(0) You are Sandy McCraken. You are know for your courage and wit. One day, you are approached by a man. "I challenge you to a contest of skill." "I accept," you say. "Well, then here's how it works. You will enter a maze 1 room wide. You must exit the other side or lose. If you lose, I get everything you own, and I have the choice of pulling you out of the maze as you are." "And if I win?" "You have the choice to go on, and increase the stakes. If you beat all my mazes, you get everything I own." "O.k., is there anything else I should know?" "Yes, the mazes grow squared. So the next maze will be four rooms. And to enter, exit, or change rooms, you must step through a special mirror. You can tell they are special because they hover over the ground, the reflection is you but not how you look, and the scene behind your reflection will be different." "Can I take a moment to change into something more comfortable." "Certainly." You dress in a loose fitting, light cotton jogging outfit with matching headband. "O.k., I'm ready." "Alright, I'll meet you at the exit. Just step through this mirror. Just remember, anything can happen. Good Luck." You look in the mirror. Your reflection shows that you are in your jogging outfit in a large hall. You take a deep breath and step through. Look at (1) (1) You find yourself in the same large hall. You look behind you and there is just a blank wall. You run forward down the hall. The end sparkles at you for a moment. Soon you reach the end of the hall. There is a mirror. You find that if you step through you will look the same and will be outside of this maze. You step through. The man walks up to you. "Congratulations, you have completed this with all 1,987,582 other people who tried it. That was very simple. Why don't you try the next one with the four rooms? It's hard to get lost with just four rooms. What do you say?" If you go for it Go to (2) If you quit now Go to (3) (2) "Great! Some rooms are Real Big and some are real small. Here's where you'll start." He shows you a map. /-------------\ | | | |---|---| | | | | | | | |---|---| | | | | | | | |---|---| | |  | \-------------/ "I'll meet you at the end." He leaves. You look in the mirror. It's you in your jogging suit looking back. Behind your reflection is the hall again. You step through. Again you start running down the hall. All of a sudden you pass an opening to a hall traveling right. You back up. Should you go straight ahead or go right? If you go straight Go to (4) If you go right Go to (5) (3) "I'm not sure I'm up to this," you apologize. "That's alright. I'm sure you'll be back soon." "I wonder what he means by that," you think as you walk away. Over the next two days, your hair grows very long. You go to a hair salon and get it cut. Two days later, it's twice as long. You get it cut again. In two days, it's four times as long as it was two days after that maze. You go to the salon, but they tell you that they can't cut your hair because it is too strong. You make your way to the man. "What are you going to do about this?" you ask him. "I can only suggest that you go through the mirror into the next maze. That way you will look the way you do in the special mirror." You look at yourself in the special mirror. "I'll do it." you tell him. Go to (2) (4) You run straight ahead. You run and run. Soon you come to a dead end. On the wall in front of you it says, "Mistakes like this could cause you to lose in other mazes." The wall to your right says, "Other times, it could lead you into a trap." The wall to your right says, "Some rooms have body timers in them. They will slowly change your body in to something else. Luckily, this isn't one of them." You run back to the hall you didn't try. Go to (5) (5) You run to the right. You run down the hall. Soon you come to one of the special rooms. You look in the mirror. You see a cat looking back. Knowing that you are in a maze and you won't get out until you go through all the mirrors, you step through. You look at yourself, and you see that you are indeed a cat, and from the looks of things you are in a house. You run around hoping that this room isn't doing anything more to you. You see a mirror. You jump at it. You hit it and fall backwards. You look at the mirror more carefully and see that it isn't a special one. A vacuum cleaner turns on. You hear a woman's voice. You'd better find the way out of here fast. You run around some more with the vacuum cleaner getting closer and a broom barely missing you. You spot the mirror. This time you're sure. You jump at it. Before you are many vines. You grab one to stop you. It loosens, and you're swinging on a vine. You look down. It's a good thing you grabbed that vine. You're 40 feet in the air! The vine brings you to a sturdy tree branch. You stop on the branch and look at yourself. You find that you look like Tarzan. Big, strong, male in a very showy outfit. "Why couldn't I be Jane?" you ask yourself. Realizing you should try to find an exit, you swing on some more vines. You find the mirror. Just before you get there, however; you let out a classic Tarzan yell. "Hey," you reason, "you only get a chance like this once in a lifetime." You enter the mirror. Go to (6) (6) You land on some black stuff in a grey room. You step forward. Before you is a chasm. One small square near the edge is all that stands over the chasm. It looks like there is no way across. You step off of the black the best you can. It sticks to your feet. You look at yourself. You are yourself in a swimsuit. You look very nice in it too. Uncertain how to cross you step onto the one square over the gap. The step moves. Slowly it creeps toward the other side. The black stuff on your feet starts growing. It makes a nice fit on your feet. The step reaches the other side, and starts back. You jump and easily make it near the mirror. The black stuff has now made form fitting shoes and socks. You step through the mirror. You are still in the swimsuit and black feet when he steps up. "Congratulations, again. You succeeded with 1,901,993 others before you. The next maze is 9 rooms big. Not too large, nor too small. Will you try it or quit now? It's your choice." If you Quit now, Go to (7) If you Continue on, Go to (8) (7) "I'm not sure I'm up to this," you apologize. "That's alright. I'm sure you'll be back soon." "I wonder what he means by that," you think as you walk away. When you get home, you scrape off the black socks, but decide to wait until morning to take off the black shoes. You sleep well, really well. You go to get dressed, and find that you are wearing black spandex from the waist down. "This isn't so bad," you think. You take off the bathing suit bottom. You put a colorful scarf in your hair to match the colorful bathing suit top. A friend comments, "Nice outfit, Sandy." You continue your day, and go to sleep. You wake up the next morning, and start to get dressed. You find that the black spandex is covering everything from the neck down. You do your best to make it more colorful, but you aren't able to do much with black. You go about what you normally do. The next morning, you find that the black spandex has turned into black soft leather. It covers everything from the neck down like a glove. As best you can see, it's all one piece of soft leather. "Surely, it must have a zipper in back. How else could I get it off?" You decide to treat yourself to a day of shopping. You find a few outfit you'd like to try on. You go into a dressing room covered with mirrors. You look for any way to get out of this leather. No zipper, no sew marks, not even a wrinkle. The only way in or out at this point is through the neck. You get very claustrophobic and faint. When you come to, you start trying to rip the leather at the neck. Unfortunately, the leather covering your fingers is slick, and you aren't able to grab anything. You calm down when you realize that tonight the leather will chance into something else. You get home and go to sleep. You sleep fitfully. You wake up and roll out of bed. You land on all fours. "Woah, I almost hit my head on the floor! Wait a minute, this isn't good." You walk over to the mirror. You can't believe your eyes. The mirror says that you are a cow with your head. You look more closely you have hooves, tail, and udder. A little more and you'll be a cow! You rush, as best you can, back to the man with the mazes. "What are you going to do about this?" you ask him. "I can only suggest that you go through the mirror into the next maze. That way you will look the way you do in the special mirror." You look at yourself in the special mirror. "I'll do it." you tell him. Go to (8) (8) "Excellent! In this maze you will be introduced to choice rooms and timed rooms. There is only one way to leave and one way to be trapped. If you do get trapped, a sensor will tell me when you've completely changed, and I'll come and get you. If you get trapped, I win. Here's the map." /-----------------\ | /---|---|---\ | | | | | | | | +---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | +---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | \---|---|---/ | |  | \-----------------/ You memorize the map and look into the mirror. You are in the swimsuit again in a cave. You step through the mirror. You find that it's just as you saw. You are holding a torch. You follow the tunnel as quietly as you can. The cave slowly turns to the left. Eventually the turning ends. And you find yourself in a dead end. This can't be the trap room already. You look at yourself, and find that you haven't changed. You look around and find an ax. You swing it at the dead end, and rocks and dirt come crashing down revealing a mirror. The torch goes out. You look in the mirror, but are unable to see what you will become. You must get out of this maze! Go to (9) (9) You dive through, and instantly you are under water. You try to look at yourself but can't. You wiggle your legs and are propelled forward. You must be a fish. You search all directions for an exit. You find one straight ahead from where you entered. You swim at it full speed. You go through the mirror. You find that you are crouched with your hands and feet turning. You are a car you guess. You put yourself in gear. You start really moving. You remember the map. You look for exits ahead or to the left. You take corners a full speed. You're enjoying this. You spot the mirror to the left. You