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ONE: IM MEMORIAM
Today, you've woken up to something more than a little concerning. The Admin's familiar Obituary posting has graced the Network--

We mourn the loss of those who have died in the time between the last announcement and this one:

But what follows isn't a set of names of people that you know have recently passed. No, they're all names of people you thought were perfectly fine. In fact, you just talked to them. But most concerning of all is that you can find your name among the list of the dearly departed, as well, and you know for a fact that you haven't died anytime recently--or at all. So is this a glitch, or a sign that maybe you should watch your back?

TWO: THE UNLUCKIEST DAY
You don't wake up feeling as if today is any day different from any of the others...but that all changes very quickly when something unfortunate happens. Maybe you pull your tablet out of your bag to find that the screen appears shattered like a mirror. Maybe the dark outline of a black cat pads along the bottom of your inbox. Maybe cement-like cracks appear along your keypad as you try to type, warning you not to step on them. Or maybe still, the shadow of the slope of a ladder looms ominously over your screen. Whatever it is, the end result is the same: suddenly, you're experiencing terrible bouts of back luck.

It could come in many forms. Maybe you're tripping over your feet more than usual. Maybe you opened your bag after traveling to find a hole had ripped through the bottom and your lost some useful inventory. Maybe your rations have gone bad. Maybe you even injure yourself. Regardless of how it manifests, the status effect lasts until the rest of the day. Maybe you can turn to the network and see if others are experiencing the same or similar problems--or maybe someone has an idea on how to reverse it.

THREE: TIPTOES.EXE IS HERE
Sometime today you find an SD card that downloaded an app to your tablet. It's titled HIDEANDSEEK and has the picture of a doll as its icon. When you open it, it seems like it's a game to play against a digital opponent: a doll. The game appears to have two stages. In the first stage, the doll hides, and you need to travel around the house (is it just you, or does the layout of this house seem to always be the house you're in when you open it?) to find the doll. In the second stage, you need to hide yourself from the doll, and listen for its movements so it can't catch you.

If it does catch you, it will be holding a knife. The screen goes red and the game crashes for the rest of the night. Somewhere on your body, a gash appears. It's nothing fatal, but maybe you should talk to someone about this on the Network.

FOUR: RABBIT FEET
It's been a long day of traveling, and you and your companion are glad to be reaching your final destination for the night. Someone's even built a rabbit out of snow outside of the door to make the place more inviting. Only...as you get closer, you realize that the tall, white figure is much too detailed to be anything made of snow. The slender figure has a body that could almost be human if not for the way that the limbs attach to the torso at odd angles, and the rabbit face has dark, hollow slits for eyes. It carries a small basket in delicate fingers. It waits for you. It waits for you to get closer, closer. It waits for you to try to get inside.

FIVE: WHAT WE DO WITH THE SHADOWS
You and your companion decided that, for whatever reason, this house was worth investigating. It took something unorthodox—like moving all the furniture to one place, illuminating certain segments of the room, reciting a message, or maybe something else—but by doing it, it seems you've invited another guest. It's a shadowy figure with no face and no discernible limbs, and it goes wherever you go, lingering behind you just so that you can only ever see it out of your peripheral vision. Your companion can see it well enough, though, and sometimes it follows them instead. It doesn't seem to be hostile, but can you know that for sure? Either way, lockdown has already fallen, and you're stuck with it through the night.

SIX: A TENT-ATIVE FRIENDSHIP
Everything has locked down for the night, and it looks like you're trapped outside. This almost certainly means death, but maybe you don't have to take it lying down. You walk for a while, and--what's that? Through the snow, the light of your tablet faintly illuminates the shape of a tent. It seems someone else is stuck out here, too, but they've been luckier in their searches than you.

Time to go see if they'll take pity on you for the night. You probably don't have much longer otherwise...

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ONE: OF MOLD AND MEN
You've made an unfortunate choice, it seems. As the doors lock down for the next behind you, there's no taking it back: you're stuck in a moldy house. This seems exceptionally unhealthy, and maybe you don't know how to take the best precautions for your health or maybe you just want some company while you work, but it seems like turning to the Network is as good a choice as any, here. If nothing else, maybe someone can offer you some words of encouragement! It's not like sleeping in mold is going to kill you, right? Right? Yeah, better play it safe and get some second opinions on the best way to spend your night. It's going to be a long one.

TWO: NOTHING FEATURED, NOTHING GAINED
It's time to send the Network a strongly worded or strongly concerned letter. To Whom it May Concern: why are all the items gone? If you have your timing right, you're pretty sure that the building you've chosen should be brimming with brand new supplies to add to your personal inventory. And yet, when you arrive, you find that it appears to have been completely ransacked. Beyond that, an uneasy air of emptiness fills the entire space. Either someone's been greedy, or something else is going on here. Hopefully, someone else has their own findings they can bring to light. Brace yourselves--the trade market is about to get much more competitive.

THREE: ITSY BITSY
For the most part, it's a normal night for you and your traveling companion. As you're settling down to sleep, however, you notice something out of your corner: a lonely spider spinning a web. At first you think it might be one of the robotic spiders that the Admin sends out to complete certain tasks, but the more you watch it the more you realize...it's a real, live spider. Considering that you've never seen another living creature appear naturally within Norfinbury, this might be a good reason to wake your companion up--if only to confirm that you aren't just seeing things.

FOUR: AN OFFER TO REFUSE
Traveling alone through the radiation zone is bad enough as it is, but what's worse: arriving at the only location to stock boxes to keep your food safe and discovering that there's only one left. And what's more, the one that's left is already being picked up by someone else ho happened to get here before you. You have a couple options here, of course. Compromise, bribery, or something more blatantly antagonistic. Hey, maybe you really will be able to work something out! Ultimately, though, neither of you is going to want to be eating irradiated snacks, so there's a bit more at stake here than missing out on a new piece of reading material.

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ONE: STAY HYDRATED
The shocking lack of vegetation and general isolation will probably make this feel much more special than it honestly is, but when you wake up one morning, you discover that a new app has appeared on your tablet! It's called WATERME and when you open it, the app prompts you to give a name to a cute little flower seed hopping up and down on your screen. Once you've named your seed, it asks you to drink some water. Generally, it seems like the kind of app that helps people remember to keep hydrated! How sweet! Whenever you drink some water, the seed seems happy. It eventually grows into a little bud!

Except, when you don't drink any water, your seed seems upset with you, and asks you why you want to hurt it? Why do you want it to die? Aren't you friends? Don't you care? You start to feel thirsty--too thirsty, more thirsty than you've ever felt before. So, maybe you should drink some water and help your seed out! Maybe you could talk around about the phenomenon...or maybe you just want to brag about how your seed is cuter than all the other seeds.

