{"sf1_id":1147445,"sf2_id":"7ejjkk7e","title":"A Stranger in Suburbia (An Interactive Story) - Prologue (8)","author":"Patcher","words":292,"posted_at":"2017-02-21T13:21:00.000Z","tags":["Corgi-weasel","Interactive story","Otter","Prologue","Strangeness"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1147445-a-stranger-in-suburbia-an-interactive-story-prologue-8","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/7ejjkk7e","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/3c/fd/3cfd4c16-2c5a-463d-a7a8-3532ab8258f1","description":"#8 of A Stranger in Suburbia\n\nA new acquaintance.","content":"**[PREVIOUS PAGE](https://www.sofurry.com/view/1146901)\u0026nbsp;|\u0026nbsp;[START AT THE BEGINNING](https://www.sofurry.com/view/1145263)\u0026nbsp;| [NEXT PAGE](https://www.sofurry.com/view/1147929)**\n\n**Assess the otter.**\n\nThe otter looks exhausted. At first, you think he's wearing some sort of robe or similar apparel, but closer inspection reveals it simply is a vastly oversized tee.\n\n**Introduce yourself?**\n\nIs honesty the best policy? You consider your current predicament and your intrusion on the otter's privacy, and decide that honesty is indeed the best policy.\n\n**Introduce yourself.**\n\nYou explain that you would introduce yourself, but you don't remember your own name, and that you live in **202**.\n\n\"That's... odd,\" the otter replies dubiously. \"I don't really know what to say. I'm **_Rick_**. Nice to meet you. I think.\"\n\n_You have become acquainted with **Rick**._\n\n**Ask about Benevolence.**\n\n\"_ **Benevolence?** _ He's a philanthropist and occasional guest speaker at the **AMA**.\"\n\n**Ask about AMA.**\n\n\"You... you really don't know anything?\" Rick seems to pity you, but the tension has lowered. \" **AMA** is the **_Ars Magica Academy_**. Sister school to **VUST** - **_Valewood University of Science and Technology._**\"\n\n**Ask for help in finding out who you are.**\n\n\"I don't know. I'm sorry.\" He looks sorry too. \"You could check your mailbox downstairs? It's far-fetched, I know...\"\n\n**Ask if he knows how to get a hold of Benevolence.**\n\n\"He spoke at **AMA** yesterday, but I don't know where he lives. He's a bit...mysterious. Rumour has it he's a\u0026nbsp;close friend of\u0026nbsp;_ **Headmistress Mordio** _'s, but meeting her is just as improbable. Or so I hear.\" He seems uncertain.\n\n**Ask if he's okay.**\n\n\"I... Yeah, I'm fine.\" You think he's deflecting, and decide it's probably best to not press the issue.\n\n* * *\n\n**HOW TO PLAY**\n\nComment below with suggested actions for\u0026nbsp;our hitherto unknown Corgi-weasel\u0026nbsp;protagonist. I will then advance the story with said suggestions.\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"A Stranger in Suburbia","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1146901-a-stranger-in-suburbia-an-interactive-story-prologue-7.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1147929-a-stranger-in-suburbia-an-interactive-story-prologue-9.json"}}