>>36158503

Back when you first started seeing things there was a wish to understand and make sense of them. It ended up with attempts to correlate the overlapping monsters and the people they belonged to. You had thought that if you only tried to fixed them, they would go away. In time you even learned a little of what certain features meant. You thought that...

You just ended up hurting people and making their overlaps worse off.

Happy that it's really your father and not some monster with his voice, you open the door more and slip out. You don't really want him to see all the trash in your bedroom.

You don't say anything to each other on the way down, you both know this could just be another false start to recovery. Because there isn't a recovery. Medicine didn't do anything for you and therapy stopped being possible a long time ago. Your father was the only one that could accept that as the new reality, even if no one believed you about the monsters being real. Your brother stopped speaking to you entirely, and your mother will likely never stop trying to help you even if it means her marriage slowly becomes another thing she's lost.

It's because you just can't fix people even if they are ruined.

The kitchen isn't something you see well lit all the much anymore, since both your parents are already light sleepers and tend to wake up if you use anything stronger than a weak flashlight. But you can ignore the cracks dancing down the walls and the gunk clogging the sink easily for the hot food that's set on the table.

>>36158512
Your mother, beaked and wilted flowers with a rusted chain coiled around her neck that-, smiles as you with so much pride over one small thing that it hurts. At the table you see your grandmother and grandfather, with their own monsters over lapping like static does on old tvs with spotty cable.

But mostly you try to stare at the floor as art and craft spiders crawl away from where your grandmom sits.

>Just sit down and get some food.
>Talk to someone, but who?
>Wait to be spoken to before doing anything.

>>36158527

Try saying "Good afternoon" to the people at the table.

>>36158527

>Just sit down and get some food.

>>36158527
>Just sit down and get some food.

>>36158527
>Just sit down and get some food.

>>36158667
>>36158675
>>36158761
>>36158761
>>36158831

Writing.

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>>36158527
Looking at the set table, you quickly find a seat in the tense and hazy atmosphere of the room. The meal is brunch, ham and eggs with french toast along side fresh fruit. There might be sausage and hashbrowns but you've piled your plate enough that you can't really tell anymore.

"I'm glad you have such an appetite! I made lots of food so make sure to dig in," your mother interrupts your tiny bites with a cheerful voice. You nod instead of speaking, opting to continue slowly chewing so that you don't cause your stomach to become upset with you. You've become much less picky in the last year and happily eat the dippy eggs that have a drizzle of syrup flowing down from your french toast. It seems that in the next few moments your family has relaxed just a bit. You continue to disregard the vines curling in from the window facing you. A spike puff is attacked by the arty spiders that spew from your grandmother's knitting bag, a pack of the arachnids use primitive tactics to kite it and then throw up nets of water color before pulling the ball down like a fisherman pulls in his net. The spiders brake from their previous formation and enter a free for all for their helpless prey. The biggest origami monster stabs it's fangs into the dull green eyes.

You crush the tiny monsters under your foot, leaving only black smoke to dissipate.

Someone says you name. Not your screen name, but your actual name. At first you didn't realize since it's been so long that you've really heard anyone but your parents say it... That's right, your name is-

>

>>36159151
Adrianna.
Adrian for short.

>>36159151
Fuck.. Er Lily?

>>36159169
Lily sounds good.

>>36159167
>>36159151
Adrian sounds good.

>>36159151
Miko

>>36159167
Second

>>36159175
Here

Since votes are swinging that way I'll switch to >>36159167

>>36159169
I'll just pretend that I didn't forget to remove that name and go hide in a corner.

>>36159167
>>36159169
>>36159175
>>36159181
>>36159183
>>36159205
"Adrianna." Your grandmother has never really had wrinkles, but the way her skin moves like sand and occasionally cries out molars is probably a whole new level of old. But her fingers are bright with ever changing patterns and textures, likely from all the arts and crafts she loves to partake in. You can see the tips have the beginnings of different tools of the trade, from needles to brushes and even calligraphy pens.

But along the joints you know that her old age has weakened her wrists and locked up her hands. Soon she won't be doing much more of what she loves.

"It's very nice to see you up and about, dear." She speaks to you with a fair weather voice and a kind smile on her face with blue eyes crinkled. It has been a while since you've seen each other and you admit that you have missed her horribly.

Your father and grandfather are making small talk on the opposite end of the table. You back tingles in response to the idea that it's something about you.

>What do you say?
>Or do you just continue eating?

>>36159456
>What do you say?
>N-no u, grandmum.

>>36159456
>Listen to what they're saying while eating.

>>36159456
>What do you say?
"Me too."

