{
(set: $tickets to 0)
(set: $batteries to 0)
(set: $rope to 0)(set: $name to (prompt: "What is your name?", "Name"))
(set: $goRight to false)(set: $controlRoom to false)(set: $grabbed to false)(set: $Batteries to false)(set: $monster to false)(set: $secondChance to false)(set: $noTorch to false)(set: $mine to false)}
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[
Welcome to the underground, $name
There are tickets hidden around the underground in different places. Find them all before you find the creature in the dark.
(live: 3s)[He's waiting for you...]
(live: 4s)[He's watching you...]
[[Collect 8 to win]] ]]
$tickets
$randomRed
$randomGreen
$randomBlue
$batteries
$goRight
(text-colour:"red")[(text-style: "outline")[You're in an abandoned underground with no supplies on you. You don't know how you got here and there's no one around to ask for help. It looks like this place might be closed for the night. You can't see anyone... But there's something shifting to your left.
Maybe they can help you.
(live: 4s)[Maybe...]
[[Go left]], or [[go right.]]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You turn left, but the shifting gets louder. There's someone coming. He's heading towards you at full speed. You hear metal clanking as he gets closer.
(live: 3s)[(text-style: "expand")[H E S E E S Y O U]]
[[RUN!]]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[(if: $grabbed is false)[You run as fast as you can, your heart pounding in your ears! [<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_ca954c62b8bb49ada6a828fa2d0af1f4.mp3" autoplay>]
(live: 1s)[But you're too slow.]
(live:2s)[(text-style: "fade-in-out")[You feel his nails dig into your back as he grabs you]]
[[KICK HIM]]
[[SCREAM]]
(live: 3s)[(either: "HURRY!", "FASTER!", "THERE'S NO TIME!!", "HE'S GOING TO KILL YOU!")] (set: $grabbed to true)](else-if: $grabbed is true)[Well done, you managed to outrun him. He can't see you anymore. [[Train]] or [[go right.]]]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[It looks like no one's stepped foot on here in years. It must be broken down.
There's not much you can do. The train doesn't run. There are no tickets here.
(if: $Batteries is false)[On your way back out, you kick some [(text-style: "underline")[batteries]<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>]. They might be useful for later. You place them in your pocket for safe keeping.(set: $batteries to it + 1)(set: $Batteries to true)]
(live: 2s)[(either: "MOVE QUICK!", "DO SOMETHING!", "HE'S COMING", "RUN!")]
[[Go left]]
[[Control room]]]]
(if: $controlRoom is false)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[It's dark in here, but you bravely step inside. There's a (text-style: "underline")[ticket] behind the door. You pick it up and inspect it. The paper is old and mouldy. The writing says:
(text-style: "buoy")[CHEAP DAY
Valid as advertised
Third class
LONDINIUM]
Where's Londinium?
[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>] (set: $tickets to it + 1)]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[There might be more tickets around here.
[[Search the control room]]
[[Leave the control room->SCREAM]]]]
(set: $torch to false)(set: $controlRoom to true)(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[He falls back in pain. You make a break for it. As you run, you see a [(text-style: "underline")[ticket] has fallen from his pocket. Why did he have a ticket in his pocket if he was chasing you? Perhaps he was after yours...
In a moment of pure adrenaline, you turn back for the ticket.
[[Grab it]]]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You scream at the top of your lungs!
(text-style: "rumble")["AHHHHHH!"]
But it doesn't do any good. Not only have you frightened yourself more, you've frightened him. He only wanted your tickets. (set: $tickets to 0)
(text-style:"expand")[He throws something heavy]
It lands hard on your head and you fall back onto the rails.
The last thing you see is the man standing over you, staring.
[[Back to start ->start]] ]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[(if: $tickets is 8)[[[Find the creature|door]]][(if: $monster is false)[It's not very easy to see in here. You trip over a torch on your way. This could help you see better in the dark. (if: $batteries is 1)[[Use batteries for torch]]
(if: $batteries is 0) [Maybe there are some batteries around here somewhere [[go back to rail line->go right.]]]]](set: $torch to false) (set: $controlRoom to true)
(if: $monster is true)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[[[Go right|go right.]](set: $secondChance to true)]]
(if: $secondChance is true)[[[Try the train|Train]]]]]]
(set: $batteries to 0)
(Text-style: "smear")[(text-colour: "red")[You use the torch to light the way.]]
(if: $torch is false)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[There's something up ahead where the back wall should be.
It's a door leading off the back of the room.
As you step towards it, you feel your foot drop into a void and lean backwards to stop from falling. Sitting, panting for breath in the dirt, you point your torch downwards to see a pit right in the middle of the path. You stand up on shaky legs, realising you almost fell to your death, and point your torch down, but the bottom is black. (set: $pit to false)
Choose the [[door]] at the back of the room or find out what's in the [[pit]].]]](if: $torch is true)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[[[Try the door|door]]]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")
[---
Tickets: $tickets
Batteries: $batteries
Rope: $rope]]
{
(if: $tickets is < 8)[(if: $goRight is false)[(set: $tickets to it + 1)[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>](text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You walk down the rail line, staring at the tiles. There's a (text-style: "underline")[ticket] on the wall of the rails up ahead. You take it. The paper is flimsy and brown from age.
