{"sf1_id":1150731,"sf2_id":"Welj47Gn","title":"A Stranger in Suburbia (An Interactive Story) - Prologue (13)","author":"Patcher","words":419,"posted_at":"2017-02-27T13:48:00.000Z","tags":["Corgi-weasel","Interactive story","Prologue","Strangeness"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1150731-a-stranger-in-suburbia-an-interactive-story-prologue-13","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Welj47Gn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/c8/e7/c8e7898a-56b4-41a4-adeb-d77e21819f64","description":"#13 of A Stranger in Suburbia\n\nA choice must be made.","content":"**[PREVIOUS PAGE](https://www.sofurry.com/view/1149591)\u0026nbsp;|\u0026nbsp;[START AT THE BEGINNING](https://www.sofurry.com/view/1145263)\u0026nbsp;| [NEXT PAGE](https://www.sofurry.com/view/1152175)**\n\n**Wonder why you have voices in your head telling you what to do.**\n\nYou stop in your tracks. Stunned by this thought, you stare blankly at a wall, trying to identify all the different voices. Is this normal? A wave of existential crisis washes over you. Is it possible that you are inhabited by multiple people? Is this some sort of disorder? Are you merely a puppet in the grand scheme of things!? ARE YOU EVEN REAL!?\n\n**Don't question your conscience.**\n\nYou decide to not question your conscience.\n\nLife is easier that way.\n\nFor now.\n\n**Go to AMA.**\n\nA ease, you follow the bull's instructions and walk down the main street. Across the first crossroad, you spot another set of four shops: **The Celephaïs Atlas** ; another **bookshop** , a **specialised kitchenware shop** , and a **barbershop**. You make a note of these and approach the second crossroad, and go left.\n\nThe closed gates of **Ars Magica Academy** are a fair distance away. Its courtyard is concealed by thick black stone walls, though the main building towers over the walls. As you get closer, you spot a door in the wall to the left of the gate, above which is a sign that reads _Entrance._\n\nThe gates seem superfluous.\n\n**Enter.**\n\nThe interior is simpler than you anticipated. There's a desk in the corner, manned by a bored-looking deer, whose quill scrapes against paper. A pair of portraits line the wall. One is captioned **Renée Fairthorne (1483-1755)** and depicts an unsmiling hamster in elaborate red robes; the other is**Emil Fimble (1756-1846)**, depicting a grinning wolf in simple blue robes, easy on the eyes and full of lustre. A royal blue carpet accompanies the hallway up ahead.\n\nThe deer looks up at you, and sighs.\n\n\"Have you got a wand?\"\n\n**Show him your wand.**\n\n\"Right, new student. Fill this form.\" He gives you a scroll, an inkwell and a quill. \"Seat's over there. Or you can fill it elsewhere. Deadline's in three days.\"\n\n**Survey form.**\n\nYou unfurl the scroll... and unfurl it... and unfurl it... Seriously, it's a long scroll! You look to the deer, who returns your look of exasperation, but he says nothing. It's going to take a while to fill it out. In fact, it might take most of the day to do so.\n\n_What now?_\n\n* * *\n\n**HOW TO PLAY**\n\nComment below with suggested actions for\u0026nbsp;our hitherto unknown male 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/1149591-a-stranger-in-suburbia-an-interactive-story-prologue-12.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1152175-a-stranger-in-suburbia-an-interactive-story-prologue-14.json"}}