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I thought this would be a fun community thing to try

The idea is the same as some of our previous communal stories where the next poster adds a line to the prior posters and after many posts a beautiful, sensical story is told.

This one will follow the Choose Your Own Adventure model. So you might post “Do you want a bagel? (A) Yes (B) No.”

Next poster could say (B) No. You hate bagels. In fact today is the day you end the Bagelocracy altogether. Do you begin the revolution by (A) Arming yourself or (B) cuddling a puppy or (C) eating a donut.

Anyway, that’s just an example, not the opener so don’t get to hung up on the hypothetical Bagelocracy narrative. I’ll start:

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  • #25638

    Today was the day. Do you:

    (A) Get up and seize the moment.

    (B) Sleep in, perchance to dream.

  • #25645

    (A) this moment is too important to remain unseized! Looking for appropriate clothing, you find your suit has been slept in by the dog and is in no state to be worn. Do you:

    (A) Go out and face this important day in sneakers and an AC/DC t-shirt.

    (B) Wear the suit, figuring the dog explanation will break the ice.

    (C) Take it as a sign, and go back to bed.

  • #25649

    (A) You pull on your Back in Black T shirt and strap on your Yeezys!  Your determination cannot be deterred!

    After 25 minutes your uber arrives for your ultimate destination is it:

    (A) Kung Fu University

    (B) Lady Fionas school for wayward ephemeral nature-based apparitions.

    (C) The Mentors garage

    (D) The old clearing out of town.

  • #25652

    (B) That brochure you picked up at the gas station for Lady Fionas school for wayward ephemeral nature-based apparitions sold you on the place. Best of all, it had a coupon in it!

    Well, the Uber driver was way to drunk to safely drive so you need another mode of transportation.

    How are you going to get there?

    (A) A pink Batmobile that also flies

    (B) A motorcycle with a sombrero-wearing monkey in the sidecar

    (C) Bum a ride from Brad Pitt who owes you because you let him crash at your place

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  • #25655

    You suddenly remember Pink Batman owes you a favour.

    “Hey Pink Batman” you say into your phone “Can you give me a lift to Lady Fionas school for the elemental things or whatever?”

    Within seconds a pink batmobile appears before you and out of steps out the eponymous Pink Batman.

    “I AM PINK BATMAN” the mysterious man declares ungraciously.

    “Man, cut the shit, I just want to go to lady Fionas.  This is my moment” you say.

    “ENOUGH! PINK BATMAN SERVES NO MAN but will take you to lady fionas if you give him that sweet Back in Black shirt?”

    You ponder the question: “But PB, then I’ll have nothing to where and this is my moment!” you say with a confidence you don’t feel.

    “FINE! PINK BATMAN CAN OFFER YOU ONE OF HIS COSTUMES FOR THE SHIRT”

    You make the trade and before long you are parked outside the lawn of Lady Fionas.

    Quick! This is it! Do you:

    (A) Chicken out and ask PB to take you somewhere else.

    (B) Bite the bullet and follow through on that promise you made to the brochure in the Gas Station.

  • #25657

    (A) You chicken out and ask Pink Batman to take you somewhere you can get a decent breakfast. He marks two suggestions on a map: A, a hipster cereal bar where a bowl of cornflakes costs as much as you get paid in a day, and B, a greasy spoon diner where you can get a heart-attack-inducing fry-up for £4.75.

    Do you choose

    (A): B

    or

    (B): A?

  • #25705

    A.) you go to the diner. As soon as you enter the door, everyone screams at you and the owner tells you ” I ain’t serving anyone wearing that outfit”

    Do you:

    a.) convince the owner that it is not your suit and let him burn the suit while spending 20 pounds on a t shirt with the diner’s name on it and a pair of dirty sweats left behind by an old fry cook.

    or

    b.) go back to the cereal bar when the owner hits on you and offers 50% off if you meet him later for supper and a shag?

     

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  • #25711

    a.) convince the owner that it is not your suit and let him burn the suit while spending 20 pounds on a t shirt with the diner’s name on it and a pair of dirty sweats left behind by an old fry cook.

    You do this while screaming “FOR THE PEOPLE!!! FOR THE PEOPLE!!! FOR THE PEOPLE!!!”

    This causes the other diners to start standing and chanting along with you.

    The people appear willing to follow you. Do you lead them to:

    A) Lady Fionas school for wayward ephemeral nature-based apparitions

    B) A tour of Boris Johnson’s baby mamas

    C) The wormhole that leads to that sweet Soho rave in 1993

    D) The factory that makes life-sized dinosaur-shaped jellybeans

  • #25738

    You lead the mass crowd out onto the dirty streets and to the local wormhole.

