The Gentle Breeze

{(after:18s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set:$first to false)(set: $health to 25)(track: "kalimba", "play")(track: "brook", "stop")(track: "kalimba", "loop", "true")(track: "kalimba", "volume", .3)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl"style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/windborn.jpg" alt="A Wind Is Born" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3> <div class="solution">(live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You are a gentle breeze, born from temperature and pressure. Your awareness grows as you drift in no particular hurry, and with no specific destination.](stop:)] (live: 9s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[An unseen force encourages you eastward, but a soft, red glow on the northern horizon kindles your curiosity and awakens a strong desire to explore. If you tried, you could probably break away from the pressure guiding you, but it would be much easier to give in and be carried.](stop:)] </div> (live:18s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Surrender')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Surrender')]] (link: 'Resist')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Fire On The Mountain')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:30s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/forestfire.jpg" alt="Forest Fire" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3> <div class="solution">(live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It's easier than you thought it would be to break away. Why did you think it would be so hard? You were always in control of your destination. You won't be compelled by unknown forces to go anywhere, or do anything other than what you choose.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You pass over the hills and trees beneath you, picking up speed as you soar with newfound confidence toward the glowing horizon, which gets much brighter as you near.](stop:)] (live: 19s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Something is wrong. The trees are screaming. The trees are on fire, and they are dying. The forest is burning and soon it will all be ash. The flames seem to rally as you approach, as though you were the calvary. They gnash their teeth and take to their feast with a ravenous zeal, bolstered by your presence. They are beckoning for you to join them.](stop:)] </div> (live:29s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Engage')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Engagement')]] (link: 'Retreat')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Retreat')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:26s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/engage.jpg" alt="Engage" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[There is wisdom within you that understands the nature of impermanence. Nothing lasts forever. Not even the trees, packed closely together and competing for sunlight. When fire comes, it feeds with ease, preying on their gluttony. But, in doing so it clears the old growth for new saplings and plants which, otherwise, may never have thrived. They now receive the light, uncontested by those who have lived so long.](stop:)] (live: 18s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[And so you give yourself to the flames, contributing to the natural cycle of death and life without guilt or remorse. All things pass. Even you will fade one day.](stop:)] (live: 26s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The heat of the fire gives you life in return, raising you high into the sky until you can see the entire forest beneath you - that which burns and that which continues to thrive. You feel satisfied.](stop:)]</div> (live:26s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[ (if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[ (goto: 'The Land') ]] </div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:23s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/firestorm.jpg" alt="Retreat" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You try to pull away, but this time, it’s too late. The pull of the flames is too strong. Again and again, you resist until it pulls you back and lifts you higher with each revolution until you and the flame are one, a whirling firestorm of destruction.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You should have known that you’d have to give in at some point. You’re a part of the natural order of things here, and if you don’t participate, you’ll never grow. The crackle of searing branches and the scream of the burning trunks is all you hear as you wind between them, caught in the fury of the flames that you’ve enraged, until at last it dissipates, setting you free.](stop:)] (live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Heartbroken and weary, you drift away from the devastation you’ve left in your wake.](stop:)] </div> (live:23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[ (if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[ (goto: 'The Land') ]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:25s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/surrender.jpg" alt="Surrender" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Why should you resist the forces that push and pull you? There is always something over the horizon that we're seeking. You may break away and reach that horizon, but there a new horizon awaits with more secret and mystery.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You could spend a lifetime searching for the end of the sky only to find that it is infinite.](stop:)] (live: 18s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Here, you are held. This is where you belong. Being carried, and feeling safe. Nothing is new here, nothing is dangerous. This is home.](stop:)] </div> (live:25s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Drift Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Land')]</div>]](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:21s)[(show:?scroller)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/flowers.jpg" alt="The Land" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Oh, but what a wondrous place this is, this Earth! The land beneath you roils with diversity of life. Frozen water melts and tumbles from the mountaintops, providing sustenance to everything it touches, etching a memory of itself into the land it moves through.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Fields of brightly colored flora are painted across its surface, bright murals attesting to its ancient majesty. Rolling hills surround placid lakes, which act as serene mirrors to the sky.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You can almost see yourself in those mirrors. You might be an integral part in this great wheel of beauty and life. The sun is getting close to the edge of the sky and you're not sure what will happen when it gets there. It might be better to avoid this kind of thinking and stay focused on your journey.](stop:)] </div> (live:21s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Reflection')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Reflection')]] (link: 'Reticence')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Reticence')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:21s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/reflection.jpg" alt="Reflection" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You think you should take every chance you get to see yourself from another perspective. You dive, soaring over the water, reflecting. The depth is evident. Of course you are a part of everything. You help move the clouds that make the water that reaches those fields, and helps the flowers grow. You carry pollen from one field to another, contributing to the diversity that surrounds you.](stop:)] (live: 16s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You are thankful for the reminder of your value.