Sugarcane

yes, <<if $look is "MONSTERGIRL">>a monstergirl. a girl whom love to be a monster<<else if $look is "SEWER GHOUL">>a sewer ghoul. the prettiest ghoul in the sewers<<else if $look is "FAKKUBOI">>a 「ｆａｋｋｕｂｏｉ．」 go get em<<endif>>. but maybe you'd like to be something else?\n\n[[i want to be a MONSTERGIRL]]\n[[i want to be a SEWER GHOUL]]\n[[i want to be a FAKKUBOI]]\n[[no i love this|inventory]]

the augury has shown you the way. <<if $feature is "SCORPION TAIL">>she pushes you insistently to the bed with a kiss. you curl your tail up behind her and wrap it around her, trapping her arms at her sides. no longer propped up, she collapses onto your chest, giggling. you scrape the tip of your stinger teasingly across her back and she shivers. you feel her stiffen against the chitinous base of your tail.\n\n"you got any lube? your tail's a little dry, hon"\n\n"are you planning on like. humping my tail?"\n\n"yeah, why not? it's a cute tail."\n\n"okay cool"\n\nyou grab some and spread it liberally across the underside of your tail. she scratches your sides with her restrained hands, so you growl and kiss her. she closes her eyes. you grab a little more lube and rub it into her dick, just enough to leave her frustrated.\n\n"you are RUDE"\n\n"whatcha gonna do about it?"\n\nshe bites your shoulder, hard, and leans into your groin, rutting against the chitin. you feel her tense beneath the embrace of your tail, and you clutch her desperately.<<else if $feature is "GOAT HORNS">>you slide to the edge of the bed, grab her by the hands and pull her close, until you could bury your face into her belly. she brushes a stray lock from your face and circles your head with her hands.\n\n"god fucking dammit," she says.\n\n"something wrong?"\n\n"you're so fucking... //pretty//"\n\n"oh my god no you are"\n\n"bluhhh, i'm hideous."\n\n"WHAT."\n\nyou clasp her waist and spin her gently to the bed. you rest your head on her breasts.\n\n"q no, absolutely not. if i could look half as good as you, i'd count myself lucky. you can't think that about yourself."\n\nshe strokes your hair idly and plays a few fingers up one of your horns. "honey, you do. you're gonna look so much better."\n\n"don't... don't think of me as better than you." you sniff. "we're going to make it. together."\n\nshe hugs you tightly. you hear her sniff, too. the two of you lay like that, for a time.\n\n"hey q?"\n\n"yeah, honey?"\n\n"i'd really like to go hog wild on your fat gay dick now, if that's cool"\n\n"yes, please do"\n\nyou do.<<else if $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>you slide to the edge of the bed, grab her by the hands and pull her close, until you could bury your face into her belly. she scratches your scalp and the base of your neck, you scratch down her lower back to her flanks, and the two of you shiver beneath your mutual affections.\n\nyou swing your monocular gaze up her body, meeting her own gazing back down at you.\n\n"hey q?"\n\n"yeah, honey?"\n\n"you ever get your dick sucked by an eyeball"\n\n"please enlighten me."\n\nyour eye splits down the center in a toothy, vertical grin.\n\n"OH MY GOD THAT'S REALLY GOOD, YES"\n\nyou take her between your eye-lips and seal them gently around her gorgeous penis. her thighs tense beneath your hands and you reward them with a stroke.\n\n"wow, it's... tingly"\n\n"yeah, that's because my eye is currently trying to digest your dick."\n\n"um."\n\n"don't worry, i'm holding back. it would take //hours// in here at this rate. it'll be like a mild exfoliant"\n\n"ok, great, carry on."\n\nyou continue your ministrations and she hisses an intake of breath. you twist slightly, rotating the opening in your eye, and bite her inner thigh.\n\n"god //DAMN//"\n\nher knees practically give out and her slightly-reddened dick pops out of your eye as you guide her to the bed. you press your body to hers and kiss her fiercely.<<else if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>she pushes you insistently to the bed, playing a hand up your chest, circling around your nipples. you hiss appreciatively, and scratch along her flanks. she lowers herself until you feel her breath upon your muzzle. you resist the urge to bite her. she must have sensed something in your eyes, or the movement of your muscles.\n\n"something wrong, hon?"\n\nyou sigh, and a drop of acid hisses on your sheets. "well i mean, blowjobs are out of the question."\n\nshe giggles. "aww, hon, here's the thing. it isn't about who needs to get off whom, or anything like that. that's a shitty way to approach sex, especially gay sex."\n\n"you don't mind if you don't get off?"\n\n"when was the last time //you// got off, though? put it this way: the orgasm is a fake idea." she kisses your forehead. "it's about how much gayness you hold in your heart."\n\n<<if $lovingvoidrune is true>>"i don't have a heart anymore, q."\n\n"it's about how much gayness you hold in the howling void that used to be your heart. show me."<<else>>"how much gayness //do// i hold in my heart?"\n\n"show me, honey."<<endif>>\n\nyou show her. the two of you exult in the simple joys of friction, pressure, and rough affection. you scratch, she shivers, she bites, you writhe, and the sheets soak with sweat.\n\n"do you think we've been gay enough?"\n\n"you can //never// be gay enough"<<else if $feature is "GATLING ARM">>she pushes you insistently to the bed with a kiss. you drag your claws across her back and she shivers. she scratches her own down your left side, tracing a line from your cheek down your arm to your cyber-cannon. she circles her fingers around the topmost barrel and draws it, gently but firmly, between her legs.\n\nshe clasps it with her thighs. you pull your mouth away from hers.\n\n"are you... are you fucking my gun-arm?"\n\n"i am absolutely about to fuck your gun-arm"\n\n"okay. alright. i'm into it. just, you know, just checking."\n\nshe ruts along the chrome and you pull yourself up against her. you dig your claws into her back as you bite her shoulder and she hisses in appreciation.\n\n"spin it up," she growls, "spin it up on my dick"\n\n"this is the gayest thing that's ever happened to me"\n\nyou spin up your cannon and she looses a moan that couldn't have been completely voluntary. she almost crushes you in her embrace. you feel her tense beneath you, and as she bites your opposite shoulder you know you aren't too far off yourself.<<endif>>\n\nyour cry mirrors her own as energy surges out of both of your groins, coruscating into the air above your heads as arcs of it rake back outwards across your naked forms. in their wake, glowing, blasphemous sigils sprout from flesh, until the two of your are covered completely in them.\n\nthe energy subsides, and a rune floats gently down between the two of you. almost as one, you reach out, gasping, and grasp it with q. it is yours now, a rune for the two of you. [HAIL HAIL HAIL].\n\n<<if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>"okay, yeah, we were gay enough"\n\n<<endif>>[[hell fucking yes.|bedroom]]

