The Next Train to Depart IBIS

Your browser lacks required capabilities. Please upgrade it or switch to another to continue.

Loading…

Good afternoon customers. The next train to depart platform 2 will be the 4:55 Ringwood, stopping all stations to Richmond, running express from Richmond to Burnley, Burnley to Nunawading, Nunawading to Mitcham, then stopping all stations to Ringwood. [[Southern Cross]] [[Richmond]] <s> East Richmond </s> [[Burnley]] <s>Hawthorn</s> <s>Glenferrie</s> <s>Auburn</s> <s>Camberwell</s> <s>East Camberwell</s> <s> Cantebury</s> <s> Chatham </s> <s> Surrey Hills </s> <s> Mont Albert </s> <s>Box Hill</s> <s> Laburnum </s> <s> Blackburn </s> [[Nunawading]] [[Mitcham]] <s>Heatherdale</s> [[Ringwood]]

Now arriving at Richmond You ride the stretch of track that runs from the mouth of the Loop out towards Richmond Station. Coming up from the depths of the underground to a blue sky and a full view of the skyline feels like <<cyclinglink "dusting your hands off" "breaking a fever" "coming up for air from underwater">>. The best time to take the train this way is late afternoon and you're leaving a rough day behind. A day that makes you feel like a sticker, or a band poster peeling away from a wall, being balled up with frayed edges and old grey glue. The walls around here show off <<click "green tile">><<removeclass "#picture4" "hidden">><</click>> and clean brick skin, a little crumbly and warm from the afternoon sun. You watch the sunlit city slip away, and let yourself take a deep breath out. <img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/949/42209425332_54ac522409_n.jpg" alt="camberwell1" align="right" width="350" height="300"><<replacelink>> Check for the time. <<becomes>> <<set $event to random(1,2)>> <<if $event is 1>>\ 11:11! [[Make a wish!|wish one]] <<elseif $event is 2>>\ 11:12! Damn just missed it. <</if>> <</replacelink>> [[Go to Burnley|Burnley]] [[Go to Southern Cross|Southern Cross]]

You have collected the Richmond wish. <<pickup 'wish1'>> [[go back|Richmond]]

<<replacelink>> Zoe. <<becomes>> Kelly. <<becomes>> Izzy. <</replacelink>> <<cyclinglink "bitten back" "painted pink" "painted black" "also long, but not as long as hers">>. <<click "Hello Story">><<replace "#question1">>Hello Story How are you today Reader? <<click "Fine">> <<replace "#question2">>I am fine<</replace>> <<removeclass "#question3" "hidden">> <</click>> <<click "No so good">> <<replace "#question2">>I am not felling that good today<</replace>> <<removeclass "#question3" "hidden">> <</click>> <</replace>><</click>> How are you Story? I am fine Reader, are you ready to begin?

Now arriving at Southern Cross Jacqui is the first friend you know to move out of your suburb and into her own apartment. She moved into a building across the road from Southern Cross station, and from her balcony you can look down onto the station roof. At night, under the skyscraper lights, the roof looks like <<click "a body crumpled doona.">><<replace "#link1">><<click "a cut open aluminum can.">><<replace "#link2">>[[moonlit ocean waves.]]<</replace>><</click>><</replace>><</click>>

Now arriving at Burnley The stretch of track between Richmond and Burnley feels something like <<cyclinglink "like a pint in a beer garden in winter, huddled together with an old in big coats on a bench seat" "tea in a new friend's backyard, at their plastic outdoor setting under an overcast sky">>. Between East Richmond and Burnley you can see over the graffitied fences and into people's backyards. You like the backyards with the <<cyclinglink"trampolines""trampoline frames""torn trampoline skins">> and <<cyclinglink"swimming pools""drained swimming pools""swimming pools that have gone all green and are probably breeding frogs">>. You are best to take this track in late autumn/early winter, maybe an hour before it starts to get dark. The lights are on in the carriages and the lights are on in the pub and soon lights will be turning on in the back rooms of people's houses. You can look from the carriage of a warm, well lit train into the corners of the warm, well lit <<click "beer garden">><<removeclass "#map6" "hidden">><</click>>, the small squares of light linked together like a part of a puzzle that's all <<click "yellow pieces.">><<removeclass "#photo1" "hidden">><</click>> <img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/958/28375995788_69aefe002a_n.jpg" alt="burnley2" align="right" width="400" height="300"><iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3151.513503954642!2d144.99048231448205!3d-37.82486274244991!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad64292f3fbbadd%3A0xc0014a171be7adf7!2sCorner+Hotel!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1527553580324" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Watch the squares fly past and feel that if you were to climb through the fogged up train window you'd come out the other side next to the bar. Catch TV screens in the flashes of living rooms, and try to guess what they're watching. These are the bits of peoples lives that you are not meant to see, and so you are obsessed with looking. <<replacelink>> Check for the time. <<becomes>> <<set $event to random(1,2)>> <<if $event is 1>>\ 11:11! [[Make a wish!|wish two]] <<elseif $event is 2>>\ 11:12! Damn just missed it. <</if>> <</replacelink>> [[Go to Nunawading|Nunawading]] [[Go to Richmond|Richmond]]

