It's the first day of fall break of your senior year in college. The campus will shut down in a few hours and you have an 18 hour drive to get home.
[[Pack]]
You spend about 2 hours making sure you have everything that you'd want or need over the week long break and making sure that it's all in your car and ready to go. You spend an extra few minutes making sure that the room is good for any checkout there may be while youre gone.
You get into your car and start to head out of the college town.
(link: "Check your gas") [You have half a tank]
(link: "Check GPS") [You have 18 hours left in the trip]
(link: "Check your phone") [Full battery]
[[Stop for gas]]
You stop at a gas station right before you get on the highway and fill your tank with gas. You should get a good distance off of this.
(link: "Check your gas") [You have a full tank]
(link: "Check GPS") [You have 17.5 hours left in the trip]
(link: "Check your phone") [Full battery]
[[Head home]]
[[get snacks]]Double-click this passage to edit it.You get on the highway and start driving towards home. after about an hour of driving you start to get hungry and it seems like there's road work that has the highway closed down for a while so you pull off.
(link: "Check your gas") [You have a 7/8 tank]
(link: "Check GPS") [You have 16.5 hours left in the trip]
(link: "Check your phone") [80% battery]
[[Stop for food]]
[[Push on]]you run into the gas station and get some snacks to keep you going during the ride.
You hop on the highway and start going for a while. after a bit there's road work that forces you to exit. You have to push on with contry roads that cut through small towns. While the drive is prettier it adds time to your drive.
(link: "Check your gas") [You have a 3/4 tank]
(link: "Check GPS") [You have 19 hours left in the trip]
(link: "Check your phone") [75% battery]
[[continute driving]]You stop at a small restuaunt and get a small meal that fills you up. Afterwards you get back on the road and start driving on the country roads your gps has rerouted you on. The detour has added some time to your drive.
(link: "Check your gas") [You have a 3/4 tank]
(link: "Check GPS") [You have 19 hours left in the trip]
(link: "Check your phone") [75% battery]
[[continute driving]] You drive though your hunger for a little bit since the detour has added time to the drive. The scenery helps you push on a little bit longer
(link: "Check your gas") [You have a 3/4 tank]
(link: "Check GPS") [You have 19 hours left in the trip]
(link: "Check your phone") [75% battery]
[[continute driving]] You contiue on the country roads for hours. At a certain point while driving you realize that you're the only other car on the road. Come to think of it, you haven't seen another car driving since you got on the highway earlier.
While you're thinking about it and moving through another small town your car begins to make a grinding noise
[[pull over]]
[[keep driving, look for a machanic]]You pull your car over as you start hearing the noise. You instantly check you phone to call for help. You have no signal at all.
A man, walks up to you. "Is everything alright?" he asks as he sees you checking your phone.
[["Car problems, can you point me to the closes machanic?"]]You slow down and continue driving, getting a strange look from a man on the sidewalk, he must be able to hear the noise too.
After blindly driving for a bit you find the Mirror Lake Autoshop, and it looks like it's still open.
[[Pull into autoshop]]Double-click this passage to edit it."Yeah no problem, The Mirror Lake Autoshop is about 2 blocks down and then take a right, can't miss it from there."
You thank the man and get back into your car and drive to the machainic taking it slow to not push the car. The autoshop is exactly where the man said it would be.
[[Pull into autoshop]]you pull your car into the parking lot of the shop. As you start to park the mechanic walks out of the shop with a concered look on his face and waves for you to come in.
"Just pull it right in I could hear the grinding from inside" he calls to you when you roll the window down. You follow his instructions and thank him. He tells you that looking over it will take about an hour.
[[Wait in lobby]]Double-click this passage to edit it.You wait in the lobby, there are some old magizines laying around for people who are waiting on their cars and a phone on the wall for customers.
[[call home]]
[[read magizines]]You pick up the phone and punch in the number for your house, after rigning for a bit it sends you to voicemail. You leave a message about what's going on and say that it may be a while before you get home.
<<back>>You pick up an old sports illustrated and try to take your mind off of your car for a while.
