Build Your Adventure 1

Tragic or Adventure:

Adventure:

Number between 2-5

 Friends: Brittany, Eric, Samantha, Toby, Dylan

It was the last summer that you and your friends were going to be spending together before you all leave for college. You all decided that it was a perfect night to go up to your family’s cabin and stay for a couple days. Knowing that it may be the last time that you all are going to be able to do one of the oldest traditions that you have all cultivated throughout the time you have known each other. As this trip wasn’t too long after our graduation our parents surprised us with a couple cases of beer for us to take up on our trip, not knowing we all already bought our share of beer. We all just carpooled up there since my family had a couple ATV’s there that we could use to get around the mountain with. It wasn’t until our third night where something big really stood out.

Lightning:

Since it was the last night of the trip you all just wanted to relax, remember old memories, and watch the thunder storm as it was too wet and muddy to do much of anything with the ATVs. This was the first of the many big storms that happen in the area during the summer, but for some reason you all thought that this storm felt different somehow. Right as you were going to ask (Friend A) if they were feeling the same thing you all saw an abnormally bright bolt of lightning strike a tree at the top of the hill that you were all looking at, as you look to your friends to say something you can only see white and heard a soothing voice of a woman in front of you. As you turn you see a beautifully elegant woman floating towards you, she is dressed in an all-white flowing dress that would drag on the ground if she were walking. This woman that you can only describe as a goddess had the brightest bluest eyes that you have ever seen in your entire life with long golden blonde hair that flowed down her perfect body. She reaches her hand out towards you saying something, but you are to enthralled with her beauty that you can’t perceive a word she is saying. As she continues to advance you can feel your arm lift up and reach out towards her. When she finally reaches your position she puts her hand on your forearm and you experience the softest touch followed immediately but a strong shock that sends a burning sensation up your arm (LR). You then start to get some of you senses back and can hear your friends calling out your name begging you to stop walking towards the blinding light at the top of the hill. You then hear a feint whisper from the goddess leading you towards the light “Come to us” she says in her all soothing voice.

Go with the woman or Return to you friends

Return to your friends:

All of the sudden you snap out of whatever trance you were in, you hear you friends yell and screaming and begging all at once and for a second wonder what is going on. Then all at once you see everything in front of you; the beautiful goddess, the bright light at the top of the hill, and a beast standing inside of the light. You manage to get out of the hold that the woman has on you and start running back to the cabin screaming at your friends to get to the car so you all can get back to safety. As you are running you feel as if you should be chased by something but when you look back to the woman you just see her crying as she watches you run away from her, as you stop to look at her you hear the car engine rumble to life and feel someone grabbing you and pushing you into the car. After a while of driving you ask your friends what they saw to see if they were experiencing the same thing that you were. They went on to say that you were following a ball of light back up the hill to where the beast stood. They said that it had the head of what appeared to be a bull with a man’s body, it had four arms, human legs and what looked to be a tail of a scorpion. Although, they said it looked to be made of solid light it also looked like it had the hide of an alligator. They never said anything about a woman or hearing anything other that of booming thunder and lightning crackling. They followed thing up with a “why, did you see something different?” You told them what you said and all had the same look as if to be saying to each other “it all makes sense now, why he was so calm.” You all rode the rest of the way in silence contemplating the entire situation that just happened. When you got back to your house Brittany asked what you are going to do now? “Clearly she wanted you for something are you just going to go back to a normal life and act like nothing happened or are you going to find out what she is and why she wanted you?”

Find out why it happened or Go back to normal:

Go with the Woman:

Even with all of your friends yelling and begging you to come back to them you felt this longing desire to go with this woman that is holding you by the hand. You have no idea where she is going to take you but you feel like you aren’t in any danger and that no harm will come to you by her hand. As the two of you ascend the hill you can start to see something that resembles a city in the bright light at the top. As the woman starts to fade into the light you realize that it is your last time you can go back to your friends before you enter the light but even if you wanted to you feel her grasp tighten and you know that there is no turning back now. As you are engulfed by the light you can no longer hear you friends from behind you. Once you feel ground under your feet again you turn around to see if you can see your friends behind you but all you can see is a huge wall and rolling hills that go as far as the eye can see. You turn back to the woman that led you into this mysterious land, she turns to face you and says “this is my home it was once forgotten by the aging humans, there is a war going on between my race and one that is unknowingly evil to my people. I brought you hear because legends says that a human blessed with the power of my people will bring an end to this war. We have been watching you for some time and we know your family and we believe that you are the one who will put a stop to this timeless war.” We have to get you into training right away so that way you can fully develop the power which I have given you before the enemy becomes aware of your arrival here. “Please follow me so I can show you to your new home.” Just before you take her hand again you hear a man shout from behind you, when you turn around you see three large men in what looks to be full military uniforms. They seem to be a mix of the modern day military uniforms and ancient roman uniform, They had full length pants with what looked to be some sort of lower leg protection. They had what looked to be a bullet proof vest on but it moved much more fluid and seemed to be changing with the light, you saw that the two behind the one that yelled were holding helmets in their off hands that looked to be take straight out of the colosseum but they seemed to be shifting with touch and light. When you finally focused back on the first man he looks you dead in the eye “Chosen one huh? You don’t look like much to me, but I can turn you into something scary.” With this the woman says that you have a choice come with me or go with them, we will both get you to discover your potential but in very different ways.

