(textcolor: white)[You, the adventurous wanderer, stand upon a cliff. (mouseout: "cliff")[<img src="Wanderer.jpg" width="180" height="200" alt="wanderer">] The fog covered landscape below you is waiting to be conquered. Your mission is to find beautiful things. (mouseover-replace: "beautiful things")[beautfiul things and by beauty I mean that quality or those qualities in bodies, by which they cause love, or some passion similar to it] You head down to begin your [[journey]].]
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(textcolor: white)[As you head down the hill, you realize you have not brought any food or water.
You reach a fork in the road. (mouseover: "road")[<img src="fork.jpg" width="180" height="200" alt="fork">].
You can either continue down the boring and [[well worn-path]] or head towards the wonderous and beautfiul sound of a trickling [[river]] that you hear up ahead. (mouseover-replace: "ahead")[ahead and surely it will be a landmark when you colonize]]
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(textcolor: white)[As you walk down the path, you trip on an indent in the ground, roughly the size of your own foot.
But Oh! You hear a [[river]] up ahead and surely it must be beautiful, with the curves of a woman.
And then you see it, and the river looks oh so pleasing (mouseout: "pleasing")[<img src="Tintern Abbey.jpeg" width="180" height="200" alt="abbey">].
(text-style: "fade-in-out")[You could also turn back to the [[Mountain Top]] so that you can regain your bearings.]]
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"What a savage place!" you think to yourself as you reach the river.
You cannot help but realize that all the air is fill'd with pleasant noise of waters and it makes you want to dive headlong into the shimmering blue glass.
You realize how hot you are and how much you wish to [[swim]].]
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Or, if you remember how thirsty you are, you can get a [[drink]]
(textcolor: white)[You bask in the wonder of nature that surrounds you as you bathe yourself in the milk (mouseout: "milk")[<img src="Tintern Abbey.jpeg" width="180" height="200" alt="abbey">]of mother nature that is cascading all around you.
As you get out of the water, you notice the [[hair of a creature]], which certainly must belong to some sort of ravenous beast. You must find it, kill it, eat it and keep the skin, like any real man would.]
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You have quenched your thirst and are ready to continue your journey forward.
After suckling at the breast of nature, you lean down and notice the [[hair of a creature]] which must be from a wild beast.
It is elongated and blonde, like that of some sort of mythical beast. You venture forth with the hair in your hand in hopes of finding something sublime.
You can also continue down the safer looking [[path]]]
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(text-color: white)[You have surely stumbled upon some wild beast, after finding such a long and sublime hair (mouseout: "beast")[<img src="monster.jpg" width="180" height="200" alt="monster">]
Up ahead, you see a [[clearing]], which you are confident will lead you to a final confrontation with the sublime creature. (mouseover-replace: "sublime creature")[sublime creature, which means it must be that class of rough, great and rugged, as your hero Edmund Burke argues]]
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(text-color: white)[You arrive at a clearing. You notice little lines of sportive wood that run wild, greenery, and wreaths of smoke sent up from among the trees which surround the open area you are now standing in. (mouseout: "area")[<img src="4.jpg" width="180" height="200" alt="abbey">]
The creature has vansihed. The damned beast!
You are confident that the path to your [[left]] will lead you to the beast.
In the distance, however, the trail of smoke plumes from the sky. Perhaps the beast breathes fire (mouseout: "fire")[<img src="dragon.jpg" width="180" height="200" alt="abbey">]! You go down the trail to follow the [[right]]]
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(text-color: white)[You begin to run down the path, having lost sight of the creature while making up your mind about which direction to go.
There is a [[man]] in the distance that beckons you forth.
Perhaps you should go back to track the smoke on the path that is to your [[right]]]
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(text-color: white)[As you enter the path, you notice there is a darkness encompassing the path and it makes you wonder what sublime things lay ahead.
(text-style: "fade-in-out")[There is a [[spectral]] shape in the distance. At first it seems a little speck, and then it seems a mist; it moves and moves towards you. He must have gold or some treasure (mouseout: "treasure")[<img src="gold.jpg" width="230" height="230" alt="gold">]for you to obtain.]]
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(text-color: white)["A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!" you think to yourself as you see what could be a ghost. (text-style: "shudder")[Fears, and fancies thick upon you come as you make your way toward the man. The whole body of the man did seem like one whom you had met in a dream.
It is but a poor man digging for leeches.
Perhaps he has some treasure (mouseout: "treasure")[<img src="gold.jpg" width="230" height="230" alt="gold">]]
Do you speak to him?
[[Do]]
[[Do Not]]]
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(text-color: white)[(text-style: "shudder")[As you venture down the path, you lose sight of the creature in the heavy mist that has suddenly appeared, seemingly from nowhere. A few feet away, you notice the figure of a pale man, who [[beckons]] you to him.
He looks like your long dead father.
In the distance, you notice a clearing, at the [[edge of the forest]], which might lead you to safety. Yet, you are drawn to the pale man, who looks eerily similar to your deceased father.]]
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(text-color: white)[You can't really remember any of what just transpired. It must not have been that important.
