I’m an unabashed fan of classic “choose your own adventure” style gamebooks. Sure, most of my fondness for the genre has its roots in nostalgia, but I still collect them (there are treasures to be found at used bookstores), and I’m continually amazed at just how many different series there were.

From the OG Choose Your Own Adventure books to Time Machine, Twistaplot, Find Your Fate, Endless Quest, Lone Wolf, Fighting Fantasy, and so many more, the 80s were the absolute heyday for immersive gamebooks.

But they’re still around, and there are a number of series putting out new books that deserve more attention. In this series, we’ll highlight a few of the books and series that require you to read closely, make decisions, and hopefully avoid a gruesome end.

Today, we’re bringing you something a bit… different.

If you’ve got an Alexa in your home, simply say, “Alexa, open the story of Lucky Charms.” I was then informed that parental consent was required, so I was sent to the Alexa app and through a few hoops to approve and enable the skill.

But once that was taken care of, the story launched straight away.

The adventure begins by asking you to choose which rainbow you want to go down, and from there, your choices determine who you meet and where you go. There are several paths to choose, and they claim “you’ll never have the same story twice.” (I haven’t done the research to confirm if this is true.)

Ostensibly, the Lucky Charms skill is meant to “celebrate” St. Patrick’s Day, but this is still Lucky Charms the cereal we’re talking about, so don’t go into this expecting a history lesson or a reflective (and respectful) cultural journey. At one point, there’s a character who riddles you about a holiday that rhymes with “quaint hat tricks day.”

You’ll visit a city of fairies, slide down rainbows, and interact with marshmallow creatures brought to life… all in an attempt to track down Lucky the Leprechaun.

Yeah, this guy:

As long as you don’t mind a sugary breakfast cereal (my favorite, by the way) and a major food manufacturer telling you stories about one of their cartoon IPs, then there’s a lot to love here.

I love the idea of Alexa being used to tell interactive stories. We’ve had a lot of fun in this house with Alexa’s “escape room” skills, and CYOA seems like such a natural fit for this format. I’m honestly surprised it’s taken this long to see something like this.

The new story skill is a collaboration between General Mills, Amazon, and interactive production studio Xandra. There are a number of interactive storytelling skills on Alexa, and several that are “choose your own adventure” in style, but this has to be the first based on a breakfast cereal.

“We’re getting back to our roots of storytelling,” says Jessica TeBrake, assistant manager, Brand Experience at General Mills. “Voice has become such a big part of how people experience content, so we wanted to dial up our opportunity to tell stories with audio and voice.”

Alexa, do your magical thang.