>>26505832
"That smell - it's like someone died in there."

"Go check it, then."

"No, you go."

"Chicken."

The sound of something being opened.

>>26505860
Hesitant steps. Footsteps.

It's dark here. Something is looking at the darkness. At you.

He hasn't seen you open your eyes and he might get scared if he does. But he is still, frozen in that moment of reaching out towards the darkness, towards you.

His other hand is clutching something in the middle of his face. Even if his face is all wrong, with two eyes instead of any other, better number, and it's the face that has teeth, not everything else - nor anything else.

>Input your action.
>Change the world.
>Ask a question.
>Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 1/100

>>26505912
>Why is one thing better than another?

>>26505937
>Sanity Increased
>Things are unusual or usual - and if you have lived in a realm where similarities are fogotten or forbidden...
>In this - state, they are the way things work.
>Sanity 3/100

The creature is still pinching it's nose as it's fingers make contact.

That's a human. You probably should have know that. Or not.

He is trying to grasp onto something without form - and the outcome of this connection is unclear.

This Human, however, he doesn't believe in things that you have seen - nor he does believe in you, he thinks he is doing something entirely mundane, like checking out a weirdly misshapen corpse of another human.

"What is it?" There's a shout from another place, outside.

>>26505992
"I think," the huMan says carefully. "I found Sam"

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 3/100

>>26505992
This is not helpful. We/they/you have enough trouble without human meddling. But perhaps it is also an opportunity.

>Disassemble the human.

>>26506044
What is Sam? Are we Sam?

>>26506060
>Sanity Stable.

>Invertory:
>One Human Head
>Two Loud Screams
>A loose Tongue
>Human Meat
>Blood

>>26506060
No, no! Two eyes, and a mouth, and nothing else is not right! Let him have more eyes, and some antennae over that facething.

>>26506070
>Sanity Increases
>Sanity 8/100
Once or twice.

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 3/100

>>26506076
>>26506082
Reasemble the human, into something more proper.

>>26506076
>Sanity Stable

You lack the parts for such an enlightening endevour. However, a human female is currently trying to get away from the pool of dark blood, and could serve as a viable substitute.

Use of additional matter needs confirmation.

>Inventory
>One Human Head
>Two Loud Screams
>A loose Tongue
>Human Meat
>Blood

>>26506097
look at >>26506102

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 8/100

>>26506102
What is a female? Harvest it too.

>>26506140
>Sanity Increased
>Female is a subtype of local creatures. Other subtypes present are Males, Men and Women. These types may overlap, and/or have a property Child.
>Current Sanity 9/100

>Inventory
>Human Hair (Female)
>Human Ear (Male)
>Human Tongue (Unindentified)
>Blood

A creature of your home is curiously licking the walls with his loose tongue, while observing the process very intently. One of his eyes is watching you. The other is looking for more splodges of blood.

He looks like he might stray, his two noses keen on following the scent of blood.
>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 9/100

>>26506102
The meat is not very interesting. Reassemble the screams. Haven't we seen beings like that before?

>>26506180
See what happens if the screams reassemble in the eyes. Place on eye onto the other, and replace the nose to place that eye. Place the nose where the eye came from

>>26506201
You rip the screams from your fiend and it gurgles up some of the blood he had eaten, dissatisfied with the outcome.

The screams come out rather beautifully, of dual tone and disharmony put in just a right way.
>Sanity Decreased

>You will see things like that, same as you had before.
>Sanity Increased.

>Overall Sanity Stable

>>26506216
Trying to reassemble the screams again fails. Need additional material.

Shufling the materials gives the creature a better sense of smell in his eyes and a better sight of his nose. Progress.
>Sanity Stable.

The creature starts to wander off further.

Finds Stairs. Down and up.


>Inventory
>Human Hair (Female)
>Human Ear (Male)
>Human Tongue (Unindentified)
>Blood

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 9/100

>>26506238
Ask the nasal one what it thinks. See if you can speak. Have you got a tongue? Can it articulate? All worthy questions

>>26506238
>Was there a time before us?

>>26506260
>Sanity Increased
>Speaking is possible, but it is easier with thoughts. You have an unidentified human type tongue in your inventory. It can do everything an unidentified human type tongue could and more.

>>26506279
>Sanity Increased
>Yes. But there won't be a time before us. Time is a complex question. You spend time thinking about time.
>Sanity Increased.
>it seems that only an hour since you have arrived at somewHere has passed.

The Nasal one thinks little - because dead thoughts are only hunger and thirst for life, even if they cannot have it.

it is indecisively standing on the stairs, trying to get its tongue into your supply of blood.

