Forum Adventure Game

I came up with this as a good way to start drawing a bit more with my tablet. This is a story told in the second person (using "you" as the main character) and you get to decide what happens next in the adventure. There are several different ways this story can end, although I'm still working on expanding the actual content within it.

I will illustrate each passage with a sketch, maybe more if it's an important or exciting scene.

To kick things off:

A deafening rush of wind blows past your ears as it whips past your face. It's difficult to even open your eyes. You manage to squint them open once or twice by shielding them with your hands. Something becomes apparent:




You're falling from the sky! Fuck! You can see a large canopy of trees and a body of water. You figure that by some stroke of luck you may be able to save yourself by aiming for one. But which?

Is this like the Build Your Own adventure goosebumps? I'm down.


I aim for the the trees, hoping the tree branches will break my fall or at least make my body identifiable to rescue forces if I don't survive.

I aim for the water. It might be deep enough so I wont die

Water=possibly live, trees=death.  So, trees.  Wanna start this game in the afterlife.

You begin to contemplate your surroundings as you plummet to the ground. Everything before your trip through the sky seems hard to recall, images flow forward from the back of your mind, but you can't make out their shape or purpose. It'll only be a few seconds now until your face and the ground become more acquainted with eachother.

Then, amongst the roar of wind you hear a squawk. A brush of feathers. A gigantic bird is flying beneath you! you attempt to grab at it's wings as you hurdle past, only managing to tear off a feather (albeit, a really big one). It screeches in pain and lashes out one of its huge clawed feet.




You grip onto the bird's leg, taking it down with you near the top of the canopy. It's really unhappy now. You figure that jumping into the trees might not kill you. But those branches look awfully sharp... maybe you should hitch a ride? Oh, right, talons. That beak doesn't look too pleasant either.

Try to jump on the nearest (softest) tree. Swing your weight to try to get the bird to go the best tree available.

attempt to ride the bird.

Even though the choices are split, I'm going to bump this with another entry anyway. I want to keep this going, we're not even getting started yet.

You try to pull yourself on top of the bird as it flails through the sky. An opportunity like this only does come once in a lifetime... Or, several lifetimes. Thinking you have this savage beast outwitted and at your mercy to roam the heavens, it spins over.

You can't grip onto the bird's slick feathers and fall into the canopy. Small, thin branches crack and rip apart under the weight of your body as you desperately try to grab hold of something. A vine: it snaps. Another vine! No, that's a snake. Your back hits the trunk of one tree and knocks the wind out of you, and your head slams into the thick branch jutting out from it. Your vision is swathed in darkness as you tumble helplessly to the ground.

*Later*



Your eyes perk open to the crackle of leaves and twigs. Not only are you alive, but you landed near a beaten path, and someone is nearby! You open your mouth to speak, but only manage a raspy wheeze. The figure lurks closer, and you wonder if you really want to be found by strangers in a place like this. They might scalp your head and trade it for magic beads. You feel limber enough to get up, although walking might be another story, let alone running.

Crawl along, looking for a shack or cave.

You try to run but fall back down and lay there, unable to move.