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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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.

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

Thanks! I'm looking forward to seeing the fruits of your distraction labour!

Alright, I've been hoarding these useless points for a while now, and I might as well put them toward something.

I'll spend 30 points for (at least) four mochi (like the ones in the WHOLESOME thread for WHOLESOME things) of whatever site members you want to do.

Uhh... There are a few that I'm not going to list for fear of being burned at the stake here, but I can think of a few others that I enjoy watching; A lot of them have already been listed though, lol.

Also, please note that these were not listed in any particular order. I just wrote them down until I thought I had listed enough.

• The Wild Robot
• The Princess Bride
• Anything by Studio Ghibli (except for Grave of the Fireflies; I haven't watched it yet (I probably should though), but I've heard it's a really sad movie)
• The Harry Potter movies (despite my grievances regarding the author of the books, it did make a good series)
• Monty Python (I know it's not exactly family-friendly, but it's still a great movie)
• The Sword in the Stone
• The entire Narnia series
• The Emperor's New Grove
• Big Hero Six
• Hercules

Side note: Wow, a lot of these were made by Disney. I guess they really do know how to make good family movies.

Oh yeah, I remember watching that; The animation of it was amazing!

Whoa, I didn't know that the second movie had already been released!

I'm so sorry to hear that! The fourth one will live in our hearts though.

And hey, my cat's name is also Luna!

OMG they are so cute and adorable, and I love them, and they are amazing little balls of fur, and I want to stay constantly updated about them and their progress through life (please and thank you).

Lol, that's why I couldn't access the story before.

Although that could have been a blessing in disguise...

I shall put a decent effort into it.

Oh yeah, that's true; I suppose I shouldn't be throwing stones then, lol.