Path of life

A hypertext narrative by

Christophe Dupéré

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Word count: 3255

Choice count: 54

Section count: 34

Image count: 34

Error count: 16

Field Related Analysis

Education : 115 matches

(ability, activity, choice, classes, college, diploma, don, down, education, evaluate, first, games, grades, head, high school, intervention, learn, objectives, options, primary school, reader, school, university, vision)

Law : 82 matches

(account, act, action, assets, blood, book, case, cause, child, child abuse, close, condemn, construction, corruption, cost, court, criminal, death, development, direction, driving, electricity, fact, family, force, government, house, imprisonment, injury, interest, intervention, lawyers, minutes, month, notice, offer, office, option, parent, plant, police officer, possibility, property)

Web development : 77 matches

(action, build, call, catch, child, close, create, engine, hide, ignore, open, option, parent, pass, path, property, read, require, return, root, show, sort, stop, view, window, write)

Target Structure: (14 matches)

come in handy (1 match)

dead-end job (1 match)

dread (1 match)

flirtation (1 match)

if I were you (1 match)

invaluable (1 match)

lack of (1 match)

maddening (1 match)

put aside (1 match)

straight a's (2 matches)

worthwhile (1 match)

corruption (1 match)

theft (2 matches)

assets (1 match)

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Path of life

The beginning.

You just finish high school with straight A's. Time to choose your path of life. Three majors possibility open to you. The first one is to go on Nature Science at Montmorency College. Your parent always wants you to become a neurosurgeon to pursue the family tradition. The second option, is to study in Early Childhood Education at Montmorency College. You always dream about that job and thinking you can make the difference in the life of a kid just bring you joy. The final option is to help your uncle Kevun to start his caterpillar farm. You would become the first ever caterpillar trainers and maybe become a billionaire. What path of life will you choose?

Choice 1 : Help your uncle.

Choice 2 : Study in Early Childhood Education.

Choice 3 : Study in Nature Science.

Diploma

Help your uncle.

You arrive at your uncle's house. He brings you to the basement. Your uncle starts explaining to you his idea. You then both starts to work on the construction of many caterpillars' cage. You come in handy, with your help you achieve with your uncle to complete all the construction of all equipment require in a week. After a year of waiting, the caterpillars turn in butterflies but still haven't laid eggs. The cost of electricity, the cost of food or the time requires to keeping them all alive will make you and your uncle go bankrupt. Your uncle still believes in waiting. You have three choice to try to influence your fate. You trust your uncle and wait. You choose to try to give the butterfly some special vitamin for human that you found in a drug store. Finally, you steal all the butterflies and equipment. The theft is reckless, but it is the only hope.

Choice 1 : Steal the butterflies and the equipment.

Choice 2 : Trust your uncle and wait.

Choice 3 : Give them the vitamin.

Farm

Study in Early Childhood Education.

You put aside everyone who tells you not to do this program. You start studying about, what a need, the proximal zone of development, how to do an intervention and everything you have to learn to become and educator in early childhood education. You get your diploma pretty easily. Where do you want to work now? Do you want to work in an Early childhood center or in a primary school?

Choice 1 : Work in a primary school.

Choice 2 : Work in an early childhood center.

Early childhood education

Study in Nature Science.

You study Natural Science. You will get straight A's during all of your semesters. You will even keep those good grades at the University of Harvard. You will become the best neurosurgeon in the world. You will have a mansion, with two kids, a beautiful wife or husband, a dog and everything you have always desired. Your parents are so proud of you. No, just kidding it was a dream. You fell all of your classes. You now despite studying. You become a shame for your family, and they disown you. You will then forever work in a dead-end job. Maybe something you should just listen to your heart and do something you like or take a risk. Try again?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Lab

Steal the butterflies and the equipment.

Because of the lack of result, you choose to steal all the butterflies and the equipment. You wake up in the middle and start packing your car with all the stuff. At the moment you finish, you see bright light in the house. You rush in the car and turn the engine on. You drive your fastest and quit the property of your uncle as he run after you while screaming insults. Your phone suddenly rings, but you realise it fell off in between the seat. Do you try to pick it up?

Choice 1 : Pick it up.

Choice 2 : Ignore it.

Cellphone

Trust your uncle and wait.

You decide to trust your uncle and wait. After one another year, all the butterflies die. Even worst, you didn't even get egg. You and your uncle lost all of your assets and time. You can wait for a miracle to happen or you give up and go back to school.

Choice 1 : Go back to school.

Choice 2 : Wait for the miracle.

Waiting

Give them the vitamin.

You found earlier some special vitamins in a drug store. You read those vitamins are for humans and can cause some side effects. You open the bottle give them the vitamins. The butterflies start crashing on the terrarium wall. Do you open the terrarium?

Choice 1 : Open the terrarium.

Choice 2 : Keep it close.

Vitamins

Pick it up.

You stretch your arm to reach it. Unfortunately you can't reach it. You try to look for it but too late. You feel the car flying for little moment then you remember nothing. The last vision you have is you in a ditch, the windshield broke, blood all over your face. Maybe your action could have been different. Maybe your fate could have been better. Try again.

