got closer, you felt the door behind you opening and a pair of hands dragging you inside.
You were shocked as the previous locked door closed in front of you. (color: red)[//What just happened?//] (click-replace: "What just happened?")[//Who or what opened the door just now?//]
Several questions filled you head your body was spun around and out of nowhere, you felt a kiss on your lips.
(color: red)[//!!!//] (mouseover-append: "!!!")[ As you were being kissed, you tried to see who was kissing you, but they had their upper half of their face covered by a blank white mask.]
The person released you from the kiss and punched you in the face, knocking you out.
Before you loss consciousness, you hear the person saying something: A female's voice.
(color: blue) + (mouseover-append:"voice")[I finally found you, you idiot.](mouseover-append: "idiot")[
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(text-size: 4) + (text-style:"buoy")[To Be Continued] ]
[[Credits]]
[[Restart Story|Beginning]]
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