You arrive at a clearing. You notice little lines of sportive wood that run wild, greenery, and wreaths of smoke sent up, in silence, from among the trees which surround the open area you are now standing in.
Suddenly, you hear a branch snap under the weight of the paw of the wild creature (click: "creature")[<audio src="branch.mp3" autoplay>] . As you turn to face the beast, you are confronted with two women, who wish to [[speak]] with you.
]
(text-color: blue)[Two women (mouseout: "women")[<img src="village.jpg" width="230" height="230" alt="women">]approach you and you wonder where their husbands are. The first opens her delicate mouth as if to speak to you.
Why do they sport such ugly and revealing garments?
They ask you why you have entered Wollstonecraft Village.
You ask them
"What is [[Wollstonecraft Village]]?"
"Where are their [[husbands]]?"]
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(text-color: white)[The old man, is none other than the Ancient Mariner. He wants to warn you that your imagination has led you astray from your ambitions of discovering the sublime and beautiful things the world has to offer.
He says he wishes to warn you further of your arrogance.
Do you wish to know more?]
[[YES]]
[[NO]]
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(text-color: blue)[The women explain that they are the founders of Wollstonecraft Village, a self-sufficient home, which is meant to be a place for women to read and write, while escaping the gender binary that is placed on education in the patriarchal world that you have come from.
They have built a few small homes (mouseover: "homes")[<img src="log.jpg" width="230" height="230" alt="log">] with chimneys. (mouseover-replace: "chimneys")[chimneys, which explains the smoke you saw earlier]
They explain that they were at the sacred river earlier and saw you, at which point they ran away, because they were fearful their abode would be discovered (mouseover-replace: "discovered")[discovered, which explains the hair of the creature you found earlier].
This seems odd to you, so you ask
"Where are your [[husbands]]?"
[["Why do you feel the need to read and write?"]]]
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(textcolor: white)[The path draws you back to the river, which looks like a good place to [[swim]].]
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(text-color: white)[THE WANDERER]
[[start game]]
[[credits]]
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(text-color: white)[(text-style: "fade-in-out")[The ghost tells you that your imagination has gotten in the way of exploring. "You have let your mind trust itself, without questioning its motive. You must not let yourself fall into mental complacency," says the ghost.
He holds you with his skinny hand.
The ghost still stood talking by your side; but now his voice to you sounded like a stream.
You decide to continue to the [[edge of the forest]], where surely there must be something more interesting]]
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(text-color: white)[You come to the [[edge of the forest]], having gotten away from what must have been a figment of your wonderous imagination.]
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(text-color: white)[(text-style: "fade-in-out")[He began with pleasure and surprise; and there was, while he spake, a fire about his eyes.
Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead.
The old man tells you not to let your imagination cloud your judgement, as he stands with his feet in the river.
The old man still stood talking by my side; but now his voice to you sounded like a stream.
In front of you, you notice the [[edge of the forest]] and you wish to head towards it.
]]
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(text-color: white)[The old man, sweet as he seemed, did not know anything you already knew.
You notice the [[edge of the forest]] up ahead. Maybe you can look at the direction of the sun to find your bearings again in this beautifully sublime area.]
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(text-color: white)[You head back down to continue your [[journey]]
Perhaps this time you should check out the river]
(text-color: white)[You realize as you pace the cliff, that your lack of reason has clouded your judgement and prevented you from seeing things as they are, which you makes you feel like a lunatic.
You realize that you are mad (mouseover-replace: "mad")[mad and madness is only the absence of reason.]
You move towards the [[edge of the cliff]]]
(text-color: white)[You are unsure what lies beneath the landscape. Perhaps you should find out. "This is a picture of that chatoic state of mind, called madness" - Mary Wollstonecraft.] (mouseout: "madness")[<img src="Wanderer.jpg" width="180" height="200" alt="wanderer">]
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(text-color: blue)[The first woman responds "When reason is gone, we know not where, the wild elements of passion clash, and all is horror and confusion"
The second woman asks if you want to know more]
[[listen]]
[[do not listen]]
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(text-color: blue)[You have deeply offended the leaders of Wollstonecraft Village, a place where women live in a colony, devoid of men, so that they can read and write without the constrictive nature of a patriarchal society.(mouseover-replace: "a place where women live in a colony, devoid of men, so that they can read and write without the constrictive nature of a patriarchal society.")[and you are so hungry]
You have not listened to what these women have to say to you.
You ask "What is [[Wollstonecraft Village]]?"
You ask[["Why do you feel the need to read and write?"]]]
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(text-color: blue)[She further explains that British society has become obsessed with gendering nature, especially in the work of Edmund Burke. She argues that they respect Mary Wollstonecraft for challenging Burke.
You love the works of Edmund Burke, for he speaks to the intimacy, smallness and beauty of nature. How can it be that these women think so poorly of him?
You bid them good day and realize you must go back to the [[top of the cliff]], to ponder your existence after all that has transpired today]
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(text-color: white)[These women are probably not even intelligent enough to respect the work of Edmund Burke, who speaks to the smallness and beauty of nature, and would say the same of the women you met today.
You realize you must go back to the [[top of the cliff]], to ponder your existence after what has transpired today]