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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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.

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

   - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

This may or may not also be directed at a certain person who may or may not seem to be continuasly coming back despite it being very clear that they should not.

It was going to be posted soon anyways, but I bumped it up the list due to recent events.

Well, in a major twist of fate that makes me certain the world is now crazy, Trump is asking for a vote to determine if the files will get released. There is an ever-so-tiny sliver of hope that it might work.

In reality, it still needs Trump's agreement before it's released, so this is most likely all just for show.

Pushing down

The italics

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

   - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

   - Mahatma Gandhi

Tad late today, but oh well.

Here's the quote of the day:

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

   - Bernard M. Baruch

This is what is going to replace the penny, lol.

Works for me

That's true; I do know that a lot of it comes down to preference. Still good to keep in mind though

Top series that I've read, sorry. Probably should have clarified that.

half-joking

It's a tone tag that means half-joking