>Inventory
>Human Hair (Female)
>Human Ear (Male)
>Human Tongue (Unindentified)
>Blood

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 15/100

Higher sanity allows you to remember that this is a human made house of seven flours and you are on the sixth one.

>>26506328
>Why is our creation still dead?

>>26506328
Can we feed the nasal one? Or can we put the thinker of the sightly one on the chassis of the nasal one?

>>26506357
>Because it is easier to teach it to move than to live. Living would require a life or a soul, and your's seems too depleted to use.
>Sanity Increased

>>26506365
The Nascal one drinks most of your blood. It still feels hunger. Forever.
>Sanity Stable.

Nascal is sighty and sighty is Nascal. Nascal is a name now.

>Inventory
>Human Hair (Female)
>Human Ear (Male)
>Human Tongue (Unidentified)

>Party
>Nascal. A creature.

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 16/100

>>26506392
>Investigate the stairs

>>26506392
Place the hair and tongue on nasal. Then push it down the stairs

>>26506407
The stairs are stones from a mountain, pebble from the hill and human labor and sweat.

They can also creak, and might have more humans in other rooms on other floors. No humans on the stairs.

>>26506438
It rolls and disappears from your presence.

>Inventory
>Human Ear (Male)

>Party
>Nascal. Currently, an absent creature.

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 16/100

There are some sounds from down below.

>>26506456
Investigate downstairs. What is an ear? What is down? What is creak?

There is a strange machine that has a human inside, speaking to himself.

"Send backup." is the most common word.

Nascal is eating the machine. It will take him a while.

>Ears to hear, down to lower and creak...

>>26506517
>>26506488

>Inventory
>Human Ear (Male)
>A creek. (It Rhymes with squeak)

>Party
>Nascal. Eating a car.

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 16/100

>>26506528
>Why are we here, amongst these humans?

>>26506539
>Sanity Increased
>You escaped.

Did you?
>Sanity Increased.

Was it not your home?
Stay.
>Sanity Decreased.

You are in the human world.
>Sanity Stable.

>Inventory
>Human Ear (Male)
>A creek. (It Rhymes with squeak)

>Party
>Nascal. Eating a car.

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 20/100

>With sanity as high as someday before, you can pretend to speak like a human does, whatever purpose that would ever serve.

>>26506569
>Have we been to the human world before?

>>26506180
>Ask a question to Change yourself.

What were we before?

>>26506569
How do we look like now?

>>26506592
>Yes.

>Sanity Increased.

>>26506600
>Dead. Alive. Something else.
>Sanity Increased

>>26506627
>Something.
>Sanity Decreased

>Inventory
>Human Ear (Male)
>A creek. (It Rhymes with squeak) (if sanity increases, no holding the creak now)

>Party
>Nascal. Eating a car.

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 25/100

>>26506647
>Enter the car.
>Examine the human.
>Speak
"Send backup."

Take the words out of the talking machine. They are curious things.

>>26506679
Assuming you still can, anyway.

>>26506674
>>26506679

"Who's there?" The human is turning around, but you already have him.

The Nascal is almost through.

>Inventory
>Human Ear (Male)
>A creek. (It Rhymes with squeak) (if sanity increases, no holding the creak now)
>A phrase
> A car.
> A live human
>Talking Machine

>Party
>Nascal. Eating a car.

>Input your action to Change the world.
>Ask a question to Change yourself.
>Current Sanity 25/100

>>26506698
>Speak to the human
"Who's there?"
>Who IS there?

>>26506698
What is the live human doing?

>>26506698
"Not 'who' now. That was long ago. Something else now. Do not know what. Do you?"

>>26506698
Look around the room. What is sight?

>>26506714
>>26506746
"Help me," he pleads.
He screams.
Nascal licks him.
He cries.
"Kill me," he asks.

>>26506780
Push nascal out of the way. "What am I?"

>>26506788
This

>>26506788
Agreed.

>>26506753
"Get out of my head."
"Kill me."

Nascal looks at you for permission to eat your human yet.

>>26506815
This is unfortunate.
>start looking through the human's thoughts

>>26506788
"I don't know!" He whines.
"Mother," he pleads. "Are you death?" he asks.

"We're sending another car, stand by" the car announces from its guts.

>Sanity stable.
>Creek is no longer in inventory.

>>26506815
Release you? We shall change him. Take nascal apart, improve the human. Observe his reaction

>>26506815
Be puzzled by this. Can we even go inside heads in the first place? Experiment a little, try to find a way in.

>>26506862
Was meant for >>26506852

>>26506852
>Speak
"Do you know who does know?"