>>36159512
Second

>>36159456
Thanks... I've missed you

>>36159456

>Y-you t-too...

>>36159456
>>36159524
Supporting

>>36159456
>"T-thank you. I missed you..."

>>36159524
This is good.

>>36159456
>"Thank you... Its nice to see you too..."

Maybe inquire about her arts and crafts? It seems like seeing those things is not as stressful/terrifying as everything else around us at the moment.

>Y-you too anon

Writing

>>36159456
Deciding to reply to your grandmother, you swallow and sit up a bit straighter in your chair.

"Thank you. It's nice to see you too nan." You weren't really sure of what to say at the end there, but her smile only gets wider. There is an urge to hug her but that would be too out of your comfort zone. Like an old book you know very well suddenly feels alien against your palm or your nails scrape against it and send that niggling sensation up to the bed from the tip. You love her but you just can't do more than look at her.

But her monster isn't the worst you've seen with it's hood and strange poncho. Simply unsettling, and even the beauty in it is poisoned by your knowledge that even the prettiest and down right enchanting of the creatures you've seen are heartless and deadly. You take another swig of orange juice.

"How's the painting going," Wetting chapped lips, "Any new inspiration lately?"

"Not especially since I put that back on hold. I decided to knit a few more blankets for the holidays, it's been getting chillier at night and we all know you can never have enough quilts." She informs you, heaving up her spring green bag of supplies. You can see needles and yarn next to a small notepad covered in quilting patterns and tiny cartoon designs.

The spiders from earlier retreat into the depths of the bag, panicking at the sudden movement of their home.

You catch a bit of what your father is conversing about with your grandpa, but it sounds like they're speaking about someone grandma met?

>You hear someone coming down stairs.
>Grandma shows you her notepad.
>Grandpa turns his attention to you.

>>36159951
>You hear someone coming down stairs.

>>36159951
>You hear someone coming down stairs.
>Grandma shows you her notepad.

>>36159951

>Grandma shows you her notepad.

>>36159951
>You hear someone coming down stairs.
Brother? Sister? Twin?

>>36159951
>Grandma shows you her notepad.

>>36159951
>You hear someone coming down stairs

>>36159951
>Let's see the notepad that grandma has

This might be the only chance we have of actually enjoying something physical/tactile and not something we see on our computer screen

Plus, the father and grandpa discussion is probably something we aren't ready to hear. And I'd rather us focus on the one good/neutral thing we've seen than the grandpa. Also, its probably just the brother coming down the stairs.

At least, that's all I hope it is

>>36159951
>>Grandma shows you her notepad.

>>36159951
>You hear someone coming down stairs.

>>36159951
>>You hear someone coming down stairs.

>>36159951
>Grandma shows you her notepad.
Ask her to teach you how to quilt.

>>36159951
>Grandma shows you the notepad.
I want something positive for a change.

>>36160463
Dude it's been over 40 minutes, voting period is long over.

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>>36160053
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>>36160463

Writing. Had brunch myself just now.

>>36160495
There's a distinct voting period? Since when?
OP has never mentioned that. Besides, he hasn't posted that he's started writing yet until >>36160546.

>>36160553
Voting closes when I post like above, with only 'Writing'. Sorry for being unclear!

>>36160589
So that anon was being a dumbass, wasn't he?

So, is MC a girl or a boy?

>>36160732
MC's wearing a dress and is named Adrianna.

He's obviously a boy. lrn2read fgt

>>36160732
Girl apparently

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>>36160751
I thought she was a girl, but I remember a few people saying boy last thread so I was a bit confused. Thanks for clearing it up, m80s

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>>36159951
"I did a bit with crayons, trying to branch out with what I use. They have a nice feeling to them when you do it right." And they do. You see the softness in the strokes and the way the colors have been blended are also very pleasing.

But it's still hard to look at so very long, the same inky and s cratch like lines shifting across the surface of it li k e everything else in your worId these days. And the things drawn there are wrapped too... You blink at the bl ond girl and her edges slowly spreading to drown out everything e ls

Fuzzing ou the no t bo o k the girl is nostopnotn

Walls crumble, shells drop over head the vines erupt into black metal with no reflection and a thousand worlds pass by as reality becomes fractures soaking into derelict ships. Geography with no logic settles in around you, and the table with the food and the family grows colorless before collapsing into the barren wasteland's ground.Tonight's world is a familiar one you have seen often.

>Spilling out is giggles and whispers, the drawn girl that resembles you is undulating into a figure yet continuously enveloped by black ink. She carries the stench of worry and mania, and is unable to free her hands from the velvety sea that wishes to devour her mind.