    In a flash of light you and your followers disappear and then promptly reappear at Soho, circa 1993.

    Coloured light pulses and bounces. It glitters in the sweat in the bodies moving around you.  You’re in some kind of warehouse. One Tribe is playing.  Then Cloud 9.  Then something else. Sounds come together as you move through the crowd of silhouettes.  A figure approaches you and comes into view.  A woman, not much older than 20, with bright red hair in pigtails, naked except for denim overalls, a yellow smiley-face badge, and flurescent orange bangles.

    ‘Hey man’ she says while chewing gum, she blows a bubble and then pops it,  ‘name’s Fiona. You seem like a pretty radical dudette. Wanna party?’

    Do you?

    (a) Yes.

    (b) No.

  • #25749

    (A) Yes, you accept Fiona’s offer and as one thing leads to another you end up back at her place. Over a glass of wine, she shows you her business plan for a school for wayward ephemeral nature-based apparitions and asks if you want to buy in.

    “Hey, wait a minute,” you say, “Am I in a time paradox?”

    Do you risk buying into her scheme and destroying causality as we know it?

    (A) Yes

    (B) No

    (C) Let’s kill Hitler’s grandfather!

     

  • #25772

    (C) “Let’s kill Hitler’s grandfather!” you say as a counteroffer.

    Fiona asks if that will create a time paradox.

    “Nah, time is fucked up already so let’s just go for broke here”, you tell her.

    Fiona nods in agreement. “We’re going to need some help to do this. Who do you think would be the best person would be?”

    You think about it for a moment and come up with three options:

    A) A T-1000 Terminator, because they have time-traveling murder experience

    B) Army of Darkness’s Ash, because rumor has it that Hitler’s grandfather is actually a Deadite

    C) Hillary Clinton, because for some stupid reason, you actually believe the conspiracy theories

  • #25777

    You split the difference and go for both A and C, a T-1000 that has adopted the form of Hillary Clinton.

    She is about to decapitate Hitler’s grandfather when he makes a wry comment about her emails and society turns on her, melting the mimetic polyalloy into nothingness with the heat of its misguided rage.

    Do you

    A) Go back and see if Ash is still available

    B) Attempt to kill Hitler’s grandfather yourself

    or

    C) Give the whole thing up as a bad job and return to the present, hoping your intervention hasn’t changed history too much?

  • #25854

    Sliding through the pile of shiny liquid goo you lunge at Hitler’s Grandaddy.  Your hands constrained into angry claw-shapes, fingernails aimed at his jugular!

    “DIE MOTHERFUCKER!” you shout.

    The fat old man in leiderhosen turns around and notices you.

    “Ya!” he exclaims “Die mutter und vater?”.

    In a split second moment you lose your zeal and crash into Grandpa Hitler, who, awkwardly, embraces you.

    “<have you lost your mummy and daddy, little one?>” he says, obviously in German

    “<would you like a strudel? I have just baked one hundred for the orphanage? Maybe I can take you there, you see, I run it!>” he says with a jolly German laugh.

    Do you

    (A) Kill this rolly-polly fuck

    (B) Bury your head into his bosom while stuffing your mouth with strudel

     

  • #25878

    You snatch the strudel out of his hand and jab a sharp corner into his eye, blinding him immediately. You then knee him in the knackers and push him off a nearby cliff, killing him instantly.

    Hearing screams, a woman rushes over, in obvious distress. You immediately realise it is his grieving widow, and you decide that you have a duty of care to calm her feelings before returning to the future.

    Concealing your role in her husband’s death, you console her and offer to walk her home and stay with her until she has calmed down. She appreciates your kindness and asks if you could stay on for a couple of days to help her with the funeral arrangements.

    The days turn into weeks, and within a few months you can feel a growing affection for the woman that you have never felt in any previous relationship in your adult life. Also, you are picking up German quickly and you are now able to converse about more than just your basic human requirements.

    Whiling away the long winter evenings discussing art and culture, your previous life in the present day quickly becomes a distant memory as you settle into a loving relationship. In time, you marry and raise a family of your own.

    And there is only the tiniest echo of a nagging doubt when, decades later, you hear with delight of your daughter’s pleasure at becoming pregnant.

    As the big day grows nearer, you are in a jovial and celebratory mood, and your old life seems like a distant long-forgotten dream, meaning that you fail to remember or realise that..

    You Are Hitler’s Grandfather.