Now arriving at Camberwell The best way to see this part of the train track is not to be on the train at all, but to <<click "walk">><<removeclass "#map9" "hidden">><</click>> alongside it. You are elevated to be flush with the streets and the two story Camberwell town houses, but if you look to the left, you can see all the rivers of <<cyclinglink "rust""leaves""graffiti tags">> that run beneath. <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3151.4142702098297!2d145.05601831448212!3d-37.8271864425829!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad641828cc73f03%3A0x23ad325d2723ff89!2sRailway+Walk%2C+Camberwell+VIC+3124!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1526885783544" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/954/42254302111_ac78aca600_n.jpg" alt="camberwell1" align="right" width="400" height="300"> The best time to get off at Camberwell station is mid-afternoon mid-week. There's no one around and from your spot on the path the tracks below look like they could be used as the set for a <<click "post-apocalyptic home-made short film.">><<removeclass "#photo3" "hidden">><</click>> Everything's littered with evidence that maybe someone was only just here; <<cyclinglink "plastic bottles half empty" "cigarette butts still smoking.""wet spray paint on a chain link fence.">> <<replacelink>> Check for the time. <<becomes>> <<set $event to random(1,2)>> <<if $event is 1>>\ 11:11! [[Make a wish!|wish three]] <<elseif $event is 2>>\ 11:12! Damn just missed it. <</if>> <</replacelink>> [[Go to Nunawading|Nunawading]] [[Go to Burnley|Burnley]]

The next station is Nunawading A few of the suburbs around where you grew up, including this one, used to be all orange groves. A lot of the land has been developed, first into houses with large blocks of land, then into three or four houses per block. Still, when you take the bus past your old highschool on the way to your Dad's new house, you see the hobby farm is still there, complete with horses in the front paddocks, across the road from the [[football oval.]]

Now arriving at Mitcham For almost a year, you spend every Saturday night at Chris' house. Chris lives with his mum in a two bedroom house at the Mitcham/Forest Hill border, but she's always out visiting her boyfriend on Saturdays, so their house becomes your house for the night. It's much too frequent to be much like a party, you guess this is what it will be like if you move out into a sharehouse, hanging out with your housemates, only once a week, for almost a year. [[Get off at Chris' house|Chris' house]] [[Go to Ringwood|Ringwood]] [[Go to Nunawading|Nunawading]]

Now arriving at Heatherdale Your Dad lives right behind Heatherdale station now. He lives in a unit, behind another unit, behind a two story house. He and your mum have been split up for a few months now. <<click "It's for the best.">><<replace "#link1">><<click "It's for the best, or at least it will be.">><<replace "#link2">><<click "It's for the best, or at least it will be. Eventually.">><<replace "#link3">> It's for the best, or at least it will be. Eventually. I think.<</replace>><</click>><</replace>><</click>><</replace>><</click>> [[Get off at Dad's house|Dads house]] [[Go to Ringwood|Ringwood]] [[Go to Nunawading|Nunawading]]

Now arriving at Ringwood The train pulls towards Ringwood station around the <<click "back of the lake">><<removeclass "#map10" "hidden">><</click>>. The gum trees are so thick you can barely see through to the adventure playground. You always look for the swings from this side, even though you know they're on the highway side of the lake. The swings were a favourite of you grandpa's, of you dad's, of yours and now of your baby neice's. <img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/960/40897742805_b53d162ee9.jpg" alt="burnley2" width="400" height="300" align="right"> <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1576.007699836165!2d145.23632905798124!3d-37.813108275951976!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad63bcd66e26b7f%3A0x9f43c393b987e161!2sRingwood+Lake!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1527554486133" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The best time to go to the lake is to go when they're refurbishing the adventure playground, and so the whole place is pretty deserted. There is space and time to take photos, and to take stock of all things that have been blown out by memory. The bandstand has shrunk, the paths have shallowed, the tracks run so much closer to the lake, you can hear the trains go by sitting on the other side of it. Everything's green until it's <<click "green and yellow and blue">><<removeclass "#photo2" "hidden">><</click>>, every 20mins, 10 mins at peak hour. <<replacelink>> Check for the time. <<becomes>> <<set $event to random(1,2)>> <<if $event is 1>>\ 11:11! [[Make a wish!|wish four]] <<elseif $event is 2>>\ 11:12! Damn just missed it. <</if>> <</replacelink>> [[Go to Mitcham|Mitcham]]

You have collected the Burnley wish. <<pickup 'wish2'>> [[go back|Burnley]]

