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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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.

(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

Uhhhhhh...

It's a thing that exists.

I know a way to turn in something that is at least passable if I can't get all the stories I want completed. I'm hoping to be able to complete everything in time, though, as the ending wouldn't be the same without all of it

Shit.

As annoying as you are, no one deserves to die like that. Please stay safe

“Everything is hard before it is easy.”

   - Goethe J.W.

Is it Enter?

Huh, TIL

I heard the current president really likes a horse, so who knows, we might just get one as president.

And always remember that read and lead rhyme, and read and lead rhyme. But read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.

Ignore this old gravestone; it no longer applies.

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| RIP Sender   |
|  2025-????   |
|   "Error:       |
|  pressure"    |
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“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”

   - Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture