<span class="mu-i">Welcome to Nightmare Quest, a Halloween one-shot by yours truly. This will not be a heroic tale. Survival to the very end is a reward of its own, and not one that's guaranteed. If you have the heart to stomach it, then I have only one warning left for you:</span>
<span class="mu-s">Readers beware...YOU choose the scare!</span>


You let out a weary sigh, briefly blinding yourself in favor of pinching your eyes to rub some of your exhaustion out of them. It's not really something you should be doing while driving, but you reason that it's fine - you haven't seen another soul on the road in the past three hours, and it's as straight as a road can be for the next five miles at least. A slight bump in the road causes you to curse as you poke yourself in the eye, and you're quick to throw both hands back on the wheel just in case.

Blinking stars out of your vision, you see that you're still driving down the road, perfectly safe. The front end of the truck seems fine, and there's <span class="mu-i">still</span> absolutely nothing out there. It was probably just a pothole, one that'll never get fixed out here in the woods. If not, then you'd wager it being a particularly unlucky squirrel. You don't really want to stop and check, since you're only an hour away from your final destination and you're <span class="mu-s">eager</span> to get some rest for the night. You've been driving since <span class="mu-r">dawn</span>, after all, and it's probably close to <span class="mu-b">midnight</span> already.

Seconds pass, and you find yourself chewing at your cheek. What if you damaged a tire? Or worse, an axle? You'd be shit out of luck if your truck crapped out on you out here. Some small part of you also worries that it wasn't a pothole, and that you hit something or someone that's now injured and needs help - you try not to think about that too much.

Perhaps you should go back and check to see what it was you hit? Or at least stop here and check on the damages...though, you can't deny that a more selfish part of you says that you should keep going until you hit your destination - repairs can <span class="mu-i">maybe</span> wait until tomorrow, assuming there's even any that need done!

>Pull over here and now, check for any potential damages.
>Do a U-turn, head back a couple hundred feet to see what you hit.
>Keep on trucking, you are NOT going to get out in some dark forest in the middle of nowhere at MIDNIGHT.

As for your current destination...where was it, again?

>A cabin that you inherited from your recently-deceased grandfather. You want to see if he left any memorabilia there.
>A particularly cheap apartment building in a small town that you recently purchased. You need to check on the tenants and make sure the building is up to code!
>A hotel. You heard about a circus being set up in the place you're heading to, and you plan to check it out tomorrow.
>Somewhere else? (Write-in!)