TWO: FLOWEY POWEY
After a period of time, your tablet freezes. One of two things happen. If you refused to water your seed, it disappears along with the app. If you did water your seed when it asked, it blooms suddenly into a big, beautiful flower! Be proud of your flower child, they've grown so big and strong. Except, its happy smile transforms into a malicious grin, and thorny vines spring out across your screen like a vice. Your tablet unfreezes, but the vines squirm and move things around, stealing bits and pieces of your text as you write and moving and hiding your applications mischievously.

This could just be an adolescent phase, but maybe you should try and find someone with Malwarebytes.

THREE: STAY AWAY FROM THE BIG YELLOW ONES
You and your traveling companion have stumbled into the building that has an attached greenhouse filled with poisonous plants. Even on a good day, it's good to be cautious of where you place your fingers...but today you get the distinct feeling that something in the greenhouse is off. In fact, what's going on with that pod-shaped flower hanging around in a far, dark corner? It's pretty large for a potted plant.

When it opens up to reveal rows of sharp, jagged teeth lined along rough, flesh-like yellow petals, you realize that it isn't a flower at all. You've locked yourself in with an anomaly. The plant creature falls down onto four leafy legs and propels itself forward on vines--better act quick!

FOUR: NEXT STOP, ABERCROMBIE
You could have died in a number of ways--and, in fact, maybe you don't even recall dying at all. Still, you must have died, because as you wake up you aren’t where you were before. You’re in a bodybag in the columbarium morgue...and strangely, you have a distinct memory of someone placing a bouquet upon your chest, weighing you down as if each flower were as solid as a stone. There’s no visual to accompany this memory, as if your body was already dead when you felt it happen. It would be easier to brush it off as a fluke...except now all you can smell is rotting flowers--so strongly that they could be all around you. Of course, when you unzip yourself, there’s nothing there that seems to be the source of the smell.

Fortunately, it seems like there’s someone else there with you, in the part of the building outside of the morgue. Maybe they can help you, and figure out what happened. It would be nice to know, at least, if the smell is just in your head.

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ONE: SOOTHING AMBIANCE
Today in your searches you found a SD card full of ambient noise, primarily in the form of rain sounds. It's actually incredibly peaceful, a great find for those extra-stressful days. However...when you actually relax and listen to it in full, you start to hear what you're sure are subliminal messages peppered in between the sound of droplets and pouring water. Or maybe you really are just that stressed. It's not like you'd ever follow up on anything the messages suggest, like locking yourself outside or sawing through one of your limbs, but you really would feel a bit better if you could be sure if this is in your head or not. Luckily, the music downloaded itself from your SD card to a file on your tablet, so it'll be easy enough to send someone on the Network a copy and get their opinion on the matter.

TWO: AND NOW, FOR THE WEATHER
At first, you were sure that finding WEATHER_FORECAST.EXE was going to be an incredibly useless addition to your tablet's apps. True to your suspicions, the first several days you checked it showed nothing but blizzards. Hey, at least the readings were accurate! Checking it again, however, and you'll be surprised to find that the forecast has changed. It's now boasting fair, sunny weather. You look out the window and it looks like the cloud and snow has all cleared. What are you waiting for? Strip off those unnecessary extra layers and spread the word!

Of course, anyone you talk to will probably be quick to call you on your error. As far as everyone else can see, the weather is the same cold misery that it's always been. Hopefully, someone can stop you before you get yourself frostbite.

THREE: ROOM FOR ONE MORE?
In a rather delightful turn of events, you and your traveling companion have found a house with a working bathtub! The hot water is only good for one use each night, so you'll probably want to stick around a few days to get the most out of it. It looks like it's your turn tonight, so you settle in for a nice relaxing dip...when you feel your head being pushed forcefully underneath the surface.

The feeling of being held there only lasts for a moment, not enough to cause any damage, but enough that when you come up for air, you're not left particularly happy. And who could have done it other than your traveling companion? You never saw or heard them come in, but it couldn't have been no one, could it? This might be a good time to have some words with them about their idea of a tasteful prank.


FOUR: SINK OR SWIM
In a less fortunate turn of events, the house that you and your traveling companion have gotten stuck in for the night is completely waterlogged. Leaks are springing everywhere and most of the items you find are coated in mold...but, well, it was this or freezing to death outside. Time are tough. You might not be very comfortable, but maybe the two of you can make it work with a bit of creativity...or selflessness. The top of the coffee table in the living room seems dry enough to set up on. If nothing else is certain, it's going to be a very long night.

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ONE: AT THE END OF EVERY RAINBOW
What a lucky day! You’ve found an SD card! While it doesn’t have any secret messages from a time long past, it does have something that you can kill some time with. When you plug the card into your tablet, you discover it contains a game: an old-school side-scroller where you play as a pixelated leprechaun searching for his pot of gold. It's not until you stop playing that things start to get odd. Maybe you're trying to sleep or maybe you're just keeping an eye on the network, but you swear you hear someone moving around the house. It sounds like someone's searching for something--and sometimes you swear you see someone dart past your periphery--but you can't find anyone. And the longer you search, the more you get the sense that someone is playing a trick on you. Did you imagine the laughter that you just heard?

TWO: SOMETHING GREEN (WITH ENVY)
You wake up one morning to find yourself feeling mysteriously discontent. Surely, you’re already unhappy at the state of your position in Norfinbury, but this is different. A nagging, pestering knowledge in the back of your mind that something is missing. Something physical. You look through your things, and everything seems in order, but the feeling persists. It isn’t until you spot it on the network that you understand: you need something green.

It doesn’t matter what it is, who has it, or where you can find it, but you need it and you need it now. You aren’t agitated and aren’t feeling unlike yourself, which is odd, but it bothers you in whatever way that’s most natural for you to be bothered. You’re insistent that you need to have that green object in your possession, and you’re more than willing (if not happy) to trade any goods or services or threats that you deem necessary to get it before the day is done.

THREE: CRACK OPEN A COLD ONE
It’s a good start to the night when you and your traveling companion stumble across a rare find: two unopened, frothy beers. There’s one for each of you, unless one of you decides to take them both, so there’s plenty of time to kick back and take it easy while you wait for lockdown to lift. As you savor your alcohol, though, you’ll start to notice something odd. You can’t feel any sort of hint that the liquid is having an impact on your sobriety. Your mind is clear and sharp--you aren’t even tired. Maybe you take it for a fluke or maybe you figure your tolerance is better than you remember...but then you try to stand up, and despite your mental clarity, your legs buckle beneath you, unsteady as a newborn’s. The world tumbles, dips, and spins.

