INSIGHT’S HALLOWEEN INTERACTIVE FICTION
Your mind reaches back to the third grade,
drawing on the dead languages that guided
your people from Ms. Handler’s room into
the desert for forty years, finally reaching the
promised playground.
You attempt to speak Pig Latin to confuse
the gerbil. What begins as a fairly competent
speech loses focus around the part about
mutually assured destruction, and soon you
are merely making ineffectual grunts and
hand signals.
Amazingly, the gerbil sits bolt upright as the
word “ferzywerzebel” falls from your mouth.
After a moment of experimentation, you
INSIGHT
realize that you have unintentionally spoken
the gerbil’s true name, and now have complete
control over the adorable hellspawn’s actions.
Recognizing this as your opportunity to ascend
to power, you use the gerbil’s overwhelming
capacity for violence to take over the world.
It’s pretty cool.
YOU WIN!
SCORE: DOMINATION VICTORY!
If you’d like to go back in time to before you
doomed the world to your leadership, you can
always go back to page 12.
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