You Disturbed the Witch

[Main story complete]

She lived in seclusion in the isolated town of Salem, until she saw several investigators arrive on the recommendation of a local police officer.

She watched as they walked step by step toward the boundary between illusion and reality. Faced with the horror known as "the truth," they chose to run and reached out to her.

"Want to run away with us? It's dangerous here!"

Looking at their anxious, worried faces, she smiled brightly, hid all of her "truth," and left the place with them.

They didn't know that the one they had taken with them was the "abyss."

P.S. The title is a play on a survival-game meme; the main story is unrelated. The focus is an original, futuristic full-dive game called BOX.

The female (?) protagonist is an atypical NPC. Her true form is indescribable. This story mixes in elements from open-license works, including a few Lovecraftian ones, as well as supernatural beings and strange phenomena.

[There are lots of content warnings. See the author's note in Chapter 1; there wasn't room in the blurb.]

[Let's spare each other the trouble, starting by closing the page.]

[Please behave yourselves, trolls and pirates.]

Theme: Human strength is limited, but hard work can create miracles