>>26506847
>His thoughts are fear. His thoughts are human.
>Sanity gained.
He is of a guild called Police. He is a man whose name is Alexander.


>Inventory:
Human Ear (Male)
A phrase
A talking machine
A car

>Party:
Nascal. A hungry creature.
Alexander. A babbling policeman.

>Sanity 30/100

>>26506972
No progress is happening. Try to take over the talking machine, then hide and speak to the Alexander with it. Maybe he will be more comfortable if he can't see you. And take Nascal with you, lest the little tyke lose control of his appetite.

>>26506972
Interesting.

>Do we have a name?

>>26506862
Need confirmation.

>>26506913
He doesn't. His mind cannot comprehend you.
>Sanity Stable
Whatever comprehending someone is.


>>26507023
You have taken over the talking machine. It connects to others. You can't take them, but you hear an endless stream of chatter.

Alexander is staring at nothing, saliva pouring out of his mouth.
You know that he would listen to your commands.

Nascal is nibbling at his feet, content

>>26507045
>If yes, it was Sam. If not, you don't have one yet.
>Sanity Increased


>Inventory:
>Human Ear (Male)
>A phrase
>A talking machine
>A car

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Alexander. A babbling policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 50% while in the party)

>Sanity 33/100

>>26507174
The surroundings include a half-empty street, a few more cars, and a broken street-light. A building nearby is mirrored by the one opposite, and copied an innumerous number of times.

Everything is so similar to everything else.
>Sanity Stable

There is someone watching from one of the windows. A human child. Seventh floor.

>>26507174
combine talking machine with ear to make hearing+talking machine
put phrase into hearing+talking machine

Study the phrase. Taste the words. Touch the emotions. Learn to comprehend the humans so that they can comprehend you.

>>26507174
>Then we are Sam. This is important: we know who we are now.

>But.... why does that matter? This human knows who he is, and his being is insignificant.

>>26507209
Watch the child back. What is different between the Alexander and the child? Does the child have a different reaction to us?

>>26507219
The Human chatter hushes as thousands of different voices announce "Who's there?"
The echo is unending, the phrase is thriving, trying to reach each and every talking device that has a reason to be connected. The ear listens.

The phrase is endless.
>Sanity Lost

>>26507221
>Sanity Lost
>Humans are strange - you need more thoughts to realize them, not simple phrases. It seems that thoughts are what make up phrases, but not necessary.

>>26507234
You are Sam.
>Sanity Leap (Someone roll a d20)
It doesn't matter. it just is. A name is a name.

Same as nascal has Nascal, you have Sam.

>You may take up a human shell of Sam.

>>26507247
You see her and she sees you. She is young. You are. She is afraid, but you are ______.
She closes the blinds.
But she still can see you watching.
She screams, clawing at her eyes.
>Sanity gain from a human child registered


>If yes, it was Sam. If not, you don't have one yet.
>Sanity Increased


>Inventory:
>Human Ear (Male)
>A car

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Alexander. A babbling policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself.
>Sanity (39+d20)/100

>>26507346

>If yes, it was Sam. If not, you don't have one yet.
>Sanity Increased


>Inventory:
>A car
>A drop of fear

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Alexander. A babbling policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself.
>Sanity (36+d20)/100

Rolled 3

Thoughts. Ask the Alexander if he has any thoughts we can use. If he does, take one of our own thoughts out and compare the two. There is learning to be done.

>>26507388
You own all his thoughts already, thus, they are your own, even if different. Thus, your thoughts are even more human than before.
>Sanity gained

>3
>You name isn't important, after all.
>You were Sam only once or twice before, after all.

>Inventory:
>A car
>A drop of fear

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Alexander. A babbling policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself.
>Sanity 40/100

>You cannot move on without a form with such a high sanity.
>Your inventory is currently limiting a choice to these:
A car,
A human,
Sam,
Nascal,
Alexander,
A human (female) child

>>26507447
>>26507377
>>26507346
Yes

>>26507346
You lost your trip

>>26507457
>>26507459
It's a journey, not a trip.

>>26507469
>Input your choice:
>Your inventory is currently limiting a choice to these:
>A car,
>A human,
>Sam,
>Nascal,
>Alexander,
>A human (female) child

>Current Sanity 40/100
>Or, ask a question or input an action.

Be the little girl.

I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist. Plus, creepy Lovecraftian children works well as a horror trope.[/spoiler

Put our things in the car to save for later.
Be the little girl. Small and maneuverable.

>>26507491
We will borrow the female, try not to lose her though.