aim at it. You hit the brakes as you hit the mirror. Your feet slip from beneath you. You look and you are at the top of two water slides. You find that you are yourself again in the swimsuit. You look at the slides. It looks like the slide on the right goes straight and the left goes left. The way the two twist up you're not sure. If you go on the left slide, Go to (10) If you go on the right slide, Go to (11) (10) You pick the left slide. You are all over the tube. The slide does a barrel roll and a loop. Then it turns left and dives. You find yourself going faster and faster. The tube bends up, but before you can slow down, a mirror jumps at you. You are thrown into the air. A quick analysis of the situation is that you are yourself flying at a muddy field below. You hit the mud, and your legs and hips take the blow and sink into the mud. You walk through the mud. Soon the land gets hard and you are able to walk out of the mud. "Something's wrong. I'm taller than I was." You look at yourself to make sure nothing is abnormal. There is. From the waist down is the legs and torso of a horse. You're a Centaur. You romp around the field enjoying this new sensation. You find the mirror and reluctantly step through. You are yourself again. You are in a room with lights. In the center of the room is a table with a picture and a glass on it. You pour yourself a drink. You find a mirror nearby. You drink the drink. You drink some more. This drink is very good. After emptying the picture, you try to go to the mirror. You walk very slow. Soon you can't move anything below you waist. Quickly after that, you are unable to move anything. The mirror swings inward. In walks the man. "I'm sorry Sandy, but this is the trap room. The drink is a neural blocker making you unable to move. One sip of it would last you for a year, but you drank the whole thing. That should last you at least 100 years or more. If you hadn't had any of the drink, you still wouldn't be able to move until I moved you outside. Considering you can't do anything about it for the next 100 years or more, I'll take you as well as everything you own." You are used as a mannequin for the next 100 years, and then you die. THE END (11) You take the right slide. You slide all over the place. You see a mirror before you. You fly through the air and land on white. You see a mirror with a 60 over it. You look at yourself and you are a badly drawn likeness of yourself. You look up and the number says, 50. You walk toward the mirror. When the number changes to 30, your legs disappear and are replaced by a snake's tail. You fall forward. Using every part of your body you crawl forward. At 15, your arms and torso disappear and are replaced with more of a snake's body. You slither as fast as you can. At 8, your teeth grow long and sharp. You're almost there. A foot more. At 4, your chin disappears and your tongue grows long. At 2, you are a snake. You touch the mirror at 1. You slither/climb through the mirror. You find yourself lying on a conveyor belt. You stand up. You look around for the mirror. According to the map it should be straight ahead. You walk forward to speed your escape. Hot liquid pours on you. You push most of it off. A mechanical arm grabs you. The hot crayon that you didn't get off is crushed in around you. Still unable to move the arm puts a label on you. The arm puts you down. There you are on the conveyor belt with a label that's locking your arms to your sides and crayon making the part of your legs below the label unable to move. With great effort you make small hops forward. Then you notice two things. One there is a drop off ahead, and second, that just beyond is the mirror. You'll never make the mirror like this! You struggle to make the label rip. Go to (12) (12) "Why are they so easy to rip any other time?" Finally you get it to rip. You move your hand around to the opening. It starts opening. You tear free of the label and crayon just in time. You only have a step to jump. You leap across the chasm, extending with all your might, and one hand barely grabs the bottom of the mirror. You look down. You would have fallen into a sorting machine, and eventually into a box. You still might. You swing up your other hand. With all the strength you have left, you pull yourself into the mirror. You rest for a moment. You remember the map. That mirror on the small island across the pond should be the exit out of this maze. You look at yourself. You are in your bathing suit again. You look around your surroundings there is a tree near you with a vine that looks like it would get you through the mirror, but then the pond doesn't look too deep. If you use the vine, Go to (13) If you wade the pond, Go to (14) (13) You climb the tree. When you get to the top, you rest your pained hands and feet. You stand up, and grab the vine. You lean forward, and bring your feet in front of you. You gain speed as you swing downward. You skim millimeters over the water, but that doesn't save you from sliding over the ground on the island with the mirror. In the process, you get dirt up in your bathing suit. You enter the mirror and exit the maze. "Good Show! You succeeded and so did 958,546 others before