Ghosts of Creyso

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You stare through the darkness of the bog. <img src="images/Bog.png"> The night-frogs scream in the wetness of the swamp, as if they're tired of being soaked with the acrid water of the spongemoss. Your steps make a squishy sound. [[Step forward]] You see a puddle to the right of you. [[Peer into it|Peer]] <<audio frog play volume 1>>

You peer for several minutes, your eyes acclimatizing to the dark. That's when you see the green glow. <div id="img1">[img[images/wisp-idl.gif]]</div> <<linkreplace "Immediately pull back">>You feel drawn to this strange appearance. You must stay for longer. <</linkreplace>> <<timed 10s>>The presence sucks you in. <<linkreplace "Back away">><<audio "slurp" play>>The Green follows you. <</linkreplace>> [[Touch the Green]]<</timed>> <<audio frog volume 0.40>>

<<audio "slurp" play>> The bog is endless. You're better off turning back. <<button "Turn back" "Introduction">><<audio slurp play>><</button>>

<h1>Ghosts of Creyso</h1> v0.031 <<if $chapter1done is true>> Chapter 2 coming soon! [[Replay Chapter 1|Introduction]] <<else>>[[Play|Introduction]]<</if>> <<masteraudio stop>>

<<timed 12s>> You wake up in a cozier location than before. A straw bed. You don't remember how you got there. [[Rise from bed]] <</timed>> <div id="img2">[img[images/wisp-att.gif]]</div> <<audio wildfire play>> <<timed 12s>><<masteraudio stop>><</timed>>

<img src="images/house-day.png"> You are not home. [[Open door]]

<<timed 3s>> You find yourself on a hummock in the bog, where houses lie haphazardly. [[Look around|Village]] It rained. In front of you is a puddle. [[Peer into puddle]] <</timed>> <<audio door play>> <<set $bognets to false>>

<img src="images/puddle.gif"> You don't recognize the face you see in the puddle. [[Raise head|Village]]

You stand on this hummock in the middle of a great, huge bog, with nowhere to go. As you look around, nobody seems to be here. [[Peer into puddle]] <<if $bognets is true>><<if not $accessories.has ("bognets")>> You see the pair of nets in the distance. [[Go to the nets]] <</if>><</if>> You look in the horizon. There is a shining object far out in the bog, among the lesser-sized peat hummocks. [[Venture out in the bog|Try going to next hummock]]

<<set $bognets to true>>You come across two strange, flat net-like objects on your way back. They seem to hold feet, but they're much too big for a child like you. [[Grab the nets]] [[Keep on going]]

You try them on. They're too big, but would allow you to walk for a short distance. Just enough to get to the next hummock? [[Try going to next hummock]] [[Remove the nets]] <<pickup $accessories "bognets" 1>>

You get to the Village again. [[Look around|Village]]

<<if $accessories.has("bognets")>> You walk a few paces with the nets. They're clearly too big, and you sink. [[Keep going towards the smaller hummock]] <<else>><<audio slurp play>> You don't go far until you realize the bog is impassable. There must be a way. [[Go back]]<</if>>

You leave the nets there. <<drop $accessories "bognets" 1>> [[Back to village center|Village]]

You struggle. The nets won't hold up, but it's too late to stop. [[Keep on trudging]] <<audio slurp play>>

You get to the nets again. Is it a good idea to take them? [[Grab the nets]] [[Leave them there|Village]]

You end up on the smaller hummock, seeing the village in the distance. The metal object seems closer, but you're stranded here. [[Massage your feet]]

The nets seem to be

Your feet hurt from wearing oversized nets. You remove the bognets and massage them. While you do that, you hear a trill. [[Rise up]] <<drop $accessories "bognets" 1>> <<audio waxwing play>>

On a poor, little, crummy berry tree, you see eleven tan birds. They seem to want more out of that tree than it has. [img[images/Waxwings.png]] [[Observe the birds]]

You get to the bird. He makes a squawking sound, and you seem to hear an acute, ringing voice in your head. <div class="dbox">"Deles. Deles. We've been looking for you. You're not dead. You must come to the ceremony."</div> <div class="say2">[[How do I get there?]]</div>

The bird who has eaten the single berry left on the tree gets chased by four others. He flies towards the shining metal objects in the distance. Nine of them follow him. The last one stays on the tree. <img src="images/waxwing1.png"> [[Approach the bird]]

<div class="dbox">You just don't know? You are Deles. You know the way.</div> <div class="say2">[[I actually don't...]]</div>

The bird peers into your soul. He caws. The ten other birds come back. <div class="say2">[[What's happening?]][[...]]</div> <<audio waxwing play>>

The last bird opens his beak. <div class="dbox">You must not fret. You are Deles.</div> The birds fly towards you and hold you by the shoulders. <div class="say2">[[Fly with me!]] [[I might need those bognets...]]</div>

The birds perch on the tree again and stare at you. <div class="say2">[[Fly with me!]] [[I might need those bognets...]]</div>

