The Presence of Me

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(align:"=><=")+(text-colour:black)[//You are sitting in a bar at the edge of the forest, drinking a beer in a booth towards the middle of the bar after a shift at the hospital. You can hear the clinking of glasses and mugs as drinks are being made at the counter and the light chattering of townspeople surrounding you. People occasionaly pass by your booth so you pay no mind to them until one of them pauses to look at you. There face is obscured so you couldn't tell if it was someone you recongnized. They placed a piece of paper folded in fours on the table before walk away.//] (align:"=><=")+(text-colour:black)[[[[Take the paper->Take the paper]] [[Throw the paper out in the trash->Throw paper away]]]] (enchant:?page,(bg:#9a1313))

Story and coding made and done by Onyx Walmsley Started during The Octavia Project https://www.octaviaproject.org/

(text-color:black)[(align:"=><=")[''//The Presence of Me//'']] (align:"=><=")[(text-color:black)[[Start->Start]] (text-color:black)[[Credits->Credits]] ] (enchant:?page,(bg:#9a1313))

(text-colour:black)+(align:"=><=")[//You hesitantly take the paper and unfold it, reading its contents//] (align:"=><=")+(text-colour:black)[''[["IT'S WATCHING."->Watching]]''] (enchant:?page,(bg:#9a1313))

(text-colour:black)+(align:"=><=")[//You finish your drink quickly, leaving a bill on the table as you take the paper and throw it in the trash on your way out, whatever it could have been, you'll never know//] (text-colour:black)+(align:"=><=")[[[[Go back to the start->Start]]]] (enchant:?page,(bg:#9a1313))

(text-colour:black)+(align:"=><=")[//You look up, glancing around only to spot a dark figure in the corner. As you notice it, it quickly runs out, phasing through the door and into the surround forest. No one else seems to notice the occurance as they all go on with their night. You quickly place a bill on the table, not bothering to finish your drink as you clutch the paper in your left hand, your bag in your right hand. Rushing after it as fast as you can you realize it is no use as you open the bar door and see nothing but the dark, the faint outline of trees, and the aluminated parking lot from the street lights. You uncurl your fist, glancing back down at the note, a new word appearing.//] (align:"=><=")+(text-colour:black)[''[["IT'S WATCHING YOU."->You]]''] (enchant:?page,(bg:#9a1313))

(align:"=><=")+(text-colour:black)[//The words stare at you dauntingly and you find it hard to look away. Questions fill your head, what is it? Who is it? Why is it watching me?//] (align:"=><=")+(text-colour:black)[[[[//Continue to stare at the words//->Stare]] [[//Look away// -> Look away]]]] (enchant:?page,(bg:#9a1313))

(text-colour:black)+(align:"=><=")[// You continue to stare at the words, hoping they'll change and provide an answer to your inside thoughts. You are determined, desperate even. As you continue to stare the hope you have dies down and as you are about to look away the whole text is erased and replaced with new words.// [[YOUR QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED WITH TIME $name ->Changed text]]] (enchant:?page,(bg:#9a1313))

(text-colour:black)+(align:"=><=")[//It's hard to look away, taking more strength then you thought to simply look somewhere else but your eyes eventually tear away from the paper. You look around the parking lot, spotting your car a few spots down, the grey reflecting the light easily enough. You continue looking around, checking for anything out of the ordinary when in your peripherals you see the paper shift.// [[YOUR QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED WITH TIME $name ->Changed text]]] (enchant:?page,(bg:#9a1313))

// You quickly walk to your car, starting the engine and driving away, back to your house (enchant:?page,(bg:#9a1313))