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The colors at the edge of the sky behind you are blending now. You don’t know what it means, but its beauty is undeniable. You appreciate the wonder of the sun, and the many ways it also supports and interacts with this planet. The sky is now the mural. The sky is a field of flowers, painted just for you.](stop:)] </div> (live:21s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Nightfall')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:22s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/avoidance.jpg" alt="Avoidance" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It’s too much to think about. It’s all too big to try to understand. The enormity of synchronicity in this place is immeasurable. Who are you in all of this? Important enough to make a difference, or matter compared to the beauty you’ve seen?](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You didn't make the rules that govern the wonders around you, and you’re not going to get in the way. You won't pretend to understand or put yourself on a pedestal you don’t deserve. It is what it is.](stop:)] (live: 22s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[There are colors in the sky behind you now, but they seem pale and worn. You feel tired.](stop:)] </div> (live:22s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Nightfall')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:20s)[(show:?scroller)]}(track: "kalimba", "fadeout", 3){(after:4s)[(track: "darktwelve", "fadein", 3)(track: "darktwelve", "loop", "true")(track: "darktwelve", "volume", .3)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/nightfall.jpg" alt="Nightfall" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The sky is darkening. Why is this happening? It’s getting difficult to see, and hard to navigate. What happens when there is no more light?](stop:)] (live: 10s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[A feeling of dread begins to well within you. Eternal emptiness and never ending dark! Will the light ever return once it’s gone? It’s diminishing quickly and the creeping dread is getting stronger as it dies.](stop:)] (live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[We have no way to know what awaits us. We don't really have control. Existential crisis ensues! Who are we in the darkness?](stop:)] </div> (live:20s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Shadow')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Shadow')]] (link: 'Shine')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Shine')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:26s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/shine.jpg" alt="Shine" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[When the light fails, without the sun to warm you or the sights of the earth below to keep you company, you are alone in the cold and empty night.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[But, perhaps it takes the absence of light to make it easier to see that in the darkness we are whatever we choose to be.](stop:)] (live: 19s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Outside the boundaries of comfort, we see another version of ourselves. In those moments, when we are afraid, we can still choose how we react or behave.](stop:)] (live: 26s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[And if you shine, in the darkest of times, you light the way for others. So you soar, the fear retreats, and you glide gracefully through the unknown.](stop:)] </div> (live:26s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Onward To Dawn')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Dawn')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:30s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/obscure.jpg" alt="Obscure" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Frozen with terror, you watch the day lose ground until it is gone and no light remains. A blanket of darkness covers the earth and you are wrapped inside it.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The fear drains your strength until you are numb to everything. The shadows are your ally. They hide the one who was weak and afraid, and no one can see you now. You could stay here forever, because now it is safe. If you can’t be seen, you can’t be judged for the ways in which you’re not enough.](stop:)] (live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[We’re all hiding something. Why not take the help the darkness offers? Accepting your fear can serve you, as once you accept and embrace your weaknesses they can feel less threatening. But, where are you in all of this? Where are you going?](stop:)] (live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Where is your light?](stop:)] </div> (live:30s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Into The Dark')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Darkness')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:33s)[(show:?scroller)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/dawn.jpg" alt="Dawn" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[That night, the moon won your heart. It came forth and illuminated the sky. It shared stories of when the earth was young, and of how much has changed since then. It comforted you as you drifted, and introduced you to the stars.](stop:)] (live: 14s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You couldn’t imagine anything more wondrous…](stop:)] (live:17s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[until the dawn came.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[As the darkness diminished you bid farewell to the moon, saddened that you couldn’t share what was to come. Then you were surrounded by crimson light, and the first rays of dawn, blinding in their beauty, began to warm the ground below. You were lifted toward the heavens, and from there, in the light of the rising sun, you studied the landscape beneath you.](stop:)] (live: 33s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[A vast canyon lay in the distance, surrounded by a great forest of trees, stretching upward in salutation to the morning light.](stop:)] </div> (live:33s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Wood')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Forest')]] (link: 'Stone')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Canyon')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:15s)[(show:?scroller)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/darkness.jpg" alt="Darkness" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You are in the dark. You could be anywhere. With no destination, does it even matter?](stop:)] (live: 9s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The night is long, and even the moon is no comfort as it passes through the lonely sky, unaware of you.](stop:)] (live: 15s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It is cold and you feel alone. But there is a strange comfort in accepting your situation. Perhaps with more of a struggle, you could still find your way back to joy. You could know…if you chose it. What do you choose?](stop:)] </div> (live:15s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Acceptance')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Acceptance')]] (link: 