Or maybe you’re even less lucky, and you skip straight to the feelings that come after an all-night bender, instead. A few sips and your head is throbbing, your eyes stinging, your stomach churning. Pick your poison, but either way, you’re in for a long, long night.

FOUR: A CHANGE OF FORTUNE
In searching through the house for the night with your traveling companion, you uncover a pressed and laminated four-leaf clover. How lucky! At least, you get the distinct idea that it’s going to bring you some kind of luck and, to that end, you don't want your companion to touch it. In fact, it would be better for the both of you if they didn’t even look at it. They could stand to let you have some time to yourself, anyway. If they knew how lucky this thing was, they’d take it, wouldn’t they? And why would they stop there? They could take your other things, too. Maybe you’d be better off sneaking away from them as soon as the opportunity strikes you. After all, as long as you have this do you even really need to be traveling with anyone else to begin with?

Or maybe you’re the one on the outside looking in--and watching your traveling companion becoming secretive and on-edge is starting to concern you. You’re wondering if that “good luck charm” is more unlucky than anything else. Maybe there’s still a way you can convince them to give it up. You don’t want it, but you’re worried about what’ll happen if they keep holding onto it.

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ONE: IT GAZES BACK
Aside from perhaps a lingering feeling of unease, it’s been a quiet day. Maybe the quiet is why you feel so suspicious. Still, with nothing to stop you, it’s not a tall order to get some sleep. After all, you probably need it. It’s the staying asleep part that proves to be the trickiest...because more than once, you wake up from the light of your tablet. Not only is it turning itself on...it’s turning itself on and recording. It’s strange...but stranger still is that when you play back the videos you find the angle of the camera move until it falls on your sleeping body--no matter where you had your tablet placed or where you found it when you woke up.

Maybe it’ll feel a bit more comforting to try and sleep again if you find out you’re not the only one experiencing this problem.

TWO: SURVEY SAYS
At first it seems mostly like a stroke of bad luck when your tablet glitches and goes dead. After a few seconds of getting nothing but a blue screen, a loading icon appears in the center, and it appears you’re back up. Only, everything is empty. Just like when you first woke up here however many days ago, you find that it won’t let you rest until you insert a username. It may seem like a good time to change the one you had set for yourself before, if it isn’t something that you’ve been particularly happy with, but that’s when things start to get odd:

That username doesn’t belong to you.

The error message continues to come up until you put in your existing username, at which point the tablet welcomes you back, and asks you for a moment of your time to answer a few questions to improve your continued experience. “No” isn’t an option. And the questions, though they start off simple enough, quickly become stranger and stranger.

Tell me what action has caused you the most shame in life, it asks. Or maybe, I like the taste of your skin, which isn’t even a question at all. It seems to be a different experience for every user, which you’ll discover if you talk to others about it who report similar findings once the survey caps out at twenty questions and thanks you for the enlightening dialogue.

Your tablet is back to the way it was before it crashed, as if nothing has changed.

THREE: I AM IT AND IT IS ME
A room full of mirrors is not exactly your ideal place to stay, but there’s not much escaping it once lockdown hits. Other than the obvious, after all, there’s nothing too inherently creepy about your own reflection. At least, there’s nothing creepy about your reflection so long as it acts like a reflection. At some point, when your traveling companion is turned away from a mirror, you’ll notice a second pair of eyes on you--because their reflection didn’t turn when your companion did. It stares, too. Stares, and smiles knowingly, like the two of you are sharing a secret.

Alert your companion to what you see and they’ll turn to find nothing that appears more than an ordinary reflection. But the hairs stand up on the back of your neck because now, all of a sudden, you can’t be too sure what your reflection is doing when your focus is elsewhere, either.

FOUR: PREPARE FOR ASSIMILATION
The first thing you notice when you wake up is that, if you weren’t already, you’re huddled very close to your traveling companion. The second and possibly more pressing thing you notice following this discovery is that the two of you are so close together because you’ve been confined in a room the size of a small closet with no discernible entry or exit point. What it does have are a lot of dangerous looking parts. And it’s warm--but warm is quickly turning into searing, unbearable heat. Nothing moves or changes at first, but once the both of you are awake the walls around you begin to spin. Slowly at first, at a languid crawl, but gradually faster.

You aren’t told so much as somehow know that this is the assimilation room, and it’s your task to escape, one way or another. The question is...how, exactly? Or is this all just some kind of test?

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ONE: DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
It's a pretty lonely night. Maybe you want to share whatever may be on your mind, or perhaps you're simply looking for some company for a short while while you bundle up in your found supplies for the night. Whatever the case may be, you're feeling a bit stir-crazy on your own, so you decide to turn on your video feed and see who else is online. Only, something odd happens.

You can't get your tablet's video to focus. At least...not where it's supposed to be focusing, which would logically be on you, as you're front and center and there's nobody else around. The focus keeps shifting behind you, no matter how you try and fix it. Like there's someone, or something, looming just behind you. You look over your shoulder and there's nothing there, but the longer it goes on, the more the feeling that you aren't alone creeps into the pit of your stomach. Maybe you should say something about it: maybe someone can put you at ease...or maybe someone can see something that you can't.

TWO: NEW PHONE WHO DIS?
The day is started off with a bang when you're woken up extra early to a flashing blue light from your tablet. There isn't too much time to register what might be wrong with it, because all at once it restarts, correcting whatever the problem was. At least, so it seems. Everything looks as good as new, until you notice there are apps and files on here that you don't recognize. In fact, doing some digging it looks like there's nothing at all that you recognize as your own.

On a hunch, you check your tablet's helper program and discover that it's different from how you'd set it. In fact, when it addresses you, it talks to you as if you're a whole different person. Whatever name that you requested it call you, it's adamant about calling you by something new: a name that seems like it belongs to someone you've never met before. Who are you? Maybe someone else can help you figure this out.

THREE: DISTORTED REALITY
You and your traveling companion have found a strange place to stay for the night. It's the sort of strange you have trouble describing, like something's inherently wrong with it. You feel odd, crowded, the atmosphere squeezing in on you. But you're stuck here. Is it your imagination, or are things flicking in and out of existence when you aren't looking? A paperweight that was just sitting on a desk is there--you blink, it's gone--you blink, it's there again. The only thing you can think to do about it is record it.

Except, recording it only makes matters worse. Because when you play the recording back to yourself, your screen glitches out in a bright hue of distorted, flashing colors, and then turns off completely. As far as you can tell, your tablet is dead. It's definitely a good thing you aren't alone tonight.

