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You manage to get quite a ways into the forest without running into any of those spooky monsters. With a sigh of relief, you pause to catch your breath and look around, trying to figure out what to do with this newfound freedom.

Your interest is piqued when you notice an old, overgrown road leading off into the woods. Your soul is soothed when you hear the bubbling of a stream from somewhere nearby. And your sense of foreboding begins to tingle as you notice a dark thicket of trees on a nearby hillside. It's not the ''darkest'' hillside thicket you've ever seen, but it's definitely one of the darker.

Which way will you go?

*''During the [[Spooky Forest Quest]]:''

Maybe you ought to look for that mosquito larva the Council wants. You think back to everything you know about mosquitoes.

a) They're annoying.<br/>
b) They spread disease.<br/>
c) They lay eggs in water. 

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{{button|Follow the old road}}
{{choice|name=The Road Less Traveled|image=road.gif|noline=y
|choice1name=Follow the ruts|choice1=You gain some [[Meat]].|
|choice2name=Knock on the cottage door|choice2=With [[vampire heart]], or with [[wooden stakes]] and no heart: [[Have a Heart]] (trade hearts for {{plural|bottle of used blood}}); with neither [[vampire heart]] nor stakes: [[wooden stakes]].
|choice3name=Talk to the hunter|choice3=[[Tree's Last Stand]] (sell {{plural|bar skin}}, purchase [[spooky sapling]])}}

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{{button|Explore the stream}}
{{choice|name=Consciousness of a Stream|image=river2.gif|noline=y
|choice1name=March to the marsh|choice1=[[mosquito larva]] (first time only), 3 {{plural|spooky mushroom}} (after first time)|
|choice2name=Squeeze into the cave|choice2=You gain 300 [[Meat]], [[tree-holed coin]] (first time only)|
|choice3name=Go further upstream|choice3=[[An Interesting Choice]] (choice adventure)}}

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{{button|Brave the dark thicket}}
{{choice|name=Through Thicket and Thinnet|image=trees.gif|noline=y
|choice1name=Follow the even darker path|choice1=[[A Three-Tined Fork]] (choice adventure)|
|choice2name=Investigate the dense foliage|choice2=[[Spooky-Gro fertilizer]]|
|choice3name=Give up and go back|choice3=[[fake blood]]|
|choice4name=Follow the coin|choice4=With [[tree-holed coin]]: [[O Lith, Mon]] (trade coin for [[spooky temple map]])|}}
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*With [[candy cane sword cane]] equipped:
{{button|Slice some fruit off a nearby tree with your candy cane sword}}
You spy a strange fruit tree nearby. Maybe a psychotic farmer has been experimenting, because it seems like a hybrid everything tree.
{{acquire}}
''acquire 3 fruits''
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*Occurs at [[The Spooky Forest]].

==Notes==
*This adventure has a cap of 7-8 adventures between occurrences.
**The cap works by having two copies of the adventure.  One is a normal non-combat, and one is a [[superlikely]] set to occur at most 7 or 8 turns after the previous occurrence of this adventure (either the superlikely or the non-combat).
**The first instance of this adventure has a floor of 5.  This means that you will not see either the regular non-combat nor the superlikely on your first 5 turns in the zone.
**Because the counters that floors use are 0-indexed, the first occurrence is capped at 8-9 instead.
*Was added on August 24, 2010 to collapse all non-combats into a single explorable choice adventure.
* See [[Spooky forest table]] to get a tree-type view of this adventure.

==History==
*The fork to obtain [[fake blood]] was added on Jan 1, 2022, when the previous [[Blaaargh! Blaaargh!|semi-rare adventure]] was retired with the introduction of [[Lucky Adventures]].

==References==
*The thicket to which this adventure's takes second place is actually a band called, unsurprisingly, [[Wikipedia:The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets|The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets]].