look at my life look at my choices

Ohhhh! Don't! I LOVE this angst! :D

Ok...hmmm...

A would be crushed, but also like 'well, obviously MC doesn't love me', and try to keep it all inside while working on another way to wake MC, seeing it as proof they shouldn't be together.

N...oh my word...this would be their fantasy moment. A fairytale romance moment except...it's not their fairytale as MC doesn't wake up. N would be confused, doubting everything really.

F wouldn't believe it wasn't because it wasn't true love but because there's something wrong with the curse is why it didn't work, lol!

M doesn't believe in fairytale stuff, so if it didn't work they would already be finding another way to make it happen—no matter what it took.

Ohh...ahhh...this is...difficult to answer, lol!

Um....I mean, yeah, they are a new character, but like...you kind of already will have met them soon...sort of...

Sorry that didn't help much but that's some major spoilers, lol!

Ted getting home and furiously googling "incubus":

Hey… um… it's done.

First stage: Confusion.

Second stage: Offense.

Third stage: Acceptance.

Yikes, anon, you had to go there at a time where I wanted a break from my editing/coding and so I have no good excuse not to answer...

OK 😮‍💨

Well you asked for it— 🫣 Watson: I think they die with you.

Maybe not in body, but in all and every-way but. And they would wish, beyond anything, that they could have been there in your stead. They might have a similair thing as to what L is going through now? Lost. Without purpose and happiness, they bury themselves in their work and keeping your memory alive in some way that they can. Maybe... Maybe they still write about your adventures.

The ones you never got to have. The ones they always wished they were brave enough to ask for. Lestrade: Well, I've said this somewhere, but I'm not sure Lestrade survives without MC... They're pretty rock bottom, and one could argue it can only go up. But that's not true, is it? You're not there now. Not even their work can distract them now. They've failed even in that final mission. Adler: Adler is the one that will be most fine. Unless—they loved you. If they loved you, they will not stick around. They'll not be there when there's a ceremony and funeral without a corpse. They'll escape themselves in all those little ways they know how, and it will never be enough again.

To Adler, you were the one. In their eyes you eclipses and predominates the whole of humanity.

They'll never love again. There will not be a day where they do not think of you. And life pales in comparison to what it was with you, and before you.

Part II of DREAM EATER is now available to play! I recommend replaying from the beginning, as there have been some edits made to Part I.

Note: This update includes both dubious consent and on-page attempted sexual assault of the player character. Please read with care.

nearly 200k words 🥲

has a soft lock in (the first lock in infamous!) (but soft?!)

smut

has the most stat dependent dialogue in any chapter

the most plot info ever revealed so far!

The most thorough playtests I’ve ever had to do for a chapter! In the homestretch rn! the surprise drop is right around the corner and im positively buzzing (even if my fingers hurt from playtesting the past 2 weeks)

Happy Chapter 13 release day! I'm so excited that it's finally here!! It's been nearly a year in the making, but we made it, everyone. You can play it HERE.

WHAT TO EXPECT.

Reminisce with [A] on how you met, your first impressions of each other, and what that has developed into

Learn more about Blane's backstory and why they have a fixation with the Rankings (spoiler alert, it might surprise you)

Hear about N's (tragic) childhood and their thoughts on your current relationship

Discuss the concept of immortality with K and learn why they keep pushing everyone away

Discover what happened the night Rylan was accused of murder while playing a game of 20 questions

STATS.

[A]'s Route: ~ 18,500 words

Blane's Route: ~ 33,700 words (2 Distinct Routes)

N's Route: ~ 22,000 words

K's Route: ~ 19,900 words

Rylan's Route: ~ 25,800 words

Total: ~ 123,530 / 690,420 words

LINKS. Game & Patreon

Also, a few players have experienced bugs with the new chapter. In most cases, their game was not properly registering the romance lock statistics, despite meeting the requirements. Because of this, I've created a short Troubleshooting Guide if anyone runs into similar problems. Please read this before sending me an ask or DM.

Hey, doing a bit of beta testing if you guys have time!

Link Here

The public demo has been updated to Chapter 9. This includes all the revised scenes, rewritten smut, and added content.

Please restart the game since I added new variables, so your saves are definitely broken.

While you play, if you find typos, grammar issues, or code-breaking bugs, please send me an ask. If you'd like to have your name listed as a beta tester for these 9 chapters, send me the username you want me to use.

As of right now, I still need to comb through the last 3 chapters and finish 2 smut scenes, and that'll be it. I'm still trying to stick to my April 15 deadline to complete everything.

Let me know your thoughts! Although I might not answer too many questions about the game right now since I'm trying to stay focused on finishing it.