"move along, sir. this is none of - hang on, weren't you just here with that young man?"\n\n"yeah, i was. you know what i did?" he stares, transfixed, as you expose the howling void within your breast. "i sacrificed him."\n\nhe grasps the radio on his shoulder. "uhhh, we've got hostile cultists at the gas n' glug, requesting backup"\n\nyou grin savagely.\n\n<<if $feature is "SCORPION TAIL">>the cop recoils too late as you plunge your tail into him, and again, and again. he's frothing as you lower him to the ground.<<else if $feature is "GOAT HORNS">>the cop stumbles back several paces, desperately fumbling for his sidearm. you charge him, head down, and he gurgles as your horns punch into his chest. the impact hurls him to the ground. you straighten and wipe the blood from your flawless hair.<<else if $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>the cop recoils too late as you pull your head back, single eye splitting into a terrible fanged maw, and tear into his shoulders and neck. he starts to go slack and you shove him to the ground.<<else if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>the cop recoils too late as you pull your head back, acid dripping from your huge jaws, and tear into his shoulders and neck. as the acid eats through his uniform and flesh, you shove him, screaming, to the ground.<<else if $feature is "GATLING ARM">>the cop stumbles back several paces, desperately fumbling for his sidearm. you raise your arm, cylinders whirring up to speed. you wink.\n\n"mine's bigger." god, you've always wanted to do that.\n\nthe hail of bullets sends him crashing to the ground.<<endif>>

you pull out your ritual knife, rune-power surging within you. a quick incision, and your guts are free to tell their secrets. you pore over them, inch by feverish, glowing inch. a web, taut like skein, pours from them and crawls, unseen, unnoticed, to wrap around the cop and the boy. something glows within each of them, and then the skeins snap back into you. your guts slither back inside as the wound seals with a glow.\n\nall right. they've both got runes hidden inside em. glad we had this augury.\n\n[[back|convenience store]]

Congratulations, Winners, says the demon. The publishers of "HORROR GAIDEN SEQUEL" would formally like to reward your efforts with a commemorative T-Shirt.\n\nyou stare. q stares. <<if $hailhailhailrune is true>>the demon blinks.\n\nFeel free to tell me what size you wear.<<else>>the demon regards your united form.\n\nSo, looks like the twin size for you.<<endif>>\n\n"what the FUCK IS THIS" yells q.\n\nthe demon shrugs her eightfold limbs. If you are unsatisfied with your "HORROR GAIDEN SEQUEL" experience I would be happy to provide you with our Customer Support Line.\n\n"cut the bullshit, okay?"\n\nShe [[sighs.|demon 2]]

the cop glances at you as you approach. "move along, sir. this is none of your concern." his gaze returns to the empty sky.\n\n"hey, officer."\n\n"what?"\n\n"don't fucking call me that."\n\n<<if $feature is "SCORPION TAIL">>the cop turns too late as you plunge your tail into him, and again, and again. he's frothing as you lower him to the ground.<<else if $feature is "GOAT HORNS">>the cop turns too late, desperately fumbling for his sidearm. you charge him, head down, and he gurgles as your horns punch into his chest. the impact hurls him to the ground. you straighten and wipe the blood from your flawless hair.<<else if $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>the cop turns too late as you pull your head back, single eye splitting into a terrible fanged maw, and tear into his shoulders and neck. he starts to go slack and you shove him to the ground.<<else if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>the cop turns too late as you pull your head back, acid dripping from your huge jaws, and tear into his shoulders and neck. as the acid eats through his uniform and flesh, you shove him, screaming, to the ground.<<else if $feature is "GATLING ARM">>the cop stumbles back several paces, desperately fumbling for his sidearm. you raise your arm, cylinders whirring up to speed. you wink.\n\n"mine's bigger." god, you've always wanted to do that.\n\nthe hail of bullets sends him crashing to the ground.<<endif>>\n\nhe paws weakly at his radio. "c-cultists at the gas n' glug. request backup. officer... down-"

you draw your ritual knife and plant your feet in the center of the hazy circle of houses. rune-power swells at your fingertips, and you tenderly draw the blade across your stomach to free your guts. you stare deep into their glowing, writhing coils, and soon a wispy energy dances out of them. it flutters across the wavering air to the shadows of the porch. q giggles as the augury-sprite plays across her.\n\n"that tickles, you know," she calls. "get over here you dweeb."\n\nyou retract your guts as the energy fades. so, looks like q's a rune-bearer. sweet.\n\n[[back|cul-de-sac]]

