A Flickering Lantern

You're out camping when you wake up in the middle of the night.

You hear a snapping noise and your lantern flickers.

Pick up your lantern?

This might come in handy later...

Don't need it...

Investigate the noise?

You wake up the next morning, and pack your things

You wonder what that noise was, and what might've been

You leave your camp, and walk towards the woods

You find a broken branch

Curious, it seems to have been broken with inhuman force

Pick it up?

You aquired a branch

You move on

Two roads diverge, you see footprints leading down one of them.

Just as you're about to follow them, you hear a growling noise down the other

Follow the footprints or the noise?

You follow the footprints

You walk for a while, and come to a dead end

You look around frantically in the darkness

You hear a growling from the brush

Suddenly, the beast jumps out at you!

It snarls at you defensively

You hear footsteps behind you, and think quickly

You reach into your satchel, and pull out your lantern

Scanning the area, you see a hidden path

Without thinking, you run down it

As you're running, you see a small hut

You run in and quickly slam the door behind you and lock it

You hear a beast start pacing around the hut. It seems confused

It's so dark

You shine a light

It seems to be a hunting den

There's a hunting vest hanging off the side of a trunk

Pick it up?

You slip on the hunting vest

It's suprisingly comfortable

You turn around to loud thumping on the door

Suddenly, the beast knocks the door down and lunges at you!

It snarls at you defensively

You decide to leave it be.

You turn around to loud thumping on the door

Suddenly, the beast knocks the door down and lunges at you!

It snarls at you defensively

You come upon a small cavern, and you hear a purring from inside.

Investigate?

You go inside

There are tiny bear cubs fast asleep

You wonder where the mother is...

Suddenly, a beast jumps out at you!

It snarls at you defensively

You move past it

You walk for a while, and see something shining in the dirt

You walk towards it cautiously

You notice that it's the compass you dropped coming here

Pick it up?

You picked up your old compass

You continue walking until you hear a growling noise from behind you

Suddenly, a beast jumps out at you!

It snarls at you defensively

You continue walking until you hear a growling noise from behind you

Suddenly, a beast jumps out at you!

It snarls at you defensively

It lays in front of you, dead

You heave and pant. It's over

You go into the back of the cave

The cubs ran away while you were fighting

You find a necklace with a claw on it

Take it?

You take it

You go home

You leave it

You go home

The beast smiles calmly at you and gestures for you to follow her

You follow her to her den, and see her cubs, sleeping soundly

She walks over to a deeper part of her cave, and comes back with a necklace

It's a rope necklace with a single claw hanging from the middle

She holds it out to you, and it glimmers in the light

Accept the gift?

You accept the gift, and she looks happy

You go back home, but every once in a while you go back to see her and her cubs

You politely decline, she looks mornfully at you

You go back home, but every once in a while you go back to see her and her cubs