It says: (text-style: "buoy")[TRAIN TICKET. VALID FOR DAY OF ISSUE ONLY. SECOND CLASS FARE. TO MAMUCIUM.] Strange, you've never heard of this place...(set: $goRight to true)]]
(if: $tickets is 8)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[Congratulations, you have collected 8 tickets. There's just one last thing for you to do. [[Find the creature|door]]]]]]]
(else-if: $goRight is true)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You turn right. There are no tickets here. Look elsewhere]]]
}
{
(if: $controlRoom is false)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You turn right. Closest to you is a [[train|Train]] with no doors. A little further away is a [[control room|Control room]]. It's a longer run, but a safer place to hide from whatever is out there. It's not safe standing here for too long.
(set: $controlRoom to true)]]]
(else-if: $controlRoom is true)[(if: $tickets is < 8)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You turn right. Maybe there's something in the [[train->Train]](if: $secondChance is true)[(if: $tickets is < 8)[(if: $mine is false)[ or ...hang on a minute...[[where do the rails lead?]]]]]]]]]
}
{
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[Careful.]]
}
{
(live: 1s)[
(set: $randomRed to (random: 0, 225))
(set: $randomGreen to (random: 0, 225))
(set: $randomBlue to (random: 0, 225))
(text-colour: (rgb: $randomRed, $randomGreen, $randomBlue))[He is always watching you]
]
}
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You take the ticket and run for a little longer. Deliriously, you nearly trip over the rails and stop to catch your breath and read the ticket:
(text-style: "buoy")[RAILWAY TICKET
FIRST CLASS
EBORACUM
SEPT 29 6PM].
As you're standing there, you notice part of the rails look odd.
(text-style: "italic")[Really] odd, in fact.
Almost as if they're fake rail lines
Almost as if there's something underneath... (set: $tickets to it + 1)[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>]
[[Open it.]]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[(if: $tickets is < 8)[There's a (text-style: "underline")[ticket][<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>] inside. You take it and begin walking again.
It's torn and falling to pieces so you have to hold it in a certain way to inspect it. It reads:
(text-style: "buoy")[ORIENTAL RAILWAY SERVICE TO:
CAMBRIDGE TOWN
STANDARD CLASS TICKET
FEBRUARY 21ST](set: $tickets to it + 1)]
(if: $tickets is 8)[You should be looking for the creature now...]
[[Control room]]
[[Train]] ]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[(if: $pit is false)[You carefully step around the pit and move to the back of the room to the door. You're disoriented. The torch light seems dimmer in here. You walk a little further inside. There's something swinging to-and-fro, you can hear the straining of it under the weight. [<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_6e3e34ca9853432b9ef59d9d1e3a4464.mp3" autoplay loop>]
You find a (text-style: "underline")[ticket][<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>] on the floor.
It's covered in holes and the corners are burned. The print says:
(text-style: "buoy")[TRAIN JOURNEY TO:
BEAMFLEOTE
MAY 24TH
SINGLE, OUTWARD](set: $tickets to it + 1)
There's a body hanging from the ceiling.
[[Approach]]
[[Leave ->Use batteries for torch]] ](if: $pit is true)[You walk back in the doorway and step over the body. A strange creature approaches you. (if: $tickets is 8)[It stares bitterly. "You win this time, $name."
[[The end|start]]](else-if: $tickets < 8)[It looks enraged. "You don't have enough tickets!"
You begin to wonder why that body was hanging from the ceiling with only 2 tickets in its pocket. Maybe the creature found them before they could collect all 8. Maybe that's what will happen to you...
[["I'm sorry, give me another chance!"|Search the control room]]
[["You have the last ticket."]]]](set: $monster to true)]]
(if: $rope is 0)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[If you go down with no equipment you could be harmed. You need something sturdy to get down safely. [[Search the control room|Use batteries for torch]]]]]
(if: $rope is 1)[(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You secure the rope around one of the control panel's levers and slowly climb down. It's about a ten foot drop, and pitch black when you get to the bottom. (text-colour: "yellow")[(text-style: "smear")[You shine your torch around to see.]] (set: $rope to 0) There's a [(text-style: "underline")[ticket]<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>] down here! It's waterlogged and the ink's smeared, but it just about reads:
(text-style: "buoy")[ALL ABOARD:
TRAIN TO MONKCHESTER
APRIL 3RD
THIRD CLASS]
[[Take it and climb out|door]] (set: $tickets to it + 1)(set: $pit to true)]]](set: $torch to true)
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[As you're struck with terror, watching the limp body swing back and forth from its broken neck, you come to the abominable realisation that this (text-style: "underline")[rope] could prove useful.
Despite your initial instincts to respectfully leave the body to its final resting place, you step closer... [<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_6e3e34ca9853432b9ef59d9d1e3a4464.mp3" autoplay loop>]
[[Take the rope.]]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[As the decaying corpse drops to the floor, [(text-style: "underline")[2 tickets]<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>] fall out its pocket! You remove the rope from around its neck and save it for later. The tickets are covered in blood and you have to pry them apart from each other.