You start your Saturday night by walking up to <<click "get dinner">><<removeclass "#map5" "hidden">><</click>>. You always get a quarter chicken and chips with extra salt and gravey and a can of coke. You walk up to the square in the dusk, hopping up on low brick walls, picking up abandoned milk crates to sit on later in the backyard, you think you rode on someone's shoulders once, you remember holding tightly to the top of someone's greasy head. <<click "You look forward to these walks, even though on paper they're not what you come for.">><<replace "#live3">><s> You always look forward to these walks, even though on paper they're not what you come for.</s> This will always be your favourite part of any evening out. <<cyclinglink "Walking up to the bottle shop to get the drinks." "Sitting on someones bed, watching them do their makeup.">> Waiting at the bus stop, huddled in the last rays of sunlight, belly warm and head buzzing with all the things that could be on the other side of that bus ride, dreading the moment when the bus pulls up to the stop and the [[spell breaks.]] <</replace>> <</click>> <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3151.0233302804018!2d145.18091371463177!3d-37.83633967974823!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad63ed66d169363%3A0x5cae73806211540d!2sCharcoal+Chicken!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1526799174961" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

On colder nights you sit out in the backyard and burn wood from the Forest Hill Reserve in a washing machine drum. You like to burn the weeks junk mail to watch how the chemicals in the inks make different coloured flames. You assign each colour to something you hope to come true, like a small spell stuck between the stapled pages, peeled back by the flames. If the flames burn <<cyclinglink "red, you will kiss someone by the end of these holidays""pink, James will tell you that he likes you""blue, Safia will tell you that she likes you""yellow, you will ask your sister to teach you how to do your make up properly. You will wash your hair more regularly, and you will stop biting your nails" "green, you will post a poem on deviant art and it will get more than one hundred likes""orange everything will stay exactly the same, but somehow you will be happier">>. You try and catch a colour on the end of a skinny stick, and use the charcoal end to scribe your spell into the dirt. You keep getting in trouble for setting the dry ground alight. [[go back|spell breaks.]]

Most Saturday nights you watch rented DVDs in the front living room, in the dark, under blankets. Two or three of you have the landline number and will use your mobile phones to call it during horror movies. Sneak out through the back door to bang on the front window. You watch The Ring through a threadbare sheepskin, blanket and fingers jammed so hard into your ears you get wax on the wool, trying to block out the worst parts. You think you've made it to the end alright when someone suggests you watch the full cursed video that comes as a DVD extra. <<click "Go outside and sit on the front fence. Call the home phone as soon as the video ends. Watch everyone freak out through the front window.">><<replace "#link1">><s>Go outside and sit on the front fence. Call the home phone as soon as the video ends. Watch everyone freak out through the front window.</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<click "Go outside and sit in the backyard, hoping that someone will go out to sit with you.">><<replace "#link2">><s>Go outside and sit in the backyard, hoping that someone will go out to sit with you.</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<click "Stay where you are and watch the video through your fingers.">><<replace "#link3">><s>Stay where you are and watch the video through your fingers.</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<replacelink>> Use your wish <<becomes>> <<if $wishonetwothreefour>>\ Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishtwothreefour>>\ Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonethreefour>>\ Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishthreefour>>\ Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishfour>>\Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonetwothree>>\Go <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishonethree>>\ Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishtwothree>>\Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishonetwo>>\ Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish2'>> <<elseif $wishone>>\ Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish1'>> <<elseif $wishtwo>>\ Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish2'>> <<elseif $wishthree>>\ Take the DVD out of the player, break it up into pieces, and then bury the pieces in the four corners of the park behind the house. Come back next Saturday to check and find that four magpies have made four nests in the four trees above. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<else>>\ You don't have a wish to use. <</if>> <</replacelink>> On the 7th day after you watched the cursed video, you go to the Botanical Gardens with your parents. As you behind your mum and dad, who are, at this point, still a couple, but never lag behind to kiss on milkcrates, you think to yourself that this is a pretty nice way to spend your last day on earth. [[go back|spell breaks.]] <<set $wishonetwothreefour to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishtwothreefour to invAll ('wish2','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishonethreefour to invAll ('wish1','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishthreefour to invAll ('wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishtwofour to invAll ('wish2','wish4')>> <<set $wishonefour to invAll ('wish1','wish4')>> <<set $wishfour to invAll ('wish4')>> <<set $wishonetwothree to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish3')>> <<set $wishonethree to invAll('wish1','wish3')>> <<set $wishtwothree to invAll('wish2','wish3')>> <<set $wishonetwo to invAll('wish1','wish2')>> <<set $wishone to invAll('wish1')>> <<set $wishtwo to invAll('wish2')>> <<set $wishthree to invAll('wish3')>>

<<set $wishonetwo to invAll('wish1''wish2')>> <<set $wishonetwothree to invAll('wish1''wish2''wish3')>> <<set $wishone to invAll('wish1')>> <<if $wishone>>\ you have one wish <<elseif $wishtwo>>\ you have one wish <<elseif $wishonetwo>>\ you have two wishes <<elseif $wishthree>>\ you have one wish <<elseif $wishfour>>\ you have one wish <<elseif $wishonetwo>>\ you have two <<else>>\ no wishes <</if>>

The Ghost House was on land that used to be an orchard, you're not sure if it's been developed yet but you know it wasn't when you were a kid. The story goes that the orchard was owned by a man who was very protective of his property, and when kids used to sneak into his groves to steal his fruit, he used to scare them off with a shot gun. When you search <a href="https://www.google.com/search?ei=u8UCW_OTIdHX0gTB5b2gDw&q=ghost+house+nunawading+forest+hill&oq=ghost+house+&gs_l=psy-ab.3.1.35i39k1l2j0i67k1l2j0j0i67k1j0l4.18445.20531.0.23430.14.10.0.0.0.0.634.2106.3-3j1j1.5.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..9.5.2103...0i131i67k1.0._vXkGkLg7NQ" target="blank">ghost house nunawading forest hill</a>, all you get are realestate.com listings for houses in that area. Maybe they are all the houses on the market that are also potentially haunted. Maybe they were built on his old land, and when the kids in those houses look out their bedroom windows they see the shadow of a man knicking fruit from their parent's potted [[kaffir lime trees.]]

