what id do for an infected ending caused by you having too many intruders. (2 being the guest kill point, and more than 2 for multiple days being points towards the player infection risk.)
these are all just rambles of ideas right on the spot, so sorry if parts don't make sense/don't fit. :3
[edit: fixed spelling mistakes. also, since some people i do not feel comfortable with interacting with my stuff are finding this, reminder that i have a dni]
imagine pale having one extra tidbit at the end of his lines hinting at you being changed differently than usual. and if you've been checking yourself and got all signs, you'd get an extra dialog with him.
even better, imagine you get a choice on pale's last visit that's just "[open the door]", whether the player knew or not that protag is infected. what id do to see players lose their shit at that suddenly being there. I'd love to see pale go in and things play out different. or you join him in their plans? maybe. I'd lose my shit at the latter one cause omfg what id do to see a team up. but idk if that'd fit mr doesn't like to leave the home. (but then again, the fema ending exists..)
i have a feeling that if you don't and you were to go down in the cellar instead, A. the you let in visitors ending is different. you watch as other people are killed and not you. you still feel part of yourself not wanting to go, but you leave with them. something something the house is a grave for them and you. B. the you let in only non infected people ending. you deal with feeling different over the days. change. you have dark thoughts mixed with thoughts of "were you ever meant for the outside world?" but it doesn't state you killed them. you the player, though, do not know if that's going to stay the same once you head outside.
so much opportunity to put more depression symbolism around protag. something something another way it changes you in different ways.
ALSO THESE KINDS OF ENDINGS WOULD BE PERFECT TO GET MORE VIEWS INTO WHAT VISITORS EXPERIENCE AND SEE THE PERSON SOME ALLUDE TO-
like ough. it's such an ending to drop sm lore and neat tidbits in.
and also, i almost forgot, (sorry. dude makes my brain nope so hard at times that i don't think of him sometimes irneke) but id imagine it'd make dodging the Vigilante harder. if you gotthe shot ending, i feel like it'd play out mostly the same except for allusions in lines like protag shrugging the shot wound off too easy.
HELL. WOULDN'T ALL ENDINGS BE DIFFERENT? unless it does an auto cut off the moment you're infected enough on a day pale visits.
