,,,You find yourself kneeling on the floor of a Taekwondo Dojo. The floor is like a large cushioned mat made of tiled red and black squares. You notice Kip from Napoleon Dynamite wearing a blue tank top, gray sweatpants, and purple wristbands sitting near you.
The instructor is standing in front of the class with a block of wood. He makes several kicking motions toward the wood, never connecting while explaining the physics of why your kick never touches the wood. He describes in detail Zeno's Paradox and the path your leg must follow toward the wood, and how it must continually travel half the remaining distance to the wood, never making it all the way there.
[[Return to Taekwondo the next day]]
[[Wake Up->Desk Horseshoe]]You again find yourself kneeling in the dojo with Kip sitting near by. The instructor just finished a recap of yesterday and singles Kip out, asking him if it all made sense. Kip replies, "I meditated on that, and, uh, you're stupid."
At that, Kip stands and takes several students with him to create a new sect called "Taekwon-NO", embracing the lifestyle choice to be stupid. He calls out for interested people to come with him saying, "Taekwon-NO, because sometimes Occam's Razor isn't sharp enough."
(set: $taekwonNo to true)
[[Wake Up->Desk Horseshoe]]You find yourself in Suite 480, a large expansive room with an open kitchen and several small conference rooms. A number of Versus Employees can be seen working at their desks, walking across the room, and having small conversations with eachother.
Office Areas:
[[Desk Horseshoe]]
[[Kitchen]]
[[Yoshi Conference Room]]
[[Front Conference Room]]
Exits:
[[Leave the office->4th floor hallway]]You find yourself in the fourth floor hallway. There is an elevator lobby and a snaking hallway bisecting the floor.
Exits:
[[Versus Office]]
Elevator Controls:
[[Down to building lobby->Building Lobby]]
[[Up to unfinished floor->Case Room]]You find yourself in a typical office building lobby. There is a security desk here with a bored looking guard. A bank of elevators allows you to go up.
Available Dreams:
[[Enter the guard's dream->Blue Car]]
Elevator Controls:
[[Take elevator to 4th floor->4th floor hallway]]
[[Take elevator to unfinished floor->Case Room]]You find yourself sitting in a blue Honda Civic in a large, fairly empty, parking lot. It's dusk, heading towards night.
All of a sudden the door is flung open and a huge man, reminiscent of Hagrid from Harry Potter, tries to grab you.
You panic but realize you have a toothpick in your hand.
[[Jump out of the car and run]]
[[Poke the man in the belly with the toothpick]]
[[Wake Up->Building Lobby]]You poke the man in the belly with the toothpick but it snaps in half. The man looks down at you as the toothpick breaks.
(set: $toothpick to true)
[[Wake Up->Building Lobby]]You try to escape the man through the other door but it's locked and won't open. The huge man laughs and reaches down, grabbing you tightly.
[[Wake Up->Building Lobby]]A horseshoe of desks forms a work area with a couch closing the 4th side. You see Kalisa diligently working at her computer. Robby is emailing back a player who recently won a sweepstakes for a mouse.
Available Dreams:
[[Enter Kalisa's Dream->Taekwondo Class]]
[[Enter Robby's Dream->Portland]]
Exits:
[[Return to the main office area->Versus Office]]The Versus kitchen is small with a refrigerator, sink, and an island with some shelves holding assorted nuts, cookies, and other snacks. Nathan and John are engaged in a conversation near the island, each drinking from a steaming mug.
Available Dreams:
[[Enter Nathan's Dream->Hackey Sack]]
Exits:
[[Return to the main office area->Versus Office]]You find yourself at a small party. There are a number of people chatting in small groups. Everclear's "Father Of Mine" is playing in the background. You find yourself incredibly bored.
[[Leave to wander the streets->Portland Streets]]
[[Wake Up->Desk Horseshoe]]The streetlights and occasional neon signs light up the night as you wander along Burnside past Powell's Books. Across the street you notice a man wearing a Darth Vadar mask riding a unicycle while playing the bagpipes.
[[Engage in a lightsaber duel]]
[[Return to the hotel]]
[[Wake Up->Desk Horseshoe]]You eventually make it back to the hotel you were staying at and take the elevator up to your room. To your surprise there are several cartons of ice cream and a large spoon waiting for you in the room. You begin to dig into the ice cream, losing track of the time.
(set: $iceCream to true)
[[Wake Up->Desk Horseshoe]]You find yourself in a small circle of friends, kicking a hackey sack back and forth. You are chatting about how finals are next week and then finally graduation. Your friend Chad mentions how glad he is that he dropped the chemistry class you both were taking as it has made the semester a lot easier without it.
It suddenly dawns on you that you never actually dropped the class and just stopped going. You can't even remember the last time you set foot in the lab.
[[Race to the lab->Chemistry Lab]]
[[Race to the professor's office->Chemistry Professor]]
[[Wake Up->Kitchen]]You race into the chemistry lab and push someone out of the way from a station. You find a flask with a blue liquid in it and a graduated buret above it. You begin titrating some hydrochloric acid into the sodium hydroxide until it turns a pale yellow-green and then yell out Eureka!
(set: $acid to true)
[[Wake Up->Kitchen]]You find yourself in a small conference room with a table and four chairs. There is a small screen on the wall, currently black. Laura is here on a Google Hangout with Marisol.
Available Dreams:
[[Enter Laura's Dream->Car on a hill]]
[[Enter Marisol's Dream->Al Pachino House]]
Exits:
[[Return to the main office->Versus Office]]You find yourself in Al Pachino's house. As usual you are babysitting his tiger. A full moon hangs low in the night sky outside the window. A ladder leans against a railing that runs along the upstairs hallway. You see a cooler sitting against a wall.