[[after a while the machanic comes in]]The machanic walks in and informs you that he has what he needs to fix the car but it'll take until tomorrow to get it fixed.
[[Ask about places to stay]]
[[Go into town]]"well there's a motel right across the street, if you tell them I sent you they may even give you a discount since you got trapped in town."
[[Go to motel]]
[[Go into town]] Double-click this passage to edit it.You walk across the street not paying much mind to the town around you. As you walk into the Motel a Woman at the front desk greets you.
[[ask about getting a room]]
[[Say the mechanic sent you]]"A room will put you back $50 a night."
[[Pay the $50]]
[[Tell her the Mechanic sent you]]"Well our usual rate is $50 a night, but seeing as Carl sent you over I'll give you a room for @25"
[[Thank her and head to your room]]
[[Ask what there is to do around town]]You walk to your room. It's nothing fancy, there's a fullsize bed, a small tv on the dresser against to opposite wall, and a phone on the nightstand.
[[Call home]]
[[Watch tv]]
[[Go to bed]]"Well you can go to the lake and relax there for a while, you look like you've had a day where you need it. If you're looking for food, Fred's down on the lake front has amazing fresh fist from Mirror Lake itself"
[[Thank her and head to your room]]
[[Head to the beach]]
You pay the $50 with your credit card wondering if you could have gotten a discount from the mechanic.
[[Thank her and head to your room]]
[[Ask what there is to do around town]]"Oh well in that case I'm willing to give you a room for $25, most people who are sent by carl don't have too much of a choice"
[[Thank her and head to your room]]
[[Ask what there is to do around town]]You head out of the Motel and take in the town for the first time. It's a small and old town built right around a small lake. You can see a small fishing boat in the lake as you walk towards the beach. As you get closer to the lakeside you can almost hear the frogs croaking.
Your phone goes off. As you check it you notice that you still have no signal but a (link: "new message")[(display: "Life in Mirror Lake")]
As you walk up to the lake you notice the sounds of animals you had been hearing ealier are gone now.
Its dead silent.
[[Look at the lake]]
Double-click this passage to edit it.You flip through local channels until you overall give up on trying to find something to watch.
[[Call home]]
[[Go to bed]] You pick up the phone and try to call your house. You're sent to voicemail, you leave a message that you won't be home until late tomorrow.
[[Watch tv]]
[[Go to bed]] You decide to call it for the night and go to bed.
[[wake up]]You wake up the next day and head to the mechanic, he finishes your car ealy in the morning and you're able to drive and get home without any further problems
[[End?]]Ignorance is bliss, especially when it comes to Mirror Lake.
//Message from: Unknown//
//There is no life in Mirror Lake. Every ounch of living flish tried to escape, the fish and the toads, the bottom-dwellers and reptilians, everything that once tried to survive in Mirror Lake has failed. Now all that stays is the cold dead plants and the rotting bodies of the deceased. If you speak to the others around the lake they will tell you that the lake is filled with life. They say that the fish and the toads are all around, that the bottom-dwellers and reptilians are only hiding. But I know the truth. There is no life in Mirror Lake//
//Message from unknown//
//There are no fis in Mirror Lake. They all died and washed up on its shores. The people in town won't belive me but I saw them flood the beach. Their bodies were rounded up and eated by the creatures in the woods. The few bones that were left were buried in the sand, but no one will see them. The fisherman lost interest in the lake long ago; no-one comes to Mirror Lake anymore except for us Lonely few who live on it's edge. The others that live on its shore say that the fish are still alive. But I know the truth. There are no fishin Mirror lake.//
//Message from: Unkown//
//There are no waves on Mirror Lake. Its water stays still through vilent wind and pouring rain. A pebble can stir no ripples on its surface. A boulder would only sink calmly into its murky depths. The people believe that its surface moves, the others on its edge say it moves as much as ever. But I have watched the water, and I know the truth. There are no vabes on Mirror Lake.//
//Message from: Unknown//
//There are no reflections on Mirror Lake. There is only the opaque, pitch on its surface. Yor image will not show on Mirror Lake if you look from above. The many trees and few houses are not displayed on its still water. Ther people in the do not dare look at the murky water in Mirror Lake, and the other that live on its edge say that they see the reflections on its surface fine. But I have stared into Mirror Lake for hours, and I know the truth. There are no reflections on Mirror Lake.//
//Message from: Unknown//
//Mirror Lake is dead. Its water is deep and unmoving. Its life has all dried up. There is nothing left in Mirror Lake, but I still do not dare look out my window at it at night, for I might se something that stirs its water. I do not wish to see the thing that moves in Mirror Lake, because I know, there are no fish in Mirror Lake.//
You look out at the lake, it's a scenic view of a forest surrounding the lake with the small fishing boat out on it.
