Turns out, there ARE tigers. Lots of them. You are painfully eaten alive.
Cthulhu thinks education is very important, and convinces you to stay in school in spite of your relationship.\n<<set $cthulhu to 1>>\n[[TIME JUMP|Drugs]]
Your story begins at graduation. Throughout high school you have honed your skills in sportsball, and recruiters have noticed, and have been offered full scholarships to several universities. What do you do?\n\n[[A good school gave you a decent Sportsball scholarship. Head there.|Rules?]]
<<if $rulesRead is 1>>\nYou kick the triangle into the basket right before the timer hits zero. You win the game, and everybody loves you. The next few years pass well, and when you graduate, you were accepted to join a national Sportsball team. Your life is great, and after 10 years of playing, you move on to coach the best team in the world. All your dreams have come true.\n<<else>>\nSomehow, even though you were on the team for a year, got a scholarship for the sport, and have been playing the game for the past 2 hours, you never learned the rules for Sportsball. You kicked the triangle into what you think is your team's hoop but ends up being the other team's. You lose the game.\n[[What happens now?|No Rules]]\n<<endif>>\nEnd.
You easily convince your team of the wrongdoing that the coach did, and you all kill him. As you stand over the body while hearing the cheers of your teammates, you feel a power with you. A decision comes to mind.\n\n[[Continue the normal Sportsball ways|The Game]]\n[[Make your own path|Cult]]
You're at the party for awhile when you someone passes you. You do a quick turn and see a lovely specimen. Do you want to be their friend mates?\n\n[[Duh|friendmates]]\n[[You decide to go home|Study]]
What you saw was a...\n\n[[Boy|Fairytale]]\n[[Girl|Fairytale]]\n[[Horse|Fairytale]]\n[[Cthulhu|Cthulhu]]
EDIT\n\nGozilla rises from the sea and accepts your challenge. It’s on.\n\n
You decide that it might be a good idea to refresh your mind with the rules of Sportsball. You sit down and spend the next 5 hours reading. Unfortunately, you missed your bus, but you can always make the next one.\n<<set $rulesRead to 1>>\n[[Alright, now you're ready for college|Go to a good college]]
<<if $cthulhu is 1>>\nCthulhu is unhappy that you lost, and you cannot calm them down. Cthulhu goes on a rampage.\n[[Continue|Armaggedon]]\n<<else>>\nYou lost the big game, and with the weight of the failure on your shoulders, you drop out of school and lose your scholarship. Years pass, and you amount to nothing. You spend the rest of your life as a hobo with nothing but your second-language astronomy textbook.\n<<endif>>\nEnd.
You shut the book and throw it into the fire. It is too dangerous, you think. You clasp your hands behind your back and head out into the courtyard. The yearly ritual Sportsball game is about to begin, and you are the one to oversee it. The world is yours, afterall.
25%[CAA1] - “You accidentally bought a flight to Europa, not Europe. You certainly didn’t pack for Europa, and you don’t last long in the -276F temperature.” ->[END,DEAD].\n50% [CAA2] -“ Unfortunately, that carabiner was not rated for your weight. You have died. ”-> [END, DEAD]\n25% [CAA3]-> [RETRANSITION]
The coach is suspended and replaced with a much more honest one. The players return to normal.\n\n[[Things go back to normal|The Game]]
Ah, you are now at the school of your choice. The team is awesome, and the classes are simple. This year will be a breeze, and the first few weeks go by quickly.\n\nIt is now mid-September, and you sit in your dorm room.\n\n[[Your phone rings|Stuff]]
Studying seems like the best thing to do for the evening. Who needs to party anyway? Study for Astronomy as a Second Language.\n\n[[TIME JUMP|Drugs]]
You wake up earlier than usual and decide to exercise in the gym early. However, in the locker room, you find drugs and a conventiently placed plan with familiar headwriting. After you read the papers, you find out that the coach is doping the team with steroids. \n\n[[Report|Report]]\n[[Don't do anything|Complacent]]\n[[Get the team together and kill the coach|Overthrow]]
You decide to ignore the coach's actions. However, over time you begin to feel weird, and your teammates complain about similar feelings. After one tough practice, a great pain explodes throughout your pain, and you regret not reporting the coach when you had the chance. \n\nYou and your teammates begin to tranform, turning from freshman college students into 50-foot-tall monsters. The only thought in your head is "destroy".\n\n[[Continue|Armaggedon]]
It turns out Sportsubaru is rapidly gaining popularity in Japan, and they offer you a teaching position. As part of the package, you get a weekly stipend with housing. You settle into your living space, and have a few days before you start teaching.\n\n[[Eat some exotic food|food]]\n[[Form the Sportsbaru team|sportsbaru]]\n[[Challenge Godzilla to a Sportsubaru game for the ages|Godzilla]]
The sky is filled with smoke from the flames across the land, and there is screams in the distance. No place of earth is untouched. In your time in college, you managed to cause the distruction of the world and the death of billions. You don't get to live through all that, though, since you died not long after armaggedon. Have a nice afterlife.