<<set $look = "MONSTERGIRL">>ok, done.\n\n<<display "A LOOK">>

//ＡＵＧＵＲ//\n\nfor hail gay satan/naked twine jam\n\nthis story contains some fucked up shit are you ready\n\n[[ready]]

yes, <<if $feature is "SCORPION TAIL">>your scorpion tail curls out behind you and hangs over your head. your hair and leather epaulets are bleached and stained from the constant drops of poison<<else if $feature is "GOAT HORNS">>your formidable goat horns spiral out from your head, parting your immaculately trimmed hair<<else if $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>your single, dominating eye pulses slightly in the middle of your head. have you ever tried to eat pizza with your eye before? because like. you can do that<<else if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>your thick fangs jut out from your muzzle. a thick, acrid substance oozes down them constantly. it's hell on the carpets<<else if $feature is "GATLING ARM">>you saved up enough to get a gatling cannon surgically grafted to your forearm, just like in your favorite gamesoft. sure, it hurts, but it's a good hurt. a //cyber//-hurt<<endif>>. but maybe you'd like something else?\n\n[[i want a scorpion tail]]\n[[i want goat horns and a hime cut]]\n[[i want an absorbing eye]]\n[[i want acid fangs]]\n[[i want a gatling arm]]\n[[no i love this|inventory]]

<<set $feature = "SCORPION TAIL">>ok, done.\n\n<<display "A FEATURE">>

<<set $room = "bedroom">><<if $hailhailhailrune is true>>you look up from the bed and the ceiling is missing.\n\n[[you'd better leave.|living room]]<<else>>here's where you do most of your crying. something feels new, though, since you got these runes.\n\n<<if $girlfollowing is false and $boyfollowing is false>>new, but empty. your guts growl. there's an energy here but you can't seem to harness it yet. something's missing.<<endif>><<if $boyfollowing is true>>"get on the bed, dipshit"\n\nhe gets on the bed. yes. you can feel it. here is where you can coax out the rune hidden within him, if you find the path. you press your temples and focus. you can hear him stripping his clothes off. you look up.\n\n[["you won't enjoy this."|junk destroy]]<<endif>><<if $girlfollowing is true>>you clamber across the bed to the stereo as q shuts the door behind her. you put on something spooky, and she's already pulling off her bra. you can almost taste the energy.\n\n[["let's fuck for gay satan"|q sex]]<<endif>>\n\n[[living room]]\n[[inventory]]<<endif>>

YOU BETTER BE READY<<silently>>\n<<set $look = "MONSTERGIRL">>\n<<set $feature = "SCORPION TAIL">>\n<<set $runes = 2>>\n<<set $augurrune = true>>\n<<set $gutsrune = true>>\n<<set $copkillrune = false>>\n<<set $lovingvoidrune = false>>\n<<set $ergirune = false>>\n<<set $chimerarune = false>>\n<<set $hailhailhailrune = false>>\n<<set $boyfollowing = false>>\n<<set $girlfollowing = false>>\n<<set $deadboy = false>>\n<<endsilently>>\n\n[[HELL YEAH|basement]]

Look, says the demon, crossing her pointed legs and settling down onto thin air. This is my job, okay? It's hard out there, and it's going to get a lot harder. You don't need me to tell you that. You look like good kids. If it's any consolation, I think you deserve better.\n\n"some consolation," mutters q.\n\n"since you're here, do you wanna, like, i dunno, fuck?"\n\nShe sniffs. Not really my Thing, I'm afraid. Anyway, there's probably a lesson here.\n\n"i think i can safely say i have learned absolutely nothing from this."\n\nHow about, "Don't Wait For Salvation To Come From Higher Authorities, Because They Will Always Fail You"?\n\n"kinda selling yourself short there, huh?" scoffs q.\n\nMaybe, "The Real Rune-Power Was Inside You The Whole Time."\n\n"sure, whatever."\n\nWell, it was good to chat. Good luck out there. Expect your prizes in three to five Business Days.\n\nwith a thundering implosion, the demon vanishes. the pentagram goes dark once more.\n\n"what the hell was that?"\n\n"buhhh," groans q.\n\n"ugh. //UGH.// whatever. you wanna fuck some more?"\n\n"yeah, sure"\n\n[[so you do|THE END]]

the two of you kneel in the center of the pentagram, facing each other. you grip your ritual knives with determination. in unison, you slice across your abdomens, and the dim light of the basement brightens with the glowing heaps spilling from the wounds.\n\nthey quest across the air between you in pulsing tendrils. in the center, they touch and twine together, eliciting a gasp from each of you. numbly, they slither past each other. q's warm, shimmering intestines wrap around your elbows, ankles, and waist, and you feel pressure as your own wrap around hers. something spasms within your body and the two of you slide across the ground towards each other as your guts start retracting. more coils of gut wrap around your limbs, and suddenly you can no longer see as they circle your head.\n\nyou lose all points of reference, suspended in a glowing gut-cocoon. you feel only the writhing intestines covering every inch of you, and a vague pressure roughly the size of q somewhere outside but creeping nearer. you feel dissolute. it's a struggle just to hold on to yourself, to keep from slipping away. then, suddenly, you //feel// her.\n\nyou feel her shock at the sudden explosive contact, her shock at your own shock, her shock at your shock of her shock, and then you //know// and relief and joy flood you both. guts start to retract.\n\nyou explore her body with your senses, the itch on her right ankle, the smell of candlesmoke and mildew through her nostrils, the riot of gut on her skin, her stiffening member - damn, she is //into// this - and you sense her own explorations of you.\n\nshe savors the vague coppery taste in your mouth, the sound of her breathing in your ears. <<if $lovingvoidrune is true>>she marvels at the void within you, sensing the scope of it reverently. <<else if $ergirune is true>>she exults in the wellsprings of scorn within you, bolstering herself with it. <<endif>><<if $feature is "SCORPION TAIL">>she flexes your tail - both of yours, now - and spurts poison into the air as she triggers unfamiliar muscles.<<else if $feature is "GOAT HORNS">>she senses the weight you carry every day in your horns, she graps the true value you place on your hair, the one thing that ever goes right.<<else if $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>she revels in the hunger of your eye, opens it wide, closes it, opens it along another axis.<<else if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>she feels the dull pain in your gums that you bear every day as your flesh regenerates. //you// feel that same pain form in her gums, and you start to despair before she reassures you, in an instant, that it's fine.<<else if $feature is "GATLING ARM">>she feels the pain of your stump, the strange phantom sensations from a limb whose weight and shape is wrong. as the guts slither back from your cannon, she spins it up experimentally.<<endif>> she feels down, down to your groin, and the shame and loathing rise up in you, fiercer than ever. they threaten to overwhelm you, but then from her you feel a love and understanding deeper and more profound than any you have ever felt.\n\nand the guts retract completely. as the glow fades, you look to each other to find your two bodies have joined as one. two heads, yours to the left, q's to the right, look out from the broader shoulders of your new combined torso. three legs extend down, the skin color of the central leg split down the center between you.\n\nshe locks eyes with you, and in your mirrored gaze a thousand tears of joy shimmer like newborn stars. you kiss.\n\na rune has formed within your new unified body. the rune of new futures and new lives: [CHIMERA]. it is yours.\n\n//[[hell fucking yes.|basement]]//