As you watch the tide your phone goes off again with a (link: "new message") [(display:"Waves on Mirror Lake")]
When you look back up from your phone you realize that there doesn't seem to be any tide. In fact the ground where you thought you saw the water coming up fron is completly dry.
[[Skip a pebble]]
[[Investigate the water]]You throw a pebble out and it skips across the water. But the water doesn't ripple as the pebble bounces.
[[Investigate the water]] As you move up to the water and start to stare in, your phone goes off again with another (link: "new message") [(display: "Reflections on Mirror Lake")]
when you look into the water you don't see your reflection. You scan around the lake and you don't see a relction on anything on the shore or the boat.
[[Head to Fred's]]
You head to the nearby building marked as Fred's Fish House.
As you walk in your phone once again pings with a (link: "new message")[(display: "Fish in Mirror Lake")]
You walk up to the hostess at the entrance and she informs you that they're out of fish from the last haul but they have plenty of other options to choose from.
[[Eat]]
[[Return to the motel]]Double-click this passage to edit it.You eat a small meal. When you leave the restaurant you look out at the lake and the fishing boat is no longer there.
It's getting late, and you're getting tired
[[Return to the motel]] You enter your room at the motel. It's nothing fancy, a bed, a small tv on top of the dresser against the opposite wall and a phone on the nightstand next to the bed.
As the sun sets your phone goes off again, with a (link: "new message") [(display: "Mirror Lake is Dead")]
You sit in your room unnerved at the events of the past few hours.
[[call your house]]
[[Look out the window]]
[[go to bed]]You call your house and are sent to voicemail before it even rings, you leave a message about the weird day that you've had.
[[Look out the window]]
[[go to bed]] You look out the window. Your room has a clear view of the lake.
Thats when you see it. The water is moving. Moving in ways that it would around something swiming. Somthing big.
Very big.
Whatever it is starts crawiling out of the water
[[keep watching]]
[[Hide]]
[[Run]]You manage sleep through the night. When morning finally rolls around you go and check on the mechanic, he finishes your car early in the morning and you head on your way home. Never to see Mirror lake again.
[[End]]You know that there is something wrong with Mirror Lake but you never learned what it was. At least you were able to survive the night.You watch as the.... Thing craws out of the water and starts moving towards you with unworldy speed.
Before you know it or can react it comes throught the window and has, what you can only assume is its mouth around your head.
[[Die]]You hide under your bed. after a few seconds you head the window shatter and see glass on the floor.
you see giant legs walking around the room but hear no footsteps as it heads towards the door, breaking it down and leaving.
[[Wait until morning.]]You run out of your motel room and over to the autoshop. The door is locked and you don't know where else to go.
All of a sudden a force pushes you down and pins you as you feel sharp edges enter the back of your neck.
[[Die]]There was something wrong with Mirror Lake. Something in it. Seeing the truth of the cursed town was the end of you though.You stay under the bed until you can see light come into the room. as you leave you notice that there doesn't seem to be any damage to the room like there was the night before, though you swear that it all happened.
You head to the autoshop and pick up your car as its ready. You don't hesitate to get out of Mirror Lake and never look back too it.
[[The End]]The truth is that there is something wrong with Mirror lake, Something in it. You may be the first one to learn that and be able to leave the town.