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RESCUE!
A text based adventure.
[[START]]Welcome to rescue!
[[Play->Part One]]It seemed like just a normal night. It was the same as most days, you ate dinner with your mom and your eight year old brother, and did your homework as your brother protested being sent to bed. "NOOO!!!" He'd scream. "The monsters will get me! The monsters under the bed!!!" Silly kid, you think. You used to think you saw monsters, but you've learned to ignore them. They're just harmless shadows.
You finish your homework and head to bed. Quickly, you fall into a sleep. You doze for a few hours when a terrified scream from your brother's room pierces through the air and startles you awake. After a split second, the scream stops, the sound of it echoing around your small ranch style house. You come running out of your room at the same moment as your mom's bedroom door burst open. "What happened Patrick!!!" she shouts. You both run into his room. "It's okay, it's okay," she says quietly as she approaches his bed. She lifts the covers to find a surprise. He's gone!!! You run out and grab your phone to call the police while your mom runs around his room hysterically. The police arrive within minutes. Only after entering the room again for the second time do you see it: a glowing, blue portal underneath his bed. You tap the nearest cop, who is watching the others inspect the room. "Right there," you say. "There's a portal or something. Whoever stole him escaped through that tunnel or whatever right there. The officer stares at where you are pointing for a second then looks back at you, a puzzled look on your face. "I know this is probably a shocking experience for you and, uh, you're not quite in your right mind. Son, there's nothing there." You duck under the caution tape. "Come back!" says the officer, but he doesn't act. He allows you to enter the scene. You reach into the portal. It's definitely there. "I think you need to take a rest and clear your head," says another officer inspecting the scene. He nudges you out of your brother's room. You're pretty sure that whatever took your brother came out of that tunnel, but no one will listen to you. Frustrated, you lie on your bed, thinking, but exhaustion takes over and soon you doze off. After a few hours, the police are gone, but surely they'll be back before long. It's now or never.
[[Grab some gear and enter the portal]]
[[Wait until you can find out more]]You grab your knife, a flashlight, some gloves and a couple granola bars and water to put in your bag and head into the portal once your ready. Slowly you lower yourself in and you already hear whirring below you. You see a spiderlike creature below you, ready for you to drop. It was eight legs, is robot like and has claws on each legs. The metallic tunnels make it easy to hear the legs clanking on the floor as it moves towards your landing spot.
<<set $hasKnife to true>>
<<set $hasFood to true>>
You grip your knife and stab at the metal shell when you land. The spider is unharmed. You're not sure what to do to kill it.
[[Jump back up into the real world]]
[[Scream!!!]]
[[Examine the creature to figure out how to kill it]]No, don't be stupid, you tell yourself. You hardly know what it is down there and you want to go in!!? You decide to find out more about it. Maybe you can take a sample of the crumbly, cold metal that seems to make up the portal. You grab your gloves and head to his room and take a peak down the hole. You reach in and feel around, but all you can feel is the metal that somehow is glowing with some sort of blue radiation. You try to take some of the metal as you pull your hand out but something knocks it out. You try again, and a claw grabs you as you manage to grab your flashlight before the last second.
<<set $hasknife to false>>
You fall to the ground with a thump.
In front of you is metallic creature. It was eight legs, is robot like and has claws on each legs. The metallic tunnels make it easy to hear the legs clanking on the floor as it moves towards your landing spot.
[[Jump back up into the real world]]
[[Scream!!!]]
[[Examine the creature to figure out how to kill it]]With a great leap, you are able to grab onto the rim of the portal. It's slick and difficult to grip. As you hang there, swinging your legs a claw closes around your foot. Finally, your arms give out and you fall to the cold floor with a soft thud. Claws tear at your flesh from various locations. You can feel your body being picked up now by the robot and you start moving. You know you won't survive for much longer. All you hear is the thud thud thud of the claws on the metal as the world fades from view...