'Joy')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Joy')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:35s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/forest.jpg" alt="Forest" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The canyon looks dangerous so you choose to avoid it and head through the forest. Inside the canopy of the trees, it feels like you’ve entered another world. The sky is green now and it is darker. Enormous trunks stand like sentinels, guarding a private and secret world.](stop:)] (live: 15s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The pine needles follow you in your wake as you wind around the trees. It is difficult to move quickly here. You’d rather rest in the tranquil groves you are meandering through. The leaves on the ground rustle at your passing. You could lie on this forest floor and end your journey here. It would be so much easier than carrying on.](stop:)] (live: 25s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You hear the call of a sparrow and it reminds you of the sky. It reminds you of the open space that you belong in and you feel a sudden urge to find your way back to it. You are drifting so slowly here. You summon all of your strength for a final push upward, and then you are breaking free through the treetops! Into the sky!](stop:)] (live: 35s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The forest looks tranquil beneath you, but you are still being called to the east.](stop:)] </div> (live:35s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Playful Breeze')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:20s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/release.png" alt="Release" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[What is life without joy? You may not know many things yet, but joy feels right to you. It feels like something to strive for. It seems impossible to feel joy without allowing yourself to, and for that, you must feel deserving.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You won’t allow yourself to defeat yourself. The sun is coming. Its bright rays fill you with resilience against the darkness that dissuaded you from feeling comfort and hope. It is beautiful, and in time you will come to realize that so are you.](stop:)] (live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The night is over and the day begins. You may have to go through this cycle many, many times. Each will be easier than the last.](stop:)] </div> (live:20s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Laughter')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:37s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/canyon.jpg" alt="Canyon" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You swoop toward the canyon, picking up speed in anticipation. A howl echoes from the stone walls as you dive in. Is that you? Is that a sound you make? You race through the chasm. You’ve never moved this fast before!](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You’re boxed in. The old stone walls tighten around you and you can’t spread out like you’re used to. But, you’re moving so fast! There is no time to navigate, you’re being funneled. It’s both exhilarating and terrifying. The more you resist, the more difficult it becomes. You may crash into the rocks! You may fall so deep into the chasm that you can’t find your way back out. But you are here, and there is nothing you can do to change this.](stop:)] (live: 24s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[With no choice but to accept your situation, you give in to the journey and let out another primal howl as the walls race by to both sides, blurred and barely visible at the speed you’re moving.](stop:)] (live: 32s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[In time, the canyon widens and you regain control. You rise up, stretching outward in relief, but you already miss the feeling of moving that quickly. ](stop:)] (live: 37s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You continue eastward, into the trees surrounding the canyon.](stop:)] </div> (live:37s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Playful Breeze')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:38s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/penance.jpg" alt="Suffering" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You are falling toward the ground. How did you get here? There is no strength left within you to stay aloft. The darkness and the cold pull you down. You probably deserve this. Someone is in charge of these things, but it certainly isn’t you.](stop:)] (live: 15s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[A wind that can’t soar is no wind at all. Perhaps, if you just float for a time, in stillness, you could find your way back toward the light. You could integrate the lessons you’ve learned throughout the night and reflect on the ways in which you might grow from them.](stop:)] (live: 26s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Introspection could be your savior here. What choices did you make that you might be accountable for? Are there ways in which recognizing your role in all of this might help you make better decisions? You chose this. But, you are an evolving thing, formed from your experiences, and you could choose to be something new…](stop:)] (live: 38s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[something better…](stop:)] </div> (live:38s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Accountability')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Accountability')]] (link: 'Denial')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Defeat')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:22s)[(show:?scroller)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/playful.jpg" alt="Playful Breeze" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It begins as a whisper. That whisper is joined by another, until they are a quiet chorus. There are others. Others like you! They dance through the sky at different speeds, spiraling, flowing, twirling. They surround you, and whisper in soft tones. It’s not exactly a language, but you understand. They are curious.](stop:)] (live: 14s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Your journey lies east, but the desire to merge with these other winds is strong. They are like you! Perhaps older, perhaps wiser, but as you are. Free and wild, and finding their way.](stop:)] (live: 22s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Will you divert from your path? Will you play with them?](stop:)] </div> (live:22s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Integration')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Integration')]] (link: 'Solitude')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Solitude')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:30s)[(show:?scroller)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/laughter.jpg" alt="Laughter" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[What are those things below in the river? You see small moving objects, barely discernable at this height. You swoop lower to get a better vantage point. Small bodies splash in the water, their limbs extruding in wild directions as they frolic. Humans!](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[That noise they are making…it’s fascinating and peaceful. Laughter! It’s laughter. You know this now. Their bodies convulse due to the sheer joy they are filled with. You imagine what it must feel like to have so much