(set: $terrified to false)
(set: $ecstatic to false)
(set: $benevolent to false)
You wipe your nose while opening your eyes—and just as you suspected—everything has resumed in its standard timelapse. As everything resumes, the second half of the outer petals (text-style:"sway")[float] down to the ground.
(click:"ground")[How do you feel about this newfound ability?
[[Terrified... ->Path 1]]
[[Ecstatic! ->Path 2]]
[[Benevolent. ->Path 3]]]You go off to the side of the trail and start digging with your hands.
(click:"hands")[After making a sizable hole, you drop the flower inside, and pile the (text-colour:#816b56)[dirt] back on top.]
(click:"top")[You make your way back up to the trail and continue on your stroll, attempting to forget all about the (text-colour:red)[horror] you just experienced.]
(click:"experienced")[Unbeknownst to you, as you walk away, the flower pops its way pack to the surface—in a state as if it was never picked from the ground at all.]
(click:"picked")[Another person who had watched what you had done and saw the flower miraculously (text-colour:#0db50d)[sprout] once again let their curiousty get the better of them...]
(click:"them")[...and they went to (text-colour:yellow)[obtain] it for themself.]
(click:"obtain")[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[The Cycle Continues Ending]
(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[[Play Again?->Start Game]]]''Game Designer -'' Akossi Kouadio
''Narrative Scribe -'' Akossi Kouadio
''Creative Director -'' Akossi Kouadio
"enjoy the game k thx bye"
(align:"<==")+(box:"===XXXXXXXXXX=======")[-Akossi Kouadio]You take the flower and tear the petals from the stem.
(click:"stem")[You crumple it with both hands and drop it on the ground.]
(click:"ground")[You stomp on the flower, grinding it with the bottom of your shoe.]
(click:"shoe")[You lift your foot and see a purple and blue smear beneath you.]
(click:"beneath")[You continue on your stroll, attempting to forget all about the horror you just [[experienced-]]]You don't want you or anyone else to wield such a (text-colour:#cf3a6e)[(text-style:"fidget")[powerful]] object.
(click:"powerful")[How do you want to dispose of it?
[[Toss it]]
[[Bury it]]
[[Destroy it]]]
An immense sense of (text-style:"fidget")[(text-colour:#896161)[dread]] washes over you as you realize just how much power you hold at you fingertips.
(click:"fingertips")[You feel there is only one solution...]
(click:"solution")[[Get rid of it.]]
(set: $ecstatic to true)
(set: $benevolent to false)
You're hit with an immense (text-style:"shudder")[rush] of (text-colour:yellow)[excitement]. You see all the things you could exploit for your own personal gain with your newfound ability.
(click:"ability")[You put the flower in your pocket and walk your way back home. The following day, you decide to take a trip to [[The Mall]].]
(set: $ecstatic to false)
(set: $benevolent to true)
Your eyes dialate as you realise how you have the ability to alter the tiemline for others as a means of doing (text-colour:green)[good].
(click:"good")[You put the flower in your pocket and walk your way back home. The following day, you decide to take a trip to [[The Mall]].](set: $steal to false)
(set: $prank_people to true)
You take a whiff of the flower and let out a grand sneeze. Soon after, all the bustling of the mall comes to a pause. The only movement being you, the flower, and half of the middle petals falling to the floor.
(click:"floor")[You go around and pants people, tie their shoelaces together, draw on their faces with permanent ink, and make your way out of the mall with satified with the mischief you've partook in.]
(click:"partook")[Making sure you're a considerable distance from the building before sniffing the flower once again, releasing a sneeze (text-style:"rumble")[louder] than the last.]
(click:"last")[As the second half of the middle petals fall, everything returns to its continuious speed. You then make your way back [[home->haul]].]
You wander around the base floor of and survey the crowed establishments. You look up at the the second floor and spot what looks like a group of middle school kids being pretty (text-colour:orange)[rowdy].
(click:"rowdy")[You see them laughing amonst themselves, with one in particular playfully pushing another. However, they pushed slightly too hard, leading to the one pushed to stumble directly towards the 2nd floor guarded barrier...]
(click:"barrier")[...and (text-style:"buoy")[(text-colour:red)[falling]] right over the [[edge]].]
You exit the mall and look around the surrounding perimeter. You spot a (text-colour:yellow)[wealthy-looking individual] accosting a person holding a sign that read (text-colour:lime)['Anything helps, have a blessed day'].
(click:"day")[You go closer and here the wealthy-looking individual say (text-colour:red)[vile] things to the (text-colour:#bb7d3e)[struggling person]. They were called names and looked like they were on the verge of (text-style:"buoy")[(text-colour:blue)[tears]]. The wealthy-looking person then (text-colour:#18b9b9)[spit] in the cup the person was holding then walked away. You sniff the flower, and after a big sneeze, half of the middle petals fall.]
