You wake up in this room without memories. It appears you are in a hospital, wearing green scrubs, but you don't know why. The plaque on the door says that your name is Eurydice. The clock doesn't appear to be working. There's blood on the walls. There's a faint tapping coming from somewhere. And there's a note in your pocket that tells you to rejoice - today is the first day of the end of your life.A Play By Post RPG written by GraciousVictory (author of The Jeanette Experience) which is alternately filled with references to Classical Mythology and High Octane Nightmare Fuel. Read it starting here.There are five Acts:
ACT I (GODS AND HEROES)
ACT II (THE LAST NAME)
ACT III (HUNTER THE HUNTED)
ACT IV (ERIS'S GIFT)
ACT V (THE MOTHER OF ALL MONSTERS)
The original is now over. The now-finished sequel is here.
Bigger Bad: Whoever left the Beacon to be found. The Beacon caused the Fever. Echidna was just the first to become a Stage Four survivor, thus a god.
Bishōnen: Persephone. Complete with lampshade. "He is the sexy."
Bittersweet Ending: Humanity has been reduced to several hundred people, probably all of them with superpowers. Something else is out there, responsible for the Beacon. But you're outside and free and it's a beautiful day.
Body Horror: The old man looking for his daughter Sarah. This is what he looks like:
You see in front of you something that was probably once a man. It is naked, tall, and fish-belly white, and it looks as though something has scooped out its face and most of its brain, leaving a hollow, empty cavity in its place. Its finger and toenails have been forcibly ripped from its body and replaced by long, rusted iron nails.
All the Hundred Handed Ones are like this, but Minotaur the Painlord takes the cake: it doesn't have feet, it just walks around on bloody stumps.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: The fifth Act starts out with Echidna talking to you. Not Typhon, you, the reader.
Brick Joke: When searching for weapons you search for a flamethrower, only to be told of a lack of Medical Grade Flamethrowers in the vicinity. Later when you open the vault door, Guess what Orpheus has on her back.
When running from Minotaur, you lament that your name isn't Theseus. In the beginning of the sequel, your name is Theseus.
Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Subverted with Hades and Atropos, as they aren't bad people, but played completely straight with Arachne the Corpseweaver.
Arachne the Corpseweaver is followed up by Charybdis the Voidtender and Minotaur the Painlord.
The Plague: Part of the reason you are trapped in the hospital is because you all contracted the Fever.
Physical God: Echidna and Typhon, before Echidna took it away from her.
Portal Network: Arachne the Corpseweaver can create portals between her webs.
Reality Warper: Charybdis the Voidtender can warp time and space locally. Echidna is a god and can fix everything, but decides not to do so.
The Reveal: At the end of the first act, you realize that your name isn't actually Eurydice. At the end of the second act, you are revealed to be Typhon, Echidna's sister.
Those Two Bad Guys / The Faceless: There are two voices you hear when you try to open the HUB ACCESS that threaten you, but you can see nobody.
Training Montage: While you're preparing for the Boss Fight. If this were animated, or even drawn, there would be a preparation montage, with images of you and the rest of your party scavenging and preparing while the creature does mysterious, macabre things in the background, and a rousing melody would play.