joy welling inside of you that it would make your body shake and emit this wonderful sound. ](stop:)] (live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[How blessed they are, to have that experience. They must know how special it is. How grateful they must feel to have this gift.](stop:)] (live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[And you are grateful to experience it through them, but you are carried onward. Will you follow the river, or try to fly over the mountains?](stop:)] </div> (live:30s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Water')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The River')]] (link: 'Earth')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Mountain')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:24s)[(show:?scroller)]}(track: "darktwelve", "fadeout", 3){(after:4s)[(track: "desert", "play")(track: "desert", "loop", "true")(track: "desert", "volume", .3)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/desert.png" alt="Desert" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[If it weren’t for this oppressive heat, you could stay closer to the surface. It’s desolate, but beautiful in its desolation. Such vast emptiness, with naught but cracked earth and dunes of sand.](stop:)] (live: 10s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Until you look harder. If you could stay closer to the ground you could see more clearly, but it’s there.](stop:)] (live: 16s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Life persists. There are teeming organisms that adapt to their harsh environment and thrive despite it. Cacti filled with water, foxes burrowed into the sand, and mesquite grass with leaves that curl to protect themselves from the cruel sun.](stop:)] (live: 24s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[This unlikely magic is happening right under your nose, but the heat is lifting you upward and away! You could weave between the dunes to try and stay cool, or allow the heat to take you upward, perhaps higher than you’ve ever been before. Or, is that an Oasis?](stop:)] </div> (live:24s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Sand')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Sand')]] (link: 'Sky')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Sky')]] (link: 'Oasis')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Mirage')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:34s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/integrate.jpg" alt="Integrate" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The call is too powerful to ignore. You accept their invitation and dive into the fray. They are one. You are one, supporting and carrying each other. When one falls, you all fall. When one rises, you rise together. ](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Together you are stronger. You are a gale. You come together and you part, whirling and diving, a choreography that you somehow know without ever having danced this dance before. There is a natural order to the movement.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[After a time the flurry of winds part ways. Each continues along their respective path. Some remain heading in your general direction, while others split away entirely.](stop:)] (live: 27s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[This is the way of things.](stop:)] (live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Eventually you are alone again, but you can still hear them whispering in your heart.](stop:)] (live: 34s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[This is the way of things.](stop:)] </div> (live:34s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Desert')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:36s)[(show:?scroller)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/separate.jpg" alt="Separate" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[While a part of you would like to discover what it feels like to give up control and move as one with the other winds, you know you must stay focused on your path.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[They could only teach you what their experiences have shown to them. You prefer to learn from your own experiences and to draw your own conclusions. This way is better. You don’t have to argue with anyone or convince them that your perspective makes the most sense.](stop:)] (live: 22s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Their wants and needs won’t impact the decisions you need to make and they won’t distract you from what you need to accomplish.](stop:)] (live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It might have been nice to know what that would have felt like. But it’s more simple this way. The winds move quickly together and soon they are out of sight.](stop:)] (live: 36s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It will be easier to be alone.](stop:)] </div> (live:36s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Desert')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:39s)[(show:?scroller)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/river.jpg" alt="River" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The river seems the easiest path. The mountain seems so high and would require much more effort. And the water beneath you feels cool and refreshing. ](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You notice the similarities between yourself and the river. You both generally flow along the path of least resistance. Why fight what you can accept? This lesson keeps coming back.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[If there is something to be gained from stepping off the beaten path and forging your own way, you can’t imagine what it might be.](stop:)] (live: 27s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You’ll choose the easy way, every time.](stop:)] (live: 33s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[But the river thins and begins to dry. The green of the surrounding forest begins to fade until it is brown. The sun beats down on the hardened mud of the river bed, which cracks under the attention.](stop:)] (live: 39s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[If all you know is peace and ease, who are you when the river dries and you face adversity?](stop:)] </div> (live:39s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Desert')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:30s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/mountain.jpg" alt="Mountain" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[While it would be easier to follow the flowing river, you’ve got something more difficult in mind. You want to know what’s beyond that towering mountain. It’s going to take strength to get there and it won’t be easy. You’ll need to dig deep to find the will.