You love to walk at night. You take <<cyclinglink "the path that runs along the river to the storm drain, under the bridge and over the football oval where you once buried a love spell at the base of the left point goal post.""the path that leads down to the wetlands, between the broken back fences and the empty cow paddocks, where you go to build a bower in the bus shelter." "the path that cuts through the Coles carpark and into the primary school where you go to swing myself into the full moon once a month.">> You catch a bus out and walk the route back. You walk out further away than you can walk back, and have to <<click "catch the bus back">><<removeclass "#map3" "hidden">><</click>>. You walk this stretch of road because the street lights are orange, not yellow or white. You like how everything looks washed in this streetlight, <<cyclinglink "the broken VB bottles now orange jelly crystals." "the carpark the surface of Mars." "the gum leaves glowing with hydrolite phosphorescence.">> You walk with your hands in your pockets, thumbing old stones of quartz, shredding tissues, fidgeting with the wheel of your iPod shuffle. You take these streets apart and rebuild them on another planet. <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3150.0435855193646!2d145.1959752146327!3d-37.8592705797441!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad63ee954dd33e7%3A0xe65fa77aeaa9014e!2sVermont+South+Skateboard+Ramp!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1526796400203" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe> [[go back|maths class.]]

<<click "You take the train because it's quicker and you can walk down by the river.">><<replace "#live2">><s>You take the train because it's quicker and you can walk down by the river.</s> <</replace>> <</click>> [[You take the path where the street lights burn brightest, which isn't close to the river at all. White light is good, flourescent is better. You can only get the tram from Parliment, never the train.|streetlight]]

You have collected the Camberwell wish. <<pickup 'wish3'>> [[go back|Camberwell]]

[[Dad's new house|mower]] is a good house, and he's doing a good job of making it feel like his home, but it's weird. Every now and then I'll spot something that used to be at <<click "Mum and Dad's house.">><<replace "#link1">><<click "Mum and Dad's old house.">><<replace "#link2">>Mum's house.<</replace>><</click>><</replace>><</click>> Paintings that were in the kitchen, now in a different loungeroom. A set of nesting tables, a set of dishes, a set of placemats. Your favourite set of mugs painted with large lemons and jasmine flowers. You still look for them when you make Mum a cup of tea at <<click "their house.">><<replace "#live1">>her house.<</replace>> <</click>> It feels like dream logic. You see things you recognise, in places that you don't, but you go along with it anyway. You know it's all wrong, but it still feels okay. [[Go to Ringwood|Ringwood]] [[Go to Nunawading|Nunawading]]

When you are around 16 or 17, you find your Dad outside, mowing the front lawn and screaming. You know that he is on anti-depressants, but you don't know what coming off anti-depressants can do to a person. You don't know how to handle seeing your Dad without his shit together. <<click "You don't want him to be in pain.">><<replace "#live1">><s> You don't want him to be in pain.</s> You don't want to [[see him in pain.]]<</replace>> <</click>>

Your expectations of spending time at Jacqui's house never really match up with the results; hang outs that you almost ditch for a night at home end up being some of the [[best nights of your teenage life|good time]], while parties you look forward to for weeks have you leaving early and feeling like a sad, vulnerable square, edges pink and sore from trying to [[shove yourself into a different shape.|bad time]] You'd think you'd almost be able to reverse engineer it, to take the creeping dread as a sign that you were actually going to have a good time. Like the way you watch the clock for [[11:11]] so you don't miss your chance to make a wish. [[Go to Richmond|Richmond]] [[Go to Flinders Street|Belgrave]]

The best new years you ever have is at Jacqui's house. It is 40 degrees C and you spend the night drinking vodka cruisers on the roof of the apartment complex. At one point, <<cyclinglink " you climb across to the roof of a public carpark to get a better look at the family hour fireworks and have to get a secruity guard to let you out" "you spend an hour dropping water baloons from her sixth floor balcony onto the hot concrete. You almost hit a well dressed couple on their way to a party, and in response, the guy throws a nearly full can of Smirnoff Ice back at you. It doesn't even get close to reaching the second floor, and explodes on him and his girlfriend" "you talk for a long while and it must be light and easy and fun because later you won't remember anything you've said">>. The heat and the midnight fireworks going off over the waves of the Southern Cross station roof made it feel like you'd snuck down to some secret feral beach, ready to terrorise anyone who dared to flaunt anything like romance on New Years Eve. [[Go back to Jacqui's house|Jacqui's House]]

