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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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.

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.

"Once you've read history you'll never stop wanting to beat the oligarchs to death with your bare hands."

   - Anthony Bourdain

Ugh, now I remember why I only stay up until midnight once a year; I sleep like the dead until noon for the next few days. Anyways, here's a quote for today:

(pushing down italics)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

   - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Other than a slight accident, it was quite fun!

I took prompt #50 and will work on it between creating a rough plan for Safety Not Found. I'm probably going to procrastinate and rush out a half-finished project, but here's hoping that isn't the case

Welcome back, Avo! Hope you had fun there

If I can join this, I'd like to try my hand at #50

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

   - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

   - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

I can't even do those, I'm weak and short!

Yep. The only thing we might be better at than women is finding dumb ways to injure ourselves, and it isn't exactly a good thing to be proficient at.