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Up, and up, and up. You can’t stop. When you stop to think, the thoughts parade in to convince you that you’ll never succeed. Where do those thoughts come from? They are unbidden. You don’t need those thoughts, they don’t serve a purpose. Your purpose is to get over the top of that mountain. So, you don’t stop.](stop:)] (live: 22s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[And the journey makes you stronger, faster. The journey gives you confidence, because once you’ve cleared that peak you know you have the strength to do anything.](stop:)] (live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[And you will need that, because sometimes you discover that on the other side of the mountain there is only dry, barren desert.](stop:)] </div> (live:30s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Desert')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:34s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/dunes.jpg" alt="Dunes" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It isn’t easy, but you are able to stay low by weaving between the great dunes of sand. Dunes made of millions of sand particles. You move amongst these massive and wondrous testaments to the ancient nature of this world. Each of these grains was once part of a larger stone, formed millions of years in the past by temperature and pressure, not unlike yourself. ](stop:)] (live: 25s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[They’ve been broken down over millennia by heat, water and…wind. What a role you play in the shaping of this world! You are as much a part of this sacred cycle of creation and destruction as anything else! You belong in this rhythm. Your heartbeat can be heard within each rounded grain within these hills.](stop:)] (live: 34s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The pieces of the natural way fit together like an unimaginably massive puzzle, without struggle. Beyond the dunes you rise high into the air. You see so far that you become aware of many pieces below you that are fighting to fit in.](stop:)] </div> (live:34s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Human Impact')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Human Impact')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:28s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/lift.jpg" alt="Desert Sky" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The heat reflecting from the desert floor makes it easy to soar to heights you hadn’t yet imagined. The earth looks so small beneath you. The clouds follow in your wake.](stop:)] (live: 11s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It’s good to see things from above it all. It’s funny how everything that felt so large and overwhelming becomes so much less intimidating when you see how small it really is. You’ll need to remember to come up here for perspective when you’re feeling down.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[After a time, you leave the desert behind, thankful for the reminder that not everything is as daunting as it appears. ](stop:)] (live: 28s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[There are many lights below you on the horizon now. Here, on this side of the mountains, are many human dwellings. The humans are everywhere. You're able to learn so much about them by watching from this height.](stop:)] </div> (live:28s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Human Impact')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Human Impact')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:44s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/oasis.jpg" alt="Oasis" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Fighting the unbearable heat, you drift toward the glade in the distance. There will be an abundance of life there to observe. And, it will be shaded and cool. You will arrive soon. It shouldn’t take much longer, but it doesn’t feel like you are getting any closer.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It is getting harder to stay this near to the ground and you are losing strength, but you know you can reach this place if you just stay focused on this path. Changing paths is difficult. The oasis shimmers in the distance, beckoning, promising.](stop:)] (live: 22s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You won’t veer from this trajectory because someday you’ll arrive, but your strength is nearly depleted. Can you even go on? What will it take to change your mind? I could tell you that the oasis is only a mirage, but you knew that all along.](stop:)] (live: 31s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You fought so hard for something that was never real. Somehow you convinced yourself that it was. Was it because you wanted it so badly to be true, or because you didn’t know what else to do? You’ll need to be better, when this happens again. You’ll need to recognize and acknowledge the things that don’t serve you, so that you can change your direction sooner, before losing so much energy.](stop:)] (live: 44s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You allow the heat to lift you into the air and let go of the promise of the oasis. Once you are far beyond the desert, you see many lights below you. There are human dwellings and it is easy to observe them from this height.](stop:)] </div> (live:44s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Human Impact')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Human Impact')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:16s)[(show:?scroller)]}(group: "playing", "stop")(track:"breeze", "play")(set: $first to true)(track:"breeze", "volume", 2)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/defeat.png" alt="Engage" style="width: 45%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Your strength is depleted, and your will to carry on has elapsed..](stop:)] (live: 8s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You silently dissipate into nothing. Your experiences were for you alone, and they will leave with you..](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Whatever lies to the east is for another wind to discover..](stop:)] (live: 16s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[This journey has come to an end..](stop:)] </div> </div> (live:16s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Main Menu')[(goto: 'Main Menu') ](stop:)]]</div>{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:20s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/resolve.jpg" alt="Resolve" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You did it. The sun has arrived. The night is over. Once you made the choice, your determination was enough to see you through. The light is beautiful, but now you also know the dark. You are less afraid.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Often, the light is on the far side of the shadow. It’s not easy, but the journey usually makes us stronger. You know that now, and it gives you courage. Nothing will hold you down like that again.](stop:)] (live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You move quickly, a wind with purpose, toward the face of the new dawn.](stop:)] </div> (live:20s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Laughter')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:46s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/impact.jpg" alt="Human Impact" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The astounding spectrum of emotions you experience while observing these creatures nearly overwhelms you. It’s impossible to discern what drives them, due to their vast array of apparent motivations and desires.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The impact is unimaginable. You soar through the thick smog of their cities and feel unclean. There are swaths of waste, piles of trash so high they look like mountains. The waste circulates into the forest, the wetlands, and even the water that they drink.