''THE END''\n\n<<if $hailhailhailrune is true>>[img[http://i.imgur.com/HXd2sgj.png]]<<else>>[img[http://i.imgur.com/exrpmlI.png]]<<endif>>\n\n//ＡＵＧＵＲ//\n\nfor hail gay satan/naked twine jam\n\nthanks:\n<a href="http://lamezone.net/">cate wurtz</a>\n<a href="https://twitter.com/m_kopas">merritt kopas</a>\n<a href="http://chupaflora.tumblr.com/">chupaflora</a>

runes slot into all 5 receptacles. your voice unites with q's in exultant incantations. ultraviolet unlight crackles across every line of the pentagram, and waves of pressure radiate from the center. it staggers you, and just as you fear you might fall, the waves cease, as if holding their breath.\n\nthe pentagram explodes.\n\nas you and q pick yourselves up from the ground, you behold the shape inside the pentagram. you behold She.\n\nunderlit in hellish imperial violet, a pallid being settles to the floor to loom on slender, impossibly-tapered points. voluminous rolls of flesh cascade down from blood-painted breasts adorned with a ring of skulls. a wheel of eight ethereal limbs frame a head like a whale's with sevenfold eyes.\n\n//"holy shit"// breathes q.\n\n"we fuckin DID IT"\n\nwith a sound like a damned choir, She clears her terrible throat.\n\n[[and speaks.|demon 1]]

<<set $look = "FAKKUBOI">>ok, done.\n\n<<display "A LOOK">>

<<set $room = "outside">>you stand on the sidewalk. the sky looks black up above, right at the top, and it bleeds down into a yellow-brown. the road shimmers and crumbling houses stretch along it in all directions. your guts feel as empty as the sky. no runes here.<<if $copkillrune is true>>\n\na stream of cops pour towards you from both ends of the street, kept at bay by crackling arcs of energy from the rune you hold aloft. the air fills with cop ash.<<endif>><<if $boyfollowing is true and $copkillrune is true>>\n\n"i'm not gonna get in trouble for this, right? like, they know i'm not //with you// with you, right?"\n\n"do you want this or not?"\n\nyou'll remember that look he just gave.<<else if $boyfollowing is true and $copkillrune is false>>\n\n"hey you're like, really hot now."\n\n"am i?"\n\n"yeah i didn't know you'd be like, hot, back in, you know"\n\n"it's out of spite, mainly."<<endif>><<if $girlfollowing is true>>\n\nq, at your side, fires purple beams into the cop mass.\n\n"why did we never hang out?"\n\n"you never talked to me," she says.\n\n"you never talked to //me// though."\n\n"it's..." she looks away. "it's hard. some of us can just sense it, you know? i never could. i never knew. i'm sorry."\n\n"it's okay."<<endif>>\n\n[[your house is behind you|living room]]<<if $boyfollowing is false>>\n[[there's a cul-de-sac that way|cul-de-sac]]<<endif>><<if $girlfollowing is false>>\n[[you could go to the convenience store|convenience store]]<<endif>>\n[[inventory]]

you <<if $chimerarune is true>>were<<else>>are<<endif>> an average <<if $look is "MONSTERGIRL">>[[MONSTERGIRL|A LOOK]]<<else if $look is "SEWER GHOUL">>[[SEWER GHOUL|A LOOK]]<<else if $look is "FAKKUBOI">>[[FAKKUBOI|A LOOK]]<<endif>> with no particular skills or qualifications. <<if $chimerarune is true>>now, you are more than yourself. q is of you and you of her. you feel her, all of her, and you know that she feels you as well, and the knowing sends thrills down your spine, just as it does hers. you are truly joined now, body and soul. it owns.<<endif>>\n\n<<if $chimerarune neq true>>however, <<endif>>you <<if $feature is "SCORPION TAIL">>have a large and poisonous [[SCORPION'S TAIL|A FEATURE]]<<else if $feature is "GOAT HORNS">>have the [[HORNS OF A GOAT|A FEATURE]] and a FLAWLESS HIME CUT<<else if $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>can ABSORB ALL NUTRIENTS INTO THE BODY THROUGH YOUR [[SINGLE EYE|A FEATURE]]<<else if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>have [[HUGE FANGS|A FEATURE]] dripping with POWERFUL ACID<<else if $feature is "GATLING ARM">>have a [[GATLING CANNON|A FEATURE]] installed in place of your LEFT ARM<<endif>>.<<if $lovingvoidrune is true>>\n\nwhere once you held a beating heart within your chest, now you hold a howling void, straight through. you could probably eat a pizza with this howling void.<<endif>><<if $ergirune is true and $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>\n\nyour single, burning eye radiates a palpable, castrating scorn. woe to the fucker who finds himself beneath your gaze.<<endif>><<if $ergirune is true and $feature neq "ABSORBING EYE">>\n\nyour burning eyes radiate a palpable, castrating scorn. woe to the fucker who finds himself beneath your gaze.<<endif>><<if $hailhailhailrune is true>>\n\nblasphemous gay sigils glow and swirl across your flesh. it's great.<<endif>>\n\nyou have <<$runes>> runes. they are:<<if $augurrune is true>>\n[[AUGUR]]<<endif>><<if $gutsrune is true>>\n[[GUTS]]<<endif>><<if $copkillrune is true>>\n[[COPKILL]]<<endif>><<if $lovingvoidrune is true>>\n[[LOVING VOID]]<<endif>><<if $ergirune is true>>\n[[ERGI]]<<endif>><<if $chimerarune is true>>\n[[CHIMERA]]<<endif>><<if $hailhailhailrune is true>>\n[[HAIL HAIL HAIL]]<<endif>>\n\n<<if $boyfollowing is true>>THAT BOY YOU ALWAYS HATED is following you. you don't consider him a person so he gets to show up in your inventory.\n\n<<endif>>[[return|$room]]