Choice 1 : Try again

Crash

Ignore it.

You ignore the call. You drive all night the fastest you can. You know you can go back to your parent because your uncle will found you. After a while, you get intercepts at a police's barrage. They are searching for a theft that stole some important material on a farm of some sort during this night. One police officer say that the criminal would get a lifetime imprisonment. You panic, press the accelerator and run away. Accidentally, you hit one of the officers with your car. The police will catch you eventually after a pursuit. You learn that the officer that you hit die of from his wound. Your get a sentence of lifetime in a prison. The funny thing, the police officer wasn't searching for you. It was another case that happens near your uncle's house in a government property. Maybe, you overreact, maybe it was your destiny. You don't like it? Try again.

Choice 1 : Try again

Jail

Go back to school.

You choose to go back to school, you lost many years, but it's OK life is not a straight road. Do you go to Montmorency College in Nature Science or in Early Childhood Education?

Choice 1 : Study in Early Childhood Education.

Choice 2 : Study in Nature Science.

School

Wait for the miracle.

You wait for a miracle the day's pass but nothing. One night, you are about to go to sleep when you see two butterflies at your window. Butterflies species that you have never seen in your life. You jump out of bed. The first one is white look like an angel. The second one is black, look invaluable and shine in the dark. The butterflies both starts to fly in to opposite direction. You rush outside to follow one of them. Which one do you follow. The white one that go near the lake, or the black one that go in the forest.

Choice 1 : Follow the white one.

Choice 2 : Follow the black one.

Mircale

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Write this part of the story here and present your reader with choices.

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Follow the white one.

You follow the white butterfly that go near the lake. It starts to fly above the lake. You dread to swim at night. Do you swim or go back home?

Choice 1 : Go back home.

Choice 2 : Swim in the dark.

White butterfly

Follow the black one.

You follow the black butterfly to the forest. You run after it for an hour. The butterfly finally settle down on a rock near you. You have four options: Jump on it to try to catch it with your hands, slowly approach it and try to catch him with your hand, pick up a flower to try to lure it in your hand, or bend down on your knee and open your hand and hope it comes to you.

Choice 1 : Jump on it to catch it.

Choice 2 : Slowly approach it.

Choice 3 : Pick up a flower.

Choice 4 : Pray it comes to you.

Black butterly

Swim in the dark.

You dive in the lake and start to swim. The adrenalin start kicking in. You give all you can do to keep up with the butterfly. Your muscle starts to abandon you. You have no choice to go back to the shore. But you realise you are in the middle of the lake and your muscle are not worthwhile anymore. You slowly start to sink to the bottom of the lake. Maybe, this angelic butterfly, was in fact an angel of death. Maybe, you shouldn't have over evaluate you ability to swim. You can try again for a better fate.

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Lake

Go back home.

You start to turn back your way home. After a few minute walk, you look behind you by instinct. You notice the butterfly following you. You stop and look at it. The butterfly flies toward you and laid on your shoulder. You bring her home and create her own terrarium. Every week, this butterfly you named Miracle, give you a hundred eggs. You and your uncle can sell thousands of caterpillars every month. You become rich in a year. You will buy and build your own mansion next to your uncle's house. You will start your own family and live a happy life. You will take care of Miracle all your life. Miracle will stay to your side until your own death. At this moment only Miracle will perish too. Want to try another path?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Mansion

Jump on it to catch it.

You jump toward the butterfly, miss it and hit your head on the rock. You will faint and die. What a lame death seriously! Try again?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Rock

Slowly approach it.

You slowly approach it. But you don’t notice the root on the ground. You trip over it and hit your head on the rock. You pass out and die. Sometimes, only have your objectives in view will cost you. Try again?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Root

Pick up a flower.

You pick up a flower to try to lure it. Your hand starts burning. You faint from the pain. It was a highly venomous flower. You will die on the ground cover in blister. If I were you, I would read an encyclopedia of plant before picking a flower next time. Try again?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Flower

Pray it comes to you.

You bend down on your knees and open your hands. You pray that the butterfly comes to you. You close your eyes. After a few minutes, you feel something in your hands. The butterfly came to you. You bring it home and put it in a terrarium. You realise this butterfly is extremely rare. You start to create an exhibition to around it. This exhibition brings in thousands and thousands of visitors every year. You build with your uncle a butterfly's museum and become famous around the world. You become rich and have a great life. Want to try another path?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Museum

Open the terrarium.

You open the terrarium and all the butterflies start attacking you. You have created vampires butterflies. They drank all your blood leaving you dead. Congratulations you just condemn the world. Try again for a better ending?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Blood

Keep it close.

You keep the terrarium close. After an hour, all the butterflies are dead. You have to start to zero. You feel completely defeat, you decide for a better future to return to school. What programmes will you choose?

Choice 1 : Study in Early Childhood Education.

Choice 2 : Study in Nature Science.

Terrarium

Work in a primary school.