>>26507510
You are at the window.
The blind are closed.

The car is outside.
The radio is whispering "Who's there?"

And the answer is you.

The Door to your room opens.

"Alice, are you alright, I head screaming?" It's a woman's voice.
She can only see your back yet, and the blinds are moving with the wind that is not there.

"Who's there?" Something whispers from behind her, and she shivers. "Alice?"

>Inventory:
>A car
>A drop of fear
>A toy radio

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party) (Away)
>Alexander. A babbling policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 50% while in the party) (Away)

>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself. (Everywhere)

>Sanity 45/100

Find more little girls. Nascal will want one too.
Get one for Alexander and another for the car.

>>26507547
>Turn around.
>Look solemn.
"I don't know."

>>26507547
Reduce the voice to more manageable pieces.

>>26507547
Poor woman is confused. I am Sam, Sam I am.

>>26507556
"Alice?"

You push past, not even sparing a glance. There is a little boy, sleeping in the crib in the next room.

You stop and turn around.
>>26507568

The woman freezes in place, her mouth open, staring, staring right at you, and knowing that you have told the truth.

"Who's there?" the toy radio sqeaks together with a baby alarm. "Who's there?"

>>26507580
>You might have been Sam, but this Sam is not the same Sam.

The woman screams.
>Sanity gained from mother.

"Stay away from John!" She screams again, standing between you and the baby.

"Who's there?" whispers the toy radio.

>>26507610
>Inventory:
>A car
>Fear
>A toy radio
>John
>Alice's Mother

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party) (Away)
>Alexander. A babbling policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 50% while in the party) (Away)
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself. (Everywhere, but whispering)

>Sanity 49/100

>>26507610
Her voice is the same as the others. Nothing special. Ignore.

The John might have more valuable insight, however.

>>26507631
Why are we here?

>>26507631
Give the toy car to John, throw away the radio.

>>26507610
>Why does she care where we go?

Has anyone thought that... this "Sanity" may not be good? It binds us, it loses us, but how does it help?

>>26507666
>A question that has no answer in itself. But it might have an answer in the future.
>Sanity Increased

>50 Sanity Reached. Thoughts are straighter and more complex, outcomes a lot more pronounced.


>>26507661
>John's thoughts are like a swimming pool, pleasant, simple, tasteful and graceful. And they are now yours.
>Sanity Increased

The woman is crying.

>>26507672
>John likes the car. Or at least his former thoughts do.
>Sanity Increased

The crib is squished by the weight and the car is peeking outside from a window, hanging unsteady, but John is poking a light.

>>26507715
She has a strange connection with John, but that thing is over now. Because John has no connection back.

There's more lights outside - police cars are converging on the single one outside.


>Inventory:
>Fear
>Despair
>Alice's Mother

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party) (Away)
>Alexander. A babbling policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 50% while in the party) (Away)
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself. (Everywhere, but whispering)
>John. Thoughtless and small, but important.

>Sanity 60/100

>>26507760
Sanity is indeed something you are now becoming increasingly afraid off. Something that glues the human world in a different way than you have lived before.
But you have lived a human life, and you are an almost human again.
You are afraid that it will help you become even more human.
>Sanity Gained
>Sanity 65/100

>>26507790
>Why did we have to leave our home?

Human... curious, but what was before human?

>>26507790
What do we remember?

>>26507772
The Policemen are pointing at your window and the car that is hanging from the wall.

You have rejoined forced with Nascal and Alexander.

It seems that while you were gone, Nascal found some pedestrian and drank it's blood.

You now have excess blood.

Every item in the list is in the seventh floor flat, and the police forces are going to go and try entering the building.

>>26507808
Mayhaps... we are fleeing from before?

>>26507804
>You were escaping. Someone was trying to unmake you, or make you different than you wanted. You took a chance to leave while you still had enough of a presence to leave.

>>26507808
>>26507812
Before Humans, there was time.
You have not lived in that time.
You remember touching that time after you stopped being a human. You were you at the time and that time is makes you doubt your truths.
>Sanity lost.


>>26507841
Yes.

>Inventory:
>Fear
>Despair
>Alice's Mother
>Blood.
>7th floor, two room flat

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Alexander. A babbling policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself. (Everywhere, but whispering)
>John. Thoughtless and small, but important. (Sanity gain +50%)

>Sanity 57/100

>>26507826
What is the police's purpose? What do they want with us? Ask Alexander.
Maybe they want to join our cause and help us.

>>26507891
Or maybe... maybe they want to force us back? We have disrupted them by creating the machine, and they can't understand why.

>>26507826
Disassemble the police men.