You sit at the kitchen table with a bottle of sambuca in the middle. The room is hot and loud, you would rather be sitting outside on a roof, or at least the balcony. The friends you came with have gone home but you decided to stay. You are regretting it now. You are trying to talk, but the words are getting caught and torn on the way up your throat. What you want to say collides with what you think they want to hear, and what comes out is a mangled version of both. "So what do you do?" <<click "I'm at uni, studying Animal Science and Management, I'm going to be a vet. But I do a lot of writing in my spare time, I'm thinking that I might also like to write a book one day.">><<replace "#link1">><s>"I'm at uni, studying Animal Science and Management, I'm going to be a vet. But I do a lot of writing in my spare time, I'm thinking that I might also like to write a book one day."</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<click "I'm studying at Melbourne uni, it's a really great time, lots of stuff going on. Architechture in Helsinki played a gig at the North Court BBQ last week.">><<replace "#link2">><s>"I'm studying at Melbourne uni, it's a really great time, lots of stuff going on. Architechture in Helsinki played a gig at the North Court BBQ last week." </s> <</replace>> <</click>> [["I study Animal Science and Management at Melbourne uni."|Animal Science at Uni]]

When you visit the green stations, you'll be given the chance to check for the time. If the time is 11:11, you'll collect a wish. Keep the wish to unlock hidden options and pieces of story. If and when you want to use your wishes is up to you. [[Back|Jacqui's House]]

Jacqui is the first of your friends from high school to start paying rent. Instead of shredding herself through Year 12 like the rest of you, she quit half way and got a full time job. She chose this building because it is close to her work, and it was close to the emo clubs you all go to on Thursdays and<<click "Saturdays">><<removeclass "#map1" "hidden">><</click>>. She shares the place with one other housemate, who also works full time, but even with the two of them they are only just able to cover the rent. In the summer she rations out days they can use the air conditioner to keep the electricity bill down. Still, you would give up all of your air-conditioned days to <<click "live there.">><<replace "#live1">><s>live there </s> be her.<</replace>> <</click>> <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3151.7240331908256!2d144.95206421800432!3d-37.81993249714121!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad65d51851e6ab5%3A0x1d0d75167ad0d1ae!2sSpencer+Street!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1526792483426" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe> [[Get off at Jacqui's House|Jacqui's House]]

Towards the natural falling apart of your friendship, you become wary of looking forward to going to that apartment, and then the apartment she moves into after, but you kept going. <<replacelink>> You keep going with the hope that maybe this time you would unearth another gem.<<becomes>> <s> You keep going with the hope that maybe this time you would unearth another gem.</s> I kept going because I was afraid I would miss out on someone unearthing the biggest gem yet <</replacelink>>. You keep going to her house until you [[stop keeping up with where she lives.]]

Jacqui is definitely the coolest person you know, and you're probably not a very good friend to her. You look back on the nights you spend in her apartment, and imagine that to her <<replacelink>>you probably seem like the biggest narc.<<becomes>> <s> You probably seemed like the biggest narc.</s> My problem is that I am so sure I don't really fit anywhere, and so I end up blunting all my own edges on purpose. <</replacelink>> [[Next station|Richmond]]

[[Southern Cross]] [[Richmond]] <s> East Richmond </s> [[Burnley]] <s>Hawthorn</s> <s>Glenferrie</s> <s>Auburn</s> [[Camberwell]] <s>East Camberwell</s> <s> Cantebury</s> <s> Chatham </s> <s> Surrey Hills </s> <s> Mont Albert </s> <s>Box Hill</s> <s> Laburnum </s> <s> Blackburn </s> [[Nunawading]] [[Mitcham]] [[Heatherdale]] [[Ringwood]]

"Oh cool! What's that like?" <<click "Yeah, it's cool! The Agriculture Science kids are wild. The student society put on a party in the underground carpark near our labs, and the Ag kids started a massive beer fight with all the leftover cans.">><<replace "#link1">><s>"Yeah, it's cool! The Agriculture Science kids are wild. The student society put on a party in the underground carpark near our labs, and the Ag kids started a massive beer fight with all the leftover cans."</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<click "I hate it. All my friends know what they want to do after uni is over, but I don't. It really freaks me out, thinking about it actually.">><<replace "#link2">><s>"I hate it. All my friends know what they want to do after uni is over, but I don't. It really freaks me out, thinking about it actually."</s> <</replace>> <</click>> [["It's cool. A bit too math heavy, but it's alright."|freaked out]]

"So are you going to be a vet?" <<replacelink>> "Nah, I started out wanting to be a vet, but then I decided it was just not my thing." <<becomes>> <s> "Nah, I started out wanting to be a vet, but then I decided it was just not my thing."</s> <</replacelink>> <<replacelink>> "I'm actually rethinking everything I ever thought I wanted to do with my life. What I really want is to chuck it all in and do an arts degree." <<becomes>> <s>"I'm actually rethinking everything I ever thought I wanted to do with my life. What I really want is to chuck it all in and do an arts degree."</s><</replacelink>> "No, I'm not smart enough to be a vet, and also I'm actually pretty freaked out by blood."

