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** And to top it all off, ''you'' make her that way through your choices.



** And to top it all off, ''you'' made her that way through your choices.

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!!The Moment Of Clarity
* The story has been completely broken. [[MindScrew Linearity has ceased to exist and all the Voices from all the routes are present. The cabin both exists and doesn't.]] When the Princess crawls out of a hole in the hill where the cabin should be, she looks like the Nightmare Princess but with a more damaged mask and [[FloatingLimbs three floating arms.]] [[YouCantFightFate There is no option to refuse her, with the text filling you in on how futile your actions are.]]
* Unlike you, who only remembers the previous two chapters, and the Narrator (who always only remembers the current one) the Voices have experienced countless deaths between then and now. Even the Hero and the Stubborn are more than a little traumatized.
--> '''Voice of the Stubborn:''' Shut up. You were here.\\
'''Voice of the Broken:''' Every single time.\\
'''Voice of the Opportunist:''' You did your best, really. There’s just a pecking order.\\
'''Voice of the Smitten:'''And our cruel and beautiful goddess sits atop it, right where she belonged.\\
'''Voice of the Hero:''' You’re lucky. What I would give to be able to forget.



!!Prisoner Route
* The Princess is bound to the wall by two wrist shackles and a thick collar. In order to escape, one of the options is to allow the Princess to ''decapitate herself'' in detail.



* Having been killed in the chapter prior, the Wraith Princess returns as a skeletal VengefulGhost with a VoiceOfTheLegion even more discordant than the Nightmare Princess'. Her skull is stuck in a grinning rictus. Her huge GlowingEyesOfDoom seem to stare into your soul. And speaking of soul, she [[DemonicPossession possesses you]] by ripping a hole into it that she can enter. She then forces you towards the door on an ankle that she broke, complete with awful crunching noises with every step.

!!Prisoner Route
* The Princess is bound to the wall by two wrist shackles and a thick collar. In order to escape, one of the options is to allow the Princess to ''decapitate herself'' in detail.


!!The Moment Of Clarity
* The story has been completely broken. [[MindScrew Linearity has ceased to exist and all the Voices from all the routes are present. The cabin both exists and doesn't.]] When the Princess crawls out of a hole in the hill where the cabin should be, she looks like the Nightmare Princess but with a more damaged mask and [[FloatingLimbs three floating arms.]] There is no option to refuse her, with the text filling you in on how futile your actions are.
* Unlike you, who only remembers the previous two chapters, and the Narrator (who always only remembers the current one) the Voices have experienced countless deaths between then and now. Even the Hero and the Stubborn are more than a little traumatized.
--> '''Voice of the Stubborn:''' Shut up. You were here.\\
'''Voice of the Broken:''' Every single time.\\
'''Voice of the Opportunist:''' You did your best, really. There’s just a pecking order.\\
'''Voice of the Smitten:'''And our cruel and beautiful goddess sits atop it, right where she belonged.\\
'''Voice of the Hero:''' You’re lucky. What I would give to be able to forget.

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* Having been killed in the chapter prior, the Wraith Princess returns as a skeletal VengefulGhost with a VoiceOfTheLegion even more discordant than the Nightmare Princess'. Her skull is stuck in a grinning rictus. Her huge GlowingEyesOfDoom seem to stare into your soul. And speaking of soul, she [[DemonicPossession possesses you]] by ripping a hole into it that she can enter. She then forces you towards the door on an ankle that she broke, complete with awful crunching noises with every step.

!!Prisoner Route
* The Princess is bound to the wall by two wrist shackles and a thick collar. In order to escape, one of the options is to allow the Princess to ''decapitate herself'' in detail.


