choose your character
Environmentalist
You are 38 and have been living in Brampton your whole life. Now, in 2012 there's been a peak in the development in your area of downtown Brampton. You are outraged by the amount of houses and buildings being built, there are barely any tress and greenery except the few shrubs and flowers along the roads.
Organize a powerful protest at gage park
It was actually difficult to find people that supported your environmentalist views, everyone was quite happy with the changes being made in Brampton.
Have a meeting with the mayor to express your concerns
On your way to city hall, you run over a squirrel.
check on the squirrel to make sure it's okay.
You killed the squirrel. Great. So much for your "pro-animal" views. You are also now 45 minutes late for your meeting.
take a different route, you might make it.
Take Queen St.
There was a car accident on the way, you ended up running a red light. You got a speeding ticket for $320. Sucks, your car is also now scratched because you made too sharp of a turn and hit the curb.
Take Dixie Rd.
You made it just in the nick of time and were able to meet with the mayor. You expressed to him your concerns for the preservation of greenery and animals, he was more than happy to ensure you that the plans for the future won't harm the environment in any way shape or form.He even showed you his plans, if he continues to stay in office.
Leave the squirrel there and drive away, as you are already running late for your scheduled meeting.
That's cold. It seems there is construction ahead of you, causing traffic. This causes you to miss your meeting, Karma maybe?
Mayor
you wake up and get ready for a conference meeting with your council. When you are finished doing this you realize that you still have some free time before the meeting. what do you do?
use this time to look over your notes and practice your
conference meeting speech
congrats! your speech was a success and the council was interested in your plans for urbanizing Brampton. Way to be prepared!
while you're busy bragging about the success on your speech, you get interrupted by your receptionist, who is holding a phone. You take the phone from her and put it to your ear. Its a environmentalist! the environmentalist explains that they would let to have a meeting to sit down and talk about the environmental impacts of your new plan.
wow! what a good idea! you'll be sure to schedule a time.
about a week later you arrange your meeting with the environmentalist and she talks to you about something called Green Plan. The enviromentalist is trying to find a way for Brampton to urbanize brampton, but keep a healthy balance between the green space and the buildings. But this will cost money too, and would interfere with your orginal plan for Brampton. What is your choice
Lets just learn more about urbanising and expanding. This "green plan" seems too complicated for me
I'll like to learn more about this Green plan
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nah, sounds like a waste of time
you decline this offer and slam down the receiver without saying good bye. Wow. arent you a nice person.
after declining the enviromentalist's offer you speed to to your office to get some work done.
use the time to take a walk in the park
while walking in the park you notice a crowd of people in the distance, holding signs and chanting. Is that a protest?
wander closer
you wander close enough to read the signs, and you're shocked to realise that the people at the park are protesting against..you?
Your shock quickly turns into anger as you whip your head to look at the local news team who had just arrived on scene. You're at the protest but....what now?
confront the news team
you try your best to be brave and walk up to the reporter of the news station, and pat her on the shoulder. "hello-" you begin, before being aggressively pushed in front of a a camera
"Terry Winters!" the reporter exclaimed, "What a delightful surprise!, we have quite a few questions for you!". "erhm, well actually-" you are suddenly bombarded by bright lights and the microphones of reporters wanting answers. "where did all these people come from?!" you ask yourself.
try to talk to the protesters
boy that worked! the protesters saw you and decided to swarm around you, yelling and shoving signs in your face.
slowly back away and pretend that you were never there.
You slowly back away from the crowd and run until you're out of sight. You are pretty out of breath at this point so you deicde to take a rest on a lonely park bench. Suddenly a voice above calls out to you, hey hey hey the voice chriped up here it cried, as you followed tohe voice to a small branch of a learge oak tree beside your bench. You are surprised to see that the voice belonged to a squrill?! At first no words leave your mouth but you mange to stammer out "eeh-bu't--wha?- you barely have time to finish your sentence before the squrill begins to talk about squrill is interupptrd by a second voice, its your friend Paul
get a drink with Paul instead
Decline the offer and talk to the squirell instead.
finishs
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there's no time to check out the crowd! your meeting is starting soon!
you decide to go to to your meeting instead good choice!
but your meeting did not go as planned. You stumbled and stuttered on your speech (if only if you practised more!) and your subordinates are not impressed. Tired and defeated, you head back to your office to finish up some work.
at your office you review a plan you want to execute, urbanising downtown Brampton. You flip open your plans and review your notes. You are really excited to start your new plan, but their is something that is standing in your way. The council of Brampton is split, some people want to urbanise and some want to work on expanding Brampton. Its your choice! what plan do you want to go with?
Lets work on Urbanising downtown Brampton, lets make Brampton into a more modern, like Toronto and lets add new attractions to Brampton, so more people can get jobs.
this is a major decision, that could alter the path of your entire career in politics, are you sure this is the path you want to go down?
Yes
Then lets get to it!
you bring your plans to your council and they are ecstatic to begin planning for your newest developments to Brampton.
you are sitting in your office when a squirrel comes in and
starts talking, it was saying to not cut down the trees and
how it was affecting the animals! You understood the squrirrel
because you can surprisingly understand squirrel.
You like the squirrel so much you want to adopt it
and make it your advisor
It declines and you like its independence. and you want
to make up for the trees being cut down so you offer to plant new trees to make up for it.
The next day you go to the council and cancel the
idea of the urbanization
No, lets try something else
Lets work on expanding Brampton first, building new roads and subdivisions. That is much more important.
When you became mayor, you promised to make Brampton a more future-friendly and modern town. Are you sure you want to go with expanding instead?
Yes, Brampton should work on expanding before urbanising.
