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A: Examine the bones to see if your suspicions are correct.

You take an involuntary step backwards as you recognize the long toes and flattened skull of a giant frog. Its head is easily the size of your entire torso. Your foot feels suddenly chilled, and with a shiver you realize that cold waves are gently breaking over your ankle.

Remembering the helpful ring you found on a skeleton earlier, you peer closer to see if there is anything useful on these bones. You find a golden trinket trapped under the ribs, and you reach in to pull it out. Your concentration is broken when you hear a sudden cry bouncing off some high, unseen cliff wall. It sounds like your friend Buddy, but it's difficult to be certain through the echoes. If Buddy is here too, you'd better try to find him.

Your eyes are adjusting to the low light now, and as you slip the trinket into a pocket you see that you're in something that looks like a narrow chasm, leading off into complete darkness. It's bordered on both sides by a perfectly smooth stone wall that you'll never be able to climb. You can't even see the top. The pile of bones you fell into are heaped up on a long slope that leads down into crystal-clear water, and you realize this is where the glow is coming from. You'd hate to run into one of those frogs when it's alive, but the darkness might be even worse.

Do you:

A: Brave the cold and wade into the water?

or

B: Follow the chasm to see where it leads?

B: Follow the chasm to see where it leads.

Not wanting to let fear freeze your every momentum, "Red licorice, that's all it is, a truckload of it too." becomes your new mantra as you roll away from the nasty heap, trying to ignore the awful gooey and squishy sounds as you go. Leaving the faint glow of the "LICORICE, I SAID!" behind you, you are suddenly confronted by a leafy shrub stepping out of the shadows of the chasm you turned to. At least that's the closest you can come up with in your mind, before the tiny flora-alien smacks you in the face with a sizeable toad schnitzel.

Do you

A: Grab the shrub by its leafy top and try to send the bastard flying down the slope and into the water?

or

B: Want to react politely to what might simply be a greeting custom of an advanced alien species and just prepare to take any subsequent schnitzel blows?

A: Grab the shrub by its leafy top and try to send the bastard flying down the slope and into the water[!!]

The creature makes it way down to a watery demise, but not before it yells, "ITS ME, BUDDDDDdddyyyyyy....". You might have just killed your friend, what have you done. Better still, what will you do

A: Grab a near-by vine and go down the slope, as close to the water as you dare

B: Continue exploring the chasm; there's a rush of water nearby, and a rush of adrenaline in your head, you can't be sure of what you heard in the tumult.

A: Grab a near-by vine and go down the slope, as close to the water as you dare

Thankfully, Buddy-the-plant floats and seems none the worse for wear when you arrive at the bank of the subterranean waterway. If this is Buddy, which you still doubt. That first skeleton had Buddy's hat, after all, and why would Buddy have been transformed into alien flora? Buddy-the-plant says he doesn't remember how he transmigrated into this form but is anxious for you to accept that it happened.

"And why did you smack me with a toad schnitzel?"

"I heard you muttering about licorice and thought you might be hungry. I know I am after wandering around in the dark down here. There's no sunlight..." Buddy's eye-stalks have a speculative gleam in them...

Do you -

A: Slap Buddy back with his slimy schnitzel, explaining toad is not in your diet plan

B. Decide this is an imposter Buddy who wants to eat you and skedaddle back up the slope?

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A: Slap Buddy back with his slimy schnitzel, explaining toad is not in your diet plan.

You plant the schnitzel right in the middle of the shrub's face, which makes him sit down hard. If this is indeed what Buddy has transformed into, you'll just have to find a way to morph him back into his human self. Taking a glance at your trusty map ring, it appears there should be another way out of this area besides the frog pool or that chasm up the slope. Nodding to the leafy mess of what was once your best friend, you walk over to the cliff wall on the right and see a control panel light up as you approach. A sideways look at ye ring offers confirmation, there should be a pathway beyond yonder panel.

Buddy the flora boy waddles up to stand next to you and eyes the obscure symbols on the strange interface intently. As he reaches one of his twig arms towards the panel, do you

A: Let him access it, hoping he might have assimilated some knowledge of the space ship's system during his metamorphosis.

or

B: Shove him to the side - what would a shrub know? - and get out the golden trinket which you then hold up to the pretty lights.

Let him access the panel


Buddy's gnarled, smelly branch of a limb presses the panel, and the lights go black. After a few minutes of darkness, a phrase lights up in bright, shining white. You feel relief as Buddy comes back to normal, the ship disappears, and the phrase becomes brighter than ever:

START A NEW GAME

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#### A New Beginning... ####

Fleet week has come to town again and you couldn't ignore it even if you tried to: as fighter jets fly in formation over the Bay Area, scores of Navy vessels parade the waters between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. It's loud and it's glorious, so you head down to the water to mingle with the crowds a bit. Tourists from all over the globe stand in line to board the USS Pampanito, a WWII submarine on permanent display at Fisherman's Wharf.

You've actually never been on this boat yourself and with nothing better to do right now, why not pretend you're on vacation like everyone else and check it out? After a five minute wait in line, you follow behind a German couple into the innards of the sub. It's a tight and cramped tunnel you are all navigating single file now, as suddenly somewhere in front of you there's a violently bright flash of light that's so intense, for a second you imagine seeing all the bones of your fellow boat visitor right next to you, x-ray vision-style.

Do you:

A: Make your way through the tourist crowd towards the bow of the submarine, where the flash came from?

or

B: Turn around and try to get the hell out this death trap.

A: Make your way through the tourist crowd towards the bow of the submarine, where the flash came from?

Curiosity may be the death of you, but you reason that whatever that blast of light was, you have already had a very large dose of it. Why not see if you can help secure the vessel from further damaging innocent civilians? Most of the tourists are surging in the other direction, so you have to shove in a bit before the congestion eases up enough to see the glowing room at the end of the tourist pathway. A harried tour guide in military uniform is herding frightened tourists away. Two other public-minded volunteers are already at the door, and by the sounds of things you will be joined by at least one more brave soul. The tour guide looks busy, uneasy, and ambivalent about letting the little team of volunteers into the brilliantly lit room. Do you

A: Ask the tour guide what has happened?

B: Take the tour guide's uncertainty as permission and push into the light-filled room?

A: Ask the tour guide what has happened?


You suddenly sense something really bad that is going to happen... Taking a deep breath, you suppress your curiosity and ask the tour guide what happen. The Tour guide simply mention that there is a minor equipment failure in the torpedo room that they will need about 30 minutes to repair while pushing you to leave the place asap. Unwillingly, you give a last glance at the Torpedo room entrance but to your surprise, you saw a small stain of (fresh) blood on the floor!!! Frightening as it feel, you manage to pull out your Iphone 5 and secretly take a photo of it with your left hand facing downwards while you being rushed out together with other tourists.

When you are out of the submarine, Your saw Paul (your close friend) waiving the hands at you at the back of the queue as well as Mr Robinson, Police department head of the town at the corner of a nearby visitor booth.

A: talk to your friend Paul regarding the incident

B: talk to Mr Robinson, Police department head regarding the incident