H) You decide that the best thing to do is to stay put. The drums get louder, and faster, and then stop. The hunters enter the hut wearing hideous masks, decorated with feathers and beads, the emblems of allegiance to the Huna tribe. Their bodies are painted in various colors. They take you out into the firelight. Everyone just stares at you as your eyes adjust to the glare. You sit down next to the tribal elders and the shaman, a person in the tribe who claims to have contact with the supernatural world. The shaman goes into a trance and tells you strange myths, and other stories of gods, goddesses, and the supernatural. One myth tells of the creation of the world. Another tells how the moon stole some light from the sun, and how now the sun forever chases the moon across the sky. Stories of animal gods and human heroes fill your mind. After telling these myths, you hear about the Tutok tribe, and the evils this tribe has committed against the people of the Huna tribe. The Tutoks are your tribal enemy. After these stories, the elders pray to the animal spirits to enter into the shaman. It is nearly daybreak. The shaman pulls out a long knife and strides toward you.

Do you?

I) RUN

J) SIT STILL

START OVER

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