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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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

Pushing down...

the italics...

“ 'Mom says it's because she has PMS.'
'Do you even know what that means?'
'I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome.' ”

   - Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"... there are more men who deserve that treatment than women... "

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

   - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

Damn, has it really been four days since I last posted a quote here? Well, I guess now's as good a time as any to start it up again.

Also, Happy International Women's Day!

Finally! I can work on the horrible mess that I made tomorrow.

Uhh...

These Shackled Souls by Mystic is definitely in the top 5 storygames I've read so far, so shout out to her for making it. I've also been seeing a lot more female protagonists in stories, so that's cool to see. My only gripe with women is that there are occasionally people like J.K. Rowling who deserve to burn in hell for all eternity, but tbf there are more men who deserve that treatment than women, so I probably shouldn't be complaining, lol.

TL;DR: Yay women!

Lmao; thank you for enlightening us

Forums? What forums? I don't know what you're talking about!

Wow, you were really looking forward to adopting him, were you? Don't worry, Avo, I'm sure at least one of these newbs will learn eventually, and then you can have a new friend!

Lol, sorry. At least you now probably know more about a niche subject than more people your age do. Not entirely certain how long that will last, though.

Edit: Also, nice job getting half of it done already!

Well, Avo, it appears that your opponent has automatically forfeited the race due to getting banned. So congratulations, you've won! You can still adopt his corpse if you want, although I'm not certain why you would do that, or if you even can. I suppose you'd know more about adoptions than me by now though, lol.