Time Mine Option Aa: Try the Shrimp
Welcome back for the last week of the adventure Time Mine.
Last week you were hiking and fell into an old mine shaft. Instead of ending up at the bottom, you found yourself in a King’s castle and were invited to dinner.
Turns out, it was a formal dinner and the King has mistaken you for his new taste tester. You’ve decided not to correct him and try the shrimp.
Good luck and choose wisely for your last choice!
Time Time Option Aa: Try the Shrimp
The King’s eyeing you, waiting for you to do as he says. There’s a glint in his eye that makes you feel like contradicting him would be an unwise decision. Like maybe he’ll have you beheaded or something horrible like that if you don’t do as he says.
Maybe the shrimp’ll be good.
So you pick up what you hope is the right fork and stab a shrimp. Taking a bite, you chew the morsel and barely keep from spitting the thing out. It’s rubbery and very fishy. But is that normal for here? Is doesn’t taste like poison as far as you can tell, not that you’ve tasted poison before. At least there’s no bitter taste to it or anything obvious like that.
Everyone watches as you continue to chew and eventually swallow the bite. You take a sip of water to wash it down.
The plate’s taken from in front of you and placed before the King but he continues to watch you.
“Tell me,” he says “where’d you come by such strange attire.”
You take another sip of water to stall as you consider your answer.
“My mother,” you finally respond. “She wanted to make sure I stayed warm.”
The woman beside you snorts again. “She must be blind. You look atrocious.” Her words are too soft for anyone else to hear.
“What a wonderful woman!” the man to your left exclaims at the top of his lunges. No one pays him any heed, so you assume his behavior is normal.
“Ah, what a motherly thing to do.” The King stabs a shrimp and eyes it, and then he smells it and looks back up at you. “You appear to be fine,” he states. “Don’t feel any strange side effects, do you?”
The taste of the fishy, rubbery shrimp is still in your mouth but other than that, you don’t feel any worse for wear.
“No Sire,” you say, “I feel perfectly fine.”
“No tingling, no blurred vision, no numbness in your hands or feet?”
Had all those things happened before? You begin to wonder who would wish harm on the King.
“No tingling, blurred vision or numbness…” you hesitate. Do you say something about the taste? It seems to be lingering and turning even sourer on your tongue. But maybe that’s normal?
“Anything else?” asks the King as your silence grows longer.
Do you…
Aa1: Tell him about the taste?
Or
Aa2: Remain quiet?
Blessings,
Jennifer
(Please post a comment with your choice. One vote per post please but comment as much as you like=) This makes counting votes easier. Voting will end at 8pm Mountain Time Wednesday. I’ll post whichever option gets the most votes Thursday and we’ll see how the adventure finishes!)