Go with the men or Stay with the woman:

Fire:

Since it was the last night that we were going to be staying up there we decided to go to our normal spot on the mountain to drink and have some fun. It’s about a 20 minute ride to get there on the ATV’s, as we were riding up there it was starting to get foggy which was expected since it was supposed to storm the next couple days. It wasn’t until we got there and had been drinking for about an hour when the thickest fog that any has ever seen rolled in, it was so condensed that we couldn’t even see our hands in front of our faces. That was the last thing I remember that night, the next day I woke up in the woods with a sharp stinging pain coming from (Part of Body: Arm-LR Leg-LR Back). I walked out into an open area that I found to be our hang out spot to see all of my friends just waking up too. We all look at each other wonder the same thing, what happened last night. We made sure that none of were hurt or cut or anything and that’s when (Friend A) noticed my (Body Part) had a cut in my clothes right about where the pain was coming from. (Friend B) took a closer look and said that there was small cut that he swears was glowing, none of us took him that serious about that part since we were all still pretty dazed. At that point we all saw that we had cuts in about the same place. It was when my friend went to light a cigarette that I remembered what happened the previous night. When the thick fog rolled in you heard a low deep voice coming from all around you, it was to low and growly to understand anything that it said an instant later you felt this intense heat and a burning sensation on your (Body Part) only to look and see what looked like to be a brand floating off into the fog away from you.

Share what you remember or Keep it a secret

Tragic:

You always had some sinking feeling that your mother was hiding something from you since the day you were born. For day to day life it never made a difference but there were times when you were around certain elements that she always acted strange, she would never tell anyone what was wrong but you could always see that your father knew her pain. He wouldn’t bring it up in public or in the company of the family. As you got older the things that happened to your mother would get less and less serious and eventually they went away all together. That is, until you turned 18 did you ever start worrying about her again only because she was overly worried about you. She acted like she was waiting for something to happen to you at all times, you knew she wasn’t getting much sleep at night but yet again your parents didn’t tell you anything. This feeling later died down when you went to college. You only found out what they were hiding when you went home on break. It was late one night that you and your mother had a long talk.

Lightning or Fire:

Lightning:

You mother started by asking if you remember the stories she would tell you when you were a child. Stories of a man that was able to control the thunder bolds from heaven and power of gods. You had to think back a long time ago to when you were still learning good from bad, but hidden among the memories you have gain throughout your life you remember a slight and foggy memory of a story that you loved as a youngling. As you responded with a yes she continued to tell you another story. “Long ago there was four blood lines that were able to control the power of lightning. Three of the lines worked closely together to make sure that the public didn’t know the power that they had while the fourth went about telling the people that they were the true descendants of the Gods knowing that the other three families would do nothing to stop them to keep their secret safe. The fourth family gained fortune through threats and offerings the people of the land who could do nothing to stop their power from growing. It was only a matter of time before the fourth family wanted to be the only ones in the land who could control such power, they started a war with all the families which ended tragically. With the four families fighting to the death with each other it was clear that no one was going to be able to live through the war. One of the families, your blood line, hid a young baby in an orphanage towns over to keep them out of the war. The fourth family was the only one to have a member of the blood line knowingly survive the fight, a teenager, who continued the blood line in the shadows of the land.” Your family had always kept watch on the fourth family to make sure that they couldn’t take control again, but it wasn’t until you were 18 that she found out there was more than just the two families left. Shortly after she finished talking you heard a loud boom of thunder and start to feel static on your body, you see a blindly bright flash then open your eyes to see your family laying on the ground beneath you but you weren’t standing over them you seemed to be floating somehow almost attached to the ceiling. You then see a man walk into your vision saying something to your terrified family but you couldn’t hear anything over the sound of crackling coming off of your body. He looks up at you visibly laughing, as you fall out of your floating state you see him raise his hand and send what looks like a bolt of lightning into your family, as you let out a blood chilling scream you can see waves of something coming off of your body just before you fall on your family and pass out.

Seek knowledge or Find revenge

Fire:

Your mother said that she was able to control fire from when she was a teenager. She first realized what she could do when she was 16 but she said that her mother and grandmother got their power before they turned 19. She was always worried about you because there hasn’t been a male in 10 generations that had been able to live through their first contact with the fire within. The males before you either destroyed the building or everyone they touched during their first connection with the power. You are the first male in four generations that had lived past the age of 14, males power surfaced sooner that than of the girls in the family. “I was only able to keep you alive by running from the family, they would have rather me kill you like the other eight boys that were born into the family. They would rather see you dead than to try and learn how to control the males flame. I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you this earlier.” After saying that you mother left you to think about what she said. The next thing you remember is hear a dark shadowy figure talking to you, you could only understand one thing that he was saying ‘ignis’, latin for fire, a word that you mother said a lot when you were little. The man was saying multiple times in a multitude of words and slurs and other noises that you couldn’t dignify with anything other than gibberish. You feel a warn sensation and awake to see your house a blaze, you can hear the screams of your brother sister and father and the crying of your mother. You open your eyes to see fire covering your arms and flowing over the couch and walls next to you. You can hear the distant sounds of sirens and see your mother walking up to you holding a large bucket in her hands, before you can do anything else your mother dumps the semi-fluid semi-solid contents of the bucket on to you dousing the flames covering your body.

Run or Stay