!!The Moment Of Clarity
* The story has been completely broken. [[MindScrew Linearity has ceased to exist and all the Voices from all the routes are present. The cabin both exists and doesn't.]] When the Princess crawls out of a hole in the hill where the cabin should be, she looks like the Nightmare Princess but with a more damaged mask and [[FloatingLimbs three floating arms.]] There is no option to refuse her, with the text filling you in on how futile your actions are.
* Unlike you, who only remembers the previous two chapters, and the Narrator (who always only remembers the current one) the Voices have experienced countless deaths between then and now. Even the Hero and the Stubborn are more than a little traumatized.
--> '''Voice of the Stubborn:''' Shut up. You were here.\\
'''Voice of the Broken:''' Every single time.\\
'''Voice of the Opportunist:''' You did your best, really. There’s just a pecking order.\\
'''Voice of the Smitten:'''And our cruel and beautiful goddess sits atop it, right where she belonged.\\
'''Voice of the Hero:''' You’re lucky. What I would give to be able to forget.
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* When you finally get to see The Hero's reflection in the mirror, you find him to be an avian like monster with beady white eyes. Made worse that each time you get to the Long Quiet you can his reflection to be either having bloated hands and arms, or even decaying outright!

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* When you finally get to see The Hero's reflection in the mirror, you find him to be an avian like monster with beady white eyes. Made worse that each time you get to the Long Quiet you can see his reflection to be either having bloated hands and arms, or even decaying outright!
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* When you finally get to see The Hero's reflection in the mirror, you find him to be an avian like monster with beady white eyes. Made worse that each time you get to the Long Quiet you can his reflection to be either having bloated hands and arms, or even decaying outright!
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[[caption-width-right:1000''"Our Hero's true form..."'']]

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* The story has been completely broken. [[MindScrew Linearity has ceased to exist and all the Voices from all the routes are present. The cabin both exists and doesn't.]] When the Princess crawls out of a hole in the hill where the cabin should be, she looks like the Nightmare Princess but with a more damaged mask and [[FloatingLimbs three floating arms.]] There is no option to refuse her, with the text filling you in on how futile your actions are.

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* The story has been completely broken. [[MindScrew Linearity has ceased to exist and all the Voices from all the routes are present. The cabin both exists and doesn't.]] When the Princess crawls out of a hole in the hill where the cabin should be, she looks like the Nightmare Princess but with a more damaged mask and [[FloatingLimbs three floating arms.]] There is no option to refuse her, with the text filling you in on how futile your actions are.are.
* Unlike you, who only remembers the previous two chapters, and the Narrator (who always only remembers the current one) the Voices have experienced countless deaths between then and now. Even the Hero and the Stubborn are more than a little traumatized.
--> '''Voice of the Stubborn:''' Shut up. You were here.\\
'''Voice of the Broken:''' Every single time.\\
'''Voice of the Opportunist:''' You did your best, really. There’s just a pecking order.\\
'''Voice of the Smitten:'''And our cruel and beautiful goddess sits atop it, right where she belonged.\\
'''Voice of the Hero:''' You’re lucky. What I would give to be able to forget.
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!!Prisoner Route
* The Princess is bound to the wall by two wrist shackles and a thick collar. In order to escape, one of the options is to allow the Princess to ''decapitate herself'' in detail.

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** Murder the Damsel, and you'll find yourself in a dry, twisting desert landscape that leads you to a cabin in which there dwells a shade in a white wedding dress. As soon as you're in the basement, she locks the door behind you both and tosses down a torch, setting the cabin alight. You get to watch the flesh slough from your own bones however you try to escape. Meanwhile the Princesses' face burns away, exposing muscles and fat as her eyes melt down her face like tears. [[DissonantSerenity All the while her smile never fading.]]

