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Forbidden Lockbox An Interactive Fiction Now Available On Hive

For over a year now I wanted to create a text adventure on Hive using a series of posts. Each post has one or more options for the reader to choose from. Sometimes

The Start

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Swerve

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Right

It was a cold foggy night and you are driving alone along a winding road in the middle of nowhere. The car you are driving is a rented off-road vehicle that has

Go Back

You got a creepy vibe that opening the gate was not going to end well. You decided to backtrack a bit. Along the way, you noticed an animal trail that you missed

Downhill

You decided to take the animal trail that takes you down quite a steep slope. Thankfully it has not been raining or the tree roots would have been wet and slippery.

Continue 3

While this house is not the cabin you rented it will have to do. You just hope since it is an older house that the floorboards do not creek with every step and the

Uphill

You make your way uphill. It is quite covered in brush, thick tree roots, and the stench of decay. The further you walk the less light that penetrates the tree canopies

Car

The car rental agency files a police report a week later after you failed to return the car. Many years later a random hiker finds what remains of the car and you

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You decided to go inside the house. You turn the doorknob and the door is unlocked. The door is quite heavy and hard to push open. The door and floorboards over

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As you walk into the main entryway of the house you notice an immaculate staircase that branches off to the left and right across multiple different floors of the

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You find yourself in the kitchen and it does not fit into what the rest of the house looks like. You would not be crazy to mistake it for a modern-day kitchen at

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You followed around the walls in the darkroom looking for some kind of light switch. Not only did you not find one you could have sworn it was getting darker by

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You drop the lockbox and go running and screaming out of the house. While it sounds like the wooden carvings are chasing after you they never leave the front steps

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As foolish as it seems you decided to stay and fight the woken carvings of different animals. They could not be more than half a foot in size as best. Could their

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There must be a key somewhere in this house that will unlock the lockbox. You pick it up and start walking back into the entryway again. As you do so you start to

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It is a good thing you found a candle with a long stem match to light it with. Most of the bathroom was visible due to light reflecting off the mirror once it was