Your friends and you decide to assemble into a search party to find your lost friend.  The air is crisp with the smell of autumn, and the pungent odor of smoldering leaves is now surrounding you.  You have now reached the end of the path, so that means, you guessed it, dead end.

 Your choice to take a right leads you to the rocky bluffs that overlook the waterway below.

or

You now make a choice to proceed into the deepest, darkest, and creepiest part of the forest.