    THE END

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  • #25879

    Or is it?

    I’m still at B perchancing to dream.

  • #25896

    So now do we go back through the book and try all the other options to discover the alternative endings?

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  • #25897

    Do you?

    (A) Yes

    (B) No

    (C) Take another book off the shelf

  • #25900

    (C) Take another book off the shelf

    But you’ll have to tell me what it’s about because I can’t decide which one to pick.

  • #25911

    So now do we go back through the book and try all the other options to discover the alternative endings?

    No, you do what everyone does and just flick through the pages out of sequence and find all the endings that way.

    Oh look, here’s a post from Tim where the story ends with everyone becoming puppies for some reason.

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  • #25914

    Do you?

    (A) Yes

    (B) No

    (C) Take another book off the shelf

    This is actually the plot of If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller.

  • #25942

    You have ruined this nice Sunday dinner, David.

  • #25948

    (C) Take another book off the shelf

    But you’ll have to tell me what it’s about because I can’t decide which one to pick.

    The book taken off the shelf is “Queen Bernadette Save Reality – An Autobiography”. (Book critics around the world gave it the highest praise possible. They said it was simply the best book ever written.)

    As you open the book, two pieces of paper fall out. On the blue sheet of paper is a phone number and on the purple one is a different phone number. Each piece of paper says, “CALL TO LEARN THE SECRET!”.

    Do you call the number on:

    A) The blue paper

    B) The purple paper

  • #25953

    You have ruined this nice Sunday dinner, David.

    Which David?

  • #25957

    You take out your smartphone and dial the number on the purple piece of paper.  After all, purple is a sign of royalty.

    After a moment a face appears on screen, or more accurately, a masked face.  The mask appears to be a plain cloth pulled over the head, with a purple and white pattern of cascading triangles and zig-zags.

    A tremendous and otherworldy voice booms forth:

    IF YOU HAVE COME ABOUT THE SECRET YOU CAN FIND IT AT RUINOUS DAVE’S PROG ROCK SHOP. And then, nothing.  The masked face vanishes and you are left alone in your room in silence.

    Do you

    (A) Go to Ruinous Dave’s Prog Rock Shop (you know where it is, it’s just downtown); or

    (B) Call the number on the Blue piece  of paper.

  • #25958

    Something doesn’t feel right about that shop. It never did. You call the number on the blue piece of paper.

    It’s the secret hair dresser of British parliament.

    Do you

    (A)  Make an appointment to get your hair cut, or:

    (B) Go to Ruinous Dave’s Prog Rock Shop to find out why it doesn’t feel right.

  • #25962

    Due to the lockdown, your hair has become a mess. You make an appointment with the secret hair dresser. They tell you they can take you immediately.

    When you get to the shop and get you to a chair. As the stylist gets to work on your hair.

    Out of the corner of your eye, you notice an old, frail man wearing a Deep Purple concert shirt next to you. It’s Ruinous Dave!

    Do you:

    A) Ignore him and hope he doesn’t try to talk to you

    B) Strike up a conversation with him about the 1970s

  • #25968

    You get out of the chair mid-cut and leave the hairdresser standing there in.

    “Hey Dave!” you say as you walk over to him “I haven’t seen you since the 1970s! Did you leave me a message in some book?”

    You clap frail old Dave on the back, perhaps a little too hard. He doesn’t budge.

    You notice something in Dave’s eyes. Is that? Was that electricity?

    Suddenly tendrils of energy dart from Dave’s eyes and dance along his body.  Fire erupts from his hands. His shirt tears from his body revealing rippling muscles underneath.  In an explosion of light he punches you clean across the room and into a shampoo display stand.

    He floats over to you. “PREPARE. FOR. RUINATION” he booms.

    Do you

    (A) Attempt to fight this dude?

    (B) Run away!

  • #26007

    This has turned into the Best Story Ever :yahoo:

     

     

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  • #26012

    Just wait until I make you Hitler’s Grandfather again.

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  • #26013

    Just don’t fridge Queenie.

  • #26036

    (B) Run away!

    You remember the armwrestling contest you had with Ruinous Dave back in the seventies. You couldn’t beat him then, you can’t beat him  now.

    You run out into the streets and try to run away, but he bellows ‘YOU CAN bzzzt RUN BUT YOU CAN’T bzzt HIDE!’

    Do you:

    (A) keep running, or

    (B) Hide

     

  • #26037

    You quickly turn a corner and see an open door where you go and hide.

    You hear Ruinous Dave keep running while yelling “DEEP PURPLE FOREVER!!!”. He is long gone.