FOUR: FOUND FOOTAGE
With the pressure being on lately to get in contact with "those who came before" and find as many clues as possible toward reaching an exit to get back home, you can't help but be excited to find an SD Card during your sweep of the house that you and your traveling companion have chosen to stay in for the night. Maybe you plug it into your tablet right away or maybe you wait until you've regrouped, but either way, the contents are unexpected, to say the least.

Because the people on the distorted camera footage are definitely without a doubt, you and your traveling companion. Maybe it's a video of something you'd done earlier today, maybe something that never happened at all, maybe something that only just happened in this very house that you've arrived in. It's unsettling, no matter how you look at it. How did this SD Card get here? And who was recording...?

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ONE: A DENTIST'S FIELD DAY
Frozen food and convenience store snacks have not been kind on your teeth. You’ve gone so far without any real problems, but one false bite and you hear a definite crack. If that wasn’t enough, the pain floods your jaw almost instantly, and it only gets worse as the day goes on. If you hoped it was a false alarm, those hopes are getting thinner by the minute. It’s just your luck that you don’t know where the closest doctor is. Fortunately, there’s plenty of ice to keep the swelling down, but you’re hoping for some sort of immediate relief. At least so you can get a bit of sleep without the throbbing keep you awake and uncomfortable.

Maybe someone else can give you some advice. Or at the very least, maybe someone can distract you from your toothache. Or maybe, upon further inspection, you find that there was never a toothache at all. Maybe the pain is suddenly gone as if it was never there to begin with.

TWO: THAT'S A MOUTHFUL
As far as Norfinbury goes, you've gone about your day with relative ease. Nothing's been more unusual than any other day, and you can't say that you've had any particular difficulties. Maybe you've even been productive or had some good finds in your searches. Finally, though, as you settle down for the night, something you come across on the Network...isn't quite right. The glitch doesn’t make itself known until you start to talk to someone through the video function, and even then, it doesn’t seem to happen with everyone. When it does appear, however, it’s impossible to ignore.

Something is wrong with the video feed. Everything appears like dark, angry static--everything except for the person’s mouth. Their mouth is too big, too painfully clear, moving too fast and too erratically for the things that they’re saying. And the longer you watch, the more you feel the sound of their teeth clanking together echoing echoing echoing inside of your head. It would be pretty rude to cut off the conversation when you don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this same problem, but you can’t take it forever. Maybe you can do a hard reset on this video chat. Or maybe, for the more curious-minded, you can trigger the glitch again.

THREE: THE TOOTH FAIRY
Something is making its way toward you: an anomaly. From a distance, it seems human...almost human. But then it gets closer, closer, and it appears more and more wrong. It’s a creature made entirely of teeth. Gnashing, gnawing, churning, biting teeth. Its eyes are mouths, its mouth is a vortex of pearly whites reaching deeper and deeper inward into its own body. Its skin seems to keep moving as its teeth seek sustenance. It’s hungry, and it’s coming after you. You and your traveling companion may not have too much trouble getting into a building before lockdown, but there’s no guarantee it’ll leave you be the moment the door is closed behind you.

In fact, you may want to keep an eye on the windows.

FOUR: DECKED IN PEARLS
You notice right away that something’s wrong with the house that you and your traveling companion have wound up in, but with lockdown upon you there isn’t time to worry about it until you’re already stuck inside. At first it seems that the place is decorated in an interesting, indiscernible pattern. Upon further inspection, however, you find that each inch of every wall has been covered in rows and rows of human teeth. There are human teeth in jars, human teeth knit into blinds, human teeth glued into the furniture. They can’t really be real, can they? There’s just so many.

But, hey, maybe if you have insomnia, you can try to count them for laughs.

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ONE: PLEASE CONSULT YOUR PRIMARY PHYSICIAN
What a lucky day it is that you've found another application to install onto your tablet. These things are really a mixed bag, aren't they? At first, this definitely seems like you got the better end of a deal. The app is titled "DIAGNOSTICS.EXE" and when you run it, it seems to be some kind of body-scan program. However, when you run it, the only thing it tells you is that PARASITES ARE DETECTED. EXTRACTION REQUIRED BEFORE STAGE THREE TRANSITION BEGINS. Whatever that means. Maybe someone on the network can help, or maybe you can just panic about the parasites apparently eating away at your insides.

TWO: SOMETHING THERE THAT WASN'T THERE BEFORE
It's obvious pretty quickly that something's wrong with the Network, though it's hard to say exactly what. The Admin hasn't raised any kind of alert as to any known errors. Still, you can see fluttering behind the screen, like gnats moving and squirming. Wait--maybe it isn't the Network at all. Maybe it's your tablet. When you listen hard enough, you swear you can hear the scrabbling of little paper-thin legs. There has to be something you can do. Maybe someone on the Network will give you some kind of clue.

THREE: OUT VILE SPOT
You and your traveling companion have made it to one of the food-stocked buildings for a sorely needed refill of your rations. There's plenty of time before lockdown, too, so it can't hurt to stop and eat what you can't carry. Things are going well for the most part, though you do notice that where you were most frequently handling the food, whether somewhere on a piece of clothing or on your skin directly appears to have developed what looks like a blue-black spot. Scrubbing it does nothing. Maybe it's nothing, a trick of the light or a bruise or stain you hadn't noticed sooner, but maybe you should let your traveling companion know, just to be entirely sure.

FOUR: MIND THE WALLS
This house is alive. At first, you and your traveling companion were sure that you were imagining things--it's a large house, after all, and in the dark after lockdown the shadows created by the light of you tablet can play tricks. It's easy to get turned around. You're tired. But after a long while of searching, you're sure of it. The walls are changing position. Doors lead to places they didn't a moment ago. When you touch your hand to the wallpaper you feel the faint, hot pulse of a heart beating. The two of you separated to cover the place faster, but now you're not sure how to navigate your way back to the front of the house to meet back up again. Good thing you both have your tablets to communicate between. A live video chat could help pass the time, at least.

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ONE: IF YOU DON'T...
Lockdown has just hit, and you're preparing to settle in for the night when, suddenly, there's a noise from your phone. A notification buzz that sounds almost like the naughty laughter of a child. It looks like you have a new app, the icon displaying a jack-o-lantern. Choosing to open it will reveal a screen with two buttons: trick and treat. Only, trying to click on "treat" only garners more of that laughter from before. Maybe that's the trick.

