Another CYOA (Choose your own adventure) for my fellow Hexbears.
Pick one option.
I probably would choose the Diner. Since free and good food sounds amazing.
Library or forest
this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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Dont piss on the books when you are in the library
Oh I thought this was a free country
Loft: free housing and utilities; no clear downsides
Diner: infinite free food; no clear downsides
Hotel: free temporary housing; unclear limitations on length of stay; implied risk of Shining-style shenanigans from guests
Shop: scope of shop stock and allowable "purchases" unclear; potentially infinite garbage
Forest: infinite free food; guaranteed restful sleep; time freezing outside while passing inside presumably causes you to age and die at least 33% faster relative to those outside if you sleep there every night
Library: access to knowledge in "known universe" presumably limits scope to things that a human of earth already knows; learning requires unassisted research; similar temporal risks to forest coupled with explicit risk of being lost in extra-planar space.
I'm moving into the Loft. If the magical door is always four left turns away, then it should be there even if I travel across the country, right? Traveling all around and always having my house nearby sounds pretty cool.
Holy shit, you're right. Also being able to move without actually needing to save for deposit and rent. Like, you could do trial runs of living in different cities / states. Also harder for a country to tell you've illegally moved there. I choose this one too, as long as my cat is able to stay in the loft when my partner or I aren't there.
Free rent without my parents would be a dream.
The loft :3
I love these, they're always a good pastime.
I choose the library. I'd have to tie a length of string at the entrance in an attempt to keep my bearings.
Bunch of nerds here not figuring out how to metagame the system. Choose the shop, purchase a couple of new phones "free of charge" every week, sell em on Facebook marketplace, use the $5000 a month you're making to live the rest of your life on easy street.
Also, hotel and loft are pretty much the same. I guess the hotel has other people in it and cleans itself but that's a minor difference.
being forced to use Facebook Marketplace every week in order to live is a curse I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
"purchase" a small armory, use it to arm a guerilla army, but yknow 'within reason' no SAM emplacements
and it will be all plasma rifles and techno-magical disintegration beam wands and other extradimensional awesomeness.
imagine what 
but with a 2 gigajoule plasma caster from Universe-853
cringe and grindset pilled
Death to America
hmu with that delicious forest fruit and 
naps on beds of soft soft moss
Death to America
The Diner, Library, or Forest.
I think I'd pick Forest just to have a place to think without having to worry about losing time. Like if I really need to be alone and have restful sleep and delicious food, I can't beat that.
If I'm having a bad day or just want more sleep, I can find some fruit, read a book and return when I'm ready.
The Diner is cool because good food again and just meeting people. It would be cool to just watch the day go by while enjoying free food in a secluded booth. Or I sit at the counter and chat with people.
I like knowing things and the library seems cool. I just wish I had infinite time to enjoy it. I would procrastinate returning so hard if I find a good book.
Final decision - Forest.
The forest because it's good for-rest lmao
Honestly, yeah.
Forests, since that's my go-to irl. I will say that as a former second-shifter and insomniac the 24 hour diner has been a touchstone in my life time and time again.
The Forest for sure, assuming that magical deep rest works even on my ME/CFS. Can't do any of the others without my health anyway
If I wasn't sick, though, I'd pick the shop. For stress relief sometimes I enjoy making massive wishlists of items I never actually buy, and this is like the upgraded version of that. Just seems like it'd be fun to wander and marvel and gather and choose... Plus it's the one that is most likely to be helpful to your outside life and other people you care about.
dinerchads, where you at??
Finally a fellow food enjoyer
think of the fruit! the fruit!!!! in the forest!!!!!!!!!
Death to America
Library and Hotel supremacy
all yalls lofts are gonna be lonely, imma be pals with hotel people. same consideration makes the diner desirable but it's probably better to have access to a bed unless the diner is fine with drunken crashing in booths
CYOA (Cover Your Own Ass)
The signs aren't written in English though, so good luck figuring it out.
Hahahaha monolingual Anglos btfo.
Anglo moment
When I was very little I had dreams of visiting a secret library with an elf librarian. I'd go Library if it wasn't for the fact that it requires me to bring my own food which means I have to leave to buy food which means I must work in order to have money to buy food which means it's not much different from my current situation if you consider the internet to be the Library in my pocket.
Hotel is the best. Especially if the rooms and food are free. Hopefully there are good restaurants and maybe a nice hotel jazz bar to hang out in, and if I ever want to be alone I can just go to a room. That honestly sounds magical.
Loft me
No rent would make life so much easier
The library. (Unless that's where all the libs are.)
The money I'm not spending on rent will allow me to bring a small turbine into the forest, then connect it to a waterwheel below my ewok loft. I will be up to some Myst tinkering. I need the time, food, and rest effects more than the internet.
The Forest.
Peaceful. Quiet. No people to bother me (great for Introverts). A place to get good sleep. Fresh locally sourced food. Perfect weather.
My kind of escape from this hell world.
The library. All I do in my free time is mostly just reading and solving math problems.
Forest. I die there, k bye!
Forest everytime
I'm hitting the Hotel. Gonna take a nap and take a break from it all for a bit.
anything but the Grand Hotel Abyss
cozy loft
Are there other animals in the forest? If so I'm choosing that
An inter-dimensional hotel sounds pretty sweet for people watching and I do always yearn for a good hotel stay.