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** Murder the Damsel, and you'll find yourself in a dry, twisting desert landscape that leads you to a cabin in which there dwells a shade in a white wedding dress. As soon as you're in the basement, she locks the door behind you both and tosses down a torch, setting the cabin alight. You get to watch the flesh slough from your own bones however you try to escape. Meanwhile As for the Princesses' Princess, [[DissonantSerenity she never stops smiling,]] even as her face burns away, exposing her muscles and fat as are exposed and her eyes melt down her face like tears. [[DissonantSerenity All the while her smile never fading.]]
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** Murder the Damsel, and you'll find yourself in a dry, twisting desert landscape that leads you to a cabin in which there dwells a shade in a white wedding dress. As soon as you're in the basement, she locks the door behind you both, tosses down a torch, setting the cabin alight. You get to watch the flesh slough from your own bones as you try to escape. Meanwhile the Princesses' face burns away, exposing muscles and fat as her eyes melt down her face like tears. [[DissonantSerenity Her smile never fading.]]
** Murder the Prisoner, and you'll encounter a very similar landscape. Except it's raining. Constantly. In this route you'll find a rotted, waterlogged cabin in which there dwells a shade in a black mourning dress. When ''she'' locks you both down there, a wave of water rushes in, threatening to drown you. You kick and struggle to keep your head above water, but it's futile; because the Princess' ''drowned, swollen, still-enchained body'' wraps a hand around your ankle and drags you down with her.

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** Murder the Damsel, and you'll find yourself in a dry, twisting desert landscape that leads you to a cabin in which there dwells a shade in a white wedding dress. As soon as you're in the basement, she locks the door behind you both, both and tosses down a torch, setting the cabin alight. You get to watch the flesh slough from your own bones as however you try to escape. Meanwhile the Princesses' face burns away, exposing muscles and fat as her eyes melt down her face like tears. [[DissonantSerenity Her All the while her smile never fading.]]
** Murder the Prisoner, and you'll encounter a very similar landscape. Except it's raining. Constantly. In this route you'll find a rotted, waterlogged cabin in which there dwells a shade in a black mourning dress. When ''she'' locks you both down there, in the basement, a wave of water rushes in, threatening to drown you. You kick and struggle to keep your head above water, but you soon realize it's futile; because the Princess' ''drowned, swollen, still-enchained body'' wraps a hand around your ankle and drags you down with her.
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** Murder the Damsel, and you'll find yourself in a dry, twisting desert landscape that leads you to a cabin in which there dwells a shade in a white wedding dress. As soon as you're in the basement, she locks the door behind you both, tosses down a torch, and the cabin goes up in flames. You get to watch the flesh slough from your own bones as you try to escape. Meanwhile the Princesses' face burns away, exposing muscles and fat as her eyes melt down her face like tears. [[DissonantSerenity Her smile never fading.]]
** Murder the Prisoner, and you'll encounter a very similar landscape. Except it's raining. Constantly. In this route you'll find a rotted, waterlogged cabin in which their dwells a shade in a black mourning dress. When ''she'' locks you both down there, a wave of water rushes in, threatening to drown you. But try as hard as you can to escape, it's futile; because the Princess' ''drowned, swollen, still-enchained body'' wraps a hand around your ankle and drags you down with her.

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** Murder the Damsel, and you'll find yourself in a dry, twisting desert landscape that leads you to a cabin in which there dwells a shade in a white wedding dress. As soon as you're in the basement, she locks the door behind you both, tosses down a torch, and setting the cabin goes up in flames.alight. You get to watch the flesh slough from your own bones as you try to escape. Meanwhile the Princesses' face burns away, exposing muscles and fat as her eyes melt down her face like tears. [[DissonantSerenity Her smile never fading.]]
** Murder the Prisoner, and you'll encounter a very similar landscape. Except it's raining. Constantly. In this route you'll find a rotted, waterlogged cabin in which their there dwells a shade in a black mourning dress. When ''she'' locks you both down there, a wave of water rushes in, threatening to drown you. But try as hard as you can You kick and struggle to escape, keep your head above water, but it's futile; because the Princess' ''drowned, swollen, still-enchained body'' wraps a hand around your ankle and drags you down with her.
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** Murder the Damsel, and you'll find yourself in a dry, twisting desert landscape that leads you to a cabin in which their dwells a shade in a white wedding dress. As soon as you're in the basement, she locks the door behind you both, tosses down a torch, and you get to watch the flesh slough from your own bones as you try to escape. Meanwhile the Princesses' face burns away, exposing muscles and fat as her eyes melt down her face like tears. [[DissonantSerenity Her smile never fading.]]