And if you click on "trick"...well, nothing happens. Not to you, anyway, but someone else is bound to find a nasty note in their inbox with your username attached--or maybe even an audio clip of your voice, a brief video of what certainly looks to be you...but you're sure you didn't send this person anything. So what's going on? Nonetheless, whatever "trick" was received from you (or maybe you're the one on the receiving end) someone's got some explaining to do.

TWO: THE UNLUCKIEST DAY
You don't wake up feeling as if today is any day different from any of the others...but that all changes very quickly when something unfortunate happens. Maybe you pull your tablet out of your bag to find that the screen appears shattered like a mirror. Maybe the dark outline of a black cat pads along the bottom of your inbox. Maybe cement-like cracks appear along your keypad as you try to type, warning you not to step on them. Or maybe still, the shadow of the slope of a ladder looms ominously over your screen. Whatever it is, the end result is the same: suddenly, you're experiencing terrible bouts of back luck.

It could come in many forms. Maybe you're tripping over your feet more than usual. Maybe you opened your bag after traveling to find a hole had ripped through the bottom and your lost some useful inventory. Maybe your rations have gone bad. Maybe you even injure yourself. Regardless of how it manifests, the status effect lasts until the rest of the day. Maybe you can turn to the network and see if others are experiencing the same or similar problems--or maybe someone has an idea on how to reverse it.

THREE: MONSTER MASH
You and your traveling companion have some quick thinking to do. Why? Because you were just chased not by one or even two anomalies, but by a whole hungry hoard. It's a miracle, you think, that the two of you were able to make it in unscathed...but it doesn't take long for you to realize that getting inside was hardly the difficult part. You've chosen an unfortunately big building to hide in, and between the two of you there aren't enough hands to hold down all the windows and block all the doors. What's worse: lockdown is still a few hours away.

It looks like you have a few options: try and systematically block every exit point before the anomalies can make their way through them, make a break for a different building, or let them in and take shelter deeper in the house, in a room with a single door that will hopefully be able to hold until morning.

There are, of course, ups and downs with each course of action. Can you get all the windows fast enough? Can you outrun all the anomalies from such a short distance? If the monsters are locked inside with you, is there a possibility that they'll still be there the next morning? Regardless, you have to think fast. You'll only have one shot at getting this right.

FOUR: GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD
When you first find this house, you think you and your traveling companion have hit the jackpot. The cabinets are bursting with food, the closets and cupboards bursting with useful supplies--even electronics! At least, that's how it seems. But then you look closer, and nothing's real.

Everything's filled with neatly wrapped candies in plain black and orange paper. That backpack is made of tissue paper--that sleeping bag crumbles when touched, a very realistic dust sculpture. What's worse, only some of the candies prove to be candies. Others, neatly packaged teeth, eyeballs, spider carcasses...

But are those even really there? You might step in one room and back out again to discover the whole place empty, your findings, horrible or otherwise, completely imagined.

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ONE: IT'S THE INSIDE THAT COUNTS
When you found the SD Card containing XRAY.EXE, you couldn't stop yourself from being a bit excited. This is definitely going to be something useful. Or so you think. It seems normal when you try it on yourself. You see all the bones in your hand underneath the skin. Pretty cool. But then you keep trying it on things to see if it can see through things other than living tissue. And, well, you didn't really need to see the pulsing organs and bone structure of the cabinets. Definitely not the beating heart inside of the matress you've been sleeping on.

Maybe someone will be willing to take this SD card off of your hands.

TWO: GROWING PAINS
You woke up with a crick in your neck. You're sure, at first, that you just slept funny, but the ache hasn't gone away throughout the day. In fact, sometimes when you rub the skin in the offending area you're pretty sure you can feel a protrusion just beneath the skin. Maybe it's all in your head, but you think you'd feel just a little bit better if you could have a second opinion. If nothing else, maybe someone would be willing to share some kind of medication with you to ease the stiffness. For all you know, all you need is another night's sleep to clear it up. Still, surviving here is hard enough without having a potential spine-related complication hanging over you. Best to get the all clear as soon as possible.

Whether or not there's anything actually there at all...well, you'll just have to wait and see what the Network consensus is. Confusingly, the response may be different from person to person.

THREE: THE BONE ZONE
The second the two of you stepped foot into this house you knew you weren't going to be comfortable staying in it for the night. Unfortunately, lockdown hits before you can think about backing out and trying to find another option. So what's the problem with this place? Everything is made of bones. The furniture, the decorations, even the walls and floor. It's the best you can do to hope that they're fake. Maybe this was a house belonging to Halloween enthusiasts? With luck, you'll still be able to find some useful items in the drawers. With even more luck, you'll still be able to get some sleep tonight.

FOUR: SPOOKY SCARY SKELETON
You almost done realize that something's after you and your traveling companion. It's not until the snow-covered skeleton is hot on your heels that you realize you need to run. The thing hangs low to the ground, gliding over the snow like it's nothing, silent and camouflaged. It's the clinking of the bones as they tap against one another that tips you off. That, and the piercing bloodshot eyes it has--real, human eyes when it shouldn't have any. Fortunately, your destination isn't too far in front of you. If you hurry and utilize some fast-thinking, the two of you should be able to make it in to safety. The real tricky part will be making sure that it doesn't follow you inside.

That's where teamwork comes into play. Hopefully, the two of you are able to work together.

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ONE: WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE
You're taking your first leap down into the underground tunnels, glad for a break from snowy travel. Everything is going well at first, but then...You see something up ahead. Something colorful? It's hard to tell what it is, but as you cautiously approach it becomes more obvious: a single, floating balloon. There's a curled piece of paper tied delicately to the end of the string. If you dare to read it, it provides you with a simple message:

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Or maybe it's something different. No matter what it is, you don't feel very good after reading it. Maybe you should turn to the Network for comfort. Even if they don't have any explanation, at least you might feel a bit better not being completely alone down here.

TWO: THE BEST MEDICINE
Today, you found an SD card for your troubles. It downloaded an app to your tablet titled JOKES.EXE. Figuring you could use a laugh, you opened it to see what it contained. Screen after screen, it generates for you a joke. Once you tap on the lead-in, it delivers the punchline. Only...These jokes aren't really that funny. In fact, they're kind of unsettling. Like someone went out of their way to put a dark spin on them.

The little boy was disappointed he couldn't go to the family restaurant for his birthday party.

He'd already killed his family.

Yeah, that's enough. You put the jokes out of your mind. It's not like it's going to hurt anything. At least that's what you think, until the jokes start inserting themselves into the text you write to others on the Network. Switching to voice or video doesn't help, either. Even though you aren't making any jokes, if you play back your feed, you'll find yourself saying them. Hopefully you don't offend someone during the time it takes you to find a way to uninstall the app.