you. The next maze is 16 rooms big. Getting large, but a smart person like you will have no trouble. Will you try it or quit now? It's your choice." If you Quit now, Go to (15) If you Continue on, Go to (16) (14) You take a step into the pond. The pond is warm, but not hot. You step further. Finding that it only comes up to your ankles, you cross at a slightly faster rate. Soon it's at your waist. You are about half way now. Not worried about depth now, you dive under the water, and swim to the island. The water at the edge of the island is deep, so you use your hands to pull yourself up. When you reach the level to pull your legs up, you find that both of your legs are stuck together. You look at yourself and find that you're a mermaid. "How did this happen?" you ask yourself. You realize that he must not have told you about trap rooms yet. You decide that you aren't going to let this stop you. You swim down to the bottom of the pond. Then with all the speed you can muster, you swim to the surface. You grab the land and push yourself out of the water. That's all you need to send yourself sailing through the mirror. You are still a mermaid. The man walks up to you and says, "Good Show! You succeeded and so did 958,546 others before you. The next maze is 16 rooms big. Getting large, but a smart person like you will have no trouble. Will you try it or quit now? It's your choice." If you Quit now, Go to (18) If you Continue on, Go to (16) (15) "I'm not sure I'm up to this," you apologize. "That's alright. I'm sure you'll be back soon." "I wonder what he means by that," you think as you walk away. When you get home, you decide to take a nice long bath. The warm water feels relaxing. You close your eyes. You don't know how long you slept, but you're glad you didn't drown yourself. You grab for the side, but your hand slips. "I really must have stayed in the water too long," you think to yourself. You try to stand up, but you fall backwards. You open your eyes. You are green, and your fingers and toes are webbed. You find that you are turning into a 6 foot tall frog. You decide that you'd better get back before you change completely into a frog. You hop back to him just in time. "What are you going to do about this?" you ask him. "I can only suggest that you go through the mirror into the next maze. That way you will look the way you do in the special mirror." There are two mirrors. You look at yourself in each of the special mirrors. Both of them is a frog. "I'll take that one," you tell him. If you take the one on the left, Go to (17) If you take the one on the right, Go to (16) (16) "Super!" He says as he changes the mirror, "There is only one way to leave and three ways to be trapped. If you do get trapped, a sensor will tell me when you've completely changed, and I'll come and get you. If you get trapped, I win. Here's the map." /---------------------\ |  | | /---|---|---|---\ | | | | | | | | | +---+---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | | +---+---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | | +---+---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | | \---|---|---|---/ | |  | \---------------------/ You memorize the map and look into the mirror. You are in the swimsuit again in a grey room. You step through the mirror. You find yourself before a chasm again. Before you are three stepping blocks over the chasm. There are exits out of the room to the left, right, and in front of you. You guess that the steps correspond to the exits. If you exit to the left, Go to (19) If you exit straight ahead, Go to (20) If you exit to the right, Go to (21) (17) You step through the mirror and instantly you know that the transformations complete. You are a frog. The man takes you out and takes all you own. He enters you into all sorts of frog contests. You win them all, of course, because you are the only frog with very intelligent human brain. One day after you have won many awards, he kills you and eats your legs. THE END (18) "I'm not sure I'm up to this," you apologize. "That's alright. Just step through here and you'll be done." He points to a mirror. He walks away to give you a little dignity. You drag your lower half to the mirror and pull yourself through. You find a beautiful place that's mostly water. "Wait a minute!" you think. "This was supposed to change me back, not take me to another maze!" You search the place fully and find no mirrors or exits, but you just can't shake this feeling of awe. You make yourself a home and live there for a long time. Slowly other mermaids show up. "He tricked you into here too, huh?" you ask each. The reply is always the same, "Yes." Soon you have quite a village. Little do any of you know that you are a paperweight on his desk where he watches you when he gets bored. THE END (19) You exit to the left. You find that you are yourself, but you are on a bowling lane. You look around and see a gigantic black bowling ball rolling slowly toward you. You realize that the bowling ball could squish you if it caught up. You turn to the right and jog toward the pins. They are really big too. The bowling ball starts speeding up. You do the same. You see a mirror in the middle of the air ahead of