[[Rescue Failed]]"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Your scream echo through the tunnels. The spiders whirrs and reaches a claw towards your leg. You smack it away. Maybe screaming was stupid. It never really does anything to make a situation better, does it??
[[Go back to make another decision->Grab some gear and enter the portal]] You leap onto the back of the creature and pin it to the ground. You are able to keep the closest claws away from you and the furthest ones whirr just out of reach. You know you have to work fast. You study the back of the robot and
<<if $hasKnife is true>> beat the hatch open with the hilt of your knife. It opens up and you find a bunch of switches. You switch them off and slowly the creature collapses.
<<else>> you beat it open with your hand, making it sore but it works. It opens up and you find a bunch of switches. You switch them off and slowly the creature collapses.
<</if>>
[[continue->decision to talk to wizard or not]]Thank You for playing Rescue. If you aren't satisfied with your ending, (which you probably aren't if you are seeing this screen) then click [[Try Again->Part One]]You continue exploring the tunnel chamber knowing that no matter how scary this is for you, it must be much scarier for your brother. You wander aimlessly through the dimly lit tunnels when a voice to your left scares you.
[[Walk towards the Voice->Meet the Wizard Part One]]
[[Run!!!->Lost]]
You creep towards the voice. Weren't you ever told not to talk to strangers? "Over here," he croaks. You turn, cautiously. It's a old man, lying in tattered clothes covered in blood. You can tell by the way he extends his hands that he is blind. "I need you to listen to me," he says.
[[Listen to what the old man has to say->Meet the Wizard Part Two]]
[[Kill the old man]]You run from the voice desperate for your life. After about a minute, you stop when you realize whatever made the noise never bothered chasing you. You continue on, stopping to sleep but you have trouble keeping track of time.
<<if $hasFood is true>> You eat a granola bar when hunger takes over, but you're slowly running out. You live a couple days eating granola bars and drinking water sparingly when one day you collapse for the night and find yourself unable to get up. The robots come running at you and you are unable to disable them. They rip you apart slowly and you die, lost and alone in the cold maze.
<<else>> You wander around for a couple days, but with no food or water, you die rather quickly.
<</if>>
[[Rescue Failed]]"Okay, I'm listening," you say.
"I'm warning you," he said. "I've seen many creatures come down here before to try and take down Claw, but never a human. I'm a wizard, and even I couldn't do it. Magic doesn't work down here. You aren't capable of taking down him and his minions." Minions, you think. That's what they're called.
"No," you tell him. "I need to rescue my brother."
The wizard shakes his head. "That's what he wants you to do. He's using your brother to lure you for some reason, that's for sure. I'd turn around now."
[[Listen to the wizard and go back home]]
[[Insist on more information]]You step up close to the man as he lies helpless on the ground. You flip him over to expose his heart and he yelps. "Please don't do this," he begs.
Are you sure you want to kill him?
[[Kill him already!!!]]
[[Spare his life and listen to what he has to say->Meet the Wizard Part Two]]<<if $hasKnife is true>>You ruthlessly plunge your knife into his heart. He cries out in anguish and writhes on the floor. "You will wish you talked to me when you're dying down here alone," he warns. You don't want to hear any more from him so you twist the knife inside his chest. The man suddenly grows still. You find no food or water on him. Maybe killing him was kind of pointless.
<<else>> Unfortunately you do not have any weapons to kill him. He laughs at your attempt to kill him with your fists and you take off into the darkness.
<</if>>
[[Continue searching for your brother->lost2]]You continue on your search for your brother, but every winding tunnel seems the same. Nothing ever takes you anywhere.
<<if $hasFood is true>> You eat a granola bar when hunger takes over, but you're slowly running out. You live a couple days eating granola bars and drinking water sparingly when one day you collapse for the night and find yourself unable to get up. The robots come running at you and you are unable to disable them. They rip you apart slowly and you die, lost and alone in the cold maze.
<<else>> You wander around for a couple days, but with no food or water, you die rather quickly.
