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Choose

Your

Exit...

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It’s been years since the nuclear apocalypse.

You’re safe in your camp.

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But you’re all alone.

Until a stranger offers

to take you away...

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under

ground

above ground

click to choose

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You discover a place to make an elaborate underground lair. Soon, others hear of your mighty realm and ask to join.

Join forces

Go it alone

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You’re the ruler of a formidable underworld.

Your minions bring you a scary, black substance that makes people vanish.

Gather and stockpile it

Hide it and

run away

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The sun never

sets here.

You’re trapped in a simulation!

The sun never sets here.

You’re trapped

in a simulation!

Tell

others

Try to escape

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You found some tar! It can force people

to wake--but the shock might kill them.

If you find no other way to wake everyone, you’ll all die in the sim.

Use the tar

Search elsewhere

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You rushed it!

The confusion makes a

sticky black substance appear.

Oh no!

Cool!

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You find a girl

hiding in a bunker,

but she doesn’t

want to wake.

She wants to take

you to others who

need saving.

Examine

the bunker

Follow

her

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You wake to learn you were trapped in a failing simulation. You go back in to help others escape.

Find a group of people to wake

Find one person at a time to wake

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Mementos from life outside the sim might help you wake people.

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But you don’t have much time.

Search for mementos

Try without mementos

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Try as you might, you can’t escape!

How will you spend your time?

Warning others

Remembering your past

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Just when you think you’re safe, you receive a message that none of this is real—

you’re trapped in a failing simulation!

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Refuse

to be sabotaged

Flee your doomed city

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They don’t believe that they’re in a simulation.

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You could force them to wake,

but only if you have tar.

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Did you find a sticky, black substance?

Yes

No

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Choose again

Like Taren, you’re willing

to choose who to save--

and who to sacrifice.

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Beware: your exit from

the sim may be a dark one.

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Choose again

Like Ransom, you want

others to escape the sim…

even if you never do.

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Your exit from the sim is locked, but one day you might

find the key you need.

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Like Lake, you’re sure you can help others remember the real world and escape the sim.

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But your exit gets harder

to find the longer you

stay in the sim.

Choose again

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Like Eden, you’re more interested in ruling the sim than in escaping it.

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Your exit is buried deep in the sim, but it will be up to you to decide whether to use it.

Choose again

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Found an exit?

You’re ready to read the book!