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(This is a very scripting-heavy story that is impractical to copy to this site. I'll give the introduction here, but you'll have to follow the link at the end to a site that can handle the scripting to see the rest of the story.) A few years ago, you met Heather, the most amazing woman in the world. She's the most beautiful one, but that's not the half of it. She can also make purple and black spirals appear in her eyes and hypnotize you. She can make you obey whatever she asks. And it feels amazing. Heather told you that she was kept captive for some years as a hypnotized slave of some snake guy named Duke. He had a harem of beautiful women that he would turn to bronze, but then return a few of them to normal at a time. She was terrified at first, but soon came to enjoy being one of Duke's hypnotized slaves. Duke taught her hypnosis because he wanted Heather to hypnotize him. They hypnotized each other for years until Duke sent her away, though he told Heather that if he she has a

(This is a very scripting-heavy story that is impractical to copy to this site. I'll give the introduction here, but you'll have to follow the link at the end to a site that can handle the scripting to see the rest of the story.) Throughout recorded history, once per year, a seemingly random human would turn into a vampire. This transformation brought great power, including markedly increased physical strength and the ability to hypnotize mere humans. It even brought the capability to turn others into additional vampires slightly less powerful than yourself. But this power came at an enormous price. It meant needing to drink a pint of blood from a live human at least once per week just to survive. But the social cost was perhaps worse than the physical. Humans were terrified of vampires and would hunt them down and kill them as quickly as possible. And so every year a new vampire was created, and shortly thereafter killed. A little under two years ago, a vampire named Anastasia

(This is a very scripting-heavy story that is impractical to copy to this site. I'll give the introduction here, but you'll have to follow the link at the end to a site that can handle the scripting to see the rest of the story.) You've always been interested in mind control. The history books say that it was common and socially accepted for thousands of years. It most cases, you had to get consent in order to legally mind control someone. But a lot of people enjoyed being mind controlled, so there were a lot of people who consented to be hypnotized slaves to someone else. The Great Mind Control War ruined everything. One mind controller started trying to mind control others without consent, trying to conquer as much of the world as he can. He didn't get very far before he was caught and killed, but other mind controllers started doing likewise, believing that they had to in order to defend themselves. Soon, a worldwide war was on. As with so many other wars, no one won the Great

(This is a very scripting-heavy story that is impractical to copy to this site. I'll give the introduction here, but you'll have to follow the link at the end to a site that can handle the scripting to see the rest of the story.) You like to enjoy some entertainment on the weekends, or sometimes in the evenings after work. Some people are content to stay home and listen to radio shows, but you prefer something more visual. Some like to go to the movies, but you prefer live performances that weren't created by stopping the camera and the moving things around before restarting it. Some people predict that you'll eventually be able to watch movies at home on a small screen. You don't see the attraction of staring at a tiny screen. At least movie theaters have huge screens, but that's far too expensive for everyone to buy his own. There are a lot of traveling performers who come and go, and you like to catch a lot of them when they're in your town to perform. You can read reviews in the

(This is a very scripting-heavy story that is impractical to copy to this site. I'll give the introduction here, but you'll have to follow the link at the end to a site that can handle the scripting to see the rest of the story.) Many thousands of years ago, back in the pagan era, your rashalite ancestors made up fictional gods and goddesses to serve. The pagan era ended when Laquanta, the goddess of alcohol, arrived on your world and offered your ancestors the opportunity to worship a real goddess. The fake gods had offered the advantage that they happened to demand whatever was convenient to whoever spoke on their behalf. Well, that was convenient to whoever the god's prophet was, even if not for anyone else. Laquanta's ability to speak on her own behalf and have all of society agree on what she had said was revolutionary. Unlike those fake gods from the pagan era, Laquanta could provide real blessings. She introduced a variety of types of alcohol to your world and explained how to

(This is a very scripting-heavy story that is impractical to copy to this site. I'll give the introduction here, but you'll have to follow the link at the end to a site that can handle the scripting to see the rest of the story.) As a young man approaching the age of marriage, you've had your eye on the two prettiest girls in your village. You've long hoped to marry one of them, and they're both just about the right age. There aren't any other unmarried men in your village within two years of either of them. Many young adults marry someone from another village, that's not the route you want. In addition to humans, your world also has some kitsunes, which are basically fox women who love to play pranks. While reputedly beautiful, they're known more for being a major nuisance. They rarely hurt people very badly with their pranks, but they can really be annoying. There aren't that many kitsunes, and it isn't clear where they come from. You've never seen one, and for that matter

(This is a very scripting-heavy story that is impractical to copy to this site. I'll give the introduction here, but you'll have to follow the link at the end to a site that can handle the scripting to see the rest of the story.) Many of the bloodthirsty humans who live on the surface believe that voting in a democracy is a good way to choose your rulers. They actually believe that it is something other than a way to choose demagogues who are willing to tell the people whatever they want to hear. Merfolk like you know better, and your system of government has long produced strong rulers who maintained order. For thousands of years, Atlantis has been a cognatic, hereditary, absolute monarchy. The king or queen has absolute power over all of the merfolk who live there, with only one real check on his power: assassination. Of course, assassinations are common. While humans have toyed with absolute monarchies over the millennia, they've always run into what they call the "bad emperor

(This is a very scripting-heavy story that is impractical to copy to this site. I'll give the introduction here, but you'll have to follow the link at the end to a site that can handle the scripting to see the rest of the story.) According to legend, humans are not native to your world. Rather, your ancestors lived on a different planet. You have no idea where that other planet is, but it's apparently in a different galaxy entirely. Centuries ago, the naga goddess Sassaa helped humans from that other planet colonize the one where you live now. Ten thousand people volunteered to come live here. Sassaa was somehow able to transport them here instantly and allowed them to bring just about whatever they wanted. And so your ancestors brought all sorts of advanced technology. At Sassaa's urging, they brought many thousands of books containing much of the human knowledge of that day. They also brought tens of thousands of optical disks, each of which can supposedly hold thousands of times

(This is a very scripting-heavy story that is impractical to copy to this site. I'll give the introduction here, but you'll have to follow the link at the end to a site that can handle the scripting to see the rest of the story. There are 34 endings in total.) You are in Uganda on a business trip. The business part of the trip is over, but you have a few more days before returning home. As such, you have time for a brief vacation before returning home. Before coming, you looked into what there was to do in Uganda. Maybe you could sit in a hotel and mess with your phone all day, but you could do that at home, too. You wanted to know what you can do in Uganda that you can't do at home. You found rumors that lamias live in one of the Ugandan jungles, or at least a lamia. Lamias are mythical creatures that are part human and part snake. They're also reputedly beautiful to the point of being hypnotic. And, of course, they're only mythical, though if lamias are going to live in any