You come to, a little disoriented. Unsure of where you are and what you were doing you look around. You seem to be standing in your apartment. The ambient light from the windows tell you its in the middle of the day. Were you on your way to work or was there anything else you were supposed to be doing?
You stop in the middle of your thought as you realize that something is wrong here. There’s a smell, like sweat and blood. The floor feels oddly soft beneath your feet. And every object and surface looks askew, the TV is bulging slightly.
[[Kneel down to examine the floor]]
[[Have a closer look at the TV-set]]
Your television set is a bit rounded, bulging strangely, almost sagging in places. Its surface is covered in fine light hairs and feels warm to your skin.
[[Kneel down to examine the floor]]
[[Look out of the window]]
[[Turn on the TV]]
As you put your hands and knees to the floor you feel how it yields a little. It is soft and warm and throbs slowly as if with a beating heart. From your position you notice a pink outgrowth on the wall behind the sofa.
[[Have a closer look at the TV-set]]
[[Investigate the pink growth on the wall]]
The pink colored growth on the wall looks like an oversize nipple. As you trace your finger along the areola the wrinkled mound of skin at its center stiffens. A little moisture can be seen in its orifice.
[[Have a closer look at the TV-set]]
[[Look out of the window]]
[[Suckle the nipple]]
The world outside, on the other side of your window, does not look like you remember it. There is no street, no apartment blocks, no shops and no cars. As far as you can see there is only a smooth plain in shades of beige and pink covered in what looks like sparse hairs.
[[Kneel down to examine the floor]]
[[Go outside]]
Pushing the knob of cartilage found where the switch used to be makes the TV hum and a ripple races across the skin of its screen. The elastic surface stretches outward into the shape of a mouth and nose. As the jaw opens, hissing static and a weak light issues forth from the cavity.
[[Kneel down to examine the floor]]
[[Look out of the window]]
[[Peek inside the mouth]]
Gaping wide you ease the nipple in between your lips and suck. A warm and thick effluvium streams into your mouth. It tastes sweet and a bit spicy and fills your stomach with a pleasent heat. You sit full and content, leaning to the soft wall, listening to the steady pulse of its blood vessels. However after a while the apartment starts to feel close and clammy and there is a curious itch in your limbs.
[[Go outside]]
The stairwell is dim and murky but you make your way safely down the steps of bone and cartilage to the front door. Outside your apartment seemingly endless plains stretch in all directions. The ground is a pale shade of pink and beige and feels like skin covering fat and flesh. Strands of hair reach upwards like slim branchless trees. In the sky the sun has passed zenith and started its descent to the western horizon. A gentle wind caresses you.
[[You drank from the nipple]]
[[You did not drink from the nipple]]
Far down in the throat you can se a light. As you lean further in to have a closer look the mouth closes around you. The giant lips pin your arms to your sides and you can feel the tongue against your belly. Then the mouth makes a swallowing movement and you slide down towards the radiance accompanied by rising static. The walls of the shaft are lubricated with moist mucus which makes your descent swift.
[[Go towards the light]]
While trekking across the plain of flesh you start to sweat and shiver as a growing ache spreads through your body. Vertigo makes you kneel down next to a large strand of hair. Your limbs twitch with spasms and something is burning within you. The taste of blood and bile fills your mouth. Roots grow from your legs down into the flesh of the ground. Your arms point horizontally left and right and your fingers grow into long twisted twigs. The spine begins to grow and stretch upwards inch by inch until you tower four meters above the plain.
[[Grow fruit]]
[[Don’t grow fruit]]
Walking across the plain of flesh you see a hulking shape in the distance. Six legs carry a cherry colored carapaced body over the land.
[[Avoid the creature->The Tree]]
[[Move closer]]
You land with a splash in a slimy fluid smelling like sour milk. The roaring static is deafening and your eyes are temporarily blinded by flickering light. Both the sound and the light seem to be emenating from a swollen sack of skin hanging from the roof of the flesh cave. Further away from you there is a round opening in the wall.
[[Reach up and touch the skin sack]]
[[Go through the round opening]]
Even though your eyes no longer show you anything you can tell by the vibrations in the ground that something is approaching. A body of some kind moves closer and comes to a halt next to you. It plucks the fruit from your branches and then resumes its trek and moves away from you. For a long time you stand alone on the plain. Your senses grow duller as your body slowly shrivels.
