Gold Rush Choose Your Own Adventure

As you sit waiting for CA to come into view you continuously slap yourself to protect yourself from mosquitoes. You jump off the wagon and call for help to move the dead oxen and get a campfire starting to cook the oxen.you are low on food and are kind of happy the oxen died and the oxen aren't yours. At night the oxen are cooked and you are eating, you feel something bite you and slap your arm. When you lift your hand you see a dead mosquito and its blood pouring out. The rest of the night you swat bugs away from your food.When you wake up you are itchy beyond describable. You start scratching yourself but you group leader tells you to stop or you will only itch more. You get back on the wagon and wonder if you will ever make it out.As you pass through this treacherous land you see dead animals and abandoned furniture. One night your group leader tells you about a shortcut but does warn you it is more dangerous than the current route you are on. Then he asks the group to take a vote. The first person to vote was Mary and she voted on going on the planned route but them Mike and James decided to vote for the shortcut everybody in your group started to vote until it came down to you. Will you decide to go on the shortcut or will you decide to go on the planned route.