>Crayon Reflection has yet to take action against you.

>Run.
>Attack.
>Attempt to wake up.
>Try talking to it.

>>36160982
>Attempt to wake up.

>>36160982
>Try talking to it.
This some psychonauts shit?

>>36160982
>Attempt to wake up.
Seconding

>>36160982
>>Attempt to wake up.

>>36160982
>Run.
And
>Attempt to wake up.

>>36160982
I am a fool, changing >>36161052 to
>Try to talk to it

>>36160982
>Try talking to it.
Don't forget to defend yourself.

>>36160982
>Try talking to it
If it doesn't reply or goes to attack us
>Run and attempt to wake up

To me, it sounds like we did a 'battle transition' and are now trying to fight off the monster in the book.

And I was hoping that the notepad wasn't gonna do this, though it was a possibility. I honestly think our psyche is seeing 'the other side' where all the monsters and horrors live, and we just aren't equipped (physically or mentally) to handle it.

At least, not yet.

>>36160982
>>Attempt to wake up.

>>36160982
>Try talking to it.

>>36161167
>>36161101
>>36161226
>>36161087
>>36161045

>>36161020
>>36161052
>>36161062
>>36161068
>>36161168

A tie... Breaker?

>>36161298
DO BOTH

>>36161298
Just roll.

>>36161298
Do both, man.
Talk, then try to wake up.

>>36161298
Or talk while sneakily trying to wake up.

>>36161314
>>36161325
>>36161344
>>36161368
The voters have spoken! Roll 2d100! Best of five.

Rolled 85, 96 = 181 (2d100)

>>36161411
Please don't fuck up.

Rolled 11, 93 = 104 (2d100)

>>36161411
let's get rollin'

>>36161411

Rolled 88, 39 = 127 (2d100)

>>36161411

>>36161435
I.. er well. I didn't expect to roll that well.

>>36161298
It wasn't a tie because post >>36161052 had been retracted in >>36161087

Rolled 81, 69 = 150 (2d100)

>>36161411

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>>36161460
Me too, anon.

>>36161495
I'm fucking blind. But since the rolls were so good...

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>36161460
the dice gods have been kind to us

>>36161515
>tfw my roll was the lowest
Redemption?

>>36161435
Honestly I thought I'd make the limit for rolls into five since tg dice are so cruel in a lot of quests, but it seems I didn't need to.

Since I was stupid and didn't realize there wasn't a tie, I'm just going to give you both action's results since they came out really good. Writing.

>>36159151
I just noticed that this thread is up, but I as in the previous thread.
So, I guess MC is kind of in a similar situation as the protag in Homunculus was, maybe?

Rolled 85, 37 = 122 (2d100)

>>36161795 again.
So OP, how do you take dice rolls? Is it best of X for every given dice, or best combination?
Is it 85/96, or 88/96 for this one?

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>>36160982
Some of the more human looking monsters have shown an understanding of speech. It doesn't often stop them from hunting you though, but there is a chance it could save you time by distracting it. You just need to wake up...

>Rolled 88 for talking

The mass of black paint slowly begins to flow in your direction, but you hold your ground.

"Can you understand me?"

Crayon Reflection pauses and tilts it's submerged head, giggles increasing in pitch ever so slightly at the sound of your voice. It strikes you that you have heard that laughter in home videos, made when you were a child. The Crayon Reflection must indeed be based on the you then and the you now, colliding with the sudden change in a horrible way. As the artist that made the real drawing, did your Grandmother's conflicting emotions sink into her artwork and become this?

More worry passes by you as you come to understand why Crayon Reflection exists. Your Grandmother doesn't want you to be swallowed up by your haunting, and that's just what you've been letting happen. Unlike Crayon Reflection, who is struggling to stay afloat even now... You ended up giving in to your affliction.

>Crayon Reflection has quieted.

"Fine then... From now on, I won't ignore it! I'll stop sinking into the two worlds trying to drown me. Because... Because I'm still me, the little girl who laughed and played with her friends. Even if I'm like this right now, I won't let it own me, I deserve to be happy!"

You should be allowed to see the smile on you parent's faces, to eat meals with them and not run sobbing into your room or being so scared that shadows will cut you with their scribbled knife hands! You shouldn't need to stay up for days on end because your dreams are spent dying at the hands of beasts! And when you wake up there shouldn't be bruises or marks made from bad dreams.

And you are going to Wake.

>Crayon Reflection has responded to your will.
>Something in you has shifted.
>Small Nue has joined you.

>>36162217

You wake up shocked and out of breath, blurred vision seeing an unfamiliar ceiling. You are likely in a hospital, but it doesn't have

It doesn't.