They read:
(text-style: "buoy")[TRAIN TO:
CELMERESFORT
DECEMBER 18TH
ONE WAY TICKET]
And
(text-style: "buoy")[ADMIT ONE:
SINGLE JOURNEY OUTBOUND
LYME
FEBRUARY 8TH]
Why did the body have tickets in its pocket? Were they collecting them just like you?[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_7384c45041b143b7a2ababbe5f9181c4.mp3" autoplay>]
[[Go to the pit ->pit]]]](set: $tickets to it + 2)(set: $rope to 1)
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")["No, I don't," he snarls at you.
Your words have offended the creature. He comes towards you with sharp claws and glowing red eyes.
He takes one swing at you that makes you drop to the ground, unconscious. As you're slowly fading away, you see him begin to tie a rope into a noose.
Game over.[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_3df48c9c34c344beb793ed8a82fad6d2.mp3" autoplay>]
[[Back to the start|start]].]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You walk for hours. There's something watching you in the walls.
You walk and walk until you reach an abandoned mine shaft. There's a steady build up of water on the trail and your boots begin to fill with water.
You see an old mine cart coming up.[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_1f5d5e1890484b698b8465326b83bd16.mp3" autoplay>](set: $mine to true)
[[Climb in]] or [[keep walking]]. Your movement might disturb them...]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[The mine cart squeaks a lot as you travel down the old rails. Slowly, things begin to awaken. You turn around and see something emerge out of the old beams. [<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_dc87d0599c2040f582597e0e964cfa44.mp3" autoplay loop>]
It looks human, but there's something off about it...
You try your best to ignore it, hoping it will do the same with you.
Up ahead, the track splits off. The rails on the left look unfinished from this angle. You hear running water from the right. Which way should you go?
[[Turn left]].
[[Turn right]].]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[Your footsteps feel so loud they could awaken the dead. You can feel your heartbeat echoing off the walls of the mine. Things start shifting in the dark. It's getting harder and harder to ignore them. (text-style: "fade-in-out")[You drop your torch in the water below you and it goes out.][<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_1f5d5e1890484b698b8465326b83bd16.mp3" autoplay>](set: $noTorch to true)
Something creeps up behind you. Your breath catches in your throat.
What do you do?
[[Fight it blindly]]
[[Start running]]
(live: 2s)[(either: "FIGHT IT!", "RUN FOR IT!", "IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU!")]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[The tracks take you straight through a waterfall and the water destroys your tickets. You take them out of your pocket, but they turn to a mushy paste in your hand.[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_47b146a4bf4044c098dad77379433367.mp3" autoplay loop>]
The creature finds you and rips the soaked tickets from your clutches.
"No more chances!" it screeches before it rips your throat out with its sharp talons.
Game over.
[[Try again|start]].]]
(set: $tickets to 0)(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[(if: $noTorch is false)[The mine cart takes you out of sight of the creature and slows to a halt at the end of the tunnel, where a (text-style: "underline")[ticket][<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>] sits on the wall. It's dusty and covered in boot prints, but you can still read it:
(text-style: "buoy")[ADMIT ONE:
TRAIN TO DUROLIPONTE STATION
NOV 29TH](set: $tickets to it + 1)[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_f91aa9a6ec5245d08b6edd591e6c61f2.mp3" autoplay>]
[[Take it and return to the control room|Search the control room]].]
(if: $noTorch is true)[You keep running until you hit a dead end. There's nowhere to go but backwards now and you're not sure if the creature is still following you. There (text-style: "italic")[could] be a ticket around here, but you'd have to feel around for it. Do you have enough time to look? You can hear something moving about in the stagnant water.
[[Feel around for a ticket]]
[[Abandon efforts and run|Fight it blindly]]]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[The creature moves faster than you do. Without your torch, you're slow and clumsy. You feel its cold, spindly hands reach out for your neck. It takes your voice when you try to yell out.
You fall back into the murky water, staring into the darkness as your consciousness fades to black.
Game over.[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_a09796e7c735472b87af72c29d42362d.mp3" autoplay>]
[[Back to start|start]]]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You stumble forwards for a while, reaching out into the darkness for the walls until they split off. You're not sure which way to go. You can hear water coming from the right. It might lead to an exit out of this place. You're cold and wet and frightened.
Which way should you go?[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_1f5d5e1890484b698b8465326b83bd16.mp3" autoplay loop>]
[[Turn right]]
[[Turn left]] ]]
(text-colour: "red")[(text-style: "outline")[You find something on the wall and rip it off. It feels like a (text-style: "underline")[ticket]. (set: $tickets to it + 1)
You squint your eyes in the dark and make out the words:
(text-style: "buoy")[ADMIT ONE:
TRAIN TO DUROLIPONTE STATION
NOV 29TH]
[<audio src="https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/2ab348_fcaf5dd3259145a4a6af5b398f2f3de3.mp3" autoplay>]
[[Find the creature|door]]]]