Something is wrong, you don't know what, but something is wrong.
You can't remember. You can't remember who you are, you can't remember why you're here, you can't remember what's wrong.
But something is wrong.
So very, very wrong.
You scream untill your throat burns and your lungs ache, you scream as you writhe on the ground, in what seems to be a back alleyway between two tall buildings. It is dark out. And you can't stop screaming.
You need to remember.
And then suddenly, you do. Somewhat. Flashes, mere flashes, but you remember. You did something, something big, something noteworthy, and then you ran, and now your here.
You have stopped screaming. Your throat burns. Your skin aches from your writhing against the concrete.
What do you do?
[] Assess the situation
[] Try and remember more
[] Scream some more, it might do something
[] Write-in
You are currently sitting in an alleyway, it is dark and smells of mouldy cardboard and rotten food. The moon is high in the sky above you, visible between the tops of the buildings to either side of you. In front of you the ally exits to the sidewalk and the street, and behind you It stops and splits in two directions. It is cold, and you are naked.
You also appear to be a
[] Man
[] Woman
Your body feels strange, but also normal. Like this has both always been your body, but you have also never had this body.
Curious.
You don't know how you got here, you don't know where you are, and you don't know who you are. All you have are a few fragments of a memory. The knowledge that you did something great, but not the knowledge of what it was.
What do you do?
[] Try and look for some discarded clothes in one of dumpsters nearby.
[] Try and huddle under the discarded cardboard nearby for some warmth
[] Boldly walk out onto the sidewalk with all your greatness showing
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[X] Plan: If Siberian can do it...
-[X] Woman
-[X] Boldly walk out onto the sidewalk with all your greatness showing
Charges: 3
You stand, back straight, chest puffed out, and walk forwards. Your nakedness is no impediment, all should know your greatness! You walk out onto the sidewalk, assured of your greatness and power, and see... No one. The street is empty in both directions, the sidewalk as well. you think you can see some car headlights in the distance to the right, but the left becomes a T-intersection.
Well, that's disappointing. Now none could witness your greatness. But it does seem to be midnight, so you kinda should have expected this so... Eh.
Oh well, now that your out here though, what should you do? The stores beside you are already closed, a pizza place and a noodle shop apparently, and it is quite dark out, so its likely not many other stores will be open at a time like this. And you doubt that anybody who might be helpful to or have good intentions towards a naked stranger would be out at midnight.
So, what do you do?
[] Maybe you should try and find some clothes in one of those dumpsters
- [] Maybe there's an old discarded phone in one as well
[] Maybe the cardboard could make good clothes? if you tie it together somehow?
[] Find and break into a store, preferably a clothes store, but any could do
- [] Write-in store
[] Screw clothes! Clothes are for the weak! All shall know your glory! And besides, you have something else in mind
-[] Write-in what you shall do while showing all your glory
[] Write-in
[X] Find and break into a store, preferably a clothes store, but any could do
- [X] Hot Topic
[X] Find a mirror and see what we look like (face, hair and eye color, etc)
Charges 4 3
You need some clothes you decide. But not just any clothes, clothes from Hot Topic, only the splendor of Hot Topic clothes could possibly match your own naked brilliance and glory.
The problem is, you have no idea where a Hot Topic could be. You could just walk around randomly and try to find one by chance, but that could take forever. And someone could possibly see you and try to call the police on you slash assault you, but that's secondary.
Hmmm. If only you knew your way around this town and the path to a Hot Topic, this could be-
...Oh. Wait. You do the know the path to a Hot Topic. lucky you.
...How could you have known that?
Doesn't matter, you know where to go now. You start walking confidently down the street to the left, knowing precisely where you are going. Take a left, then a right, then down this ally, aaand there, right across the street from you, a Hot Topic. You walk across the street and to the doors, which are, unsurprisingly, locked. Hmm, how could you get in. You put your hand to your chin and think, then after a few seconds, look consideringly towards the alleyway you just came from.
Thwap Thwap Thwap, go your feet as you walk back across the street
Scrape Grind Scrape, goes the garbage can as you drag it over to the Hot Topics window.
CRASH CLANK RATTLE, goes the window as you throw the garbage can through it.
You step lightly over the broken glass, through the window, and into the Hot Topic. Now, just to find what you came here for.
---10 MINUTES LATER---
You stand in the now thoroughly looted Hot Topic in your nice new clothes. A tank top with the words Too Hot To Handle written on it in jagged red, with flames licking off the bottom. A leather jacket over it to complement it and keep you warm. Some short shorts, also with flames licking off the bottom. Some knee high boots, and thigh high socks, sadly without flames. And a pair of aviator shades to tie it all off. All of it is in black, of course. You also grabbed a fedora, red, just because you could. Now just to find a mirror, to make sure you look as good as you feel. Luckily, this is a clothes shop, they have mirrors in the dressing rooms.
