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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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

That's fair. I personally find it helpful with finding the occasional book/game/movie that I only remember very niche and specific things about. Proofreading is more iffy in my experience, but it does still help sometimes.

“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”

   - Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Yeah, aside from the job part, I've seen the same thing as well. If you want it to be even decently accurate at a lot of things, you have to practically hold its hand through the entire process (and even then it can still be wildly inaccurate), and at that point it is usually less work to finish the entire thing by yourself without its "help."

Wait, why will SpecialOlympic be banned if he doesn't turn in a story? Did I miss something?

Yeah, that's not surprising. Still depressing to have it confirmed yet again though.

Today's quote is better in video format, so I'm just going to link a YouTube video for this one.

(Pushing it down because I'm not certain if links break the front page or not)

"Dreams are how we figure out where we want to go..."

Lol, alright then, your loss. May the odds be ⁿever in your favour!

You know what, screw it. I'll bet 55 more points (so 70 total put into the bet).

True, but I don't think I can change it now, lol.

Can I?

I'm a tad late to this, it seems, but if you want more feedback, I'll gladly procrastinate more proofread/playtest your storygame!