Choose Your Own Adventure C12

You are too nervous to roam around the camp. There are too many goblins in it. You decide to try to loosen the knots with your hand. It takes some time but you manage to loosen all of the rope and free Rosalind’s limbs. When she is free, you know you have to get her out of this camp and fast. Rosalind is exhausted and barely conscious. You throw her arm over your shoulder and help lead her from the camp.

You want to take Rosalind back to her mother, Ophilia. You know that you found her mother to the east and so you head down a forest trail that heads in an easterly direction. It is slow going. Rosalind is broken and exhausted. She barely responds when you talk to her, which may be for the best. Talking might draw the attention of orcs or goblins who might be nearby. But with Rosalind’s slow pace, you worry that you need to put as much distance between yourselves and the goblins as possible. The sun is about to rise, and the goblins will discover Rosalind is missing, if they have not already.

You keep moving down the trail, but you eventually reach a bend in the trail where it begins to head in a northernly direction. You debate whether to stay on the trail, or leave the trail and keep travelling east by going off-trail through the forest.

But then Rosalind speaks up, in a weak voice. “Please, can we stop and rest? I am exhausted. I just need a little rest,” she whimpers.

You are worried that stopping might allow the goblins to catch up to you. Of course, they have no idea which direction you are heading. But can they track you? On the other hand, does it make sense to keep going if Rosalind is so slow? Maybe stopping and resting will be better so she can regain some strength.

What do you do?

A) Stop and rest.

B) Head north along the trail.

C) Leave the trail and keep heading east through the forest.