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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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.

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

I'll do so, thanks for the suggestion! I have read a good chunk of Eternal within two days, so I don't think it'll be too much trouble, lol.

Fixing the

format bug

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

   - Isaac Asimov

AI discovered new physics. yay.

(Yes, I know it's technically called "machine learning," but that's essentially all that AI is.)

Welcome to the site, mahoutsukai! FYI: everyone is probably very suspicious of new noobs due to some recent drama, but  I hope you enjoy your stay here!

I suggest not joining any contests yet, but if you really want to, you just need to go to the contest thread and state which unclaimed prompt you would like to do.

Also, a bit of general advice that applies to the entire internet: Try your best not to share your real name unless absolutely necessary.

I'm certainly glad I decided to work on both at once. I'm done with the Legend of the Folklore Fish. It was surprisingly short, though, even with the two perspectives. Are there any open requests?

Damn. And here I'm struggling with basic grammer rules in just Spanish alone.

How fluent are you, though?

You know four languages?

Lol, I also just realized that I took 2 storygames of length 6-8. Onto reviewing the second one!

Finally finished the review of As Ink, @Will11