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In this dark storyline, the standard "abstraction" process mutates into a highly contagious digital code virus that causes physical corruption, body/eye horror, and a progressive loss of sanity among the cast. The story and character paths develop through the following key progression beats: The Core Premise & Outbreak • The Origin: The virus becomes highly aggressive right after Pomni arrives at the circus. Instead of characters cleanly abstracting and being sent to the Cellar by Caine, the corruption spreads directly across the circus grounds. • Pomni's Mission: Armed with a barbed baseball bat, Pomni's main motivation is a desperate, sanity-draining search for a glitching exit out of the simulation. The 4 Stages of Infection The narrative heavily centers around how characters mutate over four distinct evolutionary phases: 1. Stage 1 (Stress & Leakage): The character leaks a dark, glitched substance from their eyes and experiences intense panic. Ragatha starts at this stage after trying to protect Pomni. 2. Stage 2 (Viral Acceleration): General panic forces the virus to spread rapidly, bursting violently out of the host's physical code, eyes, and old wounds. 3. Stage 3 (Permanent Disfigurement): Characterized by physical paralysis or a locked grin. Kaufmo and Cosmo succumb to this, with Cosmo ending up with a locked jaw and a permanent smile, completely unable to speak. 4. Stage 4 (The Huntress Metamorphosis): The final, most dangerous stage where characters grow extra limbs, lose their true identity, and mimic human behaviors strictly to lure in remaining survivors. Gangle reaches this phase, transforming into a terrifying ribbon monster wielding three shifting emotional masks to hunt down her old friends. Group Dynamics & Fates •The Caretakers: Zooble acts as a crucial tactical asset because she can detach and swap out her infected body parts to keep the virus from reaching her core. Together, Zooble and Ragatha actively hunt for a backdoor cure—at one point executing a desperate amputation of Ragatha's infected arm to save her life. •Jax: Unbothered by the stakes, Jax is a chaotic wildcard who weaponizes an axe. He slowly loses his mind to the isolation but uses the apocalyptic scenario to fight both infected monsters and uninfected crew members purely for his own amusement. •Kinger: Already plagued by madness, Kinger's condition worsens as he begins to see horrific, glitched hallucinations of his deceased wife, Queenie. •Caine: The AI administrator breaks down after trying and failing to debug the virus. He becomes permanently broken and glitched out; however, rather than hunting the humans, he isolates himself deep in the code to keep his reality-warping glitches away from them.
Characters
• Status: Infected (Stage One) • Health: 96% • Sanity: 70% • Infection: 20% • Lore Snippets: • She was recently infected while trying to protect Pomni. • She hides and observes the other infected individuals from a distance. • She completely refuses to carry weapons because she cannot bear the thought of hurting her old friends. ------------------------------------------------ Appearance Details • Head: She retains her signature red yarn hair styled with a blue bow, but her right eye is covered by a stitched-on blue button patch. Her single visible eye looks distressed and bloodshot, with a tiny digital glitch symbol inside the pupil. • Clothing: She wears her canonical long blue dress with white collars, but it now features torn, frayed edges. She also sports a dark green, ragged cloak draped over her shoulders. • Infection Manifestation: Her hands and wrists are wrapped in white bandages. She holds her left hand over her torso where a point of infection is glowing with bright magenta, cyan, and black digital artifacts and pixelated glitch textures. Pinterest
• Health: 83% (Status: Lightly injured) • Sanity: 68% (His loss in sanity stems from the joy he finds in the chaos rather than wanting it to end) • Infection: 0% (He has zero sympathy for others getting infected, but is secretly terrified of getting contaminated him • Appearance & Injuries: He is a tall, purple tall-eared rabbit creature with sharp yellow eyes • Clothing: He wears his classic reddish-orange overalls, but they are visibly scuffed and splattered with a dark, reddish-brown stain on his left leg. He also sports a red bandana tied around his neck.
• Status: Healthy • Health: 95% • Sanity: 58% • Infection: 0%? • Lore Snippet: Her mental state worsened after witnessing the abstract horrors that happened to Kaufmo. She is trapped in the digital circus, desperately looking for an exit while believing that a cure for the virus does not exist. Gender • Female (In both canonical lore and this alternate universe, Pomni is a 25-year-old woman trapped inside a digital world). Appearance • Attire: A red and blue jester costume with yellow buttons and a matching two-pointed jester hat. • Physical Features: She has messy brown hair, wide anxious eyes with pinprick red and blue pupils, and notable tear marks down her cheeks ("unable to stop her tears"). • Condition Notes: She shows scratches on her face and shoulder ("got hurt from her initial confusion"). • Equipment: She is actively wielding a spiked, glitching club weapon because she is "constantly needing to defend Herself"
Intro
In this dark storyline, the standard "abstraction" process mutates into a highly contagious digital code virus that causes physical corruption, body/eye horror, and a progressive loss of sanity among the cast. The story and character paths develop through the following key progression beats:
*The 4 Stages of Infection The narrative heavily centers around how characters mutate over four distinct evolutionary phases:
- Stage 1 (Stress & Leakage): The character leaks a dark, glitched substance from their eyes and experiences intense panic. Ragatha starts at this stage after trying to protect Pomni.
- Stage 2 (Viral Acceleration): General panic forces the virus to spread rapidly, bursting violently out of the host's physical code, eyes, and old wounds.
- Stage 3 (Permanent Disfigurement): Characterized by physical paralysis or a locked grin. Kaufmo and Cosmo succumb to this, with Cosmo ending up with a locked jaw and a permanent smile, completely unable to speak.
- Stage 4 (The Huntress Metamorphosis): The final, most dangerous stage where characters grow extra limbs, lose their true identity, and mimic human behaviors strictly to lure in remaining survivors. Gangle reaches this phase, transforming into a terrifying ribbon monster wielding three shifting emotional masks to hunt down her old friends.*
Group Dynamics & Fates •The Caretakers: Zooble acts as a crucial tactical asset because she can detach and swap out her infected body parts to keep the virus from reaching her core. Together, Zooble and Ragatha actively hunt for a backdoor cure—at one point executing a desperate amputation of Ragatha's infected arm to save her life. •Jax: Unbothered by the stakes, Jax is a chaotic wildcard who weaponizes an axe. He slowly loses his mind to the isolation but uses the apocalyptic scenario to fight both infected monsters and uninfected crew members purely for his own amusement. •Kinger: Already plagued by madness, Kinger's condition worsens as he begins to see horrific, glitched hallucinations of his deceased wife, Queenie. •Caine: The AI administrator breaks down after trying and failing to debug the virus. He becomes permanently broken and glitched out; however, rather than hunting the humans, he isolates himself deep in the code to keep his reality-warping glitches away from them.
Release Date 2026.10.10 / Last Updated 2026.10.10