you. Run for the mirror! (22) (20) You exit in the forward direction. After you step through the mirror, you find that you are in an empty soda bottle on a conveyor belt. You seem safe enough for the moment. If you stay in the bottle, Go to (23) If you want to try to escape, Go to (24) (21) You exit to the right. You find that your skin has turned silver. You would think that this would slow you down, but in fact it makes you more agile. You find that you enjoy this. Duty calls, and you realize that you must try to exit the maze. You find a mirror straight in front of you. You enter it and find that you can't move. You also find that you are on a conveyor belt. Something knocks you flat on your back. Your eyes involuntarily close. "What's happening to me?" you think to yourself. When your eyes get opened, Go to (25) (22) You jog through the mirror. You are still on the same bowling lane with the same bowling ball trying to crush you. You find that you are a little taller now. You are just about as tall as the ball. It gains speed, and so do you. There is another mirror in front of you again. You run through it. You are taller than the ball now, but not by much. You use every ounce of your strength, tallness, and energy to dive through the mirror keeping the bowling ball from hurting you. Suddenly you are standing up facing the approaching bowling ball and you can not move. The bowling ball hits you and you find yourself among the pins. The pin machine picks you up like all the other pins and sets you behind most of the other pins. It is then that you realize that you've been tricked and trapped as a bowling pin. After you get knocked down again, the man comes in and picks you up. You become part of his bowling pins for a long, long time. THE END (23) You decide to stay in the bottle. The bottle quickly moves down the conveyor belt. After a few seconds, your bottle passes a special mirror. You look forward and find that your bottle is about to drop off. You rock your bottle, but a mechanical arm stops the rocking. The bottle fills with liquid and top is put on the bottle. You swim up to try to escape. The bottle nears the edge. You tread liquid to breathe the last of the air in the bottle. The bottle drops off the belt onto a slide. Suddenly you aren't sliding anymore. Of course, you aren't in a bottle anymore. Darkness surrounds you. Hot air scorches your throat. Something on your face is getting very hot. You try to wipe off your face, but everything below your neck is having a hard time moving. You look down, and your chin hits something. You start biting at it, and soon you can move your arms. Slowly you free the rest of your body. You start crawling. You reach an edge of your enclosure. "It worked before, I'll try it again," you rationalize. You bite. A small beam of light pierces your prison. You claw at it until you can climb out. You escape and lay down. You cool quickly. You sit up and look. You were in a burrito. All that heat tired you out. You lie back down. Rested you try to sit up again. You can't. You pass under a reflective piece of metal. You are part of a pencil. You start sliding. You find you can move again, but you can't stop yourself from sliding faster and faster. You stop suddenly in a dark place. You feel all sorts of cold things touching your body. Suddenly it stops. You don't know what's going on, but you know something is. Light enters where you are at. The guy picks you up effortlessly. You wonder what is going on, and why you can't move. He steps in front of a mirror and puts you on like you were a spandex body suit. As he puts his legs into yours, his legs turn into your shapely legs. He ends up with your hips and shape as you cover more of his body. It gets to the point where he could be your identical twin except for his head. He even has your petite frame instead of his large bulky frame. He flips the hood over and boom he looks exactly like you. He walks like you, gestures like you, and sounds like you. If someone didn't know any better, they would thing he was you. He goes about your work increasing your reputation. And every night he takes you off and hangs you on a hanger. THE END If you want to know more of what happens, Go to (26) (24) You rock the bottle and soon it falls over. A moment later you see a special mirror. You roll your bottle so that it goes through the mirror. Suddenly you aren't in the factory or in the bottle anymore. You are, however, in a clear sphere on some tracks. Trying to get out of the maze, you roll your enclosure down the tracks. You see a valley ahead. Your sphere speeds up. You are running to keep from falling down. "Oh no, a loop de loop." You run faster hoping to make it. At the start of the loop, your feet stick. You reach down to pull your feet away, but they stick as well. The sphere moves your hands around so that you are standing fully extended. Your prison keeps looping and twirling and all sorts of stunts, but you can't see them because you are flipping head over heel so fast. The sphere starts slowing down. It's then that you notice that it is shrinking. All of a sudden you are in different surroundings. You have only room enough to sit, and you are no longer flipping.