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** Murder the Damsel, and you'll find yourself in a dry, twisting desert landscape that leads you to a cabin in which their there dwells a shade in a white wedding dress. As soon as you're in the basement, she locks the door behind you both, tosses down a torch, and you the cabin goes up in flames. You get to watch the flesh slough from your own bones as you try to escape. Meanwhile the Princesses' face burns away, exposing muscles and fat as her eyes melt down her face like tears. [[DissonantSerenity Her smile never fading.]]

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!!Grey Route
* You get to see the Princess' flesh burn off, exposing muscles and fat, while her eyes melt out of her head.

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!!Grey Route
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* You This route is two pronged: either fire or water.
** Murder the Damsel, and you'll find yourself in a dry, twisting desert landscape that leads you to a cabin in which their dwells a shade in a white wedding dress. As soon as you're in the basement, she locks the door behind you both, tosses down a torch, and you
get to see watch the Princess' flesh burn off, slough from your own bones as you try to escape. Meanwhile the Princesses' face burns away, exposing muscles and fat, while fat as her eyes melt out of down her head.
face like tears. [[DissonantSerenity Her smile never fading.]]
** Murder the Prisoner, and you'll encounter a very similar landscape. Except it's raining. Constantly. In this route you'll find a rotted, waterlogged cabin in which their dwells a shade in a black mourning dress. When ''she'' locks you both down there, a wave of water rushes in, threatening to drown you. But try as hard as you can to escape, it's futile; because the Princess' ''drowned, swollen, still-enchained body'' wraps a hand around your ankle and drags you down with her.
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* You are trapped in a narrative with no way of escaping. Whether you listen to the Narrator or not; whether you kill the Princess or not; whether you live or die, it doesn't matter. [[GroundhogDayLoop You will always land back at the beginning,]] one way or another, no matter what you do.
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!!Grey Route
* You get to see the Princess' flesh burn off, exposing muscles and fat, while her eyes melt out of her head.
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* Cutting off the Princess' hand, whether you do it yourself or she chews it off, is rather graphic for an otherwise non-gory game. She doesn't even react to it. ''Eugh''.
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* While the demo's versions of the Stranger were creepy, that was due to their monstrousness. The full release's version is still very much human, but it comes with the BodyHorror that results from a BodyOFBodies as the Princess is merged with the bodies of all her different versions - including her dead selves - and is conscious and self-cognizant of it.

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* While the demo's versions of the Stranger were creepy, that was due to their monstrousness. The full release's version is still very much human, but it comes with the BodyHorror that results from a BodyOFBodies BiologicalMashup as the Princess is merged with the bodies of all her different versions - including her dead selves - and is conscious and self-cognizant of it.
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!!Stranger Route
* Attempting to go down the infinite, overlapping stairs to the basement basically results in temporary DeathOfPersonality. The Voices are unsettled by the experience.
* While the demo's versions of the Stranger were creepy, that was due to their monstrousness. The full release's version is still very much human, but it comes with the BodyHorror that results from a BodyOFBodies as the Princess is merged with the bodies of all her different versions - including her dead selves - and is conscious and self-cognizant of it.
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* Appropriately, the Nightmare Princess is creepy. Incarnated as some vengeful spirit, her face has been replaced by a cracked mask resembling a doll's face and her voice gains an [[VoiceOfTheLegion ominous reverb.]] Just being around her causes the [[FrightDeathtrap player's organs to start failing]] and she continuously taunts you about how she could kill you at any time just to revel in your dread. She talks about tearing the world apart piece by piece, much like how she killed you the first time, and even says it would be a ''favor'', since that would make the good times seem better by comparison.

