UPDATE 2
As much I would like to taste monkey, the majority of people chose to save the animal, so let's save the animal again:
QUOTE (11) |
Without even rising from your crouch, you snap your arm straight. Your knife flashes as it spins once in the hot sunlight and buries itself in the viper's head. The little monkey watches you incredulously as you stride over to the twitching body of the snake and pull your knife free. His expression is so comical that you roar with laughter as you sheathe your knife. Strewn all around the monkey are the cracked shells of small nuts. Clearly he was enjoying his lunch so much that he failed to notice the viper's approach. As you turn to leave the clearing, he grabs two tiny fistfuls of nuts and scampers after you. You had intended to head directly towards the Temple of Katak, but suddenly you feel a tug at your cloak and look down to see that the little monkey has grabbed its hem between his teeth. He is very insistent that you should take a different route on into the jungle. If you do so, turn to 57. If you would rather shake the mischievous creature off your cloak and press on as you had intended, turn to 18. |
UPDATE 3
Let's see what would happen IF we ignored the monkey:
QUOTE (18) |
You have gone only a few metres further when you find yourself rapidly sinking. You have blundered into one of the tracts of quicksand which encircle the Temple's hidden location. It was in this way that the Ancient Priests of Katak protected their sacred shrine from desecration by the likes of you! You thrash wildly, but to no avail. The fluid sands roll over you, choking off your screams. Your life and your quest end here. |
QUOTE (57) |
Something is clearly amiss for the monkey to become so excited. You heft the rock he was sitting on and hurl it through the undergrowth in the direction you had originally intended to go. It lands with a dull plop and soon sinks from view. If you had not heeded the monkey's warning you would have blundered straight into a patch of deadly quicksand! As you continue on your way, he runs alongside you and shows you the path of firm ground that takes you safely past the treacherous quicksand. With your new companion, whom you decide to call Minki, you head onwards through the jungle. After a little while you come to a trail of sorts, presumably beaten through the thick tropical undergrowth by the savage natives of the region. Although you hope to avoid any encounter with them, your hand never strays far from your sword hilt. The trail soon brings you to a lichen-stained boulder sculpted to resemble a squatting figure with features that are both fierce and less-than-human. This weathered statue is clearly not the work of the natives. It has stood here for thousands of years and is a relic of the Ancient Empire of the Katak theocracy. Your knowledge of archaeology is limited, but if you read certain glyphs and baroque flourishes correctly then this statue marks the grave of an Anku nobleman. Possibly the treasure that would have been interred with him still remains undisturbed to this day. Will you try to push the statue aside and open the grave (turn to 140), or will you press on towards the lost temple (turn to 31)? |
It was pretty obvious that if we ignored the monkey we would die, so I just decided to show the death.