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So if you haven't figured it out yet, today's Blind Plinko poll should make it clear where in the interactive I'm writing: [Poll completed and deleted.] Meanwhile, here is today's chapter: Interactive: "The Winding Trail" Public: "The Winding Trail" I had a couple of challenges while writing this storyline. One of them was figuring out where the mask was going to end up even as I didn't know where you guys were ultimately going to steer the story. I wanted at least several plausible chutes for the mask to fall down, so that there'd be a chance of Will taking a wrong turn while chasing it. At the same time, I didn't want to put it at the end of a path that the readers didn't choose -- that would be too frustrating -- or take him to it too quickly -- that would be too anticlimactic. So I had to keep playing shell games with it, moving it from place to place and opening paths to alternate developments, until you guys finally made a decisive move in one direction or another. So far there have been three ways for it to slip from Will's grasp. Today's chapter brings a fourth. After that, we'll come to grips with things. |