"Okay. Cool! Random question, what star sign are you?" <<click "Oh, definitely a fire sign">><<replace "#link2">><s>"Oh, definitely a fire sign"</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<click "Oh, I'm Sagittarius, with Libra rising and moon in Leo">><<replace "#link1">><s>"Oh, I'm Sagittarius, with Libra rising and moon in Leo"</s> <</replace>> <</click>> "Oh, a Sagittarius I think, <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU703AU703&ei=dYpEW6GNO4ql8AX-ubWIAw&q=what+happens+if+you+don%27t+fit+your+star+sign&oq=what+happens+if+you+don%27t+fit+your+star+sign&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i22i29i30k1l2.2783.22667.0.23172.44.33.0.11.11.0.295.5601.0j7j19.26.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..7.37.5665...0j35i39k1j0i131k1j0i67k1j0i3k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1.0.hSYREw7_iUM" target="blank"> I'm not sure though.</a> " [[What about you?|What do you do?]]

"Okay you guys, let's finish off this sambucca." "Where are we gonna go tonight?" "Let's go to Bang!" "Fuck yeah, do you remember when the toilets flooded and everyone just danced in the corridor full of maybe toilet water anyway?" "That place is rank, I love it." "You coming?" <<click "Hell yeah!">><<replace "#link1">><s>"Hell yeah!"</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<click "I was there when that flood thing happened! It was gross, but also kind of fun. I'm in.">><<replace "#link2">><s>"I was there when that flood thing happened! It was gross, but also kind of fun. I'm in."</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<click "Yeah, okay.">><<replace "#link3">><s>"Yeah, okay."</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<click "Yeah, I guess, if you don't mind me tagging along.">><<replace "#link4">><s> "Yeah, I guess, if you don't mind me tagging along." </s><</replace>> <</click>> [["Actually, I'm pretty tired, I think I'm gonna just go home."|go home]]

You walk down to the intersection together, they turn right towards King St and you turn left towards the tram stop outside the station. You give Jacqui a hug and wave the others goodbye. You watch them walk up the street, laughing loud as they shrink into the dark. <<click "Hey, actually, I might come just for a bit.">><<replace "#link1">><s>"Hey, actually, I might come just for a bit."</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<click "The trams have stopped, guess I have to come out now hey.">><<replace "#link2">><s>"The trams have stopped, guess I have to come out now hey."</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<replacelink>> Use your wish <<becomes>> <<if $wishonetwothreefour>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">><<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishtwothreefour>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">><<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonethreefour>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">><<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishthreefour>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonefour>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishtwofour>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishfour>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonetwothree>>\You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishonethree>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishtwothree>>\You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishonetwo>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish2'>> <<elseif $wishone>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish1'>> <<elseif $wishtwo>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish2'>> <<elseif $wishthree>>\ You go and have a sit in a small quiet dive bar around the corner from the club. Have a drink with yourself, take the book out that you were reading on the train. Take some time to feel your shape, to remember what yourself looks like. Sit with your sore parts until they're just your parts again, until you're ready to <<cyclinglink "go meet them at club""go home">> <<drop 'wish3'>> <<else>>\ You don't have a wish to use. <</if>> <</replacelink>> [[go back to Jacqui's house|Jacqui's House]] <<set $wishonetwothreefour to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishonetwofour to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish4')>> <<set $wishtwothreefour to invAll('wish2','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishoneonethreefour to invAll('wish1','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishonetwothree to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish3')>> <<set $wishonethree to invAll('wish1','wish3')>> <<set $wishtwothree to invAll('wish2','wish3')>> <<set $wishonetwo to invAll('wish1','wish2')>> <<set $wishone to invAll('wish1')>> <<set $wishtwo to invAll('wish2')>> <<set $wishthree to invAll('wish3')>> <<set $wishfour to invAll('wish4')>>

Jacqui is definitely the coolest person you know, and you're probably not a very good friend to her. Towards the natural falling apart of your friendship, you don't enjoy going to her apartment much, but you still keep going. You keep going because what if tonight's the night you unearth another gem? What if it's the [[biggest gem yet?|good time]] You spend the train ride home worrying that to her you must seem <<click "too anxious.">><<replace "#link1">><<click "pretty boring.">><<replace "#link2">><<click "like the biggest nark.">><<replace "#link3">><s>like the biggest nark.</s> Your problem is that you are so sure you don't really fit anywhere, and so you end up blunting all your own edges on purpose.<</replace>><</click>><</replace>><</click>><</replace>><</click>>

Everyone knows about the Ghost House in Forest Hill. You know that it used to belong to a farmer who had an orchard there. You know that you were not supposed to go to the that field at night. In your head it is on the blocks of land where the old <<click "Wobbies World">><<removeclass "#map2" "hidden">><</click>> used to be, a childrens theme park that closed down for safety reasons a couple of months after you moved into the area. [[Get off at the Ghost House|Ghost House]] [[Go to Mitcham|Mitcham]] [[Go to Burnley|Burnley]] <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3150.6193149133555!2d145.16928231463223!3d-37.84579707974656!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad63f1803a9f6c1%3A0xc1ae50fb1e6a2ce5!2sForest+Hill+Police+Station!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1526795564857" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