    When you take in where you are at, you see that you are in a candy shop. The tall man, in a thick German accent, gives you two choices:

    A) “Would you like to sample my Bavarian Crème?”

    B) “Would you like to see my greatest confectionary treat in the back room?”

  • #26072

    “Back room” you shout, eager for refuge.

    “Ja ja wunderbar” says the tall German as he leads you behind the counter and into a large concrete room. The cast iron dooe slams shut behind you. You see no windows or furniture of any sort.

    “Finally! Someone to share mein musings unt the SDP with” he says.

    Without warning you are seized by a peculiar metal contraption which springs out of the floor. Cables wrap themselves around your arms and legs and fix you to a metal table. You try to move but can’t.

    “You see mein freund, the German multi party systen theoretically eschews the bilateral conventions of other…”

    You black out. When you come to, the tall man is pacing back and forth. Every fifth word is “Merkel”.

    Do you

    (A) listen dispassionately and try to reason with this maniac?

    (B) tell him Germany suxorz and Austria is way better

    (C) enquire as to the whereabouts of the treat it you were promised?

     

     

  • #26217

    “Excuse me, I love to hear more about this Merkel guy, but my blood sugar is running low and you promised me some of your greatest confectionary!”

    The tall man freezes. “Merkel… is not… a guy!”

    You start salivating, thinking about the candy.  “Yeaw, whatevs bruv, my blood sugar is running…”

    The tall man starts banging his head against the wall! “MERKEL IS NOT SOME GUY!!! HAVE YOU NOT HEARD A WORD ICH HAT SAID? ICH DON’T CARE ABOUT DEINEM BLOOD SUGAR!”

    He presses a button on the wall. You are released from the contraption that held you. The door opens.

    “RAUS! GET OUT!” The tall man yells, before he collapses into a sobbing mess on the floor. “Merkel… my beloved…” he whimpers.

    Do you:

    (A) Get out, or

    (B) Try to comfort the tall man, or

    (C) Again, inquire about the promised confectionary

  • #26220

    “Look, bruz, you promised me chocolate and then you tied me to that weird table, like, that’s really rude…” you start to say as you approach the sobbing man. “I think you really owe me…”

    The man stops mid-sob and raises on to his knees to look at you “… merkel…” he says.

    “Yeah, bro I …” you start.

    “MERRRRKKKKEEELLLL!!!!!” He shouts, his arms raised in the air, saliva dripping from his mouth. “MEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEELLLLL”

    Time seems to slow. You feel a presence around you and a curt female voice echoes from nowhere. “Citizen, for your loyalty, I bestow upon you the powers of the Federal Republic of Germany”  And then, as if from heaven, a lightning bolt strikes the man who rises into the air, his hair and clothing animated with power.  Winds sweep through the room and circle the man, collecting books, and newspapers, and autobiographies of Angela Merkel, which spin around the man in a supercharged tornado.

    He lowers himself to the ground and the books and papers fall to the floor.  He fixes you with a cold gaze.

    This “Merkel Man” seems to be driven by pure rage and that pure rage is directed at you!

    ‘Shit’, you think, ‘another one’.

    Do you

    (A) Hot foot it out of there and try to go somewhere normal people go to, like a bar.

    (B) Look around the room for something you can use.

  • #26222

    You look around the room, desperate for something you can use to defeat the Merkel Man. Your cellphone is lying at your feet. The Merkel Man is powering up and bursts into song, a medley of germanys entries into Eurovision, starting with Wadde Hadde Dudde Da by Stefan Raab.

    While Merkel Man is getting into the groove, an idea forms in your head. You pick up the phone and dial the number to Ruinous Daves Prog Rock Shop. Someone picks up, you say “It’s me. I’m at the german confectionary. I need to–”

    BRAKAARAABOOOOOM! The west wall collapses as a furious Ruinous Dave bursts through. “PREPARE FOR RUINATION!” Merkel Man stops singing and looks perplexed at the robotic man.

    As you hightail it out of there through the Ruinous Dave-shaped hole where the west wall used to be, do you:

    (A) Grab some random confectionary on your way out since your blood sugar really is running low, or

    (B) Dial emergency services while running

  • #26232

    As you exit through the hole, you grab a bag of chocolates. As you walk down the street, you begin to eat the chocolates.

    After a few moments, you start to experience the most powerful orgasm in your life. You look at the bag and the label says “SEX CANDY”. You have 11 more in the bag.

    Do you:

    A) Eat one more

    B) Eat all of them

    C) Save them for later and go to Ruinous Dave’s shop since he’s not there at the moment.

