Stars by Zoe H — Playfic

Stars

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when play begins:
say "[italic type] Hello, an welcome to my very first game. As I am just trying this out, this game won't be very good or interesting. It's really just me having fun and playing around with stuff."
Garden is a room

"You wake up in what you know to be a garden. You do not know how you got here, and wonder if it is a dream. You wish for your warm bed as you realize that it is very dark in this garden. The stars have seemed to disappear leaving you in the pitch black. Suddenly, you can here the sound of a thousand wings fluttering around you. As if by magic, fireflies begin illuminating your path. They are leading you north, but it seems as if a few are leading you east."
	East is a Shed. North is a Big Tree.

Shed is a room. "You have chosen to taken the road less traveled. You come to a shed that seems to have been taken over by nature. Inside you find a cat. The cat tells you 'Hello! Welcome to the garden. I know you must be confused as I am a cat, and cats do not talk. Well, in a starless dark, anything can happen. This garden is usually a magical place illuminated by stars, but they have all gone out. When its this dark in a place like this, chaos begins to take over. Changes that seem impossible become a reality, but this can lead to the creation of true monsters. Please, if you could, follow the path to the big tree to your north, and help us. You will have an eternal home here if you do.'"
North is a Big Tree.

Big Tree is a room. "Welcome to the Big Tree. The fireflies only illuminate about ten feet above you, but still you can tell that this tree is as tall as the sky. Above you is a ladder. You may travel up this ladder, but the fireflies will not follow. Do you dare venture back into the pitch black?"
Up is Darkness.

Darkness is a room. "The wind whistles around you. The dark is violently quiet. You keep climbing until you reach a landing. You manage to feel around and pull yourself on to the ledge. As soon as you stand to catch your breath, you are faced with glowing green eyes staring at you from a distance. You can examine the eyes closer, or continue up the ladder."
Up is Branches. Green Eyes are here. The description is "[if we have not examined Green Eyes] You move along the ledge closer to the glowing eyes and realize that they belong to an owl like creature. The owl flies towards you rests on your head for a split second, and flies up into the darkness."

Branches is a room. "You reach the top of the tree and pull yourself up to sit on a few branches. The same green eyes look at you from an opposite branch and blink a few times. They observe you closely before flying up to another branch above you. They stare at you, only giving off a faint glow on the branches that can lead you up to their branch. They hoot at you. It seems as if they want you to follow them. You can climb up."
Up is Cloud.

Cloud is a room. "You follow the owl up until you reach a cloud. You think it can't be possible that the owl wants you to walk on the clouds, but as it lands on the cloud, you climb on and find out that it is able to hold you. It is still dark, so you are not sure, but the tree begins to disappear, and you feel a slight breeze begin to pick up. It seems as if the cloud is carrying you to an unknown destination. Suddenly it stops, and you can just make out a switch above you."
Up is a choice. A switch is here. The description is "[if we have not examined the switch] You look as the switch and wonder how the sky could have a switch. Either way, you reason that flipping the switch could do nothing wrong. As soon as you flip the switch, all the stars light up the sky revealing a garden filled with creatures and plants of all kinds. You start to fall through the cloud. You hit the ground and pass out. You can type up to wake up."

Choice is a room. "You have made it to the final choice. You can head east into a blue light that will lead you home. However, the garden is to the west through the green light. You miss your home, but the garden is a place that no other human will ever go, and it is the birthplace of true beauty. You can go live in peace in the garden where nothing will ever harm you and happiness is guaranteed, but you can also choose to go back to your life. East or West?"
East is Home. West is Garden.

Home is a room. "You wake up in your bed. You are home. You are not guaranteed safety, beauty, or happiness, but for all the heartbreak that you face, you will able to bring ten times as much good to the human world. At the end of your life, you know that the perfection of the garden would not have fulfilled you as much as life. The end."