Neverending Urban Adventure

"This is a wonderful opportunity." you think to yourself. "How many people can actually say they've travelled back in time, other than Professor Zarf and those other two? Now, I'll get a chance to sample the pastoral wonders of a simpler way of life."

The street above takes your breath away. The buildings are tiny, just as you imagined they would be. Massive, roaring vehicles emitting clouds of noxious gas plow down the road, occasionally stopping to let pedestrians cross. You marvel that nobody is getting run over in all this chaos. You stumble as if in a daze through crowds of people and somehow end up in a darkened alley.

"You lost, boy?" a voice calls out as you make your way down the alleyway. Three large, dark-skinned men are walking toward you. They are wearing baggy pants and hooded jackets with strange letters on them. One of them laughs and makes a hand gesture you assume to be a friendly greeting in this time period.

"Why yes!" you say, mimicking the same gesture. "Thank you so much for offering to help! My name is Rod Belding, and I am a..."

You catch yourself in mid-sentence as the men surround you. You were about to say you were a time traveller from the future. Why would these primitive, albeit friendly people believe such a thing in an age when the cold fusion drive hasn't even been designed yet?

"Yo, I think this nigga's a cop." one of the men says.

"You a cop, muthaf*cka?!" another says, pushing you. You stumble back, chuckling. Why, if you didn't know any better, you'd almost think they were being hostile.

"Um... but of course!" you say, pushing him in return with a friendly grin. That's when something heavy and metallic slams into the back of your head, and you find yourself on the ground, being kicked in the stomach.

"Whoah! Ow!" you exclaim. "This must be some misunderstanding, gentlemen!"

1. You endure their friendly social ritual until they're done kicking you, then ask for directions to the nearest hotel.
2. Realizing they may mean you harm, you try to remember what you learned at your Neo Tai-Chi classes.
3. You run away and hide

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