>>26507891
The police are supposed to keep the peace.
they also are afraid of the unknown and might try to stop you. From something.
Or, they might see your way and help you.
>Sanity gained.

>Sanity 60/100

>>26507869
>Look at Alice's Mother.
"I am sorry. I just want to understand."

>>26507918
Dissasembling is no longer that simple, although if they enter the room....

>>26507940
She tries to get closer and get you into a hug.
>Sanity Stable

>>26507921
I have done nothing to warrant violence.
I am simply learning.
>>26507952
This gesture may mean she wants to join with us. Add her to the stockpile.

>>26507952
>Why does she want to touch us?

>>26507869
Why not combine the Echoed Phrase and the Alexander? One babbles, the other whispers, they may enjoy theyself.

>>26507952
Let them in then. We will take them apart, make them understand, and put them back together.

>>26507972
Why not combine Nascal and Phrase instead? He's been a bit too quiet recently, maybe he has something to share?

>>26508004
>>26507972
Why are Light's ideas just as sinister as Darkness'?

>>26508035
Because Light has a plan.

>>26507966
>>26507967
She hugs you as you complete her induction to the company. Her fears and thoughts were interesting. But this thing called love is very different from anything you have ever seen or felt, or tasted.

>>26507977
The policemen are brave. They enter the room baldly, leaving footsteps in all of the blood.
Their bravery tastes like a crispy dog snack.

>>26507972
the policemen are good enough to bring many talking machines, even if they only ever whisper a single question. "Who's there?" Some of them are wrapped into different clothes, others are bare, whispering out to the world.

Alexander babbles in protest, but you know better. The phrase likes him. It was his, to begin with, but you have reuinited them again.

However, it had grown and changed, and Alexander screams as he is introduced to his own child.

The Echoed Phrase rejects him after a while, keeping his voice to himself.

>>26508004
Need confirmation, because this could be more permanent.

>>26507977
They are parts.
>Inventory:
>Fear
>Despair
>Love?
>Blood.
>Bravery
>7th floor, two room flat
>Four policemen (parts)

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Alexander. A silent policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 10% while in the party)
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself. (Everywhere, but whispering)
>John. Thoughtless and small, but important. (Sanity gain +50%)
>You. Sam or Alice. Dead or Alive.

>Sanity 75/100

>>26508120
Say, what does our party seem like when viewed? We sense them with our thoughts, but in other ways?

>>26508120
How do we disassemble? Can things be returned to the way they were?

>>26508120
>How can she feel love for us? We are not Alice. We are Alice. Do we love Alice's mother in return?

>>26508170
You have to try to know the answer. Do things ever return to the way they were?
>Sanity gained

>>26508167
Everyone is different, but they all are a sum of the things they are made off.

>Party:
>Nascal. A hungry creature with a hunger for blood. (Reduces sanity gain by 50% while in the party)
>Alexander. A silent policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 10% while in the party). He looks like a policemen should - the badge, a gun, an uniform, a half eaten leg and bloodied hair.
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself. (Everywhere, but whispering) It's not here, not in the physical sense, but since it's everywhere, it is.
>John. Thoughtless and small, but important. (Sanity gain +50%) A baby with a huge car to play with, and eyes that are much too old for his meak age.
>Alice's Mother. An empty shell of a woman.
>You. Sam or Alice. Dead or Alive.

>Sanity 77/100

>>26508120
The flat has remained the way it is for a while, maybe it feels left out? Maybe combine it with the... policemen, maybe sprinkle in some despair to make them struggle less?

Put all the bravery and fear in the car trunk. We might need it later.
Make more nascals out of the police men.

>>26508201
She does not love you. You have all of her love to yourself. It is not hers. It is all yours. It's a tool to be used, or a thing to be understood.

>>26508220
Do we exist?

>>26508220
We must attempt. Repair Alexanders leg, reduce Nascal to pieces for this task.

>>26508229
The flat is combined with the police. It is not a single most patrolled flat in existence. It's also very law abiding, and can arrest anyone that's inside. It doesn't try to arrest you, but purrs gently with all the uniforms and dead bodies piling up.
>Sanity Lost.

>>26508231
Nascal doesn't like the idea of there being more of him, he'd rather prefer to be something more himself.

>>26508234
You think, thus you exist.
>Sanity gained.

>Overall Sanity Stable.

>>26508220
Our sanity is getting to critical levels. If this goes on for longer, will we still be what we were? As for Nascal, he does seem a bit left out here...

>>26508233
>What is love?

>>26508266
Nascal is a product of what we were when we were less sane.
Disassemble him. We need sane things for when we become sane. Whatever that may be.

