Welcome to 灼熱の砂漠を脱出せよ - Escape from the Scorching Desert!
This is part of the サバイバル・ゲーム! Survival Escape Game Informal Book Club
Return to base camp
Joining 
See polls in the first comment to join as a wanderer (reader) 
or observer 
or later as a solo traveller.
The Adventure Begins
The sun is beating down on you, and you realise you’re all alone surrounded by an ocean of scorching sand. With no civilisation in sight, how will you find your way back to your tour group? What will you do? Your choices will determine your fate!
This is a choose your own adventure book and is part of a series of 6 independent books that are in paper form only. Do you dare join an adventure party to find out if you have what it takes to survive???
Considerations
Natively Link and Rating: たったひとりのサバイバル・ゲーム! 灼熱の砂漠を脱出せよ | L21
Furigana: Yes
Difficulty level thoughts: BBC level. Japanese reviewers suggest it’s the right level for a 3rd grader but too easy for a 6th grader.
Discussion / How it Works
Set this thread to watching!
The book doesn’t have page numbers, but scenes (circled number at top of page). To help people orient and avoid spoilers, put comments under the scene name. For example: “Scene 1-3” would mean scene 1, page 3 of that scene. Or just write “scene 1 page 3”. That way, if someone else isn’t on that scene/page yet, they can wait to open it!
If you’re joining the party exploring this book, we are going to read in “Stages”, which is a collection of scenes up to the next decision point, i.e., Stage (A, B, C, etc). We are aiming to take up to 2 weeks on Stage A, and up to 1 week per stage from Stage B onwards.
Not getting lost!
Original instructions for the club participation
Anyone can join - here’s how! Set this thread to “watching” so that you receive alerts!
If you’re joining the party, we can expect among members there will be injuries (ill health) and detours (holidays and life overwhelm) along the way. To keep it fun, moving forward, and to keep that from putting anyone off committing to joining the group, here is how we handle this.
At the start of each stage there is a poll to join, these are recorded in the next section. We’ll wait at least a week for everyone to join and vote at each decision point. But if life happens and we don’t see you, we’ll move on and hope you catch up! On the other hand, if everyone makes it early, we’ll move on right away to keep it moving as a lot of stages are short. Here are the steps:
- Stage start poll: mark yourself reading along (links in next section)
- Read on from the chosen scene until you reach the next decision point or a ゲームオーバー. If it’s a ゲームオーバー, then go back to the previous decision point and follow the other branch. If it’s a decision point, go to the next step.
- Next decision point poll: vote in the poll. Mitrac tries to create them right away but feel free to create it if you are there first!
- Stage finish: the earlier of either a) everyone in the active party has voted or b) a week has gone by.
- We declare the winning route and move on to the next stage!
- All decision points will be recorded in the Party Guide below.
Party guide
All decision poll and stage links followed by the club in this thread
All decision poll links will go here for party members and anyone brave enough to try to catch up. Join soon and bring water 
Stage A - September 27th
read Intro and scenes 1-4
decision poll link
decision: x
Sand Viper
Ostrich
Cheetah
Fennec Fox
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until you read the decision point!
) or any of our other frequent travellers!
We’ll meet you at the checkpoint by next week!
but I’m back on track again now and will be at the first checkpoint soon.
See you at scene 
