text: [Themes: Historical, Dino Rampage, nonhuman protagonist, silly]
  
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  Your long sleep is over. You open your eyes to a world of green leaves and a rising sun. The air around you is filled with pollen and insects. Your parents will have left months ago, leaving this land to you alone, for a growing mangiasaur needs all the food it can find.
  
  [ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 0 ]
  
  [Author's Note: You are a young dinosaur-like monster who needs to eat everything in sight so you can grow big & strong, gain special powers, and ultimately rule over a tribe of puny humans.]
  
  > About you
  You are a mangiasaur. You were born into your treetop home and left to hibernate until to you were old enough to fulfill your destiny: to eat and grow.
  
  > take the trees
  A mangiasaur has no pockets. It has only a stomach.
  
  > eat
  I don't understand what you are trying to eat.
  
  You spot a nearby caterpillar behaving strangely; apparently having finished eating, it seems to be busy defecating! It squirms around on its branch, excreting little grey blobs all around itself. After watching for a short while, you realize that it's building a shell out of this dejection! Moments later, it's completely covered in its cocoon.
  
  > eat the cocoon
  (Your score has increased by 3)
  It's not like it can run away. You scrape the dry little thing off its branch and chew. It tastes pretty awful. In fact, it almost seems to hurt! Besides the dry, stringiness of it, you feel a mild stinging sensation in your mouth! You can feel the hunger relenting as you digest, but the your body doesn't seem to know what to do with the food. You won't grow any larger from such a small bite, but you feel growth nonetheless...in your shoulders. You bleed briefly and squirm from the pain, beginning to wish you had just left the little wad of bug alone until you realize ... you have not grown bigger, but you have grown wings.
  
  A small fly buzzes past you, en route to its lunch at a tiny pink flower bud nearby.
  
  > look at the wings
  You see no such thing.
  
  A caterpillar cocoon nearby begins to stir, seemingly trying to wiggle free of the branch it previously clung to with such tenacity! After a moment, though, rather than shaking loose, it simply cracks open and a golden brown moth flutters out. The moth alights on a branch nearby, flapping its wings idly for a moment before taking off in flight.
  
  > eat the moth
  By the time you see the moth, it's no longer there. They move too fast for you to eat them.
  
  > fly after the moth
  You're not really willing to fly if it doesn't lead directly to food or a new dining location.
  
  A small fly buzzes past you, en route to its lunch at a tiny pink flower bud nearby.
  
  > eat fly
  (Your score has increased by 1)
  They fill the air around you and it's easy to pounce on one.
  There is a satisfying crunch as you snap your mouth shut on its squishy little body. A little rumination and the fly slides down your gullet into your belly.
  The fly's nutrients are exactly what you need to grow bigger and stronger. A good meal. You'll be satisfied for a while now. While you digest the bug, your body grows a little bit larger.
  
  Your stomach is finishing off its contents. Soon you will need more food.
  
  [ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 1 ]
  
  > Continue
  They fill the air around you and it's easy to pounce on one.
  There is a satisfying crunch as you snap your mouth shut on its squishy little body. A little rumination and the fly slides down your gullet into your belly.
  The fly's nutrients are exactly what you need to grow bigger and stronger. The food fills that last bit of space in your powerful belly. While you digest the bug, your body grows a little bit larger.
  
  [ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 2 ]
  
  > About yourself
  You are a mangiasaur. You were born into your treetop home and left to hibernate until to you were old enough to fulfill your destiny: to eat and grow.
  
  A small fly buzzes past you, en route to its lunch at a tiny pink flower bud nearby.
  
  > examine the flower
  The trees here sprout flowers from their branches. While you don't see any in bloom, the nearby branches are covered in buds.
  
  You are hungry. It is time to eat.
  
  > eat fly
  They fill the air around you and it's easy to pounce on one.
  There is a satisfying crunch as you snap your mouth shut on its squishy little body. A little rumination and the fly slides down your gullet into your belly.
  The fly's nutrients are exactly what you need to grow bigger and stronger. The food fills that last bit of space in your powerful belly. While you digest the bug, your body grows a little bit larger.
  
  [ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 3 ]
  
  > eat fly
  They fill the air around you and it's easy to pounce on one.
  There is a satisfying crunch as you snap your mouth shut on its squishy little body. A little rumination and the fly slides down your gullet into your belly.
  The fly's nutrients are exactly what you need to grow bigger and stronger. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. While you digest the bug, your body grows a little bit larger.
  
  [ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 4 ]
  
  > eat the buds
  (Your score has increased by 1)
  You stoop to bite one off the branch and catch a whiff of the sweet pollen in the air around it.
  
  When you bite into the little bud, a burst of delicious, syrupy nectar squirts out.
  The sugary nectar contained in the bud is a wonderful treat. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. You will never grow fat on these little treats though.