You're standing in a nondescript room.

There is a door opening to a hallway that vanishes in darkness to your left. Before you is a man staring at you with a bemused expression on his face.

What do you do?

You ask the man for directions.

"You want to know which way to go?" replies the man. "You tell me! You appear out of nowhere before my eyes and ask me?"

He gives you a rueful look. "You're the first person I've met here...the first human anyway." He raises his eyebrows emphatically. "Well, I don't know if it's what your looking for, but go down the hall, take a left, and knock on the door. She'll tell you what to do from there."

You're still in the room. What do you do?

You turn to your left and start down the hallway. The hallway is lit with fluorescent lights. The walls of the hallway are red, decorated in an ornate pattern of gold paint made of geometric shapes and letters you don't recognize.

You reach a point where you can't see the room you came from or the end of the hallway. What do you do?

You touch the wall.

Static fills your vision then is replaced by an image of a young woman sitting at a desk in a bedroom with her back to you. She's studying a three dimensional grid hovering above her desk made of a glowing material with many whorls, puckers, and folds distorting the grid. As you observe the young woman, the grid duplicates itself and both remain suspended above her desk.

The young woman turns her head to face you and regards you coldly. Without turning from you, she quickly pokes both grids with her index finger. Your vision fades to static once again, then fades to black.

...

You're standing in a nondescript room.

There is a door opening to a hallway that vanishes in darkness to your left. Before you is a man looking at you with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"Back so soon?" he says.

What do you do?

You turn to your left and start down the hallway. The hallway is lit with fluorescent lights. The walls of the hallway are red, decorated in an ornate pattern of gold paint made of geometric shapes and letters you don't recognize.

You reach a point where you can't see the room you came from or the end of the hallway. You find, lying still on the floor, a corpse. It looks exactly like you.

What do you do?

You continue down the hallway and reach it's end where it splits off to the left and right. You take a left and come quickly to a door. You knock and a woman answers from seemingly a few feet away, "What do you want?"

What do you ask her?

(* reply with the question you want to ask and a number between 1 and 100. I've written down the secret number and a code word ("donkey") so I can prove I didn't make it up after the fact. closest guess is the question that gets asked. you have until 1:00 UTC tomorrow to write in. *)

Since I received zero replies, I'll assume there is no more interest, so I'll conclude the game. thanks if you followed up to this point.

I started this on a whim, and didn't know where it was going initially. I have more of a plan now, but I think I'll try for next time.

if you did "play", or even if you were just watching, I'd appreciate feedback. thanks!

@2ck there used to be a text exploration game on fedi in the form of a Bot...

I agree with @trinsec with that it was too fast and I couldn't keep up because of irl stuff.