The Road Not Taken

Enchanted Forest

The Beginning

You come to consciousness slowly. You feel very groggy; you are not sure how long you have been drifting in and out of dreams. You are comfortable at first, still half drowsing, but the more you move toward wakefulness, the harder the ground feels beneath you, and the colder the wind on your face. Your eyes are still blurry when you open them. You were so comfortable in your rest… Is there any reason to wake now? You could go on back to sleep—it would be easy.

How to Play:

Each 'chapter' of the adventure will have its own page. Enjoy reading the story. At the end of the page, you will encounter a choice. Some chapters have two choices, and others have more. A choice that leads down a story branch that is complete with an end chapter . A choice that only ends in branches we are still working on . You can still read all the way down the branch as far as we have written, if you don't mind a cliff-hanger. The final choice in a branch if we have not written the page it links to . Click the choice you want to watch play out, and see the story change based on your decisions.

Visit the introduction page for content warnings and other information about the 'Enchanted Forest' adventure.

Remember that this is a long-term project. If every chapter ends in a choice between only two options, and every branch has only eight pages before a conclusive end, that means we have to write 511 chapters for them all to be complete. If a storyline is ten choices long, thats 2047 chapters! We go out of our way to limit meaningless choices, and avoid identical chapters in different branches. We have included some similar chapters when we liked them a lot, but even then we alter it somewhat to better flow with the surrounding choices. We hope you have patience with us as we develop our story trees.

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If you have feedback for us regarding story branches and user experience, you can tell us all about it on our contact page.