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[Weirdo]

Ah, okay. My bad.

> Walk down the western path myself?

 Sorry! My apologies, but thats a path to the EAST, leading to the area you started at. Do you still want to go that way?

Yes.

[Tomasque]

Dripping Forest

 Puddles cover the forest floor, and a few lie on the path you stand on. Above you, the autumn branches shake with the wind and let loose small showers onto the damp leaves that seem to cover the ground in every direction. Except for that, there is no sound for miles in the rain-scented air. From the NORTH runs a small road, and splits to the EAST and WEST at the point where you stand.

 POEM: Unknown
>_

[Weirdo]

> Take that road!

[Tomasque]

North, yes?

[Weirdo]

North, yes?

Yes.

[Tomasque]

Dark City

 You stand in the remains of a city. All around you, wreckages of houses litter the the streets, and broken furniture fills their hollows. The tall buildings still standing point like crooked fingers, as if signalling a dark omen - or the cause of their demise - in the thick heavy cloud that covers the city. Its black visage seems to hold an almost malevolent disposition, and you feel unsafe as you stand in the shadow of this false sky. You endeavor to ignore the thing, and instead look to world around you to distract yourself from its presence. To SOUTH you see a worn path into the wilderness, while to the NORTH lie the city gates - and past them, the Great Desert, a treacherous stretch of sand that some never leave. As you look around to make your decision, your eyes fall on a small building to the EAST, seemingly untouched by whatever cataclysm befell this place. Peculiar.

 POEM: Unknown
>_

[TD1]

.........?

In order bump this, I'm gonna take a very wild stab in the dark and say Ozymandias by Percy Shelley.

[Tomasque]

 ((Nope, but that is one of the poems I like!))

Also, Weirdo seems to have gone missing
 Do you want to take over for a bit?

[TD1]

Of course! Sorry for lateness, but I completely forgot to reply.

>Go East

[Tomasque]

The Shifty Scholar

 Though the building looks fairly worn on the outside, it proves otherwise within. A drinking establishment of some sort, the place seems to be in quite good repair. The bar is unattended, but behind the counter gleam rows of colored bottles, with even more colored liquids within. On the opposite wall sits an unlit fireplace, and above it are small, hung objects and various other mementos. Among the violets, roses and wreaths of moss and daffodil, you spot a small poem:

This place of shelter and midnight revels
Has trapped within an unwilling devil.
Though he suffers and wishes to be free,
Because of him we are safe and merry.

 You dismiss the writings as that of a drunkard, but even so, you give a quick glance to the door in the WEST wall.

 POEM: Unknown
>_

[TD1]

>Open door

[Tomasque]

The Shifty Scholar

 Though the building looks fairly worn on the outside, it proves otherwise within. A drinking establishment of some sort, the place seems to be in quite good repair. The bar is unattended, but behind the counter gleam rows of colored bottles, with even more colored liquids within. On the opposite wall sits an unlit fireplace, and above it are small, hung objects and various other mementos. Among the violets, roses and wreaths of moss and daffodil, you spot a small poem:

This place of shelter and midnight revels
Has trapped within an unwilling devil.
Though he suffers and wishes to be free,
Because of him we are safe and merry.

 You dismiss the writings as that of a drunkard, but even so, you give a quick glance to the door in the WEST wall.

 POEM: Unknown
>Open door
 You look out to the WEST. The ruins of the city still lay there. Nothing, it seems, has changed.
>_

[Tomasque]

((Bump))

[TD1]

((This is the only game like this I have ever played, so how would I go back to the previous area? Would it be:))

>Continue West

((?))

[Tomasque]

((Simply "West" will suffice. Anytime you see something bold and all-caps, you can go in that direction by typing in that word. If you want to familiarize yourself more with text-based games, use this guide here - just keep in mind there are a few things (such as dialogue) that I do differently. Oh, and you don't need to open doors when entering / leaving buildings - it's assumed you do that automatically.))

Dark City

 You stand in the remains of a city. All around you, wreckages of houses litter the the streets, and broken furniture fills their hollows. The tall buildings still standing point like crooked fingers, as if signalling a dark omen - or the cause of their demise - in the thick heavy cloud that covers the city. Its black visage seems to hold an almost malevolent disposition, and you feel unsafe as you stand in the shadow of this false sky. You endeavor to ignore the thing, and instead look to world around you to distract yourself from its presence. To SOUTH you see a worn path into the wilderness, while to the NORTH lie the city gates - and past them, the Great Desert, a treacherous stretch of sand that some never leave. As you look around to make your decision, your eyes fall on a small building to the EAST, seemingly untouched by whatever cataclysm befell this place. Peculiar.

 POEM: Unknown
>_