A little side project I’ve been working on, since I’m having trouble with ‘The Monster of Rome’ at the moment.
Elevator Pitch: You play a hive-minded, body-jacking monster with a limited understanding of human society, ethics, and anatomy. Over the course of the game, you’ll attend college, commit acts of psychological violence, go on dates, assimilate the feedbags into your hive-mind, and generally have a good time.
Sound like fun? You’re in luck, because I’ll be putting up an installment each weekend. I’m not in a great headspace at the moment, so I may be a little slow on occasion, but fingers crossed.
Trigger warning: As you are playing as an amoral murderbeast, there will be violent content, including scenes of psychological harm.
First update posted! Not a whole lot yet: some backstory, our first introduction to some capabilities, a bit of customization (yes, @Perillix, there will be extensive customization in the final version).
Next week, we’ll learn how to strip the free will out of our food’s head.
Some of this is simple repair, as parts decline with use and age. We suspected that the dark mucus on its forelimbs was a preservative, and it does seem to slow decay (some skin samples carbon-date to the Ptolemaic era)–but it still decays, although this could be because it’s in a sterile environment.
Wouldn’t they think we might decay less because we’re in a sterile environment? Or if that was your intent, the sentence has an unneeded shift to focus on the decay before mentioning that. Right now it sounds like, “it decays because it’s in a sterile environment”
Thanks for the bug report! I’ll try to fix that before the next update. In general, this one has been a little difficult to program, since ChoiceScript delights in giving me ‘invalid character’ error messages. (I had to transcribe this update onto an entirely new download of the ChoiceScript package.)
@Dark_Stalker, maidenhair moss is not named after the maiden’s head.
The ‘sterile environment’ idea was, in fact, that the host body would decay if the virus was placed in an unfamiliar environment (removing some of the variables extending its parts’ lifespan). So yes, since the virus hadn’t adapted to the sterile lab yet, its body was beginning to decay bit.
Definitely looking forward to this. Looks good so far.
One minor anachronism: “like a computer downloading a disk” wouldn’t have been said in 1963. Computers didn’t work that way then; the first known use of dowload was in 1977, according to Merriam-Webster.
