The Mystery of Chimney Rock [Part 1]

W A R N I N G ! ! ! !Do not read these episode notes straight through from beginning to end! These paragraphs contain many different adventures you can go on in the Optional Reading podcast. From time to time as you read along, you will be asked to make a choice. Your choice may lead to success or disaster!Or maybe they'll just be fairly standard liner notes. But the BOOK will probably be pretty exciting, right? In this episode we crack our first ever CYOA (that's "Choose Your Own Adventure") paperback courtesy of our friends at the Internet Archive. This episode is the start of our podcast and our first foray into Edward Packard's The Mystery of Chimney Rock.Our heroes struggle to look brave in front of their cousins, eat some suspicious brownies, and sail our way through the very first no-death run of the podcast.

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