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Weekends. A bunch of university students arrive at the desolate location. It’s a weathered house in the woods. It is quite far from the people, but the forest around isn’t that steep and it looks somewhat [[peaceful and sunny.]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/11/29/12/41/forest-1869578_1280.jpg" height="400">
student1: “we can be as loud as we want, i hung out here [[many times."]]
<img src="" height="400">The house doesn’t look that old, or fitting here in the woods. The white paint is partially taken by rain, some windows broken and there are couple graffitis. It still looks almost new, maybe some recent project that got [[abandoned halfway.]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2022/05/29/07/15/stairs-7228606_1280.jpg" height="400">The party of 20, I arrived with a friend in one of the cars parked outside. There’s also couple of bikes.
[[Look around more]]
[[Go inside with everyone else]]
<img src="" height="400">It’s a two-story house with an attic. There are also basement windows half-hidden by grass.
Forest grows thicker around the house, except for the entrance and the field before it, now stacked by cars and people taking the party stuff out.
[[Go inside with everyone else]]
<img src="" height="400">The house is half-empty inside with rather clean walls and a bit of furniture. White wall paint makes this place look sunny and modest, [[almost like a small family home. ]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2018/01/29/19/53/doors-3117027_1280.jpg" height="400">
There are few sofas that seem to be exceptionally dirty and old compared to the place. [[Everyone decides to sit around there.]] They start filling the free surfaces with drinks and the music system.
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2018/04/28/13/15/wood-3357262_1280.jpg" width="400"><img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2021/02/02/03/35/beer-5972599_1280.jpg" width="400">*small talk options & environment interactions like drinking, eating etc*
*Student1: We got those sofas here ourselves, it was totally empty.*
*Student2: I like the music, my friend is the DJ!*
*Student3: I got spare generator/batteries(?), so the party will not end like the last time.*
[[Explore the building]]
<img src="" height="400">[[ Go to kitchen]]
[[ Search for the bathroom]]
[[Go upstairs]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/02/23/13/25/villa-4873343_1280.jpg" height="400">
There are couple of appliances that seem to be in working condition. I wouldn’t risk to use this teapot though.
Water is also running, but there's no pressure and it's cold.
[[ Search for the bathroom]]
[[Go upstairs]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/03/13/16/57/wash-1254109_1280.jpg" height="400">
The bathroom is a bit too clean. This place doesn't seem to be abandoned.
[[ Go to kitchen]]
[[Go upstairs]]
<img src="" height="400">There are a few rooms already occupied by couples or smokers at the balcony.
[[Go downstairs]]
[[Go to the attic]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2019/05/26/22/39/villa-4231464_1280.jpg" height="400">The stairs creak as you go down, and you notice there’s a small gap between the floorboards.
[[Use your phone to light the gap]]
[[Go upstairs]]
[[Return to living room]]
<img src="" height="400">Attic smells like freshly wood, the planks on the walls look freshly varnished.
There’s a writing table covered in dust except a place that was taken by something, maybe a lamp. The chair was probably dragged downstairs to the party area.
[[Go downstairs]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/01/12/10/44/lost-places-597166_1280.jpg" height="400">It's too dark to see, but there seems to be an empty space.
I can sense the wind under my palm.
[[Return to living room]]
<img src="" height="400">Party music, alcohol smell, empty beer bottles, faint scent of smokes.
We've been here for so long, everyone is already drunk…
[[Go to the bathroom]]
[[Enjoy the party with your friends]]
<img src="" height="400">On my way back to the living room, I notice the wind coming from a wall under the staircase upstairs.
[[This house has few windows busted, no wonder]]
[[Use phone light]]
<img src="" height="400">There seems to be a room.
*exploring option for an entry, maybe a puzzle*
[[ the entrance is a bit difficult to see, but it isn’t exactly hidden.]]
<img src="" height="400">I *feel* compelled to go there. I wonder if there's something interesting there, or I’m just bored of the party.
Maybe i should [[Go back]] back or ask someone to join me.