Alright, lets do this
You bring your plans to your council and they are hesitant at first since this was not the original plan. But they decide to go with it and start planning.
hey, this story is getting boring. switch to a
different character
Be the squirrel
Be the environmentalist
Look at the newly made plans
There a small subdivision on the edge of suburban Brampton that you think is in need of some renovating, do you want to wok on that?
good plan,
or do you want to create a whole new subdivision all together
get plans approved
most of the people in Brampton are outraged, since no one had asked for a subdivision to be buildt.
but you know what, you decide to build anyways
but there is a problem- to build over this new subdivision you have to clear down some land, and small patch of trees. That has quite a abunace of animals living in it.it could have a serious toll on the animals living there. but unfornalty due to your inorgance, when the subdivsiob was buildt it have a environmental toll on the wildlife around it. All the extra littler and pollution has caused populations of the local birds to decrease, death from scarce food and
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lets do it
No, lets stick to the original plan
North American Grey Squirrel
You are a young grey squirrel who loves climbing trees and eating seeds, berries, and fruits. You have a lovely nest in a hole made in an oak tree. But today when you wake up and go to get breakfast you see some trees around you have been chopped down
Breakfast comes before anything
go to the lady feeding ducks by the pond
she doesn't have any food left, go look in your hoard.
maybe you have some food in your hoard. awww its empty,
you see paw prints.
Follow the tracks
The tracks lead to a tree stump.
Confront the squirrel about your food
You see that theres still some of your food there, you ask the squirrel about why they took your food. She starts crying and srates that she thought it was her's. You can tell, she's very apologetic about eating your food.
talk to the her and become her friend
You ask her why shes crying , she says her nest got chopped down and she now has nowhere to live
try and comfort her
she is better now. you have very good comforting skills. she tells you she has to go and find a tree to build another nest into
well you never see her ever again and yet to this date
wonder what happened to her.
go be that squirrel
your name is millie. you lost your home because some human
came and chopped it down. You had found another one but it
had gotten chopped down a few months after you living in it
and there are so many trees being chopped down that there is
barely any places to live and if you try and cross the road theres a huge chance of you being killed there. And all of the food stashes are being dug up and being filled with concrete. Those stashes that we forghet about actually grow plants and trees grow there so we are actually really big helpers for the enviroment. and we get most of our food from trees and they are being cut down so that is a huge food source gone.
stay millie
it has been a fewyears and you decide to go visit
your friend
when you try to find her she is impossible to find
so you go ask max, your brother
he says she died
you are devestated and you dont know what to do
walk around
this lady comes and takes you
you areher new souvenier of brampton
she looked french.
eat
you are looking in an old shop
there were some bacteria there
that caused you to get salmonella
be yourself
you die a couple days later due to
lyme disease. stupid ticks.
Invite her to live with you in your nest.
she happily accepts. you two become best friends. but a few monthes later you feel your tree dropping to one side
it falls and you get crushed and you and your friend die. RIP
Just leave her and tell her that its okay.
You walk away feeling good about yourself. It 's good to be good.
she gives you some pieces of bread
Great! now that you have eaten go
find out what happened to the trees.
have an acorn you see under a tree
across the road
While you are crossing the road, you get
hit by a car. RIP.
Go investigate the trees. you walk over but,it seems like it got chopped down with a sharp
axe.
Go find some food to stash in your hoard
while strolling on the grass, you see a human.
now a days there are more and more of them and fewer of us. they are taking over the world
you decide to follow the human. They are going into a giant room of stashed food!
follow them inside
there are so many humans and it smells so good
it smells like berries and meat :) but unfortunately one of the humans see you and they pick you up and throw you back outside
go back inside and bite the evil human
mission successful! they even scream, now you go find food because you need it.
run away and try to find food
you decide to leave and go find food outside.
run away/ climb a tree
they see you run way, and decide to leave you alone.
further investigate the trees. Why were
they cut down? Who did this?
it seems like you should go to your bestfriend,
max. he knows about everything going on in the
city.
take the long way; around
the road
you get to his nest but he
isnt there
stay there maybe he'll come later
surely he comes back after a while
and he tells you that some buildings
are being built there. But thats all he knows
ask him where to get more info
he said to go to the mayors office
you go there the next day and sneak
into this room with a old guy sitting at
the desk
you start talking to him but then
you realize humans cant understand you
but surprizingly he can! You tell him about
how it isnt right to cut down trees and build
buildings there. The animals get hurt,
the food supplies shorten, and there will be
too many humans
he says he understands and will cancel the idea
and he says he will build food stations for the animals
but he asks you what to put in them
berries and seeds
fungi and nuts
HE SAYS THAT IT IS A GREAT IDEA
he likes you and your ideas so much that he
wants to adopt youo
accept
he is very happy. you and him
live a very happy life
decline
he likes your independence and wishes you good luck
and he apologizes for any harm he has done to all the animals
you are living a happy life where no more trees are
being cut down and all the animals are safe. you even
convinced the mayor to have trees planted to replace the ones
that had been cut down.You are a hero! the saviour of brampton.
seeds and acorns
eh thats enough info
you have a sleepover with
max that night because your
house is too far away
you and max now are about to have kits
you have 4 kits and have a wonderful
family. but you find out they cant live for more
than 3 weeks because there is barely any
food left that they can eat.
try and go home in the dark
you reach to where your tree was but its gone
now you really want more info
so you go to the mayor
need to get there quick;
cross the road
woah you almost got hit by a car!
they swerved at the right time.
you are almost at his tree when a human picks you
up! they are taking you to a sort of house for animals
and there are so many dwarf humans and they are touching the animals!
the humans picked you up and placed you in a petting zoo
you live there until you are old, everyone loved you. but you
have learnt a crucial piece of information while you were there the trees were being chopped down so that these huge buildings could be built there. Now there are more humans than ever!