THREE: INSIDE JOKE
Overall, you'd say it's been a pretty peaceful night. You try and go to sleep before your traveling companion, knowing that the light of their tablet won't bother you. The real problem is that every time you're about to drift off, they start laughing. Sometimes it's a muted giggle underneath their breath, as if they read something funny, but other times the laughter is outright and uncontained. After awhile you have to ask them to be more respectful and quiet down, but when you sit up and look their way, they only seem confused.

What are you talking about? Of course they weren't laughing. They thought you were the one laughing in your sleep.

FOUR: EVERY NIGHTMARE YOU'VE EVER HAD
It's quite likely that neither you nor your traveling companion was very happy to find themselves stuck in the house with all the clown decorations just before lockdown. But there's no time to find new lodging now, and being uncomfortable is definitely preferable to being frozen, so here you're going to have to suck it up and stay. The only problem is that you feel like there's someone else in the building with you, watching from just out of sight. It sends a paranoid chill down your spine--you're sure you've checked the house top to bottom already, and there wasn't any trace of anyone else--and is it just you, or does that clown statue look disturbingly lifelike?

You get closer, but it isn't breathing, and the eyes are glassy. But wait, that one over there...it wasn't there before, was it? Or, did you just see a spotted piece of fabric move out of the corner of your eye? You can't shake the feeling that one of these clowns is more than just a decoration, but no matter how hard either of you try, you can't seem to find the culprit. Maybe it really is just your imagination running wild, but still, how are you supposed to get any sleep like this?

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ONE: DISTORTION
Something is wrong with the video feed. You're not sure what it is, but it seems that whenever anyone tries to post to the Network using video, their faces warp and distort like they're being ripped through with static. Odd, since it's only the people who show up blurry, and not the surroundings. Maybe you want to test it out with more people to see if everyone is experiencing the same problem, or maybe you just want to toss theories around about what the issue might be, but either way you turn to the Network for answers. Fortunately, the text and audio features are working normally, so you can still have conversations with the others without any problems.

TWO: STRAIGHT TO DETENTION
You had to head to the school in order to grab some more rations, but before you head out for the day you decide to explore around a little more. You've heard that people have had success in the past connecting with the Prophet here, so you head to Samantha's classroom and sit at her desk. When you speak up, though, trying to make contact, it's not the Prophet who answers.

Instead, you hear the sound of a sharp crack and there's a sting on the back of your hands, like you've been whacked by a ruler.

Raise your hand! If you don't follow classroom rules, I'll have to give you detention.

A shadow flicks behind you, the looming outline of the teacher that reprimanded you disappears before you can get a good look. The problem? You can't seem to find the exit to the classroom. Your sense of direction warps every time you get to where it should be, causing you to become disoriented and turned around. The neatly-lined desks suddenly seem to form a maze. If you want to skip detention, you may need a little help from the Network. Maybe someone can guide you out.

THREE: NO SOLICITING
You're running out of time. You finally found a building you can stay in for the night...but it seems that someone else has found it first. And this someone else appears, for whatever reason, unhappy with the idea of letting you in to share the space. You know there's plenty of room for the both of you, and you don't have enough time to duck into another building for safety. You keep glancing nervously at the time on your tablet. It's cold, and you don't have much more time to argue before you're stuck out here.

If talking isn't going to get you much farther, maybe you can offer something that will make it worth their while. Or maybe you can even force the issue. You probably have something on you that you can use as a weapon if you're not confident that your own strength will do the trick.

FOUR: HOUSE AT THE END OF THE LANE
The house that you and your traveling companion have stumbled across has seen better days. As soon as you step through the door, it's easy to see what's happened. Everything has blackened and burned--every object and decoration charred to oblivion, a snapshot of some family's unwitting last moment together. The only proof that it had ever been occupied at all is the creamy white silhouettes that light up the kitchen wall: the perfect outline of a mother, father, and young child holding hands as they pray together before the meal they'd never eat.

Maybe you can still find some useful items stowed away inside the cupboards.

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ONE: TRIAL BY CANDLELIGHT
You wake up one morning to find that an app has downloaded itself to your tablet. It's titled CANDLE.EXE and has an icon to match. When you opening it, you're greeted with a dark screen that features a gently swaying candle flame. Above it reads:

LEAVE AN OFFERING?

If you hit "no", the candle snuffs out. Your tablet shuts itself off abruptly, before rebooting to reveal the app has vanished. If you hit "yes", the candle flame turns purple and the app closes, but doesn't disappear. You have the distinct feeling that small, indiscernible piece of yourself has gone missing...but there's nothing stopping you from opening the app and making another offering...again, and again, and again.

TWO: PAPER TRAIL
The last several days have been productive. You and many others have split up to explore a newly opened area of the town as quickly as possible. One night, as you're searching the place you've found, you make a unique discovery: a folded note that appears to have been written in blood. The paper is delicate parchment, but with careful fingers you're able to unfold it and read what appears to be some sort of haunting hymn that centers around the Prophet of Norfinbury. However...it cuts off abruptly, and the corner of the page is even numbered. You have a feeling there are other accompanying pages, but you can't find any scattered around the house. Maybe you should take it to the Network. It could be that someone else in the area has found another page.

THREE: I CAN HEAR THE BELLS
All things considered, you and your traveling companion have been having a reasonably easy day. Even the building you've chosen to spend the night in is peaceful. But then, shortly after lockdown hits...it starts. The sound of churchbells chiming. At first, it's distant, but they seem to be ringing closer and closer to the outside of the building, clanging and clammering so that you feel as if there's an earthquake in your skull. It drives you crazy, or maybe it even hurts--so why can your companion sleep so easily? Don't they hear it too? Maybe you should wake them up so they can help...or suffer by your side.

FOUR: A POUND OF FLESH
You and your companion reach a building just in time for lockdown, and notice right off the bat that something isn't right. Namely, your eyes can't help but land on a bloody message scrawled along the far wall. It reads:

A POUND OF FLESH TO SAVE US

Beneath it, there's a single metal bowl on a small table. The table is covered in blood, as well as the bowl, but it's empty...for now. Surely, you aren't about to chop off a hand just to see if there's anything to this message other than general cultist insanity, but you can't knock the sense of foreboding that weighs down the place like a stone. For better or for worse, you're going to have to spend the night here, so the two of you may as well talk about what you've found. Maybe you'll be able to come up with some sort of theory about what could've happened here in the past.