[[go inside the hidden room]]
<img src="" height="400">It’s dark inside, the phone light doesn’t help much.
I proceed a bit further, it feels like [[there should be already a wall]] based on the building layout and the staircase width.
<img src="" height="400">I reach out the palm and it takes me few more steps to reach a wall. I knock on it, it’s hollow.
*puzzle to find a door*
[[I open the door, there seems to be a faint light inside]]
<img src="" height="400">*The place is spooky*
[[Go back]]
[[Proceed next]]
<img src="" height="400">
*option to talk to everyone else at the party, further story branching*
[[go inside the hidden room]]
[[Return to living room]]
<img src="" height="400">I feel refreshed enough to return to the party.
[[Return to living room]]
<img src="" height="400">*other branching options*
[[Good ending]]
<img src="" height="400">Congratulations! You safely explored the building and had a blast at the party. Nothing happened.
*at least not to you...*
(ending 1 of 2)
[[START]]
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(text-colour:red)[This is a horror game and is intended for mature audiences only.
Viewer discretion advised.
This game contains content and themes of gore, body horror, abuse, violence, alcohol, drugs. ]]
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(text-style:"bold","italic","expand","tall")[(text-style:"bold")[[So, about Chrystal..]] ]
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I go into the tunnel. There’s echo, distant sounds and wind. The light doesn’t seem to get closer for a while.
The light from my phone doesn’t seem to penetrate the darkness much either.
It’s been good few minutes. I look back, there’s only darkness now. The light upfront is still the same, but now tunnel is turning.
I stop and check my phone: no signal. Maybe I should [[Go back]]
[[continue into the tunnel]]
<img src="" height="400">*options for different directions in the tunnel, will affect next location*
The sounds of the party go weaker, yet I feel at peace, as if I was destined to be here today just for this secret upfront.
I look back, still wondering about what I’m doing. Yet my mind is calm.
[[Go back]]
[[continue further]]
<img src="" height="400">I take few more steps and the light upfront finally starts to get bigger, ambient sounds get stronger, almost recognizable. The thought to go back turns into an internal scream, but the exit is closer and suddenly the tunnel itself scares me.
I see the exit now, it’s a plank door, barely shut, so the light gets in highlighting the frame.
[[Open the door]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2021/12/16/13/20/cellar-6874572_1280.jpg" height="400">I am inside a small room. It has a chair and what seems to be like the next part of the tunnel.
There’s a big window on my left that lets in the natural light.
[[Continue into the new entrance to the tunnel]]
[[Go to the window]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2018/04/28/13/15/indoors-3357259_1280.jpg" height="400">This tunnel seems different… narrower.
I go further for a while, until the sense of dread starts to grow inside. A sudden moment of clarity, I must [[go back]] …or else.
<img src="" height="400">I am sure I went into the basement at some point, but it looks like the first floor.
I can jump outside here.
[[Go back through the window]]
[[Continue into the new entrance to the tunnel]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/06/14/08/25/window-2401467_1280.jpg" height="400">I can see from the outside now, I'm at the second part of the same house, was there a hidden room I missed?
The tunnel lasted for too long to make sense under the architecture, and I didn't seem to take enough turns to go in circles.
A dull sense of dread is all over me, yet I'm still not scared enough as I should be. I should be bothered by this. Perhaps it's the booze.
[[Go back]]
<img src="" height="400">I go back to the exit, but now there's none. I am sure the tunnel had only one way, but neither my eyes nor my hands feel any difference in the structure: a dead ends as if there has never been a door.
I hit the wall, but the sound isn’t hollow anymore. There’s [[no other way]] for me but to proceed, but now I feel the very late sense of fear.
<img src="" height="400">I go, sometimes slower, sometimes faster.
I am afraid what’s next, but I am also afraid to stay here.
[[I feel sick]]
<img src="" height="400">I keep going despite the nausea for some time, until I almost faint.
I stay on my knees for a good minute. I feel strange, I feel weird.
Then it briefly gets painful and I’m at peace again: no nausea, no fear.