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<<set $room = "cul-de-sac">><<if $girlfollowing is true>>you should leave it's melting\n\n[[ok|outside]]<<else>>you know this cul-de-sac. this is where that girl you've always liked lives. she calls herself q. she always looked so cool, so possessed of an inner poise.\n\nyou feel the rumble of latent energy. the asphalt melts underfoot. she sits in the shade of a porch, beer in hand. maybe you can finally talk to her.\n\n[[talk to q]]\n[[ＡＵＧＵＲＹ|cul-de-sac augury]]\n[[you could go back home|outside]]\n[[inventory]]<<endif>>

<<set $look = "SEWER GHOUL">>ok, done.\n\n<<display "A LOOK">>

it's in the corner, on the tv. you got to the secret hell level last night and it gave you two runes and told you what to do next. right now the screen is flashing "GO FORTH AND KILL" and i mean it's not like you have anything better to do.\n\n[[good game.|basement]]

<<set $boyfollowing = false>><<set $deadboy = true>><<set $ergirune = true>><<set $runes = $runes + 1>>you straddle him just above the waist and secure his hands above his head. he looks confused.\n\n"aren't you gonna get naked?"\n\n"why," you reach behind your back, "would i ever," you draw forth your ritual knife, "do anything like that," his eyes widen, "for //you.//"\n\nyou plunge it into his abdomen. he screams.\n\n"now show me your guts, you coward."\n\nyou reach in and draw them out. they glow between your fingers as you play them out like twine, searching for the rune. the energy seems to flow downwards, to his root.\n\n"what are you doing??"\n\n"how //dare// you speak to me."\n\nhe struggles beneath you. the augury has shown the way. <<if $feature is "SCORPION TAIL">>you sink your stinger into his neck and he goes limp, eyes staring mutely in horror.\n\n"you've got a rune hidden in you," you say, grasping his penis. with your other hand, you adjust your grip on your ritual knife. "riiiiiiight in here."\n\nyou slash. <<else if $feature is "GOAT HORNS">>you slam your head into his chest repeatedly until he stops moving. you straighten, adjusting your hair.\n\n"you've got a rune hidden in you," you say, grasping his penis. with your other hand, you adjust your grip on your ritual knife. "riiiiiiight in here."\n\nyou slash. <<else if $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>you slam your head into his chest repeatedly until he stops moving. your single eye splits with a toothy smile, and it speaks with a terrible voice.\n\n"there is a rune inside you," says your absorbing eye. you slide yourself down his legs. "we will have it." you take his penis between your eye-teeth as he whimpers.\n\nyou bite. <<else if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>you sink your fangs into his shoulder, and he screams as the acid eats into him.\n\n"you've got a rune hidden in you," you say, sliding down his body. you spread his legs apart. "riiiiiiight in here." you open your dripping jaws around his penis.\n\nyou bite. <<else if $feature is "GATLING ARM">>you whip him across the jaw with your barrels and he goes limp.\n\n"you've got a rune hidden in you," you say, spinning up your arm-cannons. "riiiiiiight in here." you point the muzzle directly at his crotch.\n\nyou fire. <<endif>>he screams.\n\nenergy surges into you. you feel powerful, propelled by deep furnaces of withering scorn. you cut the wreck free from your bed and kick him out the door.\n\ndeep inside you, a rune has formed. it is yours now. [ERGI].\n\n[[hell fucking yes.|bedroom]]

<<set $room = "living room">>well, here's the living room. no one's home. no one's ever home. there's an old black stain in the corner and it's spreading, slowly.\n\n<<if $copkillrune is true and $hailhailhailrune is false>>red and blue lights play across the walls. outside, the patrol cars surround the house.\n\n"PUT DOWN THE RUNE AND COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP."\n\nyou are unconcerned. <<else if $copkillrune is true and $hailhailhailrune is true>>it's all gone silent out there. <<endif>><<if $boyfollowing is true>>that boy sniffs.\n\n"can't you get people in to clean this? jesus"\n\n"shut up. shut the fuck up."<<endif>><<if $girlfollowing is true>> q squeezes your hand.\n\n"hey," she says.\n\n"yeah?"\n\n"i need you. in my life."\n\nyou squeeze her hand.\n\n"world's ending, girl, where are we doing this?"<<endif>><<if $hailhailhailrune is true>>q vibrates giddily.\n\n"q?"\n\n"yeah?"\n\n"whatever happens, whatever comes next..." you swallow. "we'll do it together."\n\nshe hugs you fiercely.<<endif>>\n\n[[basement]]\n[[bedroom]]<<if $hailhailhailrune is false>>\n[[outside]]<<endif>>\n[[inventory]]