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ONE: THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE
Whether or not you were aiming for this to happen, you've ended up in Downtown's Toy Store for the night. Right away, it gives you a creepy sort of vibe. There's even a doll staring up at you from the doorway when you come inside, discarded and lonely on the floor. It has no eyelids or eyelashes, its too-lifelike eyes precariously stuck onto dark hollows. Its mouth a despondant, stitched-on frown.

Ingoring it, though, nothing particularly odd seems to happen--at first. It isn't until you sleep when a sinking feeling jolts you from your slumber. It's not hard to figure out where the soruce of the unease is coming from: the doll from earlier is laying just inches away from your face. When you sit up, you realize that it's not the only one: every doll has moved from the shelves and surrounded your sleeping body in a neat circle. All of their eyes are sunken. All of their mouths are turned into frowns.

Maybe you'll have an easier time getting back to sleep if you can find someone on the network to talk it out with.

TWO: IT BLEEDS
Something's wrong with the wallpaper in this house. You're not sure exactly what it is, but it makes your head dizzy to be around it for too long. If it's affecting you this badly, it's possible that other people might have the same problem in the future, so it would probably be a good idea just to take it down. Only, when you pull at the first piece, it's not just the wallpaper that pulls away from the wall...but the skin of your arm, which breaks open in a long scratch. It isn't deep enough to draw blood, but certainly enough to feel raw and uncomfortable.

It would be a good idea to stop what you're doing and reach out for some medical advice.

THREE: THE QUIET GAME
You and your traveling compaion have found shelter at the library. It's a nice, spacious building with plenty of comforable places to sleep and books to occupy your time, so at first this seems like a fine place to spend your time. Only, you can't shake the feeling that someone else is here with you. And everytime you talk too loudly, a fierce shhh passes between your ears, passing a shiver down your spine. Eventually, you hear a slithering voice whisper no talking in the library, and a pinch stabs at the corner of your mouth.

Your companion can hear it too...right?

FOUR: PICTURESQUE
Not too long ago, you found a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces were all stored in a plain box, so you weren't sure what the picture was meant to be. You've been having a slow night, so while your traveling companion tries to get some sleep, you decide to see if you can solve it. Only...you start to notice something familiar about the setting as it unfolds before you. Piece by piece, it becomes clear: it's something from home, something only you should know.

You have to show your traveling companion--only when they go to look for themselves, all that's left is a square of white paper where the puzzle once was. But that can't be right, can it?

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ONE: GIFT BASKET
You wake up to find a new application, BASKET.EXE, has downloaded itself to your tablet. The icon is of a cheery pink wicker basket adorned in a bright ribbon and full of eggs and treats. If you click on it, no program appears to immediately load, but then an egg-shaped chocolate in a cheerfully colored wrapper will appear in the corner of your screen. "Eat me?" it asks in an unassuming word bubble. Should you click on it, your tablet goes dark. A cryptic message appears on the center of your screen in red text:

Thank you for your contribution.

Or maybe it reads:

Progress has been saved.

Or even:

It will be our secret.

Whatever the message reads, you feel a shiver pass down your spine, and then your tablet returns to normal. The application has disappeared.

TWO: THE RESURRECTION
Maybe you've died before or maybe this is your first time, but just like with any other revival, you awake in your body bag, and have to suffer through the task of crawling out into the morgue. You know you'll need to figure out what it is you've awaken to: how long you've been gone, where you are, if anything has changed about you or anyone else. But before you have a chance to do anything to get your bearings, your eyes catch onto something strange.

There, on the door to the drawer your body had been stuffed into, someone (or something) has left something. It could be a drawing, or it could be a written word, but whatever it is, the sight of it fills you with a sense of loss. It's familiar, though you're not immediately sure how or why: something that symbolizes something important you've lost in your past. But who would leave this here? And who could know?

THREE: RABBIT FEET
It's been a long day of traveling, and you and your companion are glad to be reaching your final destination for the night. Someone's even built a rabbit out of snow outside of the door to make the place more inviting. Only...as you get closer, you realize that the tall, white figure is much too detailed to be anything made of snow. The slender figure has a body that could almost be human if not for the way that the limbs attach to the torso at odd angles, and the rabbit face has dark, hollow slits for eyes. It carries a small basket in delicate fingers. It waits for you. It waits for you to get closer, closer. It waits for you to try to get inside.

FOUR: SKIN DEEP
The day has been rather uneventful, so you wonder why it is you can't sleep. Something is eating at you, poking at the back of your brain, telling you that you're missing something. You look over at your companion and then you see it--something shifting beneath their skin. And then you look down at your own arm, and you see it there, too. An egg has been planted into your skin. And not just one.

You wake your companion at once--they need to see what you see. But when you illuminate the situation with the lights from your tablets, you can't see the eggs anymore. You're left to wonder if it was really real, or if your imagination was getting the better of you. But what if it was real? And what happens when the eggs hatch?

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ONE: PAINT BY NUMBERS
You find yourself startled awake one night to a strange sound coming from your tablet. When you try to make it stop, the screen goes black. At first, everything seems fine when it turns back on. But then you realize that everything has taken on a grainy, pixelated nature. And it's not just the tablet itself, but the people who appear on video messages. The harder you look, the more the pixels take shape--and then you realize that everything is made up of tiny little numbers.

The longer you use your tablet, the more you're sure you see the numbers outside of the screen, as well.

TWO: I'M THINKING OF A NUMBER
You wake up and find a number pops into your head. And suddenly, mysteriously, you can't stop thinking about that number. What was so important that it came to you? You find the number appearing before you in impossible situations. The objects and circumstances that surround you somehow lead to that number. And you feel the need to tell other people about your discoveries. How important this number, whatever the number is, has to be. Maybe you can make them all understand. Maybe they'll be able to help you figure out its significance. Maybe the number will lead you out of here.

THREE: HAPPY PIE DAY
You and your companion have found a bakery! It's an exciting place to choose to spend the night; not only is it a notably warm and cozy building full of useful tools...but you discover a smorgasbord of freshly baked pies laid out in welcome. How thoughtful! Clearly the spiders were generous with their last restock.

Unfortunately, when you slice into your first still-warm pie, your excitement quickly turns to horror...as each pie spurts and gushes with thick black blood.

FOUR: TAKE DOWN YOUR MEASUREMENTS
The building that you and your traveling companion settle into for lockdown isn't particularly noteworthy. It looks normal from the outside, and looks normal on the inside, too. At least, at first. But something bothers you that keeps you from sleeping. Something off. It takes you awhile to figure out what it is--but then it hits you. It's the walls. The measurements. They don't make sense. None of it adds up. How can this house be standing? How can everything line up the way it does?