You get a bird's eye view of the bog, and a better look at the metal object as the birds carry you towards it. There are people on a metal platform, and they are staring at a hole in the bog. [[Gesture to land]]

You land on the platform and everyone stares at you. In the hole is a body. The body is the only person you've recognized since you've woken up, including your own reflection. You freeze. The birds all line up on the edge of the platform. [[Fight fear]] [[Burst into tears]]

You fight, but your emotions get the better of you. [[Cry|Keep crying]]

Tears happen as you slowly realize the body is your old self. The villagers look with compassion at the child crying in the middle of the platform. A grandma comes and rubs your shoulder. "Shhh." She speaks in a foreign tongue to you. All you hear is gibberish. The people gather around you. [[Keep crying]] [[Swallow your grief]]

Grief strikes you like a ton of bricks. You unleash sadness upon the crowd. You seem to have delayed the ceremony, but people seem to understand. [[Swallow your grief]]

You respond to the lady with a nod. She backs away, and a tall slender man from the crowd whistles. He hops off the platform, walking on his bog-nets into the spongemoss. Another woman follows him. <<if $accessories.has ("bognets")>>You can follow them using your bognets.[[Follow them]] <<else>>You can't follow them, since you left your bognets on the hummock. <</if>> [[Stay on the platform]]

The platform whirrs and the birds fly away back to the berry tree on the hummock in the distance. The metal object then promptly rises in the air and from below, four legs walk the people back to the village. You stay in the bog with your oversized bog-nets, with what seem to be the two ceremony masters, and your own past body in a hole next to you. The two figures look at the body. The hooded man doesn't speak, the woman looks at you in the corner of her eye. <div class="dbox"><i>You feel another presence here. It sends you a warm heartbeat of emotions.</i></div> The sun is setting. You clearly are here to wait. [[Wait around]] <<set $ceremony to true>>

You stay on the platform. It whirrs and the birds fly away to the berry tree on the hummock in the distance. The metal object then promptly rises in the air and from below, four legs walk you and the crowd back to the village. [[Wait for the object to land|Village 2]]

You get back to the village. Everyone goes back to their houses. The house you woke up in is the only one that's left. [[Stare in the distance]] [[Go back to the house]]

You wait until night. As the sun sets over the moonlit bog, the lady produces a small vial from her gown. She holds it over your past body. [[Wait and see]] <<audio frog play>>

She waits and see. Waits again. Again. The frogs scream, and she gestures toward the man. He wants to pick you up, clearly. They're leaving without filling the bottle. [[Let him carry you]] [[Fight back]]

You let him carry you [[Grab his shoulders]]

There's no point. He's much stronger than you, and as you struggle, he tightens his grip on you. [[Grab his shoulders]] [[Call the birds]]

You grab his shoulders as he walks back to the village. His joints make strange creaking sounds. [[Hold on|Village night]]

You know what to do. The 11 birds come back, as if you commanded them. They pester the man until he lets go of you. They then grab you, carrying you back to the village. [[Go to the village|Village night]]

It is night in the village. The two masters of ceremony gesture to the house you woke up in. [[Go back to the house]]

Night arrives as you stare in the distance. You are tired. [[Go back to the house]] <<audio frog volume 0.3 play>>

<img src="images/house-fire-night.png"> A small fire roars in the house, as if someone was here not long ago. <<if $accessories.has ("bognets")>> <<drop $accessories "bognets" 1>> You lean the bognets against the wall. <<set $bognetshouse to true>> <</if>> [[Sleep]] <<masteraudio stop>> <<timed 0.1s>><<audio fireplace play>><</timed>> <<set $chapter1done to true>>

You enter a deep sleep. [[End chapter|Creyso]]

<<newinv $accessories>> <<set $accessories to Inventory.create()>> /* create Equip Slots */ <<set $accessorySlot = "">> <<cacheaudio "slurp" "sound/slurp.m4a">> <<cacheaudio "frog" "sound/springpeepers noloop.mp3">> <<cacheaudio "waxwing" "sound/waxwing.mp3">> <<cacheaudio "door" "sound/doorcreak.mp3">> <<cacheaudio "wildfire" "sound/wildfire.mp3">> <<cacheaudio "fireplace" "sound/fireplace.mp3">> <<item "bognets" "Bognets">> <<description>>\ <<include "desc.bognets">><</item>>

<<if $accessories.length > 0>> <h3>Accessories</h3><<inv $accessories inspect>> <</if>> /* <<if $accessories.has("bognets")>> <<button Bognets>> <<run Dialog.setup("Bognets"); Dialog.wiki(Story.get("desc.bognets").processText()); Dialog.open()>> <</button>><</if>> */<br> <a href="https://scapes.birdtree.land/">Back to Scapes</a>

A pair of net-like objects that fit on human feet. They appear to be made out of tough sinew. They're much too big for you.

You pick up the bognets again from the hummock, while the birds hold you by the shoulders. <<pickup $accessories "bognets" 1>> <div class="say2">[[Fly with me!]] </div>