(click:"fall")[You approach the wealthy person, and you (text-colour:orange)[pickpocket] them to get their wallet. You find (text-colour:green)[a hundred dollar] bill and put their wallet back. You approach the person with the sign and place the hundred dollar bill on their lap.]
(click:"lap")[You give yourself distance from the pair and sniff the flower once again, leading to a sneeze and the second half of the middle petals fall to the ground. As the situation resumes, the person with the sign's eyes (text-colour:yellow)[light up] as they see a hundred dollar bill appear in their lap. The wealthy individual continued on their way, none the wiser.]
(click:"wiser")[Satisfied with the outcome, you leave and make your way back [[home]].](align:"=><=")[<img src="https://www.baysmountain.com/wp-content/uploads/fallfoilagetour.jpg"\>]
As the (text-colour:orange)[autumn] (text-style:"sway")[winds] provide a cooling sense of the new season shift, you go about your stroll on the parks dirt path.
(click:"path")[The adjacent trees shower you with leaves of yellow, orange, and red—the accompanying plants wither and wilt with arched stem, losing their vibrant colors of summer's past...]
(click:"past")[...all, except one.]
(click:"one")[You take notice of a lone flower, nustled within the graveyard of the soon-to-be lifeless vegetation. Emitting bright hues of (text-colour:#9c5dda)[purples] and (text-colour:blue)[blues], as well as specs of white and gold, this flower entrances you.]
(click:"entrances")[You approach it taking in the faint (text-style:"buoy")[aura] that surrounds the sprouting petals. Plucking it from the ground as you examine further, you can't help but wonder what the scent of such a (text-colour:#f4b3f4)[beautiful] flower must be.]
(click:"scent")[You bring it just below your nose and inhale deeply. The scent was indescribable, yet wonderful. The scent, however, was strong...]
(click:"strong")[...very (text-style:"fidget")[[strong]].](set: $steal to true)
(set: $prank_people to false)
You take a whiff of the flower and let out a grand sneeze. Soon after, all the bustling of the mall comes to a pause. The only movement being you, the flower, and half of the middle petals falling to the floor.
(click:"floor")[You enter clothing stores, electronic stores, jewelers, restaurants in the food court, and ever kiosk that runs inbetween. You stuff paper bags with anything and everything the catches your eye. Even taking things from the possession of (text-colour:orange)[other shoppers].]
(click:"shoppers")[Hands full with pounds of shopping bags, you prance out of the mall—making sure you're a considerable distance from the building before sniffing the flower once again, releasing a sneeze (text-style:"rumble")[louder] than the last.]
(click:"last")[As the second half of the middle petals fall, everything returns to its continuious speed. You then make your way back home, satified with your [[haul]].](if:$ecstatic is true)[
(align:"=><=")[<img src="https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/07/87/c0/8d/central-mall-area.jpg?w=1200&h=-1&s=1"\>]
You enter the crowded base floor, surrounded by several floors worth of food service, kiosks, and specialty stores.
(click:"stores")[What do you do first?
[[Steal!]]
[[Prank People!]]]
]
(else-if:$benevolent is true)[
(align:"=><=")[<img src="https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/07/87/c0/8d/central-mall-area.jpg?w=1200&h=-1&s=1"\>]
You enter the crowded base floor, surrounded by several floors worth of food service, kiosks, and specialty stores.
(click:"stores")[What do you do first?
[[Scan the inside to see if anyone needs help]]
[[Scan the outside to see if anyone needs help]]]
]#(text-style:"bold","smear","expand","flat")[The Chrono-Carnation]
[[Start Game]]
[[Credits]]You go down to the creek and toss it into the (text-style:"buoy")[(text-colour:#09c8e1)[rushing currents]].
(click:"currents")[You watch as the flower makes its way further and further into the depths of the increasingly dense (text-colour:#0db50d)[forest], as it monuevers down the creeks path.]
(click:"path") [You make your way back up to the trail and continue on your stroll, attempting to forget all about the horror you just experienced.]
(click:"experienced")[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[The Safe Ending]
(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[[Play Again?->Start Game]]](align:"=><=")[...]
(click:"...")[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[The Torn Timeline Ending]
(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[[Play Again?->Start Game]]](align:"<==")+(box:"====XXXXX=")[[oh no.]](text-style:"bold","emboss","tall")[(align:"===>")[(text-colour:red)[(text-style:"shudder")[[WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? ]]]]](align:"=><=")[<img src="https://i0.wp.com/floristsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/close-up.jpg?resize=551%2C562&ssl=1"\>]
The (text-colour:#c184c2)[pheromones] of the unusually pretty flower overwhelm your sinuses, leading you to let out a great, big [(text-style:"rumble")[''ACHOO!'']]
