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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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

I am confused as to what this means; please clarify

TL;DR (of the tldr): Restrictions don't work if I bypass them, but I am content to not do so.

But one should be judged for their harmful hobbies

Agreed.

And yeah, I think I remember seeing that thread some time ago. I am still slightly surprised at how incompetent some people are when it comes to making food.

However, I personally believe that, if I have the proper recipe, I could probably make any reasonable meal and have it turn out pretty well, so I don't care too much to learn more cooking skills at the moment. I might regret it later on, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

1. That's way too large, you might want to resize the image
2. That's still not all of them, lol.

Tbh, 99% of the "restrictions" don't really affect me all that much. I know a few ways to get around all of them (and might be scarred for life), and generally don't care enough to do much about them nowadays. I have enough schoolwork to keep me busy most of the time, and when that isn't the case, I have quite a few projects to do as well, both physical and digital, to occupy my time and attention; I also have this wonderful thing called an Imagination that allows me to envision whatever I want so long as I've seen it enough times, and I think I could evision almost anything by now. The only problem with it is that I'm rarely surprised at the outcomes of any stories I think of, but sometimes the stories do end up surprising me somehow, so I'm okay with (almost) all of the "restrictions" put in place.

TL;DR: The restrictions don't truly work all too well when I care enough to bypass them, but I rarely have a reason to do so anyways.

Ah, yes, I can totally see that you have managed to prove one of the terrible things that I have said, but can you prove all of them?!

I don't think so!

MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

We actually have a very nifty rice cooker that automatically does it for us. All that needs to be done is put in some rice and water, and it will automatically cook it to perfection.

But yes, I can also boil rice the traditional way.

Every few months or so, my mom pushes me to cook a few meals on my own with as little help as possible, so I'm not totally incapable of feeding myself when I leave for college. (I'm actually going to make some home-made meatloaf here soon, lol)

Ha! The joke's on you though: I've made my own pizza not too long ago, which is clearly vastly superior to buying one!

Also, true

And no comment

And I've given up denying allegations. As a result, though, I've found that they help confuse people about who I actually am.

1. I have way too much schoolwork to get a job right now.
2. I don't really have much money right now.
3. I already have a phone (although my parents admittedly got it for me and have parental controls on it), but it has very limited time on Google.
4. Technically, the computer isn't mine either; I just happen to be the main person who uses it.

Although I do fully plan on getting my own personal device ASAP.