Spiral

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(bg:white)) <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> <img src="https://archive.benlapid.us/anxiety-game/twine/img/2.png" /> </div> (set: $name to (prompt: "The name of your adoration, please:", "My Love", "Don't care", "Confirm")) Your eyes open begrudgingly as you are torn from a glorious, yet not-long-enough, couch nap. You heard the shuffle of socks and shoes, the dusty hardwood floor creaking beneath well-intentioned tip-toes, and the soft squeak of the front door opening. $name is headed out the door. (link-goto: "Haul your body off the couch", "start")

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(bg:white)) <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> <img src="https://archive.benlapid.us/anxiety-game/twine/img/3.png" /> </div> You enter the kitchen and you see something looming on the counter. Something stressful. (after: 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[= Something that has been ever present for weeks. (after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[= ''Your to-do list.'' (after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[= You (link-reveal: "tackle")[(replace: ?list)[ Oh if was only that [[easy...->4]]]] the first thing on the list. |list>[]

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(bg:white)) <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> <img src="https://archive.benlapid.us/anxiety-game/twine/img/3.png" /> </div> More accurately, you read it through a few times and work yourself up to getting stuff done. What do you start with? (link:"Make therapy appointment")[Well you figure that the office is probably closing soon and you hate talking on the phone and what if they are about to leave the office and now you're disrupting them and calling another time is probably for the best.] (link:"Call your mom")[Well if you're cooking then you tend to chat on the phone for a while so it would probably be annoying to call and cook at the same time and sometimes the parents are busy at this time so calling another time is probably for the best.] (link:"Finish writing assignment")[Well before writing you should probably make an outline but that would probably take a few hours and it's getting late and you know that writing over multiple days makes your writing sound disjointed so waiting is probably for the best.] (more:)[You decide to cook instead. Your stomach rumbles as you [[start->5]] to pull ingredients from the pantry.]

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(bg:white)) You are pulling ingredients out of the pantry. You ponder what meal you feel like having tonight. Yesterday was something heavy, today you're quite hungry, who knows what tomorrow may bring. (link-repeat: "Make spaghetti and meatballs")[] (link-repeat: "Make a casserole")[] (link-repeat: "Make a milkshake")[] |clue)[(dialog: bind $defund, "Your phone buzzes! A Reddit notification reads 'It's officially Thanksgiving - Someone Put Grandma in the Oven.'", "Read it")[(go-to: "6")]] {(live: 3s)[ (show: ?clue) (stop:) ]}

<div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> <img src="https://archive.benlapid.us/anxiety-game/twine/img/4.png" /> </div> It's officially Thanksgiving - Someone Put Grandma in the Oven. <div style="color: white;"> (link:"Scroll...") [(link:"...and scroll...") [(link:"...and scroll some more...") [Hah - clickhole. Imma share with $name. [[Next one->7]] ]]] </div>

<div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> <img src="https://archive.benlapid.us/anxiety-game/twine/img/4.png" /> </div> Distracted Driving Deaths up 10% since last year <div style="color: white;"> (link:"Scroll...") [(link:"...and scroll...") [(link:"...and scroll some more...") [Oof - I hope $name got to the store okay. [[Next one->8]] ]]] </div>

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(bg:white)) <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> <img src="https://archive.benlapid.us/anxiety-game/twine/img/5.png" /> </div> What were you doing again? Now, you're sitting at the kitchen table and you think back to that article. Did $name make it to the store okay? When did they leave again? I'm sure your text didn't distract them while they were driving. The odds of that are so low. Plus, they're super cautious behind the wheel. (link:"Call them to check in")[No - you're not insane. It's been like... an hour? Don't get worked up.] (more:)[It's late. You've gotta eat! But [[first...->10]]]

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(bg:white)) <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> <img src="https://archive.benlapid.us/anxiety-game/twine/img/7.png" /> </div> Fucking hell -- they're closed! Damn... maybe tomorrow. Whatever already. Even if they're dead, you'll be okay. Everything is fine. (text-style: "blur")[Everything is fine.] (text-style: "blurrier")[Everything is fine.] [[Back to cooking I guess->12]]

<div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> <img src="https://archive.benlapid.us/anxiety-game/twine/img/9.png" /> </div> Huh - no response yet. That's weird, right? What time did they said they'd be back again? <div style="color: black">(text-style: "blurrier")[<em>Be home around 8</em>]</div> Was it around 7? 8? Was it be <i>back by</i> 8 or <i>around</i> 8 or <i>after</i> 8? <div style="color: white"> [[SHUT UP->14]] </div> |clue1)[(dialog: bind $defund, "You know $name is probably dead.", "That's not true")] {(live: 2s)[ (show: ?clue1) (stop:) ]} |clue2)[(dialog: bind $defund, "It's your fault.", "No it isn't")] {(live: 7s)[ (show: ?clue2) (stop:) ]} |clue3)[(dialog: bind $defund, "It probably hurt a lot, too", "Shut up")] {(live: 10s)[ (show: ?clue3) (stop:) ]} |clue4)[(dialog: bind $defund, "If you didn't text them, $name would be alive", "Stop it")] {(live: 16s)[ (show: ?clue4) (stop:) ]}