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  • Epilogue has been replaced by the end.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

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.

Now that the (totally intended and definitely not accidental) one-day's silence for Chuck Norris has passed, it's time for another quote! And don't worry, this one is long enough to make up for the lack of a quote yesterday.

(Pushing down the formatting...)

“What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past.

They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.

I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.

Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse.

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.”

   - Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

I might as well do GOL'BURGER; It's been sitting around unclaimed for a while.

Also, I didn't write the dinosaur one; SU did.

Lol. I'll figure out the specifics later, but imho it's always a good idea to believe that the worst possible person to know what you're searching/saying always knows what you're searching/saying. If you're okay with that person finding it out, then you're either completely innocent, completely insane, or overconfident. Or all three.

I feel like there's more to it than that, but okay...

I'll just look at it when I get on the computer.

Debatable, but yeah, probably not as much as they are.

Do I want to know what the image is?