I can see again, I can [[move further]] now with ease.
<img src="" height="400">Light.
Go, go, go.
Back... dark.
Go to light..
Exit
Exit
...
fall
..roll
[[no door]]
<img src="" height="400">floor pretty
pink tiles
A voice from above: "ahh, you're reached the end!"
*clap clap*
A face looks down on you:
"Congratulations, number... xxxx." *scribbles down*
[[scared]]
<img src="" height="400">Boots
Get up
look
...
what?
closer
[[mirror]]
<img src="" height="400">There's a mirrored wall to the knee length.
A globe with an eye looks at you.
"ME!"
"me small..."
There's no voice, just thoughts. Simple, but so difficult to think.
The sphere is covered with skin, the eye is blinking. It almost like a human eye, a bit strange, but very close. The color is the same...
"me... my..."
[[Someone]]: yes, good! Yes recognize yourself! *ticks a box*
<img src="" height="400">Me tiny…
Big man
More tiny…
*A string of similarly small spheres emerges from the mirror wall, surrounding the men.
Some have eyes as well, some have a mouth, others none except wrinkled skin. Some have bruises. Some look malformed, if that’s even possible to say for whatever is happened to what once likely was another human.
They roll, float and jump around the polished brown shoes that squeak with a slight movement, owner unbothered.*
[[run away]]
<img src="" height="400">You move too slow, based on the tiles flashing underneath you. Are the tiles so big or you are so small?
The room is milky pink, different shades. The ceiling almost touches the head of the sciencists, or it seems like that from your new height.
You try to get away, but he doesn't follow.
The minions just scatter around, close to him. Some curious about the new addition, but don't get close, as on command.
Perhaps there is a command indeed, you don't recall the man saying a thing except hearing his words. Can you hear though? All you can do is see and move in this inexplicable way..
[[roll to the door]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/06/04/16/42/corridor-362166_1280.jpg" height="400">The door isn't closed. You push it your hardest and it opens up a bit. You can [[sneak through]] easily now.
You look back: the man doesn't follow, he seems to have lost interest and is back to his notes, walking away to a desk in the corner.
<img src="" height="400">You enter a huge hall.
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/01/21/16/20/buildings-4783300_1280.jpg" height="400">
There's a huge bowl aquarium at the centre. A creature inside, something like a kraken. It swims around with smaller ones next to him. Swims away.
There's something on the glass.
[[Get close to the aquarium]]
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/09/19/19/08/tunnel-452899_1280.jpg" height="400"><img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/08/03/10/59/nature-2575575_1280.jpg" height="400">It's fingerprints. Looks like a whole palm mark. The print is weird, like an imprint right through the glass, not above it.
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/02/28/18/22/hand-2106508_1280.png" height="400">
"Oh, noticed? It was possible due to transformation heat being so high it melted glass."
The man from before is all of a sudden right next to you. How couldn't you hear his squeaky shoes?
He continues:
"[[Johnatan]],"gesturing at the creature swimming closer again, "is really happy now."
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/08/31/13/56/fish-1633525_1280.jpg" height="400">For a second you think Johnatan is just the creature's name. But the mental image of a *human*, just like you, *transforming...*
You cannot confirm if that's what it really is. You have no mouth.
You [[don't want to know]] either way.
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The scientist: Gladly for him, the [[reverse procedure]] isn't that complex. He'll be back to work in June."
<img src="" height="400">*Reverse procedure*
You catch a faint reflection of your new body in the glass of the bowl aquarium. The eye looks comically large compared to the sphere that is the rest of you.
Is it the right eye? left one? is it ...*both?*
[[It can be reversed]], so he says.
<img src="" height="400">(align:"=><=")+(box:"X=")[**End of chapter 1.**]
[ ~Thank you for playing, you reached the true storyline ending!~
(align:"=><=")+(box:"XX===")[ (ending 2 of 2)
return to the [[START]] ]]
(text-style:"blurrier","expand","buoy")[ **Next mission**: find how to reverse the transformation.]
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