You hit the town for food. The first thing to catch your eye is a flashy sushi restaurant, and you order the chef’s special. The chef special had all the usual suspects, but a mysterious piece catches your eye. Comparing it to the menu, you learn it is Fugu.\n\n[[Continue...|fooddeath]]
You two hit it off and decide to meet up later. You've fallen head over heels, and after 2 days of dating ask them to marry you. You drop out of school and tie the knot, and then ride off into the sunset. You live happily ever after.
You decide to explore this power further. It turns out that you have magical powers, ones born not from the light but from the dark. You and your team use these to gather followers and turn the Sportsball sport into a twisted Sportsball religion. Hundreds of millions join you.\n\nYears later, as you skim through an ancient book, you find a summoning spell. Your finger taps your chin as you decide what to do.\n\n[[Ignore the spell and keep the cult the way it is|Cult Ways]]\n[[Summon the final demon|Armaggedon]]
You're about to study for classes when you suddenly get a call. Your buddy and teammate Ramon asks if you want to go to a party with him and a couple of friends.\n\n[[You decide to go to the party|Party]]\n[[Studying is much more important|Study]]
die
As you stand up in front of the group of students, fear overtakes you, and you decide that Japan isn't for you. You move back to the States. Fortunately, one college is still offering the scholarship.\n\n[[Get on the plane|Rules?]]
EDIT\n\n[[chicken out|move back]]\n[[team|japan team]]
You die
You realize your horrible, horrible mistake and try to transfer to… Well, ANYWHERE but here. Fortunately, you are offered asylum elsewhere.\n\n[[Second chance|Rules?]]
After a what feels like an eternity, you have finally settled in to your dorm. The first week passes, and you decide what to do.\n\n[[PAAAAAAAARTY|Party too much]]\n[[Regret decision|Regret]]\n[[Study|StudyASU]]
The semester goes by quickly, and you study while continuing to practice Sportsball. A date that you have marked on the calendar months ago has finally arrived. \n\nThe big game is here. You have been waiting for this forever. You walk onto the field and take in the sight of thousands, all cheering for you and your team. As both teams stand leg-in-leg on the field, you take a deep breath, and jump into action as the referree whistles.\n\nThe game passes quickly, and the teams are tied with only seconds left. Someone calls your name, and you look up to see the triangle flying towards. You put your leg backwards, preparing for the kick. \n\n[[Go for the goal|Score]]
[[Go backpacking in Europe.|Backpack in Europe]]\n[[Go teach in Sportsball in Japan|Teach in Japan]]\n[[Go to Kenya, they have Lions and Tigers, forget Norway! |Go to Africa]]
die
As you wait for the bus to take you to your new college, you see the handbook for Sportsball sitting on a bench. Read the rules?\n<<set rulesRead to 0>>\n[[Eh, why not?|RULES]]\n[[Nah|Go to a good college]]