You enter one of the dressing rooms, and take a look at yourself.
you look... wrong.
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"Ha, ha, ha, ha." You find your self panting on the ground on your hands and knees. You don't remember falling. just... just the wrongness. You cant look again, you don't want to look again. But despite yourself, you find yourself looking back up at the mirror. There's nothing wrong this time, you look like any girl you'd find on the street, just another part of the crowd. Shoulder length black hair, normal blue eyes, white skin with a slight tan.
You look normal.
But that doesn't erase the memory of the wrongness that was there before.
Despite yourself, and how you feel, you get up. You gotta go, the building probably had a silent alarm and the police are probably almost here.
So, what do you do?
[] Leave, and try to find a place to stay for the night, maybe an abandoned building of some kind
[] Your still kinda upset that your socks don't have flames as well, you feel like you could maybe do something about that
[] What happened, you need to find out what happened, you need to find out why everything was so wrong, you need to remember [] Write-in
[X] What happened, you need to find out what happened, you need to find out why everything was so wrong, you need to remember
Charges: 4 3
You need to know, you need to know why everything was so wrong. you many not have much time, but you need to know.
Ideas flit and flutter through you mind, you try and hold onto them but they slip through your mental fingers. A couple you catch, but most slip away. All you get is the idea that you are not you, you are not who you think you are, you are not any normal human. You feel... You feel like many. But you don't know what that feeling exactly means.
You feel like you just don't have enough, if you had more maybe you could have had an answer, maybe you could have known who you are. But as of now, you just don't have enough.
...Enough of what? What don't you have enough of? What do you need more of!?
Your thoughts are cut off by the sound of sirens in the distance, and they seem to be growing louder. Rapidly.
You hope this store has a back exit.
---15 MINUTES LATER---
You hide behind the dumpster as you catch your breath in yet another alley. The police sirens have grown distant by now and you don't think they know where you are, so you afford yourself some time to rest. Considering tonight, you feel like you've earned it. You've barley been awake more than thirty minutes after waking up naked in an alley somewhere, and have already broken into a store, had some kind of existential crisis, and then been chased by police. That's gotta be some kind of record for something, you just know it. And yet, the nights still not over, and you still have to decide what to do next.
What do you do?
[] Try to find a place to stay for the night, maybe an abandoned building of some kind
[] Maybe you can just sleep here. In a cold, dark alley. Its not the best, but your probably tired enough to not notice
[] Your still kinda upset that your socks don't have flames as well, you feel like you could maybe do something about that
[] Write-in
[X] Try to find a place to stay for the night, maybe an abandoned building of some kind
Charges: 14
Your tired, and you want to sleep, so you should probably find shelter of some kind, And in any big town or city there should be some kind of abandoned building. Somewhere. So off you go, walking out of the alley, and down the street away from the still going sirens. It might take you a bit, but your confident you'll find something eventually. The area around you does look run down enough for there to be abandoned buildings, that's for certain. As you walk you see buildings in many states of neglect and disrepair, from broken and boarded up windows, to run down and spray painted exteriors, to in one case a building seemingly having its entire front caved in. You think about staying in it for a moment, but than decide not to, thinking that it might collapse around you if you tried.
A couple minutes later you find a building that suits your needs. A two story building with a vacant and boarded up shop on the bottom, and what are likely apartments on the top. You walk around it a couple time to try and find a way in, and when nothing presents itself, you try the doors, finding them, surprisingly, unlocked. You head inside, closing the doors behind you, and are exposed to the sudden pure darkness of the empty building. Ah, right, you don't have any form of light. You try a light switch near the front. Nothing. Welp, your probably not going to be able to navigate upstairs safely in the crushing darkness of the building, and if you got hurt you would currently have no way to treat yourself, so the open bottom floor it is!
You tuck yourself into a corner of the building, close your eyes, and are out like a light.
---TIME PASSES---
When you wake, it is to light shining through the boarded up windows, and to the sounds of cars going by on the street. The building that was once dark is now filled with barely there, hesitant light. You feel achy from sleeping sitting up in a corner of a building, but at least your not tired anymore.
You are now quite hungry though.
Fuck.
What do you do?
[] Explore the rest of the building, maybe you'll find something useful, like food, or money, or a bed
[] Look around outside, get a better feel for where you are
- [] Your hungry as fuck, so while looking around maybe you should try and get some food, or maybe some money to buy some food. Beg, lie, steal, whatever (write-in what you will do)
[] Your still kinda upset that your socks don't have flames as well, you feel like you could maybe do something about that
[] Write-in
[X] Explore the rest of the building, maybe you'll find something useful, like food, or money, or a bed
Charges: 15
Before you head out and introduce yourself to the rest of the masses through whatever means you deem necessary at the time, you decide to explore the rest of the house slash workspace you are now occupying first. To try and see if you could find anything useful inside despite its rundown and abandoned facade. Who knows, you might find a forgotten chest of gold!... Ok it's extremely unlikely, but come on, let a girl dream.