she shades her eyes as you approach and sips her beer.\n\n"hey q."\n\n"what's up."\n\n"you wanna do some satan shit?"\n\n"if you've got the runes. whatcha got. lay it on me."\n\n<<if $copkillrune is true and $ergirune is true and $lovingvoidrune is false>><<set $girlfollowing = true>>"okay so i have this rune that kills cops."\n\n"excellent choice. what else?"\n\n"also i can castrate boys at a glance."\n\n"NICE"\n\n"yeah that's from this rune i got by castrating a boy"\n\n"okay well that's fucking hardcore. you are fucking hardcore. i'm in."\n\n"oh gosh yes. YES"\n\n[[back|cul-de-sac]]<<else if $copkillrune is true and $ergirune is false and $lovingvoidrune is true>><<set $girlfollowing = true>>"okay so i have this rune that kills cops."\n\n"excellent choice. what else?"\n\n"also there's this howling void where my heart used to be from this other rune."\n\n"whaaaaat that's crazy"\n\n"yeah it happened after i sacrificed that one shithead on my pentagram"\n\n"okay well that's fucking hardcore. you are fucking hardcore. i'm in."\n\n"oh gosh yes. YES"\n\n[[back|cul-de-sac]]<<else if $copkillrune is true and $ergirune is false and $lovingvoidrune is false>>"okay so i have this rune that kills cops."\n\n"i love that rune, i got it yesterday. what else?"\n\n"uhh. well, i have that rune that lets me control guts-"\n\nshe slumps back, head thunking against the planks.\n\n"honey, please. it's so damn hot. i just even don't want to move, i want to lie here and die with this beer in my hand. you just don't have enough for me."\n\n"but-"\n\n"you can get there, i believe in you. but if you aren't there yet then just, just leave me here to die."\n\n[["well. i guess."|cul-de-sac]]<<else if $copkillrune is false and $ergirune is true and $lovingvoidrune is false>>"i can castrate boys at a glance."\n\n"oh my lord"\n\n"yeah that's from this rune i got when i castrated a boy"\n\n"good start. what else you got?"\n\n"uhh. so you know how there are signs in guts? i can read them with-"\n\nshe slumps back, head thunking against the planks.\n\n"honey, please. i do not have the energy to go out there and help you get these runes. how are you gonna do satan shit when you haven't displayed enough contempt for authorities?"\n\n"but-"\n\n"just get back to me when you've killed a cop, okay?"\n\n[["well, okay."|cul-de-sac]]<<else if $copkillrune is false and $ergirune is false and $lovingvoidrune is true>>"so there's a howling void where my heart used to me from this rune."\n\n"that's a good look."\n\n"yeah it happened after i sacrificed that one shithead on my pentagram"\n\n"good start. what else you got?"\n\n"uhh. so you know how there are signs in guts? i can read them with-"\n\nshe slumps back, head thunking against the planks.\n\n"honey, please. i do not have the energy to go out there and help you get these runes. how are you gonna do satan shit when you haven't displayed enough contempt for authorities?"\n\n"but-"\n\n"just get back to me when you've killed a cop, okay?"\n\n[["well, okay."|cul-de-sac]]<<else if $copkillrune is false and $ergirune is false and $lovingvoidrune is false>>"so okay, you know that video game? HORROR GAIDEN SEQUEL? well, i got to the secret hell level last night-"\n\n"honey i got to the secret hell level on the damn night of release"\n\n"well, uh-"\n\n"you still only have the two runes, don't you?"\n\n"um."\n\nshe sighs. "i don't think you're ready for me. i'm sorry. i just need for you to get on my level."\n\n[[you think you might cry.|cul-de-sac]]<<endif>>

<<set $feature = "ACID FANGS">>ok, done.\n\n<<display "A FEATURE">>

<<set $feature = "GOAT HORNS">>ok, done.\n\n<<display "A FEATURE">>

<<set $boyfollowing = true>><<if $copkillrune is true>>the rune crackles in your grasp.\n\n"remember all that shit you put me through?"\n\n"uhhhhh"\n\n"i know a way you can make it up to me."\n\nhe gulps.\n\n"come with me."\n\n"o-okay?"<<else>>you walk inside as he finishes his purchase. he turns and sees you, lips contorting into that familiar sneer that presages his usual tired cruelty, but then it stops half-formed. there's something new in his eyes, when he truly sees you.\n\nyou think it's fear.\n\n"h-hey."\n\n"i have something to show you," you say.\n\n"it's not some like, gay shit, is it?"\n\nyour voice practically oozes. "i'll make it worth your while."\n\nhe's about to say something, but he stops. "fine, whatever."\n\ngood. it worked.<<endif>>\n\nyou turn to leave. [[he falls in behind you.|convenience store]]

[COPKILL]. does what it says on the label. no cop in the world can stand against you so long as you wield this rune in your terrible claws.\n\n[[sick|inventory]]