  • #26381

    You know full well that if you ate one more you would actually physically explode, and if you ate all of them there would almost certainly be a crater where you are standing now (although, you do vaguely remember your friend Toddpool saying that he once ate a bunch of sex candies and travelled back in time to pre-Nazi Germany).  You stuff the sex candies in your pocket and march confidently in the direction of Ruinous Daves shop.  When you get there you see the shop is empty of customers and the door is wide-open.

    Knowing full well that Dave will be preoccupied with Merkel Man for some time do you:

    (A) Loot the shop to see if you can find that rare edition of Dark Side of the Moon, you know, the one that if you play it backwards it can resurrect the dead?

    (B) Empty out the cash register and arrange the coins into a lewd pattern (probably a penis) somewhere where Dave is sure to find it?

    (C) Call the cops and tell them your name is Brad Muscles, Special Agent of the FBI, and you have reason to suspect there is something nefarious going on at Dave’s Prog Rock Shop?

    (D) Close and lock the door using the deadbolt out of respect for Dave and then go the park and sit on a bench for a while, looking at the birds.

    (E) Eat the candies.

  • #26391

    Out of respect for (as well as fear of) Dave, you close the door and lock it with a deadbolt. You then go to a nearby park and sit on a bench for a while. You watch as birds fly and waddle past. Some of those birds are Canada geese. You get too close by accident, and the head goose rears up, spreads his wings and hisses angrily at you.

    Do you:

    A) Slowly back away so as not to further agitate the bird?

    B) Run like hell, risking being chased by the bird?

    or

    C) Toss it a sex candy, hoping it will somehow pacify the bird?

  • #26395

    When you look back at this long, strenuous day of misfortunes and adventure, it’s hard not to view at least some of it as a series of small mistakes on your part.

    Mistakes that now pale in comparison to you throwing a sex candy at the angry cobra chicken before you.

    Mere moments after gulping down the sex candy, it lets of a demonic scream intense enough to chill your bones, so otherwordly as to making some of your hair fall off and so loud that it comes close to rupturing your eardrums.

    Your eyes vibrate in their sockets, and when you manage to focus again people around the park are writhing in agony. Every man, woman and child within earshot are on the ground, crying. You hear sirens in the distance. Mr. Goose is staring at you with fire in its eyes. You freeze in the spot. It speaks.

    “Honk.”

    The message is clear. It demands more. This is not a negotiation. Do you:

    (A) Give the goose the remaining sex candys.

    (B) Shit your pants and faint.

    (C) Run for your life.

    (D) Gulp down a sex candy and attack the bird.

  • #26433

    “I’m not going to let some bird be the boss of me!” you say as you gulp down the rest of the sex candy.

    After a few seconds, everything goes white and you see Merkel Man and Ruinous Dave embracing each other and kissing passionately. That makes you feel positive.

    You then see the goose and it looks content and happy.

    You feel peace.

    You are one with the universe.

    The whiteness fades into dark and you open your eyes.

    You are standing naked in the middle of Stonehenge and realize you have gone back in time over 4,000 years!

    The druids are shocked by your presence and in a language you some how understand, they tell you you can travel in time one more time.

    Do you:

    A) Go to Woodstock in 1969

    B) Go to one day after the sex candy incident

    C) Go to Disneyland on opening day in 1955

    D) Take one more shot at killing Hitler

  • #29464

    After this terrible, terrible day, I need to unwind. Woodstock 1969 it is! Santana is young and hot, Hendrix is alive and well and brown acid is being handed out like candy!

    The druids nod and send me on my way.

    After a couple of hours navigating through hoards of half-naked (and a few totally naked) hippies, I trade my very last sex candy with a young bearded lady for a shirt and a pair of shoes. Hendrix is coming on stage and my body is ready.

    do you:

    (A) Dance like a maniac.

    (B) Try to get on stage and jam with Jimi?

    (C) Start looking around for some of that brown acid?

    (D) Persuade the people filming that you have important messages for the future?

  • #30832

    You see nearby set of bongo drums nearby in front of a chubby male hippie. “Mind if I borrow these?” you ask.

    “Hey, man, they’re all yours!” the hippie replies.

    You take the drums and rush the stage. “Jimi!” you shout as security rushes to block you. Jimi starts playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” on electric guitar as you struggle with the guards before one. One of the guards snatches the bongo drums away, throws them on the ground and steps on them.

    Do you:

    (A) Cry like a baby

    (B) Lunge at the guard

    (C) Try to rush the stage again

    (D) Run away

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