>>26508284
Combine John with blood, bravery, love?

>>26508284
>Baby don't hurt me

>>26508299
>Don't hurt me

>>26508260
Attempt this
>>26508266

Give Alexander some of our sanity, it is not required.

>>26508313
Why alexander?
Give our sanity to Nascal.
Alexander already has his Phrase.
John has the car.
Alice has I.
Alice's mother has Alice.
Nascal is the only one without thing.

>>26508343
The phrase rejected Alexander, which is why I suggested giving it to Nascal. It will keep them company.

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>>26508306
>No more

>>26508284
>It's a difficult question. What isn't love?
You contemplate it for a while.
>It seems that out of all human emotions, they understand this one the least, but desire it the most. (>>26508299 >>26508306 >>26508367)
>Sanity Increased.
>>26508289
>>26508260
>>26508296
Nascal is sobbing with emotions or feelings that have not been there when he was created, and the world was different.

He is recreated into Alexander's leg, and now, he is no more.
>Sanity gained.

Alexander can walk properly again - but with his silence, you're not sure how much he is grateful.
>Sanity Increased

>>26508298
Need confirmation, might be critical.

>>26508358
>>26508343
You cannot give your sanity, you can only take.
>Party:
>Alexander. A silent policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 10% while in the party). He looks like a policemen should - the badge, a gun, an uniform, a bloated and hungry leg and bloodied hair. Even on the leg. Which is sniffing around. A true policeman.
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself. (Everywhere, but whispering) It's not here, not in the physical sense, but since it's everywhere, it is.
>John. Thoughtless and small, but important. (Sanity gain +50%) A baby with a huge car to play with, and eyes that are much too old for his meek age.
>Alice's Mother. An empty shell of a woman.
>You. Sam or Alice. Dead or Alive.

>Sanity 90/100

>>26508450
Take his insanity away then

>>26508450

Simple. Take his insanity.

>>26508450
>We are quite sane now. John should be empty, he is young.
>Combine Alice's Mother with bravery and love. If we want to avoid the police in the future, we need a guardian.

>>26508450
>Sanity 90/100
>90/100
>DWEET DWEET ALARM BELLS

If we have to comply with the rules of the police and their bullets when we're at higher sanity, then this existence could be... short.

We have too many things.
Make us all one.
Unified equals more sane, yes

>>26508537
What if we gain more than 100% sanity?

>>26508500
>>26508512
>>26508520
Your high sanity stops you from realizing just how to go on with that. Taking a lack of something is too difficult of the concept.
>Sanity Stable

>>26508537
Is good sanity a good thing? You have no idea? But it is a change - a change that might be good or bad - but reducing the trend looks to be rather difficult.

>>26508528
Again, need confirmation to proceed, but the idea of giving he impressions and concepts for people to have again is an interesting thing to consider. Humane, even.
>Sanity Increases.

>>26508565
Need Confirmation.
The idea is strange to you.
>Sanity Decreased.

>Sanity Stable overall.


>Inventory:
>Fear
>Despair
>Love?
>Blood.
>Bravery
>Humane thoughts

>Party:
>Alexander. A silent policeman with a broken mind. (Increases sanity gain by 10% while in the party). He looks like a policemen should - the badge, a gun, an uniform, a bloated and hungry leg and bloodied hair. Even on the leg. Which is sniffing around. A true policeman.
>Echoed Phrase. A narcisstic machine that never stops listening to itself. (Everywhere, but whispering) It's not here, not in the physical sense, but since it's everywhere, it is.
>John. Thoughtless and small, but important. (Sanity gain +50%) A baby with a huge car to play with, and eyes that are much too old for his meek age.
>Alice's Mother. An empty shell of a woman.
>Police Flat. A flat made out of policemen and policeman made out of flat is the most patrolled building in existance.
>You. Sam or Alice. Dead or Alive. Yes.

>Sanity 90/100
>Some of your thoughts are scaring you - some are those you wished to know more about.

>>26508565
Yes, this seems reasonable. Less is more, after all, especially with sanity.

Now, why don't we try combining the Echoed phrase with the Echoed phrase, hmm? It seems like it could use an idea conduit to bounce off of.

>>26508605
You have no idea.

Do you do this
>>26508528
this
>>26508565
or this:
>>26508298

Children are owned by man and woman.
Do we belong to someone? Something?

>>26508643
All. More is less, definitively with sanity.

>>26508642
Confirmed. Merger in progress.

>>26508669
Whelp.

