One Pill, Two Pill
You wake up in a featureless white room.
Actually, there's two things wrong with that sentence. Firstly, it's not so much a featureless white room as a featureless white void. No walls, no floor, just white -- forever, in every direction.
Secondly, it does have one feature: an old, maroon leather armchair. And sitting on that chair is a bald black man wearing extremely stylish mirrored sunglasses and a black leather coat.
"At last," he says, smiling. "Welcome, <player>. As you no doubt have guessed, I am Morpheus."
"Who?" you reply.
"I imagine," he continues, "that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice."
"Who?"
"Tumbling down the rabbit hole."
"Er..."
"I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of someone who accepts what they see because they are expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth."
He pulls a small silver box from his pocket and turns it over in his hands. "Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?"
"I haven't got the faintest damn idea."
"The Source."
"The what? What's that?"
"No one can be told what The Source is. You have to see it for yourself."
He opens the little silver box and takes out two pills, and holds them out for you to see. "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill -- the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill -- you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
"Do these pills get you wrecked?" you ask. "How many of them have you eaten already?"
| Take the red pill |
You take the red pill and swallow it; immediately you vision starts to waver and blur. "Jeez, these things come on pretty fast," you say.
"You are awakening to the truth," Morpheus says. "What is the Source? Control. The Source is a computer generated dream world, built to keep us under control."
"What, like a video game?"
"Well... similar to a video game, yes."
"Man, you should've just said instead of laying all that mumbo-jumbo on me. I'm totally into games."
"In a sense, that is precisely true," Morpheus nods. "When you wake up, you will see even more of the truth. The Oracle will help you further -- look for her on the wrong side of the tracks. And most importantly, watch out for the Agents."
"The what?" you ask, but your vision is fading into incomprehensible static and Morpheus is gone.
You acquire a skill: 
Source Punch
| Take the blue pill |
You take the blue pill from Morpheus's hand and eat it. It tastes like raspberry. "I'm pretty sure that was just a jellybean," you say. "Really?" he says. "Hmm. I may have brought the wrong box. We'd better just start over."
"Oh great," you say, rolling your eyes.
(reloads this encounter)
Occurs as introduction encounter from The Source special challenge path.
References
- Given the dialogue, the name of this non-combat adventure is a nod to Dr. Seuss's One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
