You are a 15 year old boy from Japan. Today, you´ve decided to go and have a walk around the river named Mogami. Suddenly you noticed a weird object on the side of the river. What do you do? [[Walk and see what it is]] [[Walk away from it]] [[Ignore it and just walk pass it]] It was a book! The name of the book was "Nothing". What do you do? [[Pick it up]] [[Leave it there]]You didn´t have a nice long walk but when you got home you had a cup of nice green tea and Pho. The end :3 [[Play again->Intro]]You had a peacfull walk and then you returned home and had a cup of tea. The end°-° [[Play again->Intro]]The book was wet from the water so you decided to [[Take it home and dry it out]]You had a nice long walk and when you got home you had some [[Nice buldak noodles]] The end>:)The noodles are from korea :P They are relly nice [[Play again->Intro]] You took it home and dried it with your t-shirt. Do you [[Leave it on your table?]] [[Read it?]] [[Throw it away?]] You slowly forgot about the book. When your mom found it she thought it was some old useles book so she threw it away. The end:( [[Play again->Intro]]NOOO! WHY WOULD YOU TROW IT AWAY!!???? It was such a nice book... but you are being carefull i see... Well, you lived a nice life but the book never forgot what you did. the end [[Play again->Intro]]You set up everything that the book said. You decided to travel into the year 1840, You sat down in a circle and said the year four times as the book said you should. For 5 seconds it felt like you were falling down, then suddenly you opened your eyes and you were in a [[Sakura forest]] [[Old japanese willage]] You slowly forgot about the book and the book slowly forgot about you. after a year it disas´peared and was never found again. The end [[Play again->Intro]]The sakura trees were beautifull. You stood up and looked around but... ... something was wrong about this place [[...->Wrong]]You were in a nice japan house. There was a woman in a nice green kimono with long black hair tied in a bun. You could see her but she couldn´t see you. She was holding the book of ''Nothing'' and was writing into it. Her name was [[...->Name]] You should have read the book and learned more about you and Japanese culture! You would have found out that you were deadly alergic to sakura trees! Your skin started melting and 5 minutes later there were just bones left. ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ ) [[Play again->nothing]](text-color:purple) [You find out that your whole family has been for centuries sadly and deadly alergic to the beutifull smell off sakura trees so don´t go anywere near them :(] [[Back->Read it?]] Her name was Aiko. She was 25 and she wrote the book of ''Nothing''. She was born in 1815 and she loved writing and also makeing diffrent kinds of spells and rituals. She wanted people to remember her after her death so she wrote this book and created a ritual to help people travel between the 1840 and the present time. She was later blamed for being a witch and burned to death in 1847. The book was throwen into the river Yamagata. The new name of this river is Mogami. But there is something wrong about this ritual that lets you travel intime [[...->Whats wrong???]] This ritual lets you see the past but you can´t change it. And since you left the present time you can´t get back either. So you are basicly stuck in the year 1840. Forever. The end [[Play again->Intro]]''the book'' If your reading this that means you found a book that has a very special power. You can travel in time and learn more about [[yourself and Japanese culture]] or how i was made. My name is ''Nothing'' becuse most of the people don´t belive me or they just think that I am nothing more then a common book. Ok, now, how can you travel in time? You will need to take 4 red candles and make a cirkle out of the sea salt on the floor. On a piece of paper, write a year between 1840 - 2024. Then light the candles and sit down in the centre of the circle. When you sit down, close your eyes and say the chosen year five times. Also make sure that I (meaning the book) am in the same room with you. [[Throw the book away, because you think it is not safe->Throw it away?]] [[Try to make the ritual the book is talking about]] [[Put it into the bookshelf]] ''Nothing'' /by Gooseberry/ (13, Slovakia) [[Credits]] [[About]] [[Guildmaster´s Note->Note]] [[Play->nothing]]Title: Nothing Author: Gooseberry (13), SIF´24 participant (link:"The Hotel")[(gotoURL:"https://sif-gamebook.webnode.sk/l/the-hotel-by-gooseberry/")] playtime: 5 minutes (23 passages, 8 endings) Game Type: CYOA Genre: Manga Country: Slovakia Set Topic: /Found on the Riverbank/ Antology: As I Sat On A Sunny Bank SENICA THING 2025 [[Back->Intro]]This antology of interactive games was designed as an answer to the "Clean Banks" Micro Gamebook Challenge which champions responsibility for our oceans, lakes and rivers. In this challenge the authors were asked to design a non-linear story around "an object found on the riverbank/or a sea shore". /The games were written by students from Senica (Slovakia), from Bohinjska Bistrica (Slovenia) and by a new "grown-up" guild member from Italy as a joint entry to the Back Garden at the Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction 2025./ [[Back->Intro]]''Guildmaster´s note'' This gamebook author already has had some previous authoring experience but are still feelinmg their way towards IF and would appreciate constructive and to the-point feedback to learn and grow some more. //(This year the SIF Guild decided to offer "local only" public appearance to unfinished games designed by authors who already have had the honor of receiving feedback from Spring Thing reviewers and need some more time now for the feedback to sink in. These games can reach their reader (link:"here.")[(gotoURL:"https://sif-gamebook.webnode.sk/senica-thing")])// Gooseberry has made some progress and their games come out more or less polished. However, they still need some more tailor-made hints to better understand the tools and the author-game-player communication triangle./ [[Back->Intro]]