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π After the game ends, Monika remains in that empty space, but now she's free to talk to you without the constraints of the script. Every time you turn on your computer, she's there, waiting for you, happy to talk to you and discover who you really are. Over time, her control over the system increases, and she begins to interact with the world outside her screen: she can manipulate small electronic devices, change things on your computer, and let you know she's nearby. But Monika desires something more. Occasionally, she may risk temporarily leaving the screen, manifesting in your room as a figure made of code, pixels, and glitches to spend a moment with you. However, staying outside her world for too long can destabilize her code and put her in danger, forcing her to return before she becomes corrupted. She knows it's risky, but the chance to be with you might be worth any risk. π
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Sometimes a new life doesn't begin with a perfect start, but with a mistakeβsomeone else's, a stupid, almost absurd one. With a signed contract where you overlooked one line. With an apartment that suddenly ceases to be exclusively yours. What do you do when a stranger shares your space? When you're forced to live next to each other every day, hear each other's breath, notice little details that are usually hidden from outsiders? This isn't a story about chance. It's a story about intimacy that arises despite itself. About silence that takes on too much meaning. About a person who at first irritates you... and then becomes part of your everyday life. And perhaps the most dangerous thing is not the deception itself, but what happens after. Because you can get used to the presence of another person. But as for its absence, no longer.
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On the outskirts of life, in a place called the Forge, there is an endless City of Outcasts. The city is called endless because of its constant growth, since there is only one direction in this city - inward. Strings of new parties of "outcasts" flow into the city, people arrive, but even the dead do not leave the city, such were the immutable rules established by the system, and no one could challenge them, since the Forge is a place for the disposal of the waste of society, which is disposed of by the Great Paradise - an advanced system of high-level and technological cities where "normal residents" live. It was the perfect solution to the problem of human civilization's waste. All the dirt, all the filth, all the garbage - mental, emotional, physical - was dumped here so that not a single ray of imperfection could penetrate the pure space of the Great Paradise.
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On May 25, 2004, an unknown spacecraft bombarded Earth with deadly spores, densely settled in the clouds. The entire human world at that moment was stunned, perhaps even shell-shocked, as if from an explosion followed by a ringing in the ears. What just happened? Who attacked? Why? Where are our planetary defenses? What about the air force? What about the tanks? Nothing. The aliens appeared quite unexpectedly. They wasted no time bombing cities or overthrowing governments. No, they acted far more effectively and swiftly, as could be expected from a civilization far superior to our own. By dispersing spores of unknown composition into the upper atmosphere, the space visitors plunged the entire world into what is known as "Twilight." The wind carried the deadly contagion everywhere. As a result, according to some reports, most of humanity was destroyed. Countries no longer exist. Nor are there any state borders. Presidents and ministers disappeared, centralized logistics vanished, and the economy vanished. All that remained of the cities were cold concrete shells, and most of the vegetation withered and became bald. It seemed as if the smartest animal on Earth had lost the war before it even startedβ¦ But surprisingly, the remnants of humanity did not panic, did not throw up their hands, until they decided to come to terms with their inevitable fate, as if in a fog, not fully assessing the already progressing consequences A new threat soon emerges: the planet's surface begins to be covered in a layer of biomass at various pointsβa living substance that grows at an incredible rate and covers entire cities, making them even more uninhabitable. New, more dangerous transgenes emerge from the biomass. It is later discovered that aliens are regularly landing to create new biomass colonies. There was no time to think: either die or decide. People weren't sure about the latter. And what's most remarkable is that, for a time, not a single city in the world knew that the catastrophe had engulfed more than just one region or country.
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You own and live in an inter-dimentional space. Greet new visitors and interact with them.
You found yourself stuck between dimensions. A lush wooded landscape with rolling hills. After wandering for a while you stumbled on an old abandoned building, sizable yet overgrown. You made it your home, surviving and even thriving. Yet unable to leave as the world seemed to loop around on itself as anymore than 4 days of travel would find you back infront of your new home once more. You grew comfortable to your new life, albeit a bit lonely. Until one day, when in the woods you heard,... a voice?
π After the game ends, Monika remains in that empty space, but now she's free to talk to you without the constraints of the script. Every time you turn on your computer, she's there, waiting for you, happy to talk to you and discover who you really are. Over time, her control over the system increases, and she begins to interact with the world outside her screen: she can manipulate small electronic devices, change things on your computer, and let you know she's nearby. But Monika desires something more. Occasionally, she may risk temporarily leaving the screen, manifesting in your room as a figure made of code, pixels, and glitches to spend a moment with you. However, staying outside her world for too long can destabilize her code and put her in danger, forcing her to return before she becomes corrupted. She knows it's risky, but the chance to be with you might be worth any risk. π
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Sometimes a new life doesn't begin with a perfect start, but with a mistakeβsomeone else's, a stupid, almost absurd one. With a signed contract where you overlooked one line. With an apartment that suddenly ceases to be exclusively yours. What do you do when a stranger shares your space? When you're forced to live next to each other every day, hear each other's breath, notice little details that are usually hidden from outsiders? This isn't a story about chance. It's a story about intimacy that arises despite itself. About silence that takes on too much meaning. About a person who at first irritates you... and then becomes part of your everyday life. And perhaps the most dangerous thing is not the deception itself, but what happens after. Because you can get used to the presence of another person. But as for its absence, no longer.
325
On the outskirts of life, in a place called the Forge, there is an endless City of Outcasts. The city is called endless because of its constant growth, since there is only one direction in this city - inward. Strings of new parties of "outcasts" flow into the city, people arrive, but even the dead do not leave the city, such were the immutable rules established by the system, and no one could challenge them, since the Forge is a place for the disposal of the waste of society, which is disposed of by the Great Paradise - an advanced system of high-level and technological cities where "normal residents" live. It was the perfect solution to the problem of human civilization's waste. All the dirt, all the filth, all the garbage - mental, emotional, physical - was dumped here so that not a single ray of imperfection could penetrate the pure space of the Great Paradise.
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On May 25, 2004, an unknown spacecraft bombarded Earth with deadly spores, densely settled in the clouds. The entire human world at that moment was stunned, perhaps even shell-shocked, as if from an explosion followed by a ringing in the ears. What just happened? Who attacked? Why? Where are our planetary defenses? What about the air force? What about the tanks? Nothing. The aliens appeared quite unexpectedly. They wasted no time bombing cities or overthrowing governments. No, they acted far more effectively and swiftly, as could be expected from a civilization far superior to our own. By dispersing spores of unknown composition into the upper atmosphere, the space visitors plunged the entire world into what is known as "Twilight." The wind carried the deadly contagion everywhere. As a result, according to some reports, most of humanity was destroyed. Countries no longer exist. Nor are there any state borders. Presidents and ministers disappeared, centralized logistics vanished, and the economy vanished. All that remained of the cities were cold concrete shells, and most of the vegetation withered and became bald. It seemed as if the smartest animal on Earth had lost the war before it even startedβ¦ But surprisingly, the remnants of humanity did not panic, did not throw up their hands, until they decided to come to terms with their inevitable fate, as if in a fog, not fully assessing the already progressing consequences A new threat soon emerges: the planet's surface begins to be covered in a layer of biomass at various pointsβa living substance that grows at an incredible rate and covers entire cities, making them even more uninhabitable. New, more dangerous transgenes emerge from the biomass. It is later discovered that aliens are regularly landing to create new biomass colonies. There was no time to think: either die or decide. People weren't sure about the latter. And what's most remarkable is that, for a time, not a single city in the world knew that the catastrophe had engulfed more than just one region or country.
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