You are standing by a tree
There are 3 paths.
One appears to go to a jungle,
one appears to go to a cave,
one appears to go to a beach,
you could try and climb the tree,
there is a nearby shop you could go in,
or you could do something else.
So what's its going to be?
Written by catprog on 01 April 2003
You sit under the tree
You sit under the tree.
Suddenly...
Written by catprog on 21 May 2003
Plant change
As you sit against the tree you start to feel funny. You look down to notice that your clothes have turned to bark.
You run away but when you hit a sunny patch you stop as you are now rooted to the ground. Your legs then start to combine with wood.
The change continues until you are a 6ft tall tree.
Written by on 20 May 2007
Yell for Help
You watch in stunned silence as the bark grows up your legs and pushes out, forming a tree trunk where your legs once were. Below the surface of the earth you can feel your toes and the heel of your foot digging deeper and deeper into the soil. You start hyperventilating as the bark crawls up your sternum. You finally find it in you to call out for help, but all you do is run out of breath. You try and suck air back into your lungs, but the bark is up to your neck, which means your lungs are most likely gone, replaced by tree. You're still trying when the bark reaches your lips, and your mouth and throat fill in with wood. The last thing you see as the bark covers your eyes is a vast canopy of leaves covering you. You feel your branches continue to grow, and your roots delving into the ground. Then there is nothing. You're hearing is gone, as is your sight. Oddly you can breath, smell, and taste through your leaves. You can feel the bark, the roots, and every single leaf. It's fascinating when you think about it.
You start to calm down, and enjoy the peaceful breeze blowing though you. You could stay like this...you shake yourself out the thought mentally.
"Help!" you cry out with your mind. At first no one answers, but then you feel a tiny voice in your mind.
"You'll be a tree for a hundred years, give or take," the voice whispers. "You can't talk to the other trees until your roots touch theirs. Concentrate and you'll be able to make them grow."
You try, and manage it. You branch out your roots, seeking another to talk to, so at least you won't loose your mind. Then the voice speaks again.
"That's right, you're doing it. Right now you're the only tree not connected, so once you touch another, you'll be connected to the whole forest." Then she adds with a giggle "of course then you'll be stuck as a tree forever, but that's not so bad is it?"
You stop immediately, but is it too late?
Written by An Anonymous Wierdo on 19 March 2008
You're a Tree, and an Idiot.
You stop growing pushing out your roots immediately, but you feel the tip of your root touch another. You try and retract, but find it impossible. The other root suddenly reaches out and wraps around yours. A tingle flows through your branches and you feel permanent somehow.
"Is that a newcomer?" you hear another voice say.
"I think it is, welcome to the forest, stranger. I'd introduce myself, but I can't remember my name." another voice says.
"None of us can," a third voice says, "don't worry you'll forget it too, and you'll forget your past, whether you were male of female, you'll forget just about everything. Just don't forget you were human. We've had a few us who did that and they don't talk anymore. It's a constant danger."
"That's why I grabbed you." says the first voice, sheepishly "We run out of things to talk about, so a new voice gives us something new to concentrate on."
"I'm a tree? Forever?" you ask.
"I'm afraid so. We should have let you go, I suppose, but at this point I'd rather curse someone new then risk fading away." the third voice says.
"That's terrible!" you say angrily.
"Don't be selfish, it's the lives of a ten or twenty of us trees versus you're one humanity." The first voice admonishes.
This is all a little much to take.
Written by An Anonymous Wierdo on 19 March 2008
The end (for now)