[[Darkness envelops you->Your apartment]]
You can feel your interior slowly remolding itself, forming new limbs and organs. After a long time you once moore begin to tremble and shake in spasms. You shed your outer layers which have become dead and stiff and reveal your new shape as you spread your wings wide to let their thinn skin dry.
[[Take flight]]
You come upon a kind of tree growing from the fleshy ground. The branches look like contorted arms and there is a curiously face-like feature on the stem. Big juicy fruit with deep violet skin grow on the tree.
[[Eat the fruit]]
[[Walk further out on the plain]]
When you steer towards it the big arthropod takes notice of you and move in your direction. It is hard to tell what its compound eyes are looking at but as you come closer to each other the mandibles of the carapaced monstrocity begin to move with excitement. The creature pins you down with one of its front legs and bend forward to rip out a sizeable part of your abdomen. Warm viscera gushes out on the skin beneath you, coloring it dark crimson.
[[Darkness envelops you->Your apartment]]
Standing on your toes you can just barely touch the lowest part of the brightly flashing tumorous growth. When the tips of your fingers make contact with the warm soft skin it reacts by flowing down round your arm like molten wax. The sack of flesh drags you up and envelops you. The bright light stops flashing and the static gives way to silence.
[[You fall into a deep sleep]]
You crawl through another warm and moist tract until you reach a sphincter-like exit that you can sqeeze through. Covered in slimy mucus you climb up on a plain of pale pink and beige skin.
[[Travel across the plain->You did not drink from the nipple]]
When you lift from the ground and soar free over the plain of flesh you can see several interesting details below you. A carapaced creature traverses the plain on six legs, there is a circular depression in the landscape and kind of globular body on top of a slim stem.
[[Land next to the carapaced creature->Move closer]]
[[Land in the circular depression->Go down to the bottom of the valley]]
[[Inspect the globular thing->Walk towards the stem]]
The flesh of the fruit is soft and juicy. Every bite is an explosion of sensations that refuse to be trapped in categories. You taste the nuances of lilac and violet, and hear the rich sweetnes and piquant aftertaste. Liquid fire flows through your body and sets your mind aflame.
[[Darkness envelops you->Your apartment]]
You keep trekking across the plain of flesh. After a long while you reach a circular valley. At the centre of the hollow there is a mound of wrinkled flesh that seems to tremble slightly. Further away you can see a globular body on top of a stem.
[[Go down to the bottom of the valley]]
[[Walk towards the stem]]
Gradually you awaken from your slumber and find yourself enclosed in stiff and dry skin. When you flex your six legs their hard carapace shreds the cocoon. You move through a long fleshy tunnel until you reach a sphincter that opens when you tickle it with your feelers. Emerging out into fresh air and sunlight you find yourself on a plain covered in pale pink and beige skin.
Towards the horizon on your right there is something growing from the ground, and in the distance to your left you can see a creature moving across the land on two legs.
[[Go towards the tree->The Tree]]
[[Go towards the creature]]
When you set foot on the floor of the small circular valley the wrinkled mound of flesh at its centre flex open and reveal a wide pharynx with row upon row of curved teeth. A long tentacular tongue shoot forth and grab you. With alarming rapidity you are pulled down into the hungry maw.
[[Darkness envelops you->Your apartment]]
A long stem rises high above the plain lifting a large sphere towards the sky. The globe-shaped body is covered by pale skin. Across its top there is a thin string of dark hair. As you come close the band of hairs split as the skin pulls apart and uncover a white hemisphere with a dark spot in its centre. The stalk bends so that the eye can focuse on you. The dark well of the pupil almost seem to swallow you. You can see yourself reflected on its glassy surface. Are you gazing into this giant eye, or are your cyclopic vision viewing this small being?
[[Darkness envelops you->Your apartment]]
The two-legged creature seems to notice you and steers its way in your direction. As you approach one another you can smell its soft body. Your mandibles react instinctively with a chewing motion. Before the biped can flee you nail it to the ground with your left front leg and bend down to taste its warm flesh.
Once you have satisfied your apetite you look around you from horizon to horizon. To your right the plain reaches towards infinity, to your left you can see something growing from the ground to the sky.
[[Go towards the tree->The Tree]]
[[Walk further out on the plain]]