You have to figure it out, using whatever you can to collect the numbers and do the math. Maybe your companion wakes up on their own and finds you enthralled in your work, or maybe you wake them up yourselves to tell them your findings. Either way, you need them to see what you're seeing.

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ONE: BREAK.EXE
You wake up with a new app on your tablet that has a picture of a mirror as its icon. When you open it, you find, unsurprisingly, a mirror. At the bottom of the screen is a single button labeled "BREAK". But when you press it...nothing happens to the mirror in the app. So what does happen? Maybe you hear the distant sound of a mirror breaking--a phantom sound, you find, as nothing has broken in the building you're currently staying in. Maybe you felt a crack render your own flesh. Maybe you felt it render something intangible inside of you. Whatever it was that happened, you're plagued with a sudden onset of foreboding. You have a feeling that your luck has just changed for the worse.

TWO: MIRROR MIRROR
Something's wrong with the Network. No matter what you pick, video is still attaching to all your messages. But even stranger, all the videos feature you reflected in them. That's you, in another building, saying words that aren't your own--you're sure of it. What's going on? And is it the same for everyone else? Maybe you should talk around and check. Maybe it's just a temporary glitch.

THREE: AN UNFRIENDLY FACE
There's a strange mirror in the building that you and your traveling companions have stopped in. When you're not looking at it, you get the strangest feeling like someone is watching you, looming just over your shoulder. But when you look at it directly...at first, nothing happens. And then you see your companion behind you in the reflection. There's a weapon in their hand, and they look ready to plunge. Whether or not your companion is standing behind you or not, you turn to find that they're not poised to attack at all--and didn't see anything out of the ordinary at all.

FOUR: KNOCK KNOCK
You and your traveling companion are having a horrible time sleeping. Just as you think you're settling in, you hear the sound of knocking. At first you think it's the wind, but the sound only becomes more insistent as the night goes on. When the two of you investigate, you finally find that the source seems to be coming from a mirror on the other end of the building. It's dirty and old, and has been covered with a cloth and faced against the wall. Someone wanted it to be forgotten. But now that you have it...the sound's stopped. Maybe it really was just the wind.

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ONE: THE THINGS THAT CRAWL IN THE NIGHT
You haven't thought about the spiders that roam Norfinbury in awhile. But then something happens one night. It's after lockdown and you're all alone, but you can't sleep. How can you, when every time you try to drift off you hear the sounds of scurrying little legs? The sound gets louder, it multiplies, until its all around you. But where--where? Maybe they bugs are beneath the wallpaper, maybe they're under the floorboards. Maybe they're in the furniture. Or maybe, maybe they're just in your head. The tablet is the only thing you have to turn to. Even if you're the only one experiencing these sounds, maybe someone can talk you down, convince you that it's just a brief episode of paranoia that you can unwind from.

TWO: IT WAS ONLY JUST A DREAM
You wake up late into the night. You dreamed you were crawling through a tight, closed space, your body scraping against the metal, and know you don't belong here. Where are you going? The vent is dark, and you don't have your tablet with you. You think there's someone behind you, but you can't be sure. You pull yourself forward with one of your arms. And then you pull yourself forward with your other arm. And then you pull yourself forward with a third--one you shouldn't have. One that doesn't even belong to you.

Once your eyes are open you can still feel those extra limbs extending outward from your body, thin spider legs grabbing at air, clawing for purchase--but then the feeling passes. You're just you, and now you can't get back to sleep. Maybe someone else had the same dream?

THREE: RATE YOUR DISCOMFORT
You and your traveling companion have found an easy routine. Travel, search, hunker down, try to find a semblance of warmth and comfort for the night before you sleep and start all over again. You don't question when they offer you the last of the fresh fruit from your last run to the grocery store. It's a kind gesture, and perhaps you intend to return it the next chance you get. But the food sits uncomfortably in your stomach.

You can feel it, can't you? It's not churning inside of you but moving, squirming, crawling. Nothing relieves it. It doesn't hurt but you feel sick, you find yourself shuddering, but when you show your companion your shaking hands they don't seem to notice the way that your skin ripples with something unseen just underneath. Whatever you ate isn't just in your stomach. It's inside. You can feel it tickling up your throat, reaching up up up.

FOUR: IT SLEEPS BENEATH THE SNOW
You're almost there: the building is just ahead of you, and just in time for lockdown. The coast is clear...at least, that's what you think before the ground around the building begins to move. The snow shifts, snaking in a wide, giant circle around it. And then the monster reveals itself, snow falling from its hardened exoskeleton in chunks, a giant centipede-like anomaly with too-human eyes and hundreds of legs like stilettos decorated with razor blades.

It has you and your traveling companion in your sights--you're going to have to think faster than it can reach you if you want to get around it and into the house before the door locks and dooms the both of you.

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ONE: SEE THAT WE CAN SEE
It's late and you're settling down for the night when you notice a strange light coming from... outside? Through the heavy snowfall, you can just make out the haze of glowing eyes in the distance. Dozens of them. It's difficult to tell through the window, but they seem to be staring directly at you. Since it's after lockdown, you can't get outside to investigate, but maybe others in town are seeing the eyes too. You'd better take to the Network to see what's going on.

TWO: BEHIND THESE HAZEL EYES
You can't sleep. You've been trying, trying, trying. But every time you close your eyes, you see the eyes of the prophet etched into the insides of your eyelids. The symbol only seems to get brighter and clearer the longer you keep your eyes shut, the closer you get to drifting off. It chills you awake. Nothing seems to help. Maybe there are others on the Network who are having the same problem. Or, at least, someone who doesn't mind keeping you company through the long hours.

THREE: THREE'S A CROWD
You and your traveling companion are exploring what looks to be a perfectly normal building when you notice something strange carved into the wall. Is that an eye? Strange indeed, but what's stranger is that new carvings keep appearing, always where you're not looking. Soon, the whole room is full of eye carvings. Is your companion doing this? If not them, then who?

FOUR: THE KNIFE'S EDGE
Most everyone in town still has eyes that are either glowing or shaped like the prophet's symbol, and your eyes are no different. These are the same eyes that made everyone attack each other a few nights ago. Every time you catch a glimpse of yourself, maybe in the reflection of a window or the video feed on your tablet, you feel a little sick. Unfortunately, your traveling companion's eyes look strange too, and they're the opposite of yours. Both of you are in danger if those murderous urges come back, which makes it difficult to trust each other after what you've been through. It's late at night when a dark thought crosses your mind--you do have a knife. Not that there's any reason to use it, of course... Right?