You are not afraid of ghosts when you are a kid, but you are afraid of death. When you are twelve you have to start seeing a child psycologist after watching Final Destination at a sleep over birthday party. You see a plane fly past your classroom window and it traps you in unending thoughts of how your loved ones could die; <<cyclinglink "in a plane crash" "in a car accident" "in a bike accident" "by falling in front of a train" "in a house fire" "in a breaking and entering" "in a convenience store hold up" "in the train hi-jacking" "in a bombing" "in a skiing accident" "in a water-skiing accident" "in a boating accident" "drowning">>. The child psychologist is supposed to help you break the cycle, but all she really does for you is get you out of [[maths class.]]

One of your favourite things to do as a teenager is to wander the streets near the Ghost House [[late at night.|wandering young]] You do it even though your mum tells you you should be just as [[scared of that|wandering old]] as you are of her dying in a plane crash. [[Go to Mitcham|Mitcham]] [[Go to Burnley|Burnley]]

Your friends who are in couples always walk a few steps behind, holding hands, lagging to kiss against the low brick wall, one maybe standing on a milk crate to reach the height of the other. You are never part of a couple, but that is okay, because you don't want to lag. Lagging meant missing something important, a joke or story you'll need to remember for later on, to keep on proving that <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU703AU703&ei=yJNEW9qTL8v88QX2zbiABQ&q=how+do+i+know+if+I+like+girls%3F&oq=how+do+i+know+if+I+like+girls%3F&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30k1.23176.35016.0.35291.33.20.13.0.0.0.250.3296.0j5j11.16.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..6.6.644...35i39k1.0.PKSFJb5ecbM" target="blank">you still belong.</a> A bower-bird for 'boy stuff', you scatter references to things you know they like, like <<cyclinglink "cable ties""cellophane""the shells of four colour pens">>. You ask to borrow one of their hoodies on a [[cold night|bonfire]], and on a [[warm night|movies]] you walk barefoot, shoes tied by the laces around your waist. [[Go to Ringwood|Ringwood]] [[Go to Nunawading|Nunawading]]

Instead of shredding herself through Year 12 like the rest of you, Jacqui quit half way and got a full time job. She chose this building because it's close to her work, and to the She chose this building because it is close to her work, and it was close to the emo clubs you all go to on Thursdays and <<click "Saturdays">><<removeclass "#map1" "hidden">><</click>>. She shares the place with one other housemate, who also works full time, but even with the two of them they are only just able to cover the rent. In the summer she rations out days they can use the air conditioner to keep the electricity bill down. Still, you would give up all of your air-conditioned days to <<click "live there.">><<replace "#live1">><s>live there </s> be her. <</replace>> <</click>> <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d12607.721305228573!2d144.94349672238155!3d-37.81510092451883!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0x3a5ced3fce8bf91c!2sRoyal+Melbourne+Hotel!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1526882854612" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe> [[Get off at Jacqui's House|Jacqui's House]] [[Go to Richmond|Richmond]] [[Go to Flinders Street|Flinders Street]]

You go to the kitchen to call Mum, who is at Coles doing the weekly shop, and tell her that Dad is unravelling. You think she'll rush home right away, but she stays to finish her shopping first. You watch from the living room window for her car to pull into the driveway, chewing off all your fingernails, something [[Dad always yells at your for doing.]]

Mum seems to know what to do when she got back. She talks him into coming inside, even though all that mowing and screaming is probably doing him some good, and maybe you should've just left him alone to shout his pain into the mouth of the mower, and let it all be cut up like grass. He comes in and apologises to you, says he is sorry for scaring you. You tell him that it is okay and <<click "that it is going to be okay.">><<replace "#link1">><<click "that you are sorry.">><<replace "#link2">><<click "that you appreciate everything he is doing for you.">><<replace "#link3">><<click "that you love him.">><<replace "#link4">>and then you get on a bus down to the <<click "shopping centre">><<removeclass "#map11" "hidden">><</click>> and spend your meager part time paycheck on CDs to make yourself [[feel better.]]<</replace>><</click>><</replace>><</click>><</replace>><</click>><</replace>><</click>> <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3149.596390443365!2d145.24107541448402!3d-37.86973324501945!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad63c3e6d684b99%3A0x44886e147d3bfd2f!2sJB+Hi-Fi!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1526910567863" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <<replacelink>> Use your wish <<becomes>> <<if $wishonetwothreefour>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishtwothreefour>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonethreefour>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishthreefour>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonefour>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishtwofour>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishfour>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonetwothree>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishonethree>>\You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishtwothree>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishonetwo>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish2'>> <<elseif $wishone>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish1'>> <<elseif $wishtwo>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish2'>> <<elseif $wishthree>>\ You go outside and take all the grass clippings and put them in compost bin. You dig up the weeds that he's left in the lawn, so that when he's calmed down he won't have to go out and dowse it with chemicals. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<else>>\You don't have a wish to use. <</if>> <</replacelink>> <<set $wishonetwothreefour to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishonetwofour to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish4')>> <<set $wishtwothreefour to invAll('wish2','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishoneonethreefour to invAll('wish1','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishonetwothree to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish3')>> <<set $wishonethree to invAll('wish1','wish3')>> <<set $wishtwothree to invAll('wish2','wish3')>> <<set $wishonetwo to invAll('wish1','wish2')>> <<set $wishone to invAll('wish1')>> <<set $wishtwo to invAll('wish2')>> <<set $wishthree to invAll('wish3')>> <<set $wishfour to invAll('wish4')>>

