Choose Your Own Adventure: The Halloween Invitation

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Use Darker Times couple's costume interactive short story to help you find the costume you and your partner, friend, or kind stranger will wear this Halloween.

You've just received a text message from your best friend inviting you to a Halloween party. Now your girlfriend wants to plan the costume even though you think it's way too early. As you try to argue with her, the human-sized bat that lives in your house tries to intervene. The bat, your girlfriend, and Halloween inching closer, it's your time to pick a costume.

Even though the party is a couple of months away, your girlfriend wants you to decide on a couple's costume to wear now. Do you go along with her plans, pursue what you want to do, or allow the bat to finally enact THE PLAN? If you decide to listen to the bat, turn to page 13.

What happens next in the story? What costume will you wear to your friend's party? Your choices in the story determine what you wear to the party.