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* Appropriately, the Nightmare Princess is creepy.very unsettling. Incarnated as some vengeful spirit, her face has been replaced by a cracked mask resembling a doll's face and her voice gains an [[VoiceOfTheLegion ominous reverb.]] Just being around her causes the [[FrightDeathtrap player's organs to start failing]] and she continuously taunts you about how she could kill you at any time just to revel in your dread. She talks about tearing the world apart piece by piece, much like how she killed you the first time, and even says it would be a ''favor'', since that would make the good times seem better by comparison.
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* To say the forms the Princess can take depending on the paths you take are creepy to downright BodyHorror would be an understatement. It's to the point that she can very much become a downright EldritchAbomination in the most extreme circumstances.

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* To say the forms the Princess can take depending on the paths you take are creepy to downright BodyHorror would be an understatement. It's to the point that she can very much become a downright EldritchAbomination in the most extreme circumstances. And even if you somehow manage to get the upper hand in a direct encounter, her body always seems to ''adapt'' to exactly how it's treated, and not even her death can truly save you in the wrong circumstances.
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To say the forms the Princess can take depending on the paths you take are creepy to downright BodyHorror would be an understatement. It's to the point that she can very much become a downright EldritchAbomination in the most extreme circumstances.

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* To say the forms the Princess can take depending on the paths you take are creepy to downright BodyHorror would be an understatement. It's to the point that she can very much become a downright EldritchAbomination in the most extreme circumstances.
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To say the forms the Princess can take depending on the paths you take are creepy to downright BodyHorror would be an understatement. It's to the point that she can very much become a downright EldritchAbomination in the most extreme circumstances.
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* Having been killed in the chapter prior, the Wraith Princess returns as a skeletal VengefulGhost with a VoiceOfTheLegion even more discordant than the Nightmare Princess'. Her skull is stuck in a grinning rictus. Her huge GlowingEyesOfDoom seem to stare into your soul. And speaking of soul, she [[DemonicPossession possesses you]] by ripping a hole into it that she can enter. She then forces you towards the door on an ankle that she broke, complete with awful crunching noises with every step.

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* Having been killed in the chapter prior, the Wraith Princess returns as a skeletal VengefulGhost with a VoiceOfTheLegion even more discordant than the Nightmare Princess'. Her skull is stuck in a grinning rictus. Her huge GlowingEyesOfDoom seem to stare into your soul. And speaking of soul, she [[DemonicPossession possesses you]] by ripping a hole into it that she can enter. She then forces you towards the door on an ankle that she broke, complete with awful crunching noises with every step.step.

!!The Moment Of Clarity
* The story has been completely broken. [[MindScrew Linearity has ceased to exist and all the Voices from all the routes are present. The cabin both exists and doesn't.]] When the Princess crawls out of a hole in the hill where the cabin should be, she looks like the Nightmare Princess but with a more damaged mask and [[FloatingLimbs three floating arms.]] There is no option to refuse her, with the text filling you in on how futile your actions are.
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!!In General
* You are trapped in a narrative with no way of escaping. Whether you listen to the Narrator or not; whether you kill the Princess or not; whether you live or die, it doesn't matter. [[GroundhogDayLoop You will always land back at the beginning,]] one way or another, no matter what you do.


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* Having been killed in the chapter prior, the Wraith Princess returns as a skeletal VengefulGhost with an VoiceOfTheLegion even more discordant than the Nightmare Princess'. Her skull is stuck in a grinning rictus. Her huge GlowingEyesOfDoom seem to stare into your soul. And speaking of soul, she [[DemonicPossession possesses you]] by ripping a hole into it that she can enter. She then forces you towards the door on an ankle that she broke, complete with awful crunching noises with every step.

