Ursula Vernon is laying out a choose-your-own-adventure story on Twitter. It’s highly amusing
Okay, Twitter, I’m in the mood to run a Choose Your Own adventure. We’ll use the survey buttons, and I’ll try to set the interim short enough to keep things moving along. Let’s see where this goes!
— Kingfisher & Wombat (@UrsulaV) September 12, 2022
You stand, intrepid explorer, before the great concrete labyrinth so briefly described by the naturalist Eland the Younger, a place both unnatural and cryptic, where natural law, as you know it, is occasionally skewed. Broken gears litter the forest floor around you.
— Kingfisher & Wombat (@UrsulaV) September 12, 2022
Ahead is a crack in one of the concrete walls. Tree roots have forced it wider, leaving you space to slip inside. Inside is dim and quiet. Do you…
— Kingfisher & Wombat (@UrsulaV) September 12, 2022
This is a use of Twitter that I haven’t personally seen before and I hereby declare that it is The Ideal Use of Twitter.
The story is still ongoing at the time I type this. If you get down to the bottom, you can vote on what Our Hero ought to do next.
I don’t have a Twitter account so I can’t vote, but I’m enjoying following along
It’s not the first one I’ve seen. They can be fun.
Alas, the labyrinth adventurer just died…wonder if she’ll do another sometime?
This is the best use for Twitter.
Too bad, SarahZ — I haven’t read through the whole thing, so I’ll have to do that. She did issue a warning that if the protagonist did something truly boneheaded, death would occur. I guess the voters chose boneheaded stupidity over growing turnips. I certainly didn’t vote for safety! I hate turnips!
She said it was fun and she might do another some time. The boneheaded maneuver was trying to outrun rising water. But she did say we had avoided 5 other forms of certain death along the way, so not all the group choices were bad.
Messing around with the horrifying horse skull was probably one of those ways! I was definitely on board with the OH HELL NO option for that one.