You choose to work in a primary school. You learn the rope pretty easily. After 3 years, you feel accomplish. You have a natural talent, you feel that you are at the right place to pass all the rest of your life in this job. One day, you decide you will do a special activity with your group. You have the choice between a hide-and-seek because the group want it so much, and it's in their interest or create a new activity: The moose game. Which on do you choose?

Choice 1 : Play hide-and-seek.

Choice 2 : Play the moose game.

Primary school

Work in an early childhood center.

You decide to work in an early childhood center. It's your first year. Everything is great the kids are adorable, the parents are kind and comprehensive, and you love your job. One problem, the owner of the center keep flirting with you. Monday, you receive a chocolate box, the next day he/she compliments you all day on how perfect you are. Wednesday, you are force you to eat your lunch at her/his office for a meeting. Finally, Friday you receive an invitation to an expensive restaurant that will cost nothing to you because the owner will pay for you. You hesitate your 21 year old and the owner is 53. Do you go to accept the invitation?

Choice 1 : Accept the invitation.

Choice 2 : Refuse the invitation.

Early childhood center

Play hide-and-seek.

You decide to play hide-and-seek. You go with the all the kids in the nearest park. In this park, there is a big wooded area. After 3 game, James a kid in your group is maddening that he didn’t win a single game. He asks you furiously to do another one. Do you accept?

Choice 1 : You accept.

Choice 2 : You refuse.

Hide-and-seek

Play the moose game.

You great the moose game. A series of mini-game tournament that every round, a certain amount of kid are disqualifies. The kids love the games and play during every recess. One day, a parent approach you and ask you if he can take your idea to make a movie or a TV show. You can either accept and share the right or keep it for the school you work in?

Choice 1 : You share it.

Choice 2 : You keep it.

Moose

You accept.

James will finally win a game of hide-and-seek. In fact, he becomes the best at hide-and-seek because you will never find him. After, hours of searching with your group you call the police. James will never be found. The culpability will make you quit your job and will make you fall in alcoholism. You will lose everything and become a beggar for the rest of your life. You are not good at finding thing I see, you didn’t find James or a good path in life. Try again?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Missing

You refuse.

You refuse, it's getting late and need to go back before their parents come to get them. James throws a tantrum and tell you injury. He says that you are the worst. He rush in directions of the school to tell everyone how bad you are. He will finally tell it to no one. In his anger, he forgot one important rule: Always look both side before crossing the road. A truck will hit him, he will die at the hospital. Why didn’t you accept? You feel that everything is your fault. You could have make a difference just by saying a yes. You will fall in depression within a year and quit this planet after 2 years. Sometimes a no can really kill someone. Try again?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Truck

You share it.

You share it, nothing for the moment happen. After 4 years, you see one night on Netflix the show: The Moose game. The show become so popular that everyone just talk about it. After another year, you receive in your mailbox a big check of 3 million dollars signed by the parent with you share you idea. You live the rest of your life doing the job you love and with a lot of money in your bank account. Congratulations! Want to try another path?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Netflix

You keep it.

You decide to keep your idea for yourself and the parent understands. This game will become the most popular game in your school. So, popular that everyone keep asking you to create more games. You will create a lot of different game or activity. You will publish a book of games that will become a success in education world. You succeed! Want to try another path?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Activity book

Accept the invitation.

You accept the invitation, you put on your best suit or dress, and go to the restaurant. The diner is great, you discover how much both of your personalities match, laugh together, and you feel a connection with this person. After a few drinks, He/she invites you in his/her house. Do you accept the offer?

Choice 1 : Accept to go home with at the owner's house.

Choice 2 : Refuse the invitation to his/her house.

Fancy restaurant

Refuse the invitation.

You refuse, the next Monday you are call to the owner office. When you arrive two police officers are waiting for you. They put the handcuffs on you. You don’t understand what is happening. The two policemen tells you are under arrests for child abuse. You and your parents can’t afford good lawyers. They show a video of you in the act of abusing a child and bring the child in question for a testimony during the court case. You know it's not you in the video and is a rigging. You will lose court case and will be put in jail for 20 years. Corruption is fun, isn’t it? Want to try another path?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Court

Accept to go home with at the owner's house.

You accept to go at the owner's house. You arrive at the destination, and you do not pas the door that the flirtation begins between both of you. You will wake up next morning with breakfast in bed. You will the have a secret relationship with the owner for the rest of you life. You will eventually adopt a kid, start a family, and move in together. You will then become owner of the early childhood center. You will then live together happily for ever until death set you apart. After that, you will go travel around the world with your child. What a great life! Want to try another path?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

House

Refuse the invitation to his/her house.

You decide to refuse, the owner will tell you it’s Ok. Because you drink and, it's more risky for you to lose your driving license, the owner offers you to drive you at your home. You accept because you receive a free dinner, and you know the person. He/she offers you a last drink before you leave the restaurant. You accept. You wake up remembering nothing after the last drink in a house you don’t know. The owner enters the room and tell you that last night you drank so much that you didn’t remember your address. So there was no choice to bring you in her/his house for your security. You feel something wrong, you can feel it inside your guts. The owner to bring you back to your home. What happen that night? You will never know. Want to try another path?

Choice 1 : The beginning.

Shot