>>26508669
>Sanity Decreased
>Sanity Decreased
>Sanity Decreased

You are all you have. You are Alice, you are her mother, you are a room of policemen, and a single one. You are death and you are mute, but you always hear a whispering in the air.
"Who's there?" You ask, as the human concepts echo within youself. They are Strange and different. Love is the first to go - if you are one, why would you need love.
Bravery is something that stays, in a sense - if you ever had a question of what it is, its taking a step forward without glancing back.
Fear lingers in all of your human minds, but stays out of inhuman shadow that you cast.
There's You and the rest of the world.

You are many, and you are at the seventh floor. There are other floors, other people, surrounding you. They are too close and too different from you to be something you can tolerate.

>Sanity Loss

>Sanity 25/100

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>>26508744

Why?
why think
why touch
why hear
why see

>>26508744
Your blood is a whisper, one that travels thought the world, everywhere.
Your body is a flat, full with blood and bodies
Your eyes are a little girl
Your hands are a baby that is brave and strong
Your feelings are in an empty shell that was a women.
You are a concept. A thing?
>Sanity Stable

>>26508796
Thing?
thing have names
we have names?

You are secure and never alone. You are satisfied. Everything in the world is separate and alone.
How can they live that way?
You have seen perfection. Perfection is one. Bring that to everyone.

>>26508796
>>26508783
It is a good question?
Why do these things, when you have no need for them?
Why be something, when you can be anything?

Why exist, when you simply do not care?
>Sanity Loss

>>26508812
You have too many names to properly identify with.
Sam. Alice. John. Alexander. Nascal. Policemen. Alice's Mother. Echoed Prhase.
"Who's there?"

>Sanity Loss

>>26508833
You have a goal, at least.
>Sanity gained.

>Sanity 10/100

>Give a couple more comments, commands or questions and cower.

Look to the horizon. Put all of our ears to the ground. How far do our senses reach? How many can hear our whispers?

>>26508859
>We still don't understand. Maybe we understand less than ever.
>If we are something new, we need to name ourselves.
>We are together, yes? We are Together.

>>26508859
all my things have resulted in san loss, this is great.
Look
what do we see?

>>26508859
>Sanity 10/100
>10/100
>BEEP BEEP WARNING LIGHTS

Start accomplishing goal, try to unify thoughts.

Would we go back to where we were if we lose our sanity?
I don't think we want to go there.

>>26508944
But what if there is us?

>>26508796
But where is Nascal? Always leaving him out... if we truly want to be one, we must find him.

>>26508859
Dance the sanity dance

>>26508944
Or maybe, if we find enough things to use, enough concepts to command...

We can go back there and we can disassemble the things that enslaved us.

>>26508896
Everyone. Everywhen. Everywhere.
"Who's there?"
>Sanity Loss (5/100)

>>26508890
Understanding is difficult, but maybe - understanding less is, in a way, understanding more?
>Sanity Gain (9/100)

>>26508910
Yourself.
>Sanity Loss (4/100)

>>26508923
You are one.
>Sanity Loss (1/100)

>>26508944
No, you do not. But you are different. And you're here and not there, now.
>Sanity Gain (3/100)

>>26508954
What if, indeed
>Sanity Loss


>AND... Wait for Epilogue.

>>26508975
Hue i killed us
we did not belong anyways

>>26508989

Faggot.

>>26508998
if the option of death is not available the game is not fun

>>26508989
I also blame Light.

>>26509012

Shouldn't be an option

Should be a consequence

>>26509020
Clearly you do not wish to see beyond the veil of sanity

This was going to be an uber-short quest anyway if reaching 0/100 SAN was THE objective and not AN objective.

This really feels like a one-shot experimental thing anyway. I can imagine keeping something this weird and Lovecraftian going for a long time might provoke a few real-life SAN checks.

>>26509038
We started beyond that veil.

>>26509048
One shots are fun because of the added risks and the ability to push the boundries one would usually fear.

>>26509056
And now we are back there.

>>26508975
>Final Score:
>Sanity 1/100

Omnipresence:
>"Who's there?"

Owned territory:
> the size of a three room flat.

People Killed:
>6 (7 if counting indirect kills)

Creatures Created:
>Nascal, Alexander, Echoed Phrase, Alice, Policemen, Alice's Mother, John

Property destroyed:
>One car.


You have managed to keep yourself from slipping back again, but just barely. The place you had ran away from, was a certain sort of hell.

The place you are now at, is something different.

It is both real and not, bordering on the very edge of existence, and if humans ever peek inside, they cannot see you. Unless you look at them, and ask. "Who's there?"


Cont...

>>26509070
But we were always there for there is us

>>26509075
Combine despair.