It has no cues. It has no spikey balls or shadows of people in corners, the usual blinking pills and needles are no where. It's nothing but unfiltered realness like the images on your computer screen.

It's normal.

Something is wrong, you don't just fix brain damage by having an attack that is impossible it's not right this is wrong you have to be getting worse again like it did earlier on in the year this isn't right it isn't right it i SN T RIGHT-

You black out.

>[]You wake in the same room, but your brother in reading a book beside you.
>[]You wake in the same room, a girl you've never seen before sitting down by your bed side.
>[]You wake in the other world, something that isn't a monster watching you.
>[]You wake at the start of the Gauntlet. Something is different in you now, like you won't be running it alone.

Which post do we choose from? Either?

>>36162234

>[X]You wake in the same room, a girl you've never seen before sitting down by your bed side.

>>36162234
>Awaken in the other world, something that isn't a monster watching you.

So we're in some sort of Persona-esque world, then? And the monsters we're seeing are people's psyche/inner selves, with everything else just being the bleeding edges of the other world as it overlaps onto ours.

But, based upon how we did/reacted with the Crayon Reflection, it sounds like we're slowly coming to realize that this horror shouldn't stop us from living and being happy, so long as we are prepared to fight for our happiness.

>>36162234
>[]You wake in the same room, but your brother in reading a book beside you.
Broooooother

>>36162338
I believe the first one was QM telling us what happened/occured. It reads like something you'd see from a Persona game after "recruiting" a demon to your side.

>>36162234
>[x]You wake in the same room, a girl you've never seen before sitting down by your bed side.

>>36162234
>[X]You wake in the same room, a girl you've never seen before sitting down by your bed side.

Hopefully "never seen before" doesn't imply amnesia in this case. That'd be sad.

Rolled 100, 6 = 106 (2d100)

>>36162338
The first post has no options in it, mate.
>>36162234
>>[]You wake in the other world, something that isn't a monster watching you.
This if it's Small Nue that's watching us, not sure if she still counts us monster now that we have our new PERSONA.
>>[]You wake at the start of the Gauntlet. Something is different in you now, like you won't be running it alone.
I guess this could be fine too, but I think we're not ready yet to come out unscathed even with our new ally.
I'm sort of scared to choose the brother option so soon, to be honest.
>>[]You wake in the same room, a girl you've never seen before sitting down by your bed side.
Could be fine as well. Prioratize Small Nue, otherwise girl, and then gauntlet?

>>36162234

>[]You wake in the same room, but your brother in reading a book beside you.

>>36162234
>[]You wake in the same room, but your brother in reading a book beside you.

Rolled 90, 12 = 102 (2d100)

>>36162413
>those rolls
Wow, sorry for that wasted crit I guess...
OP, you haven't answered >>36161909 yet?
>>36162363
Looks kind of like Persona+Homunculus to me, mate, as I've said >>36161795.

>>36161909
Best combo.

>>36162234

>[X] You wake in the same room, a girl you've never seen before sitting down by your bed side.

Assuming this is inspired to some degree by Persona, is this our Ryouji?

>>36162444
>>36162444
FUCK
forgot to delete options field
sorry

>>36162465
You bring great shame upon us.

>>36162465
It's fine. A shame that they won't count towards anything though.

>>36162234
>[x]You wake in the same room, a girl you've never seen before sitting down by your bed side.
Let's meet someone new.

>>36162464
I really do wanna answer these questions but I must stay strong and resist...

>>36162590
>meet new people
>with MC's people skills
>when the monsters now overlap with people, and we don't know if there are still monsters roaming free
kek

>>36162234
>[]You wake in the same room, but your brother in reading a book beside you.

>>36162616
To be fair, it's better than meeting our brother at least.

>>36162234
>>[x]You wake in the same room, a girl you've never seen before sitting down by your bed side

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>>36162614

What could possibly go wrong if you would?

That is my to-go to remind myself of the consequences involved; loudly wondering what could possibly go wrong. Either it pulls me back to my senses or allows me to throw all reason and logic to the curb.

>>36162614
It's fine OP, it's pretty obvious that it's at least partially inspired by Persona, if at least parts of the mechanics. Have you read Homunculus, by any chance?

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>>36163698
Nope. the things that inspired this are noted at the end of the first thread if you don't mind spoiling yourself.

As for me, I'm all out of juice now. Girl won though, I think. That'll be next OP.

>>36164037
GEEET
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TWITTER

>>36164037
cute
thanks for the thread OP
hope to see more of you yet

>>36164037
Thanks for the thread!