<<set $feature = "GATLING ARM">>ok, done.\n\n<<display "A FEATURE">>

<<set $room = "basement">>you're in the basement. you followed the instructions contained within the hot new gamesoft, "[[HORROR GAIDEN SEQUEL]]", and now there's a pentagram made of your own blood in the middle of the room. 5 rune receptacles stand at each point. you need to place a rune in each of them if you want to take it to the next step.\n\n<<if $hailhailhailrune is true and $chimerarune is false>>q stands behind you at the pentagram's edge. the sigils covering both of you bathe the room in a violet glow. she wraps her arms around your waist and gives your neck a tender bite. <<else if $hailhailhailrune is false and $chimerarune is true>>the two of you stand as one being at the pentagram's edge. excitement races through her and you alike. she turns her head to yours. you lock eyes, then lips. <<endif>><<if $runes lt 5>>here's the thing though. you don't have 5 runes. you need to get those runes if you want to summon up a hot demon.<<else>>you have enough runes to fill each receptacle. do it. [[DO IT.|RITUAL]]<<endif>>\n\n<<if $girlfollowing is false and $boyfollowing is false and $runes lt 5>>your guts growl. there may be more power here than you can see. but something's missing.<<else if $girlfollowing is true and $boyfollowing is false and $runes lt 5>>q's eyes light up when she sees the pentagram.\n\n"do you like it?"\n\n"i'm fuckin into it"\n\n"do you want to help me get one last mystical rune so we can summon ourselves a hot demon?"\n\n"i'm fuckin INTO THAT."\n\n[["let's do this"|q fuse]]<<else if $boyfollowing is true and $girlfollowing is false and $runes lt 5>>he looks nervous.\n\n"is your bedroom down here?"\n\n"no. it's not."\n\n"then why are we here? uhhh, what is //that?"//\n\n"it's a pentagram, dipshit. [[get ready for oblivion.|boy destroy]]"<<endif>>\n\n<<if $chimerarune is false and $hailhailhailrune is false>>[[up|living room]]<<endif>>\n[[inventory]]

[AUGUR] gives you the power to read the truths hidden in the guts of all things. this power will certainly help you find runes. thanks, video games!\n\n[[sick|inventory]]

you had hella gay sex with q and now both of you, thanks to the power of the [HAIL HAIL HAIL] rune, are covered with shifting blasphemous gay sigils. gay glyphs, too.\n\n[[sick|inventory]]

<<set $boyfollowing = false>><<set $deadboy = true>><<set $lovingvoidrune = true>><<set $runes = $runes + 1>>the augury has shown you the way. <<if $feature is "SCORPION TAIL">>he lurches away from you, but not quickly enough to avoid your stinger sinking into his back. he tenses in pain, and you sting him again. \n\nhe starts frothing as you kick him into the center of the pentagram. you raise your ritual knife to the mildewed ceiling as you advance.\n\n"SPIRITS OF THE VOID, HEAR ME," you shout. "I CONSIGN THIS WRETCHED MAN TO YOU, THAT YOU MAY REVEAL THE RUNE WITHIN HIS CHUMP-ASS BODY"\n\nyou plunge your dagger into his heart. <<else if $feature is "GOAT HORNS">>he lurches away from you, stumbling a few steps in panic. you lower your head and charge, and are rewarded with a wet gasp as your horns pierce his back. you lift him, bodily, and shake him off into the center of the pentagram.\n\nyou raise your ritual knife to the mildewed ceiling and straighten your bangs with your other hand.\n\n"SPIRITS OF THE VOID, HEAR ME," you shout. "I CONSIGN THIS WRETCHED MAN TO YOU, THAT YOU MAY REVEAL THE RUNE WITHIN HIS CHUMP-ASS BODY"\n\nyou plunge your dagger into his heart. <<else if $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>your single eye splits with a toothy smile as he recoils. you collide with him, tearing into him with both sets of jaws, as you bear him to the center of the pentagram.\n\nyou plant your knees on his shoulders and draw your ritual blade, raising it to the mildewed ceiling. in two voices, you speak.\n\n"SPIRITS OF THE VOID, HEAR ME," you shout. "I CONSIGN THIS WRETCHED MAN TO YOU, THAT YOU MAY REVEAL THE RUNE WITHIN HIS CHUMP-ASS BODY"\n\nyou plunge your dagger into his heart. <<else if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>he lurches away from you, but not quickly enough to escape you. you plunge your dripping fangs into his neck and he screams in pain as you bear him to the center of the pentagram.\n\nyou plant your knees on his shoulders and draw your ritual blade, raising it to the mildewed ceiling. he whimpers as flecks of acid drip onto his chest.\n\n"SPIRITS OF THE VOID, HEAR ME," you shout. "I CONSIGN THIS WRETCHED MAN TO YOU, THAT YOU MAY REVEAL THE RUNE WITHIN HIS CHUMP-ASS BODY"\n\nyou plunge your dagger into his heart. <<else if $feature is "GATLING ARM">>he lurches away from you as your cylinders whine up to speed. as he flees across the pentagram, you fire, sending him crashing to the ground in the center of power.\n\nyou pace slowly across the floor, hips swaying, cyber-cannon raised to the mildewed ceiling.\n\n"SPIRITS OF THE VOID, HEAR ME," you shout. "I CONSIGN THIS WRETCHED MAN TO YOU, THAT YOU MAY REVEAL THE RUNE WITHIN HIS CHUMP-ASS BODY"\n\nyou center your sights on his chest and send several slugs into him. <<endif>>the pentagram roars with power, power that now surges into you. arcane tendrils wrap themselves around your heart, contricting it, compressing it, until it collapses into a tiny singularity. it draws in nearby flesh and bone until it stabilizes, leaving a gaping void straight through your torso.\n\ndeep inside you, a rune has formed. it is yours now. [LOVING VOID].\n\n[[hell fucking yes.|basement]]

<<set $girlfollowing = false>><<set $chimerarune = true>><<set $runes = $runes + 1>>you strip, and q follows suit. as you pull the shirt over your head, you notice her staring at you. you can't quite read her expression, but you think you have some idea of what's on her mind.\n\n"q."\n\n"hon?"\n\n"you can sense what the augury tells."\n\nshe nods.\n\n"you know the path we have to take to open the power of this rune."\n\n"i do."\n\n"and you would go down that path with me?"\n\nshe cracks a heartbreaking smile. "honey, nothing could stop me from it."\n\nyou take her up in a fervent hug. she wipes the tears from your eyes as you pull back.\n\n[["let's fucking DO THIS"|q fuse 2]]

