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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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

I found this wholesome video while scrolling on YouTube earlier. Enjoy!

Cat Loves to Play With Snow Brought Indoors By Owner

Omg I just watched it and this is the most cutest thing that I have ever watched I think I might die of cuteness overlord

I wish I could see the dog.

Also: all hail mhd

Side note but holly cow that took me way too long to type out (because I was peeing myself, in case that wasn't clear). Goddamn mizal

Maybe you could design a colorful necklace of rope strands with matching bracelets and give it as a gift to mizal so she can wear it near a tree? I think they told you to run there so you'd both be free. Just a suggestion though.

I just peed myself

oh you sweet summer child

Although looking back, they seem to be more recent than the purge. So you just plain missed someone. Was it.... mmmmmmm mizal?

You have made a massive miztake. Banning me would have made you a symbol in the world of intellect and literature. It is so typical for someone like you to forget this. It is so typical for someone like you to use abbreviated words. I was prepared to open your world to my knowledge and share my stories and art, with you. You will forever regret the choice you just made, so I will offer to let you ban me again. If you do not, you will have to face the consequences of my weak immune system.