The Ninja Epidemic

You keep running for some of the most physically painful minutes of your life. Your sides are cramping like rocks and your head is getting dizzy. After a while you start to lose feeling in your legs, but they keep going anyway. It's at this time that you feel like you could keep running forever because you're experiencing what is called "runner's high."

You don't really know where you're going, but since you feel so good all of sudden, you figure you might as well just keep going. Eventually you come to a fork in the road. To the right is a paved road leading into town. To the left is a dirt road that goes into a very wooded area.