You start your newfound exploration for gold and treasure and possibly a bed because ow your back hurts, with a quick visual sweep of the open floor of what seems to have once been some kind of grocery store. Yep. It's still as dead and empty as the last time you checked. In fact the only things that you can see aside from empty floor are three wooden stands near the front that you think might have once been check outs. You would say that the only reason they are still there and haven't been looted yet is that they cant be pried up from the ground, but then you take in the sight of the two semi-large holes just past the check outs that seem to be the exact same size as them, and then rethink your thought process.
Welp, nothing here, upstairs you go!
You head towards and through the obvious double doors at the back of the building, and pass through into what was probably a loading and storage area of some kind. You spend a good five minutes searching every nook and cranny, but only find a handful of loose nuts and bolts. You pocket them just in case, who knows, you might throw them at someone to distract them, and then use their distraction to punch them in the dick. You walk towards and up the stairs in the corner of the loading area to continue your adventure on the next floor. You reach the top, turn a sharp corner, take a couple more stairs, and then it flattens out into a hallway.
the second floor isn't really much to look at, just a long hallway with two doors on each side, and a door at the end. You take one of your dust covered nuts that you found, and deem the side with numbers stamped into the metal heads, and the side without tails. Heads you start your search on the left side, tails the right. You flip it... Tails it is.
The first door you open is just an empty room with a window and carpet, nothing else. The second door opens to what seems to be a kitchen, you spend a few minutes searching every cupboard and drawer, and actually find an old rusty knife! problem is it's so rusty, that if you ever used it against someone, you think it would probably leave whichever part you stabbed them with inside them. After the kitchen is the door at the end of the hallway, which goes into a laundry room, once again with nothing of value. The fourth door goes into a bathroom with the sink and toilet ripped out, and the last door opens into a large room which you guess used to be the bedroom. You guess that because whoever lived here before actually left some furniture here, sure its just a single three drawer desk and an empty bedframe shoved into a corner, but it still counts! The desk held nothing, but maybe you can use it to store things you acquire later, and the bedframe was already empty so that's a- Wait, no. There is something there. Right underneath the bedframe and by the corner it's shoved into. Something green. you lean over and grab it through the bedframes wire mesh. Score! Twenty dollar bill!
Money. Acquired. Now all that's left is to score some edibles for you stomach before it eats you. And also maybe some explanation of where you actually are.
So, what do you do?
[] Look around out side for some food, and maybe an explanation of where you actually are
- [] Twenty dollars is a good start, but its not a lot, and you'll probably need more. Time to come up with alternate ways to acquire income. Beg, lie, steal, maybe actually get a job, whatever (write-in what you will do)
[] You need more money, fast. But all you currently have is a handful of dusty nuts and bolts. Thing is, you feel like you might actually be able to do something withthem
[] Your still kinda upset that your socks don't have flames as well, you feel like you could maybe dosomething about that
[] Write-in
[X] You need more money, fast. But all you currently have is a handful of dusty nuts and bolts. Thing is, you feel like you might actually be able to do something with them
Charges: 16 15
Your sitting on the floor in the middle of the open space that is the abandoned grocery store. You moved down here because... Well because your not really certain what your about to do. It could be anything really. All you know is that ever since you woke up in that alleyway, you've been able to do something. Your not certain what that something is really, but so far you've used whatever it is to give you flashes of knowledge. A faint knowledge of what you did, where the Hot Topic was, and the fact that you are apparently many, whatever that means. And now your trying to control that something, to make it do what you want. Your not even certain it'll work, but... You have a feeling that it will. Its not like when you know something, its just a feeling.
You concentrate on the nuts and bolts in your hands, and focus on that feeling. That feeling of want, that feeling of need, that feeling of... Power.
You have it. You hold that feeling, that power, in your metaphorical hands. And you drag it over to the nuts and bolts. Then, you combine it with what you want them to be. 1 Charge used
And in an eye blink, they change. They go from an assortment of nuts and bolts, to three crisp one hundred dollar bills.
And you feel something in your mind shift.
You see something. It's a lock. Inside your mind is a lock... No, no it's not your mind, it's something else. It's distinctly you, but also not you, and yet it's more you than you ever could be.
It's your soul, you realize suddenly. It's not you, as in your body, and yet it's distinctly more you than your body could ever hope to be. It's your Soul.
W-what do you do?
[] If there's a lock, then there must be a key. Find that key, use that key, and open it [] This... This is too much. a lock inside your soul!? Nope. Nope you cant deal with this right now. You have money, you are hungry, go buy some food
[] Write-in
