[CYOA] The Outsider (Sci-fi, Horror)

zombiechron

You wake up nervous in your BED. You recently moved here with your best friend. You cannot see very well, your GLASSES aren’t on. It is fairly cold and dark. The clock is stuck blinking 7:47. There is a WINDOW, a set of STAIRS leading downward, and two DOORS in your ATTIC BEDROOM. You do not hear anything, and that is strange considering your roommates’ tendencies.


CURRENT STATUS:
Health: O O O
Inventory:
(empty)

HEAD: (empty)
BODY: (underwear)
FEET: (empty)
WEAPON: (empty)
OTHER:(empty)

What do you do?



RULES OF THIS DESCENT:
We are doing a death-friendly adventure here. It is going to be of the HARDCORE game death is permanent variety, but we’ll get there when we get there. There will be multiple JOBS, but only once per reincarnation do you get to choose a new one. More on this later! I will be using dice rolls to determine the outcomes of certain events. As far as the staying alive system goes, it will work somewhat like DIABLO, a little bit like CHRONO TRIGGER, but you know with way more text and injected with flavor of other things I like.

This is going to be more on the adventure side of the gaming spectrum as opposed to the technical side. Not a whole lot of numbers to be had here! The mystery of game mechanics is something we have lost with the internet, so I want to emulate that. I will capitalize certain key words in the narrative, but that does not mean you can't use anything else. Be creative! I want you to surprise me just as much as I surprise you.

As far as picking choices goes, I will pick the first choice with three votes. Updating will be irregular, as I am an adult with real life things. Please be easy on me if it has been a while for an update!
EDIT: If I am bored and feel like writing I will pick choices quicker than that! Basically, if I can write faster than you can pick, I will keep writing, as long as there is one thing suggested.

Quetzi

Reach for glasses. They are probably on the bedside table. Maybe next to that annoying clock?

zombiechron

You reach for your GLASSES next to the CLOCK. They are indeed there, you put them on. You can see! You use your new found sight to look around your ATTIC BEDROOM.

The walls in this place are horribly colored. They are the kind of off-white that only comes with years of unchecked cigarette smoke. You can’t wait to put some art up.

There are BOXES stacked in the corner of the room. A large foldable FUTON rests currently in the down position. Your LAPTOP is open and sitting on your LAP DESK on the floor. There is a DRESSER that came with the room.

chiasaur11

Play "Outsider" by the Ramones to set a mood.

zombiechron

You open up your laptop to start playing some sweet classic PUNK ROCK.
***
With both glasses and laptop equipped, you acquire the JOB CARD INTERNET JUNKIE. Do you wish to set this as your JOB?

Quetzi

No.

zombiechron

You put down the JOB CARD and continue to rock out to The Ramones. Some time passes, and you feel a grumbling in your stomach.

CURRENT STATUS: Hungry
Health: O O O
Inventory:
Job Card

HEAD: (Glasses)
BODY: (underwear)
FEET: (empty)
WEAPON: (empty)
OTHER:(Laptop)

Buttlord

Go downstairs and make a burger yo

Quetzi

No wait

You gotta find clothes

You got roommates bro

Quetzi

Open up that dresser

And those doors, maybe they are closets

Buttlord

No, take off your underwear, then cook a burg

Mr Fuzzbutt

Attend mother's funeral.

zombiechron

1 vote each for:
>Go downstairs and look for food
>Look around for clothes
>Leave the House

JacquesCousteau

Food time. No point smelling up some clothes before you have a shower.

Personface

>Spoil twist by reading Lovecraft story of same name

zombiechron

You go downstairs into the KITCHEN via the STAIRWAY and through the COMMUNAL ROOM. It is still dark, but you manage to find the light switches throughout the house navigating. You open the REFRIDGORATOR in search of BURGER MEATS but there is only a variety of CONDIMENTS and a few TALL CANS. There is some FROZEN CHICKEN in the freezer but that will take too long to thaw before you become RAVENOUS and need to eat. You would normally just have pizza delivered but your new apartment is in the middle of the woods. There is a note on the counter dining table:

“Hey! I was starving and thinking of waking you up to drive me to the store, but the neighbors were having a cookout and invited me over! Come on by when you get up, it’ll be a rager lasting all night.
P.S. The landlord said that the locked doors aren’t to be opened. (HAH yea ok!)"

There is a BACK DOOR in the kitchen that faces your BACKYARD. In the COMMUNAL ROOM there are FOUR UNMARKED CLOSED DOORS, the STAIRS you previously descended, the opening to the KITCHEN, and the FRONT DOOR.

The doors lead to the BATHROOM, the LAUNDRY & STORAGE ROOM, your BEST FRIEND’S ROOM, and your NEW ROOMATE’S ROOM.




We need some names and genders!
Main Character, Best Friend

Buttlord

Rodrigo Escobar, the main character

Communist McRussian, the best friend

Quetzi

Buttlord wrote:

Rodrigo Escobar, the main character

Communist McRussian, the best friend

Second.