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[There is violence everywhere. They hurt one another. They hurt themselves, even their own children. They bring pain to nearly everything they touch - the animals, the land, the water. They move in large herds away from the places that hurt the most, searching for something better. And often, they find only more pain.](stop:)] (live: 32s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[They make weapons of destruction and rain savagery down upon the defenseless. There’s no way for you to understand this. It’s too far departed from the natural order of things. And it’s happening as far as you can see. They’re crawling over the earth like carnivorous ants, eating their own home until there is nothing that remains. The trees, the oceans, the minerals – they want it all and they won’t stop until every last bit of it has been consumed and they have defeated themselves.](stop:)] (live: 46s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Disheartened, you observe this great tragedy, and wonder at the point of it all.](stop:)] </div> (live:46s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Hope')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Hope')]] (link: 'Truth')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Truth')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:30s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/spirit.jpg" alt="Human Spirit" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The more you learn, the more confusing it becomes. While all the terrible aspects you've witnessed are real, there are entirely opposite aspects of humanity that are equally evident, everywhere! There are people giving for no reason other than to help. There is kindness, caring, and so much love.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[There are families taking care of one another, people supporting just causes they believe in, and some who spend their entire lives trying to make the earth a better place to live.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[There is art, music, and dance! There are festivals for celebrating this incomparable human condition, in all of its dichotomous wonder. People gather in great numbers to partake in these things, searching for a way to be close to the best facets of the rough diamond that is the human spirit.](stop:)] (live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[For all those that would do harm, there are an equal number, or more, of those who would heal. They are the strangest thing you’ve known thus far in your journey. You don’t think you’ll ever understand. But there is beauty to be found in this. Beauty - like fire spewing from the earth’s core, shaping the planet. Fluid, ever-changing, and powerful to behold.](stop:)] </div> (live:30s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Ocean')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:24s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/hope.jpg" alt="Hope" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[There must be. Without hope, nothing else has meaning. You close your mind to the injustice, the violence, and the adversity for now. It’s impossible to move through each day focused on the things that you cannot change. It’s important to keep your mind on the things that can.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Every individual can choose how they behave, and what they contribute to this planet in their short time here. And you, you choose to believe that things can change. Their very nature has evolved over countless centuries, and perhaps they will continue to do so. It may be that they evolve beyond their lust for power and their greed.](stop:)] (live: 24s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[This could be but a small blip in the history of the earth. In a thousand years, everything could be better. There is always hope.](stop:)] </div> (live:24s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Human Spirit')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Human Spirit')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:35s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/truth.jpg" alt="Truth" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[While hope is good, it’s equally as relevant to face the facts. Hope can be an illusion, guiding you away from what’s real. If we don’t acknowledge the truth of a situation, we lose any hope of changing or resolving it.](stop:)] (live: 11s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Things are bad. They may get worse before they get better. They may never get better. This reality is where decisions should be drawn from. It’s the only way to make sure they are the most reasonable ones.](stop:)] (live: 19s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Even when it hurts, it’s necessary to find the truth of a situation. Even when it’s not the truth you’d prefer. Truth has no side, it stands alone and uncontested. We craft versions of it for ourselves, but they aren’t the sole truth. The truth is like a flower, and every petal is a small piece of the whole. The truth doesn’t care who’s side you’re on, it’s only concerned with what's factual and real. It's easy to forget that the truth is neutral in that way.](stop:)] (live: 29s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[One truth is we could be better. We should be better. ](stop:)] (live: 35s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[We might be better, someday.](stop:)] </div> (live:35s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Human Spirit')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Human Spirit')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:43s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health-10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/rage.jpg" alt="Rage" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[How dare they mock you? You are capable of anything and can conquer any fear. You hurl yourself into the fray, spiraling into oblivion, and losing yourself inside the madness.](stop:)] (live: 11s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The clouds above are black and rain their fury down upon the water below, which roils in savage symmetry. The chorus of voices is deafening, and you join your voice with theirs.](stop:)] (live: 19s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You scream in wild abandon, and lash your will about with no concern as to the repercussions of your behavior. This is who you are! Your anger is real! Your power is real! You have never felt so right, and so alive!](stop:)] (live: 27s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Once you’ve poured your will into the storm, the anger drains and you remember that you have somewhere else that you’re supposed to be. You had a destination, and this wasn’t it. This storm is moving in the wrong direction and you want to escape, but it’s wake is too powerful.](stop:)] (live: 36s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[It carries you north and west as you desperately try to break free from the wrathful hurricane. In time, it begins to dissipate, but you’ve lost so much ground, and you are very tired now.](stop:)] (live: 43s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You drift away from the others, who seem to have forgotten you, if they ever cared at all, and find yourself slowly trudging eastward once more.](stop:)] </div> (live:43s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'A Lull')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'A Lull')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:47s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $first to true)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/windborn.jpg" alt="The Destination" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You reach deeper to find strength than you’ve ever had to before. Your whisper of encouragement to yourself gains volume until it becomes a shout of determination. You focus on all of your finest qualities, until you truly believe that you have what it takes to break away from this lull.