What's happened?


All is black.....

Now it starts coming back to you . . . you were on your way back from classes for the day. It had been a long day full of lengthy, difficult assignments and hard-to-understand lectures. You were listening to a CD (Place your favorite here) and humming along as you neared your home. You're definitely glad you brought your CD player along, 'cause the radio has been the same 6 songs over and over all month. Really into the music you didn't notice the movement in the bushes, and you were unpleasantly surprised when something biffed you in the back of the head. Quickly losing consciousness, the last thing you remember seeing is the sidewalk as it sped toward your face.

At first, you think you've gone blind, but after you blink a couple times, you notice something glowing beside your foot. Oh yeah, it's that glow-in-the-dark trout you picked up at the store the other day. Well, at least you know you're not blind. You pick up the trout and squeeze it behind the gills, knowing that this trout is also a flashlight. The beam emanating from the trout's mouth reveals you've somehow ended up in the middle of a cave.

You realize that your head hurts all over, and put your hands up to check for blood. Finding nothing disgusting, you set about exploring the cave. After a thorough search, you find three exits from the cavern you're in, as well as a piece of paper that reveals a little about your predicament.

The paper reads, in huge, messy writing:

We heard you making disparaging remarks about our songs over the past summer. Now it's time to pay you back. (over)

You flip the paper over and read:
You'll never make it out alive!!!
MWA HA HA!
We'll all make sure you never escape!
Hanson, Britney Spears, N'Sync, etc (Insert annoying mini-kid pop band here)

You never though making fun of whiny, rich pop music mini-kids would get you in such a mess, but you guess they take their 'art' personally. You can only imagine what evil is lurking in this cave, like Hanson elevator music, and deadly creatures that sing "Hit Me Baby One More Time" (wouldn't you like to?) until your head explodes and you lie twitching on the floor.

Now you're angry, you're finding your way out of this cave and revealing to the world the true mission of these evildoers, "To take over the world through popular music." Vowing to never let that happen, you select one of the tunnels leading from this cavern and set out to escape.

Which tunnel will you sample?

The tunnel that had the paper by it, which looks innocent enough, but also has strange noises coming from it.
A smaller, quieter tunnel to the right of the first
or
A third tunnel on the opposite side of the cavern, lurking behind a large column.

Remember that each step could lead to a run-in with evil, so watch what you're doing.

Any Web o' Deceit reference to certain musical groups is all in good fun, and is not meant to reflect that pop music is Evil, although the author may think that.