Agents are allowed to have social media accounts, but the Agency does have like it's sort of own social media thing.

Like a network that links all the agents.

It was originally supposed to be so as agents all across the different facilities could keep up with updates from other teams, but agents took it over and now it's like a private social media site specifically for agents where they post volgs, blogs, photos, etc, lol! :D

Only F really posts to it though.

DEMO: TBD

You didn't choose this life. But someone had to.

Your older brother bailed years ago and left you holding everything together. At twenty-one, you're the oldest one left standing. The one who shows up to parent-teacher conferences. The one who forges signatures. The one stretching forty dollars until it screams. Your mom is somewhere with someone new. You're stuck with three half-siblings: a rowdy sixteen-year-old who apparently has a jail wish, a prodigy fourteen-year-old who's already planning her escape, and an innocent eleven-year-old who gets sick easily and trusts too much.

Tangled is a slice-of-life interactive fiction about the mess of loving people who didn't ask to be a family. About class and survival and all the shit that don't make the news. About what you owe the people who were supposed to take care of you and what's left of you once you've given everything away.

Life is shitty. But it's all you know.

Create your MC — choose your gender, look, personality, skills, your job and how you carry the weight of it all

"In A World Full Of Kardasians Be A Gallagher" — navigate survival, pride, and the gap between the life you have and the one everyone else seems to be living

Raise your siblings your way — how you handle them is on you. Tough love or soft hands. Your call. But be ready for the consequences...

Deal with the dads — Four men. Four different problems.

Find something for yourself — a good job, romance, or escape. People will judge you but they do that anyway, so fuck 'em!

Five romance options — a slow burn, a ride-or-die, a safe harbour, an old flame, and someone completely out of your league

N spends all this time chastising M for being horny when they deserve horny-jail in their own route.

Similarly, H spends all this time rebuffing you and being all like, "THE SCANDAL!!" if you flirt all bold. BUT THEN IF YOU'RE DEMURE, they're all like "I'd not seek to scandalize you further." DESPITE VERY MUCH WANTING TO SCANDALIZE US FURTHER. H gets off on making messes of "proper" MC's, they're just mad we don't let them in the bold routes, smh

Lolol you're so right, anon 😆

Honestly thought — all the ROs are hypocrites in many ways, and only Adler would be able to admit to being so without probing.

L calls out MC of so many faults they themselves do.

W was very much like H when they first met MC (though more platonic crush behaviour) -- and now they accuse H of being sus because they express a deep interest and that they too want to monopolise your time? 🤭

But yes!

You're spot on. H is just as bold with demure MC as they would chastise MC for being.

Okay, so now I totally have the a scenario in my head where everyone teams up against A in a paintball match and A's competitive streak hits new heights, hehe! :D

At least Unit Bravo might stand a chance at winning in that situation though...lol!

But if it was a MC romancing A, then there is always a very effective distraction to use! ;D

This is such a great analysis, I definitely do see each of the ROs as representing a different sort of approach (or even era) in MC’s life, and you summarized it so well here.

Nat’s an imagination of what sort of life could be built, something MC wasn’t born into, but something they deliberately chose/pieced together… yet with the tension of perhaps always being something…foreign, to some degree.

Qiu’s an imagination of a past that MC is haunted by, as well as a vision of what sort of life is possible even within the bounds of the “expected” and the “acceptable”, and the little freedoms and joys that you can still fight for.

Shay represents a clean break, from both the Singapore that MC wanted to run from—and the Singapore that MC can imagine, showing MC a completely different, new, unfamiliar world embedded in a country they thought they knew.

You’re so right in terms of how the queer storylines give each of these paths/narrative arcs special resonance, and an even deeper layer of meaning.

You are a young adult adrift in life, suffocating beneath the control of your oppressive parents.

Feeling out of sync with the rest of the world, you yearn for freedom and life beyond the bounds of your prison.

You find it in the form of a ravishing stranger and a long-lost city, calling out to you across space and time.

Something is beckoning underneath the ancient city's glimmering white tiles. Something old and powerful. Someone.

Will you resist the call beyond the veil and the promise of belonging it brings, or will you let yourself go and embrace the path destiny has set before you?

The choice is yours.

Magnustor is waiting for you.

Beyond The Mist: Beginnings is a romance-driven narrative about devotion, destiny, and the dangerous allure of belonging. Your choices shape not only your fate—but the kind of love you’re willing to surrender to.

What awaits you:

Two romance options (gender-selectable). Monogamous or polyamorous routes. Three endings. Intense, dark romance and emotionally complex storytelling.