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Three Faces Forward

Today's chapter—

* Interactive: "A Stolen Life" 
* Entry: "A Stolen Life" 

—ends with three choices, but instead of picking one choice and pushing on from there, I'm going spend the next three days publishing the sequel to each choice. This branch has been going in a straight line for almost twenty chapters, and except for two one-chapter buds it has been going in a straight line for sixty of them. I'm not sure that's a record for BoM, but it's got to be pretty close to one.

So that's one reason I want to make an on-the-record split decision here. The other is that I do see multiple ways of pushing the story forward, now that the full set of tools is available to Will and Caleb and Gordon, and I want to set up some of those choices. The chapters that come tomorrow will not offer specific scenarios and impersonations, but they will collectively set up lots of general possibilities and several different motivations.