Chapter 1
Alright, I've got a solution. This time, to make sure we don't get lost, I've employed the help of the Stanley Parable Adventure LineTM.. Stanley will just follow the line, and we'll get to the story! How simple is that!
With the help of the Stanley Parable Adventure LineTM., Stanley wandered through the offices in search of his missing coworkers. You see? The LineTM knows where the story is. Onward, Stanley! To destiny!
Though, here's a thought: wouldn't wherever we end up be our destination, even if there's no story there? Or to put it another way, is the story of no destination, still a story? Simply by the act of moving forward, are we implying a journey such that a destination is inevitably conjured into being via the very manifestation of the nature of life itself?
Oh, sorry. That got a bit weird. Here, why don't you listen to some music to lighten the mood while I think this out?
Now, obviously wherever we go is where we go. But does that change if we're supposed to know where we're supposed to go? If we were meant to be at point A for example, but ended up at Point B, would we end up causing this great cosmic unbalance? Or would whatever governed that decision that we needed to be at Point A figure out what we were doing and change their plans? Are we destined to arrive in certain places at certain times, or do we just like to think that because of all the things that do happen once we're there? And if every decision we make was already planned out in advance by God or Fate or Whatever, is there any decision we can make?
Wait! Stanley! Over there! Look at that fern! Yeah, that plastic fern that somebody had put in their office. It was a gorgeous plant, full of...ficus, and such. This fern will be very important later in the story. Make sure you study it closely and remember it carefully. You won't want to miss anything.
Stanley continued to follow the LineTM back to...wait. We're back at the office? No! No, no! LineTM, you do know we're looking for the Stanley Parable, right? The story, my story? Is any of this ringing a bell?
Oh, it looks like you branch off here again. Come on, let's go back to...oh no no no, not this room again! LineTM, how could you have done this to us, and after we trusted you! After everything we've been through, you-
Oh, I can't take it anymore. To hell with it. Restart.