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* Having been killed in the chapter prior, the Wraith Princess returns as a skeletal VengefulGhost with an a VoiceOfTheLegion even more discordant than the Nightmare Princess'. Her skull is stuck in a grinning rictus. Her huge GlowingEyesOfDoom seem to stare into your soul. And speaking of soul, she [[DemonicPossession possesses you]] by ripping a hole into it that she can enter. She then forces you towards the door on an ankle that she broke, complete with awful crunching noises with every step.
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* Having been killed, the Wraith Princess returns as a skeletal VengefulGhost with an VoiceOfTheLegion even more discordant than the Nightmare Princess'. Her skull is stuck in a grinning rictus. Her huge GlowingEyesOfDoom seem to stare into your soul. And speaking of soul, she [[DemonicPossession possesses you]] by ripping a hole into it that she can enter. She then forces you towards the door on an ankle that she broke, complete with awful crunching noises with every step.

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* Having been killed, killed in the chapter prior, the Wraith Princess returns as a skeletal VengefulGhost with an VoiceOfTheLegion even more discordant than the Nightmare Princess'. Her skull is stuck in a grinning rictus. Her huge GlowingEyesOfDoom seem to stare into your soul. And speaking of soul, she [[DemonicPossession possesses you]] by ripping a hole into it that she can enter. She then forces you towards the door on an ankle that she broke, complete with awful crunching noises with every step.
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* If you choose not to kill yourself while falling through the infinite abyss, your biology "collapses in on itself" as you die slowly of starvation and thirst.
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"This is all too much. I... can't keep going."

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"This is all too much. I... can't keep going.""
!!Wraith Route
* Having been killed, the Wraith Princess returns as a skeletal VengefulGhost with an VoiceOfTheLegion even more discordant than the Nightmare Princess'. Her skull is stuck in a grinning rictus. Her huge GlowingEyesOfDoom seem to stare into your soul. And speaking of soul, she [[DemonicPossession possesses you]] by ripping a hole into it that she can enter. She then forces you towards the door on an ankle that she broke, complete with awful crunching noises with every step.
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""A reprieve. A good life. Love, children, a steady career. Recognition from your peers. Here one moment and gone the next. The worms have found their orifices.\\

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""A "A reprieve. A good life. Love, children, a steady career. Recognition from your peers. Here one moment and gone the next. The worms have found their orifices.\\
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!!Nightmare Route
* Appropriately, the Nightmare Princess is creepy. Incarnated as some vengeful spirit, her face has been replaced by a cracked mask resembling a doll's face and her voice gains an [[VoiceOfTheLegion ominous reverb.]] Just being around her causes the [[FrightDeathtrap player's organs to start failing]] and she continuously taunts you about how she could kill you at any time just to revel in your dread. She talks about tearing the world apart piece by piece, much like how she killed you the first time, and even says it would be a ''favor'', since that would make the good times seem better by comparison.
** And to top it all off, ''you'' made her that way through your choices.
* Trying to run from the Princess leads to her taking off her mask, revealing a NightmareFace. The subsequent MindRape (which could also double as a TearJerker, as the sequence is implied to be from the Princess' point of view) causes the Narrator to GoMadFromTheRevelation and abandon the player.
-->"Like creeping mold, the complete reality of your existence threads its way through your mind. Birth, death, birth again. Decay and bloom. A million stitches from a million microscopic wounds you've inflicted on everyone you've ever met with every muscle you've moved and every word you've ever spoken.\\
"Your existence hurts them.\\
"A lonely soul in a room by itself weeping. It lives for eighty years and then it's gone. And then it's there again.\\
""A reprieve. A good life. Love, children, a steady career. Recognition from your peers. Here one moment and gone the next. The worms have found their orifices.\\
"Diagnosis. It forgets everything it is. Anger. Rage. Distance. Poverty. The lonely soul is lonely again. Love turns to mockery. It dies. It is reborn. Worse. Lonelier.\\
"This is all too much. I... can't keep going."

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