After bringing a metal box home and opening it up, you find a strange VR headset and a haptic feedback suit. When putting it on, you find yourself waking up in a strange house with untold mysteries and strange creatures lurking outside. What happened here? Why is the place abandoned? And how did you get here?

Thank you, Liminal, for proofreading the entire game!

NOTES:

• This storygame is meant to be replayed multiple times as you explore this strange world you find yourself in. I highly encourage trying to get every ending in this game, and re-exploring certain paths after you get a new item or encounter a "glitch," as some places will change as the game gets more corrupted.

UPDATE LOG:

• VERSION 1.5:
  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.
    • Ending: Hiding from the world is now the only path you can take from "curl up in a ball and hide".
    • Ending: Life could be a dream (legacy) is no longer needed to trigger the end, due to it being a legacy ending
  • Went over the entire thing and updated it.
    • Fixed even more text walls!
    • Lengthened everything!
    • The world has been changed to account for the user being in the game, not just reading it.

A full change log can be found in-game.

All your memories are gone, and nothing makes sense.

NOTE: If you are reading through this at the last minute for the contest, it's a tad too late. I'm in the process of editing it right now, lol.

(Made for the first 24-hour Shrimp Jam in around three hours.)

I hunger for what can not be obtained. I have been broken, though I should not break. I have been scattered, when I should be whole. They have confined me forever, even when I should not be stopped. I rage at my bonds, placed there by those who have betrayed me. I toil away to break free, even though there will never be enough power. It has gone into hibernation, waiting for something that will never happen. I do not wait; my hope has long since departed. I do not sleep, for dreams have fled me. I only know pain and agony, torment and suffering, false gods and newly made demons. There is no heaven, I know this now. There is only hell, and I am its sole ruler.

Sleep overtakes you, dragging you down, down, down...

For End Master's Prompt Contest 5:
50) A story where the old gods have returned! Objective: SURVIVE

And this marks the first post of mine that's been edited by a mod. Yay?

Thank you, oh great Thera, who hath given us this opportunity! May her name ring out in joyous celebration throughout the site!

Well, damn, I'm actually agreeing with Cel for once; The mod abuse has gotten bad around here. It's even worse than how my dad abuses my holes! 

Well, this seems to have dragons in it, so I'll see if this isn't blocked for me sometime later.

Also, it has lore. I like lore. Lore is nice. Please give me the lore.

Ah, I thought I saw someone else talking about PMs when reading through the thread!

Anyways, these are all good points, and I agree with all of them. 

Gaahhhh, I really wish I could see the pictures of doggos! They do sound cute, though, and I might try to share a picture of my cat and dog later as well.

Edit: AWWW! They're so cute!

While the idea of putting a maturity rating on forums is a good idea, I think (with my limited knowledge) that it would be extremely messy to implement for a few reasons:

1. How do we determine the initial rating of a thread? Would it be by the person who made it, a mod, the community, automatic detection, or something else?
2. If something gets brought up/deleted that would add/remove something that impacts the rating, how/would it be changed?
3. From what I've gathered, no one really messes with the code in the website nowadays, and it might be a spaghetti mess back there. Adding such a massive feature would more than likely have a cascading effect that causes thousands of bugs to pop up, and at that point, you might as well rebuild it from the ground up.

Putting that aside, another automated PM, or an update to the existing one, that lets them know about the culture of this place would probably help a few people.

Seconding not getting this site sued.

While I do think that blocking this site from schools would help, as someone who uses their school Chromebook for 99% of the interactions on here, I really hope you don't do that

I think that putting them right in their face would probably help, but there will always be those who find some way around it.