the cabin is dark.
[[search->id]]the cabin is dark.
(if: visits < 43)[[[search->id]]]
{
(if:visits is 1)[you ruffle through shelves.]
(if:visits is 2)[you look under the cabinet.]
(if:visits is 3)[a promising folder...]
(if:visits is 4)[you find old love [[letters->gross]].]
(if:visits is 6)[you find a plastic idris, polyester petals covered with dust.]
(if:visits is 7)[you search the floor.]
(if:visits is 11)[spider dust.]
(if:visits is 13)[bent coin.]
(if:visits is 15)[wood post powder.]
(if:visits is 16)[you open the closet.]
(if:visits is 17)[the drawer burps out sawdust.]
(if:visits is 18)[you find a sweat-stained [[letter->ugh]].]
(if:visits is 21)[dusk bracelet, smells like death.]
(if:visits is 23)[collections of unopened paints.]
(if:visits is 24)[radiation meter, unopened.]
(if:visits is 25)[a bolt of blue cloth, only missing a corner.]
(if:visits is 27)[stack of old papers.]
(if:visits is 30)[19/20 of a jar of oG strips.]
(if:visits is 33)[you fling open the bureau's drawers.]
(if:visits is 36)[rosin dust banjo, half its strings snapped.]
(if:visits is 39)[cat fur from a long-dead cat.]
(if:visits is 42)[you find a [[printed piece of paper->yea]]]
}
(if:visits is 43)[...
...
(if:$letters is 1)[... ah!
that's just it, [[exactly->conclusion]] what you're looking for!]
(else:)[...
you didn't manage to find what you were looking for.]
]
drawings, the hair roughly spiked.
a frowning teenager with orange hair, wearing a heart locket.
a leaping dog, broken-legged.
d3monika with a square-blob face.
wobbling lines copying talent.
You're done [[reading->id]].blue lighting, sharp slashes of red blood.
holes and gaps that let light in.
words even more clumsy.
"to start off -- inspired me -- (link-reveal:"learn")[ -- back in, compelling -- beautiful -- popular, well liked -- artistic -- your-- (link-reveal:"you")[ -- even if you don't think you can... your own judgment... you can! nothing you've said has... doubt that, and you've given all... as for my opinion... keep going the way you are! (link-reveal:"you")[... don't limit or steal attention... always been less supply for us... dying for more... content... (link-reveal:"not")[ oversaturating.. inspire... not taking attention away... get rid... lots of people like me... shy... social (link-reveal:"anxiety")[... as... who loves you the way you are.... i know my opinion... doesn't trump yours... existing as you are...
You're done [[reading->id]].]]]]](set: $letters to it + 1)(text-style:"italic")[
hi everyone, this is just to say i'm leaving.
i think doing this is making me a worse person.
i don't want to be seen anymore.
i'm not a pillar of the community.
i'm no one important.
i don't want this.
]
You're done [[reading->id]].the object is feathered, tipped, dripping with ink.
the other half is a picture.
the artist-mage is gone
but you've found
an eye-writer.
she seems (link:"sad")[like she needs you.
(link-reveal:"you")[(link-reveal:" begin")[(link-reveal:" to")[(link-reveal:" write")[ to her.
END]]]]]