The Order

Walking home late at night, you hear rustling from the brush off to the side of the path, accompanied by a faint, strange light. You've always been aware of weird phenomena in the area surrounding your small town. Is this finally your chance to understand? [[Investigate]] [[Ignore]]

You approach the sound slowly, softening your steps and crouching low. As you draw near, you see a floating ball of shiftng yellow and green light flitting around at the edge of the woods. [[Observe]] [[Go home]] [[Grab it]]

As you watch this thing from your hiding spot, you notice it gradually moving deeper into the trees. Is it going somewhere? Is there somewhere it wants to lead to? [[Follow]] [[Go home]]

[[home end]]

You go home and live quietly

You keep your distance, ducking behind bushes and stumps for what feels like hours while the orb flutters and meanders deeper into the woods. It is beginning to feel almost aimless. [[Follow them]] [[Go home]] [[Get its attention]]

After another hour or two, you catch a glimpse of movement in the distance beyond the orb. Before you can even try to get a closer look, the forest springs into motion; a large contraption swings through the trees, glinting with the orb's reflected light, and then the mystical thing you followed here is gone. Five human-looking figures emerge from the trees, fiddling with the contraption urgently. [[Wait]] [[Go home]]

The figures pack up the rest of the contraption in a rush, the two burliest figures hoisting the part which contains the orb onto their shoulders. Then they all move on, pushing through the woods to the west of this clearing. [[Follow the figures]] [[Go home]]

Eventually the group splits off, the two carrying the contraption heading south and the other three heading north. They seem to all know where they're going, even though there is nothing here but trees. [[Follow the two figures]] [[Follow the three figures]] [[Go home]]

try [[succeed]] [[fail]]

Learn [[try to get in]] [[Go home]]

[[go in]] [[Go home]]

[[try to get in]] [[observe]] [[Go home]]

You're in

Go home [[home end]]

You approach the orb and reach out your hand until you can touch it. A burning sensation overcomes you, searing your flesh and scorching the insides of your mind. You die

congrats! you have died

In the distance, peeking out over the trees, you notice a dark shape drawing near. The two figures approach a wrought-iron gate outside of a large, dark building. One of them punches a code into a keypad and the gate swings open, then slams shut behind them. [[Go home]] [[Investigate the keypad]]

investigation investigation puzzle puzzle puzzle puzzle [[try to get in]]

You follow them