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[And you do. The shout of determination becomes a scream of victory. The pressure guiding you finds you once more, and you are moving toward the shore again!](stop:)] (live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[This shore looks familiar.](stop:)] (live: 24s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[This shore is where you began.](stop:)] (live: 28s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[But you are not just a gentle breeze anymore. You are a tired wind, more tired still for knowing that this cycle is eternal. You remember now. This doesn't end. We learn, we grow, we understand and we forget the things we’ve known all along.](stop:)] (live: 37s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You’re forgetting right now, just as it becomes so clear. What was it you’d forgotten? Were you here before? What is that sound, calling you eastward?](stop:)] (live: 42s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[...](stop:)] (live: 44s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[.....](stop:)] (live: 47s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You are a gentle breeze, born from temperature and pressure. Your awareness grows as you drift in no particular hurry, and with no specific destination.](stop:)] </div> (live:47s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'The Beginning')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(track: "greyfade", "fadeout", 5)(goto: 'Main Menu')]</div>]](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:26s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+5)(track: "desert", "fadeout", 3){(after:4s)[(track: "sbmoon", "play")(track: "sbmoon", "loop", "true")(track: "sbmoon", "volume", .5)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/ocean.jpg" alt="Ocean Life" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[And then you leave the land behind. The earth gives way to water and you are the breath between the ocean and the sky. But you are not alone.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The birds are drawn to you. They soar in flocks, but as one, drawing on the strength you provide them, allowing them to rest their weary wings and glide.](stop:)] (live: 20s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The dolphins play in circles below you. They dive, leap, and laugh in pods, grateful for the waves you help create, ripples that spread across the entire sea, thanks to you.](stop:)] (live: 26s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You are a part of this. You belong.](stop:)] </div> (live:26s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Eastward')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Calm Before')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:39s)[(show:?scroller)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/calm.jpg" alt="The Calm Before" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The days come and they pass. You’ve learned so much. It is evening now, and you are drifting high above the ocean. There are no birds in sight here, and nothing breaches the surface of the sea below. ](stop:)] (live: 11s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You are finally alone.](stop:)] (live: 15s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You have time to reflect, time to turn inward and reflect on the many lessons that you’ve gained on this journey. It's valuable to reserve that time for yourself, and to continue to strive to grow from the things you’ve experienced.](stop:)] (live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The sun has nearly completed to its downward descent behind you, and the water’s crimson red hue reminds you of the first time you experienced this, so long ago. How far you’ve come! How much you’ve learned!](stop:)] (live: 31s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You have grown. You are a powerful wind now, a mighty gust. Because of the knowledge you’ve gained, and the trials you've overcome, nothing can stand in your way. The call to the east still beckons you, and you can’t help but wonder what lies at the end of your path. ](stop:)] (live: 39s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[What does your future hold?](stop:)] </div> (live:39s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Strength')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Strength')]] (link: 'Wisdom')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Wisdom')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:22s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/strength.jpg" alt="Strength" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Strength is what has gotten you to where you are right now. You wouldn’t have reached this point without it. There are moments where weakness reared its ugly head, but you overcame it. Without strength, you would have drifted aimlessly, but instead you have thrived.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You’ll have the power to topple the very stone from the mountaintops. You’ll envelop everything with might, and shape it all in a way that makes sense to you. With enough power, you can change the world.](stop:)] (live: 22s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You feel intoxicated by the promise of the glory to come. Your confidence feeds your core, and you stretch your mighty presence outward, expanding.](stop:)] </div> (live:22s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Dark Skies')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Dark Skies')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:30s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+5)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/wisdom.jpg" alt="Wisdom" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Strength has been meaningful in your journey, a blade to be wielded against adversity. But if strength isn’t tempered by wisdom, that blade can cut too deeply. With wisdom, you have the ability to discern the moments in which it’s appropriate to apply the each of the many other tools at your disposal.](stop:)] (live: 14s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Without wisdom, you might not have made the decisions that have guided you to this point. Wisdom is a gentle shepherd, leading you toward the most reasonable outcome. Its hand is light, but even. Its strike is usually true.](stop:)] (live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Wisdom is reliable. It has your best interests in mind. You can trust in it. It is shy, and it hides sometimes, forcing you to seek it out, but the effort to do so is almost always rewarding.](stop:)] (live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You feel at peace, knowing that with wisdom as your guide, you’ll be led to wherever you are needed most.](stop:)] </div> (live:30s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Dark Skies')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Dark Skies')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:35s)[(show:?scroller)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/darkskies.jpg" alt="Dark Skies" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Something is happening ahead of you.](stop:)] (live: 8s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The sky is much darker than it should be, even as the evening falls. You sense the presence of others - a gathering of winds. But they are