THE PIXIE AND THE TURTLE

                      by Damien Sight
Part I:  The Reality of Illusion

          


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1. You wake up in a dark room surrounded by mirrors.  One of the mirrors has a crack while another seems translucent.  Which do you investigate?

2.  Tapping the translucent mirror, you shrink.  Now the crack in the mirror is an opening.  There is also a hole in the floor, which do you choose?
         
3.  Walking through the crack, you arrive in a vast forest.  A fly lands near you and waits.  Scared, you back up but it follows.  Do you ride it or walk on?  

4.  Deciding to hop on the fly, you escape ants that gathered suddenly.  Do you try to direct its flight or allow it to fly untethered?

 

 

5.  You notice a huge tree as the fly glides.  It lands on a leaf with a beautiful dew drop.  Do you enter the dew drop or explore further?



 

 

 

6.    Since the fly insists you enter the dew drop, you stop inside, displaying a fantastic world of ice.  Do you let the fly in or leave it outside?

 

 

 

                                                  

7.  Extending your hand you grab the fly and pull it into the dew.  It shakes and drops one of its antennae.  Do you take it or move on and leave it?

8.  The orange antenna is a key!  As you walk you see a green door with a hold and key slot.  There are three spheres, red, and yellow and orange in front, what do you do?


                                            


9. You insert the orange antenna and orange sphere in the door, opening it.  Walking through, you return to regular size as your fly friend follows you.
  

10.  The fly transforms into a magnificent pixie, with short, blue hair.  She points toward a cave.  There is also a lit path.  Where do you go?

11.  You go to the cave, making the pixie ecstatic.  A boulder with the following symbols (^,\.^,1,^) blocks your path.  Complete with \,1, or /?

12.  Scratching "/" into the boulder, it crumbles, revealing an icy cavern with placed water.  The pixie leads you into the water.  Do you resist?

13.  Diving into the frigid water, the pixie leads, kissing you and filling your lungs with air.  Light glimmers above and you leave the water, chilly but safe.

14.  As you dry off, you notice an enormous city ahead of you, waving in the wind.  Your pixie friend turns back into a fly and buzzes around you.

15.  Exhausted, you sit on a rock, realizing it's a turtle.  It tries to nip your feet.  Your pixie friend buzzes around it, enthused.  Move on or feed it a grub?

16.  Feeding the turtle some grubs it spins, showing it's gratitude. The pixie turns back into human form and pets it.  The city is still far away.

17.  As you and your friends move forward, huge rose bushes grow, shooting thorns, blocking your path.  Use the pixie or the turtle to traverse?

18.  The turtle seems more apt to help with thorns.  Feeding it grubs it enlarges, encapsulating you both in its shell, allowing movement through the thorns.

it continues....

19.  The turtle reverts to it's form, saving you all.  Halted by a hand rising from the ground it asks, "Four 9's equal 100, how?"

   

20.Perplexed by the riddle, the pixie whispers in your ear 99 + (9/9), which you write down on the ground with a stick.

 

    

21.The hand grabs you all, flying toward the city.  It stops and asks, "If each finger is a hand and shakes the other, how many shakes are there?

   

22. Picturing the image in your mind, you say ten.  The hand sets the three of you down in front of the gates of the city, waving in the wind.

   

23.  Suddenly, you realize your situation.  The pixie turns into the fly and the turtle retreats into it's shell.  The sound of water dripping is audible.



24.  As you hear a deluge of water arrive, the fly and the turtle hide and the next thing you know the floor falls from your feet and you black out.

  

   

25.  You wake up in a cell, shackled, unable to speak.  Dark water rises.  Your pixie friend enters in fly form and tries to pick the locks on your hands.

    

26.  As the water reaches your head in the cell, the pixie picks the lock and you're free!  The turtle floats in and grows to a raft, which you jump onto.



27.  The pixie directs you toward a room.  A question mark asks, "1,2,3,4,5,6, multiply two numbers by on number then get three digits, each different.