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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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.

The light and blarring cut off in an instant, and you fall down, down, down, down, down...

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Proofreaders: If the Glory and Morality variables are shown, please come back in around 15-30 minutes, as I occasionally show them to count how many of each you can get.
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For End Master's Prompt Contest 5:
50) A story where the old gods have returned! Objective: SURVIVE

Alas! It tis be too late! I can feel the life force draining from mine own soul this very moment! Goodbyeeeeeeeee...

(And no offense taken. You should probably know by now that most people in this community say worse than that on a whim.)

Oh, sorry! I was just copy-pasting from the first one, so I didn't notice that!

It should be fixed in the updated one.

Yeah, once I remembered he existed, I groaned at not guessing him, lol.

(No offence btw, Skip, you just don't interact on the forums as much)

And this completes my wall of autism. Just realized I missed a few things (such as Mystic saying she couldn't think of a hot take (which could be misdirection) ), and I want to keep this updated.

Already Guessed:

• Skippingstonnes

Yet to be guessed:

1. Soldier
2. Liminal
3. WizzyCat
4. SO
5. UD
6. Gryphon
7. SU
8. Shadow
9. Clay
10. Wildblue
11. Mousecore
12. Mizal
13. Enter
14. BHP
15. Daji
16. Mystic
17. Sent
18. Malk
19. Ben
20. Thera
21. Cavus
22. Anthraxus
23. MHD
24. Chris
25. Fluxion
26. DBNB
27. End

I hope that this (somehow) helps at least one person.

Please do not comment on this.

Combine this with previous hot takes posted, and you should get something like this:

1. Skipping Stones
2. Soldier
3. Liminal
4. WizzyCat
5. SO
6. UD
7. Gryphon
8. SU
9. Shadow
10. Clay
11. Wildblue
12. Mousecore
13. Mystic
14. Mizal
15. Enter
16. BHP
17. Daji
18. Sent
19. Malk
20. Ben
21. Thera
22. Cavus
23. End
24. Anthraxus
25. MHD
26. Chris
27. Fluxion
28. DBNB

TBH, I don't particularly think you'd get a hot take posted, but I'll add you.

EDIT: Done

And now to sort based on who (I think) is under 18, and then who (I think) is likely to have read a good deal of the books, and the rest will be in no particular order:
 

• Skipping Stones
• UD
• SO
• Soldier
• Liminal
• SU
   
• WizzyCat
• Gryphon
• Shadow
• Clay
• Wildblue
• Mousecore
• BHP
• Enter
• Mystic
• Mizal
   
• Daji
• Sent
• Ben
• Malk
• MHD
• Thera
• Cavus
• End
• Anthraxus
• Chris
• Fluxion
• DBNB

People already guessed (or banned):

• Yummyfood
• RK
• Avo
• Cel
• Ace
• Sherbert
• Fabrikant

People with a hot take already posted but not guessed yet:

• Liminal
• Daji
• Sent
• Ben
• Malk
• Enter
• SU
• SO
• BHP
• MHD
• UD

People who don't fit into either category (that I can think of off the top of my head):

• Mizal
• Thera
• Cavus
• Shadow
• End
• Anthraxus
• Mousecore
• Chris
• Mystic
• Wildblue
• Fluxion
• Clay
• DBNB
• Gryphon
• WizzyCat
• Skipping Stones

Considering the fact that RK and Suranna have already been crossed off the list, and that others have already been guessed, we can update this based on the assumption that everyone already been guessed doesn't have this hot take. We can also cross off Cel for now since it's extremely unlikely that someone who's been banned will get another hot take posted:

1. Liminal
2. Daji
3. Sent
4. Ben
5. Malk
6. Enter
7. SU
8. SO
9. BHP
10. MHD
11. UD

(Sherbert and Fabrikant have already been guessed as well btw)

And now it's just a matter of adding in everyone else who hasn't had a hot take posted...

But I'm not doing that, lol. Screw it; I have nothing better to do, and this might be the last one.

So:

We can probably rule out everyone who's already had one hot take, and we can almost certainly rule out everyone who's had two hot takes. Moreso, I don't think it's likely that we'll have two hot takes by the same person close together, so we can probably rule out BHP, SO, and SU. Liminal and Yummyfood are more likely based purely on how long it's been since they've had a hot take posted here. There was also a distance of 6 between my two hot takes, and a distance of 12 between MHD's, so we can expand the list of people to rule out to Enter, Malk, and Ace.

As such, here's how likely I think it is for previous people with hot takes listed to have this hot take based purely on how long it's been since one of theirs has been used, and how many have been used:

1. Liminal
2. Yummyfood
3. Daji
4. RK
5. Avo
6. Sent
7. Cel
8. Ben
9. Ace
10. Malk
11. Enter
12. SU
13. SO
14. BHP
15. MHD
16. UD