<</if>>
[[Rescue Failed]]You thank him. "Thanks for your help," you tell him. He has enough food and water for a couple more days as long as the minions don't get him. Before sending you off, he makes you promise to come back and rescue him after you find your brother. You head off into the darkness, keeping your eyes peeled for a minion to follow back to the lair.
[[Continue->discover minion]]"That's all garbage!!!" you yell at him. You kick him in the head and he grunts.
<<if $hasKnife is true>> You plunge your knife into his chest. Why did you do that? Does it make you feel good about yourself? You walk away from the dying man and continue on your journey.
<<else>> You punch him over and over, and leave him with a couple bruises but you don't have a weapon capable of killing anything.
<</if>>
[[stubbornly wander around]]
[[come to your senses and listen to the wizard's advice after all]]You sure hate that wizard. What a load of garbage he told you! You head off towards adventure, even though you have no clue where you're going.
<<if $hasfood is true>> You eat a little here and there but before you know it you have no food and no water and you die alone. If only you had some sort of plan.
<<else>> You have no food and no water, so you don't get to wander around for long before you collapse of dehydration and exhaustion. You never get up again.
<</if>>
[[Rescue Failed]]You wander stubbornly around for a couple hours when you start to come to your senses. What the wizard said seemed pretty viable. Even though you killed him, (you're quite a jerk) it's not too late to follow his advice after all.
[[Continue->discover minion]]"Okay," you say. You seem pretty easily swayed by what other people say. Don't you care about your brother? Oh well. The wizard begs you to take him back with you and you agree. You head back up through the hole and as you resurface into your world the wizard dissappears back into his. You crawl out from under the bed to find all the cops swarming the room once again. They gape at your sudden reappearance out of the portal. You now know for sure you can see things they cannot, but they will think you're crazy. "Where'd he come from!" a cop demands, but the whole room is puzzled. They decide it would be best for you to get away from home for a while to get over the sudden tragedy of your brother's dissapearance.
[[Continue->boarding school]]"Where should I go?" you ask.
He sighs. "If you're going to be stubborn, I might as well help you." He points. "Start by heading that way. The best way to get to the middle is following the minions because they make it back to the middle eventually."
[[Thank the wizard and head off]]
[[Dismiss the information you were given as gibberish and kill the wizard]]
They explain the situation to your mom while you sit in handcuffs to restrain you from running away. They quickly decide it would be beneficial for you to be sent away to a boarding school to get away from this house for a while. They pack you up and send you away that very day. You have a pretty good time at the boarding school and make lots of friends. You never forget about your brother, but by the time your year at boarding school is over, your mom has moved away to a different house that didn't have so many bad memories. You never find your brother, and always wonder what would happen if you had kept going. On the bright side, you get a great education at this boarding school, attend a prestigious college and you become a successful businessman. At least you were able to move on and live your own life.
[[Rescue Failed]]You find a minion chugging along going down one of the passages. You sneak behind at a safe distance, moving quietly. You have been moving for a few minutes when you see a piece of paper on the floor. It looks important. Do you want to pick it up?
[[Yes->kill or not]]
[[No->Follow minion]]You bend over and pick up the map. Luckily, you don't make a noise and the minion rolls around the corner and out of sight.
[[Continue->Look at map]]You can't risk making too much noise. You ignore the piece of paper and continue sneaking along. After about an hour of walking the minion slows down, and a garage door at the end of the hall opens up. You've successfully found the lair! You walk in slowly and carefully after the minion as it chugs into its charging station. Just as the minion clicks in, a man with long, electronic claws walks out of a door on the side. The claws dart out of his hands and latch onto your wrists, holding you in place. "It worked!!!" laughs the man. "I saw your interaction with the wizard guy I thought I killed. I have cameras on the minions, so I watched you follow it all the way into here!" He gestures at the room as the garage door clicks shut. They handcuff you and seize all your belongings.
[[Demand to know who he is and what he is doing]]
[[Stay quiet]]"What is this??!?" you demand. "Who are you??? What did you do with my brother?!? Why did you take him??!!" You have a million more questions, but before you can ask them two of his henchmen come up behind you and push shotguns against your back. They push you along, through a door and towards a cell where you see your brother sitting as well. "To answer one of your questions," says the claw guy. "You and your brother have a special ability, to see things other people can't. Like the monsters that sometimes watch over you guys at night, or the portal under your brother's bed. We can figure out who you guys are, and we're trying to collect them before we start a war, that way no one has any clue what we're doing. You are locked in a cell with your brother. You've found him, but this is no joyful reunion. You see two claw handed men, come guard your cell. They're faceless. You realize most people can't see them. At this point, you're alive but you've already lost. You live out your days in the cell as this the crazies who are keeping you captive launch attacks all over the world. Months into your stay at the compound, a state of emergency is declared. The few human guards and soldiers evacuate, leaving you and your brother in your cell when the bomb is dropped on the compound.
[[Rescue Failed]]You wisely decide to hush up. You are lead to your cell where you see your brother sitting on a cot staring blankly at the wall. You know you failed to rescue him, so this is no joyful reunion. In fact, you are too ashamed to even look at him. Together you live out the next few weeks and nothing really happens until one day, months after your arrest and about four weeks since Claw-man's first attack on the world using his invisible minions, everyone in the compound evacuates for a bomb, leaving you alone in your cell. The bomb never comes though, and you and your brother die of starvation before anyone returns to feed you.
[[Rescue Failed]]Would you like to kill the minion before you pick the map up?
[[Yes->kill first]]
[[No->Find Map]]You quickly and swiftly jump onto the back of the minion. Its claws latch onto your back but you easily disable it, and the claws release from your shirt and fall limp. You now pick up the map.
[[Continue->Look at map]]You look at the map and see that the minion was indeed going into the compound, but now you can enter more discretely instead of making an entrance with the minion. You follow the symbols until you are near the compound. You are at the final checkpoint when you hear a minion coming around the corner.
[[Run from the minion]]
[[Try to kill it]]You decide to play it safe and wait it out a couple checkpoints back. After about 10 minutes, you go back to the checkpoint. Silence. It is now safe to proceed.
[[Continue->Compound 2]]As it rounds the corner you jump out and try to attack. Unfortunately you can't get to the back of the minion in time because the claws are in front, defending the back hatch. You scream as the the minion rips flesh out of various locations and throwing it about on the clean metal walls.
[[Rescue Failed]]You find the gate and push the button next to it. It opens up smoothly and makes a lot of noise, but luckily no one is there to hear it open. You see lots of the little minions that wander around the tunnels parked in their pods parking. You realize you have to get out before one of the activates. There's a door with iron bars on it to the left, but the key is left in the door. To the right is a normal wooden door, closed but not locked. Which door do you want to take?
[[Door with bars to the left]]
[[Wooden door to the right]]You walk over to the door with bars. You see the guard inside who has sloppily left the key in the door. Inside the cell you see a small child. It could be your brother, but you're not sure. Do you want to go in?
[[Yes->Enter prison]]
[[No->Compound 2]]The door is locked.
[[Go back->Compound 2]]You slowly turn the key and charge through the door, tackling the guard before he knows what hit him. He's down but he seems conscious. On his belt you see the key for your brother's cell.
[[Beat the guard until he's unconcious]]
[[Grab the key and save your brother]]You decide to beat the guard over and over and over about his head. Turns out, he wasn't unconcious. He screams a sharp yell, and you hear footsteps in a neighboring hallway. "Get me out," shrieks your brother. "Stop! They're coming! Just get me out!"
[[Steal the key and break out your brother]]
[[Make sure the guard is really unconcious]]You grab the key and rip it off the guard's belt. He reaches over to try and grab you but he's too weak to do anything. You unlock the cell and are relieved to see your brother is okay. You don't even need to tell him to follow you. Together, you run out of the compound without seeing a single guard.
