'Bone Heresy' by 'Summer Hale' start it-is-dark no-select colors [ bg '#29000e' fg '#ff8ab3' shadow '#eb0052' link '#ffc2d7' hover '#fff0f5' shadow-hover '#ff6198' ] [style advanced-styling [background '#29000e'] [transition '2s'] ] default-style advanced-styling flags [ hungry thirsty bloodsoaked dressed ] [style memory [background 'black'] [transition '5s']] [style dark-memory [background '#100000'] [transition '1s'] [.text [color '#ff3030'] [transition '1s']] ] [passage it-is-dark [set hungry] [set thirsty] [p 'You awake, your head pounding.'] [p 'It is dark.'] [p 'You remember nothing.'] [p [link corridor/listen 'Listen'] ' to your surroundings'] ] [passage you [p [flag? dressed [ 'You are dressed in dark robes.' ][ 'You are wearing a tank top and a miniskirt.' ]]] [p [flag? bloodsoaked ['You are spattered with blood.'] ]] [ret 'Back'] ] [passage corridor [p 'It is still dark.'] [p 'You '[link remember/1 'remember'] ' very little.'] [p [sub you 'You'] ' are very cold.'] [p [link corridor/listen 'Listen'] ' to your surroundings'] ] [passage corridor/listen [flag? bloodsoaked [ [p 'Blood drips from pipes far overhead into a bucket.'] ][ [p 'You hear a fluid dripping nearby.'] [p 'It splashes like it\'s falling into some sort of ' [link bucket 'bucket'] ' or tank.'] ]] [p 'You realize you are incredibly hungry and thirsty.'] [p [link pocket 'Check your pockets'] '.'] ] [passage bucket [p 'You grope for a bucket. Maybe there\'s water—'] [p 'Your shaking hand finds the bucket and it spills violently. You feel a thick liquid splash against your skin. You smell—'] [p 'Blood.'] [p 'Your clothes and skin and splattered with blood.'] [set bloodsoaked] [p 'You ' [link corridor/listen 'stumble backwards']] ] [passage pocket [p 'You fumble for your pockets. You prod at unyielding fabric for a moment before realizing you\'re still wearing your miniskirt with the fake pocke—'] [p '—still—'] [p 'You begin to ' [link remember/1 'remember'] '.'] ] [passage remember/1 [p 'It\'s difficult, like the memories don\'t want to come back. When they do, they come in flashes. They don\'t feel like yours.'] [p [link remember/party 'A party.']] [p [link remember/sky 'A jet-black sky.']] [p [link remember/snarling 'Snarling.']] [p 'Focus on '[link corridor 'what\'s around you']] ] [passage remember/snarling memory [p 'It was a police raid.'] [p 'A press of bodies, huddled against the wall. A roar as the packs filled the street like an endless tide of teeth and claws.'] [p 'The relief.'] [p [link remember/snarling/not-you 'They didn\'t want you'] '.'] ] [passage remember/snarling/not-you memory [p 'A few unlucky people who had stepped out for a smoke were taken. A few neighbors, out staring at the sky, ignoring the warnings bleating out from the radio. Some children, out past curfew. Their blood streaked the streets.'] [p 'The police are never clean, but they\'ve been especially vicious since the mating season started.'] [p 'But they weren\'t here for ' [link remember/party 'the party']'. They were after ' [link remember/snarling/someone-else 'someone else'] '.'] ] [passage remember/snarling/someone-else memory [p 'Who?'] [p 'Nothing.'] [p 'You know you knew once. Your memories point at it, the links are all still there, but the thing they\'re pointing at isn\'t. Like there\'s a hole in the middle of your memory, a hole as dark and wrong as the ' [link remember/sky 'jet-black sky'] '.'] [p 'It feels like something was ripped out of your head.'] [p 'Messily.'] [p 'Your heart begins racing.'] [p [link remember/1 'You don\'t want to think about this anymore.']] ] [passage remember/sky memory [p '"Do not look at the sky."'] [p 'Somewhere a radio was tuned to Approved News 6. For two hours it broadcast the same advisory. "Do not look at the sky." The ever-shifting voice of the announcer had taken on unusual tones of urgency. "Loyal citizens are urgently advised to <em>avoid observing the sky</em>."'] [p [link remember/sky/look 'You looked.']] ] [passage remember/sky/look memory [p 'There were no stars. There was no moon. There was only emptiness—'] [p 'No.'] [p 'There was something else.'] [p 'You can hear your heart thumping in your chest.'] [p [link remember/1 'You don\'t want to keep thinking about this.']] ] [passage remember/party memory [p 'People shouting, laughing, dancing, kissing. A cute girl you laid your eyes on longingly, ' [link remember/cute-girl 'but turned away because...']] [p 'Nothing.'] [p 'There was music.'] [p [link remember/house 'It was someone\'s house.']] ] [passage remember/house memory [p 'It was small. The walls were tan.'] [p 'Could have been any house.'] [p 'Except for that ' [link remember/thing '<em>thing</em>'] '.'] ] [passage remember/thing dark-memory [p 'The thought is physically painful. You struggle not to vomit.'] [p 'There wasn\'t anything right about '[link remember/party 'that party'] ', not with that <em>thing</em> and ' [link remember/sky 'that sky'] '.'] ] [passage remember/cute-girl memory [p 'Who was she?'] [p 'You remember her face, her body. Freckled, slim, sexy, <em>ruthless—</em>'] [p 'The way she danced was almost inhuman.'] [p '<em>she knew she knew '[link remember/cute-girl/nothing 'SHE KNEW'] '</em>'] ] [passage remember/cute-girl/nothing [p '...nothing.'] [p [link remember/1 'The spark of memory fades quicker than it flared.']] ]