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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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

Hmm, good to know, thanks! I'll probably try to avoid posting in these types of threads for a bit then.

If you do manage to actually summon a real jinn in front of me, then I swear here and now that I will fullheartedly convert to your religion.

Give me an hour or so and I'll tell you more about the immune system than you'll ever need to know.

“Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

   - Ann Patchett, What Now?

It's not the same, but I am trying to get braces here soon-ish. They're bloody expensive though.

Oh, and I know that it's surprisingly easy to shatter teeth, even accidentally. I don't think you can easily shatter something soft.

Yeah, there's something that happens at least once a week that makes me think we're on our way to that future, or one like it.

Wait, you can see if they're watching you? How?

This is just straight-up false. It isn't a hot take; it's just not true.

Is it Ogre11?

Well, I still found a few typos, lol. And yeah, some of the grammar choices are intentional, although they are also a result of having to put it together in the little spare time I managed to scrape together that day.

I still need to read all of them, so it's fine. I hope everything's okay!