frenzied, and screaming instead of whispering. They have gone mad, caught in a torrent of powerful energy, feeding on itself.](stop:)] (live: 17s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The surface currents below writhe with the wind above, a maelstrom of chaotic force. They are calling you to join them. The call is strong, but it is frightening to behold and you are afraid to become a part of something so out of control.](stop:)] (live: 26s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The other winds jeer at you for your cowardice. Their disapproval is palpable. You feel yourself being drawn into the spiral toward the center. Soon it will be difficult to escape. Once you are inside this thing of madness, you can't be sure where it will lead, or what harm you might inflict as a part of it.](stop:)] (live: 35s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[But it is powerful, raw, and natural. You feel a strong desire to evolve beyond the safety and comfort that has become so familiar. If you don’t act now, it will be too late. A decision must be made.](stop:)] </div> (live:35s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Humility')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Humility')]] (link: 'Power')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'Power')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:33s)[(show:?scroller)]}(set: $health to $health+10)<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/humility.jpg" alt="Humility" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Perhaps they will judge you. That is an outcome you are willing to accept if it means staying true to your course. You may never know what it feels like to have the absolute freedom to behave however you’d like, but your priority is staying on the path you’ve chosen.](stop:)] (live: 13s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Their arms reach toward you to take hold of you, pulling you into the maelstrom, but you feel something else, something far above. You strive for higher ground, gaining momentum with each revolution until you summon all of the might you possess to break free, hurling yourself upward into a passing jetstream.](stop:)] (live: 23s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The angry roar of the mob of winds beneath you diminishes as the stream of many winds carries you away to the east. These winds are powerful, but calm and determined in their purpose. These winds are strong of mind and will. You are grateful to be among them, and they in turn welcome you and your contribution. What a healthy relationship!](stop:)] (live: 33s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The calling you’ve been hearing is so close now. You bid farewell to the jetstream and aim toward the earth once more.](stop:)] </div> (live:33s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'A Lull')[(if: $health is <=0)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'A Lull')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

{(after:37s)[(show:?scroller)]}(track: "sbmoon", "fadeout", 3){(after:4s)[(track: "greyfade", "fadein", 3)(track: "greyfade", "loop", "true")(track: "greyfade", "volume", .3)]}<div name= "imager" div class="imagercl" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="./images/lull.jpg" alt="The Lull" style="width: 35%; max-width: 100vw; height: auto;"> </div> <div name="split" divclass="splitcl"> <div class="meterholder"><p class="metertext">Wind Power</p>(b4r:'solid')+(b4r-color: black)+(b4r-size:1)(meter:bind $health, 100, "X",(gradient: 80, 0, red, 1,green))</div> </div> <h3>(print: (passage:)'s name)</h3><div class="solution"> (live: 3s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[You are so close. You feel it in every fiber of your being. The end of your journey is near! The shore ahead is filled with promise of wonder and knowledge and you are approaching fast, with the last bit of energy you have mustered.](stop:)] (live: 12s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[But the pressure pushing you falls away without warning. Your fall begins to slow exponentially, until you aren’t falling anymore. You aren’t moving at all. You’re caught in a lull. Nothing moves here. Everything stagnates, without resolution.](stop:)] (live: 21s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Here, there is no dream. There is no future. It is a grey place of lethargy and apathy. We lose hope here, and we give in to defeat, because without movement or momentum we marinate in our own inability to succeed. ](stop:)] (live: 30s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[Nothing external will push or pull you from this place. This is where the wind dies, unless it has the will to lift itself.](stop:)] (live: 37s)[(t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[The choices you have made and the decisions that have guided your journey thus far have impacted your remaining energy. Try with all the strength and insight you have gained, and see if you have enough remaining power to break free!](stop:)] </div> (live:37s)[ (t8n:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:3s)[<div class="centered-container">(link: 'Break Free')[(if: $health is <=40)[ (goto: 'Defeat') ](else:)[(goto: 'The Destination')]]</div>](stop:)]{|scroller)[<div class="scrollbutton" id="scroll-indicator">(text-style:"buoy")[<img src="./images/scroll.png" alt="Scroll Down">]</div>]}

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(if:$first is true)[(track:"brook","fadein", 2, 1)(set: $unmuted to true)(track:"brook","loop", "true")] <div class="blackboxcl"> <div class="titles1"> The Gentle Breeze </div><div class="titles2"> A relaxing interactive fiction experience</div><div class="titles3">by Starkweather Games</div> <div name="button-holder"><div class="button1">[[Begin Game->A Wind Is Born]]</div><div class="button2">[[Credits->credits]]</div><div class="mutebutton">(link-repeat: "Toggle Sound")[(if:$muted is true)[(masteraudio: 'mute', false)(set:$muted to false)](else:)[(masteraudio: 'mute', true)(set:$muted to true)]]</div> </div> </div>

<div class="creditbox"> <div class="crtitle"> Credits </div> <div class="crlisttop"> Game Design</div><div class="crlistitem"> Shawn Starkweather </div> <div class="crlisttop">Story/Writing</div><div class="crlistitem"> Shawn Starkweather </div> <div class="crlisttop">Music</div><div class="crlistitem"> (In Order of Appearance) Kalimba Guinee Fare by Kalimba Sound System (Eric Freeman, Kimani Lumsdan) Dark Twelve by Honey Circuit (Eric Freeman, Chris Baum, Shawn Starkweather) Desert Song by Kalimba Sound System (Eric Freeman, Kimani Lumsdan) Super Blue Moon by Bridge (Carl Bridge, Eric Freeman, Shawn Starkweather, Chris Baum) Greyfade by Om Frequency (Shawn Starkweather, Chris Baum) </div> <div class="crlisttop">Art </div><div class="crlistitem"> Art series generated by OpenAI DALL-E, imagined by Shawn Starkweather </div> </div> <div class="goback"> [[Go Back->Main Menu]] </div> (set: $first to false)

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{(after:2s)[(hide:?loading1)](after:2s)[(show:?loading2)](after:3s)[(hide:?loading2)](after:3s)[(show:?loading3)](after:4s)[(hide:?loading3)](after:4s)[(show:?loading1)](after:5s)[(hide:?loading1)](after:5s)[(show:?loading2)](after:6s)[(hide:?loading2)](after:6s)[(show:?loading3)](after:7s)[(hide:?loading3)](live:8s)[(show:?play)]} <div class="introtitle">The Gentle Breeze</div> <div class="loading">|loading1>[Loading.]|loading2)[Loading..]|loading3)[Loading...]|play)[(text-style:"sway")[(link:"Click to Play")[(go-to:"Main Menu")]]]</div> (set: $first to true)