Storm Warning (Choose your own adventure)

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You find a small park in a quiet area of town and sit down on a bench. You place the black box in front of you and start reading the data on the holographic readout. You find out that the airship, built almost a century ago, was used for transporting supplies and goods across the empire.

Most of the information after that is pretty dull, just cargo reports and such. But then you get to the last few entries. A few decades ago, when a civil war broke out, the airship was used for transporting medical supplies. Eventually, its engines were damaged while transporting supplies across the battlefield. As it was lying in a hangar, out of use and waiting to be fixed, an unnamed person slipped aboard and tried to fly the ship out of the hangar, but didn't get that far and was shot down over the mountains.

You look at the security footage and recognise the person...a long billowing trench coat, a metal gauntlet... It's you! But why did you try to hijack and fly off with the airship? Where you trying to escape someone? The person who shot down the ship? You have lots of valuable information, but you can't make sense of it...you've still got to put together the rest of the puzzle. If you explore the library next for some answers, turn to 2. If you go have a drink at the tavern, turn to 9. If you'd rather return back to where you are staying, turn to 21.