(click:"ACHOO!")[Opening your eyes and sniffling back the (text-colour:#73a573)[mucus] that had just attempted to escape your nostrils, you notice that the once falling leaves have reached a standstill in midair.]
(click:"midair")[The once ambient sounds of nature is replaced with deafening silence. Birds are frozen mid-flight, the rushing creek (text-colour:#09c8e1)[water] has come to a halt, and the passers-by have ceased any movement of their walking or jogging. The only movement being you and the flower—along with half of the outer petals (text-style:"sway")[floating] its way down to your feet.]
(click:"floating")[As the intial shock wears off, you go in for another whiff of the flower as a test fo clarity. And with a wind up as great as the initial time, you let out an even greater...]
(click:"greater")[(text-style:"rumble")[[...ACHOO!!]]](if:$steal is true)[
On your way home, you notice that since your past uses of the flower, only the center petals remain.
(click:"remain")[You notice someone walking their dog just ahead, and just as you are about to cross paths, you trip over your own feet.]
(click:"feet")[You fall flat on your face and drop every item you collected from the mall trip. The person passing attempts to help you up, their dog just sniffing the nearby items.]
(click:"items")[You lift your face up, bleeding slightly, and see a the dog goes to sniff the flower in the pile of your things. You reach quickly in an attempt to grab it, but the dog was already winding up a sneeze.]
(click:"sneeze")[Spit flies as the dog shakes its head while sneezing and everything freezes. The center petals detatch from the stem, and they disapate into the air.]
(click:"air")[The dog looks around confused, as there lies the items you stole, the dog's owner kneeling to help, and you...]
(click:"you...")[...frozen, along with everything else.]
(click:"else")[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[The Still Ending]
(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[[Play Again?->Start Game]]]
]
(else-if:$prank_people is true)[
On your way home, you notice that since your past uses of the flower, only the center petals remain.
(click:"remain")[Looking at the flower reminds you of the stunt that you pulled earlier at the mall, and you can't help but laugh at the thought of how people must've reacted.]
(click:"reacted")[You slap your knees at how funny things out, letting out a series of laughter. As you bend over while laughing, the hand with the flower is closer to your face.]
(click:"face")[Naturally, you inhale, leading to the (text-colour:#c184c2)[pheremones] going straight up your nose. Your laughter is halted by a heavy wind up, and before you know it, you sneeze.]
(click:"sneeze")[Everything reaches a halt, and the final center petals detach from the stem—falling slowly to the ground. They disapate into the air as the relization sets in.]
(Click:"disapate")[Now with no flower, and nothing moving an inch, your laughter has now turned into screams of existencial terror.]
(click:"terror")[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[The Trapped Ending]
(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[[Play Again?->Start Game]]]
]You saw the entire thing and took a whiff just as you saw them tipping over the edge. As you let out a sneeze, the kid was frozen about halfway from the ground—the friends looking down in (text-colour:red)[absolute terror].
(click:"terror")[(align:"=><=")[<img src="https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/05/a4/ef/63/independence-center-mall.jpg?w=700&h=400&s=1"\>]
As your panic subsides, and half of the middle petals fall, you look for something to cushion the kid's fall. You spot one of those (text-colour:yellow)[mall bungy tampoline attractions], luckily not in use at the moment. You grab the handle of one and drag it to the spot of the falling kid—making sure to align it just right.]
(click:"align")[When you feel confident enough about the placement you take a step back and sniff the flower. After a great big sneeze, everything resumes and you (text-style:"fidget")[hold your breathe] to see if your plan [[works]].]
The kid (text-style:"rumble")[(text-colour:red)[screams]] were cut short by his bouncing on the tampoline. He settled from the drop's momentum and was (text-style:"buoy")[hyperventilating]. Onlookers were confused, but relieved the the kid wasn't harmed physiaclly.
(click:"physiaclly")[You let out a sigh of relief that they were okay. You walk out of the mall as the second half of the middle petals fall, and make your way [[home]]].
You enter your home with the flower, and notice how only the center peice remains. You see how there's only a single sniff left. so you decide to properly (text-colour:orange)[dispose] of such a powerful flower.
(click:"powerful")[You place the flower in a small box and seal it tight. You go to your backyard and dig a hole around a foot deep. Once you place the box in the hole to fill it pack up, packing it nicely.]
(click:"nicely")[You reenter your home and cherished how you used the flower for such an act of (text-colour:#ea99df)[kindness].]
(click:"kindness")[(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[The Selfless Ending]
(align:"==>")+(box:"=X")[[Play Again?->Start Game]]]