You stand outside, staring up at the dark sky lazily before looking around, vines crawl up nearby walls and stone statues litter the area. You notice one statue has a gun in its grip.
[[take the rifle]]
[[ignore it and walk away]]
Ignoring the rifle you decide to just walk away, slowly you make your way to a patch of abandoned buildings, seeing the destruction all around you eventually come across one with a small firelight coming out of it.
[[go inside]]
[[keep exploring]]you slowly walk over to grass, holstering the rifle onto your shoulder and taking aim just incase as you stop just before it. The grass suddenly stops its shifting and everything goes still.
[[shoot]]
[[don't shoot]]Deciding to not investigate you keep your rilfe pointed at the grass as you backstep slowly away from the grass, eventually getting far enough to turn around and book it.
[[attempt to find a shelter]]
[[keep running]]walking over to the statue you put your hands on the gun, struggling for a few seconds to wrestle it out of the stone hands before finally managing to grab it, causing the hands to crack and break off hitting the ground with a loud thump. You look around to see if anything heard, some tall grass nearby shifts quietly.
[[investigate the grass]]
[[slowly walk away]]You attempt to shoot the grass but.. nothing happens, you realize as you repeadtly click the trigger that the rifle doesnt have ammo, seconds later a shambling husk lurches from the grass, knocking you back into a nearby pit.
(the end, you die.)After watching the grass for a few seconds you decide to call out, trying to check for whatever the thing in the grass was, seconds later a shambling husk lurches from the grass, knocking you back into a nearby pit, as you click the trigger of your rifle you realize.. it was out of ammo.
(the end, you die.)You keep running for a while, the sky remains dark as you slowly grow more tired, eventually slowing to a walk as you find youself now up on high hills. Walking along an old down-trodden path you find an entrance to a cave.
[[go into the cave]]
[[keep moving]]You keep running from the grass, hours pass and eventually you turn to just walking, exhaustion slowly overtakes you as your walking halts to a hobble, eventually unable to keep moving you pass out on the side of the road.
(the end, you die of exhaustion.)You walk into the cave, sitting down in a corner and huddling into yourself for warmth, keeping your rifle close by as you slowly drift off into a restless sleep, when you come too your surronded by five masked people.
[[fight]]
[[stay still]]Ignoring the cave you decide to keep moving, slowly the sun rises behind you as you continue to walk, exhaustion slowly overtakes you as your walking halts to a hobble, eventually unable to keep moving you pass out on the side of the road.
(the end, you die of exhaustion.)You reach over to your rifle but before you can grab it one of the masked people shoot you in the head.
(the end, you die.)The masked people interrogate you briefly, eventually decide you were trustworthy and leading you back to their nearby hidden village, giving you food, water and your own home to stay in.
(the end, you live out the rest of your days in peace in the village.)Carefully walking inside the building you find the source of the fireflight, it's an old man sitting by a campfire, two pistols lie beside him as he gently inspects a crystal necklace in his hands.
[[approach the old man]]
[[leave]]as you walk around the city slowly the sun starts to rise and you decide to hide in one of the nearby buildings, taking shelter in it and finding some old cereal boxes inside of it.
(the end, you live out the rest of your days as a hermit in the abandoned city.)You approach the old man and he greets you warmly, telling you stories of his life and his family and offering you some food, checking you over for wounds as he tells you more stories.
[[stay with the old man]]
[[thank him and leave him be]]After seeing the old man you decide to just leave, not wanting to risk the possible dangers of the interaction by walking outside, slowly the sun starts to rise and you decide to hide in one of the nearby buildings, taking shelter in it and finding some old cereal boxes inside of it.
(the end, you live out the rest of your days as a hermit in the abandoned city.)You decide to stay with the old man, learning more about him and he teaches you how to hunt properly, you help eachother find food, weapons and water. It turns out he has a still working van he's been using to travel around.
(the end, you and the old man travel and survive in the new broken world together.)After thanking the old man and walking out you continue on your journey.
(the end, you survive in the new broken world for many more years to come.)