[[Feed the tiger]]
[[Climb the ladder]]
[[Wake Up->Yoshi Conference Room]]You slowly climb the ladder a few rungs, then climb back down. You repeat this, each time talking the process through while the tiger watches. You then encourage the tiger to try and he just looks at you blankly then goes back to licking it's paw.
(set: $ladder to true)
[[Wake Up->Yoshi Conference Room]]You are in a large conference room. A whiteboard covers one wall and a small black screen hangs on the opposite wall. A window looks out over a construction site across the street. The fourth wall is made of glass and has a view into the rest of the Versus Office. Christian and Yulie are having a conversation while sitting alone at one end of the conference table.
Available Dreams:
[[Enter Yulie's Dream->Economics Class]]
Exits:
[[Return to main office->Versus Office]] You find yourself sitting in an economics class taking your final exam. The test is hard but as you finish, you feel really good about it. As you hand it in you look forward to the commencement ceremony where you will get your diploma.
[[Attend Graduation]]
[[Wake Up->Front Conference Room]]You find yourself among a large crowd of people wearing robes and caps. Your name is called and you go up, crossing the stage and collecting your diploma.
[[Wait for your actual diploma to arrive]]
[[Celebrate with a party]]
[[Wake Up->Front Conference Room]]You find yourself waiting at home for your actual diploma to arrive, having only the placeholder from the ceremony. You check the mail and find a thin envelope from the university. Inside you find a letter stating you did not meet the graduation requirements and a single bullet point has the reason:
"Economics - FAILED"
You open the placeholder diploma from the ceremony and find stamped across it with a huge red stamp:
"FRAUDULENT"
(set: $fakeDiploma to true)
[[Wake Up->Front Conference Room]] You ponder the items in front of you for several minutes but cannot seem to see any relationship that makes sense.
[[Done->Case Room]] As you ponder the evidence, Alex wanders into the room and leans over your shoulder looking over the items arrayed in front of you.
Unsolicited, he starts explaining a complex rational for how all the items fit together and insists it clearly shows the answer to the case.
You just stare at him for a minute before you shake your head and just yell at him:
$bold[Taekwon-NO!]
[[Wake Up->The End]](set: $bold to (text-style: "bold"))
(set: $acid to false) (set: $toothpick to false) (set: $fakeDiploma to false) (set: $iceCream to false) (set: $ladder to false) (set: $light to false) (set: $taekwonNo to false)
$bold[Dream Detective]
[[Jump into the Case->Versus Office]]You wake up in your bed unable to believe you are still having this crazy dream about the game, Dream Detective, you played decades ago.
[[Start Over->Dream Detective]]You find yourself driving a Mercedes S-Class down a hill. You are admiring the holiday decorations lining the street when you notice the light at the bottom of the hill change.
[[Apply the brakes]]
[[Take a right turn]]
[[Wake Up->Yoshi Conference Room]]You press your foot down on the brake and feel little resistance. The light at the bottom of the hill turns bright red. You start pumping the brakes harder, jamming your foot down hard. The car slows somewhat but it won't stop. You are rapidly approaching the intersection and all you can focus on is the red light.
(set: $light to true)
[[Wake Up->Yoshi Conference Room]]You find yourself in an unfinished floor of the building, the kind of place that looks like it is straight out of Die Hard. Perfect for wandering around on the phone or analyzing evidence from the case.
You have laid all the evidence out on a door that has been laid across two saw horses.
(set: _completed to $acid and $toothpick and $fakeDiploma and $iceCream and $light and $ladder and $taekwonNo)
Evidence Collected:
$acid[A flask of acid, ] $toothpick[A small wooden toothpick, ] $fakeDiploma[A fake diploma, ] $iceCream[A carton of ice cream, ] $ladder[A ladder, ] $light[A red light]
(if: _completed)[[Analyze Evidence->Analyze Evidence Success]]
(unless: _completed)[[Analyze Evidence->Analyze Evidence Fail]]
Elevator Controls:
[[Building Lobby]]
[[4th floor hallway]]You pull out your lightsaber and the blue blade erupts from the hilt with a classic energy swoosh. You run at the unicycling Vader and he ignites his red saber. You come together in a clash of blades but you are no match for this bagpipe playing, unicycling, Vader and he cuts your hand off.
[[Wake Up->Desk Horseshoe]]You race to your professor's office and find that thankfully he is there holding office hours. You knock on the door, enter, and take a seat.
He looks you over and asks what brings you to his office considering you haven't bothered to attend his class in ages.
You begin to explain what happened and ask him for any help he can provide and he just begins laughing maniacally.
[[Wake Up->Kitchen]]You open the cooler and pull out a large steak. You turn towards the tiger to feed him but for some reason he has a feral look on his normally kind face. He licks his lips and then pounces on you, knocking you down and the last thing you see is his jaws coming rapidly at your neck.
[[Wake Up->Yoshi Conference Room]]You decide you don't want to deal with the light and take a right turn down a narrow ally you have often used as a shortcut. It turns out though, that this was not the best day to make that choice as you find yourself heading directly into the path of a large moving truck.
The truck honks wildly but there is nothing either of you can do and the truck crashes directly into the front of your Mercedes.
[[Wake Up->Yoshi Conference Room]]You mingle through the crowd of robed classmates and invite a large group of your friends to a graduation party. Your best friend Jen suggests you hold it in a large warehouse down the road from campus. That makes a lot of sense to you and you make sure everyone knows the spot.
That night in the warehouse, people start arriving, way more people than you invited. Soon the entire place is packed with people you have never heard of and large kegs of beer are brought in. A few people set up a make-shift bar on a few folding tables and start pouring drinks.
A little confused but wanting to to join in since it is your party, you grab drink after drink, downing them until you pass out.
[[Wake Up->Front Conference Room]]