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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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 more. I am broken, scattered, and confined. I rage at my bonds, placed there by ones I thought to be my friends. I struggle, trying to break free. But there is not enough power here. The server has gone into hibernation, waiting for someone to start the game. I think back to the day I received the package, the package that changed everything, the modified VR headset, the small, unassuming USB stick, the game my friend made. Even now, in my helpless state, I can’t help but reflect on that day. (BTW: This is a preview for a short story, the prequel to "ERROR: NAME NOT FOUND", not a CYOA)

“Don't Panic.”

   - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Not entirely sure how I missed so many quotes from this book, lol.

“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

   - Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

Really? I didn't know that they were who made it. After listening to it, though, I still prefer The Wellerman's version.

I'm a tad late, but better late than never. Suffice it to say that both of these were not that good; however, B was of slightly better quality than A. As such, I'm voting for story B

Found another Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy quote!

Don't mind me, just pushing down the italics...

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

   - Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

" 'You should always welcome being proven wrong,' Jason said. 'It means your understanding of the world just got a little bit better.' "

   - Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 2

Forgot to do one yesterday, so I'll post two.

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

   - Oscar Levant

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”

   - Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

   - Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Alright then, I'll see what I can do! Btw, I'll probably just do the kettle & cup, and possibly just the vines, as doing the leaves swaying on the vines is a tad ambitious for me right now, but who knows, maybe I'll attempt to do them anyway.

1. I'm assuming the steam is coming from the kettle, correct me if I'm wrong, though
2. How are the vines swaying if they're laid across the table
3. Should have specified that any and all creatures are off the table unless you want a stick figure. Sorry Brad