Look within and gaze into the void of self asking "who's there"

>>26509075
There is a legend. Well, obviously, it's more of a story than a full blown legend, but it's only because it's recent.

They say that there is a flat thirteen on the seventh floor. No one lives there, because it can't be found by everyone. But it is there, nonetheless.

You might laugh at me, or call me insane, but I have seen the door - old, battered door, marked with a police badge.

And if you put your head to the doors, you hear a little child chuckle merrily, a burning engine of a car that's trapped inside of the room.

Then, a number of steps, and a loud sniffing noise - someone trying to taste you from behind the door. If you continue further, you might hear a question.

Usually, it is a simple one - "Who's there?".
Other times, it's a more difficult one - "Why?"
Sometimes, you might get lucky and hear an impossible one. "Just what is this Love?" A little girl's voice asks. If you linger, you will always hear an answer. "I wouldn't know, child, all I have left, is Despair."

And then, the door might creak open one bit. That's where you have to run. Run and never look back. For if you look inside, the one that lives there might notice you.

You wouldn't want that.

Now go, leave me alone, forget what I have just said. Move away from this place.

Because if you keep thinking about all this, you might just get a call.

A call from an unknown number, or an echo in a radio show you are listening. It will ask then - "Who's there?"

And whatever you answer. It will be a wrong one.

Pray that you never have to.

>>26509247
That was fun OP even though i was the one that killed us Planning on doing anything else in the future?

Anyway, it has been fun. I can answer random question and stuff.

The idea was to play a being with 0 sanity, and you had a chance of reaching any of 100 and 0 again - at first, you had huge bonuses for sanity gain and couldn't lose it much, and as it went, sanity loss was increased.

If you had given the child some feelings, that would have thrown you to 100 sanity. There would have been a different ending.

>>26509289
Hah, glad you had some fun.
The prologue could have been more polished, but I actually miscalculated the time needed for me to do so, but it's the usual result in the rare quest I actually do.

And yes, I pop up from time to time but too rare to be of note. Next time you're playing an obscure quest, it might be actually me there, watching. :D

>>26509048
There were two objectives, 0 and 100. Both would have ended the game. At first, you couldn't lose sanity as easily, too, but at 50 it was a fair game to both sides. I would have ended it whenever I would have gotten tired, too.

>>26509333

Good game, though it seems that Light contributed more to my goals then I did, oddly.

>>26509379
At one point, I actually guessed that you were the same person, actually. Also, light was obviously on the same side. >>26508775
Can't trust those overconfident mass murderers.

>>26509401
And that gives me another idea, heh. Maybe tomorrow.

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>>26509414
I'll be watching.

>>26509414
Do you have a twitter OP I wish to be lazy and stalk you at the same time

>>26509441
Hint.
>It's going to be about a mass murdered.

>>26509379
And you contributed to mine when you tried to do anything, too.

>>26509401
I was trying to keep sanity at the point where we weren't as restricted by logic, but not in the danger zone. Didn't expect sanity to plummet after combining.

>>26509441
And I as well

>>26509469
Yes, I had hoped to make us more powerful without sacrificing too much logic.

>>26509451
Meh. This is wrong.

Let's say...

I'll create something at ~12:00 GMT, and we'll see how it goes.


>>26509494
You basically took a bunch of sanity-lacking beings and combined them into one. What did you expect?

>>26509469
I was trying to get sanity to 0, or at least keep lower then the other danger zone. By the way, OP, what would have happened if the combining with Nascal went through?

>>26509509
Welp, that wasn't MY idea....
I was just going to get us to the point where we could give excess sanity to our party.

>>26509517
And whoops, looks like I was the same person. Good guess, OP.

>>26509455
... Is that a typo, or are we literally mass murder victims?

>>26509825
Good question ;P A typo is there, however I look at it. Stay tuned for tomorrow. ;D

It might have been "a mass murderer", or "mass murdered" ;P.

>>26510035
Daily reminder that this guy is the best questfag.

>>26510305
It's a bit early to say that. Still, he's one to keep an eye on...

>>26510420
I think that was ironic.
>>26510035
> ;P
> ;D
> ;P

>>26511426
Ironic? No. Overstated? Possibly.

He does still look promising, though.

>>26511679
Some emoticon abusing shitbird? Yea, nah.

>>26512191
He may be a touch too liberal with the semicolons, yeah, but he is a decent writer, which is kind of the part that matters for quests. Mostly, anyway.

If anyone gives a shit, I archived it since I didn't find it in the archive. Seemed interesting, and I want to read this later, so there you go:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/26505832/