<<click "You go two stops too far, because you like the walk back past the skate park. Sometimes you stop to watch the kids skate in the dark, or to take photos of the grafitti under the park lights.">><<replace "#live2">><s>You go two stops too far, because you like the walk back past the skate park. Sometimes you stop to watch the kids skate in the dark, or to take photos of the grafitti under the park lights.</s> <</replace>> <</click>> [[You make sure you get off at the right stop, you don't want to have walk further back than you have to.|right stop]]

<<click "You walk with my headphones on and your music turned up, matching yout steps, stepping on cracks.">><<replace "#live3">><s>You walk with your headphones on and your music turned up, matching your steps, stepping on cracks.</s> <</replace>> <</click>> <<replacelink>> Use your wish <<becomes>> <<if $wishonetwothreefour>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishtwothreefour>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonethreefour>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishthreefour>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishfour>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish4'>> <<elseif $wishonetwothree>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishonethree>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishtwothree>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<elseif $wishonetwo>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish2'>> <<elseif $wishone>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish1'>> <<elseif $wishtwo>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back for nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish2'>> <<elseif $wishthree>>\ You buy a foam and wood LARPing sword and strap it to your back on nights you plan on staying out late. From a distance the sword looks real, and up close it still makes for a good weapon. <<drop 'wish3'>> <<else>>\You don't have a wish to use. <</if>> <</replacelink>> No space to imagine yourself on other planets, <<click "you are here">><<removeclass "#map4" "hidden">><</click>> to keep being here. <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3153.1139562181083!2d144.98081101463!3d-37.78736907975714!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad6433df351eb5d%3A0xf0456760531e920!2sEdinburgh+Gardens!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1526617387879" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe> [[go back|maths class.]] <<set $wishonetwothreefour to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishonetwofour to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish4')>> <<set $wishtwothreefour to invAll('wish2','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishoneonethreefour to invAll('wish1','wish3','wish4')>> <<set $wishonetwothree to invAll('wish1','wish2','wish3')>> <<set $wishonethree to invAll('wish1','wish3')>> <<set $wishtwothree to invAll('wish2','wish3')>> <<set $wishonetwo to invAll('wish1','wish2')>> <<set $wishone to invAll('wish1')>> <<set $wishtwo to invAll('wish2')>> <<set $wishthree to invAll('wish3')>> <<set $wishfour to invAll('wish4')>>

Dad doesn't work in marketing anymore. He drives trains now, and the only time you've seen him cry since was when your niece was born, and when he told you he had decided to leave your mum. [[go back|Dads house]]

The Next Train to Depart is an interactive story about a life time of taking the train in and out of <<click "the city">><<removeclass "#map7" "hidden">><</click>>, and the different thoughts, feelings and memories that are now attached to the train stations. Some of the links will lead you through the story, some of them will lead on to new windows, and some won't lead you anywhere. As you move from station to station, you may be asked to check the time. If the time is 11:11, you'll be granted a wish. It's up to you when and where you want to use your wishes. <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d50422.47322963392!2d144.93524637112333!3d-37.82741341991718!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6ad642af0f11fd81%3A0x5045675218ce7e0!2sMelbourne+VIC+3004!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1526881439248" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe> This piece was made on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations. I pay respect to all elders past, present and emerging, who are the traditional owners of the land I'm working on and writing about. I acknowledge that this is stolen land, and that sovereignty has never been ceded. Alright? Alright, [[let's begin.|Belgrave]]

You have collected the Ringwood wish. <<pickup 'wish4'>> [[go back|Ringwood]]

You know Dad hates his job. He is in marketing, an industry that skews young, and much younger than he is now. You know that he is cracking up under the pressure of having to keep up with mortgage payments and food on the table for his wife and three kids. He sits you down one night at that table and tells you, through tears, all about how he isn't coping. Your Dad isn't afraid to cry in front of you, but you are afraid of seeing it. Whenever he looks like he is about to, you hide yourself away in [[another room.]]

You know Dad hates his job. He is in marketing, an industry that skews young, and much younger than he is now. You know that he is cracking up under the pressure of having to keep up with mortgage payments and food on the table for his wife and three kids. He sits you down one night at that table and tells us, through tears, all about how he isn't coping. Your Dad isn't afraid to cry in front of you, but you are afraid of seeing it. Whenever he looks like he is about to, you hide yourself away in [[another room.]]

Double-click this passage to edit it.