This is an adventure story. But it is not like most other adventure stories - there is one big difference. You are the main character. What happens in the story depends on your decisions. The fate of your Transformers collection - whether or not by the end of the day you will find TITANS RETURNS wave 4 - is in your hands. Do not read the posts in this thread in numerical order as you would an ordinary thread. You should start with this post, of course, but where you go from there will depend on what you choose to do. Prepare yourself to meet The Transformers! Now read on... You groggily open your eyes. Sunlight is streaming through a crack in the curtains and has woken you up prematurely. It's your day off after a hard weeks work and you wanted a bit of a lie in. Annoyed you get out of the nice warm bed and cross over to the curtains. If you open the curtains, go to post 2 If you close the curtains tighter, go to post 3
Throwing open the curtains you feel the full force of the sunlight. You squeal like a girl as the sunlight stabs your eyes. Well, that was a mistake. Fully awake now you cross the room and start the day like you do every day, by logging onto TFW2005.com (shameless plug). The alert button catches your eye, it turns out that TITANS RETURN wave 4 has been sighted at Orbital Comics. All of it! Judging from the post they have a lot of them. Will you head straight out, go to post 5 If you want to take your time, go to post 4
Annoyed at your carelessness last night (damn that guy!) you close the curtains and crawl back into bed. Looking at the clock you see that it was set to go off in just an hour anyway, so you turn it off and close your eyes. You wake up with a start, looking at the clock it's almost midday! With a groan you crawl out out of bed and start the day as you do every day, by logging onto TFW2005.com (shameless plug). The alert button catches your eye, it turns out that TITANS RETURN wave 4 has been sighted at Orbital Comics. All of it! Judging from the post they have a lot of them. Will you head straight out, go to post 8 If you want to take your time, go to post 4
It's your day off, why should you have to rush? You make your way to the kitchen and set the kettle off. Pouring boiled water into your mug you wait for it to brew. You sit down in front of TFW2005, and start perusing the threads. Going into the 'Find that Transformer' thread you realise with disgust that the whole thread was taken over by beasts overnight and has settled on yet another Suntory figure. You compose a really long and snarky response to this, but think better of it and delete the post. Well that was time well spent. You glance over at the clock, oh cock, look at the time. It's a lot later than you thought. Go to post 14
You decide you should probably head out as soon as you can. Checking the time you see you have plenty of time so you head out at a leisurely pace. With a piece of toast in your mouth, you make sure that your wallet is in your coat. As you arrive at the station, a scruffy looking teenager approaches you and says he's stranded and asks if you can spare any money. Do you say yes, go post 7 Do you want to say no, go to post 6
Shouting, you tell the little scroat to go get a job and storm off into the station. At the gate when you try your Oyster card you realise that it has no credit. You take a crisp 10 pound note out of your wallet and put credit onto the Oyster card. Heading to the platform you sit in the waiting train. Go to post 18
Feeling a responsibility to your fellow man you say yes, you can spare a few quid. But when you open your wallet, it turns out you only have a crisp ten pound note on you. The scroat quickly snatches the tenner and makes a break for it! Test your luck. Think of a number. If you picked an even number, go to post 10 If you picked an odd number, go to post 9
Grabbing your coat, you rush out. As you arrive at the station you can see there is a problem, the station staff is in an argument with a scruffy looking teenager, but looking past them you see that the gate is wide open. Do you use your oyster, go to post 16 Do you want to sneak through the open gate, go to post 12
You watch helplessly as the arsebag uses the power of youth to scale the station steps in a flash and disappear. Shit. When did teenagers become so fast? Go to post 11
The station staff manning the gate notices your plight and pounds after the suddenly panicked teenager at a frightening pace. He brings the teen down in an expert fashion and you swear you can hear bones popping. Leaving the dirtbag in a heap on the floor he comes back to returns your money. It turns out the ticket officer regularly trains in Brazilian Ju Jitsu and has been dying to try out some advanced takedown manoeuvres. He scares you. Realising your Oyster card has no credit you put the ten pound note onto it and quickly get on the train. Go to post 18
Cursing your luck, you stomp off into the station. But when you try your Oyster card at the gate you realise your Oyster has no credit, and that stupid little scroatsack stole the only cash you could have put on it. With no money the glory of public transport is denied to you and this is THE END
You decide to try and sneak past the gate, Test your luck. Think of a number. If you picked an even number, go to post 13 If you picked an odd number, go to post 15
You slip past the argument without being noticed. As you take a seat on the train you grin to yourself that the online Mak'tar stealth haze training course was not a waste of time after all. Go to post 17
You rush out of the house and get to the station. Arriving at Leicester Square tube you run as fast as you can up the escalators, but to your horror, Orbital comics has already closed. You bang your fists against the locked door and imagine you can see the Wave 4 toys in the cabinet (which you can't actually see from the front door) but it is no use. For you the quest for Wave 4 is over. THE END
The station supervisor sees you slip through the gate and calls out. In a panic you try to make a run for it but he easily outpaces you and brings you to the ground with a crash. It turns out that he regularly trains in Brazilian Ju Jitsu and as 80 kilos of solid muscle lays on top of you popping out the vertebrae in your spine, you watch as the train slowly leaves the platform. THE END
When you go to use your oyster at the gate you realise it has no credit. To your horror you realise you don't have your wallet, you must have left it at home! You rush home to get it and after putting £10 of credit onto your Oyster card you continue on your way. Go to post 17
The tube ride is noxious and cramped, as it always is. As the train pulls into Leicester Square station you heave a sigh of relief as the doors open and disgorges the passengers. You head straight up the escalators and cross the road toward Orbital comics. If you put credit on your oyster card, go to post 21 If you did not put credit on your Oyster card, go to post 20
The tube ride is noxious and cramped, as it always is. As the train pulls into Leicester Square station you heave a sigh of relief as the doors open and disgorges the passengers. You head straight up the escalators and cross the road toward Orbital comics. Opening the front door you pass the comics on the left and round the corner. The story was true, all the wave is there. Giddy with excitement you step towards the shelf. If you buy some of Wave 4, go post 19 If you feel flush and want to buy all of it, go to post 22
Knowing the state of your bank account you decide to be responsible. You pick your choice figures, BROADSIDE, KUP and BRAWN off the shelf and head over to the till. Filling your Orbital bag the tall bearded manager smiles at you and gives you a thumbs up as you leave. You feel very short. This happens a lot when you are near him. THE END
Wave 4 is there in your hands, but in your rush to leave the house you had forgotten your wallet. The tall bearded manager shakes his head and you can only cry as the boxes of toys disappear in front of your eyes, but there is nothing you can do about it. THE END
