[Tex] Choose Your Own Adventure II: Redmoon Canyon

[perfectlyhuman]

You are a sheriff in Starfall Hills, a small town just a ways off from Redmoon Canyon.

It's a lot like a Wild West town, but in another planet. There are humans and aliens living together, there's a lot of wooden buildings with big round windows. The saloon serves moon brew and Jupiter cola. Everyone wears big hats and books with spurs. An alien with a bunch of tentacles plays the piano in the corner.

Last night, a girl from a nearby farm came to your office to say all of her cattle as gone missing. She told you she thought there were less of them earlier in the week, but that day she came back from from the town market to find the whole field empty. All she saw was an open gate and hoof marks that suddenly ended just a few dozen feet from the canyon.

It's the next morning, and you have to figure out what happened, and hopefully get her cattle back.

What do you do first?

Comments

[hatejakku]

Can I see the other side of the canyon? Anything over there?

[perfectlyhuman]

More dirt and rocks and grass. There's some hills you can see from there, and a road, but not much else.

[hatejakku]

okay

i guess i make my way down that path you mentioned

slowly

carefully

[perfectlyhuman]

You go down the path, and you only slip and fall a couple of time. You get dust on your trousers.

Down in the canyon, you see a small river going down the center, a bunch of rocks, bushes, and some lost hats and bottles. There's a hat on a big brush near some rocks. The hat looks new.

[hatejakku]

I investigate the bush. Anything odd about it? Anything else nearby?

[perfectlyhuman]

The bush looks fine. Nothing in it or on it besides the hat. The hat looks familiar, though.

The rock looks normal. Except for a smaller rock stuck to the side of it in a way that doesn't make sense. Plus it's a different color.