[Cthulhu Mythos setting, fourth natural disaster novel]
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In the seventh year after the world's cataclysm, Shen Wang noticed some strange things had appeared above his head, such as:
[HP: 1/100]
[SAN: -250/100]
[Status: Dead]
Shen Wang: ? I think I'm dead, but not completely dead?
Soon after, Night Watchers began bringing back all sorts of eccentric survivors from the fog period outside the city.
These survivors seemed to share one hobby: stopping people in the street to offer them help.
"Hi, I'm My Mom Has a Second Life. Is there anything I can help you with?"
Shen Wang: ...No. Get lost.
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Three days after Deep Space Tech launched Gray City, a new open-world holographic survival game, its players topped the trending charts with an astonishingly high death rate: more than half of them had died.
#I Died Because I Went to Bed Without Turning on the Lights#
#I Died Because Someone Knocked on the Door at Night#
#I Died Playing Pass the Handkerchief#
At the same time, Qin Jiulou, who had just barely escaped the Faceless Man, stared silently at the living red-name NPC in front of him whose status read [Dead].
[New Quest: Shen Wang wants you to perform a striptease for him]
Qin Jiulou: ...Uninstalling. Quitting the game. I'm out.
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[Native of the Abyssal World bottom x veteran horror-game player top]
Theme: Courage
