It's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

Playing my first Mothership oneshot today, wish me luck. Tbh I'll be happy if I make it alive at least half the session lol.

[Stalker] [Feral]

Bait for Hungry Hearts third and final of the romanceable monsters.

The Trickster. Real age unknown. Creature nature unknown, it's very close to technology and its body sparks with electricity.

The content of this game is for 18+ audiences due to its sensitive topics, fictional violence, and highly suggestive scenes and dialogue..

Español

El Trickster. Edad verdadera desconocida. La naturaleza de la creatura es desconocida, es muy cercana a la tecnología y su cuerpo lanza chispas de electricidad.

(Spanish bellow!)

You’ve never believed in monsters or the supernatural, but you do love a little adventure, and your best friend has asked for your help exploring the abandoned hotel deep in the forest outside of town. 

Who could have thought that you’d end up catching the attention of 3 different residents who roam the empty rooms of the hotel?

Hungry for attention, fill their hearts before you end up filling their stomachs instead.

Important! The game does not contain explicit NSFW scenes, however, the content is intended for 18+ audiences due to its sensitive topics, fictional violence, and highly suggestive scenes and dialogue.

Follow to keep updated on the game progress!

----- Español -----

Nunca has sido de los que creen en monstruos ni en lo sobrenatural, pero amas la aventura y tu mejor amiga te ha pedido ayuda para explorar el hotel abandonado en las afueras de la ciudad, en lo profundo del bosque.

¿Quién podría haber imaginado que terminarías atrapando la atención de 3 diferentes residentes que diambulan por las habitaciones vacías del hotel?

Hambrientos de atención, llena sus corazones antes de que termines llenando sus estómagos.

¡Importante! El juego no contiene escenas NSFW explícitas, sin embargo, debido a los temas sensibles, violencia ficticia y diálogos y situaciones altamente sugestivos, el contenido de este juego es para mayores de 18+.

Admittedly I have not been using this blog as proper campaign notes so there's quite a bit missing from the context of the things I talk about. I have much more notes in my Mothership app 😅

HOWEVER I'm ready to yap at all times.

The Augmented Man was a source of conflict all the way back, over 2 in-game years ago, at the end of our first Shore Leave. Adolfo met with his ex-girlfriend at a diner to talk (about their possible future, which she did not seem to want to pursue. sad 😔). After she had left, a man covered in military-grade exoskeleton and slickware came into the diner, and without warning, immediately impaled the cashier onto the ticket stabber. And then forced his way into the back to dunk one of the chefs' heads into the fryer.

Adolfo, ever vigilant, sprung into action to stop him; the Augmented Man would only reply by reciting advertisements, like walking commercials for Astroman (brand of cleaning fluid) or Clarion (phone-service provider).

The Augmented Man absolutely CURB-STOMPED Adolfo. He is our Marine. He's our strongest player, full stop. Adolfo could not stop him alone. Percival came in for back-up, and just barely distracted him long enough for the Station Security to detain him.

Just before he was dragged away, the Augmented Man spoke his first words that weren't some old product slogan, whispering to Percival.

"Who Is It That Drags This Corpse Around?"

And ever since, we've been hearing that phrase over and over and over again...

Sonia got a virus (right before our trip to Ukweli-4) that took over her command prompt and temporarily gave her a full black-out, which mentioned this phrase.

We eventually figured out that she picked up this virus from accessing the cameras in and around Avalon (the fantasy-themed Net Den Jonesy works at as an "artist", utilizing his Imagine Reality and Illusions). It just so happened that certain Avalon players haven't logged in for quite a while, three players in Jonesy's guild.

Jonesy also took off, asking his other friends to lie to Sparks about where he went. She got the information out of them eventually. Jonesy left to visit the Wattcolmbe Slickdev Office, looking for a glitched player that goes by Anzu, and perhaps to figure out where his friends went himself.

Sparks went to Wattcolmbe, along with Percival, Bob, and Rox (the Android Enkidu provided us while Adolfo is finishing the job on Ukweli-4). She had to get Jonesy, make sure he was safe.

The Augmented Man entered the building as well (either eventually released, or escaped), smashing his way through the first floor of the office.

And eventually, Sparks's skull.

We all made a big red-string corkboard to try and get our thoughts together (which I've redrawn, but is already a bit out of date, as we have more information now).

In the Pokémon world, there is a wide variation of eye colors that can go from the common ones such as brown, blue, black, green, to colors like pink, red, purple, etc.

In old times it was rumored that encounters with Legendary Pokémon would leave the person “marked”, some saw this as a blessing and others as a bad omen.While there is no scientific proof, there are also some that suggest people with certain eye combos have affinities to specific Pokémon types, are naturally good at finding evolutionary stones, or simply seem to attract trouble wherever they go.

The eye marks can be inherited like any other recessive physical trait, or appear seemingly at random. While there have been registered cases of, for example, trainers whose eyes took a rainbow shine after an unexplainable encounter or researchers who get an extra purple after repeated close encounters with ghost types, there is still no specific method that guarantees a change will happen.  

The most common way these marks show is in a variation of color combinations, either constantly visible or a color pattern only visible when bright lights reflect on the eyes.

A more uncommon mark is shapes like beautymarks, but inside the iris. They tend to be simple shapes like stars, swirls, and dots, but there have been cases of more elaborate shapes, the oddest ones presenting with oddly shaped pupils.

None of the above aspects seems to influence the person's vision, positively or negatively. 

The full drawing, absolutely love it, still can't believe how good this came out.

Play the demo Free on itch.io

Disclaimer

This is my game submission for the RPG Maker Horror Game Jam #10: Theatre of the Grotesque and The Themed Horror Game Jam #21. 

Unfortunately, just when the jam started I had a surprise moving , so I pretty much had to put this together between packing boxes and last week of June. 

It's a very early demo! And does not portray the final quality I was aiming for. 

Also I hope there are no game breaking bugs, I tested all I could but it is entirely possible bugs will pop up. 

I have not tested the Web browser version nor the Mac, so if you can I highly recommend you download the Windows version.

I’m making you all watch Hawkzombie play The Fool must Die, sorry there is no way out.

I thought y'all might like to see Niagara Falls lit up for Pride.

Thank you for enabling me anon.

No proof reading because I am very tired.

General warnings for fictional death mentions, blood, killing, etc, your usual in the creepy pasta fandom.

I think the issue with Jeff along other classic pastas, is the want to approach them as “realistic”, because they are very far from it, that's why Jeff feels so flawed narratively, because through a real life lens he is admittedly ridiculous and hard to believe, especially if you add how he seems to be strong enough to fight Slenderman and other supernatural creatures, doesn’t seems to age, etc.

My way of seeing it is, in the creepy pasta universe, there are moments where a human does something so horrifying that they lose their humanity and turn into a type of supernatural being. Think of it as how some people turn into ghosts after dying, but not everyone does, most move on, and there is no guarantee a person will remain as a ghost after dying.

The same applies to characters like Jeff, there was a high chance he would simply die after the incidents, but instead, he changed after checking all the unseen requirements to transform...

I dunno what possessed me to draw this but here, please have a Prionid, I love this lil guy.

Without effects below the cut

This year I decided to try beat the game jam curse and give it another go and hopefully shake off the creator dread.

So hey, third time is the charm 🤞

No name yet but I am putting together concepts so I have something solid once the jam starts, might go back to streaming the making of assets and such.