[[Continue->Escape compound]]You and your brother run out of the large garage doors and don't hear anyone following behind. Your brothe is very hungry and weak. That's when you remember the wizard, who you promised to rescue. Will you go back for him?
[[Yes->Rescue Wizard]]
[[No->Abandon Wizard]]You decide enough is enough and grab the key to break out your brother. As you unlock the door the guards rush in behind you. You see all the armed minions, and leading the pack is a man in a suit with his hair slicked back, you guess he's leading whatever experiment or operation is going on here. He stands in front of you and grins. Right before he is about to speak,you see a perfect oppurtunity to attack him.
[[Continue->Attack the leader]]
"No!!!" you insist. I need to make sure he's really really unconcious!!!" You get up and kick him hard in the head. He doesn't react. The footsteps are now louder and you hear walkie talkies and voices. Your brother starts to cry. You were so close. The guards rush in and handcuff you and they throw you to the ground and you hit your head hard. The last thing you hear before going unconcious is the lock clicking.
[[The End->Rescue Failed]]You go back through the various passages and find the body of the wizard. He's rolling around on the floor, laughing. He's gone crazy!!! Your kindness has backfired out you, as he starts throwing various objects at you and your brother. Luckily you escape. [[Leave compound->home]]You decide to not follow through on your promise he's just some random dude after all.
[Continue->Home]]<<if $hasKnife is true>> Would you like to [[punch him]] or [[stab him with your knife]]?
<<else>> Would you like to [[punch him]]?
<</if>>You punch him, but he doesn't even flinch. "I don't like your attitude," he says. "You're gonna give me a hard time. Or not." He grins, pulls out his gun and shoots you.
[[Rescue Failed]]You whip out your knife and stab him before you know what hit him. He cries out in pain, but doesn't fall. Quickly he stands back up. You reaches into his pocket, for a weapon you're guessing.
[[Stand still]]
[[Run!!!]]
It's not a weapon, it's a set of handcuffs. This could be your last chance to get your brother. Will you take a risk and break out your brother now or take the handcuffs and become a prisoner?
[[Try to break out brother]]
[[Become a prisoner, you can escape later->949]]You bolt, hurdling over the minions before they can attack you. You can [[exit the compound->run out give up on bro]] or [[enter the wooden door->kill dude with his own minions]]. You quickly bolt towards your brother's cell, key in hand. You hastily shove it towards the cell door, but miss the keyhole.
Will you pick it up, or give up and become a prisoner?
[[Pick it up]]
[[Give up->949]]You lean over to pick up the key. BOOM!!! You've been shot. As you lay dying in front of your brother's cell, you see his sad face looking at you. You've failed him.
[[The End->Rescue Failed]]How sad that you would give up after getting this far. You are compliant as he handcuffs you, and you are thrown into the cell with your brother. You aren't sure what happens to the strange man after that though. He never returns, and you and your brother die of starvation in your cell.
[[Rescue Failed]]You dash out of the compound, sprinting for about 20 minutes until you see the light from the portal in your brother's bedroom. The whirring and buzzing of the minions sound behind you but you jump up safely into your brother's bedroom. The police never find out what happened to your brother, you live the rest of your life safe but riddled with guilt.
[[The End->Rescue Failed]]You dash through the wooden door. It's a simple room, with only a control panel and a large screen. It occurs to you that this is the control panel for all the minions. You can use this to kill the man who is holding your brother captive! You override the auto control mode and tell them to attack the man. You hear his screams from down the hall as you run back to find him dead on the floor. The minions are still. You successfully break out your brother, who is very hungry and weak. Together you guys go through the maze, when you remember your promise to help the wizard get out. Will you follow through?
[[Yes->Rescue Wizard]]
[[No->home]]Joyfully, you and your brother dive through the tunnel and into his room, startling the detectives. You guys will have a lot of explaining to do.
[[Rescue Successful!]]Congratulations! You've won the game! To play again, click [[Here->Part One]]