<<set $copkillrune = true>><<set $runes = $runes + 1>><<if $ergirune is true>><<display "ergicop">><<else if $lovingvoidrune is true>><<display "voidcop">><<else>><<display "blankcop">><<endif>>\n\nyou straddle him. "i need to see your guts."\n\n"n-no, please-"\n\nyou draw your ritual dagger. "that wasn't a request, is the thing."\n\nhe grunts as you plunge it into his stomach and draw forth his shining guts. you scrabble through them, scooping them out or pushing them to the side, until you find the source of the glow.\n\nyou grasp it, smooth and palm-sized, and draw it reverently from his cavity. as the light touches it, a blinding shockwave erupts from it, disintegrating the cop and hurling the cruiser, flaming, through the air.\n\nthe rune gleams in your fist. your rune. [COPKILL].\n\n[[hell fucking yes.|convenience store]]

[LOVING VOID] marks you as one who has given your most hated to utter oblivion. in return, utter oblivion has made itself a part of you, right in your heart region. LOVE that void.\n\n[[sick|inventory]]

[GUTS] gives you the power to manipulate guts. whose guts? anyone's guts. your guts. your neighbor's guts. go hog wild.\n\n[[sick|inventory]]

<<set $girlfollowing = false>><<set $hailhailhailrune = true>><<set $runes = $runes + 1>>"honey, are you crying?"\n\nyou are. you hadn't noticed (you had). she stops and straightens, pants half-off. "you okay?"\n\nyou can't trust your voice, so you just nod and smile and take off your shirt. she resumes her undress. "good, i'm glad."\n\n"i just can't believe this is actually happening," you say, as you wriggle out of your pants.\n\n"aww, honey," she hurls her panties onto the stereo. "you know what i can't believe?"\n\n"what?"\n\n"i cannot believe that you aren't on my fat fucking gay dick right the hell now"\n\n[["you don't need to tell me twice"|q sex 2]]

"move along, sir. this is none of your concern."\n\nyou move closer.\n\n"sir, i told you-" he meets your gaze and screams. blood stains the khakhi covering his crotch. he falls to his knees, but you catch him.\n\n"nothing personal," you whisper to him. "i just hate cops."\n\n<<if $feature is "SCORPION TAIL">>the cop struggles in your grasp, so you plunge your tail into him about three or four times. he's frothing as you lower him to the ground.<<else if $feature is "GOAT HORNS">>the cop wrenches himself from your grasp and stumbles back several paces, shakily reaching for his sidearm. you charge him, head down, and he gurgles as your horns punch into his chest. the impact hurls him to the ground. you straighten and wipe the blood from your flawless hair.<<else if $feature is "ABSORBING EYE">>the cop struggles in your grasp. you pull your head back, single eye splitting into a terrible fanged maw, and tear into his shoulders and neck. he starts to go slack and you shove him to the ground.<<else if $feature is "ACID FANGS">>the cop struggles in your grasp. you pull your head back, acid dripping from your huge jaws, and tear into his shoulders and neck. as the acid eats through his uniform and flesh, you shove him to the ground.<<else if $feature is "GATLING ARM">>the cop wrenches himself from your grasp and stumbles back several paces, shakily reaching for his sidearm. you raise your arm, cylinders whirring up to speed. you wink.\n\n"mine's bigger." god, you've always wanted to do that.\n\nthe hail of bullets sends him crashing to the ground.<<endif>>\n\nhe paws weakly at his radio. "c-cultists at the gas n' glug. request backup. officer... down-"

<<set $room = "convenience store">><<if ($copkillrune is true and $boyfollowing is true) or ($copkillrune is true and $deadboy is true)>>the hole in the sky is coming down and it's coming down right here on this convenience store, so...\n\n[[yikes|outside]]<<else if $copkillrune is false and $boyfollowing is false and $deadboy is false>>you hate this piece of shit store. you hate the looks they give you. you hate the fuckers who shop here.\n\nthere's some now, in fact. a cop leans on his cruiser, staring at the sky. just inside, buying a soda, you can see //him.// that boy you always hated, ever since he decided he didn't like the idea of someone like you.\n\nthere's something here. you can feel it in your guts.\n\n[[cop|talk to cop]]\n[[that boy you always hated|talk to boy]]\n[[ＡＵＧＵＲＹ|convenience augury]]\n[[inventory]]\n[[fuck this i'm leaving|outside]]<<else if $copkillrune is true and $boyfollowing is false and $deadboy is false>>you're feeling better. the new rune, [COPKILL], pulses in your hand, timed to the crackling of the gutted police cruiser. that boy you hate stares open-mouthed.\n\nyou snap your head towards him. //"you."//\n\n[[yes. him.|talk to boy]]\n[[inventory]]\n[[or you could leave|outside]]<<else if $copkillrune is false and $boyfollowing is true and $deadboy is false>>he's following you now, the fucker. you don't have time for the cop, or the hole in the sky. you need to make the best of this.\n\n[[leave|outside]]\n[[inventory]]<<else if $copkillrune is false and $boyfollowing is false and $deadboy is true>>you feel bolstered by the new rune in you. the cop hasn't budged. his coffee has grown long cold. you need his rune.\n\n[[take it.|talk to cop]]\n[[inventory]]\n[[or you could leave|outside]]<<endif>>

<<set $feature = "ABSORBING EYE">>ok, done.\n\n<<display "A FEATURE">>

you joined yourself bodily and aetherically to q via minor satanic ritual and now the two of you are one, and that one gets the [CHIMERA] rune. nice! it's a good rune. good scene.\n\n[[sick|inventory]]

by <a href="http://ohnoproblems.tumblr.com">oh no problems</a>

thanks to destroying the idiot dick and balls of that dude you hated, you have unlocked the [ERGI] rune. men wither beneath your penetrating gaze.\n\n[[sick|inventory]]